Lady Alseroen walked onto the stage and face the crowd. "I'm sorry for not updating, I got stuck on the fight between Azrael and Gabriel, I kept writing then deleting it as I wasn't happy with it. So sorry for that." She said before she turned and left.
Chapter IV
It was dark when he woke up; he looked around to see if he could find out where exactly he was, as the last thing that he remembered was passing out under an onslaught of memories.
That thought made him pause and he thought over every memory, he gathered that he had a lot of names over the lives that he had lived, but one stood out the most and that one was Azrael. He wondered why it sounded right to be called that for a minute, before a memory came and showed him why, it was because it was his first name; he knew it would take a while to organise his mind, to have every memory in the right place on his mental time line that he would have to construct.
Due to the memories and the search for his first name, he hadn't realised that someone was holding his hand in a tight grip, as if they were afraid he would disappear. Azrael looked down at the one that was holding his hand and he froze.
He had not expected to find him, never mind that he hadn't expected getting dragged into the whole disagreement. But nevertheless he watched his Sub-Dom sleep knowing that when he woke up they were having a talk, not because Azrael wanted to mind you but because Gabriel would want to.
Too soon for Azrael's liking the sun rose and as a result some streamed into the window right onto the sleeping Angels face causing him to stir. Gabriel raised his head a bit and blinked a couple of time whilst looking around, it only took him a minute to see and recognise Azrael but when he did the Angel practically flew at him and enveloped him in a hug, muttering about never letting him go again and that he was never leaving his sight.
After a couple of minutes Gabriel withdrew and gave Azrael a glare.
"What happened to you?" Gabriel asked his Sub. "When you disappeared, me and Lucifer thought that you were dead." He continued in a whisper.
"Gabriel, I..." Azrael started then stopped, before he took in a deep breath and continued. "I never wanted to hurt you; I just couldn't take all of the fighting that was going on. I couldn't bear to see my family split over something so simple yet so complicated. I didn't want to have to reap the grace and souls of my dead brothers, I wouldn't of been able to bear it if it had been you or Lucifer the one that died so I fell willingly after talking to both of my fathers, they only agreed because they saw how much emotional pain I was in at the mare thought." Azrael explained, it had taken him a while to even find the right words but he didn't think that Gabriel accepted the explanation by the look on his face.
"So you left." Gabriel stated making Azrael nod hesitantly. "Why?"
Azrael looked at his Sub-Dom incredously. "I just told you why I left!" Azrael said.
"What did we do wrong? Yes you said that you wouldn't have been able to bear any of our brothers or sisters dying but you haven't told me what Luc and I did wrong." Gabriel said.
"What? You really think that you did something that made me want to fall?" Azrael asked, making Gabriel nod. "Both of you did nothing wrong! Why won't you accept that you have done nothing wrong?" Azrael asked.
"Because you wouldn't of fallen if we hadn't of done something wrong!" Gabriel shouted with tears streaming down his face.
"Fine1 Since you are obsessed with the thought that you did something wrong, the only wrong that was committed was not your fault! It was Michael's fault he made you too busy to spend some time with me, eventually I just stopped trying to set aside time to spend with both of you, because both of you were always working!" Azrael broke and finally ended up shouting.
Gabriel had frozen when he heard that they had done nothing wrong but put the work that Michael had given them before their Sub, who had eventually just continued working and probably had plenty of time to plan his fall. "Did you sleep during the time we were consumed by work?" he asked quietly dreading the answer.
"No I hardly slept. The only time that I slept was when I passed out from exhaustion, I only ate because Serinle stayed and watched me making sure that I ate every single bit of the meal that she delivered straight to my office." Azrael said with a sigh.
"I'm sorry Azrael, please forgive me for putting my work before you I should have never of done that." Gabriel pleaded looking at the ground miserably as he finally comprehended that it was not his fault fully, most of the blame for Azrael disappearing was on Michael's shoulders, thought there was also a portion that lay on Fathers shoulders as he was the one to issue the order to love the Humans more than HIM.
Azrael sighed when he saw the posture that Gabriel had adopted; he hadn't meant to cause his Sub-Dom pain, but he had however inadvertently and that made him feel guilty. "Gabriel there is nothing to forgive, it wasn't your fault that you had a lot of work piled onto you." Azrael whispered.
Gabriel looked at Azrael from under his eyelashes, taking in his expression and saw that Azrael truly didn't blame him or Lucifer.
"I Fell because I was tired of the fighting, tired of being pulled in two directions." Azrael said. "And not only that but Fate told me what would of happened had I not Fallen, I didn't want that to happen."
"What happened?" Gabriel asked.
"You will just have to ask Fate that." Azrael said with a small smile.
Gabriel pouted, but stopped when Azrael leaned forward and pecked him on the cheek, that caused him to smile. "What? No real kisses?" he asked.
