The cabin began to rattle and shake, numerous objects began to fall onto the floor but no-one paid a mind to it as they were too focused on the door as they waited for the coming assault.
Zadkiel spoke up.
"We need to go outside" he said looking to each of them in turn.
"Are you crazy?!" Mike half shouted.
Zadkiel rolled his eyes, humans were so difficult even at the best of times
"If we stay in here we will be overrun, confined and slaughtered, we need open ground and we need it now if not we all die" Hopper nodded and kicked the cabin door open after undoing the bolts on the locks. Everyone filed out one after the other, to see something of a terrifying sight.
Two black charred pillars were rising from what seemed like the very depths of hell itself, Mike gulped at the sight of them, Zadkiel flicked his other arm forward where another blade flew into his hand from his sleeve. Hopper took a small handgun from his back pocket and tossed it to Mike, Hopper gave him a curt nod before turning back towards the two pillars.
Soon the two pillars loomed over them, standing at around twenty feet high, overhead the clouds swirled above them, lightning could be seen as the flashes lit up the land around them, everyone had to advert their eyes as a single strike struck the two pillars.
Energy sparked between the two pillars where something akin to a veil spread like a woven cloth between the charred pillars where everyone saw a sight they dreaded to see. The Upside-Down could be seen on the other side. Where falling flakes of ash could be seen drifting into Earth. And there in the distance of it all was a storm of Red Lightning. The storm rumbled with a discharge of for forked red lighting where inside a titanic creature could be seen, its spider like limbs vanishing into the eternal darkness of the Upside-Down.
Zadkiel nearly let the blades he was holding tumble to floor, no it couldn't be…
"The Light barriers… They're gone… dear God this is the end" Zadkiel said fearfully as his eyes never left the fully opened portal. This wasn't like the gate in the lab, this gate was a gate that was not hindered by the light barriers. Hopper had vanished briefly before reappearing with the AR-15 that he still had from the year previous.
"Then we go down fighting" Hopper said, with determination. Clicking the safety off he pointed it into the dimension of darkness. Mike carefully lifted up his own weapons, he had reservations about handling the weapon because of what he did to Brenner half a year ago. He looked to El who's Icy blue eyes looked to him and he felt the resolve strengthen within him. He was doing this for her.
A single Demogorgan had penetrated the veil and walked on all fours slowly towards Zadkiel who held a sombre expression, he slowly moved forwards until the Celestial and the demogorgan were only two feet apart.
Face to Face.
Monster and Angel.
"I'm sorry this happened to you" he said quietly although everyone could his words even over the sound of the red lightning in the distance. A single tear of light fell from his face before he plunged the two blades into the beasts abdomen where it let out a pitiful whimper where it fell to the floor dead, Mike had almost felt sorry for it.
"And here at the end of all things let it be known that We, Celestials of the Light, Angels of the Lord, did not abandon the human race" Zadkiel Declared twirling the blades between his fingers. Watching as a dozen Demogorgans and three times as many Demo-dogs appeared from within the dense fog of the Upside-Down. They slowly passed the veil and onto the Earth.
The Mind Flayers invasion had begun.
And with an almighty roar, Zadkiel materialized his Wings of Blue Lightning and charged into the fray, he launched himself towards the abominations, spinning as he did so, his blades sliced through flesh like butter, his wings were like steel as they too stripped the flesh from their bones.
Hopper opened fire on numerous targets. Taking precise and well practiced aim at the demo-dogs seeing that Zadkiel had engaged the larger demogorgans himself, his blades were a twirling tornado of death, his movements a blur as his weapons plunged to and fro.
Eleven had held back with Mike, one arm was held in front of Mike protectively and the other was sending out bolts of blue energy towards any demogorgan that she could see, her eyes ablaze like blue fire as she tore one demogorgan and demo-dog apart after another, her powers had grown beyond what Brenner could ever have hoped.
Mike was picking shots carefully, being fairly inexperienced with firearms, he took his pot shots at the ones on the fringes of the battle, where he was least likely to shoot an ally. Sulfur clouds were slowly making their way into the sky, blocking out the sunlight, it was starting to eclipse Hawkins in total darkness.
