The story takes place right after the season 10 finale, after Dean killed Death, the Mark of Cain was removed and Darkness was released into the world. I mentioned before, new characters will be added and thrown in the story and I will bring back several former characters from the show in the upcoming future.
Chapter 82 Lucifer's Arrival
Somewhere in different parts of the world in many countries, Darkness is growing even more stronger as now even churches, synagogues, temples and other places of worship is now full of people suffering the negative effects of the evil entity and crowds are now turning on each other killing one another with shootouts, setting the buildings on fire. Now almost no one is safe from Darkness even those who embrace God. Violence has gotten so bad that the military is sent to in store order but now even they are affected by the Darkness and some are killing innocent civilians. Homes, businesses and other buildings are being raided, looted or just burned down and more people are being killed young, old, men, women, children and many others are being maimed. There are many news coverages on almost every channel on how so much worse it's gotten as more and more citizens are becoming homicidal or casualties.
In America in some parts of the country, some people are affected more than others and therefore the destruction is far more worse. There are news reports people literally killing each other with their bare hands and massive bodies found in buildings including the churches. Panic seems everywhere as many folks fear to leave their homes including to go to work or school as businesses and schools are closing until the danger dies down many are now armed with weapons to defend themselves and their loved ones if necessary.
Meanwhile back at the headquarters where Hannah, Castiel and the army of angels are residing, many are starting to get restless as chaos is now getting even worse than before and they still haven't found Lucifer. Tensions has increased further as the angels are bickering among themselves on what to do. Castiel still insists they wait for Sam and Dean to have Rowena do a spell that will place the Mark of Cain back on Dean locking Darkness away again then using another spell to trap Lucifer so Dean could transfer the Mark back to him and many angels were even relieved by the plan since it saved them from having to go to battle and risk their lives with Darkness plus neither of them would have to volunteer to bear the Mark which none of them really wanted to make such a sacrifice.
It had just been earlier that day when Castiel received a call from Dean, informing him that he and Ava got the dragon's heart and were on their way back to Madame Bess's house. It was now later in the evening and Castiel assumed by now Dean and Ava are back at the house and he wants everybody to wait patiently for the spell to be done and Darkness will be gone from the world again once and for all. However, Michael and Raphael had by now grown quite impatient waiting any longer as too much was happening and now each was debating over which one of them would make the final sacrifice and bear the Mark themselves each offering to do it themselves as they both also have giving up finding Lucifer.
"Sorry dear brother I'm older I think if anyone should bear the Mark, it should be me" said Michael.
"No, Michael, it's me who should bear the Mark to make up of the destruction I caused the last time" said Raphael.
"You weren't the only one who caused destruction, I was prepared to battle our brother Lucifer that would have caused more human casualties" Michael retorted.
Castiel just stood by and listened to their debate as he had long giving up playing referee since it did little good anyway. Gabriel known as The Trickster just stood nearby also just listened as he refused to get in the middle of their feud wanting nothing to do with any of it. Finally, Hannah came over to end the argument.
"Stop it both of you, neither of you will bear the Mark since Castiel has told us of the Winchester's plan and we will all wait until the spell is done" said Hannah who always tried to play peacemaker.
"What if the spell doesn't even work, I mean too much has already happened, some of our fellow brothers and sisters are dying because of this Darkness and I don't think we should wait any longer?" replied Michael.
"We just have to wait and see, there is not point in turning against each other right now" said Hannah.
"I have to say I agree with our leader here, I mean as much as I am amused by this sibling rivalry between my two bros, she's right there is no point in you two going at it like little kids fighting over who gets to play hero" said Gabriel/Trickster who finally decided to speak up after being quite all this time.
"Hey, at least we are willing to step up and do something, unlike you who hasn't done anything worthwhile or offered anything to plate" said Raphael angrily.
Gabriel/The Trickster facial expression changed from amused to annoyed really quick.
"Nothing worthwhile you say, I just fought against our brother Lucifer to stop him from going head to head with you Michael so more humans wouldn't perish and get killed, so he thinks I got killed over it, I don't believe that wasn't worthwhile" he replied to his brothers.
"And you let everyone believe you were dead and would still be in hiding in another part of this planet hadn't we found you and we had to drag you back to partake in our army" said Michael.
