Hum. What to say about this story. Hum
I don't know what took me . Really. I was in a bus, and i just go stuck by inspiration.
To be thrutful, i don't even know if i will continue this story.
For what's inside ? I really like the universe of dxd, not much the characters. And i think i lost myself at the end of the chapter too.
ANYWAY ! Hope you enjoy, if you do that cool, if you don't... i understand, totaly.
AND SORRY FOR BAD WORDIN'
Who was the first angel to fall from grace ? And when was it ? Some of you may think it was lucifer, the first sinner. But its false.
No, we are talking about angel who felt, not of those who were cast out of heaven. And Lucifer became a devil, not a fallen angel.
No, there exist three major events that caused heaven to loose some of her warrior. You already know of two of them.
One is the fall of Azazel, an archangel, for loving a human woman, followed by a lot of other angles.
The second is of course, the death of the Christian god, their father, witch caused a lot of his sons and daughter to loose hope.
But to tell you of the last one, i must tell you of a story.
-Break-
Long ago, as humanity still lived in a cave, as angel and devil lived in a complete different place than earth, a lone angel was cast of heaven for his crimes against humanity and his brother. His name was Lucifer.
Seeing as earth was still being protected by god and the other pantheon of , he couldn't be cast here. So, he ended up in hell, home of the demons.
At this time, demons were still brutal and animalistic creature. However, they were still curious.
When they saw a small creature enter their realm, they hesitated, but attacked nonetheless.
Lucifer, full of rage killed the few demons that dared approaching him. While the demons were far from being brightest living creature, they recognized power, and so, they bowed.
From there, Lucifer plotted his revenge against heaven, and against his father who loved human more than his own son.
All the while, he tried to teach everything he know to his new armies, from language to magic. And so the demons took human form, more practical than their own for talking or integrating whit their new master.
As they took a human form, Lucifer each one of them. The 72 more powerful of them became the very pillar of his armies. Between all of them, he choose three, the most powerful and loyal of them to became his advisor.
After more than 1000 year after he was cast out , Lucifer walked to heaven once more. Behind him stood The leviathan, that ruled everything that swam, The Beelzebub, that reigned on all that flyed, and The Asmodeus, the Tyrant of those who walked, ran, or sided.
They, along with his 72 pillar, assaulted heavens.
They forced her door and killed her guard, they walked to her city and burned it too the ground.
All angel they crossed died, ether by claw, teeth or magic. It seemed that nothing could hurt them.
But then, god left his golden throne. He walked out of the upper floor of heaven and confronted the demons.
Heaven history tell them he killed a dozen of them just by glaring.
In reality god raised his hand and banished all the demons from where they came from.
But it served only to had fuel to the already burning anger of Lucifer. Why did god refused to fight ? Was he coward ? Did he not believe it worth of it times ?
And so, Lucifer soon walked to heaven, once again. However, this times, heaven was prepared. The door were reinforced, the guard, the archangel blessed, and gargoyles created by god stood ready to defend god.
If the first battle was a vengeful waking call, the second was fruitless. No it was a lose for the demons.
They did not even achieve to break the door. But they tried again, and again. And again.
Nothing worked.
Lucifer felt shame for the first times, and his follower even began to question his strength, nothing his generals could not take care of, but he still felt shame.
But that didn't stop him, of course. No, Lucifer , free from the angel side of him, began to plot.
If they couldn't harm god directly, they will them in another way.
And so, demons began to prey on humans. At first, they only destroyed city and ate humans, only wanting to anger god.
But then, they became fascinated. Very much so. The humans were strange creature. They came alive blank, without destiny. That what made them so interesting to demons, whose very existence were evils.
Even more, their genius was without a doubt the more grand of the existing race, for while heaven and hell raged against one other, humanity improved so much. Science, chemistry, architecture... they even changed the very rule of war.
So, the demons changed in their approach, trying to interact with the human instead of stray killing.
It came to them that, even if humanity was surely going to surpass every other living in the future, if faced against a greater being, they bowed, carving power.
So the demons gave power, but demanded trade. That how demons contractor came to be. The souls that became the currency for the exchange was due to strange effect human souls on demons.
Humans souls transformed demons into something... more humans. Be it in appearance or in the way they comported themselves. The downside was that, demons, being "evils" took more negative trait that positive one when absorbing a soul.
So the seven deadly sins came to the demons, each demons relishing in one of them, multiple if they absorbed lots of humans souls.
That how the king of hell, Lucifer himself, began to forget of his initial objective. The first, and unique, souls that he absorbed, gave him the worth sin of all. Sloth.
