Return of the Angels
She was seated in the conference room keeping an eye out on the atmosphere where the demons drew ever closer. Her father, her three uncles and her three friends who were her assistants were also seated in there with her. Kristen has yet to come as he is the next leader of the humans, just like Azrael is the next leader of the angels. Her father was on the right of her, with her three uncles sitting beside him in order of their power status. Kristen was supposed to sit on her left, with the three girls sitting next to him. Raphael was stationed behind the lot of them on his own table with his own men sitting beside him. He was not in the fight as he was in charge of the healing staff, both angels and humans.
Kristen stormed into the room whilst he was breathing heavy. "Sorry for the lateness, Celine…" she watched as he sat down next to her. Her eyes were serious but she wasn't too overly concerned at his lateness.
"We're all knee deep in work, Kristen, it's fine," she replies as she looks up at the monitor again. "Have you got someone sitting in your spot to take care of the paperwork as you deal with the important stuff?"
"Yes, ma'am," he says, trying to slow his breathing. "Anything yet?" he asks and looks up at the monitor.
"They appear to have slowed on their own, Kristen. It seems that they want to give us enough time to prepare for war so they can have a challenge." No one needed to look at her to know that she was angry. She was being challenged in the most clearest of ways and it wasn't a surprise that her pride was being challenged. She was exactly like all her uncles, her father and the other angels she didn't know if she had any relations with yet.
"Why would they want to do that when they want this planet?" he asks, stupidly. But he deserves an answer, just like anyone else.
"They want to test me, Kristen. That's all it is. A test… For me…"
"What happens if you don't pass it?"
"Probably they'll destroy every living organism on this planet and then take over it."
"What if you do pass it?"
Silence coated the room. She closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair. She opened her eyes to look at the table. "I don't know, Kristen. I don't know the foul creatures' plans."
"We could just as easily call you foul creatures," a male spoke and Celine had immediately gotten up, her hands slammed onto the table and her eyes were blazing with hatred. "Now, now, Celine, if I were you, I'd calm down before something happens." He appeared as mist, an illusion, nothing more than a simple projection that was made to talk but not to fight. He had white hair framing his deep red eyes that looked as if it could destroy everything with a look. Pure evil was written within those eyes.
"Lucifer," she said angrily. "What do you want?"
He laughed at her. "You're a clever girl, Celine, I'm sure you can figure out why I sent my army out here." She clenched her fists, knowing he was toying with her. She knew why. She had said it all along. He was after her, he only wanted her, but now that his demons are involved, no bargaining would be able to stop the greedy sinning bastards. "Why don't you speak your thoughts aloud, Celine?"
She crossed her arms, appearing angry but she was actually chuffed. "You want me to speak my thoughts aloud?" he smirked, showing his answer. "What I'm thinking is that you're a dirty, perverted, bastard that finds it rather amusing to have one of those tentacle things and a corrupted fallen to rape someone."
He laughed again. "You think that's bad? You think that's the best that can be done to you?" he disappeared and appeared right before her, right in her face. "I can do something far more than what they've done to you, far more pleasuring too…" he looked ready to kiss her as his eyes wondered to her mouth, but when he stepped back, his eyes were roaming her entire body and it took all her might and pride to not cringe before him.
Azrael moved, as if to grab him. Lucifer got away from his grip, as if it were possible that he could be touched. He stood in front of Celine, guarding her not just because she was his leader, but because she was his daughter. Lucifer observed Azrael with a scrutinizing gaze that looked as if it could penetrate through his body and look at Celine. But Azrael was as real as anything else. He may be a skeleton, but he was just as real as any other. He wore a cloak to conceal what he looked like from everyone else.
"Aw, daddy going to protect you, Celine?" he mocked.
"Aw, your demons going to protect you, Lucifer?" she mocked as she came around from her father's protective body. He growled at her. "If you don't want to look like a weakling, come and fight yourself, you coward."
"You're a naughty girl, Celine. Has no one ever told you not play with fire? It is very dangerous. It can scar you, mark you, and it can kill you."
"Oh, that's nothing. I've dealt with people far more dangerous than a coward like you." He narrowed his eyes at her. "I'm an angel, a full pledged Seraph, and I deal with fire just as much as you do. Just as much as any of the others angels does. So that little adage doesn't work with me."
