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Chapter 26: Ascension

Swords clashed as the three combatants flung themselves into the mist of battle. Tsuzuki was becoming stressed by the second as he watched his husband battle his . . . He hated to admit it but there is no denying it. Satan is his other father and no amount of denying will change that fact. He placed his hand on his bulging stomach rubbing it as he watched. He had to bite down on his bottom lip to stop himself from screaming when one of the swords slashed Damien across the shoulder. "Isn't there anything we can do to help them?" He clutched his hand into a fist.

"No," said Enma.

"Why won't someone else come to help them?" asked Oriya. "Although they may are cocky it still doesn't mean they have to leave them here to fight this evil alone. It's not right."

"Can they actually do it, though?" asked Hisoka looking at Enma. The boy was still amazed at how much the lord of Hades and his partner looked so much alike. "Can they kill the devil?"

"No, it's not possible. He has been alive for as long as my brothers and I. He used to be in the Heavenly Choir. His voice was so beautiful until it filled your heart with joy and although some might disagree, he was by far the most beautiful angel of all." Enma sighed as he watched the battle. He flinched as the bluish blade sliced Damien across the back. "The most they can do is to force him back into the gates and lock it once again."

"And I doubt very much if he is going to go easily," said Watari.

"We can only hope and pray that they are able to lock him away again," said Tatsumi watching the battle. He gasped in horror as he pressed his hands against the barrier as the blade of Satan sliced Damia deep across her stomach. And Tsuzuki cried softly as Damien was cut across the chest. Blood gushed from the serious wounds but the two continued to fight as though they were not injured.

To everyone's surprise, the wounds did nothing to stop or slow the two silver haired angels from continuing their attack. Enma stared on worriedly at the two. Although he was sure the others could not see it but he did see it. He has always known about that wicked blade his mate wielded. The metal burned the skin making its victims blood bubble like acid. Those two needed to be healed and fast. Even with the power the two possessed, Enma knew they would never be able to stop his mate. Compared to his mate, the twins were nothing more than infants. He was brought out of his thoughts when he heard his son gasp.

Tsuzuki gasped in horror as the sister and brother duo was sent skidding out of control across the barren landscape.

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Satan chuckled as he stared at the still forms of his opponents. "What's the matter, children? Had enough already? Is this the extent of the legendary dragon twins of heaven? I have heard so much about you two. I was expecting at least a little competition."

"Oh, we are far from through," said Damien getting to his feet.

"We just wanted to see if all the stories about you were true as well," said Damia smirking. "And we have to admit that you have not disappointed us." Damia got to her feet and went to stand next to her brother. Both he and Damia were breathing heavily as sweat, dirt and blood covered them staining their white outfits. Damien turned to his sister and nodded to her. They stuck their weapons into the ground. Then they clasped their hands together. With the ring fingers and pinkies folded down the middle fingers formed a pyramid. The index fingers were pressed together and slightly bent while the thumbs were pressed against the knuckles of the ring fingers. "You should consider yourself honored with what we do next."

"Oh and why is that?"

"Because this is the first time that we have ever used this spell," said Damien smirking. "All the demons and devils we fought before were never powerful or even worthy enough for us to use it. But you . . . it's only right that we use this against you."

Suddenly the air was filled with white feathers as they fell away from the guardians backs leaving only the skeletal frame. Slowly a thin red membrane began to form around the skeletal frame of Damien's wings as a thin green membrane began to form around the skeletal frame of Damia's wings. Once the membrane was completed red and green pentagonal teardrop shaped scales began to cover the back of the membrane. Once the scales completely covered the back of the membrane, they flexed the huge scaly wings on their backs. Damien's scaly wings were red as fire while Damia's wings were as green as a forest.

"Until now you have only fought the part of us that is our mother," said Damia. The slit in their silver eyes became more distinct. "Now, lord of evil, prepare yourself to fight the true dragons."

"From the gates of Heaven, to edge of the universe. With the power that was granted by the one true God. We summon forth the great dragon of heaven." Power began to crackle around them like electricity. "Come forth! Great dragon of heaven! Oberon!" Damien and Damia's voices echoed across the electrically charged air.

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Everyone stared in awe as the soft white feathers fell away to be replaced by hard scaly wings. "Somehow this is how I imagined the wings to be on a devil," said Watari.

