Heaven and Hell by Anne Guest (top 10 non fiction books of all time .TXT) 📖

in my bed. I looked around me and noted that I was in a clearing in the wood, trees surrounded me. I opened my dark wings and flared them out to there full length ready to take flight if I needed to. I heard a noise behind me and swung round to face it, I took a fighting stance and awaited its approach. I felt fear for the first time in a long time and silently tried to will myself to wake up to no avail I even pinched myself but i stayed put.
A petite figure approached until she was about 10 meters away from me. Long dark wavy hair cascaded down her back and framed a beautiful oval face with a pair of the eyes with the bluest I’ve ever seen. She was dressed in an almost transparent white gown that clung to all her curves in all the right places. She was the most beautiful women I have ever seen. I could also feel the power radiating from her and I had never felt anything like it in heaven or hell. It also felt similar to what Luc and I had sensed earlier on.
“Who are you?” I ask. Smiling she closes the distance to stand directly in front of me and looked up into my face.
“So beautiful” she tells me.
“What?” I stutter. She smiles and circles me until coming back all the way round to face me again after her inspection of me.
“You’re remarkable really. I never thought that they would ever do it.” she told me.
“Do what, who?” I snapped.
“Good, bad, heaven, hell, up, down whatever you wish to call it” she whispers taking her hand and running it down the edge of my midnight black wing. Her touch felt wrong making me shiver forcing me to take a involuntary step back and pull my wing tight against my back. She laughed at my obverse discomfort, but didn’t thankfully try and touch me again.
“Who are you?” I asked again I didn’t think she was going to answer me but I was wrong.
“We were the first; we were here before god, before your devil, before light and dark before life.”
I was numb completely out of my depth. “ if thats true why have I never heard of you?” I manage to whisper,
“Why should you have?” she replies. “Your gods and devils don’t want you all to know that they weren’t always the most powerful beings in exsistance, in fact they don’t come close to us.”
“How many of you are there then surely not just you?” I ask.
She smiled a slow smile at me and shakes her head clearly telling me she weren’t going to answer me.
“Why are you here?” I ask trying to get at least that out of her.
“We have watched you destroy yourselves, your god is greedy, your devil is worse. We have come to cleanse this world and return it to what it should have been.”
“Bloody hell, and what is that?” I let slip as I took in what she had told me.
“Paradise, not the bloody war zone you vermin have turned it into.” she said answering me to my surprise.
"vermin, who are you calling vermin?" i demanded.
"all that inhabits our world" she answers me.
“What about the mortals” I ask “what is to be done with them?” I added.
“They will also be cleansed” she replied no hesitation in her voice.
“Immortals and supernatural beings?”
“Depends on what side they choose and they must obey us” she says smiling.
“What’s the choice?” I ask my voice was smooth and unemotional having finally gotten myself under control even though my heart was heavy.
“Death or assist with the cleansing” she answers all friendliness gone from her beautiful voice.
I step back again from her to get some distance, I never took my eyes off her and watched her as she watch me.
“I guess I know what side you’re on” she said and lifted her hand sending a bolt of ice at me I barely had time to prepare myself before it hit. I felt it hit me squarely in the chest and my god it hurt, but I managed to stay on my feet, thank god I thought.
“Impressive” she said and threw another at me, this time I surround myself with fire and insulated myself from the next bolt of ice but it still hurt as it hit. Again I managed to stay on my feet.
“Very impressive” she noted and then bombarded me again and again with ice and now fire.
I stayed on my feet as she relentlessly pounded me, the ground beneath my feet began to move, I looked over to my foe who had a sly smile plastered across her face and it grew as I staggered. The rumbling under me increased causing me to fall winding me and breaking my concentration resulting in my fire distinguishing. Helplessly I lay on my side on the ground my wings fanned out behind me; I drew them close wrapping them around me.
I felt her approach me and I turn my head to see her look down on me,
“Again impressive but I’m afraid just not good enough” she raised her hand “pity” and aimed another bolt but more powerful at close range directly at my heart, it was going to kill me. I closed my eyes and in some strange way welcomed my death.
It never came.


After a few seconds I opened my eyes and saw her looking away from me over towards the opposite end of the clearing. I turned my head to look at what had got her attention. He was magnificent broad chest, strong jaw line, strength and power radiated off him too, but he felt stronger than my female opponent, He was the presences that I had been feeling since I had been young. What grabbed my attention was his eyes the purest and greenest colour that I have ever seen and in contrast to my female attacker he was dressed head to toe in black.
Not once did he look in my direction but I felt he was watching me very closely taking in every detail about me the same way as I had him.
“Enough” he thundered clearly not happy about something.
I looked up at my opponent and noticed the small thinning of her lips before backing off from me. I relaxed for a moment shutting my eyes to open them again to have his green ones look down at me.
“She chose” I heard her grumble in his direction.
“Stretching the truth again Eve, i told you she was not to be approached” he replied cutting her off with a glare as she opened her mouth to speak again. Satisfied that she was going to keep quiet he looked back at me and lowered his self to kneel beside me.
“Lily wake up” he whispered and placed his hand on my forehead.”

I jolted up in bed letting the covers slip from me. I looked down and was in my nightclothes, I wouldn’t mind but they were the silk ones my mom had got me for when I finally found a man she told me when she gave them to me. I stood and noticed my clothes had been folded and placed on the chair that occupied the corner of my bed room. Baffled I continued to look around me for clues of my apparent change of clothes. The details hit me of my dream and so did the aches and pains of my dream beating, my god was I sore as I gingerly stretched trying to work out the knots in my muscles. Taking a closer look at myself I noted that I was bruised on my arms, legs and chest. I was shocked it was just a dream and Luc and I was to powerful for the other supernatural being to invade our dreams.
I stood ridged thinking things through when I felt him. I rushed to the window and saw him standing there gazing up at the window at me, and in return he was captured my full attention. I threw open the window and stepped out on the edge and willed my wings back and opened them before I jumped and sailed to the ground directly in front of him. He was so beautiful I thought my heart would break, sensing my thought he gave me a small smile.
“I dream of you” I told him. I remember even as a child his face and voice and how it had soothed me when my father had left, also when I had been forced to abide by heaven and hell orders. Even after my first kill and I hated my self his voice had been present in my dreams making me feel safe. I had never told anyone about him as he was mine and mine alone I never imagined he would be real. Looking at him now, seeing him in the flesh he still felt like he was mine.
“I know” he said interrupting my thoughts.
“Who are you, cause if you going to come here and give my ass a beating have at it because I’m tired” I told him.
“No Lily I’m not here for, what you say, to beat your ass” he said smiling at me.
“Ok” I said not really believing him for a second.
“Jonah” he said “my name Is Jonah and you are Lily” he stated. I folded my arm and across my arms across my chest and waited him out.
“Lily” he said again and cupped my cheek with his hand, warmth spread from his touch through my whole body, I felt safe even if deep down I knew it wasn’t true. I close my eyes allowing the touch for a few more moments before I step back breaking contact. His expression never changed making me think he didn’t feel anything except his longing for something was easily seen in his eyes for anyone who was looking.
I remained silent, realising I wasn’t going to speak he did “you fascinate me you always