Jack was down in the cavern filled with Lucifer's newly created sky serpents. Recording down results and their progress so far there had been two hundred and twelve created, too many had died due to how unstable the mutation was and the simple fact they were creating a new form of life. Personally Jack thought they were messing with stuff best left alone.

There were tall black eyed humanoids down here as well, helping tend and take care of the newly created creatures

One hissed at him, glaring with it's amber eyes as Jack walked past and Jack starred straight as it hissed using it's forked tongue. As he reached the end he had noticed that one cage was empty and the notepad he was holding clattered to the floor. There wasn't even a single trace of the damn thing left which could only mean one thing

"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, SHIT, SHIT!" Jack yelled in a panic as he started running through the maze like corridors, he flew up a flight of stairs and dug a small walkie-talkie out from his belt.

"Mellissa!" he shouted into it as he barrelled straight one of the tall black eyed humanoid who looked on in disinterest. "MELLISSA" He bellowed, he was in somewhat of a full blown panic by this point.

"I like it when you scream my name like that Jack" Mellissa's voice said coming from the walkie-talkie

"Now's not the time Mellissa sorry" he hastily said "I need you to prep the platform for a transportation" He said quickly.

Mellissa hesitated "But… but that's only for emergencies" she began

"THIS is an emergency" he said, he didn't wait for a reply and re-clipped the device back onto his belt, finally the platform was in sight at the far end of the corridor and he knew Lucifer was going to be absolutely pissed but things would be much worse if he didn't tell him now and if the other Angels found out about their little project then things were not going to end well, not well at all.

Mellissa eyed him worryingly as he stepped up onto the platform, she looked up to the centre crystal as it began to glow white. Sigils that surrounded the circumference of the platform began to glow a pure and beautiful Gold as the room darkened leaving only the glowing sigils and crystal above them.

"Be careful Jack…." she said sadly. He looked at her with a kind genuine smile before winking at her.

"Aren't I always?" he asked with a cheeky grin before the crystal let loose a bolt of white lightning, striking Jack who vanished within a flash of Light leaving nothing but trails of smoke.

XxXxX

It had been three days since the forging of El's new blade.

Thankfully for Mike, Lucifer had made a visit to his parents, using celestial magic to influence their minds so that they did not grow suspicious of their son's whereabouts. Ted of course was the easiest to manipulate, watching paint dry would be better then talking to Ted Wheeler Lucifer muttered walking past Zadkiel who chuckled at Lucifer grumpiness.

In that time Zadkiel and Lucifer's had started being brothers again. His absence had caused a rift to grow but the more time the Brothers spent together the better things were steady getting back to normal, sarcastic comments or sly jokes usually at El or Mike's expense was a new favourite hobby of the two, for example when ever the two of them would have "A moment" as Lucifer liked to call it they would pretend to gag to their amusement among other stuff.

One day Mike snapped.

"Seriously? You two are Angels and your more immature than a pair of eight year olds!" Mike snapped stomping off away from them, El gave them a glare of her own before following her Soul-Mate. Both of them stood and watched them go with an expression akin to a kicked puppy before they burst out laughing. Holding onto their sides as they did so.

Of course the time was not wasted, Zadkiel continued his lessons in Form I with Mike who excelled Zadkiel's expectations although his temper and frustration was something that needed to be worked on.

Lucifer, however, Had his hands full on teaching El on how to use her blade and it was proving difficult because she saw no point in using a blade when she had her powers. For fifth time that day Lucifer pinched the bridge of his nose stressfully.

Only Mike was able to convince her to learn how to use her blade. With gentle coaxing and a soft voice.

"Maybe we should make them spar" Lucifer said nodding towards the two of them as they ate lunch together.

Zadkiel chuckled "really? Do you honestly think for a moment you could get those two to fight each other" Lucifer looked up at the two before sighing.

"Nope" he said.

The sky grew Dark and Lucifer looked up surprised, both Angel leapt to their feet allowing their blades to fall into their hands. The sky sparked with angry bolts of energy, illuminating the ever quickening darkening sky. A bolt of lightning struck the ground before the revealing a caped individual with a set of various sharp knives upon his belt.

