The Corruption of Angels
By: Hiza-chan
A/N: K, then. I'd like to introduce you all to my latest obsession. Meet Corruption of Angels. I'm so proud of it. :Huggles: Anyway, Finals are coming up for me so this is going to be the last thing I do for a while. The next chapter is actually written, but I'm gonna post this to tide you guys over 'till whenever I get around to updating. Not too sure about 'Embracing Destiny', unfortunately I'm at a loss as to what I should do with it. I've got the general gist of the next chapter but I just wanna rush right through it and proceed to the next chapter! But, I'll get to it eventually.
Warnings: Yaoi/Shonen Ai, AU, Religious Themes, Torture, death, War, some disturbing images…
Pairings: Riku x Sora; Cloud x Sephiroth references; Cloud x Squall and maybe others I haven't thought of yet…
Summary: Angels and Demons have one rule. Never develop affection for something other than your own kind. But what if someone breaks that rule? Could one rule shattered mean the end of their timeless War?
Disclaimer: Yes! I own Kingdom Hearts:Points at game: See? I bought it at Best Buy! … OK, fine, I own the game but not the GAME
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Two Households, both alike in dignity
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
From Ancient grudge break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows,
Doth with their death bury their parents strife.
The fearful passage of their death-marked love,
And the continuance of their parents rage,
To which, but their children's end, naught could remove.
Is now the two hours traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
-Prologue of "Romeo and Juliet"
William Shakespeare
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Prologue
The wound still stung. Even as he cradled me so carefully against his chest and ran I still hurt. My body ached so badly that I feared I would explode into a million fragments of light and wander this hellhole that some called Earth for all eternity.
I shudder at that thought alone.
But the question that truly plagues my mind now is "why?"
Why did this devil, this fallen one, clutch me so carefully to his chest? Why did he have his hands positioned so delicately beneath me so as not to harm my oh so very fragile wings. Of course, not much could be done to them. They had been damaged so terribly that I feared they would never heal.
That nurse back at that horrible place. She had been so kind. She had told me that I used to be beautiful, when I had first been brought in. My skin had been as golden as the rays of the sun, and my hair looked like delicately spun silk. A rainbow of glistening chestnuts, brilliant mahogany, and unearthly gold. She had said that my wings were the color of freshly fallen snow, a white so startlingly pure that it was a wonder that she did not go blind merely gazing at it. And my eyes were the color of the heavens, a blue so brilliant that they seemed to glow.
She had told me stories, and sung me songs, and sometimes she had even come to me with a wet rag and sponged some of the filth from my body.
But I had not seen her for nearly a year. I had no nurse now, and I believe that I could very easily have gone mad in that place.
And now everything was so impossibly cold and dark. I could make out nothing in the darkness, so long had I been locked into that dreadful white prison. There was not even the moon to comfort me, the only thing I could even distinguish in the slightest was the glint of his impossible silver hair.
We had entered some kind of building now and I heard the creak of old hinges from somewhere in the nearby vicinity. And then I was being set down onto some sort of soft cloudlike substance and he was telling me to close my eyes….
Maybe I should back up a bit.
My name is Sora, and I am an angel. I'm not kidding you, I have wings and I used to live in Heaven. I say used to because She sent me to Earth, I'm not quite sure why. This place is horrible, members of The Fallen pollute the streets and devils, demons, the Fallen; they walk amongst you, in numbers so great that you could not even begin to fathom.
Once again, I should probably back up a bit. The Blessed and The Fallen, are as mortals have come to call them, angels and devils. Children of God and Children of Satan. Now, since time began the Fallen and The Blessed have been locked within a timeless war, so long and bloody that not many know why it began. I know though, it did not start with 'God' and 'Satan', as you may think. It started with the first member of the Fallen and the first member of the Blessed.
Cloud and Sephiroth.
I'm not very familiar with their history, or what led up to their argument, though I do know that they were once lovers. As punishment for starting the war, Cloud and Sephiroth's wings were torn from their backs. A pair was burned, one wing from Sephiroth and the other from Cloud, both burned in eternal flame. The other pair remained, a wing of the Fallen and a wing of the Blessed. And these two were exchanged, Cloud, as a member of the Blessed had Sephiroth's wing sewn into his right shoulder and Sephiroth as a member of the Fallen had Cloud's wing sewn into his left. Over the years Cloud's wing, once pure white was tainted by the presence of Sephiroth and turned a deep black.
Supposedly Cloud and Sephiroth, the eldest of our races are still in existence, banished from Heaven and banished from Hell. Doomed to forever wander the Earth in silence.
But not many of us know the true story behind the war and I believe that none of us have ever met them. I'm not an archangel, nor am I an angel with extraordinary status. I was sent to Earth by Her, for unknown reasons that I cannot fathom, and nearly immediately captured by a group of mortals and Fallen alike that call themselves 'Scientists'.
Supposedly I am a direct descendent of Cloud, created in his image, maybe that is why She sent me to Earth. Either way, I remained in that horrible prison for who knows how many years. I know that my slightly enhanced human body has aged slightly. I am now no longer a boy in the center of his adolescent years but a man that has just left boyhood.
And this is my story.
Date begun: 5-21-05, 4:02 PM
Date finished: 5-21-05, 5:01 PM
Next chapter, "Wanderings of Old" is coming soon.