(A/N) Hey guys! Thanks for the reviews.
Gabriel was snoring beside the sleeping Issei. She watched over him and comforted him as much as she can. But even she doubted what she is doing. She can't blame him, he just lost his parents. A very young child just saw the bloodied corpses of his parents. Issei hugged Gabriel's neck tightly, the images of his dead parents kept flashing in his mind. "Gabriel! Okaasan and Otousan! There was this red liquid everywhere, Gabriel! Are my parents gone?", Issei tearfully asked. He didn't want to believe his beloved parents were really the bloody mess he saw inside.
Gabriel's heart broke as she heard the boy's question. Silence filled the whole room for a few minutes as Gabriel kept thinking and failing to find an appropriate answer to Issei's question. "Issei-", Gabriel began but was cut off by Issei.
"They are dead, right Gabriel? They left me. I should have died together with them. You should have let me die!", Issei shouted as he broke away from Gabriel's hug. Gabriel's eyes widened, "Issei, don't you dare say such things." She said softly.
Issei shook his head, "You'we just going to take care of me then die like how my pawents did! You're just going to leave me alone in this world!" Issei cried out, after that he curled down and hugged his knees, shaking.
"Issei, I will never until the end of time will I ever leave your side. I promise." Gabriel said as she gently took hold of Issei's head and raised it to face hers. Issei's eyes shone, only a little, but still. He's face softened a little, "You pwomise?" Issei asked, sniffing. Gabriel approached Issei and hugged him. He started to cry on Gabriel's neck again. Gabriel rubbed his back comfortingly, "I promise. In one condition."
"What?"
"You become strong. For me. I also think your otousan and okaasan would have wanted you to grow up into a kind, strong, and intelligent boy." Gabriel replied, smiling.
"You think so?"
Gabriel kissed Issei's fore head, "I know so."
Issei's sniffing lessened and lessened until it completely disappeared. "Issei, I would like to give you something."
Issei looked at her, "What is it?"
Gabriel moved her hair which was on top of her shoulders aside. She took off something which was one her neck, a necklace. The necklace was silver in color. There was a cross, it too was silver in color. In the middle of it was a red cross, emphasized by the plain silver color. The cross was also adored by white diamonds, it was placed around the red cross, further emphasizing the color. Gabriel handed it to Issei. Issei stared at it in wonder. "That was my father's very first gift to me." Gabriel said, smiling sadly to nothing in particular.
Issei's eyes widened, he quickly took Gabriel's palm and placed the necklace. "I can't take something important from you, Gabwiel-sama."
Gabriel smiled at Issei and returned the necklace. "Take it, Issei. That is filled with my father's energy. He took it from himself and gave it to me, just in case I ran into some trouble. I want you to have it. Use it when you really need it. Consider it my very first gift for you."
Issei smiled, "Weally? Thank you, Gabwiel-sama! I promise you I will cherish this till my life ends."
Gabriel giggled. "Now, take a nap. You will need it for your path to becoming the man your parents and I want you to be begins later." Gabriel noticed the change in Issei's hair, it was becoming a brownish-blonde. Also his eyes completely changed to blue, like hers. She figured it was part of becoming an angel.
"Ok, Gabwiel-sama!" Issei said as he covered himself with the fluffy blanket. Gabriel sat on a chair near Issei's bed and watched him sleep. And soon after, she herself started to feel sleepy and laid her head beside Issei.
Gabriel woke up to the sound of laughter. At first, she thought she was dreaming, but after a few minutes and the laughter didn't stop she opened one of her eyes to see who was laughing. It was the annoying face of her older brother, Michael.
Gabriel stood up and growled at Michael. "Onii-sama! Why did you disturb my slumber?" Gabriel whined. Michael smiled, "Well, there are actually several reasons. But the main reason was, you were supposed to take Issei to me. I will be his new teacher."
Gabriel was about to retort when Issei rolled over and yawned. "Looks like someone's waking up." Michael said. Blinked his eyes for a while, waiting for his drowsiness to wear off before jumping up, "Hello, Gabwiel-sama! Hello Michael-sama!" Issei chirped cheerfully. Michael's eyes widened in surprise. Gabriel sent him a I will explain everything later look. Michael did a slight nod before suddenly grabbing Issei and flew off.
