"Hey, you guys are finally back. So...I have a question...do we know who the other archangel is that pushed the two of you out of Cas' memories?"
"I don't...Cas?"
"Me either, Michael is still in the cage and the others are dead...so..."
"Wait...are you sure that perhaps God didn't make another archangel?"
"Trust me, that is not the case. If he had, every angel would know even those who have fallen. I don't know if it's left over from an ancient spell on my mind, or if maybe Lucifer was continuing to mess with us...but it was certainly an archangel."
"Well, I guess we'll start solving that problem after the battle." Sammy said as he crossed his arms.
"About that Sam you may have to stay here. I don't want to risk you getting blinded by the other Angels if they show their wings."
"Sammy would have to stay behind? Why?"
"Just as I said, Dean. Anyway, the battle will be rough and there will definitely be more than one angel." Cas looked at me with a Stern face and I just closed my mouth and didn't say anything else.
"So I guess I'll just stay behind then. Could I at least bring that cream stuff with us? It heals the both of you and if it's going to be as bad as you say, you'll need it."
"I'm afraid that may be the case as well, Sam."
"Alright...so do you have an idea on where we are going too meet them for the battle?" I asked, and suddenly Cas and I were both dressed fully again, and I was in one of my favorite AC/DC shirts.
"Yeah, I have a pretty good idea. There is an empty field not to far from the motel you were just at. It's about a hundred acres, and an angel possessing a vessel actually happens to use that land. It will be the perfect way to draw them towards us if they don't actually sense the energy you're giving off."
"Wait, I'm giving off energy?" My eyes got wide and I looked between Sammy and Cas, and they both just nodded with smiling faces. "Alright, well don't keep me in suspense. Tell me what the energy feels like?"
"Uh...it kind of feels joyful, free, determined, confident...but not in a cocky way, and just...righteous..." If possible, my eyes got wider at Sammy's explanation.
"He's not wrong, Dean."
"Alright so when do we leave?" I asked, trying to not let their words get to me just before going to fight Cas' so called siblings.
"Sam, do you have the cream with you?"
"Yes..." Cas walked over to Sammy before he could finish any more of that sentence, and they disappeared, and then only Cas reappeared.
"Now, we go now." He touched my shoulder and we were suddenly in the middle of a large field. There were trees surrounding us, but they were pretty far away.
"So...when do you think they'll show?"
"When they think they have enough angels. Right now, I suspect that they don't know that you're basically a full angel so they'll try to kill you to prevent it, and me for allowing it to go on without killing you?"
"Why?"
"Well, because...in their eyes...since they think you are a human turning into an angel...well it basically makes you a nephilim. However we are passed that and you are an angel. A powerful one, but an angel nonetheless. They just don't know it, and that my friend will give us the element of surprise." Cas looked up and he got into a fight stance as he got in front of me which told me they were about to arrive.
"How many are there?" I asked as I looked around us frantically.
"Twenty, maybe thirty!" Right when he said that, a woman with short black hair and almost too much make-up showed up in front of us, followed by a bunch of other people, but then again...people isn't a correct word.
"Castiel, what is the meaning of this?"
"What are you talking about?" Cas asked, and I got to admit, that wasn't what I was expecting either. I was expecting an all out fight right when they all touched down. Not questions first fight later.
She looked at Cas like he had just insulted everything about her, and she just scoffed looking in complete disbelief. "He was once the righteous man that you rescued from hell, then he made you betray your own kin, and now he has corrupted even himself. Why would you allow that to happen?"
"He did not do this to himself!" Cas shouted, but it was more like a roar in the empty field.
"Nonsense! Then, who did!?"
"How about you ask your older brother sweetheart? You know...the one that was supposed to remain in the cage."
"That's..."
"The truth..." Cas continued. "...Lucifer did this to him and I suspect that he went to warn you all of something like this happening, but you may have been tricked. This is his doing, that much is certain."
"Even if we were tricked, why have you not killed him? I can sense that whatever curse is on him is irreversible. He is in abomination, a nephilim."
"I will not kill him. Nor will you. I will die before that happens, and thank you for telling us a question we had...Sorry Dean but it looks like your curse is irreversible."
"Fine with me."
"BLASPHEMY! Castiel how could you? You used to be the leader of our garrison, and now you are a pitiful mess of an angel. All for a lowly human that reeks of alcohol and sex more often than he bathes."
"Say what you will about me, but do not insult Dean Winchester and his kin. He has done more than this planet than anyone else has. You refused to go on the mission to save the righteous man, and in case you forgot my words and the mission we had...it is the same person that you now call an abomination."
"Castiel, it deserves to die! It is a mutation that disrespects everything we are. If you do not kill it, we will."
