Humans could never help themselves but to ask. How did things start? Some say that there was a large explosion, and before then nothing existed. Others say that God has always existed, and that He was the one to create everything. But the truth, although known to some, is always overlooked.
Before God created humans, before He created the earth, before the seven days, He made something else.
God's first creatures were not mundane, but like Him, they were divine. These beings of light were beyond sin or flaw. They had no selfish desires or ambitions. When God did at last create humanity, these first creatures were assigned to them. To guide, protect, enlighten, heal, and even take the souls of their dead to either the white kingdom, or the fiery abyss. When they did this, they often took the forms of the humans they were serving. But they were by no means mistaken for humans. Their human forms were beautiful, and given wings to symbolize their transcendence over the earth. The humans began to refer to them as 'Angels' meaning 'Messengers'. Though some angels were foolish enough to speak out against God, they were quickly destroyed. For none were beyond the swift and terrible justice of the highest among the angels. A powerful brotherhood known as the 'Archangels'. These were the first angels created by God, and they were considerably stronger than their younger kin. They were only sent to earth for the most important tasks.
It continued like this for many centuries. That is until spirits of darkness emerged. Wicked things of blasphemy. A dark counterpart to the angels. For while the angels served humanity, these dark spirits relished in tormenting them. They were referred to by the humans as 'Demons' meaning 'Evil, Lesser Spirits'. These demons, unlike angels, lacked bodies. So their only way to come to earth, was to steal the bodies of humans. And so angels began to cast these demons out of the bodies they took.
This too went on for sometime, until their Creator commanded that rather than exorcising these demons from their hosts, they should school humans in how to do it themselves, so that they could further grow. These humans that would fight the darkness became known as 'Exorcists'. After they successfully taught the humans how to defend themselves, the angels returned to Heaven, where they kept watch over humanity.
As the centuries passed, exorcists slowly began to forget about the angels who gave them the knowledge of how to defend themselves. Still, on occasion, unannounced to humanity, angels would come to earth to slay the demons too powerful for the exorcists.
And that is where our story begins.
(Boys Dormitory)
Rin woke up feeling like he had been hit in the head with a rock. He let out a small growl as he rolled over under the covers. Really he only had himself to blame though. He was at a school party the previous night and someone invited Shura. One thing lead to another and she of course pulled a beer out of nowhere and offered him one. He said no at first but she called him a bitch for not drinking. Naturally, he then downed a can just to prove her wrong. She responded by saying that was nothing special and drank her thirteenth can that night. They quickly got into a full on drinking match until he passed out and Yukio had to carry him back to the dorms. Right now, Rin could only hope that Shura was equally hung over, that smarmy jerk.
Yukio had woken up a while ago and turned when he noticed Rin tossing and turning. It was clear that his brother was in discomfort, but he couldn't say he felt bad for him. He disapproved of Rin's drinking. With Shura they already had one drunk. He didn't need Rin to pick up such a horrible habit. So he was going to have to make sure that Rin was never tempted to drink again. That gave him a very evil idea.
"Good morning Rin!" Yukio practically shouted.
"Shut it!" Rin grunted out as he threw a pillow at his younger twin.
"Come on. Where's all that pep that you normally have." Yukio said as he went over to the windows. "Get up. It's a beautiful day out."
Then Yukio opened the shades and allowed the bright light to shine directly on Rin.
Rin winced as the light stung his eyes. "Close it!"
"Afraid I can't. I'm just trying to remind you that I'm not going to put up with you getting into a drinking contest with Shura like an idiot." Yukio said before glancing at Rin's phone and picking up. Luckily for him, Rin was into lots of rock and heavy metal. He picked a song and set the volume to maximum. Even he winced at how loud it was.
Rin jammed a pair of pillows to either side of his head. But super demonic hearing plus a hang over didn't add up well for him. He felt like his head was about to explode.
"You are such an asshole!" He screamed at Yukio before throwing another pillow at him. This one hit him dead in the face and sent him falling back onto his bed.
Rin immediately got up, closed the blinds, and turned off the music. Then he flashed Yukio a scowl.
"Don't blame me because you made a dumb mistake. I'm just letting you know this is what will happen if you get so drunk again."