Issei grabbed Michael's cloak tightly as he flew very fast. After a few moments full of screams, kicks, and punches from Issei. Michael landed to a floating Island. Issei literally jumped of Michael's arms and kissed the green meadow of the floating island. Michael forced a smile towards Issei, 'Am I really that bad at flying?' Michael asked himself before shrugging.
Issei, after kissing the ground, surveyed the area. And to his surprise a very large chain was hooked from the floating island to Heaven. He also noticed plenty more of chains hooked on heaven to floating islands. Issei didn't know, Michael was silently observing him. 'Looks like he already figured out what I was about to explain.' Michael thought to himself.
"Michael-sama, why did we come hewe? Besides the chains and floating islands?" Issei asked. Michael pointed the next island beside the one they are currently standing on. The island had a big mansion on the middle of it. "Issei, that mansion is where we hold our meetings and parties. Most angels call it the mansion simply. I chose this island cause when you are on this island, you will be able to survey the other floating islands and also heaven itself. We built a tower at the middle of this island so it will be able to alert us if anyone was to attack us."
Issei nodded at all of this. Michael signaled Issei, "Issei, now come follow me, I will now teach you about the history of our world. Including the great war. I will also teach you the different power levels beings have in the supernatural world. Issei sat on the single chair at the middle of the green meadow. Michael appeared, a white board beside him. "Now, let me first tell you the different power levels or tiers as we would like to it. There are 9 tiers in total. With one being the highest of them all.
FIRST TIER
In this tier, there is only one being. And that is Great Red.
SECOND TIER
Only Ophis, the Dragon God is on this tier.
THIRD TIER
God, our Father, belongs to this power level or tier. The Two Heavenly Dragons when they still have their bodies also belonged to this tier, and when fully mastered also belongs here. Shiva belongs here, although he's the weakest in this tier.
FOURTH TIER
The Four Maou of Hell and The Four Great Seraphs of Heaven belongs to this. I am leader of the four seraphs and therefore, belongs to this tier. The Evil Dragons also belong here. Some of the chief gods like Odin and Zeus belong here also. Indra belongs here also.
FIFTH TIER
Ultimate class devils and angels belong to this tier. Ultimate class such as the Five Dragon Kings belongs here too.
SIXTH TIER
High class devils and angels like the young Sairoag and Rias belong here.
SEVENTH TIER
Medium class devils and angels belong here.
EIGHT TIER
Low class devils and angels belong here.
NINTH TIER
Exorcists and Priests belong on this tier."
Michael ended with a smile. "Only thing is, we don't really know on which tier you belong."
(He is currently on the seventh tier. Although he has no idea how to use these.)
Michael nodded, "Thank you, Draig."
"Now, Issei. Listen well. The history of the supernatural world is a bloody one and confusing too." Michael said. Issei nodded his head eagerly, excited at hearing what exactly happened.
"It all started when our brother, Lucifer started a rebellion against our father, God. Of course, God made short work of them. Although painful, God sent his children to hell, hence the devils. Now the devils started to take revenge on God by leading the humans to the wrong path. So God sent angels down on Earth to help guide the humans back to him, the leader of these angels was named, Azazel, a dear friend of mine. Unfortunately, Azazel and the other angels gave in to their desires and wished and fell, making the fallen angels. Eventually, these three factions warred against each other, with God, Lucifer who changed his name to Satan, and Azazel leading their own factions. At the same time, the Two Heavenly Dragons fought each other. Affecting not only the great war, but also the underworld, Earth, and even Heaven itself. All three factions suffered great losses, though reluctant, they had to unite against the two rampaging beings of raw power for the greater good, of everything. They sealed the Two Heavenly Dragons inside sacred gear, you currently have both sacred gear. Because of that, God and the four great Satan got exhausted. But despite that, they continued to fight each other until all five faded away. The three factions, which suffered great loss, neither of the three wanted to continue the war since all their main forced are gone. So while there is still no peace between the Three Great Factions, they didn't dare do anything stupid either."
After a while, Michael was replaced by Raphael.
"Issei, Michael is just going to handle something so I will be the one to teach you about our kind." Raphael said, smiling at the eagerness in Issei's eyes.
Raphael began to write something on the white board. Issei moved to the side to see what Raphael was doing. He drew the word, "Angel", on the middle of the white board. "Issei, how old do you think Michael is?" Raphael asked, crossing his arms, leaning on the white board.
Issei scratched the back, "Eighteen years old? I think."
"How about Uriel?"
