Part 1: New Eden
In a wood cabin surrounded by the snowy mountains of Norway, the cries of a mother in labor but then the room falls silent as the woman now tired stares up at the ceiling as her new child is brought into her arms.
She speaks in a tone of exhaustion and elation "It's a boy, ... our little piece of Heaven; our Eden."
8 years later
"Mom Mom!" Eden yells out
His mother runs out expecting danger but only finds her young boy surrounded by 4 cut-down oak trees and a little hatchet in his hands. He gets pulled into the house and he is left In his room.
Downstairs his parents are going through the motions of sending their child to the vadican to ensure they are taught about how to use their powers responsibly.
12 years pass in a flash as Eden wakes up from a flashback to his humble beginning
Eden, now a man of 20's, is lying on a bed in the Vatican dormitories. He looks up and sees a statue of Jesus above his bed frame looking down at him.
He gets up, walks to the bathroom, and looks into the mirror staring at his reflection looking at his hazel eyes. He ran his hands through his brown hair and slid his hands across his soft smooth face, clean shaven slight bags under his eyes A gray shirt with blue pants, and his priest robes with his buttons gone opened up his closet, and put on his uniform. A gray shirt with blue pants and his priest robes with his buttons gone due to an incident with a Washing machine that caused his buttons to break off.
Although he did not seem to be annoyed and or irritated and refused any replacements, he slid on his robes and put his socks on and then finally slipped on his shoes and jumped up examining himself in the mirror.
Slicking his hair back with gel and moving it around a bit more until eventually, he landed on a hairstyle that showed his face. He takes a deep breath and kneels on the floor.
"Oh Father who art thou in heaven, may you bless my journey and my future endeavors once I get to the Land of the Rising Sun. And once I do get there, be it your will that my mission succeeds. Amen." He stands and starts to pack his clothes and other items for his travels.
And at last, he walked down to a secret door in the library. Pulling a red book from the shelf and knocking 3 times on a steel door once he had the slit slid open "Password." It is clear that this man had done these hundreds of times.
"Modernity," Eden responded in a similar tone the man had. The door opens and it reveals an old man cleaning a bunch of guns. Eden walks up to him, nods his head, and calls out to the man who owns the armory.
"Cardinal, how are you doing tonight?" The Cardinal nods and bows a bit "I am fine my boy, what can I do for you?" Eden looks around the armory
"Well, I think I'll start with a piece of home and get the Glock 17." The Cardinal digs under the table for a key, goes to the backroom, and returns with a black box, he places it on the table and gently lifts the top revealing the Glock 17, lifting it out of the box and inspecting the gun "Anything else?" He says while checking the gun for any deformities or broken parts. "Did the G3 Rifle come yet?" Eden asks.
The Cardinal laughed "Of course, the magazine is counted to 20 rounds as you asked, and also the original police model. Everything is in order as you requested." Eden nods and in the blink of an eye, the Cardinal brings out a brown briefcase holding the Rifle. Eden picked up the gun "Now would you look at this, A piece of my homeland coming to greet me." Eden places the gun back into the case and looks up to the Cardinal
"Thank you, sir, I'll send you a letter once I get to my destination" Eden gets up and hugs the Cardinal. "Just call me Michael, my son." Michael hugs Edeb back and hands him an envelope "This is some money for your journey, be sure not to spend it in one place."
With a firm handshake, Eden takes the envelope and opens it revealing 10,500 USD and a key "What's the key for?" Eden lifts the key and looks at it closer.
"It's a key for the car outside, it's the blue one, you can borrow it as long as you don't crash it." Michael holds Eden's shoulder and speaks in a calm tone "God bless you and the road you will drive on" Eden nods "Alright sir, I'll call you once I get there." Eden quickly takes the briefcase and runs out of the hidden room and through an open window landing in a shrub with a loud thud.
"My back!" Eden gets up and rubs his back in pain. He looks around and spots the Pontiac and starts to limp towards it. Opening the car doors he throws the bag in the back seat and gets into the driver's seat.
"Alright, let's start this, it will only take... 6044 miles." Eden sighs, starts the car, and drives out of the parking lot. While driving through Vatican City, Eden messes with the knob on the radio and tunes into a Rock station.
While driving his music gets cut suddenly as an alert goes off and the radio in the car comes to life "A stray devil has been spotted out in La Giustiniana around the southern end, any exorcists in the area we ask if you could come and kill the devil before any more casualties happen. God bless you all and stay safe." Eden takes a swift right to the nearest exit to La Giustiniana.