"No, there are some demons with leathery wings but a devil's wings just turn black when we fall," said Enma watching the two carefully. "The idea that devils have leathery wings probably came from some priest or whatnot who saw a demon and just assumed it was a devil."

"What are they doing?" asked Hisoka. The others turned their startled gazes back to the silver hair duo and power began to crackle violently around them like electricity. Suddenly their gazes were violently jerked up to the sky as lightning lit up the dark clouds. Gasps of shock came from everyone as the clouds glowed as though they were on fire. Suddenly a great roar split the night.

"What the hell was that?" asked Oriya.

"They are using their ultimate attack," said Enma. "What they said is true. They have never used it before. No one has ever seen it or knows what it does. It will be a first even for me." The lord of Hades was excited. He had heard about how powerful the two were and now he would see just how powerful the two can get with this attack. He gasped in awe or maybe shocked when they called the great dragon, Oberon.

"Behold, young ones, you may never witness this sight again," said Enma looking up at the sky. "It is the great dragon himself, Oberon."

"Oberon? Who is that?" asked Tatsumi.

"He is the first of seven dragons which guard the universe. He is the favorite of God and is given the task of protecting this galaxy." Enma watched the slender body of the dragon as it twisted and turned to fill the sky. The group alternated between staring in awe at the huge white dragon back to the two angels that continued to cast their spell.

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Suddenly a huge long sinewy dragon with white scales and long silky silvery mane broke through the clouds roaring fiercely. Everyone stared in awe as the dragon's snake like body covered the entire sky. Its huge head came to settle above the two angels.

Damien lifted his trident to the sky as Damia raised her sword to sky. "Oberon! Lend us your power!"

Their booming voices echoed around them as the great dragon opened its huge maw. Power began to form within its mouth. Oberon thrust his head downward as the power was released from its mouth to engulf the dragon twins.

The six men had to cover their eyes at the brightness. Even with their eyes closed they could feel the blinding light pierce through their lids. Once the brightness faded everyone slowly opened their eyes. They gasped as the duo was glowing with power.

"I am Damien the North Star, the star of destruction."

"I am Damia the South Star, the star of chaos."

"And together we are oblivion." The two lunged toward the evil fallen angel with speed that was unimaginable. They weren't even a blur. The two just seemed to appear in front of Satan and attacked. The blows from their weapons were stronger than before and accurate as Damien's trident ripped through the flesh of Satan's right arm. They moved like the wind cutting Satan across his arms, his back, his chest and Damien came close to slicing the fallen angel across the throat.

The battle was amazing. Although the lord of darkness was putting up a pretty good defense against the two determined angels, Enma could see that the two were wearing his mate out. But Enma also knew, his mate would not let a little thing like exhaustion stop him from his goal of dethroning God and ruling heaven as the new god. He fought back fiercely but the angels fought just as fiercely. The swing of the weapons were stronger and swifter as the injuries dealt were just as severe. The others looked on in awe. It was a battle they would remember for the rest of their afterlife. Plus, it gave them all hope that they maybe everything will be all right.

"Do you think they can win now?" asked Tsuzuki looking to his father. "They seem so much stronger now."

"Yes, they just may pull it off but as for them killing him," said Enma. "That is something that will never happen."

"Why?" asked Hisoka.

"Because Satan draws his strength from all the evil and injustice in the world." The lord of Hades stared up at the dragon as it watched the two guardians fight the fallen angel. "As long as there is murder, hate, prejudice, jealousy, greed and so on in the world, Satan can never die."

While Damia attacked from the front Damien came in from behind and Satan quickly blocked both attacks. "Did you think you could best me?" Satan snarled.

"Hey, you never know what you can do until you try," said Damia smiling feral. Suddenly her sword split in two as she plunged one of the swords upward into Satan's chest. The lord of darkness howled in pain. Then Damien knocked Satan's sword away as he planted his trident into the evil one's back. The spikes of the trident extended as it tore through his flesh, bones and organs and exiting through his stomach.

The trident had snapped his spine in half as Satan fell to one knee. Blood gushed from the wounds. "I . . . will . . . not . . . be stop . . . by the . . . likes of . . . YOU!" His powers surrounded him as he flung the two guardians away from him. He grabbed the sword that was planted in his chest and tossed it to the side. then he reached his arm around to his back and pulled it out. Satan snarled in disgust and anger as he glared at his blood staining the golden weapon. He sneered as he tossed it to the side also.

