WOOT! Can you believe it, I'm finally done with Chapter 2! It only took me how many months again? I had several cases of writers block while trying to write this one but I think it turned out pretty well. Fortunately for you guys Chapter Three is already almost done( I sort of have the bad habit of working ahead when I get stuck) so it should be ready to upload soon, I hope . . .

Ch. 2Angelic War

I had almost expected him to show up but not this soon. After all one of the consequences of fusing Adam with Lilith was the return of the angels. I was enjoying the peace of my makeshift raft however and wasn't too happy about being disturbed. I managed to control my slight annoyance and inquired fairly cheerfully, "What do you want, Kaworu?"

"Your presence has been requested at the council of the angels." He explained.

"What is the reason for this meeting?"

Kaworu sighed unhappily, "The angels wish to decide what to do about the current state of affairs here on earth. They feel that your being there will help decide matters quickly. "

"I see. Let's go then."

Kaworu reached into the bag he'd been carrying and pulled out one of unit zero's plug suits and handed it to me, "Sorry," He apologized "It was the best I could find."

I gingerly took the plug suit from Kaworu's hands making sure to keep it as far from me as I possibly could. Seeing a plug suit again after more than two years was not high on my list of preferred activities. To be perfectly honest I had never wanted to see a plug suit again. There were too many memories, mine and the seconds connected to it for me. I shuttered silently. Could I do it? Would I dawn a plug suit once again? Yes, I tried to tell myself. It wasn't like I was going to be getting into an Eva. I was only wearing so that I wouldn't have to go before my brethren naked. That was all. For some reason however, part of me refused to listen to reason. Part of me wanted to rip the plug suit to shreds where I stood. It was that part of me that made my fingers twitch with the want to remove the plug suit from my site as quickly as possible. I took a deep breath and blocked out all my thoughts. Then I nodded to indicate that to Kaworu it was fine. He turned around to give me some privacy. Quietly I slide the cold rubbery synthetic suit on and pressed the ventilation button. With a hiss the suit fit itself to my body. Kaworu turned around to face me again. "Ready?"

I nodded. With out warning Kaworu seized my hand. I could feel a swirling sensation begin to creep up around my feet. It began to build until I could feel it spinning all around me. I closed my eyes and when the sensation died away I reopened them to see fourteen pairs of red human eyes staring at me. It took me a minute to realize who I was looking at. They where my cousins, the angels, in Lilum form.

"What's the meaning of this Tabris?" Ramiel demanded.

Kaworu locked eyes with Ramiel each seeming to dare the other to challenge them. Finally it was Kaworu who broke the silence, "She is one of us and is just as affected by what passes between us here as you are."

"True," Chuckled Bardiel "Let the girl stay."

"If you're letting her stay you might as well let the Eva's come to!" Scoffed Armisael. "After all she as much "one of us" as those abomination are!"

The angels began laughing and jeering. Kaworu however wasn't. He stood where he was beside me with a serious determined look on his face. When they realized how serious he was their laughter quickly began to die away. Once he had their full attention he murmured in an almost dangerous voice. "Good idea."

Kaworu flicked his right index finger and the four Eva's appeared before us, their arms where out stretched and in either hand rested their pilot and soul. All except unit zero, who only held the second me because she was both at once. "What!" Cried Sachiel, "How dare you bring those things here!"

Yui Ikari's eyes flew open. "How dare you call Evangelion a thing?" She hissed.

The angels seemed taken back at first but they quickly recovered. "What right do you have to speak to us like that?" Ireul demanded.

"Silence!"

We all turned to see who had spoken. It was Lilith. I could see the gift of my energy had worked well. You could see the fire of her soul in her eyes, Lilith was back. "Now," Lilith said "Shall we get back to the reason we're here?"

Zeruel snorted. "You make it sound so easy. No wonder you where the creator of those cursed Lilum."

The others began to chuckle. "Lilith the soft." Jeered Leliel.

"You shouldn't talk of things you know nothing about." Lilith hissed.

Sachiel laughed "I believe we know the facts quite well, Lilith. You and Adam had an argument that led to you two sealing each other up in what the Lilum know as the first impact. "

"It was more than just some everyday disagreement; he had let his power get to his head, he believed he was the Supreme Being and untouchable. I was only trying to put him in his place."

"You forget he was . . ." Gaghiel began

". . . god himself, no, but I was not made to be his subordinate." Lilith finished curtly.

"Yes but you fled to Lucifer the moment he displeased you." Armisael pointed out.

"I did not! I left because he thought he could be master over me." Lilith insisted.

Many of the angels looked like they were about to pounce on Lilith when she was saved by the voice of one annoyed Asuka Langley Sohyu. "Leave Lilith alone!" She demanded "For peat sake. You guys are worse then any human I know."

The angels where taken back by Asuka's words. They had just been handed the ultimate insult, being compared to humans. Not good. Zeruel was the first to recover. "What right do you have to speak like that? If I remember right, I removed your Eva's head quite easily, little girl."

Asuka's face reddened into a vivid cherry color that matched unit two's paint job and her eyes filled with hate. "You! I remember you!" She screamed wildly.

