Occult Interval: Celestial Descent

Disclaimer: I own nothing except the author created characters and concepts. Thanks to Ranger Red 2.3, Mistycharming and SA June for their OC's used in this fic.

Soft moonlight beamed down from the clear night sky, as the mysterious Angelic figure fled into the night, the rangers, Sera and Ray were at Gabriel's house enjoying downtime, in the form of a games night, after everything they had dealt with in the past week.

Having settled on the board game monopoly for their most recent game, they had been playing for the past hour. Unfortunately the words 'fun' and 'friendly' didn't exist in the game they were playing. Max, Ellie, Nyssa and Ray sat off to the side, having already been bankrupt.

Ray being the most recent to fall victim to it, gave a groan. "This isn't fair, there's only two pieces of property you don't own. You bought out and then bankrupt the rest of us!"

"She's the menace of games night! No matter what we play she's stomped us all!" Ellie also complained as the four players already out looked at the board intensely.

With a devious smile, Saya gave a hearty laugh. "So what's it gonna be Sera. I've got all the property on the board other than that first brown property nobody really cares about that Joe owns and the waterworks you own, which you conveniently landed on. I've built enough hotels on all of them that no matter where you go, unless you accept this offer, you're gonna get bankrupt. Come on think about it, you get to stay on the board one more turn and I get what I want." The blue demon explained, trying to persuade Sera into selling her only property.

"She failed to mention that the time after that, no matter what Sera rolls she'll end up bankrupt." Max said in a hushed tone.

Nyssa snorted in reply. "Just because that's what happened to you. Though I will admit, I'm never playing a game with a demon again."

"Um… Alright, I'll give you the property, just given me enough to survive no matter what I roll." Sera finally agreed as the transaction was made.

After her rolling however, she landed on one of Sera's most costly properties, being forced to hand over most of what money she had left. While Saya grinned, taking back the money she had just invested, Joe put on a serious look.

"Alright Saya, you might own practically the whole board and have everyone else's money, this next roll I make is gonna take you down!" He declared, throwing the dice down with a dramatic swing of his arm.

Despite his efforts however, as he moved up his piece, his expression dropped. He had landed straight on the go to jail space. As he gave an annoyed groan, each of his friends couldn't help but burst out into laughter, save for Sera and Saya. While the former gave him a sympathetic look that he had landed in jail despite his efforts to win, Saya kept her serious yet cocky attitude.

"Serves you right for trying to go up against the might of the Leviathan corporate empire! You're right where a worm like you should be, in jail." She grinned, her eyes seeming to light up with a blue flame as she asserted her dominance.

"I think she's having a little too much fun with this, she's named her make believe corporation now." Ellie remarked as they watched a look come across the demon's face, one that had come just before she was about to make a move to practically win the game.

"Alright Joe. Since you're in jail and I own everything around here, you're gonna have to pay for protection. But I don't want your money, I want that last property you own." She said with a dark chuckle.

"You do realise this is just a game right? I don't have to pay protection money at all, I just need to roll a double next time it comes to my turn. I know better than to make a deal with you of all people." He replied, not giving into her demands.

In response, Saya gave a short growl before clutching the dice in her hands. "Fine. If you want out quickly, I can make that happen, all I want is the property."

Without thought and with a groan Joe gave a nod. "Fine, it isn't like this game's gonna be won by anyone else, here's your damn property.

As soon as she had exchanged a get out of jail free card for the final property, she gave another hearty laugh, before placing more money into the bank to fully upgrade the property into another expensive lot. "It's all mine! Now as soon as either of you lands on a space I'll be taking all of your money, but seeing as neither of you could afford it, you'll be owing me big time!" She said with a grin as she handed the dice to Sera.

"Well, sorry to say this but that's not gonna happen. You've bought all the property so you've already won. On top of that, neither of us has anything more than the clothes on our backs to pay you in. And before you ask, you're not having our souls either." Joe explained as he and Sera got up and began to pack the game away.

Within moments, the confident look Saya had worn dropped. All night she had scored a flawless victory and because of a technicality, she had won without completely crushing her opponents. "Alright, if that's how it is, who's up for another game?" She asked with a sigh.

Despite her best efforts however, she was only met with cold stares from the friends and teammates she had so horribly beat this past game night. "Alright, maybe another time? Come on! You guys aren't being fun!" She complained as she was met with the same stare.

"Maybe next time, your aim shouldn't be to pulverise everyone in your line of sight, it's not how other people play games you know." Joe responded with a harsh tone.

"But it's no fun if someone isn't grovelling by the end of the night!" She protested, though her choice of words certainly didn't help her case.

'She really is the menace of games night…' Joe thought with a groan as he planted his fance into his hand.

[Occult Circle]

Steady winds blew over the city as the Angelic figure stood perched on the edge, the feathers of his six wings swaying slightly in the breeze as he surveyed the area.