Rin was about to retort when something interrupted him. The entire room began to shake uncontrollably. He immediately went to the corner to protect himself from the things falling all over the room. He then looked over to see Yukio doing the same thing.
It lasted for a few more minutes then came to a sudden stop.
"Was that an earthquake?" Rin asked.
"Doubtful. Sir Pheles keeps a barrier around the school that's supposed to protect it from natural disasters like that. I'll go to his office to talk to him about it." Yukio replied.
"Have fun." Rin said before throwing himself back onto his bed to try and sleep off his headache.
"You're coming. He's probably going to ask for you anyway and it's easier if you just come now." Yukio explained while making his way towards Rin's bed, carefully stepping over the broken wreckage from the quake.
"You've got to be kidding me." Came Rin's muffled reply from under the pillow. Then he turned his head to see Yukio right next to him. "So just to be clear, the one time I don't want to tag along is the one time you're taking me willingly."
"Pretty much." Yukio said as he lightly tugged on Rin's tail.
"OOOWWW!" Rin screamed. He immediately jumped out of bed and stood up. "Fine I'll go. But don't do that again you jerk."
Yukio nodded as he took out a key.
(Mephisto's Office)
Yukio and Rin entered the room to find Shura and Mephisto already talking to each other. And in addition, it made Rin really angry to see Shura doing so well.
"How come you're not hung over?" He demanded.
Shura smirked and giggled a little. "I have a lot more experience with holding my alcohol. Just gives us one more way in which I'm superior to you."
"You're such a-!" Rin began.
"Can we focus please?!" Yukio hollered to get their attention.
Mephisto laughed at that. "Very well. What do you want?"
"How was their an earthquake here? I thought those wardings around the school were for keeping out everything dangerous. Not just demons." Shura asked.
"Demons are the answer. That wasn't an earthquake but rather demons drilling underground." Mephisto explained.
"What?!" Yukio said in surprise. "How is that possible?"
"I'm afraid earth demons aren't my category." Mephisto explained before turning to the door. "You can come in now."
Shura, Rin, and Yukio turned to the door as it opened. They were all shocked to see Amaimon enter, with a lollipop in his mouth and a childish grin on his face.
"What the hell Mephisto?" Shura demanded as she drew her sword.
"Calm down." Amaimon said. "In exchange for letting me out of that cage, I agreed with big brother that I would behave. Besides, I even know how the demons got through the barriers."
Upon hearing that, Shura lowered her sword, but didn't put it away. "I'm listening."
"The barrier goes around and above the academy, but it doesn't go under. You've probably got a basilisk drilling underground." Amaimon explained.
"I thought you were in charge of earth demons." Rin said, confused.
"I am. But with me being gone for so long, Lucifer probably took charge of them, greedy bastard." Amaimon said, while his sharp teeth bared down on his lollipop and caused it to break.
"Why come here?" Shura asked.
Just as Amaimon was about to say he didn't know, Yukio's phone started to ring. "Okumura speaking." Yukio said just as he placed the phone next to his ear. "What?! I'll be right there." Yukio said before putting the phone down. "The demon is attacking the Grigory's chambers."
"Let's move then." Shura said as she stuck a key in the door and took them to the chambers.
(Grigory's Chambers)
The Grigory had already been evacuated, but the demon was still attacking all the exorcists that had stayed behind.
The basilisk was a large snake demon with black scaly skin and red eyes. It swung its massive tail at the exorcists, killing some and knocking the rest unconscious.
"Niccccce one. Now let'sssss finish thisssssss." Another voice hissed. There was another demon perched on top of the basilisk's head, riding it by a small saddle. This demon was a man with pale and scaly skin, slit green eyes, and a forked, thin tongue. He sported white hair and a huge pair of fangs like a vampire. He was also dressed in green armor and he had a whip in his hand.
With that command, the basilisk wrapped itself around the large podium in the center of the room. Then it tightened its grip on it until it cracked.
"Hey!" Rin shouted just as he, Yukio, and Shura entered the room.
The demon looked down at them with an annoyed look. "Burn them!" He commanded.
Then the basilisk lowered its head and opened its mouth. Then flames spilled out of it with a great roar.
Yukio and Rin both got out of the way, but it still burned Shura's leg just as she was dodging. "AAHH!"
"Shura!" The brothers called as they ran to her side.
