Disclaimer: Still don't own Supernatural.
A.N.: Again, thank you Wolfy for writing the battle scenes.
Roger was bleeding from a scratch on his flank but he didn't let it slow him. He attacked anyone that got in front of him, his claws coated in blood, and his muzzle had stains too.
Roger narrowed his eyes, the cave was too crowded. If they could draw the battle out further, it would be easier to fight.
Roger spotted one of Raphael's subordinates slinking away. Roger sprinted after him, attacking him with a vengeance.
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Lucifer and Michael glanced at each other, Lucifer had a few scrapes across his pelt, and Michael was a little better off.
"Our troops are fighting harder than Raphael's." Luce commented.
Michael nodded. "They want this place back."
"It'll be easier if we get Raphael out of the picture." Luce added, nodding to the ledge.
Raphael was merely watching the fight, a few subordinates with him.
"How do we get close enough to him though?" Luce narrowed his eyes.
"Don't worry, Roger's got that." Michael told him, Lucifer glanced over.
Sure enough the younger panther had gotten close enough to Raphael that a few guards had gone after him. Roger drew back, and two of their panthers jumped the guards.
Michael chuckled. "Now that's strategy." He and Lucifer headed over, slipping past Roger's skirmish.
"Raphael." Michael growled, stalking forward.
The panther whirled. "Michael? How?"
"I joined Lucifer's side, Raphael." Michael explained. "Because he was the right side."
Raphael growled. "He was everything he was accused of."
"You've been against me from the start. Saying Michael should be Second-in-command, not me! Framing me! I should've been named heir!" Lucifer snapped. "And I've come to claim my spot."
"You have no right to it!" Raphael replied.
"He has every right to it!" Roger added his voice to the argument, the guard he was fighting looked relieved for Roger's distraction, and ran away.
Raphael turned back to Lucifer and Michael, the two advanced on him.
Raphael moved back, but was trapped by the cliff. Lucifer lunged at him, and the two began battling.
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Roger dodged the two as they fell off the ledge. Raphael slashed at Lucifer, then ran. Michael leapt down and the two took after Raphael, letting out roars.
Roger tore after them. "Fall back!" He snapped out the order. "Now!"
As his panthers backed up, part of the battle spilled out of the cave onto the cliffs. Roger narrowed his eyes, this should make the battle easier.
The sun had set, and now the panthers and the rocks were streaked silver from moonlight. Eerie shadows fell in odd spots, as the cliffs threw shadows.
Gabriel and Sam tore past him, on the heels of several panthers and Roger snapped out of his thoughts.
Roger let out a roar, and jumped onto a panther, who dropped under his weight.
Blood splattered the rocks and the panthers, the rocks becoming slick as the red liquid spilled across them.
Roger slipped a little, and righted himself.
"Damn it." Lucifer swore. "Raphael, you coward!"
Roger looked for Luce, but couldn't see him in the mass of cats, even though they were spread out across the ledges.
Lucifer and Michael found him, jogging up to him. Lucifer was snarling, Michael's lip was curled, showing his fangs.
Roger would've said something, but at that moment all three of them were knocked off the edge.
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Lucifer slammed on a rock, flipped off it, and fell down. He landed on a ledge, on his paws. Michael had snagged himself using his claws, clinging to the side of the rock.
Roger had landed below them, with Raphael and another panther.
A third was getting to their paws as Raphael advanced on Roger, and Lucifer and Michael leapt down.
Lucifer landed behind Raphael and Roger leapt over both of them to attack the other panther.
Michael struck the other panther with a sickening thud as he crashed into him.
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Lucifer struggled underneath Raphael, Michael and Roger were busy with their own opponents, and Luce braced himself for Raphael's fang in his throat.
Suddenly Raphael's weight vanished.
Lucifer rolled to his paws, to see the faint outline of Castiel. The black pelt was covered in blood, and his blue eyes were filled with fury. He tossed Raphael backwards, Roger jumped out of the way.
Castiel whirled to face Raphael, as Lucifer caught his breath.
"You failure!" Raphael snapped. "I only kept you around in the hope you would somehow kill Lucifer and end the fighting! But no, you turn on us, you miserable little kit. I should've killed you, because you can't be the black pelt of the prophecy!"
Castiel let out a snarl of rage and bowled Raphael over, clawing at him.
Raphael shoved him off, and reared up, but Castiel swiped at him. The blow caught Raphael off guard and he staggered back. Right off the edge of a cliff.
Castiel stood still, but Roger charged forward abandoning his opponent. He peered down the cliff side, shaking his head as Lucifer and Michael's opponents fell to all fours.
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"No sign of him." Roger reported, but that was hardly a surprise. Raphael had probably fallen twenty feet to his death.
Roger glanced around. "You did it Cas. You ended the fighting." He paused. "Cas?"
The black pelt was already up the side of the cliff, disappearing over the edge.
Lucifer blinked. "Not quite how I expected the prophecy to work."
The two panthers they'd been fighting raced up the cliff, not chasing Castiel, but running from them.
"He's dead!" One of the enemies cried. "Raphael's dead!"
Lucifer glanced at Michael and Roger. "Come on." He ordered, starting up the cliff himself.
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Me: That was awkward.
Gabe: I WASN'T IN IT!
PB: Man up.