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Lucifer wondered if his father was messing with him as he looked at Lilith. Was she really standing in front of him or was this is mind playing tricks on him after using so much power. He pinched himself to make sure what he was seeing was real though that felt rather unnecessary when he found himself lying on the ground after Lilith tackled into him with a hug while peppering him with kisses. "Lilith is that really you?"

"Oh, you silly fool of course it's me. Oh, my light it's so wonderful to see you so bright once again." Lilith quickly stood up as she helped Lucifer to his feet before she started slapping him in the face. "Don't you ever do that again. It hurts to see you dim your light so much. It hurt that you never let me help you." Lilith finally just took Lucifer into a big hug happy to see her husband as himself again at least from direct appearances rather than the shell that Hell had shaped him into.

Lucifer just smiled happy to see his wife not caring about her assaulting him before a single question burrowed its way in. Why? Why was Lilith here? What did she mean by his light shining again?

"Lilly don't take this the wrong way but why are you here? I think I may be missing something here."

Beelzebub face palmed at her king's stupidity and lack of awareness while Lilith looked as if she was contemplating slapping Lucifer again while Mammon just laughed eating a bag of popcorn enjoying the show.

"You're kidding right Lucifer? All of Hell saw your light. I felt your power unleash and untethered. Oh, it was like the old days when you showed me around the void when Earth was still being built. To feel that raw energy was unmistakeable and to know you were using it again I had to see you. To see the man, I fell in love with stepping forward again."

Lucifer felt his mind struggling to catch up with what was happening as he had been so happy he had been able to save the angel's life and then everything else had flown out of the window when Lilith had entered the room. Satan wanting to help but not wanting to speak up and show just how lost his king was opened a window curtain and pointed out in a manner only Lucifer would notice.

Huh a blue sky… Wait why is the sky blue!? Where is all the red!? Lucifer felt his mind blue screen for a moment as he stumbled forward carefully moving Lilith to the side before, he threw open the window to look outside. The entire skyline of Hell was blue, the heat had been replaced with a pleasant soothing breeze. It took a moment for Lucifer to realise that his power had gone far beyond just healing an angel and possibly making them into something new. No, he had altered and reshaped fundamental parts of Hell and he hadn't even noticed. I hope Sera doesn't notice anything. I need to figure this out and I can't handle that at the same time as he yelling at me.

"I seem to have done more than I though." Lucifer mumbled to himself as he looked at the fabric of Hell thankful that nothing permanent had been done yet still intrigued by how he had reshaped things. He was fascinated by how much he had been able to do as a side effect with no true intent behind his power.

"If you didn't plan to alter Hell as such, what did you do then?" questioned a confused Lilith as she looked around the room wondering why Lucifer was inside of a hospital as Lucifer would never need such a place's services. Her gaze fell upon Vaggie who only waved hello nervously not sure what to say or do as the gaze of the queen of hell fell on her with a look of displeasure growing on her face. Vaggie desperately wanted Lucifer to say something or act as she had no idea if she could do anything while the king of Hell remained distracted as he looked over his kingdom and his accidental work.

"Lucifer who is she?" Her tone was neutral and controlled yet there was an underlying promise of violence as she questioned her still distracted husband who didn't take note of her question… "Lucifer I asked who she is!?" The king jumped as Lilith grabbed him by the collar of his shirt dragging him away from the window and pointing at Vaggie. "Who is she?" a low threatening whisper came from the queen as she wanted answers.

Lucifer in turn knew he couldn't tell Lilith the truth, she didn't like even talking about Heaven and had been fighting tooth and nail to delay the construction of the embassy when Heaven had started imposing their will on Hell. The exterminations had all but destroyed their marriage especially with Adam being involved and he recalled how half of Hell went deaf after Heaven decided to just remove souls from Hell without any explanation. Honestly after that mess he was sure Lilith would never talk with or even meet with him again with how she refused to even work together with him after Charlie went missing and they scoured Hell looking for any trace of her. Lilith had even risked the wrath of Heaven sending small armies of hellborn onto Earth in case someone had summoned her. Come to think of it she is still sending hellborn up to Earth even now. I should probably sort that out before it comes to bite me in the ass later though. Looking at the waiting angry Lilith in front of him though dealing with demonic investigators was put on the back burner

