Chapter 4

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Dean closesd the trunk of the Impala. Bobby and Castiel walk up to him.

Bobby spoke. "You goin' someplace? You're goin' to do somethin' stupid. You got that look."

"I'm gonna go talk to Sam."

"You just don't give up."

"It's Sam!"

"If you couldn't reach him here, you're certainly not gonna be able to on the battlefield." Castiel said.

"Well, if we've already lost, I guess I got nothing to lose, right?"

"I just want you to understand – the only thing that you're gonna see out there is Michael killing your brother."

"Well, then I ain't gonna let him die alone."

Dean gets into the Impala and starts the engine, driving away.

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Lucifer in Sam's body stands in the cemetery. There is the sound of wings and Michael in Adam's body appears.

Lucifer: "It's good to see you, Michael."

Michael: "You too. It's been too long. Can you believe it's finally here?"

Lucifer: "No. Not really."

Michael: "Are you ready?"

Lucifer: "As I'll ever be. A part of me wishes we didn't have to do this."

Michael: "Yeah. Me too."

Lucifer: "Then why are we?"

Michael: "Oh, you know why! I have no choice, after what you did."

Lucifer: "What I did? What if it's not my fault?"

Michael: What is that supposed to mean?

Lucifer: "Think about it. Dad made everything. Which means he made me who I am! God wanted the Devil."

Michael: "So?"

Lucifer: "So why? And why make us fight? I just can't figure out the point."

Michael: "What's your point?"

Lucifer: "We're going to kill each other. And for what? One of Dad's tests. And we don't even know the answer. We're brothers. Let's just walk off the chessboard."

Michael: "I'm sorry. I-I can't do that. I'm a good son, and I have my orders."

Lucifer: "But you don't have to follow them."

Michael: "What, you think I'm gonna rebel? Now? I'm not like you."

Lucifer: "Please, Michael —"

Michael: "You know, you haven't changed a bit, little brother. Always blaming everybody but yourself. We were together. We were happy. But you betrayed me – all of us – and you made our father leave."

Lucifer: "No one makes Dad do anything. He is doing this to us."

Michael: "You're a monster, Lucifer. And I have to kill you."

Lucifer: "If that's the way it's got to be... Then I'd like to see you try."

Lucifer and Michael slowly circle one another. Then they hear the sound of a car engine.

Dean drives up to Lucifer and Michael.

"Howdy, boys. Sorry. Am I interrupting something?" Dean asked, getting out of the Impala. "Hey. We need to talk." He said as he stopped a short distance away from the two power houses.

Lucifer: "Dean. Even for you, this is a whole new mountain of stupid."

Dean: "I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to Sam."

Michael: "You're no longer the vessel, Dean. You got no right to be here."

Dean: "Adam, if you're in there somewhere, I am so sorry."

Michael: "Adam isn't home right now."

Dean: "Well, then you're next on my list, buttercup. But right now, I need five minutes with him."

Michael: "You little maggot. You are no longer a part of this story!"

It looked like Michael was going to do something very bad to Dean, when they were again interrupted.

Castiel: "Hey, ass-butt!"

Castiel and Bobby had appeared. Castiel was holding a bottle from which a flame was burning – a Molotov cocktail. Castiel threw the bottle at Michael, who screamed as he went up in flames.

Dean: "'Ass-butt'?"

Castiel: "He'll be back – and upset – but you got your five minutes."

Lucifer: "Castiel. Did you just Molotov my brother with holy fire?" He asked, turning to look at the seraph. Who knew that something bad was going to happen… to himself.

Castiel: "Uh... no."

Lucifer: "No one dicks with Michael but me."

Lucifer snaps his fingers. Castiel explodes in a rain of blood and chunks of meat.

Dean: "Sammy, can you hear me?" Dean didn't want to think that Castiel was gone again, for forever this time, as he had just been smitted by the Devil himself.

Lucifer: "You know... I tried to be nice... for Sammy's sake. But you... are such a pain... in my ass."

Lucifer throws Dean onto the windshield of the Impala, which shatters. Bobby shoots Lucifer in the back. When Lucifer turns, Bobby shoots him again in the front. Lucifer makes a twisting hand motion and Bobby's neck snaps.

Dean shouts out, "N-o-o-o-o!"

Lucifer said with a tiny smirk. "Yes."

Lucifer grabs Dean's legs and pulled him off the hood of the Impala. He punched Dean hard. Dean fell back against the Impala, spitting blood.

Dean: "Sammy? Are you in there?"

Lucifer: "Oh, he's in here, all right." He punched Dean again. "And he's gonna feel the snap of your bones." Another punch. Dean fell to the ground. "Every single one." He hauls Dean to his feet. "We're gonna take our time."

Lucifer punched Dean a further ten times. Dean, his face now very swollen and bleeding, put out a hand to Lucifer's jacket.

Dean: "Sam, it's okay. It's okay. I'm here. I'm here. I'm not gonna leave you." Lucifer punched him twice more. "I'm not gonna leave you."

Lucifer draws back his fist for another punch.

But was stopped as three bright lights burst into the clearing and as he was thrown out of Sam Winchester's body and into a vessel constructed for him by one of the lights that had appeared.

Sam stumbled but was caught by Dean.

"Sammy?"

"Dean?"

"You alright?" the two brothers asked each other. They each nodded and gave each other a hug, glad that Lucifer was not inside Sam's body at the moment.

"Sam, Dean?" came a female voice behind them, a faintly familiar voice. Turning slowly, their eyes landed on the three beings that were still glowing slightly. All three of them were familiar.

