Nephilim

Summary: She was the last of the pure Angels in Heaven. Her voice called out to the souls of all, her laughter brought peace to even the darkest of souls. She was born of light, and was loved and protected by all the Angels of Heaven... But some plot to kill her but instead of killing her, they somehow managed to drop her on Earth, making her A Fallen instead and to make matters worst she falls into the Territory of a Demon...The Demon... The Demon Lord Himself. Who takes interest in this pure little Angel thrown into 18th century Earth.

Chapter 28: On the Other Side

I felt the first signs of consciousness when the aches began.

My left wing burned. The pain was unbearable. And with it the right one ached to the point where I preferred the burning wing over that aching one. It was unbearable, the combination of the two sensations.

It made me double over and expel the contents of my stomach. The taste of my own vomit was foreign to me; the sour rancid smell like acid in my nostrils.

I felt a hand on my back; and although at this point I was disoriented I could tell it was Nephrite; no other would have shown me mercy.

He gentle patted my back until the vomiting subsided, when I looked up he handed me a handkerchief.

I wanted to thank him, as was proper. But the words seemed lost to me, as I reached out of the handkerchief, something froze my body.

I felt a tinkling numbness throughout my being, as if my senses were dulled out to some unknown sensation.

Then as if on queue the pain slammed into ,e. On impact it jarred me, me body began to shake, my arms wrapped around my body as if to contain the pain, to drown it out somehow. My wings sprang outwards trying to rip away from me, trying to move away from this pain soaked body.

And then red fire burst all over my flesh, my vision blurred, tubbed in then did all kinds of weird turbulent motions before finally going void. Not that it would have mattered with the kind of pain I was in.

I just wished that my voice had gone void as well, because as I remained frozen in my position- arms tightly wrapped around my agonizing body, wings springing out of my back like spikes- I screamed. The scream was somewhere between the sound of a thousand tormented souls and the pain of a single most innocent creature. The voices of the world outside of my vision became distant, I had a distinct image in my head of Malachite leaning forward to check on me, and of Nephrite frozen in shock. But those too were fading from my subconscious as I was ultimately taken into the grips of nothingness.

With my mind so detached from my physical body, the pain became bearable, and I collapsed forward.

I felt someone lift me up.

Had the distinct scent of pinewood; visions of the sky at night filled with stars, and the sound of an angel tempting me forward, something wet against my temple…familiar!….then that too was cast aside for the darkness.

Darien:

Staring down at the now passive angel frozen in her own agonizing body, I could not help but feel a pang of guilt.

Perhaps…

"Heaven was not the place for her." Came Azakiel's reproachful voice. I did not acknowledge his statement. The fact that the sin-eater was aware of my thoughts was not a point of comfort, it was…

"Your lordship, Berly!" Malachite voiced staring at the vacant spot where the Queen of Hell had occupied while they transported to this side of the plane.

"I know." I murmured with a heavy sigh.

"Should we…what should we do?" Malachite asked. Yes, what to do. We could not longer roam to the other side without a portal or a summoning, and with Berly on that side there was no way of reaching her to tame her. She was practically free and safe from anything I might inflict on her. Not that I would need to. Hopefully.

"Berly? Ah, you mean Lilith. That sneaky little fox. You know where she is headed now do you not." Azakiel offered mockingly. Malachite sneered and I just stared at him. Having Azakiel privy to everything I knew was not very appealing. But the bastard had his prices and damn him if they were not a bitch to pay.

As if he knew where my thoughts were…wait he did. He winked.

"With Heaven and Hell now contained on either side of the boundaries, now she has the power and the freedom to take over the mortal world. She will make that place her domain as you have made this side yours and the angels heaven. She will raise an army strong enough to rival that of yours and Gabriel's. Bringing a new player to the field." Azakiel murmured that intrigued look on his face expanded and for a moment it was like he was laying witness to what was to come, and he liked what he saw. Bad. That was really really bad for anyone but him.

"Wait. How will she do that, even if she were to breed with the mortals, her children will be nothing more than simple…haflings." Zoicite supplemented.

"Yes. Half mortal, half Beryl. Packing a hell of a punch." Malachite added in. I looked down at Serena and sighed again not certain about the future, and not really caring. Serena was mine again. And with her here, things would…be better. Hell would be better.

"Eve. The Mother of All." Azakiel stated with that malicious grin on his.

"What's that suppose to mean." Nephrite injected standing up besides me. He had been crouching over Serena when I arrived and had remained frozen in that spot up till now. Right now, he looked like the demon general he was. His face turned into the visage of the calculating mass murderer he was and as he bore his gaze into Azakiel's the sin eater faltered a bit.

"Lilith plans to take over the mortal world by standing in the spot of Eve or as the ancients called her Echidna. The Mother of All monsters." I said turning to face Azakiel then the remainder of my generals.

"But how, is Eve not already in existence in the mortal world?" Jediet asked. I nodded, yes Eve already existed, she had existed since the beginning of time. She was the gray area, the overlapping area between the two realms.

