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Chapter 10

On the way though, something caught Gabriel's attention for the rain was calling out to him.

My lord, we are here to deliver a message.

Gabriel stopped and listened to the rain as it continued falling.

The fallen Archangel Lucifer wishes to see you; he is at the City center on the highest building waiting for you.

"Gabriel?" Illyria asked.

Gabriel turned back to face Illyria. "I must apologize, there is something I must do, please return to the vampire's home and wait for me, it should not take too long."

Illyria nodded and continued running back home as Gabriel headed in the opposite direction towards the city center. Within a few moments, Gabriel reached the place and leaped on top of the highest building he could find and there stood on the opposite side was Lucifer, in his human shape instead.

"Lucifer," Gabriel said, standing on the building, pointing to Lucifer, "Why have you summoned me?"

Lucifer smiled. "Is that any way to talk to your older brother? Oh and if you wouldn't mind, please revert back to human form, as a sign of a…temporary truce."

Gabriel nodded and morphed back to Terrance's form with the same outfit; he opened his eyes and stared at Lucifer's human form, Wesley.

"You are not my brother anymore. You fell from our cause, rebelled and went to war against us and even murdered me." Gabriel said.

"Oh really?" Lucifer asked. "What about you? You fell from your brothers' grace by not going with them to join The Powers and instead stayed behind, degrading yourself with those wretched humans."

"You are not doing any better at all." Gabriel struck back.

Lucifer sighed. "Well were not going to get anywhere if we continue this sibling bickering." Walking along the edge of the building, balancing like a child on a wall, Lucifer continued, "It is interesting to be in such an inferior form that can't sustain our true glory." Lucifer turned back to Gabriel. "So how were you able to return to this plane? I know Illyria planned it with her acolytes but I don't remember you doing such a thing at all."

"Illyria's acolytes brought me here to help her." Gabriel replied, keeping an eye out for anything suspicious.

Lucifer laughed. "Are you serious? You already failed Illyria by not being able to protect her from me and they think bringing you back will do anything at all?"

"Well guys," Lorne said in an exciting voice, "Now we head into the real fun and pick up a few moments from where we left off in the first chapter of our story with these Old Ones."

Unknown Time

A horde of demons mounted on large scaled creatures known as chimera riders roamed across the barren lands towards Illyria's temple followed by a massive army of various creatures.

Golems, massive behemoths whose weapons lie in pure strength and brutality, of all elements; water, fire, earth, wind, and water, ran behind the mounted demons. The thundering clap of the Golem's rock-like feet could be heard miles, shaking the ground around them.

On the right side was another massive army containing serpent-like creatures wielding swords and spears, hissing through the march.

Behind them was a large army of knight-like creatures with long swords covered in a dark cloak with screaming cries.

These were the armies that belonged to Scylla the Sage, Scourge the Mutilator, the 5 Elemental gods, and Lucifer the Fallen Archangel. The armies were marching towards Illyria's temple to destroy her but not before attacking the human village as Lucifer had done before.

Scylla, a huge serpent creature like his troops, took point and lead the armies towards the village but noticed it was deserted, the feeble humans must have fled already, a shame, we might as well keep moving then. The army overran the village and found nothing and continued marching.

In the hills above the army, a band of humans watch in silent.

The mounted demons were ahead of the line and continued running over a large plain with Illyria's temple in sight. The demons roared and kicked their creatures to run faster and Scylla found it harder to keep ahead of them but as they continued he felt something was wrong and immediately leaped into the air and flew back to the rear.

In seconds, the entire field collapsed, the mounted demons cried out as they fell down the large hole now under them and found themselves impaled by spears with their blades upward. Scourge watched in horror as almost all of his troops were massacred in just one single instant.

"HOW!?" Scourge cried out.

Lucifer took to the air to examine the damage done by the trap and found that the chasm was quite wide and took out at least a huge portion of Scourge's mounted troops; actually almost all of them. 'Interesting, this is not like Gabriel however,' Lucifer looked around and saw something small in the distance on the other side of the chasm and he recognized them immediately, 'humans, wretched humans, only they could do such a thing,' and descended back to the ground next to his lieutenants.

"Humans, they are on the other side of the chasm, eliminate them! Earth!" Lucifer shouted with his sharp tongue to Earth, she came up to him, ready to move out. "Create a bridge and send all battalions over it and exterminate those humans!"

Earth nodded and leaped into the air, her brown cloak wavering in the wind as she raised her hands. An earthquake followed and the humans watched in amazement as the upper ground next to the chasm shifted like ocean waves and fell into it, which covered the chasm within seconds.

The golems and serpents screeched and began to charge towards the now shocked humans who had begun to run back to Illyria's temple. The Old Ones watched in amusement as the pathetic humans ran on their skinny weak legs as their armies closed.

The remaining chimera riders charged forth, fueled with rage against the humans but as they closed in something happened. A wall of long spikes appeared out of the ground, aimed towards them and the riders cried out as they impaled themselves among the wall.

The golems and serpents that were close behind fell to the trap as well and impaled themselves on the wall. Once again another vast portion of the army was wiped out in an instant with the golems lying lifeless on one of the many spikes with the others. A chimera tried to cry out for help, its wailing filled the sky with sorrow as it fell dead.

