Part four: Harler

finally, Harler's chapter.

 

Harler

   It's finally my turn for a chapter? Yay!

   Cutie's munching his carrots in the veggie bin and I was petting his brown, cotton tail, thinking, That was a nice boy I met, I wonder if he liked me. I think his name was Jackson? I bet he like Cuti-

   I tensed. Something was wrong, I could feel it. Or I could sometimes feel it. I had a hyper sense that told me if darkness or something odd was lurking around before Kalilee, Rycel, or Junia could, but Kalilee claims my "extreme paranoia" gets in the way of that. But, hey, at least one eighth of the time something really was stalking us! 

   I looked around for a shadowy figure or something that radiated "wrong!" to me, but so far I couldn't pick up anythin-

   There. That man with dark brown hair and a toothy grin and eyes that wandered to a baby stroller looked awfully strange to me, even stranger than I was. I need to tell someone, Kalilee! I called with me telepathy which allows me to talk to the other angels with my mind, Kalilee, I'm sensing something weird, get Rycel and Junia! Oh, and have you ever tried a papaya? I'm looking at them right now and they look like something Justin Timberlake tweeted about once.

   I heard Kalilee sigh through the telepathy link, I'm coming right now. Don't bother Junia or she'll explode, you know that. And Harler? Put the papaya down. 

   I huffed, I hadn't even picked it up yet... Okay now this guy was looking me and giving me The Creeps. And worse, he looked like he'd smell funny. 

   I glance back to him uneasily and stuffed an annoyed Cutie back into my purse where he'd be safe from the forces of evil. Or at least the forces of evil in my imagination. Have I ever told you I have a habit of hallucinating? It's no biggie, hallucinating can actually be fun if your hallucinating Justin Timberlake giving you a hug, but then when everyone sees you hugging the air it can get kind of awkward for some reason. 

   Kalilee came striding around the corner all "no nonsense" like she always did (Like a boss!) whenever something was going on. She's totally unlike Rycel who was cracking jokes on her near-death bed one time.

   "Where's our threat?" Kalilee asked me aloud, but quietly, and I flicked my green eyes to the creepy man who seemed to be watching us now.

   "Is someone really standing there or am I finally going banaynays?" I asked under my breath, because I didn't want to be heard by a little girl scrambling to pick up some carrots for her mom.

   "Mommy, these are already half eaten!" The little girl said. Oopsy-daisy.

   Kalilee shot me a look for that, but said, "No, he's real and I'm sensing something off about him, too." she said, "Come on, we need to see if he could be a danger to anyone."

   I nodded. I couldn't draw weapons out of willpower like Kalilee, Rycel, or Junia could, but I had a secret "weapon" of my own. So if this guy lays a hand on my precious, wecious Cutie, he was a dead man.

   Kalilee looked the creepy man right in his predatory eyes, tightening her blonde ponytail one last time, and fearlessly started to walk towards him with me in tow. Ha! In tow! Like a tow truck *beep beep!*.

   The man notices we're approaching him dead-on and like light notices darkness, darkness can tune into light. We don't know what he is yet, but he seems to know what, and who we are now (that's not hard to believe, we're kind of infamous in Hell, we might have killed his bubby or sissy or something) and in a glitch of panic his human disguise fails for a fraction of a second, but that's long enough for Kalilee and I to see. 

   His eyes are solid black, his green veins bulge all over his body, he has a long snout instead of a normal human face, and his teeth are sharp, like when you lick a candy cane all the way down to the point bottom. He's not human, he's a ghoul. A.K.A. a really fugly looking weak creature that does in fact smell funny. 

   "Ghoul." Kalilee quietly snarls.

   The ghoul is quickly backing away through the soup isle with its yummy tomato soup. Maybe tomatoes remind him of blood, because they remind me of ponies because ponies like vegetables, or are they really fruits? I was always skeptical of that. 