"Gabriel? Percy? Raphael? What are you guys doing here? And Gabriel how are you alive? I thought Lucifer had killed you." Dean said puzzled, the Winchesters momentarily forgetting about Lucifer in his new vessel standing up slowly behind them.

"I did." Lucifer growled. Sam and Dean spun around to face Lucifer but found themselves leaning against Baby with an alive Bobby and a put together Castiel with all their wounds healed and far away from the three Archangels and whatever Percy was. Make that four as Michael in Adam's body had just appeared. Only for a vessel to appear beside him as well and for the same thing that happened with Sam and Lucifer happened with Adam and Michael. The new vessel Michael was now possessing stumbled to his feet as Adam appeared beside his brothers dazed and confused.

"What happened?" Adam muttered.

"I don't know, kid. But hopefully we'll be finding out real soon." Dean said, his green eyes not leaving the scene in front of him. He couldn't help but wonder how Percy was still alive and mixed up in this whole mess. She was an innocent civillian in all of this… or was she? His suspicions began to grow.

"Luci, I'm hurt. I thought you would have felt bad killing me." Gabe said, placing a hand over his heart. At his words, Michael suddenly glared at Lucifer.

"You killed Gabriel? What were you thinking? Do you not have any of the love that Mother raised us with and taught us to have for each other?" Michael growled.

Lucifer returned Michael's glare. Percy placed a hand on Gabriel and Raphael's shoulders as it looked like they were about to jump in between their two brothers as they moved towards each other as they argued.

"I wasn't thinking at all, Michael. And that's what happens when you spend several millenia in h*ll. You lose your dam mind. (see what I did there? *wink wink*). And all of that love Mother showed us, gave us, is buried under all those years in that pit. And it about killed me knowing that I killed Gabriel, my youngest brother."

Michael's face softened at the emotion on his brother's face.

Percy felt sorrow consum her at the emotions she felt Lucifer emanate.

"Luci? Mike? There is no need to fight any more." Percy called softly, her nicknames for her two eldest angel sons caused the two of them to whirl around and face her as she moved from where she had been standing with Gabriel and Raphael and towards them.

The two archangels were filled with disbelief as Percy slowly but steadily allowed her power to fill the cemetary. Although it wasn't felt by the humans that were still watching the scene puzzled, Castiel and the four archangels felt it. And it made Castiel, Lucifer, and Michael gasp in shock as they realized who this woman was.

"Cas? Cas what is it?" Dean whispered, griping the shoulder of the seraph's vessel.

"It's her."

"Yeah, that's Percy. We told you about her months ago. What about her?" Sam asked. Castiel didn't remove his eyes from her form as she embraced Michael and then Lucifer, both of them returning her hugs immediately and being reluctant to let her go.

"It's her, as in, she is our Mother, our creator." Castiel said simply. Sam and Dean exchanged startled glances.

"You mean to tell me that Percy, that girl we met at that hotel months ago with the deities and where we were almost eaten by them, is God?" Dean asked, his mind trying to piece together any information that might have clued him into the fact that the woman he had joked with and spent some time with, was the one that could stop this whole thing from happening. Team Free Will watched as Percy hugged Michael and Lucifer one more time before walking towards them, causing them all to stiffen. But Percy ignored them for the time being as her attention was on Castiel whom stared at her wide eyed, afraid that she would disappear before his very eyes.

"Castiel. I have been watching you for a while now." Percy paused as Castiel seemed to pale, wondering he had done something wrong. "I couldn't be more proud of you."

"W-What?" Castiel stuttered. Percy smiled and placed a gentle hand on his shoulder.

"You have broken free from the darkness that has been infecting my children by yourself and have used the most precious gift I have ever given to all my children."

Dean butted in. "And what's that?"

Percy turned her head and smiled at the eldest Winchester. "Free Will is the greatest thing I have ever gifted. And Castiel," Percy said, turning her attention onto Castiel who was beaming at her. "my sons and I have a mess to clean up. We have to find whom has been messing with my children and put a stop to it. In the meantime, I would like you, Castiel, to continue to do what you have been doing. Helping humans, hunting with Dean and Sam, learning what humans have to offer. Can you do this for me?"

"Of course, Mother." Castiel said as the two of them hugged.

She smiled at him as she pulled away and turned to walk away. "Thank you, Castiel."

She paused though when Sam spoke up. "So that's it? No Apocolapyse, and Lucifer returned to Archangel status?"

Percy turned with a smirk. "My goodness, no. Yes, the Apocolapyse is finished. And yes, Lucifer is an angel again, but he is not yet my Morningstar Archangel. For him to be an archangel again, he must serve his dues, which will take him several years to acheive it. I'm sorry, Winchesters for not acting sooner but I had no choice in letting the events play out the way that they did, in doing so, I was proved correct on my assessment of the situation."

"Your assessment?" Dean asked. Percy smiled at the two of them.

"You two will go to any lengths for each other and for those you preseve as family. And you both are willing to jump in to save the world. That is what is going to be needed in the years to come. Lucifer isn't the biggest thing out there, there are others that are nigh impossible to beat unless we work together, something that you two have learned in the many years you've hunted together. Now, this is not a goodbye. It is a 'see you later' situation, as I'm certain we shall in the future. Good luck, Winchesters, don't prove me wrong about you."

And with a flash of bright white light, Percy and the four Archangels were gone and the Winchesters and their family were in Bobby's living room and Baby parked right outside. As they went to bed that night after sharing a victory beer, they all couldn't help but wonder what was on the horizon.