6032 miles away from reaching Japan
Eden reaches the southern portion of La Giustiniana. Parking his car in a lot behind a restaurant he takes a deep breath, pulls out his pistol, removes a bullet from the magazine, and places it in his pocket. He gets out of his car with the aura of a stray devil almost making him throw up with the aura. Eden manages to cough out "Yep, it's 100% here alright, Smell like a rotten egg," Eden walks around the area until he spots a warehouse where the aura is mainly coming from "Definitely there." Eden steels his resolve but his mind is still clouded so he pulls out the bullet, runs his finger over the casing, and starts to run towards the warehouse.
Eden kicks in the door as the steel gates slam against the walls and scrapes the floor causing a piece of sheet metal on the wall to fall on the floor with a reverbated crash. Eden chuckles "Well there goes the stealthy option Eden walks forward and looks around, and as he does he starts to think "If I were a stray devil where would I be?.. OH, I know a perfect way to find them." Eden coughs a bit to clear his throat and yells out "MARCO!" Eden listens out for a response but he doesn't get one "Huh, thought that would-"
something catches him off guard. Behind him, the voice of a girl, although distorted, "Polo…" Eden quickly rolls away from the girl and responds quickly "You wouldn't happen to be the Devil stinking up the place right?" The little girl giggles "Nope not me I'm just a girl." The girl smiles innocently but Eden doesn't buy it. "A Girl in a warehouse in the middle of nowhere?" The girl rolls her eyes in an offended tone and yells out.
"Well, that doesn't matter because you'll be a dead meat angel!" a growl comes from the shadows as a Large creature with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a mishmash of limbs and torsos supports her they seem fused into the main upper body. "A new meal for me to naw on, and it's an angel no less, I'll have a fun time licking the meat off your bones" The creature announces with a grotesque body using its many legs and arms to inch towards Eden.
"Of course, it would be something like you, You're stinking up the place over here lady." The giant creature attempts to bite off Edens's head with its maw. but a blade suddenly comes up from the ground stabbing through her jaw. Eden starts to ask "Sorry Little lady but I'm not into getting eaten, but you can sure chew on some bullets" Eden tries to reach for his guns but due to his forgetful nature he leaves the guns in the car.
"Damn, I forgot them" Eden turned to a very angry Devil and shrugged as the devil smacked him, sending him into the wall of the warehouse causing some steel beams to fall on him and creating a bloom of dust.
The creature inches towards the debris and throws beams and pieces of walls behind her while she sifts through the rubble trying to find the corpse of the Angel but to no avail until she hears something right next to her "Did you get 'em?" She turns and sees Eden standing on her shoulder. "Well did you?" A second later the monster tried to grab Eden, but he was already gone.
The next thing she knew, Eden had made four Holy Bayonets, made from the Sacred Gear: Blade Blacksmith. He stabbed them into her torso barely missing her heart, and the holy energy burned and melted her body "YOU WRETCH" screamed the creature as it melted "I'LL TAKE YOUR SKULL AND USE IT TO DRINK YOUR BLOOD, DO YOU HEAR ME, ANGEL!"
Eden chuckles as he plays with a knife he made. "You know that's not a nice way to talk to a guy you just tried to murder." Eden walks off while spinning his knife, the monster keeps cursing his name, insulting him with everything in its heart until finally, Eden throws the knife... and its heart is no more with a blood-curdling wail. Eden walks out of the warehouse, a bit bloodied, and with shivers, and a couple of scrapes but otherwise perfectly fine.
He slides against the wall and drops on the floor, he spends a while trying to catch his breath. "13,18 And the angel of the LORD said to him, " Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?"
Eden repeats the verse again and again until his heartbeat goes back down to a normal beat "Oh Lord… I feel so tired and I think I believe that I will fail and if I do… please make sure that the others stay safe" Eden gets up and walks back to his car and gets in
He soon gets back into his car and drives off but instead of driving from the Vatican to Japan, he decides to be more efficient... and take a plane ride. And so he drives his car to the Vatican's private airstrip, parks his car, grabs his guns from the back seat, and hops on a plane headed toward Japan.
As the plane flies through the air Edeb looks outside and sees a familiar figure soaring up, the forms salmon-pink eyes meet Eden's hazel eyes. As their eyes meet Eden speaks out in realization "So it finally awoke" Eden laughs to himself and sips some of his tea. "Well, I guess this will end up as a great day."
End of part 1:
A/N: Special thanks to Editor A. and Editor H. for helping with story revisions, punctuation, and spelling.