Hello there, Skylinemaster here with another installment of An Angel's Apocalypse. This chapter will be about the history of my characters, as well as the beginning of the massive battle scene that will take place next chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Highschool DxD
(Underworld)
[Brother of Michael?!]
Everyone in the warehouse shouted at the same time after hearing this shocking information.
"Don't lie about Michael-sama, detestable God!" Irina said, defending the honor of the new God of Heaven.
"Don't talk to me like that you fake Angel." Chemiel said in a dark voice as he released a fraction of his enormous aura.
"Also, it isn't a lie. Ask Michael yourself." Chemiel said, turning his attention back towards Michael.
"My my, what a touching family reunion. I think I am going to cry!" A distinct male voice said, clapping his hands in mock joy. Everyone in the factory paused except Michael and Chemiel, and Vali's anger immediately flared up.
"What's with the long face Vali? You still mad at me for what I did? Bwah, you kids today are so sheltered. I only caused your father to abandon you, nothing unusual." Rizevim said with a chuckle, appearing from the shadows with two women and a man with an ox head. In front of them however, there was the shadowy hooded figure, whose aura is suffocating everyone in the room.
One of the women is Lilith, the clone of Ophis that was made from power stolen from her. The others are the others from the cave back in the Axis Mundi.
"Remember them Michael? Hm?" Chemiel said as the ox man's head morphed into that of a human's, revealing a handsome male face with messy red hair in its wake.
"No, you are….." Michael started as his face trembled.
"Dead? No dear brother, we are not." The woman said scornfully.
"You thought you managed to rid us during the Great War right? Well, think again, we managed to survive." The man said as they both stood next to Chemiel.
"Azazel, nice to see you again after all of these years." The woman said, turning her gaze to Azazel, who simply grinned.
"I always knew you were too sly to be killed, Asheriel. But you, Molechel, brother, I thought your battle mania would be your downfall." Azazel said, shaking his head at the man beside Chemiel.
"Brother Chemiel rescued me from my own stupidity of battle mania. I've mellowed out throughout the years, but I am still willing to kill." Molechel said with a grin on his face.
"Sorry to interrupt this family speech, but we really need to start with the beginning of the invasion!" Rizevim said in a singing voice after he put his hands up, producing the Holy Grail from inside his robe.
"What are you planning to do with the Holy Grail?!" Azazel shouted at him as the hooded man stood next to Rizevim.
"Uhuhu, do you really want to know? Can you keep it a secret?" Rizevim taunted.
"…..Well, I'll tell you as a birthday present! But first, answer this question, do you know who this is?" Rizevim questioned, gesturing to the hooded figure beside him.
"No. I don't know him." Azazel said as he looked at the figure up and down.
"Liar!" Rizevim said as he pointed his finger at Azazel before shrugging his shoulders.
"Maybe, now you will remember!" Rizevim said, pulling the hood down of the hooded figure. What is seen is a figure with extremely pale, ghost white skin, pitch black messy hair, and lifeless black eyes.
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"No, it can't be…." Azazel said.
"This is impossible! I saw him dying in front of me." Michael started.
"No, Michael. You saw him dying, and then I knocked you out." Chemiel added as Rizevim burst laughing.
"Bwhahahaha. So you remember right? This was your brother… Gamaliel!" Rizevim said in dramatic fashion.
"…..But…. You should also know something, he WAS Gamaliel. But!" Rizevim said, holding one finger up.
"Guess what he is now? Hm, anyone know the answer? Winner gets a hundred points!" Rizevim said in a mocking voice as Azazel and Michael stared intensely at Gamaliel.
"Well, no takers that is disappointing. I'll tell you all anyway because you have all been a wonderful audience. He is, drum roll please! The 666!" Rizevim said as everyone focused in on Gamaliel.
[The trihexa?!]
Everyone shouted in unison, shocked that the creature that God sealed away is standing right in front of them.
