The Beasts lumbered forward, snarling, with drool dripping from their mouths, the Celestials starred ahead watching the slow, deliberate approach that the beasts were making, this wasn't like the blitzkrieg of Heaven, no this was cold, calculated, they wanted to be seen coming, they were gloating as hundreds upon hundreds appeared from the mist, with the Mind Flayer in the ever closing distance, a mere footnote from breaking into the Human world, to Earth.

This was truly about to happen, a battle… a battle of such incredible and incomprehensible magnitude the likes of which the world had never seen, it made World War II look like a pissing contest in comparison.

El watched in silent anger as they waited for the oncoming onslaught of demons and monsters, they said she was strong, stronger than any of them but as she looked to her right, to their joined hands, she found where all her strength lay, where it was most vulnerable. It lay with Mike, her strength was Mike , it always had been and always will be.

Mike held his blade tightly, his palms becoming sweaty, he was most likely the weakest one here. He was no Angel, he wasn't even an Adult but hell be damned if he was not going to see this through to the bitter end. His head turned to see El looking at him, her eyes full of unspoken words and feeling, she was the light in his Universe and he would protect it with every fibre of his body and soul, even if it were to cost him his life.

Zadkiel, twirled the blade in his left hand into a reverse grip, watching as the monsters approached. How did he survive as long as he did? He looked round to his family, what was left of it and he finally understood because despite everything that had happened, the death, the destruction, he still had his faith, faith in his family.

Lucifer still held his smile, The Archangel of Darkness. That was his name. The Archangel that caused Humanity's supposed fall from grace, at first he was branded a traitor, the monster to end all monsters. He was the morning star. Michael was the Light, Lucifer was the Dark. Two sides of the same coin but here Lucifer stood at the end of all things. Humanity had fallen from grace but as he looked around him, at the world, he was proud of his decision. Because they became better by their own violation.

Because by losing their grace they had gained their soul.

Hopper stood stoically, calmly with a cigarette in his mouth, he was the man that had lost everything. His wife to his alcoholism, his daughter Sarah to the ravages of disease, decay and death. But now he was the man with everything to gain. A daughter to raise in Sarah's honour and memory, Joyce the woman whom he saw that would be his second chance at happiness, at a family, even Mike who he knew was going to become his son-in-law one day, it was as inevitable as the sunset and sunrise everyday. With a newfound resolve Hopper coked his weapon and waited for the bloodbath that was about to befall them all.

The Angels of the lord, Celestials of the light faced down the horde, fulfilling what was meant to be their original mission. To protect and guide humanity. The mission that had been order by God upon their creation when he ordered them to bow before them and to love them more than God himself. They obeyed. #

Here they stood, United in their cause.

Together.

The first of the demon's creatures penetrated the veil and the War began.

Lucifer led the charge towards the demon horde of Demogorgan and Demo-Dogs. His blade slicing through flesh, bone and muscle. his movements darted here, black coils extended from the tip of his wings, wrapping themselves around several monsters before crushing the life from them squeezing like a boa constrictor. His fighting almost looked like a dance. As he used From III of Angelic combat.

Zadkiel was not far behind, using his wings to propel himself forward, he spun through the air, using his dual wielded blades to deadly effect, slicing through several throats as the skin of the beasts hissed upon contact with the ethereal metal of the Angel blades. His wings of lightning glowed ferociously, sparks of it flashed out towards the beasts striking them down with precise precision.

The other Celestials were not far behind brining up the rear, bolts of energy flew freely from their hands as some took to the skies to gain an aerial advantage, these Angels easily worked together, the ebb and flow of their movements were graceful and powerful as their blades worked together. Their grace feeling empowered for the first time in many centuries.

Hopper opened fire carefully with well timed shots, each shot was usually helping out another Angel in someway, covering their backs. Taking out dogs that would sneak round as their attention was divided not realizing they were being carefully and slowly flanked by the smart beasts.

Eleven and Mike however had stayed further back. She being instructed to save the majority of her strength for the true battle to come which was against the demon itself. However she was idle, she carefully snapped the necks of various species of demogorgan as they tried to overwhelm their celestials allies.

All in all the battle was utter chaos Shouts and cries. Growls and screeches. A random bolt of energy would fly to and fro every couple of seconds but after several minutes of intense fighting one thing was becoming increasingly clear.

They were being overrun and overrun quickly.

Lucifer turned to watch as the first Angel, Basrael, was overwhelmed, his blade clattered to the floor as his grace exploded from within, his eyes lightning up as the grace burned the body to a crisp and all that was left was a withered husk of the former Angel. Lucifer's eyes turned ominous red in rage as he saw the angel fall to floor dead. His blade plunged into a demo-dog, gutting the monster, absolutely livid.

They were being forced back hard, the Mind flayer was almost upon them.

More and more Angels were falling by the second, Lucifer fought tooth and nail to reach Angels in trouble, only succeeding roughly half the time. Ten Angels lay dead upon the floor, their grace having been extinguished forever.

Lucifer and Zadkiel found themselves back to back as their blades sliced and diced through their enemy like mince meat.

"Damn it, Jack where are you?" Lucifer growled to himself. But speak the devils names and he shall appear. The Sun was suddenly eclipsed as clouds began to rapidly move in blocking the sun partially from view, more importantly it still shone upon the Mind Flayers army.

Lightning rumbled within, lighting them up in flashes of divine energy as lightning struck mid-air in a series of rapid flashes.

And from the lightning appeared hope.