Yes, Lucifer became lazy. Just contempt with how they evolved, the town they created, Lilith, the children that were on their way. All was good.
To the day the heavens decides to descend on hearts. And they raged. Instead of the awed look they expected , they saw only curiosity. Instead of a primitive race, they saw construction that send shiver to their bones, and instead of a religion that was soon to exist, they saw them prying to devil.
And so killed every humans who dared to talk of devils in any way at all, and descended to hell.
Before hell's gate, they dropped the head of every demons that they found in the humans word. The message was clear. War.
And so heavens army came to hell two days after. Expecting a massacre. They found one, but not the one they expected.
Heaven mistake was to believe that the demons became weak, and that they would
When the angles came, the tried to force the door, tried to enter the city.
And Lucifer activated his defences. Four statues, one at each of Lilith gate, came alive. Contrary to the current appearance of demons, they were the demons of old, created with a portions of the souls of the four leader of hell.
Loriel, guardian of the north gate , killed his enemies with nothing but its fist.
Batariel, guardian of the east gate, cleaved dozen of angels in a single strike, with his gigantic claymore.
Nataniel, guardian of the west gate , smashed everything in its pass, not caring if it was allies.
Satanael, guardian of the south gate, made feather burn in sea of lava.
This four where the great beast of hell, the biggest construction than the king of hell could create.
The demons pushed back heavens' army, with little loss really.
They did not even try to kill the one who retreated, only wanting to defend themselves, an not ready to go into another needleless war.
But heavens demanded retribution, and continued to send angel into hell, endlessly into statue that would spring to life and fight them.
The raging war began to calm itself, and slowly ended into one faction staying where it belong, and the other where they lived too, but battling if they ever saw themselves.
It meant that the demons, and their descendant, named devils because of their lack of strength, could go back to their way of living. But it also meant that the great beast stayed in their rock form, waiting for any upcoming battle
Lots of time later, hell voted a law, a system that they took from Athenian, a the displease of the Grecian pantheon, that allowed the great beast to be free from their binding.
However, lots of law needed to be respected. Each of the great beast needed to swear their loyalty to Lucifer, each one needed to swear that they wouldn't hurt fellow demons and recently, devils.
Lastly, each of the great beast would have to absorb a human souls and to be accompanied by a demons, or devils, named caretaker, that would explain them how the world worked.
More than to allow dragon class being a hell's citizen, it was also to boost the moral of the other inhabitant. Seeing war hero always helped fro the army.
It worked well for two of the great beast : Satanael was a researcher at heart, and helped the devil's scientist, most of the time, Loriel helped to train the fresh blood.
But the other two , Batariel and Nataniel refused to wait for battle, and searched to ignite a flame until Lucifer ordered them to stop.
They worked a compromise with Nataniel, letting her stay with Asmodeus, for all war related thing. She became the representative of the army in sort .
But Batariel... Batariel refused every proposition that the four leader tried with him, and scared most of those who were appointed as his caretaker.
He simply stood where he originally was, looming over the east gate of Lilith. It also did not help that he simply refused to change into a more human form, staying as a gigantic beast with horn, orange skin and sharp teeth.
But one day, it changed. Everything that would happened next would have come from a single decision, a single meeting.
-Break-
"What are you awaiting, watcher ?" said a voice, bringing Batariel out of his dreaming, an habit that came with the absorption of a human soul. That along with pride. A. Lot. Of .Pride.
The great demon snorted, blowing the leaf in the nearby tree, and looked at who was talking.
It was a devil, the new title given to hell's inhabitant that were not demons, with short green hair, and a gentle smile on his face. If the richness of his cloth was of any indication, he was of a pretty famous family.
"So another one try to control me ? I wonder, how long will you last ?" said Batariel with a booming voice.
The devil smiled and shook his head. Then, he walked closer.
"Don't be mistaken, Watcher. I'm only here because i was looking for someone to talk with, and you don't seem to move a lot" said the devil.
"I do not talk a lot, bat," growled the beast.
It was not an insult, it was just a remark. As the generation passed, the descendant of demons seemed to lose their big leathery wing in favour of smaller, bat like wing. Moreover, the more you had wing, the more powerful you were. Beelzebub guessed that Lucifer magic, formerly angelic, influenced them to create a ranking similar to the one of the angel.
Therefore, it was not an insult, just the way Batariel designed them, and it seemed that the devil did not mind, as he continued smiling.
"O, i kind of guessed that, but would you like listening to me" said the devil happily.
As this the great being actually raised an eyebrow, more like spikes, but you got the idea.
He approached his head of the devil.
"And pray tell, bat, why would i accept" he said dangerously.
