A/N: I started this today in the bus so...
Warnings:This is an AU. Demon and Angel AU. They were never turtles in this. Only Donny and Leo are brothers. This is going to be TCEST. Only that they ain't brothers. Keep your flames. They don't burn in this Hell.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Turtles or anyone else that you know mentioned in here.
And now i present you:
Enlightened
Chapter 1
There were no gates to Hell, as many want to think. And heaven wasn't in the clouds, above the heads of the humans. These places were far away, could not be seen on one of their religious paintings. Many can't grasp the idea, that it isn't really there. In their universe. Only the ones who live there, in Heaven and Hell, know really what it is like.
I, myself, can only say how it's in hell. It's nothing like I have heard as I was still walking on earth. It's wasteland with an occasional tree or two. No water, at least nothing you can drink. But that's ok I guess, because something that's not real can't drink. You don't burn here. How should there be fire if there's no air? No clouds besides the dust. You don't burn here forever. But you don't really live.
There's nothing to do, nothing to see. There are a lot of demons, but i don't really talk to anyone besides Michelangelo and Saki. But that's just because I have to. Saki took me in after he found me lying on the reddish brown dirt. Honestly, I was scared shitless after I woke up there. But after I saw myself in a liquid so red you may think it was blood, just moments ago flowing through the veins of the mortal ones.
Eyes so pitch black like the inside of a cave. Skin pale ,not like snow, but like the one of a corpse. Hair still black, but dull. I didn't know where I was, because who could you trust to tell the truth about the 'Darkland' . I preferred this name for a long time. Hell sounded final and at that time, I couldn't work with final.
Now I'm over that. I realized it couldn't be changed.
2734 years is a long time after all. A long time to think about why you' re here. What you've done to be sent here. For me, its easy, as I only did one bad thing in my whole life. But that was as bad as it can probably get.
Do you know Judas? Well that was my former name. The day I came here I was named Raphael by Saki. And it stuck to me I guess. It took a few hundred years until Michelangelo came. I didn't bother asking what he had done to deserve this misery, and besides I didn't really need to know that.
All I know about him is that he has blond, short hair and same black eyes as all of us have. A smile that, after a few decades, became a smirk. And a personality so annoying you want to punch it out of his nonexistent body. Also, Saki said we should treat each other as brothers, but that wouldn't happen as long as I'm alive, that's for sure.
Who would want such a nuisance as a brother. Saki said we would become stronger together as we trained. He was goofing off most of the time. So no, I became better, he just got in trouble. Not that I complain, because that means I have him off my ass for some time. After training I just go somewhere he won't find me while he is still busy. We are trained by Saki as he had a clan back when he was still human, so a long time ago.
He is kind of our master, leader or whatever you want to call it. He once told us about a Hamato Yoshi. Saki's older brother, Naki, was the former leader of the foot clan, and that Hamato guy was part of it. After Saki became leader, he wanted to destroy Yoshi. We don't know why. Nobody ever asked. We never dared and no one was as close to Saki as myself and Michelangelo.
But he managed to get himself and his wife killed in a fire. It needn't to be said that it was Saki who created this fire.
We stay in a big palace craved into stone. I have my one room, though nothing was really in it. Just four walls and myself. But that was as much as I could get. Of course it wasn't enough. For us it's never enough. That is in the nature of the demon.
Always jealous. Always wanting more. On the border of our land was a big sea of the red water. I didn't know what was on the other side. I was curious and wanted to know.
So one day I asked and received an answer I wasn't satisfied with. Saki told me nobody ever came back. What happened to those who went? The ones never to be seen again? I thought I would never know if we were the only ones here or if there was something else. And then they came.
The day started like always. I came out of my room, tired of sitting in there as we don't need to close our eyes, sleep or even blink. And if we sleep, there's nothing. You don't dream. The stone floor was cold. In Hell it's always cold. No heat, but no wind either. Just the coldness of nothingness.
I was in the outer part of the palace, where you could look outside trough the big windows. We didn't need light, so we just had a few here, but they were big. And trough this window, I saw one of us running at breakneck speed in my direction. I could make out who it was. I've seen her before. Shoulder-length brown hair still swaying as she shouted up to me: "Raphael! Tell Saki something happened! He has to see it himself!" And she was gone again. Who knew this would change my life? Not me.
I did what I was told and informed him. Minutes later we were almost there. What could be so important to go to the border? We were running up another hill, already slowing down. The first thing my eyes fell on wasn't the sea, but the ones standing before it. Brown haired girl told the truth. This was unbelievable.
Creatures, not like us, glowing skin, shining eyes, wings. Something told me this wasn't supposed to happen. I looked back to Saki. His face showed anger, sadness and confusion. So he didn't know either. I looked back at them. One more beautiful than the other. There were males and females, all of them tall.
One was standing in the front and as he said his first words addressed to Saki, boy, I was almost fearing for his life. Almost. "Saki, old friend, it is long ago since I last saw you."
Saki spit his name out as if it was poison.
"Hamato Yoshi…"
A/N:That's it. Another brainfart of mine. (I'm not religious if you're wondering. I don't believe in god.) And if it's not clear:
Saki = Devil/Leader of the demons
Yoshi = Oldest/Leader of the angels
Raphael = was Judas in his life on earth. Now Saki's right hand
Michelangelo= not Raphael's brother, is hatted by Raph and trains with him under Saki. Just because they have time.
Leo & Don weren't in this chapter so i won't bother.
I have no beta reader as no one in my family nor anyone i know speaks good english. Neither do I. :c
So there may be mistakes.
If you liked it tell me. 3
Hope you enjoyed!