Damien quickly got to his feet and rushed to the side of his sister. Satan was breathing heavily as blood flowed like water from his wounds burning the ground beneath his feet. He glared murderously at the duo. Suddenly he began to cough up great globs of blood. "Do you think you actually possess the power to kill me? The lord of darkness!" Suddenly his spine began to knit back together as the wounds slowly began to heal. "I am immortal!" He stood to his feet as his spine was completely whole again. "As long as humankind continues to break the ten commandments and commit the seven deadly sins. I will live forever!"

Damien smirked. "Of course we know we cannot kill you. We are not that naive."

"But there is something we can do." Damia smiled. Both silver haired angels held their left hands out with palms facing Satan while they had their right hand clasping firmly around their left wrists.

"Oh, and what might that be little dragons?"

"We can force you back through the gates were you will remain for eternity," said Damia. "Now brother!"

"Southern Cross Holy Shield!" Suddenly two shields with strange symbols appeared before them. Quickly they sent the shields slamming into the rapidly healing body of the lord of darkness. The shields pushed Satan all the way back to the gates and flung him inside. Quickly, both guardian of light appeared by the gate. Using every ounce of strength they had, they pushed the heavy gates until they closed with a thundering boom.

"We need the key!" yelled Damia.

"I have no idea where it is," said Damien. "I don't even know how the gate was opened in the first place."

Suddenly they heard Satan howling in rage at being thwarted. "You will let me out!" he roared in rage.

The two threw all their weight against the gate to keep Satan from reopening them and leaving hell. "What are we going to do?" asked Damia. "We can't keep this up forever."

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"We have to help them," said Tsuzuki worried. He watched in fear as his husband and sister-in-law was using their bodies to keep the gates closed. He cringed as he heard his Sire threatened to disembowel his husband and sister in law. Then the fallen angel began to describe very vividly about how he would skin them in the most painful way.

"How are we suppose to help them?" asked Hisoka.

"They need the key to lock the gates," said Enma looking at Tatsumi.

The secretary of the summons department turned to the lord of Hades. He knew that he was the key and that he was the only one that could lock the gate ending this turmoil. He nodded his head once and the lord understood. Raising one hand, he chanted the spell Raylene had used to change him into the key.

Once Tatsumi was changed into the key, Enma grabbed him and turned to the others. "You all will stay within my barrier. Understand."

Everyone nodded. Then he turned and ran toward the gate.

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Satan pounded against the gate almost knocking them off of it. "WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE I AM GOING TO REACH DOWN YOUR THROATS AND PULL YOU INSIDE OUT! He raged. "DO YOU HEAR ME!"

Damia snarled as she shouted out, "WE ALL CAN HEAR YOU! YOU'RE SHOUTING IT LOUD ENOUGH!"

"Where the hell is the key?" demanded Damien through clenched teeth.

"I have no ideal. I don't even know how he was released from hell in the first place."

"It was that stupid bitch Raylene that released him, remember." Damien held the gate in place as Satan continued to try and break free. "She admitted it."

"ENMA! OPEN THIS GATE AT ONCE!"

Suddenly Enma stood before them with the key in his hand. Both guardians stiffend as they stared at the fallen angel in shock. Was he going to attack them and set his mate free? They narrowed their eyes suspiciously and prepared for an attack as he raised the key. Then their eyes widen in shock when Enma placed the key in the key hole and turned the key locking the gates. Neither Damien nor Damia could figure out why he did it. He was Satan's mate. Didn't he want his mate to be free and rule the heaven and Earth? They slowly moved away from the gate watching Enma closely.

Enma removed the key and said a few words. Then the key returned to its normal form, which was Seiichiro Tatsumi, secretary of the Summons Department of Meifu. Tatsumi staggered for a moment but then he got his bearing and stood before Enma.

Damien and Damia arched a silver brow as they realized that the key was actually a living person. They then turned their questioning gaze to Enma. The elder man just shrugged his shoulders. "It's a long story." They just shrugged their shoulders also and walked away. Tatsumi watched with a broken heart as his love walked away without so much as acknowledging him.

Suddenly Cerberus stood up on all four legs raised its heads to the sky and howled as the gate along with its guardian slowly disappeared. It was over. Satan was locked away back in hell and the flow of Originals and devils have been cut off. Even though several of them did escape, the twins were sure the others would be able to handle them.

