I flew with Christian and Adrian to the gates of Heaven. They were being sent out to guard humans from the attacks of Eris. She had just sent her whole monster army to Earth and was planning on completely destroying the area where the most Angels were. That is, that's what we were hearing from the Angels on the ground.

"This is it. I'm finally going to be a field agent," Adrian said solemnly. He wasn't made to be a field agent.

"We have a better job then Dimitri," Christian pointed out.

"Yeah, but he set himself up for failure." Adrian cut me a sympathetic look.

"At least I'll find out if I can change the Goddess's ways. If I do, then that's one less threat to worry about," I said pointedly. I was bound, bent, and determined to win this challenge.

"If that's a fancier way of committing suicide, than yeah that's what you're doing," Adrian muttered.

"I'll figure it out…As soon as I find out how to get to Tartarus," I mumbled.

Christian looked at me like I was nuts. "You want to change a Goddess' mind, but you don't even know where she lives?"

"I didn't think about it when I volunteered." I never messed up this back when it came to an assignment.

"Dude, you screwed up. You're a dead man," Christian said shaking his head.

"Coming from an Angel, that means a lot," Adrian pointed out.

"Okay, I'll go down to Earth with you, and I'll figure out a way to catch the Goddess' attention from there," I reasoned. It sounded like a good plan.

"Fine, but don't get in the way," Christian ordered.

With that, we took off towards the earth. We flew over the seas and lands until we came upon the country that we were to be working, the deserts in Israel. What we saw there was incredible. The Goddess had completely destroyed the land. People were running in all directions screaming in languages that I didn't know. Buildings were falling and the ground shook. A fire broke out somewhere behind us. Angels were everywhere, fighting the monsters that were causing all the damage.

"My God," Adrian whispered as he took in the scene.

"Adrian!" Christian shouted. He grabbed his tunic and yanked him out of the path of the crab monster. It was huge and completely out of this world.

"Thanks. Cancer has grown in size since I last saw him," Adrian admitted trying to smooth his clothes.

"Looks like Cancer isn't our only problem." I pointed to a huge lion that was running our way. Leo, I think it's name was.

"Jesus!" Christian cursed as we dove away from the beast.

Adrian gave a short laugh. "You know, for an Angel, you use the Lord's name in vain way too much."

"At this point, I don't care!" Christian shouted.

I turned from my friends and scouted out a place to execute my plan. I had to get the Goddess' attention and it wasn't going to happen with me hiding behind a pile of rubble. I looked around to find a place to shout a curse or something to Eris, but something stopped me. My eyes fell on a scene that made my blood chill. Leo was about to attack a small family that was huddled against a wall. The mother held her daughter tightly and cried out for help.

Letting my Angel instincts take over, I launched myself at the lion. A sword that was made of Spiritual matter materialized in my hands and I caught the lion unaware. With one clean movement, the lion's head fell from its shoulders. I watched as the head rolled to the ground and the beast vanished before my eyes, the body probably going back to Eris.

I looked up to see the family's reaction to my slaying of the lion, but they were staring at the place where the lion had once stood. They didn't move, didn't blink, and I feared that they didn't breathe. I looked around me and noticed that everything was frozen. I dropped the sword from my hands only to find that it didn't drop. It was suspended in the air as if an invisible hand was holding it there.

I took a step back from the sword and sand suddenly picked up from the ground and began to spin around me in a whirlwind. It spun faster and faster until I couldn't see anything in front of me but tan sand. I didn't try to fight it or go through it, I just let it happen because part of me was curious about what as going to happen. I got my wish all too soon.

"Today had such a lovely beginning, but then you had to ruin my fun." A chilling, beautiful, disappointed voice came from the sand. It was a woman's voice and something told me that I had gotten my wish of finding Eris.

"Eris?" I asked to make sure.

"So you do know me. I take pride in the fact that an Angel like you would know such a Goddess as me."

