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Chapter One: Angels and Demons

The dirt of the crater crumbled and slid down the slope beneath the angel's feet. Heavy boots left harsh imprints in the soft dirt, churned raw by the witch's powers. The forces of darkness were right on his heels, almost overtaking him in the shining moonlight. They flowed downward like water over a cliff, the mutilated figures rushed into the open earth.

The angel was not overcome; one great leap with wings spread wide brought him to where the two Titans lay unconscious.

One of the creatures had managed to get to Jinx and had one hand around her ankle. Its eyes filled with fear as it saw the angel whose wings glowed crimson in the moonlight.

A pale white hand grasped the grey being's throat in a stranglehold. The screams were ungodly, but they held the other evils at bay, it entranced them to watch one of their own struggle for life. The angel forced the creature onto its back; it kicked and thrashed throwing gouts of dirt in every direction as it tried to free itself. Tentacles of smoke rose from its grey skin and the flesh had taken on the burning red of coals. The skin then turned black, its muscles eased, the thrashing stopped. Life had left the pawn.

Any substance left the creature, its body turned to ash, and its remnants were caught up in the nights wind. The angel now turned and looked at each of the surrounding creatures in the eye; they stood there, eyes cloudy, dazed.

The angel stood defiant, the butt of his scythe planted in the dirt. He stood against an army, he felt fear grow in his belly and quelled it, he stood ready. Nothing moved in the night, the demons had stopped their screeching.

"Who sent you?"

A voice, slow and reptilian answered the angel's query, "Your father."

"He's not my father. He has no claim to it, blood or otherwise."

Silence

"I know you possess the people of Genoa, why do you come out for these two?"

Silence

"Legion, in the name of your father I command you! Answer me!" Command filled the angel's voice.

A hateful hiss, "Father wanted humansssss better than the people we now posssssesssss."

"For what?"

The response was grudging, but the demon had to answer, this mortal knew its name. He hated this mortal, despised him, wanted to bathe in his blood and feed upon ruined flesh. But he knew his name, so he obeyed, "The beginning."

"Explain yourself, Legion!" When the demon refused to respond the angel took a step forward, swinging his sinister scythe in a wide arc ready to bring it down upon another part of Legion's army, "I know this will hurt you Legion, you don't want to lose another, do you."

That same reptilian voice spoke from everywhere and nowhere, "Mamnon." Amusement touched its voice, but in that one simple word fell on the angel's ears like a judges gavel condemning a criminal to death. A deep resounding chuckle, "Your father is coming, and you cannot stop him." The demons began to surround the angel with wilting wings, "We will let you live thisss night, because Mamnon willsss it, but we will meet again, before the end timesss, and we will trample you under foot until the earth iss ssssodden with your blood!"

"I haven't given up yet, demon, you forget, we are in my world, here you bow to mortals." In an instant an incantation was on his lips to send Legion back where he came from. The angel uttered the words, he felt his energy draining from him, cutting Legions essence from the people in Genoa it had once inhabited. The physical battle had turned into a battle of wills.

Dark energy pushing against the angel's, a sheer battle of spiritual might. The angel knew the demon didn't belong in this plane of existence, he knew that Legion had been defeated before, but that did not weaken its hold upon the souls of the infected people of Genoa. For a time the two stood without movement, their wills battling outside of their own flesh. Then the angel felt the demon's will give way, like a blade through butter, the angel severed the demon's connection to the townspeople.

The bodies of Legion froze, muscles now locked where they stood. Come dawn the bodies would turn to ash in the new light of the sun leaving the crater as the only proof of anything extraordinary having taken place.

The angel bent and grabbed Jinx by the waist and hoisted her up onto his shoulder and then lifted Flash by the collar of his uniform. He picked his way through the frozen corpses, the amount of energy he had used to sever Legion was greater than he had thought. The Titans savior needed to rest and restore himself.

The three teens moved down the street, one dragged, one carried, and the third putting all his energy into each next step. The three disappeared into the shadows of the buildings, and in their wake the streetlights flickered on.

End Chapter One.

Thanks Shay for the compliments, sry it took so long to update.