The two took a few steps before Damia collapsed to her knees clutching the wound in his stomach. Damien would have rushed to her side except that he also fell to his knees clutching the wound in his chest. Both began to cough up blood as the bloody wounds began to bubble and fizz.

"Kai!" yelled Tsuzuki in terror.

"Alicia!" cried Tatsumi as he rushed toward them. Tsuzuki had ran out of the barrier toward his fallen husband.

"Stop!" ordered Enma as he placed a barrier between the two men and their lovers.

"What are you doing," demanded Tsuzuki. "They need help." Tears fell from his violet eyes.

Enma looked at his son and Tatsumi sadly. "There is no help for them. Your Sire's blade is poisonous to angels."

"But . . . We can't just leave them," said Tatsumi worried. "They could die without help."

"They are still imbued with the dragon's power." Enma shook his head sadly. "If you touch them you will be destroyed completely. And even if you could touch them, you do not have the medical ablility to save them."

Tsuzuki shook his head in denial as he stared at his husband as he slowly crawled over to the body of his sister.

Damien got to his knees and pulled his sister's head up to rest on his lap. "Sister, open your eyes."

Damia slowly opened her eyes as she stared up into the watery eyes of her big brother. "We did it, didn't we."

"Yes we did," he said smiling down at her. He glanced over to the weeping Tsuzuki. "And this time, no one died because of our uncaring action." Then he returned his gaze back to his sister.

"Perhaps, Michael was right about us," said Damia as blood trickled from her mouth. "Maybe it was because of our superiority complex that so many innocent people died when we should have been protecting them."

"Kai!" Tsuzuki called sadly.

Damien was pulled away from his sister to stare into the tear-filled eyes of Satan's child. But for some reasons he could not find it in himself to hate the boy. You can't blame the child for the sins of its parents. Besides, there was just something tragic about him. His pretty violet eyes were so sad. There was something about the boy that made him want to hold him tight and never let go. But that was silly, why would anyone want to be with him. He was destruction. He caused Mount Vesuvius to erupt killing everyone in Pompeii. He didn't deserve such a look of love from someone so beautiful.

At the same time Damia watched as the blue eye guardian fell to his knees staring her in the eyes with love. She began to wonder why he was so sad. And the tears. . . Where they for her? It was something new to her. Never in her long life did anyone ever shed tears for her. Neither have she ever have anyone look at her with so much love in their eyes before. It made her feel humble. It made her feel sad because she will never see such love ever again. It made her heart hurt. It made her want to cry.

"Such pretty blue eyes."

"Such pretty violet eyes." Damien said in unison with his sister. He turned his head to look down at her and smiled. "It would have been nice to be loved by someone else, wouldn't it?"

"Yes," Damia said as she stared into the blue eyes of the elder man. A small smile touched her lips. "Yes, it would have been nice just once to see what it would have felt like to be in love." Slowly her eyes closed as she took a last gasping breath and stilled.

"Yes, to be loved," said Damien. His long silver hair fell across his face covering both his and his sister's face as his breathing ceased as well.

"No!" Tsuzuki wailed as he fell to his knees crying.

Suddenly the huge form of Oberon slowly vanished from the sky, as did the strange glowing clouds. The moon shown brightly down on the sad group. Hisoka knelt beside his partner to comfort him. Asato continued to weep in the embrace of his partner.

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Before anyone could say a word to break the melancholy mood that fell over them, the heavens seemed to open as a heavenly light fell over them. Then four winged figures slowly descended to the earth. They stared in awe at the beautiful beings standing before them. One had long wavy blonde hair and the other had long flowing red hair. The silver hair being with leathery wings were taller than both the male angels combined. He was a giant thought Hisoka. As he turned those silvery white eyes on the group, they seemed to hold them in a hypnotic trance. When the strange being looked away everyone released their collective breaths in one big sigh. Being pinned by those serpent like eyes had them all uncomfortable.

The two males smiled at Enma and nodded. "It's good to see you little brother," said the effeminate male. His long wavy blonde hair stopped at the middle of his back and he was very beautiful with deep sea green eyes.

"Yes, it has been a long time Michael," said Enma smiling slightly. "And how have you been Gabriel?"

"Well, the Hall of Souls keeps me busy," said Gabriel smiling. His long red hair flowed down his back as his blue eyes sparkled brightly at seen his younger brother after so many centuries. "I'm glad to see that your time in Meifu hasn't made you bitter."

