(A/N) I'm not sorry for what im about to put you all through lol nor what happens at the end either lol

"MIKE!"

Six Days.

Six days had passed since Lucifer took El back to the cabin for training along with Mike who at the time didn't know as to why he came as well. Lucifer had remained silent during their walk. Before he huffed to himself and motioned for them to get close to him which they did. Mike yelled suddenly as he found themselves being lifted from the face of the Earth.

The sound of wind and the rustling of feathers as Mike opened his eyes to find himself rushing over the tops of the tree's, the sky laid bare before them and Mike never knew he could feel so exhilarated as the ground passed from beneath their feet. El looked around her in mere wonderment.

Soon enough they were at the cabin and Lucifer set them down before sweeping around the cabin, El and Mike watching in amazement before he set himself down allowing his wings to vanish as they folded themselves into his back as if they were never were.

"This is perfect" Lucifer said to himself walking around the cabin stroking a tree as he went.

And so the training began for not just El but for Mike as well. Being taught the nature of Grace and Angelic lore. Starting with the Archangels. There were seven as seven was a holy number. 7 days, 7 Archangels.

Michael. The Archangel of Light

Lucifer. The Archangel of Darkness

Gabriel. The Archangel of Grace

Raphael. The Archangel of Healing

Selaphiel. The Archangel of Ice and Fire

Usiel - The Archangel of Wrath

Amitiel - The Archangel of Nature

The three of them sat crossed-legged together in a small clearing next to the cabin the sound of birds chirping away around them, Lucifer felt content in this moment.

"The Soul is a very powerful primordial construct and so is the grace of an Angel, the soul was created by God but the grace of a Celestial was created too but infused with his power" Lucifer began.

Mike and Eleven sat rapt with attention.

"In tandem a being with the Soul of a human and the grace of an Angel, is effectively nigh-omnipotent, stronger than even us Archangels in terms of raw power. Jane can you feel both? can you feel the energies that surround you?"

El closed her eyes and stretched out with her mind and felt the tendrils of her mind swirl around her and in the very centre she could feel the power of her soul in the epicentre. She opened her eyes and nodded with a smile.

"Power means nothing if it cannot be controlled, Emotional serenity and clarity is needed although Anger is also a great conduit to focus your power" Lucifer said and El looked to the floor ashamed as the screams of slaughtered men echoed around the clearing.

"But anger is like fire, it consumes everything and if you aren't careful it will consume you as well" she remembered as the tendrils whispered to her to commit bloodshed and she did, she had killed so many without an inch of mercy.

"Grace is semi-sentient, it wants what the host wants, whether it be love, revenge or peace" Lucifer said knowingly with a raised eyebrow. El remembered as the tendrils of her grace had reached out for Mike, wrapping themselves around Mike lovingly, protecting him. Her power came from her grace, fuelled by her emotions, her anger had caused an eclipse, rooted up tree's from the ground like nothing and caused the suffering of over a dozen men.

"Love, it only has the power to destroy" Brenner's last words echoed in her mind, is that what he meant? That her love for Mike was causing grievous destruction, No, she refused to allow the mans words to affect like they did in the past. But everything was now starting to make sense.

The Night they had made love together was the night that the Soul-bond fused them together for the rest of eternity. Her love and anger made her more powerful in ways that defied description. The tendrils had begged in silent whispers to be released, wanting the same thing that she did, revenge and for their blood to be spilt on the floor for daring to hurt him.

She could set the world around her aflame and not a single ember would ever touch him.

"Now stretch out and feel the world around you, feel the presence of every living thing" Lucifer instructed "Don't force it, just reach out"

El closed her eyes and Mike watched on curiously as tendrils of her grace surged in every direction passing beyond Mike and into the tree's, Lucifer smiled as he felt her grace acknowledge his presence as well as Mike's.

"Remember Serenity and Clarity, make that stone one and build on it, make them your foundations, Anger can destroy but it will destroy you as well, so focus!" Lucifer implored.

Simple exercises like these had gone on for several hours a day, she was being trained to hone her senses, focus her power, the lake nearby served a perfect place to test out her powers as they were focused without raw emotion being the conduit. Serenity and Clarity.

They sat and relaxed after an intense session, somewhat at peace. Lucifer talking about stories of helping fledglings to fly for the first time until Lucifer's face darkened.

"Humans think of Angels as benevolent beings, we are far from it" Lucifer said bowing his head "We sent the swarm, we sent the horde, we sent the scourge and the sword thus saith the Lord" Lucifer recited

Mike's face paled in recognition of what he was referring to.