"Yes, he is! The one from the Bible who I won't name because of pain sealed him away, but! Now, with this…..!" Rizevim said, thrusting the Holy Grail for all to see.
"We can undo all of these seals set by him, and then! We can kill the Great Red and invade the other world! Isn't this wonderful?!" Rizevim said, putting a hand on the shoulder of Gamaliel.
"You bastard! You are going to do that to invade the other world?!" Azazel shouts as the Gremory team, and Vali glare at Rizevim.
"Now, I truly am offended you think that way. We all have our problems, some more than others. But still, we are supposed to be evil. Devils, greedy and indulgent. You Fallen Angels, lustful and sinful. That is why I am going to leave my mark on this world and the other world in a sea of fire and death!" Rizevim said, laughing like a maniac as everyone readied their weapons.
"Everyone here must hate me, right? Well, you can hate me all you want as you won't be doing it for much longer. Now if you will excuse me…." Rizevim said as the Holy Grail turned a faint yellow.
All of the sudden, hundreds, no, thousands of red magical circles appeared on the body of Gamaliel, who simply said nothing.
"Everyone attack Rizevim, we can't let him unseal Gamaliel!" Michael and Azazel shouted in unison.
"Take this!" Azazel and Michael said after creating thousands of Light spears which they threw at Rizevim.
"Lightning!" Akeno said, launching Holy lightning at Rizevim.
"Power of Destruction!" Rias said, sending a stream of the power at son of the original Lucifer.
The others didn't bother as they were either close range fighters, or Sacred Gear users, which are nullified by Rizevim's Sacred Gear Canceller.
"Ugh, Chemiel. If you will….." Rizevim said, rolling his eyes as Chemiel stood in front of the attacks with his hand out.
A tremendous magical circle appeared in front of him, generating a tremendous flash of light when the attacks hit.
After the light disappeared, Rizevim, Gamaliel, Asheriel, Molechel, and Lilith were on one side, while Sun Wukong, Michael, and Azazel were left on the other side.
"What did he do?!" Azazel screamed at Rizevim.
"You forgot about what Chemiel can do? I'm disappointed in you brother…" Molechel said, shaking his head in displeasure.
"But, now let's forget about that. I got Azazel." Asheriel said as a sadistic grin appeared on her face.
"I have Michael." Molechel said, cracking his knuckles.
"Wukong." Lilith said with no emotion.
"Don't make me do this brother, you'll get hurt." Michael said coldly as a vicious smile appeared on his face.
"This isn't like the last time, psychopath. I've improved." Molechel said as he created Light spears which he threw at Michael, who simply dodged.
'This is going to be a long battle, if he truly improved.' Michael thought.
(Issei's pov)
'What, what just happened?
'Am I on a cloud?'
I feel the area around me. It feels like I am on a fluffy cloud, I can just sink through this.
I got up, and I see everyone else. Vali, Buchou, Akeno-san, Koneko-chan, Asia, Irina-chan, Xenovia, Rossweisse, Gasper, and Kiba.
How did I get here? The last thing I remember was our attacks getting intercepted by Chemiel, Michael's brother, and now we are here.
"Good, you are all awake." Chemiel's voice boomed as I looked down at my body. Good I am still in my armor, I can take this guy on, even if he is a God.
A pillar of fire descended in front of us, revealing Chemiel with a smirk on his face.
(Overall pov)
"Greetings, White Dragon Emperor, Red Dragon Emperor, everyone else. I am Archangel Chemiel. Regrettably the brother of Michael." Chemiel said as he observed everyone in front of him.
"Where are we?!" Vali shouted at Chemiel.
"Well, hello to you too." Chemiel said in a mocking manner.
"I'd address your great grand uncle a bit better. To answer your question, we are on a different plane.I teleported all of you here to show you the truth of what really happened." Chemiel said with a smile on his face.