"Over my dead body!" Cas' eyes glowed and his wings came out faster than I could blink, and they were guarding me.
"How is he not going blind!?"
"Maybe the curse?" I asked shrugging my shoulders and putting on my smug smile, and I enjoyed how it made her even more pissed off.
"You couldn't hear Castiel's real voice before! Meaning you should not be able to see his wings!"
"Well too bad lady, because I see them." I gently rested my hand on the crook of his wings trying to let him know that I wanted him to put his wing down, and thankfully he got the hint and even folded his wings behind his back.
"AN ANGEL'S WINGS ARE NOT MEANT FOR YOU!" She screamed, and if possible, I'm sure she would've had some sort of angel stroke by now.
"Why should you care? None of you supported him, none of you stood by him, none of you protected him, none of you wanted to stand by us lowly humans, none of you wanted to stop the apocalypse, none of you cared what happened to humans, but he did! So with that said, why should I give a damn what you have to say!? He didn't push me away, he didn't smite me, he didn't try and kill me or shun me, so I'd say...I'm closer to him than you are, and if he trusts me that much to touch his wings, then I guess they are for me."
She glared at me as if she tried to smite me with her eyes just before turning to look at Cas. "Castiel, if you do not kill that thing, we will. It is an abomination, and it must be stopped. It may not have power yet, but it won't be long."
"I will not let you touch Dean Winchester or his kin. You want to try and kill him? You can try!"
Cas' words were apparently her snapping point, because just as he shouted the last few words she charged at us with her angel blade followed by many more angels...and I just realized that I left my weapons at the motel and didn't take them with me when we went to Cas' forest. I was fighting off two angels with my bare hands, and I noticed that the angels had planned this. They were going to take turns beating the crap out of us, then an idea popped into my head because of the bond. 'Cas?' I thought in my head as I focused on him.
'Dean? How are you...?'
'The bond...it was just a thought I had, but hey...if it works it works right? Anyway, I left all my weapons at the motel. What do you want me to do?'
I felt Cas' back press up against mine, and I noticed he killed about four angels when I glanced behind me. "Well..."
"Scratch that...Cas...I just remembered that you were holding back your personality the entire time you were talking with her. Why'd you do that?"
"I didn't want to overwhelm them at the start."
"What the hell are you talking about!?" That woman from before shouted and the angels backed off briefly but not by much as she came forward once again.
'Now or never Cas. If it catches them off guard it'll definitely work to our advantage.'
"Oh, nothing of importance." I turned around and stepped to the side, because I really wanted to see his reaction and her reaction at the same time. "There is something I must confess though."
"You'll finally turn in that creature? You'll finally confess that you have been wrong this entire time, and that they don't deserve to be saved?"
"No."
"Then why should I listen!?"
"Because...I made a bond with Dean Winchester."
"You...THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"
"Apparently not, because I can still feel it on my end too, princess." I smirked and I could see her sanity snap that much more.
"I did, and through that bond...since I had already seen his soul, it took us to a place only I, Brother Gabriel, and God know about...we searched for similarities to be able to form the bond, but before we did, I had seen much of my true past that none of you know about, because I had met you all in the garrison. I also must admit, that the memories were suppressed until recently, but when I made the bond with Dean Winchester, I remembered everything from my first days as a fledgling."
"No one can remember that far, we aren't meant to. How long will you continue to lie Castiel!?'
"I am not lying. God created me differently on purpose, but no one was to know...myself included. There was only one other he told."
Her eyes widened in what seemed to be realization. "The Archangel Gabriel. You were always sparring with him..."
Cas smiled and it seemed to unnerve the other angels. "Yes, and he taught me quite a bit."
"I'm done listening to you!" She shouted and attempted to charge against but Cas put on the most confident smile I had ever seen and I quickly noticed that at least five angels stepped back. He lifted his hand and up and spoke in enochian as he commanded the wind to be under his control. I felt it surround my arms, legs, torso, and I could feel it on my wings that weren't out yet. I looked at Cas, and it surrounded him the same way. He lowered his hand and the spell held. "IMPOSSIBLE!"
Castiel laughed an honest laugh as the spell continued to hold and there was honest to god fear in her eyes. "Ah...I think you will find that when it comes to the Winchesters, the word impossible is merely an idea or challenge."
"W-What has he done to you?"
"Nothing, aside from helping me to regain all of my memories from before I was a soldier. Do you wish to continue to try and kill Dean Winchester?"
"He. Is. AN ABOMINATION!"
"Well, have it your way then. Ready Dean?" 'Let out your wings.' I smirked as smugly as I could as I released my wings from hiding and I stretched them out. It took all I had to hold in my laughter at how the other angels reacted. It scared them all, and the all wore such confused faces. "Beautiful, Dean. Truly beautiful. Now, I think we have some annoyances in front of us that need to be taken care of, don't you agree?" I looked at him and mirrored the confident and care free smile he was giving me and I nodded my head.