"This city is interesting. I feel a trace of Celestial energy in the distance but it is clouded by so many other energies, some of them worry me. If I am to carry out my mission, I must act with haste. For now I shall recover, travelling to Earth depletes much of my energy." He said to himself as he kneeled down and wrapped his six pristine wings around his body. "Funny, even after being away from this Realm for so long, I still feel as connected to it as ever. The cool breeze is soothing and the electricity buzzing around the city is such a sight, sometimes I wish I could stay here forever. But I must remain on the task at hand, such mortal desires are unbefitting of an Angel of my rank." He said, shaking his head as he closed his eyes to rest and recuperate his energy under the bright moonlight.

[Occult Circle]

Ellie gave a content sigh as she lounged in one of the seats of the clubroom. The space was much cooler than the rest of the school once the curtains had been closed. Due to the intense heat outside, even the Vampire specific sunblock she wore to walk in the day wasn't enough and she had been confined to the clubroom until it had cooled down enough outside. The additional air conditioning added to the comfortable environment as she lazed around.

The dinner bell had gone off only a short time ago and the other rangers were slowly making their way in one by one. The last to arrive being Max. As he opened the door, another student followed him in. None of the others recognised him, and they all looked on. Max directed this person to one of the seats, Joe turning his attention to the Lycanthrope from his seat at the desk.

"Max, you mind telling us what's going on here? Did someone finally spot something that's worth looking into?" The red ranger asked.

Max gave a tense and uncertain nod before opening his mouth to speak. "Well kinda. He said he saw something important that we should probably take a look into. I don't entirely get it so I brought him here to explain."

"Alright then." Joe said, pausing to look at the student in question. He had short brown hair and green eyes and wore a simple white polo and black pants. Nothing about him appeared odd, so it was surprising to everyone that a seemingly ordinary person would come to them about a Supernatural occurrence. "So, what did you see, um…" He trailed off, not knowing the name of the teenager.

"Call me Weston. It's not what I saw either that brought me here, not entirely anyway. On my usual school route, I found this." He began to explain, before drawing from his pocket a pristine white feather. "You see, it might not look like it, but I'm not a normal person. I'm still human, but I'm what you'd call an ESPer." Weston explained, though by the look on Joe's face, he knew he would have to elaborate. "It stands for Extrasensory Person. Someone with Extrasensory Perception, a sixth sense if you will. I was born with something called Psychometry, I've kept it a secret till now, but that's because you need to hear this. When I touch an object, I can see all the history linked to it, and if it belonged to someone, I can see them, where they've been and where they are now."

"That's a lot to take in. To know there's people out there that can do stuff like that, it's a change from other parts of the Supernatural at least. What's with the feather though?" Joe asked, intrigued by both Weston and his reason for being here.

"When I touched the feather, I saw a man who radiated light, he bore six feathered wings on his back, all of them a perfect white. It was all strange, but I touched the feather again earlier and looked in on what he was doing right now. Whoever this winged man is, he's looking for someone. It sounded important, so I thought I should let you guys know." Weston continued, piquing the interest of both Nyssa and Saya who leaned on the wall either side of Joe.

"What you described was an Archangel. Highest of their kind and Heralds of the one commonly known as the Christian God. To say that one has come to the city isn't a matter to be taken lightly, depending on which one of them it is we could have a problem on our hands." Saya informed them, a troubled look in her eyes as she spoke.

"I can't sense any deceit from him, so as far as I know, Weston is speaking the truth. Since an Archangel is here now, maybe the Angels finally decided to engage the Abyssal Cult. I don't like Angels in general given my background, but this could be a good thing. If they start fighting the Cult too, it'd take a load off our backs." Nyssa interjected, proposing that perhaps this was a boon.

"Either way, we better look into this. He's probably staying hidden right now, since it's the lunch rush, walking around like that wouldn't be his best idea. We should try and find him after we're done at school. Ray and Sera can help in the search." Joe spoke up, deciding on a plan of action.

"He probably looks a little out of place right now, I bet he'll try blending in soon. That means he'll have to buy normal clothes, and there's only one place in Numin he can go. I've been meaning to take Sera there in the past few days too. I know you said it's complicated, but she only has one set of clothes on her, she should at least have a few other clothes to wear through the week." Ellie said causally from her spot, directing her words at Joe.

"Then it's settled. Just keep an eye out for this Archangel while you're shopping, the rest of us will spread through the area and see what we can find." Joe finished as Nyssa leaned over to whisper to Saya.

"You think Ellie doesn't actually care about this and just wants to go shopping for herself?"

"I wouldn't put it past her, after all, she is a Vampire, they do share the common trait of being vain. Wanting new ways to make themselves look good runs in their species." Saya passively remarked, paying no mind to the fact she had said aloud for the entire room to hear, much to Ellie's annoyance.

