Lingering Memories.

[Raven]

I am the Dawn Star.

Lucifer sat idly in his throne of bones which was held together by flesh sewn together. Fire flickered through its hollows and black wings seemed to eclipse the entire wall behind it. Lucifer watched absently his clawed hand idly striking the arm rest to match the beat of a heart. The fallen angel released his held breath and purity that Gabriel carried from Heaven was obliterated in an instant… his fell eyes opened to peer upon Gabriel with the intensity of the Sun behind it. His eyes were a bright sanguine cast the light in its own glory. His out stretched wings flowed forward slamming the sanctum’s door closed. “If It isn’t… brother dearest…” He said with a growing smile that felt as if it grey any larger it would swallow up the entire room. “What do I owe the displeasure of seeing you here…” His long forked tongue slithered from his maw idly wetting his lips as his sadistic features continued to focus on Gabriel with a rather deadly interest.

“Have you come to join my Gabriel… we both know you are more like me then your like God… the Obedient dog left out because of a rouge mongrel… until you realized. All you’ve done amounts to nothing… the Good children are pushed away while the bad are given his attention. Is that why you’ve come… you finally realized God is as Heartless and Evil as me?” His hand idly reached out a tray carved from bone appearing holding two skull goblets and a cask of wine. “Though I forget myself as a host… would you care for a drink to rid the brimstone from your throat?” Along side the floor the ground cracked as a tree began to twist up from it. Its branches bearing apples. “Or mayhap an apple to revitalize you after your descent through my home.”


Who fell into Eternal Dusk.

[Bogwoppit]

my duty is to my father

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Despite his strength and courage, even Gabriel, God's own Left Hand, felt himself grow cold at the sight of the Fallen One. Not even the great fires of Hell could warm him as he stood tall before his brother, and a feeling as close to fear as Gabriel had ever known lay in wait just out of sight behind his hooded blue eyes. He clenched his huge fists so that the slight tremor in his fingers remained invisible, and raised his chin to regard the creature before him with contempt.

In truth, what made him most afraid was not the eternal torments he had witnessed on his journey to the centre of Hades, nor the overwhelming sense of evil which pervaded every pore. No, it was the dead coldness he saw in his brother's dark eyes which struck fear into the archangel's great heart, and the terrible changes the millenia had wrought upon his formerly beautiful countenance.

Azazel had once been God's finest creation, the brightest, the fairest, the most pleasing to behold, but Lucifer here before Gabriel now was none of those things. He was everything God and all His angels loathed and despised, everything those closest to His divine light shunned. The darkness, the decay, the bitterness, the anger... all of which Gabriel could feel as he stood before the throne of skulls, but the thing which he feared the most was the reflection of himself he saw in Lucifer's cold gaze.

The fallen angel's words struck deep into his heart, but the incongruous offering of refreshment snapped the angel's mind back to the task at hand.

"I want nothing from you Azazel," he intoned, deliberately using his brother's angelic name. "I merely bring a message from our Father, one which you may find pleasing."


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[Raven]

I am the Dawn Star.

“I see… you can’t find trust to put in your eldest brother? Then who can you trust to confide in… God? The owner that unknowingly beats his hounds… Michael who steals your rightful place. Come now Gabriel there is no reason for you to distrust me… because its quite simple… if I wanted you dead… or harmed… maimed… destroyed… lain to waste… flayed to your very bones… you’d have known it the moment you stepped foot through Hell’s open gate. The fact that you made it this far means I have no intentions of ripping out your heart and ending your existence.”

Lucifer eyed Gabriel with a slight hint of annoyance when he explained why he was here. “Well I figured that brother… seeing as your God’s messenger and blindly obedient would dictate that you were here to deliver a message… the fact that you are here in the flesh means it is good for me… as even you are not so courageous as to earn my ire within the very heart of Hell. So speak what you’ve come to say already… as you are clearly uncomfortable visiting your brother… how far we’ve grown apart since I moved out of Father’s hovel…” Lucifer eyed Gabriel as he awaited a response.

Who fell into Eternal Dusk.