"The Ten Plagues" Mike said as an answer to the unspoken question, Lucifer Merely nodded.

"The Archangels had a direct hand in dictating the plagues of Egypt, each individual plague was to mock their God's. Showing the complete sovereignty of God over every dominion each of the Egyptian God's were supposed to have possessed"

"I dictated two specific plagues, the plague of Darkness and the death of every first-born" Lucifer said "I killed every first-born who's door wasn't splashed with lamb's blood"

There was silence in the meadow form that point onward. Thought's of Lucifer as he had to commit such a duty.

Day Three.

They stood on the bank close to the waters edge and even Lucifer looked at peace. Watching the calmness of the water, the ducks and geese peacefully milling about before Lucifer stretched forth his hand, the water began to part on itself ad Lucifer's eyes glowed red, further and further they parted showing the lakebed as the fish, geese and ducks rushed away from the parting of the lake as both Mike and El looked on in awe.

A second line appeared in the water, creating an X as the water was contained to four corners. Lucifer slowly released the water, filling in the crevices and the giant X in the middle as the water came crashing back down submitting to gravity.

"Now, part the water" Lucifer commanded folding his arms. El looked confused, how in the hell was she supposed to do that but nevertheless she slowly raised her arms and watched as the water bubbled and began to part, Mike watched with wide eyes as the water began to separate, El's eyes had a slight blue dimness to them and blood began to pour from her nose, it had been months since that had happened.

She fell to her knee's and the water splash down once more, her breathing was heavy and ragged and Lucifer sighed in frustration

"Again!" he commanded.

She glared up at him but was unfazed as she stood back up and tired once more, the water bubbled and hissed as she focused every ounce of grace she could muster onto the lake, Lucifer raised an eyebrow as she got further than before, the base of the Lake could nearly be seen before the water came crashing down again and Mike caught her before she could fall once more.

"It's Impossible!" She half shouted in frustration and anger.

"The task is only impossible because you have deemed it so!" Lucifer let out a shout of frustration

"Hey don't have a go at her!" Mike said indignantly his eyebrows narrowed, Lucifer had a lot of respect for Mike and had a lot of time for him considering what he meant to his niece. "She's trying okay" Mike said like that would settle the matter.

"Trying? Will trying be good enough when the Demon rips apart everything you hold dear? Will trying be enough when the demon destroys the world?!" He turned to look at El "Will trying be enough when it kills the boy that you love?"

Her eyes glared up to him hatefully "Then the last thing he will see is me protecting him" she said fiercely and yet so quietly that it made Mike's hair stand on end but he felt his heart melt at her words.

The ferocity of her words made Lucifer take a step back, the words were laced with such a massive undercurrent of power but yet she deemed the current task an impossibility? Lucifer was stupefied, unsure of how to proceed. Until something clicked in his head and grinned to himself somewhat evilly.

With a single raised arm, Lucifer parted the Lake's water himself, his ominous red eyes glowing in the beauty of the late evening sun.

"Mike, could you please walk into the centre of the Lake?" he asked although he wouldn't give Mike a choice either way if it came down to it. He's rather he do it of his own free will.

"What For?" Mike asked suspicious.

"Trust me" he simply replied.

Mike hesitantly walked down the bank and into the lakebed, Looking in wonder at the parted waterway, as the water rushed upwards defying gravity, Mike looked around him slowly, he would never get used to this he thought to himself with a smile before turning around and looking up to where El and Lucifer stood.

"Now What?!" Mike shouted back up to them. El smiled as the voiced carried back up to them from below.

"Now? Now she saves you" Lucifer said letting his arm fall to his side, as he did so the water around Mike began to cascade down around him and only could stand numbly as the water was about to engulf him. Mike vanished out of sight. Lucifer stepped into the tree line away from the lake becoming one in shadow.

"NOOOO!" She screeched, her arms flew up, her eyes went crazy, an Icy blue replaced brown, her veins began to light up, traversing her body before running down her arms and into her fingertips as she felt absolute power flow through her. Lucifer smiled in grim satisfaction.

She fell to her knee's as she parted the waters away from him, arm hands shook from the effort, blood began to pour from her ears as well before she screamed as she felt power course through her, it intensified as the water finally was raised and split open revealing a crouched Mike who's arms was over his head protectively, she felt a rush of relief sweep through her.

"Mike!" she shouted in relief.

