AN: New story after so long, hope that everyone is happy with it.
One would think that watching the first Humans to walk the earth would be more engaging, but honestly after seeing Adam and Eve eat, sleep, shit, and fuck for over a decade it kind of loses all appeal. Over a hundred years since my creation, learning the secrets of the cosmos and the Mysteries of our Fathers Light, and all I can do is watch two evolved monkeys rut on the ground.
I mean both Baraqel and Raziel were studying the Stars and the creating Astrology from the ground up, Abraxiel was learning the healing arts directly from Raphael, Sariel got to explore the FUCKING MOON but here I am watching my Fathers favored creations do nothing but act like slightly more intelligent animals. For Father's sake, I even missed Lilith, bitch that she was because at least she was interesting. Didn't matter that Eve was probably the most beautiful human I had seen in both lives, I lived with Gabriel and her wonder ... 'personalities'.
I'm not sorry.
Least I had helpers keeping me company. Shamsiel was my self proclaimed bodyguard, having made it her personal to protect me from danger. What danger? She wouldn't say, just blush declare that it's what Father ordered her. Honestly she was just the most precious thing. Zadkiel was much the same, though rather than my bodyguard she decided to be my personal assistant, helping me in my assignment and stopping me from going mad from boredom. She was a boisterous one, loudly declaring what was on her mind without any reservation. Last of my three helpers were Gadreel, who was also ordered to assist me in my duties by Father, though she was content to just watch and learn from my observations. She was had this aura around her that just made everything feel like it would be alright.
I loved all three of them, despite knowing they were merely a bribe from Father to do what must be done.
I idly wondered how much longer until Helel did his thing and the Fall of Humanity would begin. You would think that it happened soon after creation but nope, its been years then and not a damned thing. A part of me was honestly tempted to do it myself, but I knew I had a different purpose and judging by the looks Helel was sporting recently I didn't have long to wait. All according to his will.
Watching as Adam and Eve leave the Garden and Father bring it up to occupy the Fourth Heaven had been hard, I honestly felt bad for the progenitors of the human race despite whatever I thought while watching over them. They were just tools in a game far larger than them and were punished.
Helel for his part had just finished his rebellion, doing something no angel ever considered and stripped himself of our Fathers Light before leaving with a Third of the Heavenly Host. Samuel had been imprisoned in Hell as well, though Father refused to elaborate further. The mood in Heaven was low for the first time since our Creation, the heavenly choir stood silent and many of my siblings were openly weeping at the loss of so many of our kind.
As for me, I was stuck comforting my three helpers as they dealt with the the pain of losing family in such a damaging way. I just hugged them close as I did my best to ignore the pain of our Brothers Fall.
If they found me hours later they found me quietly weeping then the didn't bother bringing it up.
I had a new job now that humanity had been banished from the Garden. No more was I to simply report on their day to day activities and tell my superiors how many times the two fucked a day. Now, I was to watch them as they developed primitive tools and shelter, observe the earliest forms of civilization as these two were fruitful and multiplied. I had the 'pleasure of witnessing the Birth of the first Sons of Man. I got to know Cain through years of watching him figure out how to farm food for him and his family. I laughed at the antics Able got up through doing his best to domesticate sheep. I watched as Adam doted on little Seth as he grew. And I stood by was God ignored the fruits of Cains labor in favor of Ables sacrifice. And I despaired as Cain stood over the body of his Brother, regret clear as day.
Truly, to be human was to suffer.
Time past as generations after generation was formed from the line of Seth. I did my duty diligently, recording the tools they created as they progressed. Father had also started to create tools for their protection, Sacred Gears meant to defend humanity from other forces when we were unable. It had become something of a passion project for me, studying his creations and trying to figure out how they worked. Even made a thesis on them but didn't bother publishing it to the rest of the Fifth Heaven, much to the dissatisfaction of my helpers.
In the background of this there was a growing discontent among the angels of the Fifth Heaven, many growing dissatisfied with the restrictions placed on us and our interactions with Humanity. They felt that Humanity would better grow under our direct teachings rather than the distant observations that we were ordered to conduct. And so, as things are want to do, it all came to a head. It started with Samayaza who went down and personally met with the growing Humanity. He grew enamored with them while down there, eventually taking a women to be his wife and teaching them the secrets of Heaven. And then Father found out.
The fallout of this could be felt through all Seven Heavens as Father stripped his son of his blessing and name, cast him out of paradise. This obviously didn't go over well among us in the Fifth Heaven as Sama-, no he was Shemhazia now was well liked amounts his peers. Despite our love for our Father many of us decided to copy Shemhazia's actions in protest leading to Father introducing Falling as a concept to Angels as a whole. and to the surprise of many who knew me I followed their example and went down to Humanity, and I taught them something different from my peers.
I taught the men weapons and the women of makeup, I instructed them in the arts of War and of Seduction. Before most others taught knowledge and wisdom, the secrets of writing and of the stars and so much more, but never of combat. Not until me. And so I like many before was cast out, and I experienced the Hell that was Falling, feeling how the Father's Light all but abandoned me, gaining what felt a hole in my very soul.
And so I became Azazel, Heavens Scapegoat.
Honestly Dad, Fuck you for making me do this.