"Jack?" Lucifer said utter surprised before letting his eyes narrow "What are you doing here?"

Jack took in a gulp of breath even feeling a little sick, he just used the Celestial way to travel, it was not designed for Humans and now he was paying the price but there was no time for that, he hastened to Lucifer taking in large amounts of air as he panted from exhaustion.

"One" GASP "Of the" GASP "creatures escaped" GASP, Jack managed to get out, sweat clearly clinging to his forehead. Zadkiel looked to and fro between Lucifer and Jack.

"Lucifer, what creatures?" Zadkiel asked his expression serious and Lucifer groaned this was not going to be a good day. "Lucifer! What creatures?" Zadkiel repeated more forcefully

There was another flash of Lightning although it did not strike the ground, it was like the bolt had struck an invisible barrier on the way to the ground. And then it appeared in the sky looming over Hawkins with a gleam in its eye.

The Beast was a rusty copper red, its back spinal plates glowed a deep red like visible veins, Wings of leather with a wingspan of a good twenty foot and is it hovered in the air it let loose a torrent of fire. It's amber eyes easily noticeable even from where the five stood.

"Oh… there it is" Lucifer deadpanned, everyone starred up at it in fear and anticipation, as it hovered there, another flash of lightning lit it up from behind like it was the herald of Zeus himself.

"That beast has trace remnants of Angelic grace… " Zadkiel said hesitantly, Zadkiel turned to Lucifer with an expression of utter fury "Your grace…" within an instant Zadkiel had pinned Lucifer to a tree his eyes blazing with a blue ferocity.

"What in hell did you do Lucifer!" Zadkiel screamed, pressing the tip of his blade into the bottom Lucifer's neck. Lucifer made no attempt to stop Zadkiel.

"I spliced my own Grace on to Snakes" Lucifer said quietly in hopes of quashing the rage that had overtaken Zadkiel. Zadkiel backed up his kill rage had all but disappeared to be replaced with a look of sadness and disgust.

"How can a Celestial of the Light create this, this mockery… this insult to life" Zadkiel said sadly "Who are you?" Zadkiel uttered and it tore Lucifer's heart apart.

"Zadkiel…" he started but he felt determination course through him and his resolve was founded, now was not the time for family disputes.

"This had to be done, it needed to be done, there are so few of us left and this is what is needed for us to win, I don't regret it but this is not the right time to discuss this, we need to stop it before it harms anyone" Lucifer said casting his gaze to the Sky Serpent which was flying in the direction to the remnants of the lab and ultimately Hawkins.

"Is that a Dragon?" Mike asked, Lucifer had forgotten for a moment that they were there.

"Something Like that" Lucifer replied curtly before letting his wings expanded and launching himself into the sky as did Zadkiel. The two watched silently, hand in hand as the two became mere specks in the midday sky.

Lucifer took the left flank whilst Zadkiel took the right flank and aimed for it's wings, they both let loose a series of energy bolts, the serpent looked back at its pursuers and screeched at them letting loose a stream of Hell-fire in their direction, Lucifer gracefully rolled to avoid it. Zadkiel scored a hit on one it's wings causing to stumble in mid-air, Lucifer took the opportunity to fly across it's other wing, blade slicing as he did so.

The Serpent screeched in terrible as it fell from the sky, the two celestials dove after it, the serpent managed to recover using it's injured wings to slow it's inevitable decent before impacting the ground with a heavy thud and releasing a tremor that could be felt through Indiana.

The Serpent had fallen on the outskirts of the lab and shakily rose to his feet using it's imbued grace to recover from it's injuries. Its amber eyes emanated fury as it watched the Angel's land before it.

Lucifer pitied the creature before him before both Celestials lunged towards the serpent, propelling themselves forward with their wings.

The Serpent snarled and braced itself for the battle to come.

(A/N) most likely won't update till Sunday night now (UK TIME) as I'm feeling somewhat tired, I just need a small break from writing so I don't burn out but don't worry there will be a fresh chapter up on Sunday!

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