From the sand, a woman's form came through and stepped into the eye of the cyclone with me. Eris stood before me in all her chaotic glory. Long, black hair moved as if she was underwater. Her skin was pale, but not the sickly kind, the kid that was beautiful and dangerous. Her long purple dress hung from her neck in all the right way and showed off her curves. She was gorgeous and lethal. Every man's dream.

"You aren't unheard of in Heaven," I managed to say. I was surprised how calm and collected I sounded when clearly I was thrown off by the Goddess' appearance.

"That's fabulous!" Eris clasped her hands together in pleasure. She was enjoying her popularity in Heaven, but that suddenly changed when she came up to me face-to-face and glared. "But that doesn't excuse the death of my lion. Leo was on of my best land fighters and you decided to behead him. That wasn't all too nice even from an Angel. I'm disappointed." She shook her head and turned her back on me.

"Why did you send the monsters to Earth?" I asked. I needed to know.

"Because I wanted to, because I can. I am the Goddess of Discord if you have already forgotten, Angel. I saw that your little friends were down in Israel and I wanted to have a little fun. Is that a bad thing?" Eris' voice rose and she stalked towards me angrily.

"You are killing innocent people!" I exclaimed.

"That's not my problem. Hades deals with the souls of those who don't believe in your God. It's his job to cross them into the Underworld," she said dismissively.

"So you enjoy watching humans die and suffer because you want to have fun?" I crossed my arms and stood my ground. I couldn't believe that someone could be this heartless.

"It's my job, my life, my passion. I enjoy it. And I enjoy making you mad." Eris got an evil look in her eye as a sly grin spread over her face. "It makes your wings shake and your pretty brown eyes harden. That's cute." Her hand brushed my hairline and went all the way down to my jaw line. "But Angels aren't my type."

I stared at her. She was reading me like an open book. When I was angry, my wings did shake and my eyes changed. They didn't exactly harden, but they changed from brown to black, black as night.

"See? You're doing it right now. Those pretty little feathers shaking in the wind that isn't caused by my sand storm. Your eyes are darkening and turning hard. It's sexy and I like that…sort of. Like I said, you're an Angel. The enemy to the Gods and Goddesses of Olympus." Eris' expression turned from knowledgeable to confused and curious. "Tell me, Angel, what made you want to kill my lion?"

The question threw me off completely, but I recovered as quickly as possible.

"It was about to kill a mother and daughter! What was I supposed to do? Let them die?" I stared at her, again, in disbelief.

"We'll you're not like me so I suppose not, Angel." Eris gave me a once over.

"Dimitri. The name is Dimitri, not Angel," I corrected.

Eris turned to me looking amused. "I think I'll stick with Angel. It's more soft than Dimitri." She said my name like it was a dirty rag.

"Well I prefer to call you Eris because that is your name. I would appreciate it if you gave me that same respect." I was treading in rough waters to begin with. The newfound courage that was in my voice was going to get me in trouble.

"You know, Angel, I like you. You have spunk and guts to come up here and tell me stand up to me. As a Goddess, I respect that." She floated over to my other side and circled around me. "Now, is saving a small, poor family all that you wanted to accomplish when you killed my pet?"

She was catching on, either by some ability that she has or because she was that smart. Something told me not to insult her intelligence.

"I wanted to get to know you," I started. "I had heard things about you and I thought that if I killed one of your monsters, I'd get to you."

Eris studied me for a moment before laughing evilly. "Do you think that I am that stupid? Angel, you are going to have to try much harder than that to convince me that you don't have ulterior motives. You may be an Angel with wings and a halo, but I know that everyone has secrets. Some may even be dark." I noticed the dark gleam in her eyes.

"So what if I do? It's none of your concern. I got your attention and now I can live happily," I said stubbornly. Adrian and Christian would laugh in my face if they saw me now.

"You made it my business when you beheaded my lion. Then again, you were foolish enough to do it knowingly. I can't figure out if it is because you are just that dumb, or you are a glutton for evil, vengeful Goddesses that like to play with fire. Which is it?" She looked expectantly.

I decided to play with the Goddess a little. "I like to think that I have a thing for trouble."

I was so asking for it…