A looming shadow creeps closer

Like a snake in the bushes

When the sun started to claim its rightful place on its sky throne, the people from the Church of Angels were already busy setting up their daily businesses and duties. The place was already bustling with life as everyone walked –or ran, if they were late for something- with ease as each greeted the other with friendly smiles and careless waves. Outside the church corridors, Tyki could hear the shepherds ordering their dogs to guide the loud sheep out of their wooden pens, the loud tolling of the ancient bells that made lovely tunes, and the usual singing of the church choirs most probably practising for the next mass that was to come later.

He chuckled to himself as he neared Allen's bedroom. Am I glad I'm not the one serving in mass today. Opening the door with a loud bang, Tyki shouted with glee, "Wakey wakey, little angel!"

Then, he promptly tripped and fell when he saw the atrocious sight on the bed. Lavi was sleeping on his back with his wings lying askew; his wild red hair was messy without their usual headband. His left arm was curled around the shoulders of a sleeping Allen, the angel sleeping almost entirely on the demon's body himself. Allen's soft wings were covering them both like a white, fluffy blanket. The only sounds they were making were soft snores; Allen trying to bury himself further into Father-knows-where while Lavi held him tighter and closer. Tyki just continued to smile.

A loud crash made Allen wake up, his wings moving away as he saw a smiling Tyki with his hands folded behind him. Allen rubbed his bleary eyes as his mind was a bit muddled with confusion, "Where's Lavi?"

"Who knows, Allen, sweet!" Tyki came towards the awakened angel with nothing but admiration in his eyes.

A well-deserved flying kick swept Tyki off his feet and crashed into the bedroom wall. Lavi shook his fist as he angrily stood in front of the puzzled Allen, "What the Hell, Tyki?! I was bloody sleeping until you came!"

"Oh, you wanna fight, demon? Come on, show me what you got!" Tyki curled his wings around his arms as he summoned his-

"Fight in here, and I'll calcitrare vestrum butts," Allen said darkly. Needless to say, a morning Allen is scarier than the usual.

After breakfast, Lavi and Allen snuck off from the others to spend time in the west church library. The time passed them by very quickly, and Lavi was beginning to feel the sensation of boredom. The sun was completely high up in the sky by then. But even with the absence of clouds, Lavi still felt cool and filled to the brim with energy because he had a practical air-freshener that came in the form of a gentle angel. He heaved a heavy sigh as if he was given a great burden to carry.

"Lavi, what's wrong?" Allen enquired, looking behind him.

Shaking his head, Lavi pulled down his headband to cover his eyes, "It's nothing… You found anything about my curse yet, snow angel?"

"Not yet. But I'm sure I'll find something.. Father's always praising the library and how wonderful it is; I hope he wasn't lying to me," Allen joked, returning to his book as he leaned back against lovely warmth.

The shuffling of feet stole Lavi's attention away from the angel as he saw the mischievous twin angels coming towards them. He gave a slight wave as he called out, "Yo! Devit! Jasdero!"

The twins came closer, only to stop in shock. Allen was sitting between Lavi's open legs and using them as elbow support while his back was supported by Lavi's chest because his white wings were too relaxed on the floor below. The Demon Lord even had one of his arms circling Allen's slim waist, the close proximity made the twins turn red.

A loud gunshot echoed the silent library, causing Allen to look up from his book with a lifted eyebrow, "Jasdero? Devit? What're you doing here, brothers?"

The twins locked arms with Allen, carrying him up and practically dragging the angel out of the stuffy library, "We were looking for you. Come on, the meeting's about to start,"

Lavi rolled his aching shoulder as he followed the infernal twins out, his demon powers already healing the damage done by that one bullet. What the Hell is their problems?! What the shit have I done to deserve them? He quickly caught up with them, knocked a few hits on the angels' heads and grinned victoriously as Allen tried to hold them back from shooting their guns again.

They were in the courtyard garden when the rushing sound of wings halted his and Allen's conversation. Komui looked panic, thus sending Lavi's wings into instant sharpness.

"What happen, Komui?" Allen's hands glowed as his powers tried to heal the panting demon. The demon pushed away the angel's hands gently as he reported to Lavi, "There's a Demon Lord meeting right now! You have to go to Hell, Lavi!"

Lavi felt Allen freeze beside him as they heard the news. Lavi only nodded his head before turning to face Allen, who had his face down in evident sadness. "Hey," Lavi touched Allen's chin as he threw in his wicked smile to comfort the sorry angel, "I got a surprise for you!" When he knew that he had Allen's full attention, he opened the palm of his empty hand before flashing his eye red.

"W-What! What's this, Lavi?" Allen laughed cheerfully like a child. A small globe of pristine gold flew around Allen's head, a long and slim tail trailed behind the winged being. He lifted his gloved hands wide open, allowing the small globe to land on its four stubby legs. Upon closer inspection, Allen could see the Cross Fleury designed on its face, "This is neat!"