Lilith was one of the very few people Lucifer was sure of that was capable of killing a heaven born or at least making them wish they were dead and honestly; he didn't need that mess just after saving this poor girl's life. Not to mention he wanted to know why she had been in such poor shape anyway. Who had wanted her dead, why and how, he needed that information and if Lilith knew what she was that would make getting information very difficult to near impossible, so Lucifer took the one option he had available to him and decided to try and live up to the name humans gave him. He lied. Oh, this is so going to bite me in the ass later. I hope she believes me, and I hope the others "Mammon" can keep their mouths shut.

"Oh, that's Victoria…. I made her." For a moment silence as Lilith had a blank look on her face as she tried to process the information. Looking behind her Lucifer got a myriad of reactions from the sins as Mammon was doing his very best to hide a great deal of laughter, Asmodeus and Beelzebub were either facepalming or looking at him as if he were an idiot for lying, Belphegor just looked at him like he was an idiot and she wanted everyone out of her hospital, Leviathan had a looked both intrigued and worried and Satan just looked neutral but at least looked as if he was willing to keep a lid on things and support Lucifer in the lie if it was needed. Vaggie on the other hand was very confused as she looked at the king of lies and was about to contradict him, call him out and ask what was going on, why lie about her name though any attempt to reveal the truth died in her throat as a suffocating feeling flooded the room as she found Lilith's gaze resting on her with a cold fury though that anger seemed more like it was aimed at Lucifer.

"You made her." Lilith who had seemed entirely smitten with Lucifer a moment ago looked as if she wanted to strangle him now while Lucifer seemed unable to understand why she was so angry all of a sudden.

"Do you want to replace me like heaven did all those eons ago Lucifer?"

Lucifer realised very quickly he had screwed up by making such a simple statement and not explaining things further. Unlike what humans tended to think, he did not have a plan most of the time, he wasn't scheming and more often than not acted on a whim. I really should plan and think ahead before I act. Being spontaneous doesn't seem to work out very well for me if I think about it.

"No, no, no, she is far to young to be a replacement. Lucifer is nothing like his family, he wouldn't just replace me. He has still been trying to talk, so why did he make her then." Lilith mumbled to herself as she tried to think things over her anger seeming to have dulled for a moment igniting hope in Lucifer, he would have a chance to come up with a more convincing explanation to go with his lie that could avoid the result of the hospital becoming a crater. He didn't need Belphegor being on his case anymore than she already was, the sin of Sloth could be surprisingly vicious for how lazy they tended to be. Belphegor on the other hand was the only one closest to the queen that could hear her mumbling and thinking things over, who realised just where the queen's mind may be wandering and moved to try and warn the king, warn Lucifer and try to get him to stop things from escalating, unfortunately she was just a bit to slow to react and Lucifer far to optimistic that things were going in a positive direction.

"Charlie…. She looks like what my darling little girl could've been had we been able to raise her…" the room was going cold as if the warmth was being sucked out of it as Lilith whispered to herself her own thoughts and doubts as her anger started to swell again as a new and heartbreaking thought filled her mind.

"Lilly, darling is everything alright?" asked a rather nervous Lucifer as he noticed the growing amounts of frost and ice spreading from where Lilith was standing. In turn Satan having seen the way the winds were likely blowing and not wanting to be caught in the middle grabbed the transformed angel and the other sins and rushed out of the hospital while also yelling at the gathered nobility of Hell to get as far back as possible.

"Charlie… my dear little blessing… You're trying to replace her." It came out as a light whisper though this time Lucifer had managed to hear her, and alarm bells went off in his mind not that he really had a chance to try and explain himself as Lilith just exploded on him yelling so loudly even, he had to cover his ears. "How dare you! She is still out there waiting for us and here you are trying to make a replacement! Is that why you stopped looking, why you just locked yourself away? Did our little girl mean so little to you? Is she so easy to replace?" Lucifer felt his heart break as Lilith ranted at him lashing out with her fury and her power as ice and shadow smashed the building around them tearing everything apart.

