Cage No More
After releasing the souls, the dark cloud observed the divine light continue to manipulate time. The Darkness was curious about this action by God.
"You still have your grip on time," noted the older sister, "I take it you want us to do something else while Hell remains frozen?"
"I'd like to show you the deepest, darkest part of Hell," blurted the younger brother.
The next moment, the two primordial entities found themselves with a cage in front of them.
"Why Lucifer's cage?" inquired the more feminine of the two entities, who recalled Lucifer's brief anecdote about his imprisonment during the reunion of her nephews at the Bar.
"As you already know," responded the more masculine of the two entities, "my wayward son encouraged both the human consumption of the forbidden fruit and the first homicide. Beyond that, the latter was concocted out of his desire to transfer your mark to someone else. Also, he twisted another human into the first demon."
"We're here," he explained, "because a part of myself would like you to do something that I just might not have enough courage to do."
Instantly, the Destroyer understood.
"Ah, so that part of yourself wishes me to destroy this contraption, then?" she suggested, before considering a rhetorical approach.
A brief respite ensued between the two of them, as her dark aura swirled around to make a thorough examination of the cage.
"That part of yourself remains fearful," she remarked, "that your one-time favourite son or another immediate son of yours will lapse back to their old ways."
"That part of yourself believes that this cage remains a useful safeguard against that," she reasoned, "even though the humans have demonstrated that there are lesser means to enter and exit this cage without breaking more of those seals."
"Like I said back home," she recalled, "you've got a spotty record when it comes to securing your prisoners."
"Very well," she agreed, "for the sake of my nephews, your sons, will this horrible cage be no more."
The dark cloud surrounded the cage and rattled it, shattering the remaining safeguards first, then shattering the rest of the cage, before imploding what remained into nothingness. Afterwards, the divine light released his grip on time, and signaled a request to leave Hell.
The Darkness obliged, and thus she and God teleported out of Hell in their true forms.