Excerpt: Redemption of Angels

Prologue:

The sand dunes rushed along beneath her. She’d made this trip so many times before that she didn’t even have to think about it. She landed at the edge of the tents surrounding the oasis and white feathers rustled slightly as her wings folded onto her back. If this had been the physical plane of the mortal realm they wouldn’t have been enough to lift her, but here in the immortal realm, the wings were more a symbol of the spiritual power of flight. She got a few looks of recognition from those she passed on her way through the fluttering tents, and offered smiles in return. She hadn’t really had a reason to come here for quite some time, so she’d only been able to make it on her free time. It was only when a particular blue hair angel emerged through a tent flap that her blue eyes truly light up.
His amber eyes returned the joy for only a moment before his head jerked to the side, a look of deep concern flooding over his features. The next moment was a blur of motion accentuated with a splash of shining white fluid. Reacting on instinct alone, she threw up a shield around herself, not even realizing that it was large enough to enclose the two that were closest to her for a moment. When her mind finally cleared enough to focus, she finally saw what had happened. His second was frozen in a motion of aggression, her face not having even had time to change to shock of recognition of the sword thrust through her heart. It was his hand holding the sword, a look on his face that made on think he had no idea why his sword was even unsheathed. After the initial splash of fluid, now covering all three of them, his second had begun to crumble into the very sand that was beneath their feet. With a start she realized that his feathers were also crumbling, revealing red bat like wings taking the place of pristine white.
Shouting could be heard now as the rest of the camp tried to break into the shield, presumably to find out what had just happened, and likely to kill the newly formed demon in their ranks. She took his shoulders, snapping him out of his own shock and said the only thing she could think to save him. “Go. I’ll find you.”
He hesitated, but her shield was falling and she pleaded with her eyes. He nodded and gathered the necessary energy about him. Just as her shield fell, he disappeared in a flare of red energy. It was only her position as a redeemer that protected her from immediate harm. Instead, she was hit with half a dozen seals and blacked out.