"Ya think?" Lavi laughed, tickling the small golden globe as he explained to Allen, "His name is Timcampy. You can use him to call me whenever, no matter how much of a distance that we're apart. And guess what-"Lavi came closer as if he was about to indulge Allen with a highly-classified secret, "-I made him using your hair and my blood! And one of Lenalee's spells, of course,"

Allen looked at Lavi like he was insane, but shrugged it off since this was Lavi the Demon Lord he was talking about. He gave a peck on Timcampy's metal face as he smiled lightly at Lavi, "thank you for this gift, Lavi!"

Lavi looked smug as he folded his arms, his wings puffed out in pride as he pointed out, "That's not all, check this out!" Lavi snapped his fingers, and Timcampy morphed from being a golden ball into a golden gauntlet that covered Allen's right hand. Allen admired the beautiful designs and carvings that were decorated on the gauntlet. He traced an intricate trail of leaves leading from below his wrist right up to his middle finger and thumb.

Lavi reasoned with a slight blush on his face, "He can camouflage too! You know, just in case the humans aren't used to demon magic and your brothers are acting Hell over it,"

Komui shouted now in a frenzy, "Come on, Lavi! Hurry up!"

Lavi gave a whining growl at his second-in-command as he walked past the speechless Allen. His wings sharpened once again and he was about to take off when suddenly the angel called out in desperation, "Wait! Lavi!"

Lavi turned around and felt two small hands enveloping his face to pull him down to the angel's level. Within moments, Allen gave a tender kiss to Lavi's forehead as he smoothly whispered, "vade in pace apud caritate Dei". Allen blessed the demon as he pulled away; placing his palm at where his lips touched just moments ago, "Go in peace with the love of God,"

Lavi felt himself blush deeper, but coyly smirked as he touched wings with Allen. He turned back at the impatient Komui in the sky, stating bluntly, "I don't need your so-called 'God' when you're right here," with that, he took to the sky with powerful beats.

Lavi flew together with Komui into Hell without stopping until they had reached their destination. On Nam Dnal was in ruins as they landed perfectly down, knocking over dust and dirt whenever they took steps. This place was considered neutral for a reason; so that clans of demons can make prepositions or agreements with other demons. There was a spell that encased this ground; an archaic one that no one knew where it came from or who the caster was. Whatever it came from, Lavi didn't bother. The spell was designated to annihilate anyone who raised a weapon or cast an offensive curse. Thus, the neutral ground was created.

"This morning, I got a spell-bat that said Malcolm wanted this meeting," Komui growled from beside Lavi. The very fact that that trash wanted to have this meeting at this certain place struck Lavi as suspicious. Just in case, Lavi sharpened his wings to its fullest form and laid his hand above his sheathed hammer. The spell didn't allow anyone to attack, but it didn't say anything about defending oneself.

Lavi didn't have to wait long; the very stench that followed Malcolm could've warned Lavi from miles away. But the blue armoured Demon Lord came alone. Lavi didn't know whether to take this as a good thing or something else entirely Hellish. His money's on the latter.

Malcolm looked around searching for something other than the two waiting demons in front of him, "Where is that little thing you favour so much, Lavi? Is it still alive?"

Lavi knew better than to rise up on that taunt. Allen wouldn't like it if he snapped and lost his temper in a land where they would curse you within a blink of an eye. Ignoring the jib, Lavi growled, "What do you want, Malcolm? Talk or I'll be wasting my time here,"

"The angels are our enemies. You'd do well to remember that, boy," Malcolm's casual voice suddenly turned demonic as he glared with fire in his eyes. Lavi wanted to growl at the obvious threat, but kept his cool. That was until Malcolm smiled maliciously, "Would be a shame if something were to happen to them~"

Komui quickly held the raging Demon Lord back, Lavi's wings sharpened and screaming to slice demon flesh out. Lavi himself was over the edge; his green eye turned furious red as his black-red armour spiralled to cover his body with shadows. Lavi tried to push Komui away, but couldn't get past him. So instead, he cursed and shouted in violent hatred, "What did you do, ya bloody bastard?! If you lay a hand on-"

A booming sound shook the ground as the demons were taken by surprise. Komui's eyebrows dug deep to form a serious frown, "What…"

Lavi also wandered about the earthquake that sounded much closer than he expected. Then, his demon blood ran cold as he felt the stinging pain coming from his chest. The communication spell he placed in Timcampy was coming to life, and he was delivered a piercing message that originated from the other side of the world.

Allen was screaming through Timcampy, "LAAAAAAVIIIIII!"

Oh noooooo, Allen's in trouble! But where are all the other angels then? What's going on, Lavi! I'm a terrible writer, putting poor Allen into mess after mess XD At least Allen gave Lavi the kiss on the forehead, right? Haha Oh yes, Allen's threat to both Lavi and Tyki is "kick your butts" (there is no such word for 'butts' in the Latin language and I find that very amusing and fitting because Latin is a high-class language hahahahaha)

I'm sorry, I can't think of any new information right now. I'm having finals in exactly 6 days time and I'm freaking out hahaha *points gun at head*

Again, your comments give me inspiration and motivation (both for this story and in reality). Seriously, they really helped me a whole lot, you wouldn't believe it! So, I do hope I can hear from you again if you have the time ^^ Have an awesome (and stress-free) day!