Chapter Two (Eternal Banishment)

"Do you know how much of a fool you are?! You broke one of the biggest rules of the Reapers! Do you job no matter what! Do you have any clue to what your foolishness will entail?!" Grim roared, staring down at Ward. "Do you?!"

Ward shook his head nervously.

"Chaos! The natural order will be disrupted because someone who was supposed to die was allowed to live! You failed one of the major rules! All because of damned humanly love! Something that should've left you when you died. You're not human anymore, Death. You don't experience the same feelings humans do. I should've know better than to let you at that job.

I know you were one of the only free Reapers at the time, but once I saw who it was and that I knew you had a connection to her. I started to question my decision. I was foolish to even let you go. Now everything is disrupted!"

"Sir, I can,"

"No, don't even start that crap! You cannot possibly explain any further to what you have done!" he growled. "You know what, you're out of here. You can no longer call yourself Death, you're not entitled to that name anymore. You're stripped of that title now, Mr. Ward."

Ward's face fell, "W-What?"

"You will no longer have connection to Heaven, Hell, nor the Netherrealm! You can keep your angelic grace, but it'll be in half! Get the hell out of here you cursed Nephilim!"

Ward winced, "But, I… I can make up for it, I promise!" he exclaimed. "I promise!"

"And you'll only make an even bigger fool of yourself." Grim hissed. "I will not allow it, you're done here. Take your scythe and leave! I hereby banish you to roam the Earth for the rest of your cursed life, all for your damn foolishness. I would wish you luck for whatever damned hell-beasts try to kill you, but I'm not that caring to do so."

Ward tried to protest, but the ground came rushing up to meet him.

And then we was falling through the clouds, plummeting to the Earth far below him to pay for his Earthly love. He was paying everything just because he couldn't bear to let someone long lost go.

He was falling.


Ward awoke sometime later in a small crater surrounded by trees, his wings spread out all around him in a broken heap. The word hit him like a freight train. Fallen. A fallen angel of death. He felt it, half of his angelic grace was gone. Humanity was there, half-human. Nephilim.

He was a half-human with wings, a monster.

He was somehow allowed to keep his wings and his scythe, but he was cut off from the other realms. Ward was left to survive all on his own.

All this because he couldn't bear to let Skye go.

Shaking out the dust from his aching wings, he stood from his crumpled heap in the crater. He knew that his fall had to alert the locals, seeing buildings in the distance. Ward stated away from the crater, tucking in his wings around his body.

He wasn't totally human, he couldn't go around normal humanity with his wings out. There had to be some way to hide them from plain sight.

Survival was his number one priority. But in a world where anything unearthly was considered a threat, how would ordinary humans react to a winged Nephilim? Probably not very well.

Ward still had the ability to hide his scythe in a rip in the fabric of space itself and could still call it from there. And he had his wings. He had to hide his wings, but how?

Ward hid behind a tree and quickly took his black shirt off, his wings going through the slits on the back of the fabric. Angels never had to hide their wings, but angels of death sometimes had to. Their clothes were made with slits for their wings so they could slip their wings underneath the material, but Ward could never get used to it. He had to take off his shirt to hide his wings.

He adjusted his wings, folding them against his bare skin as tight as he could. He slipped his shirt back on. The thickness of his massive wings made it look as though he was slightly more muscular. This would work for now.

Ward looked to the buildings in the distance, he needed to go, now.


(Elsewhere)

"There has been a reported sighting of an alien." Coulson reported, looking at the team.

"Like what kind of alien?" Skye asked, shifting in her chair. It had been three days since her brush with death and she had been released just yesterday. Believe it or not, she was perfectly fine.

"People said that something fell from the sky, creating a crater in a big shock wave when it landed. Apparently, it go up and walked away soon after. Supposively it had massive wings." Coulson continued.

Skye thought to the being of Death that wouldn't take her to the other side just a few days ago.

"So it's a bird?" Hunter asked.

"Birds don't create craters, dumbass." Bobbi sighed

"Then it's a really big bird."

"Sesame Street?" Fitz asked, joking.

"We'll have Elmo too." Mack added in.

Simmons rolled her eyes.

"It has nothing to do with puppets." May stated. "We're taking this matter very seriously in these times."

"Are you sure the citizens weren't on drugs?" Hunter asked. "Because what kind of alien has massive wings?"
"We don't know." Coulson said. "That's why we're investigating. And we're all going. But Skye, Fitzsimmons, and Mack will all stay on the Bus while May, Bobbi, Hunter, and I will investigate the town and the surrounding areas."

"Coulson, I don't want to stay on the Bus." Skye complained.

"You are. You just got out of the infirmary yesterday, you're not going into the field. You better be glad that you're still coming along, even if it is in the Bus." Coulson responded. "I need all hands on deck with this in case we do come in contact with an alien."

"Aye aye Captain Dad." Skye said sarcastically.

Coulson sighed, rubbing his temples. "And don't give me any of that. Let's just focus on finding the supposed alien here."

Skye rolled her eyes as the rest of the team laughed quietly, "Alright, fine."


Author's Note: I don't own AoS, Marvel does. Sorry for the short chapter, but I've got stuff to do. So Ward's been stripped of his Reaper title and banished to Earth all because he couldn't let Skye go. And the team is alerted to an 'alien sighting', could this be Ward? Keep reading and PLEASE review! ~AwakeAndAliveSpartan.