Chapter 3.
All of heaven was preparing for the war with Lucifer and his army. He had taken angels with him when he fell, and his 'creations'. His demons, as they all called them. Gabriel was getting in over his head. He wasn't the jokester anymore, he was a war general. Michael would constantly call him into meetings with Raphael to discuss their plan.
"We can't just lock him in an ordinary cage. This cage needs seals." Raphael said.
"Seals that are almost impossible to break." Michael said absent mindedly.
"Am I the only one that thinks this is completely insane?! He's our brother!" Gabriel exclaimed.
"And he is now a threat to us all! Do you wish to join him?" Raphael barked.
"Of course I don't. Perhaps we could talk to him!"
"We tried that, it didn't work. We need to take action!" Michael slammed his fist on the table.
"People can change!"
"Lucifer has changed!"
Gabriel stared at his brothers and then stormed out of the room. This was going to be the end of his brothers, he knew it. They were so fixated on defeating Lucifer, they hadn't realized how many years had passed. Their little brothers and sisters were growing up, and being sent straight into a war. Gabriel still was resistant to participate. They may be warriors, but they weren't machines.
"Gabriel!" A voice called, Zachariah ran up to Gabriel. "So do we have a plan?"
Gabriel shook his head. "You're far too eager about this."
"But is there?" Zachariah persisted.
"Kind of. It's a work in progress."
"Well you guys better hurry up. I hear that Lucifer's army is getting huge!"
"I'll keep that in mind Zach."
Zachariah left to take care of the younger brothers and Gabriel kept on walking. He didn't pay attention to where he was going for a while. He didn't pay attention to where he was until he stumbled an old gazebo. Slightly decrepit, but still as white as his robes. It had a regal style about it, tall pillars, a sandstone floor and when he walked in a painting on the ceiling, showing a family of angels and God.
Gabriel ran a hand over the column, fascinated where it came from. He sat down on the mahogany bench.
"What are we doing?" He asked himself. But that was a stupid question, he knew exactly what was going on. Lucifer rebelled and now they are at war.
Gabriel put his head in his hands. This was nuts. They were thinking of throwing their brother into a cage!
And something suspicious was going on. Something didn't feel right in heaven, even before Lucifer fell.
"Gabriel?" A voice asked. Gabriel looked up and saw Balthazar.
Gabriel smiled. "Now what are you doing out here?"
"I'm not a child anymore. I can make my own decisions!"
"You're a child in my eyes. Did you follow me?"
Balthazar cracked a cheeky smirk. "I might've. What's it to you?"
"You are too much like me when I was younger." Gabriel shook his head.
"You wish you were like this." Balthazar quipped.
Gabriel laughed and ruffled Balthazar's hair. "Shut up." Balthazar swatted his hand away and fixed his hair.
Gabriel and Balthazar laughed all the way back to the tent. Gabriel thought that he hadn't laughed like that in a while.
Balthazar was like that brother where, no matter what happened he would always be there to make you laugh. And Gabriel cared for him greatly. He was always trying to outsmart the older angels, and often succeeded.
"Take care Gabe, and don't let those two sods drag you down." Balthazar winked and flew off.
Gabriel shook his head smiling, he knew that one day Balthazar's ego would get the better of him. He looked to the pristine tent in front of him. Wondering if it was worth it to actually go in.
Gabriel sighed and turned around. Like going in would do any good. Instead he looked to earth, there were barley any people on it, all trying to figure who this new evil entity was. Gabe thought of when he'd last seen his older brother. Lucifer taught him everything.
Gabriel looked around and made sure no one was watching, he flew down to earth, where he knew Lucifer would be planning.
Gabriel was amazed at what he saw. Humans, carrying out with the most normal things. Of course he thought it would've been chaos down here, but it was relatively calm. But, now he needed to find someone.
The rule was, you can't go down to earth unless you find a vessel. It was the worst rule but got to do what you got to do. So Gabriel began to look for a human that would be able to hold him without combusting. Although it wasn't hard in the end.
His new vessel had golden blonde hair down to his neck, and vibrant blue eyes, lean, muscular from farm life, and didn't look half bad. He practically jumped at the chance to be the vessel of Gabriel.
Gabriel went around earth to find where his brother was plotting, and even when he found where, it was almost impossible to breach. Lucifer had guards at every entrance, both demon and fallen angel.
Once he did manage to sneak in, he found Lucifer at a map of the area, pinpointing various places, Gabriel made himself invisible until his brother was alone.
"Have you come to join me, brother?" Lucifer asked, his eyes fixated on the map.
Gabriel was confused at first, but he realized that his brother could see past the illusion. "No Lucifer. I-I'm attempting to change your mind about all of this."
Lucifer looked up from his map and raised an eyebrow at his brother. "Excuse me?"
"Lucifer, out of all the idea's anyone has ever had this is the worst, someone's going to end up hurt, or worse, dead!"
"It's too late to end this."
"You can't honestly think that taking on Michael and heaven is a good idea?! Come home Lucifer! Please!"
Lucifer strode up to Gabriel and stared down at him. "Don't even presume that this can be fixed with an apology, this is so much bigger!"
Gabriel mustered enough courage to not back down. "Lucifer please, I'm only trying to help."
"Well you trying to help isn't going to achieve anything, you never achieve anything anyway! You can join me, or get out of my face!"
Lucifer's words stung and Gabriel did as he was told. He left, returned his vessel home and flew back to heaven. He knew the real battle was about to start. The day where both of his older brothers tear each other's throats out, and all Gabriel wanted to do was disappear.