Hell and Heaven has existed since the beginning and since the beginning. If you imagined hell and heaven as two separate sphere; one white the other dark, and earth as the gray area where the two realms met, then you will understand that since their existed earth has been in existence.

It was what remained of the two that were once one. And Eve was mother of that gray area. Like I ruled over hell, she reigned in earth. But with the clashes that had been taking place between Hell and Heaven she had faded in to the background, preferring to watch as the two sides slowly weakened and perhaps eventually demolished on another- of course while she cunningly plotted her swift take-over.

"Okay, I'm still confused how will Lilith become Eve if Eve already exists." Jediet asked.

"Eve already exists, but not in the sense that you will think of existence." Azakiel said. Sighing in frustration Jediet growled and ruffled his hair.

"Eve is not a person…or better yet Eve as she is now is not a person." I stated. I was not certain about how to explain this to them. Very few of our kind know of the existence of Eve or what she is. She was the dark secrete of both sides, the child who was overlooked, forever in the shadows of the two elders. And that existence in the shadow is precisely what was giving her this edge now.

"What the hell is that suppose to mean?" Zoicite grumbled. They were all getting agitated now, they needed answers, straight forward get the picture answers or things were going to get…violent.

"Eve, is an entity. An energy force, one that be consumed into the body of another being one with physical form. Eve is the essence of the earth sphere. She hopes to consume that essence into her being." Came the quite yet firm voice of a woman. He could clearly see the blond Serena look-alike standing behind Azakiel with those pure white wings….wait, gold tinted wings outreached.

The Elementals stood back, their wings now slightly tainted by the color of their elements.

"If she does that…then…all is doomed. The earth will become her playing ground, mortals will be pitted off against her immortal children and well she will be able to manipulate the fabric of both the heaven and hell sphere." Azakiel said as the Elementals came to standing firm behind him.

"How do we stop her." Malachite asked again. Though he knew well enough that there was very little they could do to stop what Lilith had in mind. She was someone even he feared. Lilith was in her own right more powerful and more dangerous than all of Hell and Heaven put together. She had her claws in both worlds and unlike Gabriel and me, she wanted to destroy plain and simple. She thrived off of carnage. She would stop at nothing, not until the whole world was crumbling at her feet. She did not want to annihilate one side, she wanted everything burning up in rubbles, with eve nothing will remain.

"We do not. She does." At the she, Amy the water element nodded her head towards the sleeping blond in my arms. I stared down at her and grown the taint of her wings, I knew what she meant.

"What…"

"Serena, has become part of Hell and Heaven. She is now of both worlds. She is the only being in the universe capable of walking on all three planes at her will, with no summonings or possessions. She has free reign to travel anywhere she so wishes. With such…advantages, the essence of Eve will naturally be drawn of her because it seeks to unite the two worlds, not destroy as Lilith intends." I said my grip on Serena tightening. Lilith probably knew this by now, which means she will be looking for a way to eliminate Serena. And Lilith was resourceful. He feared…for the first time, what awaited Serena and him. Lilith was a dangerous enemy. More dangerous than heaven she would stop at nothing to get to what she wants.

"So, the Essence has a choice between her and Lilith. That would be a good thing to lay witness to. The two of them…" Azakiel's words faded out when he felt the rippling head coming from me and the chilling gust from the Water Element.

"Well. What brings you guys to this side of town." Azakiel said in an attempt to deflect.

"There are ten Elementals. With the restrain on angelic movements, the Great powers that be only deemed it appropriate to maintain the balance between the two worlds by sending us to this plane while our counterparts stayed back on that plate. With that said, we will be serving as your….back up Balance keeper Azakiel." The Earth element said, her voice so calm and neutral it was amazing how she maintained such control.

It was obvious though Heaven felt a need to reign in Azakiel, obviously they probably had a sense of his growing power. With both heaven and hell out of the picture, earth belonged to the sin-eater. Of course that only would work in his favor if Lilith did not become Eve.

The good thing about the sly snake was that with his interests came a good chance of Serena's survival…and the further suppression of his people and heaven.

Ah what the hell. Battling was becoming hard, and he was a simple man.

Azakiel grinned at that, having heard, felt of whatever his thoughts.

With the things cleared up he turned back and walked into the backwards in the direction he had emerged from with the sleeping Serena still in his arms.

"I might have given up my freedom for you…but the way I look at it, I've just cleared up a millennium worth of time in my schedule for you and I intend on enjoying each ticking second between those lushes legs." He murmured kissing her on the cheeks.

The sound of his generals and the Elementals' conversation in the background began to fade as he walked further and further into the burning world around him.

The streets palace floor was laden with decaying bodies, the streets paved out of the bones of the damned. The wind echoed the howls of the tortured and the air reeks with the stench and filth of the inhabitants, but none of that registered, all that mattered to him was the sweet earthy scent of the angel in his arms. All he cared about was the cloud smooth and soft flesh of his woman. And the soft peaceful beating of her heart.

Sorry. Its been a long time...But college, (parents and not disappointing them) kind of screwed things up. I have one more ch. to conclude the story and then its done. Hopefully it was a blast.