The devil did not seem phased in the sightless, and if he was, he was doing a great job hiding it..
"To keep you focus of course, and awake ! Moreover, don't try to make me believe you know of what his happening inside Lilith as for now." Said the devil, the last part almost teacher like.
Bataeiel looked at the devil before him. Its was maybe the most strange response he was expecting.
He then turned his gaze at the horizon, for any sign that an army may be invading. When he saw the same scenery that he stared at for more than two month now, his heart ached.
Was times always this long ? As statues, they were in a state close to sleeping, and he, nor his brother, saw times passes by. They would always awaken, wait for their master, Lucifer and his general, to make order, and the fight.
Nothing else. Then , they would walk back to their pedestal and wait for the seal to take effect.
Maybe... just maybe, a little company would be fine. He looked back at the devil, and saw him tilting his head, still smiling and expecting an answer.
And if anything did go wrong, he could always scare him to death. Yes, that would do.
"Bat," he growled " What is your name ?
The devil looked surprised for a moment, but he quickly composed himself.
"Malik" he said "just malik"
Batariel retreated back his head.
" Very well, bat Malik, i'll humour you, stay and talk, i will listen."
-Break-
And so Malik would come to talk with Batariel for days and days. Well, monologuing would be more accurate seeing that Batariel was not talking. But it slowly changed. Batariel, ,for all his pride, would not admit it, he was lost.
For as long as he could remember, he only know war. Fighting for a man and people that he never saw. Don't minderstood, he liked to fight, more than the other, but contrary to Nataniel, he enjoyed fighting, not massacre.
That why, when they were released for the last times, he took his sword and awaited a battle. But none of it came. Instead, some bat went to take him inside Lilith, where the other were already waiting, so that their master, Lucifer himself, told them that they were free.
At first, he roared, wanting to know where was the battle, but when nobody answered him, and that, when he turned to his fellow beast, he saw happiness, he understood.
He stayed a bit with Nataniel at first, believing that, like him she will contest their choice, but thrn she joined Asmodeus to who know where.
Much later, Lucifer came to him, alone. Batariel prepared himself to roar, to ask of this madness.
But Lucifer bowed, and asked for pardon.
The great beast, at lost ,forgot everything that he was going to say, and listened for what his master has to say.
He heard him talk of his creation, how he was the first of the four, created with a still raging souls of Lucifer, how he was sorry for him, that he understood of his comportment, because he was like that, once.
He heard him talk how, for the better of the underworld, he sis not ha e all the power anymore, that a council voted this law to help the decreasing army, that he hoped that his reaction would have been more understanding.
As Batariel listened, he could not help be feel even more respect for his master. He made decisions for the better of hell, lately renamed underworld for all the connection to the upper world, earth, he came to talk to him alone, to explain his reasons as equal, witch they were not, Lucifer beeing way more powerful.
And for that he respected him, not his decision. He remember asking his master who were this council that forced him to create law, and if he should just cut them down. Lucifer just laughed , and told him that no, the council was for the better.
So, Batariel began to slowly take par in Malik conversation. At first, it was just one word from times to times, then sentences, then questions.
All in all, he seemed that he found his place. Until one day. Malik asked him a strange question.
-Break-
Malik just finished laughing at one of Batariel crude comment, when his face fell. He looked straight at the horizon.
"Hey, Watcher. Why do we wage war ?" he asked out of the blue.
The great beast looked at him.
" For the better of the demon's world" he responded without missing a bit.
The devil shook his head.
"That's not what i mean. Why are we still in war ? None of the two faction attacked the other one directly since more than an hundred year." He continued sadly.
Batariel looked at him strangely, not amused at all.
"Stop this nons-" commenced the beast.
"I was there you know," cut the devil " I was there when they brought the head of our companion to the gate of Lilith. They were not bad demons. They were just fascinated with human."
Batariel said nothing, but kept glaring at the devil.
" I was there when they came to battle, when you first awaken from your slumber. It was magnificent." He said , gaze lost in the sunless sky.
Batariel followed his gaze, remembering his first memories.
" But do you know what i saw there, friend ? Do you know what i saw on their face ? " continued Malik while shaking his head.
Batariel opened his lips less mouth to answer, but Malik did not let him.
" Fear. " he answered his own question, " for their lives, for their friend. No stone face, no fury, just fear"
Batariel anger slowly faded as he listened to the devil.
" as you cut more and more of them, i could only felt pity for these being. Even if they killed our brother, even if they wanted us dead, they bled just the same as us." Finished the devil.
They stayed like that for a moment.
