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• Book 1: Tight Squeeze for Angels

1. Prologue/"A Letter came in for You!"
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• Book 2: Angels in a Web

1. Coming Soon

• Book 3: Angels in Deep Sleep

1. Coming Soon

• Book 4: Angels in Safe Haven

1. Coming Soon

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Setting: May ??, 2005
Time: Night Fall; 8:57 pm

The setting of the factory was all so quiet, the outside of the factory entrance was filled with cricket noises and frogs jumping in the parking lot. Leaving no signs of life ever coming by here for a long time.

The walls were withered, the paints have faded over time and grasses and weeds sprouting out of the concrete. A sound of rustling leaves are made by a deer that is walking past the parking lot with a fawn by the side. The deer and fawn walked more, moving past by a pickup truck that was left outside.

The deer analyzed the truck and the fawn was walking up to the door on the driver side. As they go around to see the truck more, the deer stops and looks up to the entrance of the factory. Sensing that something was going on, it called out to the fawn and started to sprint out of the parking lot. The baby fawn followed in pursuit.

The factory was left again in silence and only nature continued on. The inside has been viewed as being seen with the front lobby being cleaned and swept.

A pedestal with organized letters around it, saying a name that represents who stands there, "HUGGY". The pedestal bears no being on there with a footprint where dust surrounds it, showing something once stood there.

The next room shown is a dark hallway, behind Door 05 with no signs of life for a long time. A show of steam burst out one of the pipes over the darkness. The other rooms show a sign of struggles shown, some blood that was left behind with no body to show.

Sounds of footsteps follow with a group of 3 young adults that have shown to have broken inside. The people carry backpacks and hold flashlights out to see bettering the dark. They travel through the dark hallway that leads them to the warehouse, passing a TV with a tape player. One of them goes to the tape player and sees it was empty. One of them, Alfie speaks. "Looks like it needs another tape. How many tapes do we have now in the bag?"

Joann opens and counts. "Not much, maybe like 3 tapes as of now. Another one must be here somewhere." Closes the duffle bag, and pulls it on his back. The third person, Wendy, walks behind them up the stairs that takes them to view the entire room in birds eye view. They were in the warehouse of the factory. Alfie then started to jump from the high point down a bunch of boxes, then walked around the shelves full of boxes.

"Hey, watch it!! It's an abandoned toy factory, not a gymnasium! You could hurt yourself!" Joann shouts at Alfie, after he gets to the floor from jumping down. He looks up and smirks at the 2 women up there. "Are you kidding? This is nothing. I used to perform as one of the young male trampoline gymnasts."

"Yeah, back in high school! Not here!" Joann shouts again, reminding him of that well-known fact.

Alfie scoffs, still walking around for the missing tape needed for the tape player. After going around the first shelf, he finds a dead end. About to turn around, then catches a glimpse of the tape they were looking for. "Hey, guys! I found it! The other tape!"

"Ok, Alfie! We're coming, but how are you gonna get out of there?" Alfie looks around for an exit to get out of. "Beats me!" Joann groans at that statement. "I told you, you needed to think of this ahead of time before going into it! Just like I said earlier, Alfie!!"

"Oh come on, you love me for it!! You know that!" Alfie smiles, saying it while looking around and found a big slide door with a handle on it. "Oy, I found the exit." Alfie grabs the door and starts to slide it open. "Follow me!"

The others followed him and went back to the TV at the bottom of the stairs. Wendy continued to look around the area and see how dark it's gotten. Since coming here, Wendy had felt that something was off about this place. She has been the one who didn't want to take part of it.

Wendy walks up to Joann, who was still with her up on the catwalk. "Hey, Joann. Are you sure it was right to break in here? You know better than me that this factory is closed by the state to keep anyone from entering here. We are going to prison for this."

Joann looked back at Wendy with a upset look and turns back to Alfie. "Look, I told you to not come if you didn't want to. You should know by now how Alfie likes to do stupid stuff like this. Heck, all of this god forsaken town knows that. His own mama knows that."

"I can hear you talking, Joann. And you too, Wendy." The girls turned to Alfie, who was giving them a dirty look. Wendy looks away in shame and Joann looks back at him with anger on his face. "But Alfie, it's true. I didn't want to come here in the first place. Couldn't we just stay home and watch TV or play soccer in the morning?"

"Please, reconsider this." Pleaded Wendy, with hands together, begging him to think about his decision.

"But guys, isn't this great? We get to learn how this company got so deserted. I've been so sick of people telling me what to not do. I know this is stupid, but I just want to know what happened here. I've never gotten this close if it wasn't for this envelope that came to me." He pulls out the envelope with a tape inside, and pulls out the letter with a flower on there. "I just need to know what happened to this damn factory and ............."

"What happened to my parents.....I just don't understand..............What happened to them?" He says as he turns to the window with a glimpse of the outside and keeps staring outside at the moonlight hitting him from there.