"Yeah, well I'm here anyway like I had a choice" said Gabriel/The Trickster shrugging his shoulders.
"You're here alright but hadn't been much use" replied Raphael.
Before, Gabriel/The Trickster was about to make another reply Hannah intervened once again.
"Stop this again I say, there is no use arguing among us, I'm in charge here and we will wait for Dean Winchester have the spell done and we will know once it is" said Hannah.
There was soon a pause of silence. An hour passed as everyone all waited for something as Dean would have probably by now had Rowena perform the spell and soon Darkness would be wiped out from the planet forever. But nothing happened. There was no change in the sky and while the other angels grew even more impatient, Castiel grew worried that he phoned Dean only to not receive an answer. Then he phoned Sam but he wasn't picking up either and he didn't know the phone number to the house. Finally, he gave up and confronted Hannah.
"Hannah, neither Dean nor Sam are picking up and I'm starting to worry, this isn't like them" he said.
"Maybe they are still working on the spell and just not picking up" said Hannah trying to reassure him.
"I don't know, at least one of them would answer, I tried calling them each at least three times and no answer, something is wrong Hannah" said Castiel who was now really worried.
"Okay just give it some more time and if nothing changes, I will go and check on them but I'm sure they're alright and that we just need to wait for them to complete the spell that will send Darkness away for good" she told him.
Before Castiel could reply again there was a familiar voice.
"There won't be any need for that because I'm here" it said and they all turned around to see Lucifer standing near the main entrance and he wasn't alone. With him were a large crowd of demons including Crowley himself.
"Lucifer!' cried out some of the angels as they looked on first in shock then fear. Lucifer just walked past some with his minion of demons following behind like some leader of a group with a look of pride and arrogance.
"Hello, my dear brothers and sisters, miss me much? Well, I heard you were all looking for me now that you need me to help Daddy Dearest take down the new big bad" he said smugly.
The angels still looked on in shock backing away from him out of fear and looking quite weary of his army of demons. Hannah went over to him right away with Castiel right behind.
"Lucifer, never thought you would show up" she said.
Lucifer just smiled at the sight her acting like this was an ordinary reunion.
"Hello Hannah, nice to see you again and never got to say thanks for letting me out of that cage and all" he he turned to Castiel. "Oh, and nice to see you two dear Castiel, still the little second in command I see too bad your wings are still clipped though, I guess Father is playing favorites" he said to him.
"We were just about to give up on finding you ourselves" said Castiel.
"Well, well I'm here now that's all that matters, even brought me own army here to help in the war" said.
Castiel noticed Crowley for the first time. "Crowley" he called to him.
Crowley was standing near Lucifer looking quite at ease.
"Yeah long time no see there, old comrade not since well you know my mother put that dog-spell on you and your little girlfriend here had to save the day" he said glancing at Hannah for a moment who looked quite awkward at that remark.
"Anyway, when the sky went black I just hid out in hell hoping for the best until Lucifer here showed up enlisting my help to help you all defeat this Darkness" Crowley explained.
"Help?" asked Hannah.
"Yes, dear that's why we're here, believe it not we're all actually on the same side here" Crowley finished.
"Yes, he's quite right I came here with my army to work with guys" said Lucifer.
"Well, well so our brother is actually here to help after all this time" said Michael who walked up to Lucifer followed by Raphael and Gabriel/The Trickster who neither looked to thrilled to see him again.
However, Lucifer looked at his fellow archangels with happy expression on his face yet still with arrogance.
"Michael, good to see you again" he said as he walked up close the three archangels acting again like this is a happy family get together. Nice new meat suit there, and a man of the cloth, well you look great and to think the last time we saw each other were prepared to battle it out to the death and now look at us here again fighting together for the same cause" Lucifer replied still a look of glee on his face.
"I can't say it's good to see you brother nor say you look great seeing considering your current appearance" Michael back as he noticed Lucifer's decaying face.
Lucifer just smirked. "Oh, you mean this" he replied gesturing towards his face. "Well, yeah this vessel is dying out right now, it definitely time for a for a new one that's for sure" he replied.
He then turned to the two others. "Oh Raphael, alive again, I assume our Father sprang you back to life again for this battle and He did the same for you Gabriel, well good to see you too even though I did kill you the last time we saw each other" said Lucifer.
