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A/N: Sorry for taking forever and a year, I'm in the process of wrapping up this story. Enjoy!

Of Angels and Demons

Chapter 10

"spoken out loud", private thoughts, "Projected thoughts"

Dee swore softly as the unknown annoyance continued to tap away at his suite door, just loud enough to pull him away from his light slumber. With a sigh, he pulled on a robe and violently flung open the door, a frown drawing the corners of his mouth down.

The page took in the Demon Lord's tosseled appearance and cleared his throat before holding up a note card. "There was a call for you at the front desk, the speaker said it was most urgent." Dee muttered his thanks and gave the boy a tip before he flipped open the note card to see what it said.

Dee, outsiders are taking over the mansion. Half the staff captured. Hurry home. -Bikky.

The hybrid let out an angry cry as he immediately called the front desk, asking someone to ready his limo and to inform the Demon council that he must return home due to an emergency. Ryo woke up to see Dee walking out of the bathroom fully dressed, jet black hair still mussed from sleep.

"Dee?" Ryo looked around and noticed that all their bags were packed and that Dee was pacing nervously, swearing to himself in his native language.

"We have to go, Bikky's in trouble." The Angel took in Dee's worried expression and quickly got dressed. He squeezed Dee's hand to offer him what comfort he could.

At Dee's request Ryo called Val and his wife to tell them that a situation had come up and that they wouldn't be able to meet the dinner date that night, expressing how sorry they both were. Val wished them luck and told Dee to inform him if anything went wrong.

The front desk called to inform the pair that the limo had arrived, making Dee do all but jump out the window in his haste to get downstairs. The stretch navigated through the city streets at breakneck speed, getting Dee to his private line in about five minutes. The train was also ready to leave as soon as the couple boarded, going full throttle back towards the surface.

The frantic Demon Lord calmed down at his lover's urging, agreeing to a back-rub until they reached their destination. Ryo took the opportunity to ask if Dee knew exactly what was going on but only got a choked sob in response.

"Something bad is all I know, I felt it even before I got the message. Gods Ryo if anything happens to him I'll-". The Angel embraced Dee in a tight hug, rocking him gently back and forth as hot tears stained his shirt. Ryo continued to comfort Dee up until the train screeched to a halt, almost flinging both passengers from the couch and onto the floor. The Demon Lord bolted towards the door, with the Arch Angel close at his heels, desperate to get back to his home.

"We could get there faster if we fly." Dee yelled behind him as ran up the stairs. Wings already breaking through his shirt as Ryo nodded in agreement.

Dee's feet barely touched the top step before he launched himself into the air, long black hair rippling behind him. He pushed his body to the limit in order to save the ones he called family. As the couple approached Dee's mansion he let out an enraged cry as his sharp eyes saw what Ryo couldn't.

Bikky was lying on the ground wriggling weakly along with all the other house staff. Angelic Bonds were wrapped around their torsos, sucking away energy and causing a great deal of pain for the captives. The house was teeming with the Angeli Militia. A crew of them were tying up the Ground Keeper Trees so that they could not whip out their poisoned tentacles to seize any of the intrusive Angels present. Bikky saw his master approaching them quickly and shouted orders for them to fly away as soon as Dee freed them. Not that any of them would want to be present when the usually gentle hybrid they called master went insane in his rage.

Dee dove with a cry and landed among his friends, eyes a deep crimson as he looked around him. He started to rip away the bonds that held his people captive, helping them to their feet and urging them with gestures to run away before his rage overtook him. Dee picked up Bikky from where he lay on the ground,who wastoo weak to fly away with the others, and turned his blood-red eyes upon the multitude of Angels staring warily at him.

"Dee don't! They'll only kill you!" Ryo shouted as he latched onto the hybrid's arm before he went berserk. He spoke quietly and soothingly, in Dee's native dialect, to fly, fly away and don't look back. The hybrid smiled sadly before once more taking flight with Bikky still in his arms, tears dripping onto the youth's forehead.

Ryo watched Dee take off but, much to his dismay he saw Berkley Rose take off after him, a halo clenched in his hand. "Dee! Look out!" The warning was in vain as the halo went around the hybrid's neck, instantly making his muscles spasm so violently that he couldn't fly.

The Arch Angel cried out and tried to run to Dee and Bikky as they hit the ground with a sickening thud, only to feel a sharp pain in his arm as a needle pulled out of it. Then the world went black.

Dee turned his head weakly to see Ryo crumpling to the ground. Limp hand extended in his direction while glossy eyes stared right through Dee, cold and lifeless. Panic filled his body as he felt Ryo's presence completely disappear from his senses and his soul. That left the hybrid with an acute sense of emptiness and fear that his recently found soul-mate had died at the hands of his own kind. Simply for loving a monster.