"Also, don't even think about attacking me right now. As demonstrated before, I can block all of your attacks without much effort. I fended off my Father before, don't think you will stand any chance of surprising me." Chemiel said as he flicked his wrist, parting the clouds below them, revealing a beautiful city in the sky, Heaven.
"Now, I actually am rather reasonable. Once I am finished showing you what I want to show you, you will be set free as I want to get back to see Michael die. And, I'll even let you question me about anything you see. You see, I want the truth of us to be known, not what propaganda Michael comes up with."
"Now, for the first part of our tour." Chemiel said, rotating his wrist so that a giant mass of Angels is seen currently falling from Heaven.
"Tell me, children, where are we?" Chemiel asked.
"Heaven, of course." Irina said, an angry look on her face.
"No need for hate young one. Do you see what is happening?" Chemiel asked, as team DxD observes what is happening to the Angels around them.
"Angels are falling out of Heaven." Issei answered.
"Correct, these Angels, my brethren are falling out of Heaven with my brother Lucifer. In other words, these are the first generation of Devils." Chemiel said as Rias became shocked.
"Yes, Lucifer fell out of Heaven with over four hundred other Angels, seventy two of them extremely powerful ones, Agares, Sitri, Glasya-Labolas, Astaroth, Bael, Gremory. The list goes on and on, but you understand the general idea as these Angels became the seventy two pillars of you Devils." Chemiel said as he shook his head in disbelief.
"Why am I showing you this, you might be thinking in your head? Great question. Because this." Chemiel said, snapping his fingers, changing the territory to a beautiful, lush garden.
"The garden of Eden. Quite a lovely place." Chemiel said as six Angels walked in to the garden and stood near a tree.
There is an extremely old looking man with a beard and a staff, a young version of Michael, young Molechel, young Asheriel, young Chemiel, and young Gamaliel.
"Do you know who these people are?" Chemiel said as all six Angels stopped walking.
"Michael-sama is there!" Irina shouted.
"Indeed, brother Michael is there. There is Father, sister, me and my two brothers. You heard their names before, but let me tell you again. Asheriel, Molechel, and Gamaliel, three out of the twenty Seraphs of Heaven." Chemiel said as Irina shouted out.
"Liar! There are only ten Seraph in Heaven."
"Fool, do you think that is actually true?" Chemiel shouted back in an angry voice before collecting his cool again.
"There were twenty Seraph. The ten I'm sure Michael told you about, and then the ones he tried to erase from history." Chemiel said with a disgusted sigh.
"There was also Asmodeus, Lucifer, Leviathan, Beelzebub, Azazel, and Shemhazai." Chemiel said as everyone became shocked at the fact that Azazel used to be a Seraph.
"Shocked right? Four Satans, and two Fallen Angels being Seraph is quite unbelievable. Michael washed them out of the history books, as well as the four other Seraph."
"I was the first Seraph, and the first Angel that Father created. Forget the lies Michael has told you." Chemiel said coldly.
"Then there was Asheriel, the 18th Seraph, Molechel, the 19th Seraph, and finally, Gamaliel. The 20th Seraph. Of course, Father had given us different names after we left. " Chemiel said to the shocked members of team DxD.
"My sister became Asherah, while my brother became Molech, the detestable God of the Ammonites." Chemiel said, emphasizing the word detestable with disgust.
"So, why are we here? Watch." Chemiel said, gesturing to the scene in front of him.
There is God, waving his staff around, and all the wings of the five other Angels were opened. Michael with his twelve wings, Asheriel, Gamaliel, Chemiel, and Molechel with their twelve wings opened.
All of the sudden, the 1st, 18th, 19th, and twentieth Seraph's wings started to violently twist and turn, causing the Angels to collapse on the floor in pain. Michael held out his hand and created a magical circle underneath the four writhing Angels.