Azrael smirked. "Nope, you have to earn them." He said.
Again Gabriel pouted. "I wish Lucifer was here, he could make you give us all the kisses we wanted." He said petulantly.
"Not true." Azrael said. "He just knew when to ask."
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Uriel had become a regular resident of the Heavenly Library in his search for a ritual or spell that would release the four horsemen and the seven sins to protect Azrael, then he spotted a book called Rituals and Spells used after the Rebellion he knew that the eleven beings Azrael grace had created were sealed away after the Rebellion so he held high hopes that the book held the answer.
Three hours later, he found the answer, making him shoot out of his chair pumped his fist in the air and shouted "Eureka!" at the top of his lungs, that action garnered weird looks from the lower ranked Angels and a glare from the Angel of Libraries, to the later he gave a sheepish look and said "I just found the answer to one of my problems." And to the former he flared his grace a bit showing them that he was an Archangel.
The Angel of Libraries, Liaren, eyes lit up in understanding. "Then forgive me for glaring at you, you must have been searching for the answer a long time." She said.
"I ransacked not only my library but Azrael's, Gabriel's and Lucifer's as well, even if they aren't around they gave me permission to enter whenever I liked seeing as I used to hide in the library." Uriel explained.
"So the main Library was a last ditch effort?" Liaren asked, causing Uriel to nod. "Then I hope the answer that you have found is the correct one." Liaren continued.
"I hope so too." Uriel said as he cleaned the table that he had been using, putting the books on the correct shelves and organising the notes that he had taken on the things that had grabbed his attention.
"Oh! May I borrow this book?" Uriel asked as he held up the book for Liaren to see.
"Of course you can. It hold the answer that you have been looking for but make sure that it comes back in the same state that you took it in because Archangel or not I will hunt you down and make you pay if it's not in the same state." Liaren said seriously making Uriel gulp, he may be and Archangel but Liaren could scare even Michael.
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Death watched as his head Healer appeared in Heaven and told the Angels that Azrael was still alive, but not telling them where he was even if Serinle knew where Azrael was.
"You know you should just go and see him." Serinle said appearing out of thin air.
"I know I should but I can't. He won't be able to protect himself." Death began. "I'm waiting for the Angel Uriel to find a way to bring back the eleven beings that would protect him with everything they have." He finished.
"When he receives his grace he is going directly to his private room in the Hospital for a check-up." Serinle said before she smirked. "It's strange not having him in the Hospital every other day for one reason or another."
Death laughed at that but he couldn't deny the truth f that statement as Azrael had a bad habit of ending up in Hospital.
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Magic watched with a smile as her son and his Sub-Dom cleared the air a bit between them, she turned her gaze to Uriel the Angel that she had chosen to protect her son and she couldn't help but feeling pleased at the dedication that he had to Azrael's protection.
"You know Death and God should need to know that you interfered in Azrael's birth." A voice said from behind her, her head snapped in the direction of the voice fast enough to give any mortal whiplash.
It was Life, he stood there looking for all the world that he hadn't given one of the most dangerous Primals a heart attack.
"Don't do that Life!" Magic said before she turned back to watching Uriel prepare to unleash the Humans worst nightmares, all to protect his brother. "And I'll tell them when I'm ready."
"Right. You said that the last time you interfered and you never told the Ruler of the Pure world or the other Primals what you did." Life said derisively.
"I didn't do anything that would have endangered that world!" Magic argued back.
Life just looked at her before he shook his head. "What you did could had the same chances to destroy the world as it did to save it." He said softly.
Magic sighed "I know." She said. "It wasn't my intention to endanger the world. I could have let the one that I gave the power to alone and that would have condemned the world but I guided them to ensure that that didn't happen"
Life looked at her. "I didn't know that." He began slowly. "In fact all we know was that you gave one the power but we never knew that you guided them down the right path."
Magic laughed. "Not many know what I do for the worlds, Azrael understands the balance that exists in each world he understand that there must always be light and dark, life and death, order and chaos for every world to work perfectly." She paused. "Or at least as perfectly as something can be." She whispered but Life still heard her.
"Forgive me for assuming things, you never do things without a good reason." He said as he moved closer to the other Primal and looked over her shoulder to see into the pool at her feet.
"So you chose the one that knew that Azrael was your son." He observed.
"He was the best choice. Azrael's Dom's memories were messed with, he cannot change what has happened until he regains his grace, but its location is still hidden from him." Magic said as she looked at the tree that held her sons grace.
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Lady Alseroen appears again but this time out of a portal. "If you lot can wait for four days before I start writing again then I think I'll have two chapters ready by the end of next Sunday, please note that I don't mean this Sunday so don't ask." With that she turns to the newly opened portal and stepped through into a dark pyramid that was in the AVP universe.