   "We need to lead him into a place where we can kill him, and fast," Kalilee says, getting me back on track, "but out of the way of the humans. What we're going to do is chase him to the back door in the back of the store. There's a big open field behind Wal-Mart where we can take him out and not hurt anybody, okay? I go left, you go right. Got it?"

   "Mm-hm." I say. When Kalilee tells you she has a plan and you don't follow it, it can mean the almost end of the human world. Hee-hee, whoops! But don't worry, unless that giant, monstrous Kraken-

   Crud. Kalilee's already gone. I make a sharp turn and start speed walking to the right, looking for Mr. Creeps and singing "Santa Baby" over and over again in my head. I love that song, don't you?

   When I get to the back of the store with still no sign of Mr. Creeps when I finally spot him trying to be a little sneak going into the janitor's closet. "Hey!" I say, grabbing the back of his brown sweater with supernatural force no normal seventeen year old should be able to do. Well, I look seventeen, and have the youngest mortal appearance in the group. 

   "Harler." Mr. Creeps hisses between his candy cane sharp teeth, "It's an honor to meet you."

   How flattering he knew me by name! "They always say that." I tell him, batting my reddish eyelashes, "They always say that right before I kill them."

   The ghoul's eyes widened, his human eyes, and I let him wriggle himself out of my grip and speed off in the opposite direction to where Kalilee would be waiting for him and could keep civilians out of the way. Hey, just a question, but have you ever used a hoola-hoop without the water in it? It doesn't work as well as the ones that do. I know because I used to have this red one that had the water until Junia took it away from me because I accidentally hit her with it about twenty times.

   Sorry, I know they tell me not to get off topic, but its just so fun having you to talk with! But, okay, back to the chase...

   I followed Mr. Creeps all the way to the back door where he didn't suspect a thing and I giggled. Poor, poor ghoul. Thank everything holy there weren't any people around to watch this.

   Kalilee jumped from where she was silently clinging to the ceiling bars and landed neatly on the ghoul's back and she clamped a hand over his mouth. Laughing, I swing the back door open and push Kalilee and the ghoul through to the outside, and I follow swinging the door shut behind me. I loved this game! 

   Now in Kalilee's "I'm the boss and you're not" way (like a boss!), she cleanly jumped off of the ghoul's back and let him collide with the pavement where I could hold him down, ignoring his pleas and threats. Come on, ghoul! How long do you think I've been doing this job? 

   Kalilee looks skyward, closes her eyes in concentration, and held out her hand. She murmurs the name "Gabriel" which is how she draws her TrueColor sword that conjures in her hand.   

   The TrueColor sword alternately gleams the twenty eight primary colors of Heaven and can slice through any ghoul with ease.

   Kalilee set her merciless (scary) blue eyes on the hyperventilating, struggling ghoul and points the lightweight TrueColor sword at his throat.

   "We can do this my way, or the easy way. Which will it be?" She asks.

  

  

  

  

Author's Note

hey, so this is Harler's chapter... sad to say, not the hardest one to get inside her head... so what do you think? Criticism is seriously needed, but just a note, Harler is crazy and that's how some of her descriptions are just going to be.

Reviews

[Ella]

I don't know, I don't like it as much as the others. I think it needs more detail, and truthfully I was sad for the lack of... craziness in Harler. I would like to hear her thoughts more, and I don't think he should just appear, from the beginning of the chapter she should be like "something feels weird"
Idk, a few more suggestions, but I don't want to be annoying.

[RachelReaper]

no, it wouldn't be annoying, seriously, tell me anything you else you think. If you think it needs more craziness and others agree, I'll put in more crazy. The thing is, I don't want it to be SO crazy that its incoherent, you know? But if your not the only one that thinks this, I'll edit some more parts.

[RachelReaper]

oh, and just one last thought, Harler's not always a scatterbrain, she's one of Gabriel's best for a reason. But, as I said earlier, i really want your honest opinion.

[RachelReaper]

its edited again :)

[Ella]

Alright, I'll remember what I was thinking before in a minute xD