"I'm fine." She lied through clenched teeth. "Yukio, just go take care of the wounded. They'll die if you don't."
Yukio was still concerned for Shura, but he nodded his head and ran to the exorcists who were still alive.
"And Rin..." Shura muttered as she got up. "Let's kick some ass."
Rin grinned and turned to the basilisk.
The demon riding it was very annoyed with Rin's confidence. He immediately whipped the basilisk. "I sssaid burn them!"
The basilisk then shot flames from its mouth again. Rin responded by drawing Kurikara and pointing it at the flames before the engulfed Shura and himself.
The demon smirked, thinking he had succeeded in killing them. He was then shocked to see blue in the flames around the ground. The basilisk's flames dissipated to reveal Rin using his blue flames as a shield.
"The blue flamessssss?" The demon muttered, surprised.
Then Rin jumped up in the air using his demonic strength as he kicked against the floor. He landed on the basilisk's head and swung at the demon.
The demon instantly pulled out a black sword and it clashed violently against Kurikara, with blue flames shooting out across the rooms.
"SSSSon of SSSSSatan." The demon hissed out as Rin pushed Kurikara against the demon's own sword. "You shouldn't be doing thissssssss. Your father will be very angry with you."
Rin got aggravated at that remark and it was reflected in Kurikara. The blue flames immediately rose off the blade rapidly. "That bastard isn't my father! Shiro Fujimoto is my father!"
"How can you call a human your father when your pouring out blue flamesssss? Lord SSSSatan needsssss to dissssscipline you." The demon said before suddenly pushed back with his sword and knocked Rin on his back. "In fact, I'll sssssend you to him." Then the demon turned his blade upside down, about to impale Rin.
However, because of their fighting, neither of them noticed Shura running up the basilisk's back. When she got near the head, she swiftly plunged her sword into it and let herself fall to the side, dragging the sword through the basilisk.
The basilisk howled in pain and jerked it's head upward, throwing Rin and the demon to the side.
Then Shura pulled herself up from the side and pulled her sword out of the basilisk. Then she jumped up into the air and brought her blade down on the very same spot where the gash on its neck was. This time, she severed the head clean off. The head fell to the ground and cracked the floor underneath it while its body fell limp around the pillar.
Meanwhile, Rin was just getting up from the ground, as was the demon. And without the help of his basilisk, he wasn't nearly as powerful. Rin had the perfect chance to take him out.
Just then, the pillar in the center of the room cracked even further. Without the basilisk wrapped around it, it was unstable. It finally broke down into massive pieces falling all about the room. Luckily, it didn't land on anyone, but the demon still used it as a diversion to start running.
When Rin noticed, he immediately tried running towards him, only to be blocked by a large fragment of the pillar falling in front of him.
Rin immediately ran around the other side of the room to try and catch him, but the demon was already gone.
(Later)
Some doctors came and hauled the rest of the injured exorcists out of there. Even Rin had to leave when the paladin came, who was always looking for the smallest excuse to mount Rin on his wall.
At the present moment, only Yukio and Shura remained, with Yukio still tending to her burns.
"OOOWWW!" Shura screeched as soon as the medicine touched her burn.
"Quit being a baby." Yukio scolded as he rolled his eyes at her.
"I'll take being a baby over being a four-eyed chicken." Shura said before childishly sticking her tongue out.
She waited for the retort but it never came. She then realized that Yukio wasn't even paying attention to her. He was staring at some of the rubble from the pillar.
"What's the matter?" She asked, sincerely concerned.
"Nothing." Yukio said before switching his focus back to cleaning her wounds.
"Tell me or I'll tell Rin all the embarrassing stories I know about you."
That made Yukio pause. See, Yukio had first met Shura when she was still pretty rambunctious and he was still a cry baby. So all and all, she had dozens of embarrassing stories about him. And he already had to endure constant torment from her about those very same stories when they were alone. If his dimwit brother heard about them...
"Well if you must know," He began without a second thought. "I was just wondering why the demon attacked this place."
Shura raised an eyebrow. "Well that's a dumb thing to wonder. He was trying to kill the Grigory, what else?"
"Still though, after the Grigory left he stayed. And he seemed pretty intent on destroying that pillar." Yukio pointed out, just as he finished bandaging her wound.