"You've got a pretty colourful group of friends here." Weston said to Joe as the red ranger gave a sigh.

"You couldn't be any more right, both figuratively and literally."

[Occult Circle]

Having made their way to a large shopping center where they presumed the Archangel would be hiding, the rangers, Ray and Sera had split off into groups. While Ellie had taken Sera to a women's clothing store, paying no attention to the mission at hand, Saya and Max had headed into a department store, the most likely place to find an Archangel on a budget.

Nyssa and Joe had split off. Nyssa scoured the rear half of the center while Joe searched the front area. The red ranger wondered around aimlessly, it had been ten minutes and there had been no sign of the Angel, none of the others had found him to his knowledge either.

He gave a bored sigh as he wrapped his hands around the back of his head and tapped the floor with his foot. 'This is hopeless. I should've asked Weston for a little help in finding where exactly he is.' Joe thought as he turned around to see what appeared to be an unlocked and slightly open door to a maintenance hallway. As he looked on, he caught sight of a figure move quickly around the corner, the figure appeared to radiate a golden aura, which caught Joe's attention. 'That's gotta be him, he's moving fast though, no time to let the others know.' He finished his thoughts, breaking into a sprint and moving into the maintenance hallways in pursuit of the Archangel.

Turning corner after corner as he sprinted down the hallways, Joe was slowly closing the gap on the winged figure. Bringing himself around a final corner, Joe looked to see that it was a dead end, the Archangel had nowhere to go and had now turned around to face Joe. His hood was pulled over his face obscuring it as he looked at the red ranger with interest.

"Looks like I finally caught you. You're an Archangel right? Me and my friends were looking for you, someone tipped us off that you were in our city. We're at odds with a few groups, so we want to know who you are and why you're here. I'll warn you though, if it's anything bad, we're gonna have problems." Joe demanded, the Celestial being forming a smile on his face as he looked at the immortal.

"I came to earth following the orders of my Lord. He told me of a Celestial energy here, given off by a fragment of one of the Celestial Gear, powerful items crafted from the energy of the Heaven itself. The particular piece of Celestial Gear he spoke of was the Divine Sphere, an object that can grant its host the abilities of a powerful Divine being. Because of this, it was separated into four fragments. However, the nature of Celestial Gear forces them to enter the world when a suitable host is born, binding to them until death. The final fragment entered the world sixteen years ago." The Archangel explained, surprising Joe that such a powerful objects exists.

"Two of the holders of a Divine fragment were slain by the third with an unnatural weapon, when they were, the fragments entered the third holder, joining with his fragment. I was sent here to find and protect the final holder, so that they wouldn't suffer the same fate. You see, the holders of these fragments, they are granted immortality, only the aforementioned weapon is able to kill them." He finished his explanation, Joe's eyes widening at what the Archangel implied.

"So, that means, because I'm immortal…"

"The Celestial energy of the Divine fragment is at it's strongest here. You are the final holder of a Divine fragment and I am sorry for the burden. I will warn you a final thing. The fragment carries with it a curse of sorts. For immortality to be bestowed, there is an imbalance in the natural order. Because of this, you can never have true happiness. If you attempt to, those around you will suffer. If you attempt to make those around you happy instead, you will suffer as a result. The curse of an immortal, to never know happiness in exchange for eternal life without a cost." The Archangel warned before lowering his hood.

"Who are you? Why are you telling me all of this? Is this why my life's so messed up!?" Joe asked in a panic, afraid that everything that has happened, for better or for worse, had been dictated by this rule that came with the Divine Fragment.

"I'm telling you this because you must know, when you or the other holder completes the Sphere, a new Divine being will be created. I've come to make sure that it isn't the other holder. I wasn't the one who designed the rules of the fragments, I don't fully comprehend why the fragments do this to their hosts either, but the fragment bends fate to its rules so to speak. Perhaps I shouldn't have come here this day, told you everything at once, but you need to know, for if the other holder comes for you." He explains his questions before tucking away his six feathered wings. "I'll be watching over you from now one. When we meet again, I hope you've come to terms with the burden that has been placed on your shoulders." He added as he began to walk past the red ranger.

"You… You still didn't tell me your name…" Joe said, his voice heavy as he tried to process everything he had been told.

"As you know I am one of the Archangels. I've had many names in the past, but you'll likely know me as Michael." The Archangel known as Michael finally introduced as he left.

Joe stood there in silence as he tried to comprehend everything he had been told. 'So… This is a curse after all…'

[Occult Circle]

Being 'unsuccessful' in their efforts to find Michael, the rangers returned home. Despite Joe meeting him and getting the answers he asked for, he had kept silent about it. With the answers he received, he didn't want to talk to the others about it, given the panic it might cause if they were to know. As he sat in a chair, the other rangers dotted around the lounge, Sera made her way downstairs. She was now wearing a white ruffle blouse and a white pleated skirt, which she had bought earlier today with Ellie. Making her way over, she jumped down on the couch next Joe and looked at him.