"Yeah, Father didn't like it when we had different opinions. You know, Lucifer didn't fall from Heaven because he wanted to take over the kingdom, no, he rebelled for a different reason. The humans, the filthy, hairless apes Father created. Lucifer saw what they truly were, murderous, greedy, selfish, and vain beings." Chemiel said as everyone remains silent.
"History proved him right with all the wars the humans caused, but that is beside the point. Anyway, the four of us supported Lucifer's ideals, but we remained loyal to Father after Lucifer left Heaven. You know what Father did to us in return? This." Chemiel said, gesturing to the scene happening in front of them.
"He tortured us, trying to strip away our powers. Send us to live among the humans as punishment for our thoughts." Chemiel said as younger version of himself broke free from the magical bindings.
"Well, I wasn't going to take that. I broke free of the restraints and helped the others break free as well." Chemiel said as the scene focused in on Michael, who was smiling at the sight of this.
"Do you see this? He was taking pleasure in our pain." Chemiel noting the sadistic grin on Michael's face as Chemiel broke free.
"Michael-sama would never do that! Stop with your lies!" Irinia screamed as Chemiel looked at her disgustedly.
"You'd think that right? Michael with his good guy act, fooled a lot of people. Fooled me once into thinking he cared for me. No, he just cared for my birthright. The right to lead Heaven should Father decide to retire." Chemiel said as the scene shifts to an unconscious God and barely alive Michael.
"So, what happened next? Good question. Well, me and my siblings overpowered God and Michael, but we were critically wounded, especially Gamaliel, the youngest out of us." Chemiel said as Irina became shocked at the sight of a barely alive Michael.
"So, after this we traveled, and found a home. Brother Lucifer allowed us to stay in the Underworld with him. He managed to restore our powers back to normal, but he couldn't help Gamaliel as his wounds were far too lethal." Chemiel said as the scene showed the original Lucifer healing Molechel in his palace.
"So, we looked around, desperately trying to save our brother, and we found this place." Chemiel said as a picture of an oasis in the middle of the desert appeared.
[It can't be!]
Ddraig and Albion both shouted at the same time, causing their users to recoil in surprise.
"Ddraig, what is it? Issei asked.
"Albion, what happened?" Vali asked.
"Yes, you dragons remember what this is right? This is in the Axis Mundi, your birthplace!" Chemiel declared.
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"Ddraig, what does he mean?" Issei asked the Dragon within him.
[This is the land of our birth. The land where the Evil Dragons, us two Heavenly Dragons, and the five Dragon Kings were born. That oasis is the only place that had water in the Axis Mundi, so all of us drank from there.] Albion said in unison with Ddraig.
"What your dragons say is the truth. The water that the dragons drink from. As we heard about it, we decided to bring our Gamaliel to it in hopes that it will help he recover his strength." Chemiel said as the scene depicts Gamaliel drinking heavily from the oasis.
"And that it did. His power instantly recovered. That well was magical, so the Asheriel, Molechel, and I also drank from it. It increased our power levels to beyond those of our Father." Chemiel said as the scene showed the three former Angels drinking from the oasis along with Gamaliel.
"But…. Every good thing comes with a price. Gamaliel physically recovered, but his mind became….." Chemiel said as he looks saddened.
"…Shall we say, twisted and warped. He repeatedly went back to drink from the well, and every time after, his sanity deteriorated little by little while his power increased tremendously. Lucifer and us kept him from harming himself, and everything was good until the Great War. But, all good things must come to an end, right?" Chemiel said as the scene shifted to a battlefield with many Angels in shining armor dead on the ground
"Heaven, in the first attack of the Great War, attacked Lucifaad, and in the chaos, Gamaliel was taken away from us." Chemiel said as Gamaliel is seen being dragged away, screaming many obscenities and being subdued by the Seraph Gabriel, who has a very sad expression on her face.
"Obviously, we wouldn't let our brother go without a fight, so we went after him." Chemiel said as the scene shows Asheriel, Molechel, and himself donning black armor, and going into battle, killing many Angels and Fallen Angels.