"Okay. You may be on to something." Shura said before she shakily got to her feet. Then she started to look about the remains of the pillar.
Yukio realized what she was doing so he began to do the same. Turning over several of the pieces to get a look from the other side. Finally, he found something.
Embedded in the stone of one of the fragments, there was some kind of metallic plate with gold edges.
"Shura, come take a look at this." He called.
When Shura came over and saw it, she got curious and wanted a better look. So she put the edge of her sword between the plate and stone and used it as a wedge to get the plate to pop out. Yukio then picked it up and tore off the stone that remained attached to it. The plate was shaped like a square had a circle in the center that was green with some kind of crest on it. The crest was of a crown that was also gold. Around the edge of the circle and under the crown, there was also a carving shaped like an "I".
"What the hell is that?" Shura asked.
"I don't know." Yukio answered truthfully. "But I'd sure like to find out."
(Elsewhere)
The demon continued to run through the forest. It was miles apart from Rin now but it didn't want to take its chances. To all the human passerby's, he only looked like some lunatic running like a mad man for no reason.
He continued on for miles and miles, deeper into the woods and far away from any humans. But then it was stopped by something that not even Satan could hold a candle to.
Right before his path, a pair of stars actually fell from the sky and landed right next to each other in front of him, blocking his way and leaving a massive pair of craters. Both were a hot red from the fall but they didn't seem like any ordinary stars. The red glowing began to dim, revealing these two were not stars, but some sort of creatures. The likes of which a demon as insignificant as himself had never seen before. Only heard tales of. They were both on one knee and looking down, but when the red glowing faded, they got up one after the other.
The first person appeared to be a young man. He was at most 28. Or so his appearance would lead one to believe. His frame was covered with silver, shinning armor with gaps for his knees, ankles, wrists, and elbows to move freely. He also had a sheath at his side which covered up any detail of the blade it held. The man had pure, snow white hair that covered the left side of his face (his left) while the rest ran from the back of his head to his left shoulder in a braid. The half of his face not hidden by his hair revealed a rather thin face and a sapphire blue eye. He also wore a silver cross around his neck with a diamond in the center. The only emotion on his face was contempt, and it was directed at the demon before him.
The second figure was a young woman. She had the same physical appearance in age as the other man, 28 or so. Her armor was bronze and gold but it mostly covered the right half of her body. It too provided gaps so her limbs could move freely. Her weapon appeared to be some type of golden bow on her back, but she didn't have a quiver. She also had some type of hilt at her side with a red gem on it but there was no blade attached to it. She had golden blond hair flowing down to her waist and entangled along the crown of her head in a halo braid. Unlike her companion, her hair didn't hide any features. She also had a thin face and had a pair of emerald green eyes on display. She didn't wear a cross like the other though. Her only piece of jewelry was a golden bracelet on her left arm with several gems of different colors.
"Who the hell are the two of you?!" The demon spat. Foolishly, he mistook them for another type of demon or maybe even tricked out exorcists. Either way, he was not in the mood to deal with them.
"Filthy animal." The man said, looking at the demon with disgust.
"You little-!" The demon started as he raised a clawed hand to attack the man before him.
The minute his claws came close, the man's hand shot up at a lightning fast speed and grabbed his hand. Then he began to squeeze it with inhuman strength.
"AAAAAHHHHH!" The demon wailed as his clawed hand was crushed and his fingers bent out at odd angles. It caused him so much pain that he fell to his knees. His hand then began to burn up as a white fire ignited quickly in the man's hand. He then finally allowed the demon to withdraw his hand. Or rather what was left of it. Between the crushing and the fire, he only had two fingers left and had a large gap in his palm. What remained of his hand probably would have fallen apart if you lightly blew on it.
The demon then looked back to the man that burned him and then the woman who was now walking closer to him. "What the hell are you?" He asked timidly.
The woman only smiled and knelt down to get to his eye level and put a hand under his jaw in a none threatening manner. "It's ironic that you say hell..." She said just as pain coursed through the demons body again. The woman then changed her light touch on his jaw to a tight grip around his throat. This let the same fire that just about turned his hand to ash to course through his whole body. It overflowed and even began to erupt from out his eyes and mouth.