"If i said that i wanted peace. If i said that we shouldn't for something like humanity, who have nothing to say of the matter, who must chose between one of us for fear of dying. If i said that i don't want to see any other of hell's inhabitant lifeless on the ground," he looked up at the Watcher ,"wil you find my wrong ?"
Batariel as nothing to say against that. An so they stayed line that for the rest of the day.
-Break-
They did not talk of that subject again. And times continued to fly by. And as times passed, as the horizon stayed clear of any sign of army, Batariel came to fins the day when Malik was absent long and boring. Even more when he took ... how did he call it ? Devilday ? Or something like that.
Anyway he thought more and more about what the little bat told him about war. If it did one day goes to one of the general, he would be killed on the spot. But why, then, could he not find any fault in what the devil said ?
"Watcher !" called a familiar voice.
He looked in the direction the voice, and saw Malik coming his way, still smiling.
"Did you miss me ?" asked the devil.
The beast did not talk and turned away.
" Ba ?" he asked as he placed himself before him, making the demon turn his head.
"Are you ... pouting ?" he asked with mirth in his voice.
The great best immediately turned to him.
"What ?" he roared " Did you believe that I, the beast of war and pride, I, slayer of thousand of-"
"I'm getting married , Ba" cut Malik.
The great beast stopped his ranting and looked at him, eyes a little wider.
" Congratulation, i guess. Who is the chosen one ?" he asked.
Malik smiled.
"A human girl." He said gently.
Batariel eyes widened even more.
"Wh-What ?" he said slowly " a human, these weak and pitiful creature ? Useless lifeform ?" continued the beast.
Malik laughed a little.
"yeah, and i would like you to meet here" said the devil embarrassed.
Batariel raged, and roared, deeply, making the animals near ran away.
"Never ! Don't expect me to ever walk in the human world !" yelled the demon.
A painful expression appeared on Malik face and touched the hooved feet of the demon, replying with a weak voice.
"Please, friend. I never asked anything from you. Just this once. Do it for me, please."
Batariel looked at him, and gripped his sword tighter. He gently pushed the devil away.
" Very well bat," he said " I'll humour once."
Malik smiled
"But understand this" with a burst of hellfire, the gigantic form of Batariel disappeared, leaving an chared, demonic looking armoured humanoid behind " that id she not what i expect her to be, i'll kill her."
Malik took a more serious expression as The human Batariel strapped the non so big sword anymore to his back
Malik opened a portal, and they crossed it.
-Break-
On the other side of the portal, Batariel was expecting a lot of thing. Something similar to the underworld. Or maybe something totally different, with floating island or such.
He did not expect the human world to be so... green. Yes, green. The ground, the three. All were green, instead of the purplish colour of the underworld.
A light blinded him for a moment, and he put his arm to block it. A big ball of light was floating in the sky. The blue sky, filled with withe fluffy looking things.
It was so different from what he was seeing all day, but not displeasing.
"Not bad, hu ?" said Malik while smirking.
Batariel looked back to the devil, who was already walking in a direction.
He followed him, all the way watching the new world around him, to a small , stony house.
As they approached, the door opened and a human woman ran in their direction. Seeing her, Malik too began to run.
When they stood close to each other, the girl jumped into Malik arms, and they kissed.
Batariel sneered, but continued walking to them as the same pace as before.
When he got next to them, they stopped making out , and looked at him.
"Isa, may i present you Batariel , the watcher." He said while pointing him.
He expected the woman to fear him, but she simply looked at him, smiled and extended her hand.
He looked at her hand for a moment, growled, and looked away. The girl looked like he hit her for a moment.
"Don't mind him," said Malik " he seem line a tough guys, but deep down, he is a big softy."
Batariel looked baffled to Malik, not that he could saw it behind the helmet, as the woman smiled to her lover, asking them to come inside.
The two lover talked between each other, totally ignoring the armoured guys with them, witch suited him just fine, as he skulled .
He tried to say something to his friend, but stopped when he saw him with a smile bigger than he ever had. So, he took it on himself.
At one moment, the girl looked at him, smiling.
" Batariel... right ? Would you be so kind to tell my brother that we are going to rat soon ? He should be in the barn.
Batariel said nothing, got up and walked to the other building of the propriety.
He didn't bother to knock, and entered directly. Inside, he found a man working on an sword. Said man turned to him and shoot him a strange look, before recognition settled into his eyes.
"You're Batariel right ? The angel slayer that Malik talked about ?" he asked.
Batariel raised an, this times, existing eyebrow.
" He told you what we were ?" he asked curious ?
The man turned away, back to his weapon before answering.
