In the council room, a room Charlie very much never wanted to be again, a meeting began. All of the Archangels and her family was there.
Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael Jophiel, Michael, Emily, Sera, Vaggie, and Lucy were in attendance as Michael cleared his throat.
"As we all know, Lucifer was mutilated. The thing that concerns all of us, is we have no idea who could be strong enough to even hurt someone as strong as him, not to mention leave him in the state he's in. This is not just a concern for heaven, but Hell as well. Queen Morningstar." Michael said before gesturing to Charlie.
Allowing her to stand up and say her piece.
"Even with my current reign as the new queen and Sin of Pride of Hell, news of what happened to my father with create waves of disorder if this gets out." Charlie said professionally. "It is imperative that we prepare both Heaven and Hell for whatever comes next. It's still out there, there's no telling where or when it strikes next."
Everyone nodded in agreement of this but with one glaring questions still in the back of their minds.
"Was what attacked and maimed Lucifer angelic or demonic in origin?" Uriel asked out loud.
"It had to be something bigger." Sera said, rubbing her chin. "Nothing short of the Holy Father himself could've caused that kind of damage to Lucifer."
"And it couldn't be something or someone from Hell. The Sins normally keep to their own rings and I, Charlie, Emily, nor Lucy would never hurt Lucifer." Vaggie said, shaking her head.
"Then it's even worse than we thought." Jophiel said, holding her hands together.
"Then we need to think of what to do about it? Did anyone find anything among the rubble?" Lucy asked, making herself heard.
"The ashes and what appears to be the remains of a hat." Sera said, making the ashes and remains float in a magic bubble to the middle of the room.
"Is that it? Can't you try and sense what magic was used to burn it?" Lucy asked.
"Sadly no, we cannot." Sera said, shaking her head. "However we are not finished cleaning the ruble, so there is a chance that more evidence will emerge."
"And that could take who knows how long." Emily said, huffing with fire smoke coming from her nose.
'Damn it! We need evidence now!' Lucy thought, a bit hungry for revenge at the moment.
She was so close to just running out and gunning down half of Heaven for answers until she spotted something in the ashes.
"Wait! What's that in the ashes?" Lucy said, pointing in to the ashes and remains of Lucifer's hat.
She jumped over the bench... thing... and went over to it. Popping the magic bubble with a her tail blade and didging through the ashes. Normally the council would try and stop her... but they were all scared of her... with good reason.
1. Her guns.
2. Her tail.
3. Her cassowary like feet.
4. Her being mostly angel makes her far more durable than most.
5. She's the only one to ever beat Michael in a fist fight.
"Lucy!" Charlie called out to her.
"In a second!" Emily said before grabbed the thing she saw. "Found it!"
Holding it up, everyone saw a piece of something that was NOT part of Lucifer's hat! Something unrecognizable to everyone there.
"What is this?" Lucy asked, looking it over. "Is... Is this part of someone's finger nail?"
'Finger nail?' Everyone thought, confused.
In Lucy's hand was some sort of nail or claw, long as a finger and black as night with remnants of gold blood on it.
"Uh... does anyone know who the fuck this belongs to?" Lucy asked as Sera walked closed and inspected the claw/nail.
Her face dropped instantly as she gasped loudly, recognizing this object..
"GET EVERY ANGEL AVAILABLE AND CHECK THE SEALED CHAMBER!" Sera shouted in a panic.
"The what chamber?" Lucy asked as Sera snatched the claw away.
Before anyone could answer her, most of the council ran out of the room. Vaggie, Emily, Charlie, and Lucy looked at each other before running after them. Sera looked like she was going to vomit.
'If this is what I think it is... then...' she thought as she held her mouth, trying to calm down.
Sera quickly shook that from her head, hoping she was wrong. Within mere minutes, the archangels, the Morningstars, and other council angels arrived at a pair of massive doors. Sera looked nervous before looking at the archangels.
"Have your weapons ready." She said, sternly yet still nervous.
This meant it was serious business.
The archangels summoned their blades and let them catch fire. Charlie summoned her shield and trident, Emily summoned her sword, Lucy pulled out her pistols, and Vaggie pulled out her weapon. Something similar to her spear, with the overall design, still on a pole and had a sharp spearlike head, but on one side was a sharp barb, and the other had three small blades. It was also silver with gold veins on it. Sera put her hands on the door and tried to use her power to remove the sigil lock... but it already was broken.
"What!?" Sera shouted before ramming the door open
Inside of the chamber, hundreds of massive, angelic chains were broken and scattere across the room in pieces.
"No." Sera said, slowly backing out No!"
Looking inside, the archangels and council felt more horror than they had felt in eons.
"No... this... this can't be happening." a council angel said, collapsing on the floor. "She...She's escaped."
"Who escaped? What was kept in here?" Charlie asked.
Sera gave her a scared look, she couldn't even speak from what was going through her head. Luckily, a council angel took over.
"When e gave Eve the apple, he didn't just unleash sin in the world." He said, scared and taking short breathes. "The forbidden knowledge filled Eve with something stronger than sin, it filled her with evil. Our lord fought her for centuries, before finally being able to trap her in her, in chains that from his power, and a sigil that would prevent anyone from opening these doors... when he was killed... It must've opened the doors."
"... How bad will this be?" Emily asked, understanding how bad this was.
Sera, finally steeling her nerves, looked at Emily, before saying two simple words.
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"... We're fucked." She said slowly.