"Because we're actually quite the opposite." The woman said, finishing her earlier statement. Then the fire completely cooked the demon through and through so that the only thing that remained was a mummified looking corpse completely made of ash that had it's mouth wide open from screaming and it's hands wrapped around the woman's own to try and pry her off.
The blonde then playfully took her other hand and lightly tapped the corpse on the forehead so that it crumpled to ash. She then to move her hand about the scattered remains of the demon. "They're so fragile. Don't you think brother?" She asked, addressing the man behind her.
"I suppose so." The man said back to his sister as he began to walk away. Then he turned back to her. "Are you coming or not? We have still have so much to do."
She nodded and got up to follow her brother. They both walked directly through the forest together. Her brother was right on the money. They did have much to do. Angels like themselves rarely interacted with humans in such a direct manner. And for Archangels, this was even rarer. That said, these were special circumstances. Long ago, the Archangels, as the governing body of their kingdom, Heaven, decided that their war with Hell was causing more harm than good. As Assiah existed between the two worlds, it was quite literally in the crossfire. She could still remember a time when demons infested entire cities, and humans were sacrificed for the greater good. Cities like Sodom.
She shook a bit as she reflected on Sodom. She wasn't present for it, but both of her brothers were. They actually took part in the slaughter. The thing that was so disturbing was that they were in truth killing humans. Or rather, humans who had been possessed by demons. All the while, they were proclaiming their own righteousness. Angels could be very arrogant in that sense.
It had taken centuries of she and her sisters bickering with their brothers to make the bloodshed stop. And it took even longer to convince them to share their forbidden knowledge on how to fight demons with the humans. She had finally made it happen in the era of the crusades, a dark time in Assiah. Little did the humans know, it was actually demons using their power to fill men's mind with rage and have them kill each other. Both of her brothers were content with letting it happen, but she would have none of it. She eventually decided that it would be be better to ask forgiveness than to ask for permission and flew down to Assiah, revealing to the humans below that demons were causing this war. She then went on to teach them how to kill demons or send them back to Hell.
Her brothers were outraged, but eventually got over their frustration and joined her in educating the humans in how to fight the darkness that hid in their world. These humans they taught banned together and brought an end to the crusades by exorcising the demons responsible for it. Thus, the organization which the humans call "The Knights of the True Cross" was born.
She was still thankful to her sisters and brothers for helping her, even though they were pissed off at first. Their family was a bit odd that way. Especially considering they weren't even related. Well, at least not the way human beings are related to one another.
They didn't share parents, or have parents at all. The closest thing they had to a father was the Creator Himself, if they had to name one. And even then, they would never dare say such a thing aloud. They were siblings only because that was His intention when creating them. All of them were fairly close, considering at first, there were not many options. They were the first angels ever created, predating the rest of Heaven and the universe itself. She had to guess that humans would never guess that.
Then again, that was one of their cardinal rules. Angels were intermediates between God and man, no more, no less. As such, they gave very little information about angels to humans, as God was the one meant to be worshiped, not them. Humans guessed half of what they know about angels, and for the most part, they got it wrong. In truth, angels have free will, angels fall in love, some angels even have children.
But most importantly, angels were not to interact with humans directly. Not anymore anyway. But these were special circumstances. Just as they were the leaders of Heaven, the Demon Kings were the leaders of Hell. They had tried for millennia to kill Satan's children, but so far, had not succeeded. Recently though, their scouts had reported that all eight Demon Kings were present in Assiah all at once. This had never happened before. Demons like Azazel, Samael, and most recently Amaimon, who had sided with the True Cross were not of concern any more. But for the remaining five, Iblis, Egyn, Astaroth, Beelzebub, and Lucifer. They could only see their presence as an act of war. They had to die.
There was a second reason for their presence, though. For fifteen or sixteen years now, there had been rumors spreading through Heaven like wildfire. The Archangels dismissed them as nothing more than gossip but recently, they had reason to suspect these rumors were true. Reports of blue flames causing forest fires and killing demons like the Impure King. The rumors had to be true.
Satan had a ninth child. This meant only one thing to them.
This ninth child, wherever he was, however strong he might be, or however young he was, one thing was set in stone.
He would die on their swords.
Okay so I really hope you liked it and if you didn't please keep in mind that I've only been writing for like a month.
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