A moment of silence was placed in the room after that statement left Alfie's mouth. They knew that this was a bad idea, but that didn't stop Alfie. He had lost both his parents in this factory about 10 years ago while staying with his grandparents' house. Joann and Wendy knew him for a long time to see that he was still bothered with this past mystery.

He turns to them, with a look that says 'don't you dare test me'. He was just showing how determined he was for this. "So are you guys with me or against me?"

He needed to know the truth. Joann sighs and gestures to him to put the tape in. He walks to the player to put it in. "Wendy, if you want, you can turn back and leave, but I need this. I need to know." Wendy felt hurt hearing that and then sighs and responds with her decision. "Okay, I'll stay. We've only came this far because I helped you guys. That's how smart I am."

He smiled and says in soft voice 'yes!' and puts the tape in. Joann puts the grab pack down to sit down on a nearby box. Wendy sits next to Joann and Alfie sits on a nearby chair, closest to the TV.

They remain seated to hear what the tape says.

Tape: Security Camera Rich Avery!

(Just to let you know, on Wattpad the video link is on there)

While hearing the conversation, Alfie was so stuck into the conversation with Rich and the other man, that he couldn't hear a sound of snarling from behind them.

Wendy heard it and quickly turned, gasping. "What was that?" She sees that nothing was behind her, but she could still hear the snaring. "Joann, did you hear that?" She pats her shoulder. "What is it, Wendy? We need to listen to this tape." She tells her and as she turn back to the TV, she jumps with Wendy out of their seats when they heard a thumping sound with a glass break.

'EEEEEEEKK' Wendy shrieks in fear and covers her mouth and Joann gets into a fighting stance.

"Okay, I know I'm not the only one that heard it, right?" The girls start to walk slowly towards the sound they heard in the warehouse with the boxes and conveyor belts. Joann and Wendy glance at each other for a moment, knowing they had to GET OUT OF HERE.

"Hey, Alfie? I think we should go right now. We need to get out of here. Like, NOW!" Alfie was taking out the tape that finished and put it in the duffle bag. "Are you kidding me? I just said that if you don't want to be here, just go! I'm not going anywhere."

"Alfie! Something is here and it might be in this room. We heard noises and I'm not going to stay and find out what it is!" Alfie gets up and moves towards Joann and puts his point finger on her chest. "No! I just said that I'm staying here! Whether you like it or not. I'd rather die here than go out in a world without answers!"

Joann and Wendy looked shocked at him and Joann's face twists into anger, slapping his hand away from here. "Fine! Well, we're gonna go and not wait any moment being here. If you ever decide to come back to us without your Bull$h#t, then you know where to go from here. Come on, Wendy!"

She gets her own grab pack and goes back down the hallway where they came from. Wendy starts to walk with her, but stops to turn at Alfie, who is getting his grab pack and the duffle bag, starting to go up the stairs again.

Before walking away more, she spoke in a solemn tone and with best wishes. "Be safe, Alfie, you're gonna need that luck." Then she follows Joann back in the hallway with the only light shining at the door, closing the door behind her.

Alfie turns to them to say something, but they were already gone before anything else. "Pfft, who needs them. I can do this on my own, then I'll be back with them. I'll be back with evidence for the police!" He goes up to see the warehouse again from a high view.

He turns to what looks like a console with the claw he sees on the ceiling. "How do I get this to work?" He walks to see what could be missing here. He thought that it would have to be down on the floor level with the other stuff.

He gets down and when he hits the conveyor belt, he walks on it to get a better view of his surroundings. "This place is a dump. Even the toys here are old." He sees a toy head of CatBee and kicks it off the conveyor belt. After hitting it, he hears something fall from one of the shelves. He turns in surprise. "Uh... What was that?" He turns to see what it was, still having see darkness around the room.

Something was stalking Alfie with eyes showing in the dark and seeing him searching from his spot before walking around the shelves off the conveyor. He goes around and starts hearing something thumping around. He turns to see what that was. "Guys, if that's one of you doing that, stop it. I know you just want me to leave. Well, I'm not leaving!!"

He continued to search for what was missing and then he found a big battery on the floor by one of the shelves. He thought maybe that was what was missing up on the console. He grabbed it with one of the hands and then he slipped it inside the bag.

The eyes that followed him were walking closer to him and the more the sound came louder, the more irritated Alfie became. A creature was seen in the shadows walking around him and taunting him. Seeing he was an intruder and wanted him to be Gone. The creature had slipped inside an opened shaft door and Alfie heard it, turn and see. He knew that wasn't open before, seeing it was supposed to open with 2 grab pack hands. This was pissing him off.