"Well, I hate break it to you bro, but you didn't kill me, you see that was just another of my tricks" said Gabriel/Trickster smugly.
"Oh really?" asked Lucifer wit a curious look on his face.
"Yes, you see I had a back up plan just in case you got too clever which was my greatest trick yet, making it look like you killed the real Trickster, then again if you were really clever you would have figured it out. Afterwards, I just went into hiding in different parts of this puny world while making everyone believe I was dead so I can be free from all the drama with you and Michael here over the apocalypse, the Winchesters and just about everything besides I was betting on the Winchesters to beat you and they did. Well, anyway I was having a blast just enjoying life and not worrying about you or the Winchesters coming after me I must say until that Darkness came back and ruined all my fun thanks to those darn Winchesters again. And low and behold our Dear Dad came back home and rounded up the old gang who eventually found me made me take part in this battle against the big one like I had much of a choice, I'll say good huh" Gabriel/Trickster said with a prideful look in his face.
Lucifer just stood there and looked astounded by what he just heard.
"Well, I had to say I'm quite impressed brother I didn't think you could actually fool me but I guess I did underestimate you" he said.
"I'm glad to impress you there Lucy" Gabriel/Trickster replied back.
"Okay, enough with the family reunion, just why now did you decide to come to us after all this time?" asked Castiel who wanted to get down to business.
Lucifer turned to Castiel with the same smug look on his face.
"I was waiting for you to ask, you see I was on the run you could say hiding out in San Francisco letting you guys battle it out with this Darkness and I even managed to gather my own crowd of followers who worshiped me and I could've had more followers until Darkness ruined it all by making all my followers kill themselves. In case you didn't know it, Darkness is getting worse, it's even destroying the houses of worship, churches, synagogues, temples, you name it and more chaos is erupting and if Darkness has its way it will destroy all the towns and cities in the countries soon it will be the entire world and after it's done with humans, it will turn to us. Some of the demons have already been destroyed by it. So, I finally decided it was time to come out of hiding to help bringing my own army as you can see. And since none of you all are willing to be the sacrificial lamb to end the reign of the Darkness, I decided I will finally give Father what he wants and offer myself to bear the Mark of Cain" Lucifer explained.
"First, some of us were willing to bear the Mark, we don't need you to show up out of hiding at the last minute to play the hero when it suits you" Michael replied in anger.
"That's right Lucifer, both me and Michael were even debating over which one of us should be the Mark since you were too much of a coward to and only come now it because it has ruined things for you" said Raphael also angry.
Just then Metatron ran up to join in on the discussion.
"Hey, hey just a minute I too was willing to bear the Mark, but now that Lucifer is here to make the sacrifice" he replied like an eager child not wanting to be left out. "Hey good to see you here Lucifer by the way" he continued seeming to be the only one to be actually glad to see him.
Lucifer just smiled at the sight of this pathetic former angel-turned simple human.
"Metatron, good to see you again too brother, well look at you, I have say I heard you did a real number when Daddy was MIA took over heaven kicked all the other angels out and planned to make new heaven with you as the leader but then you lost your grace and all and now your just a mere human, well, I thought I had it rough being stuck in that cage for almost eternity, I sure wouldn't want to be your shoes in a million years" he told him slyly.
Metatron actually looked a bit hurt and sad on his comment, but he just sucked up and acted like these words didn't affect him.
"Yeah, well the angels brought me here anyway needing my help, I was the one who told them about what Darkness really was, I mean God only confided that detail to me not any you fellows his first creations even knew what Darkness really was only it was a terrible threat to God and the world" said Metatron trying to sound important.
"Whatever Darkness really is isn't important to me just getting rid of it once and for all" said Lucifer.
"Yes, and you finally decided to show up for good of the cause" replied Castiel who still didn't trust Lucifer as neither did any of the other angels.
"Yes, that's why I'm here and as I said before, so there is no need waiting for those Winchesters to perform whatever hocus pocus as I'm willing to bear the Mark to lock Darkness away for eternity" said Lucifer.
"Well, I still don't trust him and I'm not working with any of those filthy demons" replied an angel.
"Neither am I, they can go back to the pit where they came from" said another.
"Well, that's gratitude for you, we came here to offer our assistance out rid the world of threat to all of us, besides we lost some of our own do to Darkness so you should come off down your heavenly high horse and be grateful your morons" replied Crowley.
