Castiel was right when he had told me I had a lot of learn. After cramming decades of learning into just a few days I made my first stop on earth. Castiel had warned me that only a few special people were able to perceive my true form without burning up and he didn't know if Adam was one of them.

As the plan was to pull Adam from hell, it would be a pointless plan if my true form killed him after I had just rescued him.

So my first stop was to find my vessel. After 2 days of meditation I was led to her while she prayed in her room. She was a young catholic girl no older than 20 with long blonde hair and pretty features. I did my best to speak to her in my quietest voice so as not to cause her any harm.

"Helen" I began "My Name is Haamiah. I am an angel of the lord and I need your help"

She looked around her room in surprise but I didn't show myself to her "How can I help an angel?"

I decided honesty was the best approach although it could result in her saying no "I can't show myself to you and I'm keeping my tone very low as I talk to you because it could hurt or maybe kill you. I have an important job to do, to rescue a human soul from hell and to free the archangel Michael because without him heaven is in chaos"

"What can I do?" she asked earnestly

"We angels need vessels to be able to walk on earth without hurting people and you are my vessel Helen"

"You want to take over me?" she asked

"I won't lie to you, it will be unpleasant"

"You need me to say yes" she realised. She was smarter than I thought.

"That is correct" I confirmed "I can't enter my vessel without permission"

"Then yes I give you permission" she said bravely.

Once I had control of my vessel I located the spot where Lucifer s cage had been opened. Castiel had told me it would be easier to open from there. Despite this it still took 5 days of pray. chants and meditation before I got the cage door to open. The horsemen's rings had been lost in battle so I didn't have the luxury of a key.

Once the cage was open I barely managed to pull Adam out before it closed again. I hadn't had long to look inside but apart from Adam there didn't seem to be anyone else inside and I didn't want to risk getting trapped inside because I knew nobody would come to rescue me

I patiently wait for Adam to be coherent, I could see hell had had an effect on him and he had most likely seen many things he had never been prepared for.

When he finally spoke I introduced myself and asked him about Michael.

"Were you in there alone?" I asked as gently as I could.

"They sent you to rescue Michael?" he guessed "Well I'm sorry, this must be a huge disappointment. It's just me now"

"It's not a disappointment to me Adam" I told him "I asked permission to pull you out but my superiors were counting on me saving Michael too. Please tell me what happened"

"I guess the fight with Lucifer and Michael was always going to go down one way or another" he told me

"I don't understand"

"We were all trapped down there" he pointed towards where the cage had now closed "and Michael and Lucifer left me and and Sam. Then Sam was gone and I was left there with them. I couldn't look and it I felt like my head was going to explode and..."

"What?" I asked

"I think they killed each other" he told me seriously "Michael and Lucifer, they're both dead"