With a heart-breaking scream, Dee pushed himself a few feet into the air and lunged at the first Angel he saw, eyes bright red, fangs bared and claws fully extended. With a crazed laugh, he landed in front of the Angel who was closet to Ryo's still body. With a sadistic smile, Dee drove his sharp nails straight through his chest, grabbing the soldier's heart while it was still beating in his body. The hybrid twisted the heart until the snap of arteries, veins, and bones alike cast all who were near into an eerie silence. The slaughtered Angel fell to the ground, blood dripping from his mouth and his body still twitching from the aftershock of the brutal way he had been killed. The inner Demon had been unleashed.

Dee stood, chest heaving, with a sadistic grin showing the pearly white of his fangs, insanity showing in the depths of his red eyes. Dee was no more. He casually lifted a long nail to his mouth, licking off the blood staining them with a wicked delight. Bikky shuddered from his vantage point on the ground. Nobody made a move. From the Demon's defensive stance, and the way his fingers were twitching with the need to kill, anybody who moved would instantly be slain. Thus it was a stalemate.

Bikky looked at his mentor, his best friend, and his father with a deep look of sadness, chagrined that he had turned into something he wasn't. Hesitant to move lest Dee mistake him for an Angel and kill him too, Bikky slowly sat upright calling Dee's name softly to get his attention.

"Dee….please don't do this. They are wrong, yes, but Ryo wouldn't want you to do this. Killing won't get you anywhere, so please…..don't do it. For Ryo's sake." A single tear fell from the hybrid's eye when Ryo's name was mentioned. With a snarl, he walked towards Bikky. The boy trembled as Dee stood over him, eyes still harboring a crazed look in their red depths. With an audible sigh, the Demon softly stroked his son's face, offering a calm reassurance that everything would be alright.

Rose looked over at the pair and crouched slowly to the ground to pick up a halo, opening the ring in preparation to capture the Demon Lord. With careful aim, he flung it towards Dee, grinning as it hit the back of his neck and closed around it. The Demon cried out in pain as he fell to his knees, clawing at the halo in an attempt to remove it from his neck. The Elder Angel picked up several more and flung ring after ring at the Demon until his screams of pain were loud enough to rouse the dead from their sleep. Bikky tried to stop the attack and remove the rings but to no avail; only Angel-folk could ever hope of taking them off. He cried as Dee's screams were reduced to choking noises as he fainted from the sheer pain of 20 halos on his body.

"20 halos, you should be proud of your father, little Demon. Most demons die at 5." Rose looked down at Bikky as the rest of the militia picked up Dee to take him to await trial up in Heaven, smirking at the defeated Demon Lord. "We will be back for you later." Rose said over his shoulder as he took off, not realizing that Bikky was already on his way to the Demonic Council to beg for help.

"Ryo, my child, wake up." Dark eyes opened to find himself back in his apartment, Mother sitting on the edge of his bed. "Are you okay? They gave you a bit too much of the sedative." Ryo's eyes snapped fully open as his thoughts flew back to that dreadful scene. He reached out with his senses, to locate Dee, but it was no use.

"I can't feel him! Where's Dee? Please tell me, is he alright!" The Angel tried reaching out to his lover only to get receive a wave of fear and a biting ache that intensified with each passing second. Ryo now knew that Dee was in too weak a state to properly project words. The pain now wracking Dee's body was a small reassurance that the man was still alive. Ryo whimpered as an intense pain wracked his entire body, tears springing to his eyes as it continued to weaken Dee's body. "What did you do to him, why is he in so much pain!" Mother simply stared at the Arch Angel and observed his actions, drawing her own conclusions all the while.

Ryo closed his eyes and once again tried to find Dee, desperate for some kind of reassurance that he was still alive. "Dee? Love are you okay? Please answer me!" Ryo ignored the pain that continued to wash over him in waves, concentrating on sending some of his healing powers to Dee.

"R-Ryo, it hurts so bad. I-I don't think I can make it……." The Demon's voice was so weak that Ryo could barely hear it, making him worry as his words finally reached him. "Hang on! I'm coming!" Ryo launched himself from the bed and ran out the door, taking the stairs two at a time, as he let his heart guide him. He followed Dee's fading aura to the concealed dungeons of the white-gold city. He hurried to get to his love before Dee expired. Please don't let it be too late! I need him!

Dee was drifting in and out of consciousness as he felt his life leaving him with each breath he took. He thanked whatever powers that be that he had a chance at happiness as short as it was. "I-I love you Ryo…..don't ever forget that….I love you." As the Demon prepared to let go of the last tendrils of his life, he heard footsteps echoing from down the dank hall, a white light bouncing off the walls ahead. From his vantage point on the floor, his pain-glazed eyes widened as he saw Ryo. The Angel had a fierce white light shining around his body while his once dark eyes were as white as snow. "Don't you dare give up on me Dee, I need you too much."