He leaned on his hand as he stared at a wall, the young teen noticed the look on his face and didn't want him to feel down. "Are you alright Joe, you don't look too happy, is it because we couldn't find who you guys were looking for?"

Joe sighed as he turned to face her. "Something like that, I guess not finding what we wanted to find got me a little bummed out."

"Oh, it's okay Joe, I'll give you a hug to cheer you up, it looks like you could use one." She said as she leaned in and wrapped her arms around him for a few seconds.

"Thanks." He said with a short smile as she let go. "I'm guessing that's the new outfit you got when you went with Ellie then."

Sera stood up and gave a small twirl around to show Joe the outfit before sitting back down again. "Sure is. What do you think to it?"

Joe gave another smile to compliment her. "It looks good on you."

"Really?" She asked, Joe simply nodding, resulting in her face lighting up. "If you're happy with it, then I'm happy too!" She cheered.

'Yeah… Happy…'

On the other side of the room, Nyssa and Saya were sat down, watching the display from the girl as she proceeded to happily hum to herself. "One doesn't need to be a Fallen Angel to see how obvious she is. It's strange how close they are now given everything." Nyssa passively remarked.

"It's unnerving to say the least, to see Joe complimenting her when he doesn't even take notice of my appearance. It was under unusual circumstances, but you'd expect some compliments from your own spouse right?" Saya grumbled as she watched Sera.

"Clearly you haven't seen a human couple out of the honeymoon phase before." Nyssa added before she took notice how Saya had worded her sentence. "Wait a minute… Are you jealous?"

"Ha, don't be so silly, we demons don't get jealous!" She denied with a snort, turning her head away from the black ranger.

"Yeah, yeah, keep telling yourself that Princess."

[Occult Circle]

Within the Seraphim headquarters, Sera's former friend, Seraphim Four walked. He had recently cut dark brown hair and brown eyes with three scars running down his face that appeared to have been caused by a sharp set of claws.

He came to a halt outside of the office of the Superior. The Agent waited a few moments before being told to enter. Making his way into the dimly lit office, he saw the figure of his Superior pacing back and forth.

"Sir, you called for me?" Seraphim Four asked, causing the Superior to cease his pacing at the sound of the Agent's voice.

"Good, you've made it, Four. This assignment I'm about to send you on, it will be a true test of your faith to our cause. Be warned, if you cannot complete it, there will be consequences." He explained to the Agent.

"Don't worry sir, you can count on me! My heart is with Seraphim, I won't fail you." Seraphim Four stated with utmost confidence as the Superior turned to face him.

"Very well. As you know, Seraphim Twelve has gone rogue, allying herself with the Immortal and those monsters he works with. Soon enough we will be launching multiple diversions to break their team up so that they can't protect her." He explained, Seraphim Four's mouth opening as he realised what the Superior was about to order him to do.

"You don't mean-"

"That's right Agent. I'm ordering you to kill Seraphim Twelve."

|Occult Circle|

Supernatural Being - ESPer - Short for Extrasensory person, an Esper is a human born with an additional sense, otherwise known as Extrasensory Perception. These additional senses come in the form of Psychic abilities, which seem to be random between each ESPer. Examples of abilities ESPers can have are as follows: Intuition, Telepathy, Psychometry, Clairaudience and Clairvoyance. Because of their additional abilities without being classed as non-human, these people are widely sought out by different organisations, one organisation such as Seraphim searches regularly for ESPers in an effort to advance their goals with more ease.

And that's chapter 14. It's a semi-filler with quite a bit of plot development in there. Michael's talk with Joe is the centerpoint of the main plot moving forward, but you don't have to worry about that entirely for the foreseeable future. If you think you might know who this other holder of a Divine Fragment is though, have a guess. As for the ending there, it got kinda dark, which brings me to the next arc, which is all about despair and pain. Which is pretty strange when it's going to be introducing a new ranger too, but more on that another time.

I've got another week off from college next week, so there's gonna be a bulk of updating then, possibly some this weekend too. I had a lot going on in my first week off though, so I couldn't update really, but now things are pretty free so I can get on with some stuff. So until next time, thanks for reading.

Next Chapter: Occult Collapse: Fallen

Synopsis: With Seraphim having their sights locked on terminating their former agent, they cause numerous outbreaks within the city to occupy the Occult rangers while they find Sera. Can the rangers overcome this and stop Seraphim from achieving their goals, or will Sera's life end prematurely at the hands of the shadowy organisation? Find out next time on Power Rangers: Occult Circle.