"Okay, that's it!! Who's there? If not you, Wendy or Joann? Then who's in here? SHOW YOURSELF!!" The moment screamed out, the alarms went off in the warehouse and Alfie screamed in pain, covering his ears. "What the F#$k is this?!?!" The room was covered in red flashes and the conveyor belt started to move. He needed to get out of here.

Alfie started to go the way he saw the shaft door and ran through a labyrinth of ventilations. He heard loud steps following him from behind. He realized his friends were right, something was here. And it was running after him in complete darkness. He tried looking a way out of this vent and after going through a maze, he ran down a long hallway and as he went further in, toys started to come out and some fell on him. He felt confused about all this now. He just wanted to find answers to the past. Not go through this hellhole. He was about to go back the other way until he fell down a sliding conveyor belt with rolls, letting out a scream.

"AAAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

Falling into the black void with his scream being his last voice to hear. The eyes of the creature followed him, now hovering over the entrance. Seeing where he fell into, stalking its prey. Growls escaped its mouth and showed rows of sharp teeth, dripping drool of hunger and longing to sink its teeth into the Interloper.

A big, wide yellow field sets in the middle of nowhere. A big blue open sky shines upon it with pride in all its beauty. A figure appears in found lying next to a big giant oak tree with iris flowers surrounding the tree.

A young girl with yellow and brown hair is seen sleeping in the middle of the field of wheat and bits of flowers like Daisies, White Hyacinth, Forget-me-nots and White Lilies, with a pillow to support the head and a white blanket to cover the body. The blanket has the big willow tree printed on the top fabric, facing upwards. The girl starts to wake up, yawning and rubbing her eyes to see clearly.

"Nnnggh, what time is it? Mmmmhh, and why is it so cold?" Fully awake, she becomes surprised into seeing that she was somewhere else and that she was still in her blue laced nightgown, with soft, fluffy slippers on and in a big comforter.

"What the heck? What is this place?" She gets up and notices a big tree next to her, where she laid on its trunks. "Woah! That's one big tree!" Staring at it in all its glory, she looked around and noticed some flowers around the tree. "Aww, pretty flowers, too, and some daisies, too." She kneeled down to feel the flowers under her hand, that waves around the others to feel the tickling sensation.

The young girl then saw other beautiful flowers in the distance and followed a trail of them leading her to somewhere else in the field. She walked further and further from the oak tree and found herself in the biggest area of all different flowers in the world.

"Now this is amazing!! It's like out of a fairytale!!! Woohoo!!" She shouts as she starts to twirl and jump in excitement, giggling as a child and laying on the ground in sweet bliss.

She stared at the sky for a while and when she got up to see more, he saw something that caught her eye. A single flower that was different from all the rest. "What is that flower?"

A Poppy Flower.

She got up to get a close look at it, seeing that the flower was all alone with grass around it and flowers forming a circle away from it, connected to a path that the girl followed to go to it. "Why are the flowers away from that one? And why do I feel like going to it?" She asked herself as she walked closer to it out of curiosity.

She got down on her knees to see it and it was the most beautiful red flower in the world. Before she could touch it, she heard a voice out in the distance.

"Wake up"

"What?" She looked up to see who said that. No one was here. She turned back and was about to grab it again, but the voice returned.

"Find the Flower"

She looked up again to see what it was and saw another girl in front of her. Sitting across from her in the rest of the flowers, with hair as red as wine, and her dress was blue with white laces over some parts of the dress. "What the freeeeeeeaaaaak?" The young girl got up and looked back and forward to the flower and the redhead girl. "Uuhhh, are you okay? Did you get lost, sweetie?" She got up and quickly fixed her gown before walking to her. The young girl saw she was crying and her hands covering her eyes, so she couldn't see her face.

"Hey, it's okay to cry. I promise, I'm not gonna hurt you. Just tell me what's wrong, so I can help you." Before she could touch her shoulder, the crying girl turned her face to her and the older girl's face turned pale when seeing her face for the first time.

"What the freak?!?"

The girl's face was gone and was blank as a paper with only her body alone to stare at her. The older girl got up and started to walk away from her. "Ok, you! What is this? What's going on?" The mystery girl got up and started to walk at the blonde girl in the field. The sky transitioned from blue to red and the flowers started to wither. The oak tree in the distance starts to grow and sprouts more poppy flowers in the branches.

Words started to shout from all directions of the wind. "Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up!!" The voices rise louder and louder with every inch taken closer.

"What the heck is happening here?! Is this some kind of a dream?" She starts to run away from her and as she starts to sprint away, the ground prevents her from going farther. Pulling her closer to the blank-faced girl that appears to hold the same poppy flowers in her hand, like the ones in the trees. "Hey, wait! Don't do anything you'll regret!" She trips over a rock that moves to her and she begins to be dragged to her. "No, no, no, no, no, NO, NO, NO, NO!! Wait!, STOP!!" She begs and screams for the girl to not get closer and the red head girl walks casually to her and with her other hand occupied, her right hand raises and reveals a hand not similar to the rest of the body.