" Long story short, we found Gamaliel in the back of Heaven's Throne Room. We walked in on Father sealing him. He used a great number of seals on Gamaliel, 144,000 to be exact." Chemiel said as God is seen to be placing thousands of magical seals on Gamaliel, who is screaming in agony, the echos vibrating throughout Heaven's Throne Room.
"I stopped Father from harming Gamaliel…." Chemiel said as a single tear fell from his face, the scene around showing him killing God by impaling him with a Light spear from behind.
"Then, Michael came."
The scene shows Angels in the front of Heaven's Throne Room, with Michael as the commander, dressed in magnificent white armor.
"We did battle, Michael and I."
The scene shows Chemiel fighting with his brother, using Light spears. Each was wounded by the Light spears that hit them, but neither gave up.
"Eventually, we had to retreat as we were grievously wounded from fighting." Chemiel said as Asheriel, Molechel, and Chemiel are seen teleporting away with Gamaliel on the back of Molechel.
"We returned to the Underworld, but we were too late. Brothers Lucifer, Asmodeus, Beelzebub, and sister Leviathan died fighting." Chemiel said, saddened.
"We had nowhere else to go after this. We held no love for the Devils, nor the Fallen Angels, so we wandered the Earth, cursed to live forever." Chemiel said as the scene shifts to a desert where them four are walking with a camel.
"We became Gods, as that is what Father called us, detestable gods. We roamed the Earth, no purpose in mind, for thousands of years while rebuilding our strength by various means." Chemiel said.
"Then, we returned to the Underworld, only to find a set of new Satans in charge. Taking the names of my brothers and sister, what a disgrace." Chemiel said disgustedly, the scene shifting back to the Underworld.
"We then settled in the Axis Mundi, and waited to die….."
"But then, a miracle appeared. Rizevim appeared to us, and offered us a chance at vengeance again. I knew Michael wasn't dead because I knew my attacks couldn't kill him that easily, so I accepted Rizevim's offer. Also, the offer will help me get revenge on the humans as they were the reason Lucifer left Father, the reason for all of our suffering." Chemiel said as a smile appeared on his face.
"Now, it is time for the end. I have just received word that brother is almost unsealed." Chemiel said, holding his palm up.
"Well, any questions before I return us?" Chemiel said sarcastically.
"You are going to end the world because you feel wronged?! Humans are beautiful creatures, they mess up, but they try." Rias shouted.
"Tch, you truly believe that, Gremory heir? We both know they are murderous, evil beings." Chemiel said mockingly back.
"You bastard! Yes, we are murderous, but we strive to better ourselves. We can forgive, we are capable of great compassion. We help each other, even though we aren't the strongest, nor fastest. We aren't vengeful creatures who can't let go!" Issei shouted, causing everyone around him to stare at him in shock.
"Issei-san….." Asia, and several others said in admiration.
"Issei.." Rias, Akeno, and Vali said slowly.
"You are a former human. You don't know the pain I've gone through. Father created you! You filthy beings! And chose you over us! Asked us to bow down before you! But, Lucifer saw through it! Saw what you truly are! And we should be punished for it?! I think not." Chemiel shouted in anger, causing his aura to leak out.
"Well, I feel this conversation is over now. It is pointless to continue to argue with those who are too blind to see the truth." Chemiel said, snapping his fingers and causing a giant flash of light materialize.
Everyone covered their eyes, and when it was over, they were back in the warehouse.
"Michael-sama!" Irina shouted at the fallen Archangel, who is on the ground, bleeding out from his mouth while in a very large pile of blood. The body of Molechel is right beside him, the life already left his body.
"I did what Father would have wanted. Please, help continue to lead the church for me…" Michael said as he died.
"Michael-sama!" Irina shouted as Asia and Xenovia rushed over to the fallen Archangel. As they started to cry, Rizevim started to laugh.