"Hell yeah!" I let out my angel blade and held it firmly in my hand as I stepped forward slightly.
"Y-Your wings...your blade...You're a..."
"Yes, he's an angel. He just has one difference and thanks to him I found out I was born with the same difference."
"What would that be?"
"A soul."
"Castiel...you can't have a soul...no angel has a soul..."
"I saw my own memories and my creation. God did this on purpose, and I highly suspect he knew that this would all happen someday. I was born with soul and grace equally." He smiled and looked at me with a side glance briefly before turning back to look at her.
"H-His blade...He has one..." She now looked at me, and I noticed how a lot of the other angels were more scared than confused. She was both, but she was leaning more towards just confused, yet there was still such raw hatred in her eyes as she looked at me. "So you've made your choice then...but it is a choice that is non-existent. What is it?"
"I choose to guard, protect, fight for, and be a messenger for Castiel!" I growled out.
"Besides...that's the way it had become since I rescued him from hell. We guarded each other, protected each other, we're both soldiers, and just as I answer his call, he answers mine when he can. Now, unfortunately for you, I cannot allow you to harm the Winchesters any longer. Tell me, are you a coward?"
"SOLDIERS, ATTACK!" I could see the madness practically coming off her, she was radiating insanity, but before the other angels charged us again Lucifer showed up.
"Tch Tch Tch...This simply won't do." He looked at the group of angels and they fled instantly without another word. Then, he turned around to look at me and Cas. "I never expected all of this. Castiel...you made a bond with a human. That could've killed you or both of you...and to find out you have a soul! I knew that there was always something different about you ever since you arrived amongst the other fledglings. You were an interesting ball of trouble and I was proud to call you brother...if I'm gonna be a bit honest, still am after all that and the memories I saw! Oh my dad taht was fun to watch! Shame I really couldn't find that place you and Gabriel always went to, but I'll be damned...again...if you aren't exactly like me!"
"I am nothing like you." Cas answered calmly, and it actually seemed to be a slightly normal conversation for a minute. The air wasn't completely filled with hostility, it was still there but not like becore with the other angels.
"Well then, little brother, let me point out some similarities. I thought Dad and the other angels were wrong about humans, I rebbelled, I held true to my beliefs, I was cast out, I had fallen, and I have been hunted. Now...does that seem at all familiar? The only difference is that you think the humans deserve us..."
"No." Cas interrupted.
"Excuse me?"
"I said no. The humans don't deserve us. Not as we are. We had failed them...We don't deserve them either."
I heard a chuckle come from Lucifer and then he looked at me. "Dean Winchester, the righteous man turned angel. How does it feel?"
"Well, douchbag, if I'm gonna be honest the wings are heavy but other than that, it's great."
"I bet. See...I thought that maybe with this curse I created that maybe it would destroy you to see Castiel in all his glory, or at the very elast the pain and bloodloss from suddenly growing wings might've done the job...but then I thought about it...You Winchester seem to always find a better way around things. You're so sickeningly moral and optimistic that I knew I had to come with a back up plan. So...I was going to let the spell take it's course and if it didn't kill you, it just didn't kill you. I would just have the other angels kill you but they got too scared and too...out of their minds, and that was always a possibility...those angels are snowflakes...so I thought then that maybe...the grace that comes with being an angel would warp your soul until eventyally you don't have one, BUT THEN you HAD to go and bond with the ONLY angel in the history of angels to have a soul! You just had to throw my plan off the rails!"
"Oh you know me Lucifer...I always love to ruin your day."
"Yeah..." He laughed. "You do, but I bet Castiel forgot to mention one of the key important parts of the soul bond."
"What would that be?"
"If one angel dies that shares a soul bond with another...the other dies a slow and excrutiating death starting at the wings, then throughout the grace, then the mind, and finally finishing off at the heart. So...I may not have been able to destroy you through my own methods, but if I kill Castiel I get to watch you die slowly, and I'll make your precious baby brother watch. He'll see you in pain and won't be abke to stop it and the best part...he won't know why you're in pain. There are no angels that want to help you, so he won't find out that way, Demons have never heard of such a thing, and that leaves dear old Dad...and we know he hasn't exactly been around." I moved to attack him but he shouted a singular word in enochian and I found myaelf frozen in place. Still able to use my senses but I couldn't move. "Nah uh uh, Dean. I want you to watch as I kill your soul brother!"
He lifted his hand, his eyes glowed a hellacious red, and just when he was about to plunge it through Cas' heart a familiar bright golden orb of light flew passed and knocked Lucifer off his feet.