"Hey, you guys are going to need all the help you can get, do you really believe, Darkness is going to just let you lock it back again now that it's out again. No, it's not going back without a fight and it will fight back with a vengeance to make sure that never happens again and it will know when there is a possibility of being locked up again. We should know as we fought with him along with our Father the first time and I bore the Mark then" said Lucifer looking at Michael, Raphael and Gabriel who just looked back at him now looking awkward as they realized what he was saying was true.
"He's right, we do need more help, it was harder to defeat the first time around and I'm sure it will be even harder now" Michael replied.
"Yes, I hate say it but I agree" said Raphael who still wasn't happy agreeing with Lucifer.
"Yeah, that goes for me to, heck I always going along for the ride' said Gabriel trying to be sarcastic.
"Me too, we might need them this time" said Castiel as Hannah turned to him a bit surprised he would agree with working with demons.
"Castiel you approve of working with these lowly demons?" she replied.
"Hey, watch it there hun" Crowley remarked.
"I know I don't like it either but Lucifer is actually right if we are forced to go up against Darkness and actually battle it out, we will need all the help we can get even if that means the help is these demons. Sometimes working with the enemies is necessary for the greater good and the only thing that matters is defeating the Darkness" he explained to Hannah.
"So true, you should listen to him Hannah, we are you best chance" Lucifer said.
Hannah just paused with a conflicted look on her face, finally, she turned back to Lucifer.
"Okay, Lucifer we will work together, but don't make no mistake I still don't trust you and I know you have an agenda, so mark my words we will be watching every move you make and once this is over we will stop whatever plans you have" she said.
Lucifer just smirked at her.
"Let's just send this Darkness back to slammer where it belongs already and worry about me later" he told her.
"Very well then" said Hannah.
Just then they all heard a loud sound outside and felt the building shake including the tables and some lanterns fell to the ground and broke. Everyone looked around suddenly scared.
"What is that!" cried out Hannah looking as scared as the others.
"Oh, I think I know" said Lucifer who quickly headed toward the front doors and went outside.
Hannah, Castiel, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Metatron were first to follow along with Crowley and some of the other demons and angels. They as went outside, they all just stared in shock at what they saw. "Oh blimey" cried out Crowley who was just as confused as the others at to what he was seeing before him. Outside there was a huge waves of black smoke swirling around flowing down on the ground and instantly they took the forms of human-figures. These figures look more like zombies with pale skin with black lines all over their bodies and had black eyes like the demons with emotionless expressions on their faces and were quite grotesque looking.
Soon there was an army of them and they were about twenty feet from the angels and demons and just stood there facing opposite them as if they were prepared for battle. The angles and demons both stared at them in disbelief as both sides tried to process what they were seeing.
"It has finally come" said Lucifer who was the first to speak.
"What has?" asked Hannah.
"Darkness, it knows that we're are planning on locking it away real soon and that's why it has showed up now. It's not going without fight as taken on form or I say forms of an army of soldiers to stop us even kill us" he said.
The others just kept gasping at what they were seeing and even Crowley looked at bit unnerved. Lucifer then turned to face the other angels.
"But we can't let it stop us we must be willing to fight in this battle and we may not be able to kill it but we can at least weaken it enough for me to offer myself to our Father to bear the Mark" he cried out sounding like a general.
The others stopped looking scared and started looking fearless as they knew Lucifer was right it is time to fight like they never did before even if it costs them their lives and it might.
"So, who is with me now!" yelled out Lucifer who never showed fear at all.
"We are" cried out Michael referring to him Raphael and Gabriel.
"Me too" said Metatron who didn't want to be left out.
Hannah turned to Castiel.
"Castiel go and round out the rest our soldiers and the demons" she commanded him.
Castiel obeyed without question and headed back inside and within several seconds more angels and demons came out until all of them were outside. They all stood there now seemingly banded together demons and angels alike against the common enemy facing the army of soldiers neither looked scared despite the fact they were all frightened at what they were up against which was bigger than all of them. However, now they were no longer just angels and demons but a united front of soldiers prepared for battle and will fight for lives to defeat their enemy.
"Okay everyone its now of never!" cried out Lucifer who had a mad look on his face now as he didn't have any fear but desire to win again just like before no matter what cost.
"We are ready" said Hannah as the battle was about to begin.