Pandora Complex

Ch.3
“You want me to what?!”, I asked Orion as he stood, facing me with his hand held out to me whilst teetering precariously on the windowsill.
“Take my hand!”, he shouted over the mass of traffic 14 floors below.
“Scuse me? Are you freaking nuts?”
He chuckled “No, I’m Orion, remember? Besides, I hardly think you’re the prime example of sanity!”
Goose-man makes a striking point.
“…if I die, I’m coming back to haunt you!”, I said as I stepped up and took his partially gloved hand.
“That’s a good girl!”
“My ass!”
“Hold on tight!”, he said as he wrapped his arms snuggly around me.
“No shit!”, I said as I wrapped myself around him like a demented barnacle.
I looked back at the mess behind me.
“What about them?”
“Abraxas is going to come here and wipe their memories.”
“Wait-they’re not dead?”
“No, just unconscious.”
“But the demon guy said-“
“Demon’s aren’t exactly noted for their honesty.”
“…good point. So I’m not a murderer?”, I asked hopefully.
“Not yet.”
I somehow didn’t like the sound of that. Not one stinking bit. But I decided to ask later, I was still trying to figure out what I did.
Orion started falling backwards through the window. I clenched my eyes shut tightly and then-nothing. The sound of the hustle and bustle of the city were silenced and the air felt decidedly different.
“Honeeeey! I’m home!”
I slowly cracked my eye open. Then I opened both of my eyes and blatantly gaped at the sight before me.
“Is that-“
“Welcome to death god HQ.”
I was standing right smack on the doorstep of the largest castle I had ever seen-tv or otherwise.
Many tall towers framed the main part of the establishment. The white marble shone brilliantly in the sunlight.
“Coming?”
I was startled from my musings as I realized that Orion was waiting for me to enter the castle-a castle! A freaking castle!
Orion led me around through many hallways and into a large room with people seated around a big round table. They all looked straight at us as we entered.
“Geez! It’s about time Orion. What took you?”, a man with shock-white hair swept back into a spiky formation, and royal purple eyes asked.
“Well, long story short, this lady right here.”, he said as he stepped behind me and put his hands on my shoulders.
“…what about her?”
A different man with dark blue hair pulled back into a low pony tail raised an eyebrow. “Don’t tell me that this is the one we’ve been seeking out for?”, his turquoise eyes practically radiating the fact that he highly doubted it.
“Don’t you trust my hunting skills, Abel?”
“She doesn’t exactly look like the hell bound type.”
I looked back and forth between the two.
“’Scuse me, anyone want to tell me what the hell is going on?”
“Basically, chica,”, a woman wearing a tri-pointed hat with a fluffy white feather spoke up from her relaxed sitting position, “we believe you’re the reincarnation of the goddess Pandora.”
“…pardon?”
“The badass lady that created the box that holds the means of the apocalypse.”, a purple-haired woman spoke up from beside the hat wearing woman.
“That’s what I thought you said….I need to sit down.”
Orion pulled a chair up behind me and I plopped down. After I finally pulled myself together and finished changing my entire view of the world and universe, I was ready to wear my big girl panties.
“Okay, that’s nice. So who the hell are you people?”, that earned a few chuckles and a distasteful look from the one I knew as Abel.
Orion motioned to the individuals as he named them off.
“White haired fellow is Raphael, mister prim and proper is Donivan-but we all call him Donny-“ “-we most certainly do not-“ “, the lady in the hat is Jasmine-we call her Jazz-“ “Yo.” “,and the lady with purple hair is Dilana. Also, there’s a blonde haired fellow that isn’t hear right now, his name is Abraxus. Just for the record.”
“Not meaning to be rude, but what’s with the hair and eye color? Aren’t you people supposed to be just like us humans? ‘Sculpted in his image’, and what not?”, I turned to Orion, “And why aren’t you like them?”
The woman I now knew as Jazz spoke up.
“That’s because Oreo over there is the newest addition to our little group. He was created a few thousand years after Earth was.”
“Yeah, that’s why I’m on fetch and delivery duty.”
“Woah woah woah! Wait a fucking minute. You’re telling me you guys are older than Earth?”
“Pretty much.”
“Ho shit. I need to sit down.”
“You are sitting down.”
“I need to…need to…”
Orion put his hand behind my head and pushed it down between my knees.
“Thanks.”
“No problem.”