Ch31: Angelic Rescue Mission
After Celeste and I went into the areas of the Westmarch Commons, we were met with a bunch of Revenant Soldiers breathing on the various corpses and humans, reanimating them into soldiers of blue light. "Malthael... this is horrid!" Celeste exclaimed as I attacked the reapers and sent them all packing. "We need to hurry, Celeste! If we don't destroy those Soul Crucibles, then this place is going to be busto!" I exclaimed. "To think that my sisters could be reduced to doing something so vile... we must save them!" Celeste exclaimed as we went further down and we came across the area where the Soul Crucible was.
"What the fuck?... Human corpses?" Celeste gulped as we went forward further and saw the bodies piled up everywhere. We also saw Celeste's sister making the Crucible and looking quite pleased with her work. "Kirara! What are you doing?!" Celeste exclaimed at the Death Maiden. "Who are you to try and destroy this Soul Crucible?" the Death Maiden asked as I began to destroy the source of power for the Crucible, the dead body piles.
"You need to stop this! Humans are not the enemy! The enemy is Malthael!" Celeste exclaimed at her as I finished destroying the final body pile, resulting in the Death Maiden attempting to slice right through Celeste! But she stopped her blade only inches from her neck. "You... are not of demon blood... why do you seek our destruction, angel?" Kirara asked in shock. I simply looked at Celeste with a frown. "What do I do?" I asked. "Slice her head off. That's the only way," Celeste gulped. Listening, I jumped up in the air and sliced off Kirara's head, the same thing happening to her as it had done to Celeste.
Kirara exploded in a puff of pure air, the Soul Crucible exploded into nothingness, and, most importantly, Kirara then reanimated right in front of us in mortal form, her body covered in light pink robes rather than Celeste's light blue robes. "Oh my... wh-where am I?" Kirara asked as she looked around in worry. "Take your staff, Kirara. You need it to remember," I said. "My staff?..." Kirara asked as she touched it, her migraines coming through immediately. "M-M-Malthael... w-what... what have I done?!" Kirara gasped as she began to cry loudly. "Kirara... sister... we must rescue our other sister in this place... she too is making Soul Crucibles under Malthael's control," Celeste said to Kirara. "O-Okay..." she sighed as she walked along with us and we entered the cemetery area.
"Death..." I heard a very raspy voice say to us as Malthael's visage appeared before us. "Malthael... what has become of him?..." Kirara asked with worry. "He has gone mad with power, wishing to eradicate anything with demon blood, humanity included," I told her as I activated Disintegrate on the numerous Reapers and zombies that rose from their graves. "But that reminds me, Lisa... how come you are completely unaffected from these Reaper's breath attacks despite being human? Are you not half angel and half demon at all?" Celeste asked me.
"Well, to answer bluntly, I come from a different dimension, one where humans aren't made from demon blood. A matter of fact, no one in my world knows exactly how humanity came to be," I admitted to them truthfully. "Really? You don't look anything special, but I guess if you're unaffected by Malthael's reapers, we have to believe you," Celeste sighed. "And just so you know, when everyone is done over here with the Soul Crucibles, my friends will need to keep helping the other areas that the Soul Crucibles are affecting, including Caldeum and many big cities," I said. "Malthael's not only attacking Westmarch? He's attacking the Jewel of the East as well? That place was one of my favorite places to go to when visiting Earth before the Prime's Banishment from hell! And now Malthael is trying to kill them all off?!" Kirara asked in fury. "You can go over to help them if you want. Just find a warp pad and warp yourself to Caldeum from there," I told her. "Okay... after we save our sister here, I will do just that..." she sighed.
We then emerged into the other side of the cemetery and we were met with another Soul Crucible and various body piles that were acting as generators for the Soul Crucible. "Felarya?! Look at what Malthael is doing to her! We need to rescue her!" Kirara exclaimed at her, making the Death Maiden turn around and look gobsmacked at our trio. "Kirara?... Celeste?... The Nephalem?... What are you plotting here?" she asked, her voice sounding less in control of Malthael than the others. "We're here to rescue you from Malthael's control!" Celeste exclaimed as we all three began to destroy the corpse piles, making them all destroyed in mere seconds. "I do not wish to hurt you, sisters... but Malthael wants all those with Demon blood to perish... you do not have demon blood, so why are you protecting those that do?" she asked as I drew my sword.
"Because humans aren't completely demon! Do you not remember that they are also part Angel?! Malthael has thrown all logic out the window about humanity as a whole, believing all of them to be corrupt monsters! He is killing tons of men, women, and EVEN CHILDREN! All because he only sees one end of the 2 sides!" I exclaimed at her. The Death Maiden looked at me when I said this, her sigh great on her end. "Do not listen, Felarya... the Nephalem speaks only lies... she is a demon... in disguise..." Malthael's whispers invaded our ears. "RGH! NO... NOOOOO! I won't listen! Do it! FINISH IT! CHOP MY HEAD OFF AND MAKE ME FREE!" Felarya exclaimed at me as she clutched her head in pain. I rushed forward and did just that, my blade rushing across her neck and chopping it off.
After the usual happenings of the Soul Crucible being destroyed and Felarya resurrecting as a mortal, we heard a yell of a different angel from afar. "NOOO!" he exclaimed, his voice sounding full of malice as well. "T-That was Urzael... Malthael's right-hand man... I get the feeling that things are only going to get worse..." Celeste gasped as I had Felarya touch her magic wand (her weapon of choice) and she regained her memories as well as her garments of deep purple. "Malthael... he cannot be saved by this point... he can only be put out of his misery..." Felarya sighed with a sob. "Please, return us back to the church square. Me and Celeste need to Heaven and alert the counsel of what is happening as of now," Felarya declared. "Of course... just let me do something real quick.." I said as I took out my phone and dialed Leah.
"Leah? Are you there?" I asked when she picked up. "Y-Yeah... I am... Malthael's Reapers tried to invade the Keep, so I teleported all of the residents to New Tristram... is Westmarch safe?" Leah asked. "It is, but you really should have all of the people with you in New Tristram and even Wortham to come to Westmarch as well. It may be a bit crowded, but right here is the only safe place right now," I said. "Okay... I'll gather the others once I hear back from them," Leah said. "Good thinking... also, a new ally is going to go help out my mother in Caldeum clean up there," I said to her. "Okay... I'll just have everyone enter the warp pad in order for us to go to Westmarch... where should we traverse to in there?" she asked. "In front of the cathedral in the town center," I said to her. "Okay. I'll be there in a snap. Be careful, okay?" Leah sighed. "I will... you be careful too, Leah," I said to her.