Once Claudia made her way into the Vatican's server, she was amazed at how much information was available. She could see why Gabriel had such contempt for the church after seeing how key information had been handled. The church had sought to make itself invaluable to the masses by keeping certain truths from them, but that truth had still made it's way out into the world through the efforts of a precious few who saw the need for such information.
There were exorcisms and rituals, knowledge of creatures that had been relegated to myth and legend. Even the ways to kill these creatures. Claudia soon realized that much of the information she was seeing, she had seen before. In the books that Carver Edlund had written. Sam and Dean used an Exorcism taken straight from a scroll that was supposedly written by Mary herself, not Magdalene, but the Virgin Mother.
While Claudia would have loved to see what else she could learn she had a specific purpose, identifying the remaining seals to the cage. She began by finding all of the information on the most infamous angel in creation, Lucifer.
Art was having a full on geek out. There was so much information just in the binder but having the index of information at his fingertips made his research much easier. He reached for a small journal that had the initials H.W. Stamped into the leather cover. The journal of one John Winchester. There was information on a gun built by Samuel Colt. The gun was important. Although the gun did actually kill a demon by the name of Azazel, The Winchesters had attempted to kill Lucifer with it.
That was an epic fail. Five things that the gun couldn't kill according to Lucifer and Lucifer was one of them. Castiel had helped to explain that issue. While the gun was one of the items needed to break a seal, that was its only importance. It couldn't kill God or the any of the four Archangels, but it could still open any of the seven hell gates on Earth. One of the hellgates was known, it had been in Stull Cemetery and still stood on the grounds of the Stull Convalescent Center. Castiel however had assured him that the gate there could not be used again. To break a seal another gate had to be used.
But finding the Colt would at least prevent that seal from breaking. The bad/good news was that somewhere along the line this was a required seal. So finding and securing the Colt could conceivably end the threat. The problem was that the Colt had disappeared during the outbreak. It could be anywhere.
In the end The Chalice was located long before the Colt. It was plain dumb luck that a simple minded politician had found the thing and accidentally spilled his blood in it while shaving. Following the instructions that he had been given the idiot was attempting to raise a Hell Knight. Not knowing any better he had gone in alphabetical order and was caught by a garrison of angels and a contingent of demons at a hell gate located in Maine trying to raise the long dead Abbadon. When that didn't work, he moved on to Azazel.
The cup was quickly placed in the Dark Vault out of harm's way and the Colt was also located a week later in the bowels of the 'Bat Cave'. Right where Sam had put it when he retreated to the bunker. All in all it was a bit of a let down for both Claudia and Art. But Art had noticed that there were several items listed in the archives that could possibly be missing artifacts.
While Angels and demons no longer had free run of the Earth, the truth was Crowley had remained behind as had Gabriel. And while Benedict Valda was and would remain a regent of the Warehouse, it was decided that Heaven should be equally represented and a new member joined the board of Regents at Benedict Valda's recommendation. And if that regent had a wicked sweet tooth and a tendency toward pranks, well it's not like the Regents weren't just a bit strange to begin with.