" Of course, he never hide it. From the day he began to court little Isa, we know what he was."
Batariel slowly made his way to the man, to look at what he was doing as the human continued.
" I was sceptical at first, having heard from the priest of you guys," he began, taking his eyes away from his work " but when i saw her now, happy, i don't feel any remorse or fear.
Batariel nodded, and continued to look at the sword that he was working on.
" Are you a smith ?" asked the beast.
The man laughed a little, and shook his head.
"No, i'm a soldier. Proud defender of this empire" he said as his fist connected with his torso.
Batariel looked at him, then as his sword. At was at this moment that he saw the armour in the back of the barn.
" Wanna see it ?" he asked as he showed the beast his sword.
Batariel took the offered sword and examined it. It was poorly made, not even comparable to what was in his back.
"Do you really fight with that ? " he asked as a matter of fact.
The man laughed.
" Hey ! I took offense in that !" he said.
Batariel looked at the sword an began to plot. Were human ns really like they were described to him ? They seemed more like innocent fool than power wanting life.
" would you like me to transform it ?" continued the demon as he channelled a little demonic energy in his fist.
The man looked at him, and hesitation crossed his face. He looked at his sword, then at the one in his back and sighed.
" No" he said.
"No? " repeated Batariel.
"No, i don't want my victory to be easy. I want to fight with my own strength, and if i shall fall, so be it !" said the man proudly.
Batariel stared at the man, and a sound escaped his throat, a sound witch evolved into a deep full laugh.
"Ha ! You impress me human, you've earned my respect. " said Batariel as he extended his armoured hand.
The man took the gauntlet hand shook it.
-Break-
And so, Batariel accepted the choice of his friend. Well, the brother of his friend's wife, and by extension, his friend's wife, but it came to the same results.
He accepted the fact that Malik spend times with his new wife, and so waited alone in the underworld. With nothing better to do, he stood where he always was. Watching over the horizon.
The next day, he awaited for Malik, but he did not come. Same for the next day. And the week after.
With no point waiting, and he knew that, Batariel set of to the human world, in his armoured form. He explored for three year stray the wonder od the world. Meeting people, learning how they lived, their Law, their beliefs.
That how he learned of the existence of the other pantheons.
After three years of constant exploring, fighting as human, and living as one, he walked back to the underworld, a whole new set of experience in his belt.
He took back his place as a watcher, and was glad to see that fresh blood took his job when he wasn't here. Having build a tower next to where he sat.
He felt way better, and even came to discuss with the guard in said tower.
That why, when Malik came some times after, he was ready to talk of his adventures with him.
-Break-
"Hey Batariel, how would you like to wreak heaven a little ?" was the first thing that he said.
Batariel snarled, as old sensations came back to him. Old feeling of blood on his hand.
"I'm always ready to fight angels, but what with the sudden change of attitude, may i ask ?"
Malik smiled. And whispered softly something.
"I can't here you bat, speak louder" said the beast.
Malik shook his head.
" Nothing," his face hardened " Let's go"
And with thousand of hell inhabitant, demons for the most part, as their bestial instinct came back full force since the angel first invasion, they walked to heavens. They did not ask for Lucifer permission, because they know that he would not have given them. They all know that they all would greatly be punished once they came back, if they came back.
But they did not care one bit, because the drum of war already pounded in their heart, and it would not stop till one of the two faction dropped dead.
-Break-
As they walked on the white road, the only way to go to heaven, every demons seemed lost in thought.
" This bring so much memories back," said one Zekram Bael.
Batariel looked at him, and snorted.
"How so ?" he asked.
Zekram jumped a little, as did some other people who heard him, as they never heard him talk before. Well they heard him during the battle, but is was always more of an animalistic roar than real word.
"You would not know, Watcher, but we once walked on this very road one thousand year ago or so, lead by Lucifer himself." He said, as his gaze lost itself on the sort of cloud around them.
Batariel said nothing.
"We were close to totally annihilate them, back then, we burned down heaven," he continued, with pride in his voice, before his expression darkened., " and he did not even fight us."
Batariel guessed that he was talking about god.
"Not this times, " interrupted Malik , " this times, he is going to fight !"
The demons roared in agreement.
They eventually arrived in front of the golden door of heaven, angel looking a them from the other side.
" Go back to hell ! Demons!" screamed the guard.
They ignored him.
"Last time, we got stuck here... " murmured the Phoenix.
Malik walked to the door.
" Not anymore" and he placed a device on it.
The device emitted some noise, and the door lost its golden colour, making the angel back away a little.
" Watcher, if you could do us the honours" said the devil.