The tide of the battle changed and Zadkiel found himself retreating from the abominations that now had every advantage now that the sun was out of the equation, the four gathered together in a small clearing away from the cabin and the newly formed gate, Zadkiel's flesh was torn in several places, but there was no blood only what Mike could describe as liquid light was seeping from his wounds. He was panting heavily, his blades covered in green-mucus like blood.
The creatures slowly began to surround them, trapping them in every aspect, Eleven glared fiercely at each creature in turn, a glare so terrifying that a demo-dog actually whimpered at the sight of it. Her fingers flexed as small bolts of purple lightning sparked between her fingers. Her gaze turned to Mike where her eyes softened instantly at the sight of him. Her boy with the star freckled face. He looked to her and she had never looked more beautiful to him. Her eyes glowing a bitter blue. Her brown curls weaving anywhere and everywhere. Before he knew it he couldn't stop himself his head dipped to hers and caught her in a powerful kiss, El let out a little squeak. It was so tender and so soft.
They pulled apart breathless. And faced the onslaught once more.
"What are you waiting for? Let's finish it shall we?" Zadkiel spoke up turning one of his blades into a reverse combat grip, there was a moment of silence as Man, Celestial and Beast starred each other down. Until they heard a whooshing sound coming from above.
Zadkiel laughed in delight or sheer madness, neither Mike, El or Hopper could tell until they looked up themselves.
From the heavens itself rained thousands upon thousands of meteorites of Angelic Light, they came barrelling through the darkness of the Sulfur clouds. Allowing the sun to pour through the gaps. As the Angelic version of Artillery destroyed what little was left of the Sulfur. The Demogorgan's and Demo-Dogs fled in sheer terror, they struck many earning a painful and pathetic yelp from every abomination that they struck.
Dozens of Celestials, swooped down from the sky, hands outstretched as they fired upon the retreating Mind Flayer's army. Landing on the ground , their blades slid into their waiting hands finishing off any stragglers.
Zadkiel ran towards the gate "Brothers, we need to destroy this gate! Hurry" he shouted waving them towards the gate. The Celestials rushed forward, Mike, Hopper and El bringing up the rear. They skidded to halt and watched as the Celestials barraged the Pillars with purple bolts and covered it in flames from their fingertips, only smoke arose every time.
"We can't close it!" One shouted, his wings were pure white with blue streaks running from base to tip.
"There must be a way!" Zadkiel shouted, The Mind Flayer was ever much closer now.
Eleven started to walk slowly with purpose towards the gate.
"El Wait!" Mike cried out rushing forwards only to be stopped by Hoppers gigantic arms.
Hey eyes turned to Mike, blazing blue and she half smiled at him, a tear of bluish light escaping her, her arms lax by her side.
"I love you" she mouthed silently.
"I love you" he silently mouthed back, tears falling without permission as he fought silently against Hopper's arms. She turned away from him and the blue in her eyes darkened as she marched forward slowly. The Celestials slowly moved out of the way forming a direct path for her.
She gazed hatefully at the tear in the fabric of the Earth, her arms rose up, one hand gaining hold of a pillar, the other hand rose to do the same with the other, The Tendrils of her mind awoke and snaked round the pillars. She screamed ferociously, using every ounce of strength to rip the pillars from their foundations. The pillars began to crack and crumble under the strain of it.
The Celestials watched on in awe at such a small girl hosting such an enormous amount of power and strength. Mike closed his eyes, unable to bare watching her vanish from his life again, not now, not after everything, not after everything she had become to him, his best friend, his soul mate, the one who he made love to and the one who he poured every ounce of love into because no-one deserved or ever will deserve anything more than she did.
The veil flickered and withered until it transformed into grey vapour with a crack of thunder. The pillars fell to the ground, destroyed and worthless.
The Gate was closed for now.
But El continued tearing apart and decimating every remaining piece of the pillars as angry tears flowed unbidden from her, Hopper let go of Mike who launched himself towards El, his feet never moved quicker as he skidded in front of her.
"El it's okay! You can stop now! Eleven you can stop!" Mike shouted, his hands on her shoulders. Angry tears flowed from her, softly banging her fists onto his chest before the two crumpled to the floor awash with fresh tears, El sobbed into Mikes shirt, grabbing fistfuls of his Shirt, anchoring herself to him as he held her close to him. Stroking his fingers through the soft curls atop her head. His own face glistened with fresh tears of relief, relief knowing that this time he hadn't lost her. Pressing kisses to her forehead as he whispered into her ear "It's okay, I'm here, I never going to leave you"
Zadkiel gazed on in astonishment, Hopper watched the two of them, a small broken look etched on his ageing features
"Of course it all makes sense now" he said more to himself than anything, Mike looked up towards Zadkiel.