"Also eighteen?"
"How about me?" Raphael pointed at himself, grinning. Issei pointed at him, "You are not eighteen, your thirty-eight years old!" Issei accused, Raphael's eyes twitched in annoyance.
"Whatever, Issei, the four Great seraphs, are actually a thousand years old already." Raphael said.
Issei's eyes widened, "How come you Michael-sama and Uriel-sama looks young. And also Gabriel!"
Raphael 's head fell 'Really only those three look young? What about me?' Raphael thought to himself as tears stream down his eyes, frowning at the smiling Issei.
"Well, we can shift into the age we want to be in. Currently, you can't do that since, you are technically still not an angel." Raphael said. Issei raised one of his brows in confusion. "But Gabriel told me I am her angel." Blushing as he realized what he said.
Raphael noticed this but decided not to mention it. "Well, you ARE an angel, but you are still not a full blown angel. You may have your wings and the powers of an angel, you are still not an angel. Your like only half an angel. You will become a full angel when you become sixteen years old."
"Can you become a little bit older, Raphael-sama?" Issei asked, his eyes looking at Raphael's pleadingly. Raphael quickly attempted to look away but it was too cute. Raphael sighed, "Fine!"
Raphael glowed for a while. He changed to his twenty-one years old form. The light faded and behold the twenty-one years' old angel. Raphael's hair remained the same, the only change was his body received a bit more muscle and his face became much sharper.
Issei frowned in disappointment, "Raphael-sama! I told you to become older, not younger." Raphael's eyes widened, 'I look younger when I'm twenty-one compared to being eighteen?" He asked himself in surprise. 'I really am messed up.' Raphael thought gloomily.
Issei looked at the wallowing Raphael. Raphael coughed and regained his composure. "Alright, Issei, let's move on. You have wings but you don't know how to use them, right?" Issei nodded, embarrassed. Raphael smiled kindly, "No need to be embarrassed, Issei. When Gabriel, Michael, Uriel, and I were little, we don't know how to control our wings too."
"Now summon your wings, to summon them you only need to think of them behind your back and, that's it." Issei nodded at this and did as he was told. Then ten pure white wings suddenly burst out of his back. Each wing flailed wildly, making Issei lose his balance. Raphael took hold of Issei's shoulders and held him down, enough that even if the ten white wings flailed around in different directions, he wouldn't fall.
"Now, you probably feel you suddenly received ten more arms, they are the wings. You relax them." After a few seconds the flailing lessened and eventually, it was gone. Issei's eyes widened, and his smile grew big as Raphael ruffled his hair. "Good job, Issei!"
"Now, you will automatically know which wings which. Am I right?" Raphael asked, a knowing smile on his face. Issei had a surprised look on his face as he realized what Raphael was saying is true.
"Now to fly, flap all your wings at once perpendicularly. At the same time, you must jump up as high as you can. That should get you up high. Now to maintain your flying, you must keep moving your wings at a regular, balanced pace. If you want to go slower then maintain a slow pace, and if you want to go faster, then maintain a faster pace." Raphael said while smiling, eyes closed. When he opened his eyes, he was stupefied, Issei was flying uncontrollably all around the island. "What the-? AHHHHH!" Raphael screamed as he barely dodged the flying Issei. Issei hit the white board behind Raphael.
Issei landed safely, but tripped and he stepped on one of his wings.
After Raphael and Issei fixed the chaos they created, they went back and started the next lesson. "Now, Issei, your wings can also be used as weapons, Uriel will teach you that later. I will teach you how to create strong gusts of wind. You simply flap you wings towards your target. Like this." Raphael said. He soared up above the sky, smiling as he saw Issei's eyes shining with amazement. Raphael dove downwards before gliding down slowly. He then flapped his wings towards the forest near them. The trees on the front line were uprooted. The following trees were almost uprooted and the whole forest shook because of the intensity of the force of the wind. Issei stared at the glide-falling Raphael.
"Amazing!" Issei exclaimed. Raphael laughed at the Issei's flabbergasted expression.
"Your turn." Raphael said. Issei gladly jumped off and soared, perfectly at that. Raphael smiled at the soaring Issei, impressed at how quickly Issei got comfortable with flying. Then his eyes widened in remembrance, 'Shoot! I forgot to tell him to control his flapping when he attempts to make a powerful gust.' Raphael tapped his head several times.