"SCYLLA!" An aggravated Lucifer cried out and the Serpent demon immediately knew what to do.

Scylla leaped into the air once again and began to chant, his massive arms became bright red as he slashed his arms at the wall. In one moment the entire wall collapsed at the might of his power and again, with the humans shocked on the other side.

Now the demon army was full of complete hatred and humiliation as they charged once again into the human army. Despite being weaker than the average demon the humans were well trained by Gabriel himself and fought hard. The Old Ones watched in amusement as the demons tore the humans apart.

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"A shame Gabriel." Lucifer said, strolling along on the roof of the building. "Those apes sacrificed themselves all for nothing. They put up a good fight I will admit that but once past all of their tricks, their nothing. In the end I still won despite losing so many warriors in those first moments."
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In Illyria's temple, a massive battle is being waged; the Illyrians and Dragoons fought valiantly against Lucifer's army but were heavily outnumbered.

The Five Elemental Gods charged at Gabriel with their swords but he countered each move with his spear. Fire drove his sword forward as Gabriel punched Metal into the wall and barely dodged it. Water came forth and brought her sword on Gabriel and he countered with his spear, which threw it off and struck her with his blunt blade in the face.

Wind and Earth together came at Gabriel but he spun his spear at them which drove them back and kicked both of them into the ground. Staggered, Water pulled through and thrust her sword at Gabriel but he backed away quickly and swung her sword out of line with his spear and checked her with it and she fell down hard.

Amongst the chaos, a Dragoon drove his spear into a Wraith and smashed him into one of the Temple's Pillars. A Water Golem roared and threw a Dragoon into a mess of berserker serpents who tore his body apart within seconds.

An Illyrian fought back against two Wraiths but fell to their sword quickly. The two Wraiths turn their attention to another wounded Illyrian but Omega slashed them both with his sword.

"Where is Illyria?" Omega asked as he pummeled another Wraith with his sword.

The Illyrian replied as he gasped for air, "She…is with her Qwa'ha Xahn, I am…unsure of what she is doing."

Omega looked up and saw an abomination come at him and he jumped back as the monster's huge axe smashed the Illyrian, it was Scourge.

Scourge taunted, "Come here and taste my Axe Blade!" He was a disgusting creature with bulging muscles and body parts of various creatures hanging on him. His stench was almost unbearable.

"No." Omega replied calmly and pointed his sword at Scourge. "You shall taste my blade!"

The two Old Ones leaped at each other with their sword and axe. Scourge gave a war cry as he brought his axe down on Omega but he dodged it and the ground shook at the impact of his axe. Omega propelled his sword into Scourge and drew blood from his stomach but it would take more than a small wound to bring down a behemoth like Scourge.

Scourge countered with the butt of his axe and battered Omega away before he swung his axe for another attack but Omega ducked from it and backed away as the monster continued to swing his axe at him. Many warriors were caught in Scourge's rampage, both friendly and enemy, and Omega advanced forward and tried to run his sword into Scourge but he grabbed the blade, head-checked Omega and threw him into a pillar and it collapsed on him.

Scourge walked up to the debris and kicked it away, enough to see Omega's head; he laughed as he lifted his axe above his head and brought it down on him.

Lorne lets out an 'Oh'. "Poor fella, looked like he tasted that monster's blade instead."

Gabriel grabbed Earth and threw her into the ground as Alpha came into the fray.

"My lord!" Alpha cried out as he knocked Wind out with his sword's pummel.

"Where is Illyria?" Gabriel asked.

"At the altar, she apparently has locked herself in there; I have no idea what she has planned."

Gabriel cursed and looked up as the other Elemental Gods leaped in but Alpha and a dozen Dragoons rushed in and attacked.

"Go!" Alpha said. "Protect Illyria!"

The Archangel leaped into the air towards the altar and in a few moments to examine the damage done. Piles of dead bodies littered the temple but there were more Dragoons and Illyrians lying on the ground. As Gabriel landed a short distance from the altar's door, four golems charged at him but he made short work of them with his spear and continued.

Gabriel burst into the Altar room. "Illyria!"

Illyria did not turn to see him but her priest replied. "Stay back Archangel! This is none of your business!"

"Business!?" Gabriel cried out and pointed to the outside of the room. "My warriors are dying by the thousands to defend your liege! And you dare tell me that this is not my business?"

"Gabriel!" Illyria shouted back but still did not turn to face him. "If you are still my warrior you will seal this room immediately and keep those fools out!"

The Archangel took a closer look and realized that Illyria was wounded, a pool of green blood sat next to her. Before Gabriel could say another word Illyria threw him out the door and sealed it.

"Illyria!" Gabriel pounded on the door but to no avail, 'what does she intend to do?'

Loud shouts and cries caught Gabriel's attention and the Archangel turned around to see his opponents. Scourge, Scylla, the 5 Elemental Gods, and Lucifer, with Alpha's helmet in his hand started to walk towards him, they had won and wanted to enjoy every last piece of victory. Lucifer lifted his sword, laughed, and leaped forward.