Asuka wasted no time. In moments she was in unit two and charging toward the object of her anger. Zeruel returned to the form he had showed up in on earth and sent his arms right at her. I closed my eyes and spread my AT field to give Asuka a second barrier of protection. Moments before she put our combined AT field to the test Zeruel's arms where stopped in their tracks by the second me in unit zero. "That's enough Zeruel." She hissed.

Zeruel growled and went to plunge his arms through her but I used my AT field to force him to the ground. I did not want to see more blood shed, not anymore. I had seen enough of that.

I could fell Zeruel's eyes staring at me in pure hatred. "What the hell is going on? How can you be here and the Eva?"

The blood thirsty hatred in his eyes was enough to scare even me. My hands and knees were trembling and my heart was beating rapidly. My first instinct was to want to run away and disappear. In that brief instant I learned what fear was. Now I finally began to understand its power. Fear was nothing to be messed with. I breathed deeply and got some control of myself. Showing fear to Zeruel was the worst thing to do. "We've never meant. I am the third one and the me in the Eva is the second. She is the one you fought." I explained

My voice had been shakier than I wanted but it wasn't abnormal sounding so I didn't think Zeruel noticed. He actually seemed to have a sadistic sense of pleasure on his face. "So, you're the one after all. The one who began the instrumentality, the end of the world. My, my, I thought you would."

"What made you believe that?" I asked weakly.

"I could tell there was something . . . different about you when I met you. I could tell you weren't like the others."

"How so?" Asked the second.

"Easy, you came at me armed with only an N2 mine in your one good arm prepared to blow yourself up if it meant taking me out. The other two tried to fight me head on. Where you used reckless abandon and showed little respect for your life. Tell me what would drive a person to that? "

"The desire to protect those I care about." The Second replied.

I knew from her memories that she was telling the truth and speaking from the heart; something not easy to do. I could see that Zeruel contemplating her response. The question would be how he would respond. All of us seemed to hold our breath as we waited. "You where concerned about the safely of your friends." Zeruel muttered to himself, "True loyalty to comrades."

"Yes I was." The second replied.

"I do not understand the concept of comradeship. I only know the way of the lone warrior." Zeruel replied.

"You always where a loner, weren't you?" Commented Armisael.

Zeruel turned toward Armisael and glared harshly at her. "So . . ." He Inquired.

Armisael shrugged innocently "Oh, nothing."

Zeruel looked at her suspiciously. Armisael however pretended not to notice him. She focused her smiling face on me instead. "It's good to see you again cousin." She said smoothly.

I wasn't smiling back. "Pretty clever of you to send Bardiel after me, you knew he had a soft spot for me, so you thought he could persuade me to join you." I replied icily.

Armisael acted like she could careless what I thought but I could read the malice in her eyes. "I offered you an opportunity to join us, cousin. To have all the power you could ever want and never be weakened by your Lilum blood again." She said softly.

"You seem to think I should be ashamed to be a half Lilum. However, I happen to like my human side. It doesn't bother me to be a halfling at all. I also have no need for power. So what you offer has no interest to me. I told you once and I'll tell you again, I decline."

Armisael scowled in frustration. I had no idea what her purpose was to have me join her but I didn't have a good feeling about it. Armisael turned on me with open hatred on her face. "You refuse do you? I'll teach you to tell me no." She sneered.

She advanced on me ready for attack. I raised my own AT field and waited to see what she would do. Armisael morphed her arm in to a miniature lance and shot it right at me. I braced myself and threw her backward. Armisael countered by changing into the long glowing line. She charged at me and attempted to puncture my AT field. I stumbled back wards a few steps but refused to give in. Armisael wrapped herself around me like a boa constrictor. I thrashed around trying to get some leverage on her but I couldn't. I looked to both sides. My AT field was getting closer and closer. I braced my self as Armisael's body touched my arm, wincing as Armisael integrated with me. Just like before the bulging veins appeared on my arms and quickly worked their way across the rest of my body. I made up my mind that I wasn't going to end up like last time. I exerted my will with as much ferocity as I could muster. Armisael was caught off guard and thrown completely out of my body. She landed a few feet in front of me with a thump. I staggered back a few steps away from her breathing hard. She was back on her feet in a flash glaring hard at me. "How dare you . . ." She hissed dangerously at me.

From behind me Kaworu stepped foreword. "That's enough, Armisael." He Insisted "Leave her alone."

Several others agreed and moved to protect me. Armisael appeared shocked by their support of me. "Why, why do you defend her? She's not even one of us. Besides didn't we agree she was at the cause of all out troubles?"

"We agreed that she was a source of our problems but not the only one." Replied Zeruel.

Armisael looked desperately around at all of us looking for a sigh of support but she found none. "No, no, no!" She screamed wildly when she saw that she was out numbered.

With terrifying force she sent her AT field flying at us. Zeruel stepped in front and tried to stop her but was forced back. It was time to end this, I decided. I stepped up next to Zeruel and tried to back him up. Between the two of us we began to gain ground on her. Suddenly I took one step too many and got caught between the crushing forces of their two AT fields. I tried to get out of the way but I was pinned. Everything came rushing in on me and then there was black silence.

. . . and the plot thickes, dun, dun, dun! Untill next time, later!

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