Batariel smirked and took his demonic claymore from his back.
" With pleasure" and he smashed the door with a reverse, blowing it entirely .
All angled fled and the demons roared.
" Tonight !" screamed one Zepar " we feast !"
And the second and last raid of heaven began.
-Break-
Battle raged everywhere in the great all of heaven, and the light, ever so preeminent, slowly gave 9ut to darkness. Hell's warrior fought heaven's armies head on, not caring for their own life, only for the thrill of battle while the angels tried their best to hold the line.
It was like a bunch of wild beast preying against villager. For all their effort, the demons broke their defences.
Even if the angel members were more important, most of them were still angles from the second waves of creations , and could not compare to the first created angels, much less to original demons.
For the second time, the first floors of heavens were burned down, and for the second, god descended of his throne.
-Break-
"Why ?" he asked simply.
All battle stopped when he entered the now destroyed park. Be it angle or demons, nobody moved.
Nobody dared to move in front of the god, for even if the devils despited him, they still respected his power.
He simply stood here, like a unmoving being, looking directly at Batariel.
The great beast smirked, and prepared a snarky answer, before Malik stopped him and moved past him.
"So you are god," sais the green haired devil, " the one being who can decide of who live and who die"
He looked at the primordial power up and down.
" Not so impressive" said Malik with a smirk, so strange on his face.
God turned to him, looked him up and down, and sighed.
"So it was just for one of your comrade , then ? So much death for this ?" he asked sadly.
Malik laughed bitterly and glared down at god.
"Close, but no, it was for a human" he said .
God looked at him once again, a surprised look on his face.
" Truly ? I believed that you demons were all for yourself" he said with a bit of surprise on his face.
"She was special, you see, after all..." he looked straight at god there.
"She was the mother of my child"
No sound was made. Everyone, everyone looked at him, hell and heaven shocked by such a claim. God face became a stone one, and he took a step in the direction of Malik.
".. So it was you ?" he said calmly.
Malik took a step too, glaring at god.
" It look like it was" he said defiantly.
They looked at each other, before god sighed and lowered his head. The other angled breathed out a little.
But then, just as it seemed like it was going to go smoothly, god head shoot up, fury etched in his very features.
"Be gone filth !" and he brought his hand down.
Light smashed on Malik , utterly destroying him. All demons felt the very souls of the devils totally disappear from the plane of existence, not even leaving ash behind.
All demons felt a primal fear grip their heart as they saw the light, and some even ran away.
As god began to rage and smite the demons close to him, Batariel simply looked at the darkened spot where stood his self called friend just a second ago. Thing began to made sense in his head about the sudden change of attitude of the devil. Was he wrong, was he right ?
The great beast did not know. But what he know.. what he know is that the dead demanded retribution
The Watcher of the underworld gripped his dangerous looking claymore, and he roared to the sky. A huge, ear deafening sound, so loud that the floor shake.
God looked at him, fury dissipating, leaving behind no emotion, and looked at the big, orange looking demons ran in his direction, and he launched a bright ray of light, forcing him to dodge.
Witch he did not. Batariel completely ignoring the certain death that awaited him, roaring once again while putting his sword in the way.
The ray followed the path of the sword and pierced the right arm of the beast instead of his torso, almost making him let his sword go away.
Batariel emitted a pained sound and took his sword more firmly in his left sword, jumping at god, massive wing of leather opening in his back.
God, who had already began to turn to another foe, looked back just as Batariel painful scream was heard, and surprise appeared on his face for just a moment.
Just before it was replaced by a shocked expression as a demonic blade imbedded itself in his shoulder.
He felt to the floor, eyes wide . He brought his hand to his shoulder, sensing a hot liquid falling to the side of his arm. Bringing his hand to his vision, he saw red, scarlet blood falling from it.
He looked up as a shadow loomed over him, and saw the demons he thought he killed with a concentrated ray of light. Apparently, he survived it.
For his part, Batariel looked down on this so called supreme being, sword pointed. He raised his sword high, ready for the kill, before his eyes felt on heaven's ruler shoulder.
Just as his felt something run the long of his torso, he remembered a conversation.
"I could only felt pity for these being. Even if they killed our brother, even if they wanted us dead, they bled just the same as us"
God looked into the face of death, and he closed his eyes. He heard the blade fall, cutting the wind on its way. He heard the iron smash into matter. But he did not felt the pain, nor the cold kiss of balde.
He opened his eyes, and saw the sword emebeld in the ground just next to him, looking up, at the beast, he saw something that wasn't quite right.
Instead of a smirk, instead of fury, instead of anger, he saw only pity. Pity for him.