Sky Serpents appeared in mid-air, they glided down towards the Earth and straight into the portal to Heaven/The Upside Down. As they glided past, several released hell-fire from their gaping maw's completely engulfing several dozen of the Mind Flayer's army, of course after thousands of years at being in constant battle with Heaven they were growing resistant to their methods and weapons, but this… this was something else entirely.

The fire was like Napalm and it was incinerating everything that it was coming into contact with. The Dragons of the sky flew through the portal and to the other side to sheer amazement of everyone else on the ground.

Jack appeared in a flash of lightning, his cape flourished behind him as they he withdrew several of his knife's and let them fly towards the nearest of the demogorgans, even striking a demo-dog in mid-air with insane precision.

Lucifer turned to his Regent of Hell.

"What in Hell took you so long?" Lucifer asked annoyed although unable to resist a pun even at the worst of times.

"Traffic" Jack deadpanned as he withdrew another knife and prepared for melee combat having exhausted his long range alternatives, Jack the Ripper lived up to his name as he sliced and carved through every beastie he came upon, a stab here, a slice there and a death everywhere.

As the abominations that had managed to make it through the portal were far fewer in number, allowing them to be easily dispatched the defenders of Earth on the other side who found a renewed hope that the odds went from impossible to improbable.

Well that was at least the case until it happened.

A shadow loomed over them, eclipsing them in Darkness.

It felt like the sheer gravity of the shadow was suffocating them.

They had failed.

Nightmares Remained. The Mind Flayer Reigns.

Lucifer's blade lowered slowly to his side as he watched the Demon transcend onto Earth. Even Lucifer felt fear at seeing the titanic creature's storm of Red Lightning spread through the sky eclipsing the Sun, where it would never be seen on Earth again.

It's gaseous form flowed and ebbed it's way across the landscape as it's corruption had already began to seep in from the portal as flakes of ash and dust fell from the heavens above, tainting the Earth around them. It finally had dominion over the Earth.

Lucifer snarled. He was the Archangel of Darkness, he had dominion over that Element, title and the dominion over it given to him by God himself and he was not going to allow the demon to desecrate that.

So he stretched forth his hands to the heavens above. His eyes lightning up red, glowing throughout the perpetual darkness. His Halo began visible, also tinged in the colour of Red. Unique only to him. The Demon's storm began to dissipate as Lucifer focused his grace upon it.

The Mind Flayer screeched a deep gruntal roar and swept across Lucifer with one of it's multiple limbs, it's corruption immediately seeped into his Grace. Lucifer was powerless as he used all of his grace to fight off the intrusion.

The Sky Serpents hissed in anger and launched themselves at the Mind Flayer. Hell-fire arose from the deepest depths of their mutated grace, flowing freely towards the Mind Flayer.

It just laughed.

It was high and cruel. Like it was about to swat fly's from the sky because despite what they were, Serpents of the Sky, to the demon they were nothing.

Tendrils from its gaseous form extended at blinding speed towards the oncoming Serpents, the deep rumbles of it's laughter could be heard throughout Indiana as it killed every Sky Serpent in the most despicable way possible.

It's Tendrils phased straight through the scales, hide and skin of the Serpents, it coiled around every molecule, every fibre and every atom and it ripped it all apart in sheer spite. There was shock and horror etched upon everyone's faces as they watched serpent after serpent fall from the sky. The Mind Flayer's faceless head turned to face Eleven.

There was a tense silence.

"No!" A voice shouted and El's Head snapped round to see Mike standing forward protectively. A mouse in front of a lion. A lion that was sixty feet tall.

"Watch as I rip this boy from you, watch as I tear this world down after I have destroyed yours!" The Mind Flayers voice was cruel and high like a strained whisper, like it's vocal chords had been burned to the bone.

Its attention turned to Mike, it allowed its gaseous tendrils to fly outward, coiling themselves around Mike but El could only watch as the smoke forced his mouth open and raced down his throat. He shook, convulsing as the blade tumbled from his grasp hitting the floor with a horrible clatter

"Mike!" she shouted in fury, she launched a purple bolt of energy straight to the Mind Flayer's head and it struck hitting it's mark, it snarled and screech in response, tossing Mike away from it like a rag doll who flew a good distance before striking the ground.

All thoughts of fighting was discarded as she raced towards where Mike lay, she tore her jeans as she scrapped across the dirt to his side, cradling his head in her hands. His face looked appalling, Black and green veins appeared beneath his skin, his eyes were closed as the veins travelled all the way beneath his shirt, Zadkiel skidded to her side as well and pressed his fingers to his forehead and Looked at El.

He shook his head slightly, his eyes sad and mournful.

No… it couldn't be…

Her eyes welled up with tears, as she cradled Mike's head in her hands.

"Mike? Mike? MIKE!" She felt her world come crashing down as the tears poured freely from her eyes, Mike's eyes were closed he almost looked at peace as he lay unmoving, his leg bent underneath him. Her stomach felt like it had dropped into an endless abyss.

"Don't go Mike…" She whispered desperately, her lip quivering "What am I supposed to do… without you? You're everything to me Mike, I can't do this alone" her head dropped in despair as the Mind Flayer watched on in enjoyment at her pain, at her suffering.

Tears turned to fury as her gaze turned to the Mind Flayer. Her wings burst into existence, fire enveloped her like a blanket, her grace cried out for vengeance.

It was like David vs. Goliath all over again.

And David was going to win.

(A/N) And I killed off Mike… again and left you guys on another cliffy again lol one more chapter to go guys! Thank you all so much for supporting this story thus far, our journey is about to come to the end. But the end just means that a new story is ready to begin.

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