The right hand reveals a hand made out of metal and flesh with wires connected to it, rising higher and higher about to strike the older girl. "I don't understand! What do you want from me?!" The ground stops moving her as she goes close enough to her and a voice speaks out to her in a young child's voice.

"W̴͚͒͗̔̀́̅̒̕ą̵̪͍̆̂͗ǩ̴̨̨̧̛̥̭̗̲̰̮̺̔͂̆͒̓́͑͆̐̃̊e̴̢̹͚̖͉͍̜̠͙̜͔̪͚͎̊̐̌͆̈̊̃̋̆̔͆̿͘̚͝ͅ ̶̥͎̪̥̠̞͉̬̖̞̝̻͍͐͝ư̷͉͚̲̼̘̠͉͉̘̼̳͂͋̃̐̾̀p̶̛̫͇̹͙̘͎̱͈͜"

The hands struck down, slicing the girl's face and everything went black.

The girl wakes up, screams and gasps for air. Panting as she breathes, wondering what had happened to her. "What the freak was that? Was that a nightmare?" She asked herself again. She looked at her surroundings to see where she was now.

She was in her bedroom and the alarm on her phone went off on the bedside table. One girl was asleep in the other bed next to her, her older sister Rachel. She groans and gets up to reach Eliza's phone to turn off the alarm. "Eliza, stop leaving the alarms on your phone if you're not going to wake up on time." Rachel says in an angry tone before going back to sleep.

Eliza looks at her and then just tries to relax more by taking deep breaths. When having to go to sleep, she always makes sure not to have any weird dreams to be in. Especially if you're half-angel.

Eliza's POV.

Italic - Thoughts
Bold - Expressions/shouting

Hi, I'm Elizabeth 'Eliza' Belle Quintanilla. I'm at age 18 and yes, as you just saw me: I still live with my family and share my room with my older sister. It's not so bad, but hey, at least I'm close to my family. Even if they need me for anything.

This is the year 2021 in the month of January. And yes, I'm part Angel and Part Human!! Angel from mom's side since she's a former Archangel and human from my dad's side. I used to help do 'angel' stuff, but not after the

('Well, let's continue this story.')

I thought to myself as I'm making sense of what just happened right now. I had this crazy dream of a beautiful field and why there was a creepy young child out of an Annabelle movie. I may have not seen the movie, but it still goes to show that it was very nightmare-ish.

"What did that dream mean? Why did that girl do all that stuff? And why did she have a nightmare hand on her?!" I said to myself in whispers, wanting to pull my hair over this crazy topic. I understand my dreams can get a 'little' hectic, but I wasn't prepared for that.

I haven't had a crazy nightmare since ............... Well, I don't want to talk about it. Let's just agree it's not best to mention it.

At all.

It was early in the morning, but I couldn't feel like sleeping after that. I yawned and stretched to relieve myself. I felt very groggy and decided to go to the restroom. I got up and slipped into my slippers. The house was cold and the hallway was no different. I stepped out, quietly to not disturb the family.

'I had made it to the location', as I thought, going through the door and locking it behind me. I was brushing my teeth and couldn't get the thoughts out of my head.

'Why was that girl there all alone? Why were the flowers there in the first place? Why was there only one flower different from the rest and who was that mystery girl?' That was the bigger question.

I checked my phone and saw the time it was, 6:30 in the morning. I sighed and after cleaning my teeth, I left the restroom. I walked in the hallway again to look around. The house always felt the same, even though it was becoming different every year.

I pass by every door to each different room: one of my older sisters' rooms: Rosalina Quintanilla, my half-sister. Always holds a place in my heart and in our house. She's all grown up now and has her own family to look after, but comes by once a while to check on us. That extra room is now just an empty room for anyone or when our relatives come over.

I turned to see one of the rooms and my parents in bed, still sleeping the morning away. I always need to check how they are and as usual, they are good.

I go all around the rooms in the whole house to see how things are in the morning. The living room, the kitchen and the rest of the house is fine and in good shape. The dogs are either sleeping on the bed or sofas, possibly dreaming of burying bones in the ground.

It's been a good morning so far and still so early, so I decided to return to bed, still feeling tired. Not much is happening, but I don't feel like excepting something to happen at all. I like the peace and quiet right now and I don't expect anything to change. Not for a long while.

2 hours after everyone gets up to start the day, outside in the streets of the suburbs, a mail delivery truck comes by the house to drop off a package. The mailman with a grey beard comes out the truck, walking to the front porch and leave the package. "I hope whoever sent this is just doing some dumb prank."

He walks away back to the truck and leaves the street. The trees move by the wind and a leaf falls and lands on the package, revealing it to be from another state, another place, and from a toy factory.

The famous "Playtime Co. Toy Factory"