The demons said nothing, took back his sword, and turned away.
"Why ?" said a week voice behind him as Batariel walked away.
He didn't stop, just walking to a wounded demon, and helping him get up.
"Why ? " repeated go, voice free from anger.
Batariel secured another demons in his arm, and began to walk away, not turning back.
As god watched the one who could have killed him walk away, he couldn't help but think that, even if it was not a defeat for them, it was not quite a victory. His thought were proved right when he saw the wings of whispering angel flash a deep back.
-Break-
This was the first time angel began to fall from grace, having lost their faith in their leader.
On his return home, Batariel presented himself as the sole investor of the raid of heaven, and asked that all the blame was to be put on him.
The leader were not convinced at all by his story, but seeing the resolve in his eyes, they accepted nonetheless.
The next day after their return, Batariel was brought to the central place of Lilith, chained and armour less.
Before a crow of silent devils and demons alike , the four leader of the underworld judged him for his crimes which could have brought a war on them, and witch killed a lot of the remaining original demons .
He did not display a single emotion when he listened his master strip him of his rank, of his belonging and of his magic, nor when they cut his body to create the mark of shame.
"For all this, you, peasent of the underworld, will be exiled from all of the devils territory, and will be killed on sight if you even came close to our border." He said .
Lucifer looked from his paper to Batariel.
" Is that clear ?" said the supreme leader.
Batariel nodded, still looking before him. Not making any sound.
" Good, now Warlord Leviathan will take you to the border. Warlord, if you would " said Lucifer while looking at the armoured man.
Leviathan walked in front of Batariel, and took the chain in his hand, not expression displayed on his face, and began to walk to the glowing magic circle next to them, pulling the former revered demon of the underworld.
Just as the circle began to glow brighter, a voice interrupted it.
"wait," said Lucifer, " do you want to say a last thing ?"
Batariel looked away from the sky for the first time since the beginning of the judgment, and looked to the people he protected since the first time he draw breath.
"Stay strong" he said, voice loud even if the loss of his magic could be sensed in it.
Nobody said anything. Lucifer nodded to Leviathan.
"Let's go" said the warlord.
Just as the circle began to glow brighter once again, a roar exploded feom the crowd, and another and another. Just before the circle teleported them, Batariel last vision of Lilith was one of angel roaring for him. Not roar of hate, but roar of respect.
Then they were gone. Leviathan and him were next to a forest.
The warlord took of the chain of the former beast, and he began to walk into the forest.
"Watcher," called one of his former master.
Batariel turned just in time to catch a familiar sword in his hand. Further inspection confirmed that it was indeed his sword.
He lookes at Leviathan, who took of his helmet, letting his green hair floating in the wind, a kind smile on his face.
"It was not your fault, it was his choice and his alone that lead him to his death" said the demons before him gently.
Batariel eyes widened.
" Hothead run into the family, but thank you for listening to him" he continued.
Then the smile was gone, and he put back his helmet on.
The circle exploded once again, leaving the former great beast alone.
He looked at his sword, and walked into the forest.
-Break-
From his forest, Batariel did not really heard what happened in the world. Sometimes, he would come across sentient being who would talk to him. Sirens, revenant or sometimes even minor dragons.
Thank to that, he learned of the birth of a new biblical faction, the fallen angles. He also learned of the creations of the sacred gear, tool make by god to allow humans to defend themselves, making him laugh a little.
Hearing all that, it eventually came to a moment where a learned of the death of the satans. His master. It surprised him a lot, but he guessed that it had been some times since he left Lilith.
Also, it came to no surprise when he learned of the civil war, and even less when one devils came to see him.
-Break-
"Watcher," said a devil while bowing.
Batariel turned to her and growled.
"This is no longer my title," he said softly.
The devils raised his head quickly and looked at him.
"We need your help in the matter of the civil war ! We can't allow the traitors to take control of the underworlds !" she said, ignoring what he said.
He turned back to the lack, sighing a little.
"And who do you support, little bat ?" he asked her.
She got up, and bowed a little.
" Yes, my name is Katarea Leviathan, and i support the original satan faction." She said proudly.
Batariel looked at her strangely.
"Are you really ?" he asked as he looked at her hair.
She nodded .
" Why yes i- Anyway this is not the subject, will you or will you not aid us." She asked.
"No" he said.
"Splendid, then if you- what ?" she double taked .
She looked at him shocked.
" But... but why ," she shook her head," You are the angel slayer, the watcher of the underworld, the one who wounded god, you are the great beast of war !"
Batariel took a rock and launched it on the lack.
"All useless titles" he said soflty.