What hurt the most wasn't the falling parts of the building or the lashing out of Lilith's power that was striking him. No what hurt the most was how easy it was for her to jump to the worst conclusion. To think he had stopped caring, had stopped looking. He however couldn't blame her after how he had just locked himself away and blocked out the world. Dear lord I was acting like my siblings wasn't I.

Lucifer braved the storm of rage and pain as he slowly walked towards Lilith just taking the beating not avoiding any of her attacks. Step by step he moved forward humming an old song, the first song he and Lilith sang together after she had left the garden with him. "Nothing could replace her Lily. Nothing could fill the hole she left. Just take a breath my dear, give your heart a chance to rest. I have been away for far to long." He closed the gap and just hugged Lilith who was just crying and begging for Charlie for their daughter to be returned. Old wounds that had been papered over had been torn open as Lucifer just comforted his wife telling her to rest as he explained himself. How he had only made Victoria as a test of his old powers, to see if he still had any real connection, to see if his father had truly forsaken him. He spun a tale of how Satan had worked and managed to convince him to get back into doing his job of running Hell and this was his first step of sorts into getting back into the role of a leader by flexing his power. To show Hell but more importantly Lilith that he was more than capable of shining brightly again as the Morningstar.

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"Blaze are you sure we should be doing this?" a bird like demon asked as a small army gathered around a palace. "I mean I'm all for a good backstabbing and power grab, but this could really backfire on us."

The heat in the area rose as small pillars of fire erupted near the dissenting and doubting voice. An eagle like being walked out of the shadows of the forest looked at the other demon as if they were a pathetic idiot. "Either do your part or leave. I have no need for weaklings or cowards." The new demon scoffed as he looked at the growing fear in the eyes of the coward. "Now is the perfect time to strike and grab out prize. Every other noble is distracted and heading towards the king to seek answers or his favour. Stolas will be there and so will most of his guards. He will not be able to leave without showing a great deal of disrespect and suffer for it. This is my chance to make sure I get was meant to be mine. Father was a fool for giving him the grimoire." Blaze took one more look around as his magic spread out to make sure everything was safe and smiled a wicked smile as he motioned for his followers to attack.

A small hoard of demons poured out of the forest as Blaze sent out a great stream of fire slamming into and breaking the wards around his father's palace. The small number of guards stolas had left behind had not be prepared and were unable to push back the invading force especially with Blaze taking to the battle fire erupting all around as he burned anyone in his path into a crisp. As his soldiers push forward Blaze stepped into the palace slowly walking through burning the occasional painting of his father's favoured sons. They didn't deserve to be there anyway. He was fathers eldest, his first born, he should've needed no other heir than he. He deserved the right to wield his father's legions, he deserved to hold his father's grimoire not that pathetic waste of space Stolas. Blaze stopped as he found what he was looking for as he looked upon a door that was entirely out of place in his father's palace covered in glitter and stickers.

While pathetic his little brother was no fool, the grimoire would be on his person, there was no way he would leave such a pitiful defence if the book had been left at the palace and trying to fight his brother while he had the book would be an act of suicide. No, he needed another tool and behind the door was that tool. A young owl girl was dragged out kicking and screaming, small bursts of shadow magic trying to strike her attackers to no avail as Blaze's fire prevented any of her strikes that could give her freedom from being true strikes. "Such a frail and tiny little thing. Only my brother could have a child as pathetic as you."

He struck her knocking her out and ending her annoying struggling though the other demons under his command and the few siblings willing to work under him gave a nervous look as they felt small worms of doubt creeping into them. Blaze was powerful but Paimon wasn't a fool so there must have been a reason he had given Stolas the grimoire. Blaze taking note of the doubt lit a ball of hellfire in his palm as he looked down on all his allies "Do not let your doubts and fears weigh on you now. There is nothing Stolas could do that I couldn't do tenfold. Get to work and get her to the safe house. I'll prepare the message to be sent to Stolas. Let's see that pathetic wimp of a goetia with his bleeding heart find a way to reject my demands." Blaze laughed as he walked out of the scorched palace confident in his success and future elevation and enjoying the thought of tormenting Stolas.

