The group starred at the picture and Lucifer turned away and stroked his hand through his hair stressfully.
"What can you tell us about this demon" Hopper asked quietly, Lucifer stayed silent starring at the drawing, his mind seemed far away before walking away, flinging the front door open with his hand before letting it slam, from within they heard a rustle of wind and the distinct sound of wings. Zadkiel closed his eyes in resignation.
"He'll be back, he always comes back in the end" Zadkiel said feeling Lucifer's presence shrinking from them, already out of the state of Indiana.
"Where had he gone" Hopper queried frowning at the door.
"gone for what humans like to call a walk but he's flying" Zadkiel said coming to stand beside Hopper.
"I can only tell you a little bit as we know almost nothing as well" Zadkiel said carefully sitting on the sofa.
"This a demon from a higher dimensional plane of existence, The light usually stops things like this from happening, we Celestials have been fighting ever since for thousands of years. It just appeared one day shortly after the Light had vanished without a trace"
"The Light?" Mike asked confused
"God" Zadkiel Supplied Simply with a sad smile.
"Wait so God left and now this Demon invaded the upside-down, for what reason, what's the point?" Hopper asked gruffly.
"Upside-Down?" Zadkiel asked his brows furrowed in confusion before it dawned on him what they meant. "You mean Heaven?" this made sense to everyone, Zadkiel smiled sadly his eyes lighting up a light mournfull blue
"You should have seen Heaven before the Demon corrupted it" Zadkiel said wistfully. "Luscious and deep forests of green trees, expansive grasslands as far as the eye can see" Zadkiel sighed.
"You should of seen the place at night, billions of beautiful stars, the waterfalls themselves glowed as the crystals beneath them would reflect moonlight in a billion different colours."
Everyone listened to the beautiful picture that he was painting for them. How was it possible for Upside-down to have been beautiful let alone Heaven.
"Wait if its Heaven than why is Hawkins in there?" Will asked.
Zadkiel turned to look at the new person that had silently joined them
"Because parts of Earth is starting to bleed into Heaven due to the fact that the Light Barriers are gone. I'm surprised nothing else has tried to invade earth yet" Zadkiel explained.
"Humans were our charge, when God ordered us to love you more than him, we obeyed and every one of us bowed down before you. We vowed that Humanity would live in peace" Zadkiel said starring up at them
Hopper snorted, Zadkiel's head snapped round angrily.
"You think we would have let any of that happen? The wars, the slaughter, the fighting over the words in old books? We protected humanity for thousands of years because that is nothing compared to what would happen if the demon made it to Earth" Zadkiel said angrily and rightfully so.
Hopper nodded and swallowed nervously
"There hasn't been a single fledgling in thousands of years"
"Fledging?" Joyce asked her voice hoarse, it always seemed to be nowadays.
"Fledging Angels, infant Angels, a new batch was created every couple years" Zadkiel said
Zadkiel sighed and shook his head "We are nearly an extinct race, I'm not sure what else we can do"
The door flew open and Lucifer stepped in, the light behind him eclipsed by the shadow of his black feathered wings.
"not sure what else to do, how about fight, like the warriors that we are!" Lucifer said snarling. His eyes a furious red. Zadkiel flew to his feet and strode over to Lucifer.
"With what? There is no-one left! They are all dead, all of them!" Zadkiel shouted emotionally. The two Celestials starred each other down, whilst everyone watched tensely.
"If seven Archangels and a Million Celestials couldn't fight it, then what could we possibly do Lucifer? There is no-one left and it's clear God isn't coming back and we saw nothing of you for years" Zadkiel said bitterly
"Do not screw with me Zadkiel" Lucifer said his eyes darkening. Fists tightening.
"Why? What are you going to do, Lucifer? You don't have the balls" Zadkiel declared daringly, Lucifer's temper had reached it's limit and promptly punched Zadkiel in the jaw who hit the floor, Lucifer leaned over and grabbed the back of his collar dragging him towards the front door, Lucifer waved it open with a hand before hurling him straight through it. Zadkiel rolled across the gravel groaning. Everyone leapt to their feet
"I would stay down now Zadkiel and learn to hold your tongue" Lucifer warned
Zadkiel raised up onto his knee's spitting out the blood from his mouth.
"Why? What is the point to any of this Lucifer? God is gone, our Brothers are gone" Zadkiel laughed bitterly. "Soon, we'll all be gone" Lucifer let the blade fall from his sleeve and pressed it to his throat, there was a tense moment.
"Do it…" Zadkiel Whispered, his voice was tired and spent. His resolve gone, he was broken "DO IT! DO IT!" he screamed. Lucifer hesitated.
Eleven flung her arms up and flicked the two away from each other.
"No" she declared, her eyes fierce and determined. She strode up to Zadkiel and pressed two fingers to his forehead and felt an influx of emotional baggage. And what she felt broke her. The death of every Angel could be felt, the absence of hope and light for thousands of years, constantly hunted as well as being the Celestial in charge of what remained of the Holy Host.
He was a broken Angel.
Lucifer looked at down at the blade, shocked at what he might have done and flung the blade away from him and walked up to Zadkiel.
"I'm Sorry, Brother" Lucifer said quietly.
Zadkiel Nodded before raising to his feet. He had wanted to die. There was more to him than what first appeared.
Lucifer looked around him at the assembled Angels and smiled, there was always hope. And so he spoke up.
"This War has gone on far too long, for too long as this Demon desecrated our home, killed our kin and destroyed everything we held dear. But no more, no more shall we hide. We fight!" Lucifer shouted.
The Angels let out a battle cry, infused with the words from the Archangel. Lucifer turned away and walked up to Hopper.
"We need to train her" he said simply
Hopper sighed
"is she to be a weapon? that's what they wanted for her" Hopper said pointedly
"I want to" they turned to see that El stood in front of them. Fingering the hem of her shirt nervously. "I need to" she corrected herself glancing at Mike who stood talking to Will.
"Are you sure this is what you want El" Hopper asked.
She nodded frantically.
"Then I see no problem with it" Hopper said "it will be better if you knew more about where you come from" he said looking at Lucifer.
"We're going to need your cabin" Lucifer said.
"Go right ahead" Hopper replied.
Lucifer signalled with his head for her to follow and the two began to walk off into the woods without even breaking his stroll or looking behind he spoke up.
"Your going to want to bring Mike with you" he said
Blushing furiously she grabbed Mike's hand and half-dragged him into the woods behind Lucifer. Hopper watched in bemusement. Zadkiel watched them go and felt a fire within him as he felt renewed determination.
Perhaps this was finally the beginning of the end.
(A/N) I had severe writers block writing this, so this is probably not one of the greater chapters but the next will be better, Promise! Lol I just needed something to link the last chapter and the next one as well as explaining key concepts.
Next chapter will be
- Exploring the powers and abilities of El being Half-Archangel.
- Mileven.
- Lucifer being a good uncle lol
- The start of the Mind Flayer's war on Earth
As always guys review! and until next time, peace!