Ryo crouched down and stretched his glowing hand through the bars, stretching his glowing hand towards Dee. Alas, he couldn't reach the Demon who was still eight feet away. "Come to me." The Demon Lord weakly dragged himself towards the seraphic Angel, willing his protesting body to go just a bit further. Halfway there he collapsed, forehead dripping with sweat and his breathing ragged as he exerted his already taxed body.

"I can't do it, I'm too weak." Dee felt sick as he tasted his own blood in his mouth, grimacing as his vision went blurry.

"Yes, you can, you're almost there! Now move!" Ryo once again shook his extended hand at the Demon, pleading with him in his heart to not give up. Dee's vision had gone completely black and it was only by faith alone that Ryo could help him. Dee continued to drag his battered body towards his savior.

The instant that Dee came in range of his outstretched hand Ryo clapped it to the Demon's forehead. Whispering an incantation of strength, he poured his very soul into healing Dee. The hybrid's green eyes snapped open as Ryo's white-gold aura engulfed his entire body from the outside in, a warm feeling of love healing his numerous wounds.

Ryo felt himself getting weaker with each passing second. Dee's injuries were far too extensive for him to heal alone. The Angel's body started to shake as he passed his limits, continuing to hold on even as he began to loose consciousness. "I'm sorry I-I can't heal them all….." the Angel said as he slumped to the ground, only to be caught by Dee's arms and held against his chest through the bars. Obsidian eyes looked into emerald green ones and a smile crossed the Arch Angel's face. He felt renewed power coming from the Demon. It wasn't as strong as it should have normally been, but it was a gross difference from hovering on the edge of death.

"What did they do to you?" Ryo caressed Dee's face and awaited an answer, one that made him cry out in amazement and fear.

"They put twenty halos on me when I saw you go down and thought you had died. I couldn't sense you at all and you weren't moving. I….I killed an Angel and I almost killed Bikky, too." The hybrid covered his face in shame at his confession, expecting Ryo to turn from him in disgust.

"I'm glad you didn't kill Bikky. Although killing is wrong, I won't condemn you for it because I honestly believe at that moment you weren't in your right mind." Dee chuckled softly as he nodded in agreement, leaning down to place a kiss on his lover's forehead.

"Thank you so much. I wouldn't have made it without you." Dee smiled down at Ryo, basking in the love coming from the Angel and flowing directly towards him.

"That is disgusting." The pair looked over at the door to see Berkley Rose standing there, ice blue eyes bordering on insane as he stared at the pair. "How could you have given yourself away to a beast? Such a pure and beautiful Angel surely deserves better. It's a pity that the Demon will have to die for manipulating you into giving yourself to him."

Ryo's face twisted in anger, dark eyes flashing as he pulled himself up with the help of Dee and the bars. "I love him! I gave myself willingly to him and I would die before seeing him executed by such a twisted Angel such as yourself." Rose looked at Ryo and then at Dee, noticing that both of them were wearing the same exact expression and that Ryo had given himself to the Demon of his own free-will. All the same, he couldn't accept the fact.

"What a pity, I didn't want it to come down to this but now I have no choice. It is for your safety, Ryo. You have no idea what you have gotten yourself into. For killing one of our Angels, the Demon has been sentenced to death at dawn, at the orders of the Angeli Council." Ryo snorted in disgust as he refused to believe that Dee would be executed, although he knew it was true. Rose smirked as he saw the battle in Ryo's heart displayed on his face as the Elder Angel pointed a glowing finger at the Demon. With a cry, Dee flew back into the stone wall as Rose conjured a halo to surround his neck to keep him weak until execution. "I'll see you in the morning." And with that he left.

Ryo cried as he watched his hard work on healing Dee go down the drain. The superior power of Rose's halo had re-done most of the damage as Dee quivered on the floor. "I'm so sorry koi, I'm so sorry." Tears ran down the Angel's face as he watched his lover curl up on the floor, small whimpers issuing from his lips. Verdant eyes, pain-glazed as they were, continued to hold a look of love and hope; reassuring Ryo that he wouldn't give up this time.

"Be strong Dee, I swear I'll get you out of this mess." Dee smiled weakly through the pain and closed his eyes, silently willing the pain to go away. As he fell into a fitful slumber with Ryo watching over him, Rose emerged from the long maze of dungeons to the city streets. He was greeted by Mother and Chief, the two highest ranking Elder Angels. Both had very unhappy looks on their faces.

"The eight presiding Demon Lords are at our gates. They demand to see Dee at once."

And that's a wrap. Thank you for putting up with my erratic updating, I know I get fed up with it. I'm probably going to be writing a lot of one shots between chapters while they are being thought up/edited so look for those to tide you over if needed. One is already up For Always, it's a Dee/JJ centered fic. Okay enough with the advertising and on to the Thank Yous!

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