Issei then took form. Raphael ran towards him, "Issei, not to-" Issei already flapped his wings, sending him backwards, a very large gust of wind was sent to a wide eyed Raphael. The gust wiped the entire forest, sending all of the trees flying, and sent the screaming Raphael far, far away. Issei stared at the spinning Raphael, "Waphael-sama!" Issei shouted, holding his towards Raphael as if to say don't leave!
Someone broke down to fits of laughter, Issei turned around to see Uriel holding his stomach, laughing. Issei glared at Uriel, "Hey! That was youw brothew!" Issei shouted, glaring while wagging his finger. This only made Uriel laugh even more, Uriel was struggling to breathe as he can't stop laughing. Uriel fell down his butt. After a while, Uriel stopped laughing, he looked at Issei who was glaring at him. "Uriel-sama, you need to help Waphael-sama." Issei ordered, his arms crossed which only made him look more adorable.
Uriel stared at him before going to another maniacal fits of laughter. "I'm sure my brother can take care of himself. Also the reason I came here in the first place was to teach you how to use your angelic powers." Issei seemed reluctant, but when Uriel gave him a threatening smile he nodded quickly.
"Good, now that you're a semi-angel of some sort, you have light powers. This "light" powers are very lethal against devils. Now we mainly use our light energy to form spears and arrows made of the very light energy itself. But on some angels, they prefer to take a weapon and infuse their light energy's instead. It's not that these particular angels have poor light energies, they are not just very…proficient in shaping them and maintaining the raw energy in that spear or arrow form. Now first, we need to find out on which category you fall." Uriel said.
Issei asked, "And how exactly do we do that?"
Uriel smiled at Issei, "We see if you can summon a light spear and manage to maintain it for five minutes. To create a light spear, just imagine the shape, color, and design of your light spear, then will it to materialize to where you want it to be, either on your hands, or floating right beside you."
Issei nodded. He imagined the spear he wanted to make, suddenly a spear with a dragon design etched around the base appeared in his mind. Unbeknownst to Issei, terror filled the Two Heavenly Dragons. They both quickly agreed with each other to seal Issei's angelic powers to prevent him from creating the spear. Issei thought, 'Here I go!' he said to himself.
A ball of golden light appeared between his palms, it started to take the form of a spear, Uriel suddenly loss his relaxed state and walked near Issei to take a closer look, the area around them darkened. Issei smiled at this, 'Alright!' Issei exclaimed mentally.
But much to his disappointment and to the relief of the Two Heavenly Dragons, the semi-circle spear dissipated. Uriel sighed in relief, "Huu! I was actually unnerved back there, looks like you'll need a weapon huh."
Uriel created a golden, medium sized magic circle. From there rose a sword that looked like the ones you see in Europe. It had a reddish purple grip and a golden hilt with stylized crosses at the edges of the guard. The guard resembles that of a dragon's claws. When the sword was completely out, the magic circle disappeared, the sword stabbed itself on the ground, in between Issei and Uriel.
Uriel walked towards the sword and took it out of the ground, raising the sword, the shiny blade reflecting the bright lights of heaven. Issei's eyes stared in amazement, his mouth wide open. Uriel noticed Issei's expression and couldn't help but smile at it. "This is the holy sword, Ascalon the dragon slayer, which was originally wielded by Saint George. I figured since you're the joker of Gabriel, you take this. Use it wisely, Issei." Uriel said softly. Issei couldn't believe what he heard, "I will use this? Really?!" Issei asked, surprised. Uriel was barely able to stop himself from pinching Issei's cheek.
"Yes, Issei. Consider it a gift." Uriel replied kindly. To his surprise, instead of getting the sword, Issei jumped to his leg and hugged it, saying thank you continuously. Now Uriel struggled a lot not to hug Issei back because he would probably crush his little body. Somehow, Uriel managed to refrain himself and decided to go for a pat in the head instead.
After a while, Issei let go of Uriel's leg and they began the lessons again. "Now, Issei. Infusing an object, in your case, your weapon Ascalon, with light energy is quite similar with how you tried to create a light spear but instead, imagine that energy flowing from your body to your sword." Immediately, Issei started doing what Uriel said. Ascalon's blade started glowing brightly, the light engulfed the area. A few seconds lasted before the light faded. Ascalon' blade now glowed golden. "Woah." Issei said in amazement. Uriel smiled, "Congratulations, Issei. You have successfully infused your sword with angelic power."