Unbeknownst to Blaze looking through an enchanted Paimon looked down on his son with a look of curiosity and just apathy at how pathetic he thought Blaze was being. How stupid must his son be for if he thought Stolas to be his lesser by showing his own jealousy and envy it made him even more pathetic than he thought Stolas was. It was rather sad, he had once held such high hopes for Blaze when he had first noticed his son's potential but that had quickly faded when he saw how his son squandered that potential, was a brute of a man and just didn't seem to understand the actual purpose of Paimon's job. Not to mention how he viewed Blaze as a coward. Most if not all of the assassination attempts against Paimon had been organised, orchestrated, planned and egged on by Blaze. The welp used his brothers and sisters as meat shield so his hands would never be dirty enough for Paimon to muster up the motivation to punish him but honestly it was time Blaze learned his lesson. Consider this your first true test Solas. How will you act and treat this challenge to your authority and power?

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Purgatory city

Walking down the halls of a grand cathedral a lone snake man looked through several notes of after-action reports of the battle in Farm and how it had been taken under the control and stewardship of the Holy Council and the Purgatory government. He didn't care much about the collapse of a warlock led nation, but he was annoyed he was going to have to take stock of all the new supplies and equipment that this new land grab had brought in. "I'm not some office clerk; I have actually important work I need to do, and this is just getting in my way."

The man knew it was all a game of politics though. As an afflicted even with his position in the running of the city he lacked the same level of respect, and many were weary of his presence. He was sure the only reason he had even manged to climb as high as he had was due to the many medical breakthroughs and treatments he had invented and his work in treating and reducing the number of and the worsening of those who suffered from affliction. What really gave him his support and backing however was the political backing of the exterminators and the military of Purgatory. His advances in medicine and technology made their job safer and easier and thus they had a vested interest in his wellbeing.

The backing and support were appreciated even if that meant he was stuck dealing with menial jobs every now and again but what he did care about was the great deal of latitude he got with his work. Oversight was a rare thing he had to deal with and at the moment he was rather glad about that fact as he had found an interesting project to start working on and many an eyebrow would be lifted and unnecessary attention and people being uncomfortable could end up giving his enemies a chance to take a shot at him.

In his hands was not just after-action reports but also immigration papers and medical records. It had been a few months since the battle at Farm and learning about the miracle child and how she had unleashed such power from the spear. Since the girl's arrival he had started a little experiment to test out if the reaction the spear had with the girl was a fluke or if she was truly something special. He had made sure she had direct interaction with sin and blessed energy through a variety of means be it by having agents spiking food and water or even during medical visits and check-ups. Sometimes he did feel bad for using a little girl as an unknowing lab rat but when he looked at the preliminary results his mind instead switched lanes into the possibilities of the future as the child truly did seem to be blessed. He body filtered blessed and sin energy as if they were natural parts of her system. There was no degradation, no rejection it was all flowing in a perfect symbiosis that he just knew he could learn so much from if he had the time and resources once he figured out how to convince the council to act or at the very least the exterminators. With her gifts I could learn how to better fight affliction, maybe even cure it. I could rid myself of this accursed form and take back my humanity in full… I could even retain the power this curse provided me. This girl is a font of knowledge, I just need to figure out how to access that knowledge without the others catching on and cutting me out of the picture.

Screens lit up as he went over surveillance, he had set up to keep an eye on her knowing he was likely not the only one keeping an eye on the girl. The city had fallen into an invisible war being waged by its leaders as every faction of the leading council of Purgatory knew that the girl would be an important part of the future of the city and thus also their role and position in that future. Pentius truly did feel for the girl who was unknowingly a pawn in a grand game for the future, but he didn't care to lose that game or be on a losing team.

Sorry this chapter took so long it just took a great deal of effort to put out the first half with constant starts and stops. The second half came out a bit easier and I feel like I have a good rhythm going at the moment, so I hope to update this sooner than the release gap between this chapter and the previous one. Hope it is a good read and has been worth the wait I made you all wait. Enjoy the latest fruits of my labour.