"My army will deal with your army and when it comes to it, I'll deal with you personally, Celine."
He misted out as if he was nothing but a hologram that was made by their imaginations. But with them being as worked up as they are, it was definitely not a hologram that they had just dealt with. It was the real deal, Lucifer as a projection for a little chat. If he's aim was to fire them up and make the completely blinded by hatred for him, he had almost succeeded. Anger, yes he had won with that, but they were not blind with hatred.
Celine looked out to the sky again and saw that the demons speed had increased. She sat down in her seat and brought up the communication between all squadrons. "The demons are going to land within five minutes. Prepare yourselves, immediately!"
Five intense minutes had easily slipped passed them all, but the blast that happened when they struck the ground seemed to have taken forever before the blinding light diminished and all the dust settled. Celine brought up their landing site on screen and she saw as the dark shapes gathered together and begun making their way towards the base. The camera that was able to pick up the scene was connected to a sky zoid that circled the area. The moment the zoid backed up in order to catch the scene of all the demon army, it had retreated.
Everyone's eyes in the conference room were wide as Celine had stilled the image on the screen with the entire army filling up the screen, but it exceed the limitation of the screen, but they knew the numbers that were against them. There must have been about a thousand or more of them. There wasn't even that many of them to exceed over three hundred. Lucifer was going all out in this war. He must be determined to test her abilities if he sent so much. But the others, they would not be able to live through this much. She needed to give them a head's start before the fight really began.
She pressed a button and the countdown appeared on the screen. The computer was reading it out as it went down.
"5…"
"4…"
"3…"
"2…"
"1…"
The ground where the demons were had been struck with a large missile that sent them up in a large explosion. Now this would not kill all of them but a good majority. At least Celine hoped so. She waited as the camera got its focus back and there was around seven hundred of them now. It was not the amount she had been hoping to go against. It was still too many for the others. But now she would have to wait it out and just hope that things went well. The others would be going into the battle of their lives and she just hoped that they would come out of it alive.
"It's all we can do for now, Celine," Michael told her, guilt within his voice.
He's a warrior, just like she, and he wanted nothing more than to be on the front lines as well. He was feeling the exact same way as she was. But she was a leader and Michael was a very strong angel that needed to keep her safe. So the both of them were suffering in their own silent way… But a few of Celine's loved ones were out there on the battle field. Her friends, her new boyfriend, the lot of them were fighting and they would be risking their lives against an army that they knew not of their numbers.
"Everyone, listen to me…" she said as she turned on the button that allowed her to be heard inside the zoids. "There are around seven hundred of the demons, I've killed off as many as three hundred, but that's all I can do to help for now."
"Thanks Celine, that would have been a lot of pressure for us," Van replies.
"Yeah, knowing their numbers is a major help," Irvine said next, chuffed to know that he had a big battle on his hands.
"Leave it to us, Celine. We'll not let these creeps get through," Thomas stated, more than ready to get this fight going.
"We'll destroy them to the point they won't ever dare come at us again." The moment she heard Raven's voice, she felt tears stab at her eyes.
"I believe in you guys, and after this is finished with, I'll treat you to a really big celebration," she said, wiping away the tears that had already begun to leak.
"That'll be amazing, Celine." Van said and Celine thought she could hear his stomach rumbling.
"Van, Raven, although you have Zeke and Shadow, but I've assigned Taki and Terror to give extra support to the pair of you. Since you are already compatible with organoids, I could only have the two of you assigned with them. Their power is far greater and others would not be able to handle it. Raven you've got Terror to deal with, so be sure to treat him well and he'll treat you well back."
"You got it," Raven replied with a voice that sounded as if he were smiling.
"Van, keep an eye out for Raven. I don't want him doing anything stupid or brave."
Van laughed as Raven appeared to be insulted. "I'll keep an eye on him for you, Celine, don't you worry." The pair of them ignored Raven's refusal of being babysat, especially by Van. "I could ask Irvine to watch you," Van warned.
"Actually I think having Irvine to watch over my shoulder would be better than you," Raven replied to his warning.
"Okay, I won't ask Irvine to watch you. It'll be me, just to annoy you buddy." Van responded and laughed as Raven cursed him from all angles.