Chapter 4

The Hunt

The hunt for revenge, and the hunt for survival are two different things. They can collide and change purpose in the blink of an eye. Revenge equals murder, and survival equals life, but what if survival turns into murder…survival won't be survival anymore.

The palace was a mess, a complete mess. Loads of things were broken, stolen or completely ruined. Dead servants were laying everywhere in the halls while criminals were running around freely. Lucifer was on patrol through the halls with a part of the army, just like the other princes were, they wanted to clear the palace as soon as they could. It was a complete waste of time, they knew it was set up, but it had to be taken care of. Sylvanas had joined Sebastian since they both knew the castle well, Sylvanas would take a few archers and walk ahead of the others. She shot criminal after criminal when they were ready to attack.

On the other side of the castle was Claude, he wasn't helping, he was working with his office barricaded. He was simply humming softly while doing his paperwork, he wouldn't leave his office to get plundered and ruined, he had said when Lucifer came to ask him to help.

Jenavive was still with Ash who she kept asking questions too, eventually Ash decided to stop talking till Lucifer would return.

Though that would still take a very long time, he had send soldiers down to the dungeons to keep the criminals who got caught calm in their cell which they would be brought back to.

There they would be asked questions, though of course, they wouldn't say a thing.

Lucifer didn't feel like dealing with them right now, he had to make the castle safe before he could do the next thing.

Slowly he would walk through the halls, soldiers behind him and a mess in front of him, he passed a few paintings, a painting of him, a painting of Nodi and a painting of his brother Satan, he saw his was completely shred to pieces, it looked like the painting from Beauty and the beast where the beasts rips the painting of his human self.

Lucifer sighed as he walked around the corner, he saw a few prisoners standing by a cabinet, they were trying to get something from underneath it, they were laughing and kicking the cabinet. He signed an archer who stood behind him and shot an arrow straight through one of their heads. The others looked up and saw Lucifer, they laughed again as they quickly walked off.

He walked towards the cabinet curious of what could be under it which they would want so badly, he sat down on his knees after the soldiers had made a formation in case they would get attacked. Lucifer bended over and looked underneath the cabinet, suddenly a claw would scratch his face and a loud hiss could be heard.

"Nodi?!" he said full of unbelieve, he thought she would be safe in their room which he ordered to be guarded.

He heard a soft meow as Nodi crawled from under the cabinet, she looked frightened and clinged to Lucifer as he picked her up, she was shivering as she kept meowing.

Lucifer softly patted her head and held her tight, he looked at the soldiers "We're going back to Sebastian's office, if I'm right Jenny will still be there, she can keep her safe' He said. The soldiers nodded and moved towards the office with Lucifer in the middle of their formation.

On the other side in the castle, Sebastian was able to catch some of the prisoners and locked them back into their cells, he had ordered Sylvanas to go and help the others stay safe while he walked further making sure his own halls were cleared. As he walked out of a room nearby, he saw a shadow in his near, he grabbed a knife he had hidden in his right boot.

He followed the shadow soundless, his steps didn't make a sound, and his mind was focused. He waited before he walked around each corner, and he tried to stay out of sight as much as he could.

Little by little he was able to get closer, though the closer he came, the more sick he felt. When he had noticed he passed a huge purple door which was decorated with cold. He knew he had stepped into Claud his area of the castle, He knew something was wrong when Claude decided not to help along.

He looked around curiously and found small feathers everywhere around the halls. On the ground, on the cabinets, near the windows. Sebastian frowned as he collected most of them so he could show the others later. The feathers were a soft white colour, though they weren't as soft as they looked, at least not in the hands of Sebastian.

He suspected something but wasn't sure since white feathers could mean anything, Jenavive had a lot of outfits which included white feathers, and he was pretty sure he had seen woman outside the castle walking around decorating their hair with feathers. Claude could have just invited woman here….who was he kidding of course Claude didn't invite woman, he doesn't even like people in general.

Sebastian who was deep into his thoughts heard soft voices coming from a room near him. He slowly walked past the doors and stopped where the voices were loudest, he could hear Claude talk, after a while a woman's voice responded, he recognized it but couldn't remember the woman's name.

As he stood there listening to Claude and the mysterious woman, a servant approached him, Sebastian didn't notice and just kept listening.

"Can I help you Lord A-" before the servant could even finish his sentence, Sebastian had turned around and held his sword in front of the servants face, he placed a finger against his lips as a sign he had to stay quiet, Sebastian then took off one of his rings and gave it to the servant 'Speak about this, and i will come to you personally to take back the ring, and your life with it" he said as he quickly walked off.

When he had passed the corner he could hear the door open, he could hear Claude his harsh voice and steps which started to come towards him rather fast.

Sebastian had no choice and started running, he ran past the large Purple door, there he waited for Claude, or anyone else he could have send after him.

By the time Claude arrived at the purple door, Sebastian had already left, he had taken all the feathers with him and took them to his office. He knew Jenavive and Ash were still there and Ash might be helpful with this.

As he walked back to his office he heard Sylvanas her voice echo through the halls, she was clearly still running after prisoners. He sighed as he started to walk faster, when he opened the door he saw Nodi in his office. She jumped away scared since she was still weary of what was happening.

He frowned and closed the door behind him. Jenavive was still on his chair and Ash was also still across from her while humming cheerfully.