"What do you mean" Mike asked quietly, his voice broken from his own crying
"You two are Soulbound" Zadkiel said his voice not quite believing it.
"Soulbound?" both El and Mike said at the same time. Both at a complete loss.
"I can check to make sure, is that okay" Zadkiel asked
Both of them nodded slowly. Zadkiel approached themand kneeled down to their level.
"This is going to hurt, so if there is some place you find soothing then you should go there" Immediately both El and Mike reached for the others hand as they interlocked their fingers, making Zadkiel chuckle slightly.
"I meant in your mind but that'll do the trick" he said smirking.
"Brace yourselves" he warned. Mike and El wasn't sure what he was doing before they both felt searing hot blinding pain, Mike and El's hand squeezed the other in a death grip and Mike managed to look down to see that Zadkiel's hands had slipped into their stomachs, surrounded by a holy white light. His irises lit up yellow as they starred at nothing in particular and unfocused.
But Zadkiel saw everything clearly, he saw the tendril that was connecting both Mike and El, it was coloured gold with pink weaving around it, he instantly recognized it as a soul bond. But he noticed the looks of anguish upon both their faces and quickly withdrew his hands. Soul touching was never a pleasant experience for either Man or Celestial.
They collapsed into each other as Zadkiel fell backwards slightly drained from everything, a side effect was feeling an aftertaste of what the soul or in this case souls were like and seeing the memories associated with them, and by everything that was holy, all these two thought about was each other, the care, the honesty, the love.
But above all else the pain, the utter pain that the two experienced when they were apart, suffering their own hells. Mike not knowing whether she was alive or dead, Eleven watching him suffer but unable to reach out to him and Zadkiel was never more heartbroken by this. Mike could always sense when Eleven was near even though Mike didn't fully understand it at the time. The Pain Eleven felt when she saw Mike with Max in the school hall like she was forgotten about and being replaced. The Pain as Mike watched her leave again. The look of Utter despair upon Mike's face was enough to tell him that if he had lost her again for a second time it would have finished him off. Zadkiel shuddered not wanting to go to that dark train of thought.
Zadkiel watched closely Mike's head was buried into her shoulder as were hers. And he could see why, a bond formed in blood, pain and love. And it broke the Angelic grace inside him.
"in all my years, I have never seen anything like it" Zadkiel said softly looking straight at the two of them.
"you two are not only Soulbound here but your Soulbound across every time, every dimension, every corner of existence" Zadkiel said his voice thick with emotion.
"What are you trying to say, Zadkiel" Hopper asked slightly irritated.
"I'm saying that these two no matter what time, what alternate reality they are in, will always be destined to be together. Throughout the infinite variations and possibilities of the multiverse, these two are the only things that constantly remain untouched" Zadkiel said looking up to Hopper.
Hopper rubbed at his eyes tiredly.
"I think you need to start from the beginning" Hopper said tiredly, damn he needed a beer.
Zadkiel nodded and walked to the front of his assembled Brothers and Sisters
"Celestials of the Holy Host, the time has come for us to rid our Home of the demon's evil" every Angel present cheered raising their blades, their halo's shined briefly before vanishing once more.
He gestured to El.
"Meet Eleven, Daughter of the Archangel Selaphiel, she is the last hope to restore our home" there was a collective stunned silence, Every Celestial present gaped in shock before one kneeled on one knee before her. Then another and another.
Until every single Angel was knelt before her, blades raised in salute to her.
Eleven.
Girlfriend of Mike Wheeler.
Daughter of Selaphiel the Archangel.
Mike's hand found hers and she found all the strength she needed.
(A/N) there is a possibility that this might end up being my longest ever story lol the words just flow on the page at the moment when I get going.
"Yo Zadkiel"
He sighs "What now…"
"Go save Mike"
"But.. Hes right there"
"I know that but you need to save him from one of those infinite universes, y'know phieillydinyia's story Visage of lost love? Go save him from that"
Sigh "Fine"
He's coming for you Phieilly ;) lol but seriously check out her story guys
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