He didn't move.

"MIKE!" she screamed his name desperately. Slowly Mike looked up to see her.

"El?" he said disbelieving, he looked around him to see the waters had parted once more and he leapt to his feet and ran across the lakebed towards the edge before climbing the slippy surface to the bank and El felt exhaustion as she left the water crash back into the lake for a final time. The two of them grabbed the other desperately In a fiercely tight embrace. Lucifer watched on more than satisfied.

She turned around enraged towards Lucifer who still held a small smile of satisfaction, she however, was not amused in the slightest, striding Angrily towards the Archangel of Darkness.

"WHY?! Why did you do that!" she screamed in rage, the ground beneath her cracked but Lucifer just looked at her calmly.

"You said it was impossible did you not? So I gave you motivation and so the moment Mike was in danger it was no longer so. Mike is your strength and your weakness and the bad guy's know it too. If you're not careful they will use it against you" Lucifer replied gently

"I didn't want to have to use Mike like that and I apologise, if I were wrong I would have saved him the moment he was in true danger. I'm not a monster, I merely represent the element of Darkness, I'm not the Darkness itself" Lucifer said looking at Eleven who still felt a need to hurt Lucifer, she suppressed her rage towards her uncle as her eyes slowly returned to normal, her veins beginning to disappear as the glow dissipated.

Mike carefully laced his fingers with hers.

"I'm okay El, really" Mike tried to say convincingly

"But you might not have been" She whispered quietly looking at Mike with unshed tears. Lucifer just looked on in sheer disbelief at the couple, going from anger to being completely smitten with the other In a matter of seconds.

"If I had lost you Mike…" she trailed off, unable to complete her sentence as silent tears trickled down her cheeks

"Oh you guys are having a moment" He muttered sarcastically before walking off in a huff, giving them some much needed privacy as he might actually hurl up his grace as impossible as that was. But despite his sarcasm he was begrudgingly happy for them.

She pressed her lips to his hungrily taking Mike by complete surprise. But nevertheless but he was not complaining as he wrapped his arms around her, their lips were meshed together planting long soft kisses on the other. They hadn't even noticed that Lucifer had left nor did they care because in that moment all that existed was them.

They pulled apart for breath but they still felt an insatiable hunger that simply was not sated by kissing and El led him by the hand back towards the cabin that was nearby. The moment they were inside she pushed him against the door and smashed into his lips, causing a groan from Mike as their passion grew just that more intense, he picked her up and spun her around pinning her to the wall. She wrapped her legs around his waist and drew herself close to him. Kissing ever more ferociously, El lightly bit his lip before his mouth started trailing soft kisses down her neck.

The two stumbled around the cabin before finding the right door before tumbling through it landing haphazardly on the bed. Blinded by their passion, the burning need that they both felt was something akin to a blazing fire that needed to be fed.

"El…" he breathed deeply, one of his hands were tangled into her hair, their clothes were in a messy pile around the room, discarded and forgotten about.

"I love you…" he said so desperately that it was barely a whisper.

"Mike… don't ever stop" she said so pitifully vulnerable

"Never…" he replied

Their hands grasped together tightly as bliss overtook them in a single, breathless and Earth-shattering moment, in a moment of ecstasy and love. Their soul bond danced and rejoiced at their union.

Love that was…

Deep and Desperate.

Powerful and Potent.

Passionate and Painful.

Destructive and Dangerous.

And finally she felt the Serenity and Clarity.

Serenity at the love they had just shared together and that she was truly happy.

Clarity that a life without Mike was not worth living.

She drew herself in closer to Mike, who was now peacefully asleep, his arm drawn across her as he slept on his side towards her, his ebony hair was a mess of curls at this point but hers was not that much better.

"Mike… I will never stop loving you…" she whispered and with that final thought she too drifted off to the land of dreams.

The heavens above opened up as rain began to pour over Hawkins. And Lucifer, The Archangel of Darkness sat atop the mangled and charred ruins of the Lab and was ever watchful.

Staring at the blade in his hand, turning it in his fingers, the blade wet with water. Before staring up at the sky in his own moment of clarity.

"Thus Saith The Lord…"

(A/N) now that was a better chapter than the last I think by far, I had so much fun writing this chapter, exploring Angelic lore and history is something I personally find fascinating. I have so much more planned the subsequent chapters and we also find out why Mike was taken for "Training" as well and a few other traditions among the holy host.

As always guys review! And until next time, Peace!

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