Sebastian rolled his eyes as he heard the cheerfulness coming from Ash. He sighed and looked at Jenavive, she had picked up Nodi and placed her on his lap, when Nodi saw it was just Sebastian, she meowed softly and jumped on the desk. Sebastian patted her softly but then turned to Ash he placed the feathers on the desk and held one in front of his face.

"I found these, Which kind of feathers are these?" he asked and leaned against the desk.

Ash stopped humming and looked at the feathers, he smirked and took one of the feathers "Ah, these beautiful white feathers, hm I know where these come from, but I don't think you are very happy with the answer" he said as he leaned back with a large smirk.

Sebastian rolled his eyes "Just tell me already, I don't care if I don't like the answer, I NEED to know the answer" he said as he started to feel impatience, he already had a suspicion of what the feathers could be, but he wanted a clear confirmation before jumping to conclusions.

"Well, lovely prince Sebastian, these feathers are from angel wings. You let an intruder into the castle…not just a random intruder…an angel. And not a fallen one, a pure god serving angel" Ash said and smiled with extremely happy eyes.

Sebastian let out a soft growl "HOW? HOW COULD THEY LET AN ANGEL PASS" he yelled as he kicked the chair ash was on. The chair was pushed against the wall with great force with Ash still on it. It broke into pieces and Ash fell on the ground. He coughed up some blood and let out some soft cries.

"Sebastian calm down, we already lost loads of stuff around the castle, we don't need you breaking things as well" Jenavive said trying to calm down her husband.

Nodi looked up as she had jumped onto Jenavive her lap, she peeked over the desk, curious of what was happening.

Ash crawled to the door looking like a helpless sad little guy. Sebastian walked towards him and pulled him on his feet forcefully "You are going to track that angel and bring her to me ALIVE" he said angry "If you decide to run, or help the little bitch escape. I will send my daughter after you. I'm not very patient and generous, so mercy will be far from present" he said and pushed him back on the ground.

Ash could only nod and quickly left the office as Sebastian walked back to Jenavive and sighed "this could have been prevented, everything could have been prevented!" he said as he formed his hands into fists. Jenavive took one of his hands "Everything started at the same time, the prisoners came lose at the same time the angel could have entered. The guards were running around finding the prisoners. There just wasn't enough attention for guarding the palace as a whole" she said trying to calm him "It's not your fault and the guards were doing whatever they could do, no one would expect an angel to just waltz in".

"Well yes I know that! But it must have gotten through the gate, I don't understand why? Everyone gets checked at the gate, people who don't belong here get reported to the palace!" Sebastian said as he pulled back his hand "don't you think it's a little weird?" he asked her ending with a sigh. 'Well of course it's weird, but this is hell, it wouldn't surprise me if they hired people to make sure the angel would get in without being noticed. Probably without even knowing they are helping an angel. People do anything for money, especially here in Hell".

Nodi simply meowed, she agreed with Jenavive, lately it's becoming easier to go against the laws and rules the princes had created. With the virus going around killing a huge population of hell, the people had lost their trust and even tried to overthrow the castle. They didn't succeed because the amount of people who still follow the princes blindly is bigger and helped to protect the royals together with the guards.

Nodi jumped on the desk and looked at Jenavive and Sebastian argue she then looked at the door of the office noticing it was way too quite compared to 30 minutes ago, she couldn't do anything since she was just a cat and way to scared to go out there again. So she simply hoped everything would go back to normal again soon.

Sylvanas was located at the other side of the castle, she had helped some female servants to safety while she was on her way to the training field of the army. As soon as the servants were safe she continued her way to the field. When she arrived, no one was present, no soldiers, no generals not even trainees. She took an arrow and held it close against her body so it wouldn't look suspicious. She looked around and made her way to the wooden shag in the middle of the field, which held all the heavy weapons. She opened the door and walked inside, a sigh of relief came from her mouth as she saw all the weapons were still on its place.

She wanted to turn back to the door when there was a figure infront of the door, the figure smiled and nodded as a greeting. It was wearing a black coat with a hood, soft light came from under the jacket aswell as feathers falling here and there.

Sylvanas held her bow and arrow tighter, she looked around to see if she could use any weapon in case of emergency. The figure took of the hood and a young white haired lady appeared. It wasn't Jenavive since this lady had her hair cut till her shoulders, it was wavy and her face looked familiar "you are gorgeous… much better than I ever hoped" she said with a soothing voice.

"Who are you!?" Sylavanas asked slightly uncomfortable. The lady giggled "No need to know my name, I just wanted to let you know I'm very proud of my work. You… are my work, a true piece of art. Your skin colour…your strength, it's all cause of me, truly gorgous" she said as her coat fell down and two large angel wings appeared "I'd love to take you with me and show you to my lord, oh he'd be so pleased to see what my work does to you filthy demons" she said and stepped closer. Sylvanas fired her arrow though it went straight through her, she got pushed back against the wall of the shag. The woman laughed and smirked

"I'm sure you will like punishments as much as your father did, so please…resist and fight, I'll make sure to punish even more"

Well it has been a total of… 5 months since I updated my last chapter…I am very sorry.

I had exams going on, loads of cosplay events and costumes to make, but also internship which I started this year. I had no inspiration and sort of a writer's block but I'm back. I can't promise I will post again every month, I just hope I won't give up cause I've lost motivation, cause I really really want to finish this story!

I hope you liked this chapter, and again I'm very sorry!