"No, it hasn't. I like it there. I get to met a lot of wonderful people." He turned to his guardians smiling. Then the smile fell from his face. "I take it you have come for your two angels?"

"Yes, we wondered what happened to them," said Michael looking at the brother and sister sadly.

"Wha-What happened to them?" snapped Oriya. He was furious. He knew he shouldn't make such powerful beings angry but he could not help it. They just sat by and watched as his best friend and his sister die fighting the greatest evil known to man. And all he has to say is 'We wondered what happened to them.' "It's obvious what happened to them. You oh so holy angels sat on your asses and let them die."

"Why didn't you come to help them?" asked Watari placing a restraining hand on Oriya's chest trying to calm the angry swordsman down.

"We understand your anger but they had to do this on their own," said Gabriel sadly. "You see young ones, those two has caused thousands of death and didn't care about it either. As punishment for their hateful act, their souls were being transported to Earth where they would begin to atone for the crimes they have committed. But unfortunately, the guardians were ambushed by Originals and we lost track of the two. We searched every time period trying to find them but we could never find them until Cygnus and several of the other Celestials were being summoned by a young girl named Alicia. It was from Cygnus we knew that Alicia was in fact Damia. We knew that no matter where they were that if we found her we would find her brother close to her."

"But that doesn't answer the question of why you let them fight Satan alone?" asked Hisoka.

"They had to atone for what they did," said Michael. "They had to learn that life is more important than doing the job. Although none of you knew it but they went out of their way to make sure when they fought you weren't in the line of battle."

"They protected all of you," said Gabriel. "The Empath, Damien made sure he fell unconscious. He knew that if the boy remained conscious any longer he would have died again. They also kept Satan away from you, nephew because you were pregnant. Even though I'm sure they didn't know why they were doing it, they would have done anything to make sure you all were safe."

"Plus, it let them see what it felt like to protect someone instead of letting them die. It's thanks to all of you that they now know the joy you feel not only to do your duty but to save and protect life as well." Michael smiled at the speechless group.

Suddenly the tall silver haired male walked over to the limp forms. His silver eyes were sad but they were filled with pride and love for the two. He lifted Damien into his arm and then lifted Damia into his other arm. The two looked like small children nestled in the arms of the giant.

"No, don't," cried Asato as he struggled to his feet with the help of Hisoka. "Please don't take him."

Then the female walked up to him. She was beautiful with dark brown skin and long black hair that seemed to flow around her delicate frame like a cape. She cupped his cheek smiling sadly at him. "So you are the one who stole my Damien's heart." Then she turned to Tatsumi and held out a hand. The blue eye guardian walked up to her and took her hand. "And you are the one that captured my Damia's heart." She smiled at the two men. "I never thought I would see the day when my two little dragon terrors would find someone other than their family to love. But I'm glad. I'm glad that Damien and Damia found people who truly loved them."

"You're their mother?" asked Watari.

"Yes I am. My name is Aleejah and that is their father, Oberon." The huge man bowed slightly to them.

"You mean that huge dragon," said Hisoka looking at the man shocked.

Gabriel snickered. "The one and the same. Why do you think they were called the dragon twins of heaven."

"I just thought it was a name they just called themselves because they fought like fierce dragons."

"Please don't take him from me," Asato cried as Aleejah held him gently in her arms and let him cry on her shoulders.

"I'm sorry little one but we have to take them." She raked her fingers gently through the guardians sable colored hair.

"Where are you taking them?" asked Tatsumi as he came to stand behind his ex partner.

"We're taking them back to where they belong," said their mother. "You cannot bury their bodies in the Earth. The ground would be cursed."

"We should be going," said Michael. "Enma, we shall talk soon."

Enma only nodded as the wings on the men backs stretched outward and they took to the air.

"Please take care of my grandchild," said Aleejah smiling gently at the violet-eyed guardian. "I hope you will let us come and visit the baby after it is born." Then she followed the others. As she disappeared into the rip in the sky it slowly closed.

"NO!" screamed Asato. "Kazutaka!" He wept into the arms of his friend as Tatsumi held the other man tightly in his arms. Suddenly he gasped in pain and clutched his stomach as he fell to his knees.

"Asato, what is it?" asked Enma as he settled beside his son.

"I think . . . The baby is coming." The violet eye guardian panted as he groaned as another spike of pain hit.

"Let's get him back to Meifu." Enma lifted his child into his arms. "The baby is early. Its not due for another three months." Then all six men disappeared.