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Heaven Sent

By crimsonwraith

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Prologue: ShadowFalls

The heavens burned in flashes of lightning, streaking across the darkness, tearing a swath through the darkness like a blade through flesh, revealing in brief flashes the pandemonium on earth below. Sheets of rain pelted the rock face where two silhouettes danced, half hidden by the night. Lightning flashed, thunder rumbled, and for a moment, the light revealed the dark serrated blade clash against divine steel.

With eyes burning with a crimson haze in her lust for blood, the demon with wings as black as death lashed out with all its might, striking out at the heavenly being's head with ungodly speed and strength, all striking nothing but air or water or steel. Then, at last, the angel swung back, deflecting the demon's blade out the demon's hand, into the air, impaling stone a hundred feet from him.

The angel breathed heavily as it raised it blade to the demon's throat, its brilliant white wings extending on both sides to give the angel a majestic appearance before the demon. "Repent thine sins, and all shall be forgiveth."

Despite his obvious disadvantage, the demon kept its wicked sneer, stepping backwards ever so slowly. "Repent?" it challenged, "You'd like that? Wouldn't you?"

The angel smiled, laughing to himself, "It doesn't hurt to hope."

"Oh, but it does," countered the demon, still stepping away from the point of the angel's blade. "How can my kind ever hope to find reprieve? How can my kind ever hope to find forgiveness?"

"Your kind does not deserve forgiveness!" cried the angel, challenging the volume of the maelstrom itself.

"And these humans do?" jabbered the demon, knowing all too well that her insidious rambling were beginning to take effect on the angel. "They defy him as we defied him an eternity ago. What was once good is now evil, and what was wrong before is now acceptable… don't you see. They serve us now!"

"Betrayer!" the angel roared, drawing its sword back for the final strike. "At least you'll sleep better in hell!" Then with a defiant cry, the angel plunged the sword forward.

The blade cut through empty air as the demon bent over backwards, her nose evading the blade by the skin of her teeth, then reached above her, ripping her sword out of the ground in a hail of stone, sinking the other end of her blade into the chest of the angel's stomach.

The divine blade fell out of his hands with a clatter of defeat as the demon lifted the angel up into the air and skewered him to the very edge of the cliff. "Where is your messiah now, Gabriel?" a grim voice cackled high above raging maelstrom. Lighting flashed across the chaotic firmament. The demon sniggered as she twisted the hilt, crushing rock at the other end and ripping everything else in between.

The angel's screams were muffled by blood, gurgling from his throat. But even as the pain seared at his chest, the angel managed a smile, painfully laughing to himself. "You f-fool, Ag-nolasaiel… you… may have killed me b-but… you are still doomed."

"Doomed?" she coughed back mockingly, "You are in no position to mock me, Gabriel." With this, the demon drew her other hand back before plunging it right through the angel's ribcage, tearing through rock on the other side in a deluge of scarlet. The angel writhed in anguish with a blade tearing through his stomach and a fist through his chest.

The demon, smirked as she fingered the angel's heart within her chest, watching with delight as the angel writhed with pain as she tightened her grip around it. "No, my timeless adversary… it is you who are doomed, you and your whole kind. Killing you was but a step. Their souls will be ours soon enough."

Gnashing his teeth, Gabriel lifted her gaze to meet the demon's burning gaze, her voice seething through the cracks of her lips. "You will never get what you want… they will stop you."

The demon leaned over the angel's ears and whispered in a dry voice. "They can try," before finally clenching her fist and crushing the angel's heart. She watched as the heavenly being jolted painfully for the briefest of moments, before her entire body became completely limp.

But there was something else, something almost unseen: a trail of light, the angel's essence, was siphoned through her chest through the demon's hand. This light soon faded as the demon drew out its hand and sword from the angel's remains.

The demon looked on the wretched remains of the angel as she wiped the blood from her blade sheathed it away and the flame in her eyes died to a dull crimson. Suddenly her wings drew back into her shoulders. Her skin began to take shape, turning black around her torso and her hips, growing a tie around her neck. In the end, the demon turned out to be a school girl with light cerulean hair and smile fading to an expressionless face.

"I will see you again, when my kind reaches Heaven's Gates just in time to take back what is ours," said Rei, turning around and walking away, disappearing in the raging squall.

After a while, another figure emerged from the darkness. A young man wearing the local school uniform stepped onto the ledge, bending over and retrieving the angel's blade which had fallen a short distance from where its master lay. The grey haired boy with blood eyes took a final glance at the being of light and whispered to himself.

"May choirs of angels lead thy way to heaven, mighty Gabriel," said Kaoru, "May they grant you rest and sing thee to sleep. Your sword will stay here on Earth to avenge thee as God sends forth your avenger."

To be continued

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