Uriel said, "Now, were still not done yet, Issei. Now that you know how to infuse objects with your energy, let's move on to infusing your attacks with angelic energy." Issei made a gesture to Ascalon.
"Ohh, right. Just ask Draig or Albion to keep it."
[I'm already on it, Issei. So don't worry.]
Just after Albion spoke. The sword dematerialized, the left arm of Issei made a sound, probably signaling the successful keeping of Ascalon. "Now let's begin. Your wings are very crucial in the battlefield. Not only can you gain the ability to fly, you can also use them as a weapon. You can use your wings to slice and slash at your enemies. To do this, you must infuse your wings with holy angelic energy. I suppose you can do that already." Issei nodded, this time there were no flashy glows, the wings simply glowed golden. "Now if you use those as weapons, they will hurt. But it could only go so far."
"A while back, I saw Raphael teaching you how to create a gust of wind using your wings. Now that is impressive and all but it won't be much if you are against fallen angels and devils. It could only go so far as to send them flying away like what you did with my brother a while back. But imagine if you could add holy angelic light energy with the gust of wind. Now that would deal serious damage, a very powerful move indeed. It would be hard for the enemy to dodge it in time." Uriel said.
"Now to do this you must infuse your wings with the holy angelic light energy then create the gust of wind. Now, give it a try." Issei nodded in response, a smile on his face.
Issei took off in the sky, since he had his wings infused in holy angelic light energy, when he flew he left a trail of sparkling golden light. Issei did a soar before flapping his wings towards the mountain. Now the gust of wind looked the same except there was these waves of light which moved with the wind, Issei squinted to see what it will do, the white board Raphael and Issei left got caught up in the gust and to Issei's surprise and amazement, the wave of light sliced through the white board quickly, the white board was reduced into pieces.
Issei saw someone far away. It was Raphael-sama!
Uriel saw this too, but pretended not to see him and whistled. Issei started to flail his arms wildly, gesturing Raphael to move out the way. But it looks like Raphael didn't understand, "What!?" He shouted. Looks like he didn't notice the gust of wind coming his way.
After a while Raphael heard a whooshing sound. He looked around wildly, he looked at a suspiciously looking area, he saw a quickly moving wave of light spinning around wildly and realization struck him.
"AHHHHH!" Raphael's scream resounded throughout the whole island. Uriel grabbed his stomach, he fell down the ground again, laughing.
After a while, Raphael returned, exhausted. He's armor and cape were ruined, evidence of torn up areas adored his whole attire. The wave of light was strong enough to dent even armors so Raphael unhappily returned with a giddy Issei and a laughing Uriel to Heaven. Angels looked at him weirdly and he sunk his head down even lower. Uriel just kept laughing as he watched his brother sigh.
After they apologized to an upset Raphael, Uriel dropped off Issei in the heaven's library. They saw Gabriel reading some sort of guide book in raising children. Gabriel guided Issei towards her table and sat down opposite of Issei.
"Issei! How was your training today with my brothers?" Gabriel asked cheerfully. Issei responded, returning Gabriel's smile, "It was very fun. Although It was exhausting, it was very fun!"
Gabriel smiled, "I'm glad to hear that."
"Now, my brothers may have thought you how to fight, fly, the history of our supernatural world. But do you know what the most important lesson is, Issei?" Issei shook his head. Gabriel noticed his hair was a lot blonder compared to last night.
Gabriel said, "The most important lesson is knowing how to love and kind. That is the reason why Father made us in the first place."
"It is important to remember this Issei, if you do anything bad, or think of impure thoughts, your wings will flicker black, now when this happens, stop what evil deed you are committing at that very moment, and clear your mind of those impure thoughts. If you don't, you will fall and become one of the fallen angels. Then Gabriel will be very lonely, do you want me to become lonely?" Gabriel asked, Issei stood up on his chair, "I will nevew leave Gabwiel's side!" Issei shouted across the room.
The angels looked at him, muttering 'So cute!' or 'Adorable'. Gabriel smiled warmly at Issei, "Now, now Issei. This is the library. Be quiet when you're in the library."
Issei quickly sat down.
"Listen, Issei. I want you to grow up to be a strong man. But I also want you to grow up to become a kind and loving man." Gabriel smiled.
"Fow Gabwiel, I pwomise to gwow up to be a stwong loving man!"
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