Katarea face fell.
"But, but you are Batariel-sama !" she screamed.
The former beast looked at her, surprised by her outburst, and saw her facade was off, letting her blushing and panting.
"Sama ?" he asked .
Katarea shook her head and approached him.
"I'm sorry for that, Batariel-sama, but i thought that you would respect Lucifer-sama wish ." she said quickly.
"Lucifer is dead" he responded just as quick.
"No i mean, his descendant , Rizevim-sama " she explained.
"A, so that him who took the reign, let me ask you a question Katarea, what do you think of peace ?" he asked her.
Katarea looked surprised, but answered almost immediately.
" The path of runeway and fools" she said without missing a bit.
Batariel shook his head, and gripped his sword.
"is that so ?" he asked as he pulled his sword of the ground.
Instanlty, Katarea saw herself be beheaded. And as he head tooched the ground, she was back to her inital place. She placed her hand to her neck, gulping a little.
That was simply and only pure killing intent.
" Then i guess i have to take part in this war too ," he said, face as cold a stone.
-Break-
"Is that.. the true power of The great beast of war ?" asked Katarea as she looke at the rather big gash on her chest.
A little over from here, on the now frozen lack, stood Bartariel. A panting, bruised and defeated Batariel.
"Disappointing" she said with a smirk.
She slowly walked his way as she continued to talk.
" You know, I always heard story about you. The great beast who stood over the gate, the one who could fight any being , even an dragon." She said.
There , here eyes clouded.
" I guess you could say that i gained a slight obsession with your image. Like most of my generation's devils, to be truthful, devils are attracted to power after all" she stopped before him, and he girthed his teeth in her direction ," but i guess year without magic slowly took you life away, isn't it ? Look at you cannot even transform in your true form.
Batariel, a knee on the ground glared at her, and spitted. It impacted on her cheek.
She stopped talking and looked at him, slowly taking the saliva of her cheek with her hand ... before licking it. And with that she pushed Batariel on the ice hard.
The beast in human form grunted and watched her walk away to his sword, taking it before coming back to him, with a dangerous swing of her hips.
"Because i don't want to destroy the dream of so many young devils, I won't kill you here, even if doing so will bring me so much influence... ," she said as she circled him " No i will say that i found you sealed, and that it was the traitors who did it"
Glace began to appear on him as she continued.
"Yes, i when we will end this silly war, i will come back for you, my dear little beast." And with that, she kissed him on the lips, all the long ice engulfing his body.
-Break-
It would have been a brilliant plan, if not the fact that the Satan faction lost the war. Leaving Batariel sleeping in the ice.
Nobody know that he was here, Katarea having guarded the secret and not daring to go back to the underworld for now. And so the great beast once again awaited alone.
...
For a little less that 200 years that its.
-Break-
"... "
A sound ?
"... !"
Who was it ?
"-de!"
The last thing he remember...
"-vide!"
His eyes snapped open and he reached out.
"Divide !"
His hand made his way to the surface, and he brock free from the ice. He panted a lot.
Looking up, he saw a young girl with silver short hair looking at him.
"Who are you ?" she asked bluntly.
It was at this moment that Batariel saw his sword in her hand.
"Where- where did you got that ?" he asked while pointing her sword.
She looked at her sword, the back at him.
"It was used to maintain the seal, thought this was a powerful demonic sword. Who are you ?" she asked again.
His slowly calmed his breathing and remarked the two white iron wing in her back.
"I was once a warmonger, it 's my sword that you have. I'm no one right know." He explained sadly.
The girl looked again at her sword, then at him, before handing the sword.
"Guess i have to give it back then" she said without emotion.
He looked at the handle, and slowly closed the hand on the girl on it.
"I'm not worthy of it anymore. Keep it girl, the fact that you can hold it tell me that you can wield it proudly" he said smiling.
He walked away .
"what do you mean, can hold it ?" she asked curiously, looking at the sword in her hand.
Batariel barked a laugh, still walking away.
" Try de-equipping you gear girl" he said smirking.
The loud 'thud' of sword hitting the ground told him that she did.
"Keep my girl , vanishing dragon, i will came back for it latter."
The holder of Albion watched the strange man leave from under the sword.
Later, Vali fainted on the spot when Azazel told her the origin of the sword.
HEY so. How did you find it ? Told you i lost miself at the end.
So for this story, i have three option :
ONE , i continue it. I have some idea with a fem-issei, familiar and angry tiamat ( no tellin)
TWO, i just stop it cause it bad (i understand)
THREE , i let someone else continue/ redoo it.
Tell me what you want, i'll listen
C.U.