Armor, Sword and Shield
Author: blackroserising
Rating: T
Summary: Azazel's mistake. His Chosen Boy King Heir Samuel Winchester is harder to claim than he anticipated. A one-shot inspired by the story Holy Armor by lembas7. Set vaguely around the end of season two. You do not have to have read that story to follow this.
Warnings: Supernatural and religious themes.
Pairings: None. You can read whatever you like between the lines.
First Published: February 6, 2008.
Disclaimer. I do not own Supernatural. Kripke owns this..
And the angels sang in glorious joy and this is the Word spoke to all who would hear.
A mother is her babe's armor
A father is the sword
A sibling bound in love is a mirrored shield.
Th lore they do not speak is thus:
A mother's kiss and loved request can share her armor with her kin. A father's weapon can be anything he forges; self or matrial, both and even kin.
And the demon Azazel found his loophole in his fight against his Father in the Holy War. 6 months, and six hours past their birth could he annoint his Chosen Children, at the time when their armor would not hold, nor could the sword against him strike, and when the shield was yet too young, to withstand against his might.
And thus he struck. He smote the armor where it stood, and the sword reforged now flawed, his taint a seed of vengence planted deep, with the shield cast helpless to the side.
His one mistake was this:
A mother's kiss and loved request cast armor round the shield, and the sword, sensing danger, recast pure self in shield's right hand; stronger for the hellfire, second self not demon flawed.
The brother stood before him, when he came again to claim His Child, Holy Armor clad around him, this sword his father made. A shield before his brother that Azazel could not breach. And he shrieked his fury to the sky and his wrath spead with every demon let loose upon the world, but His Child he could not touch, with the brother clad in holy armor who stood defiant by his side.
Author's Note: Inspired by Holy Armor by lembas7. story id: 3793695