A/N - Welcome back, I hope you are all doing well?
So any objections to getting back to our little tale? No? Lovely!
"This is a Devil's trap, as in something I may have use for, this is not a trap for the DEVIL!" Lucifer walked out of the circle as if it wasn't there, "Now where were we?"
"What? How? That should have held you! No demon can escape the power of the key!" One of the priest screamed, the rest of the group collectively took a step back.
"Well clearly it did not! Also, not a demon thank you very much!" Lucifer's smile wasn't friendly as he continued to move forward, "I would have thought you lot would have done better research!" You have had three hundred or so years to plan this little stunt have you not?" His words were cold and mocking,
"Our research is the words from God, given to us and us alone! For us to stand against the darkness, to stand against you!" The arrogance of the man who stood before Lucifer would have usually been impressed the Devil but not today, today he was beyond pissed but he also needed to reign in his temper, cold merciless vengeance would be coming but he also needed information as to what had been done to his sister,
"Oh so Dad told you to rip his youngest daughter from her home hmmm? To thrust her into an unknown place, one which she feared, surrounded by terrifying beings she didn't understand?" Lucifer glared at the nearest priest, "Then he told you to what? Assault his daughter both physically and mentally? Turn her into a mindless puppet after you tore his greatest creation from her very being? That what he told you to do in these sacred books of yours?" The Devil almost growled out the last part of the sentence,
"WE ARE GODS GREATEST CREATIONS!" Lucifer laughed loud at this proclamation, his large shit eating grin was feral.
One of the priests suddenly attacked with what appeared to be a heaven forged blade, the rest followed suit, some were armed with just with holy water, some with crosses and a few with small swords but for this moment Lucifer was only concerned with the first weapon he has seen, the others could be ignored as no more than yet another annoyance but if that blade was of heaven then he would need to be slightly more careful.
After wiping his eyes from the sudden holy water attack, he turned back to the offending attacker and put him into the wall, his body slumped to the floor. Lucifer dodged a second attack as a blade was swung at him with no skill or any real control behind, so it was a simple matter to disarm this man, oh and Lucifer almost made it a literal disarming with the force he used as he plucked the weapon from the now unconscious man's hand, a quick backhand had sent this attacker into the land of sleep, quickly turning the blade over in his hand, checking to see if it was actually a weapon of god, mentally he breathed a silent sigh when it turned out to be a rather impressive fake. Lucifer quickly rounded on the remaining group of stunned faces.
"Now that little matter has been cleared up, the first person to tell me what has been done to my sister and how to help restore her to her former self will get a 24 hour head start, have to make it a slight challenge for my dear Maze, now don't I?" Lucifer lent forward allowing the sword to take his weight,
"All we have done is to raise a pathetic excuse of an angel of our Lord to its true potential, she has come to love us for it!" In these few words Lucifer could clearly see the fanaticism and shear belief that this man did in fact believe every word he spouted, there will be no getting through to these people he thought sadly,
"She, not it! Our father made her the way she was and you dare try to co-opt that?" This was new, he was not used to having to defend his dads work ever and especially not to priests,
"This is our task! To correct the mistakes of the past! All of the mistakes" The priest glared at Lucifer and Lucifer was taken aback slightly by this statement, religious types never question dad will and never called his creations a mistake,
"You, a priest? Calling an Angel a pathetic mistake, how can you of all people question Gods plan?"
"He created you didn't he?" The priest paused to allow the barb to hit home before continuing, "so once we deal with you, we will deal with the other mistake as is his will!" The anger Lucifer was repressing flared again, trying to destroy him was well a given and no real surprise but it sounded very much like these priests were also going to try and destroy his innocent little sister too and he wouldn't let that happen,
"So then what? Once me and my sister have been killed, what do you plan to do then hmmmm, may as well tell me as I am apparently not long for this world," the priest seemed to have taken this statement as victory even though all evidence should have told him that he should shut up and run but the belief in his holy mission had all but guaranteed his victory, the Devil couldn't stand against the true and righteous men before him,
"Once we have dealt with you and the mistake, we move on to the next phase, start our holy work to cleanse the rest of the world of your influence, anything and anyone not following the true teachings of our lord and creator!" Lucifer processed the words, he knew what they had planned,
"All out religious war! Are YOU INSANE?" Lucifer almost screamed,
"I would call it pest control!" The smug arrogance of this man caused Lucifer to finally snap.
Lucifer carved his way through the priests, each one falling from powerful blows, as blades and limbs were swung at the Devil, and Lucifer either blocked or dodged them with ease. For all their talk, these were no warrior monks Lucifer had expected, to his mind they were quite pathetic, the display of violence he unleashed could almost be described as beautiful.
At the end of the brutal attack he roared with satisfaction, eyes burning with hell fire.
"Lucifer stop!" Dan called out from the darkness
"No one is dead my dear Daniel, so you needn't worry, although they should be!" Lucifer allowed his remaining anger to fade away.
"Yeah I get that man, and frankly I don't blame you, but this aint you, don't become what they fear the most!" Dan implored,
"Yes Daniel, you are again annoying correct, although I am not sure how your little system of justice will deal with this? Your human courts and laws may not be equipped for this level of crazy!" Lucifer looked over to Dan,
"Kidnapping? Extortion? Some sort of crazy cult and beside we got the conversation on tape, so by the sounds of it, incitement to violence plus what sounded a lot like planning terrorism to me! I think we can come up with something!" Dan threw his arms up in frustration but then quickly bent down and punched one of the priests, who was attempting to escape,
"Daniel, thank you and I mean that, but I really need to take my sister home! With what has been pumped into her head, I am not sure she should be questioned yet, save her some additional trauma."
"Go, get her out of here! Anything I can do to help?" Dan said with real concern as he glanced at the unmoving form of the young angel,
"I don't really know Daniel, maybe, maybe not, if you can then it will be welcomed, I will ask Dr Linda." In a flash of an eye, Lucifer and the unconscious body of Cassiel were gone.
Cassiel woke, the softness of the bed enveloped her, she smiled, happy to be home but her brain screamed at her, that she was fighting against evil and this wasn't her home, just a fabrication by the Devil, a lie designed to trick her.
"Cass? Cass are you ok? It's me, Ella,"
"Leave me, you are tainted with evil, tainted by the devil himself!" The response had come automatically and sounded to Ella a very programmed and predictable brainwashed reply. Cassiel looked around the room, looking for a weapon to defend against any and all attacks that were soon to be coming, or that was what the chanting still in her mind was screaming at her to expect,
"Oh you can hush with that talk young lady! Lucifer has sacrificed more than you could know! Now you are home and we are going to help you!" Ella stated firmly,
"I'm not a young lady! I'm like ten thousand years old thank you very much!" Cassiel's response was more natural this time as she huffed and buried herself back into the pillow. This was more like it Ella thought to herself, our girl is still in there!