"Bwahaha, wonderful! The one of the banes of my existence is gone forever!" Rizevim said, swirling the Holy Grail in his hand, which emitted a creepy green glow.
"Wonderful! It is absolutely over now! The final seal will be broken!" Rizevim said as he put the Holy Grail up to the remaining magical seal on Gamaliel.
"Brother shall be revived!" Asheriel and Chemiel shouted in unison, flying back to the son of the original Lucifer.
The final red magical circle on Gamaliel broke, and an ungodly amount of power was released. Everyone was thrown back, even Azazel and Sun Wukong couldn't resist the amount of power being radiated out from Gamaliel.
Chemiel, Asheriel, Lilith, and Rizevim teleported out of the warehouse as Gamaliel began to grow in size. Gamaliel soon destroyed the warehouse he was in due to his massive size.
Tentacles soon appeared as the male body of Gamaliel became twisted into dark moss green monster, consisting of the body of a sea dragon, the head of a squid with tentacles covering the mouth, which has razor sharp teeth the size of an average human, and numerous tentacles coming out from the two crusty arms and two legs. Twelve massive wings appeared on the back of the being, six Devil wings, and six Fallen Angel wings, the wings overlapping with the Fallen Angel wings on top.
Gamaliel grew to the size of two-hundred meters, and let out a bellowing roar that shook the entire Underworld.
"I have been reborn!" Gamaliel shouted out, his voice shaking the very foundation of the world.
"Bwahaahahhahaha. The end of the world has coming! The Apocalyptic Beast has arisen!" Rizevim shouted, laughing maniacally as a tremendous red magical circle appeared underneath Gamaliel.
"You are too late, this world will end!" Rizevim shouted to team DxD as Chemiel and Asheriel joined him. Together, they focused immense amounts of energy into the teleportation circle while Lilith blocked the numerous attacks from team DxD.
After a few seconds on the teleportation circle, a tremendous wall of black light appeared on the edge of the circle, transporting the Apocalyptic Beast to the Dimensional Gap.
"Issei! Go with Vali to the Dimensional Gap to help kill the trihexa!" Azazel shouted as they nodded.
"Bwahahaha, do you think I'm just going to let you fight my precious trihexa?" Rizevim said as a blue magical circle appeared next him.
Euclid Lucifuge stepped out of the circle and faced Rizevim.
"Good timing. Stall them while I go to the Dimensional Gap." Rizevim said as seven magical circles surrounded him.
The magical circles aren't regular magical circles, but Dragon Gates. Each Dragon Gate was a different color, signifying a different Dragon.
"Seven Dragon Gates!" Azazel shouted.
"Yes, yes! Enjoy the Evil Dragons while I go to the Dimensional Gap. Lilith, Chemiel, let's go make sure nothing happens." Rizevim said, creating a black magical circle underneath him.
Chemiel and Lilith got into the circle, which teleported them out as seven dragons appeared in their place.
Crom Cruach, Azi Dahaka, Grendel, Apophis, Ladon, Yamata no Orochi, and Níðhǫggr roared when they were summoned, again shaking the Underworld.
(Dimensional Gap)
Great Red is doing what the Great Red normally does, which involves doing numerous stunts.
However, a powerful presence soon interrupted his pastime as it entered the Dimensional Gap.
"Who's there?" The Great Red roared, annoyed that its free time was shortened.
Gamaliel came into full view, and roared back at the True Dragon.
"Apocalyptic Beast!" Great Red roared. In response, Apocalyptic Beast roared back, ten times louder, causing the Underworld to shake.
(Back in the Underworld)
"It's starting, the end of the world!" Asheriel started laughing madly when she felt the vibrations from Gamaliel's roar. Asheriel flew up, her six Devil wings and six Fallen Angel wings visible.
"Issei, save the world." Azazel said as he met his sister in the sky.
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Till then, Skylinemaster.