towerofanimus | 2nd Call - The Archangel's Nightmare

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2nd Call - The Archangel's Nightmare

Characters: Lucifel and you
Setting: Various floors; August 14th and 15th
Format: Prose, brackets, whichever you prefer.
Summary: Lucifel dealing with his personal squad of shadow children.
Warnings: Angst, updates if anything changes

This week already had such a twisted and sick start. Actually, Lucifel thought that the whole month was horrible to begin with.

First there was this charred and partly ripped apart bible in his mailbox, one of the horrible gifts that most residents with one have gotten on that Monday. The meaning of it had been clear to him the moment he had seen it and he was far from amused. A metaphor for Him, Him being dead and his words unable to reach the Archangel.

However, the day shouldn't end with that. On the same day three shadow children had started to follow him around. At first he thought nothing of it, feeling like they even were... familiar in a way. Creepy, but familiar still. So he just let them follow him around for the time being, since it didn't seem like they would do any harm. It wasn't until the middle of the week, August 14th, that one of them began to speak to him.

"In the end you left me alone." There was a moment of shock running down his spine as he looked around. No one but the shadow children to be seen, but that voice sounded just like... "Enoch?" The child stepped forward and dropped in front of him. "I thought you would keep your promise to me." Came as a whimper while Lucifel stared at the black figure in horror. "What kind of support are you to leave me here to die?" He shook his head. "It wasn't my choice to come here..." The Shadow-Enoch got up to his feet again and let his head hang down. "But I guess like this you won't have to be scared of me taking your place..." This couldn't be real. This had to be another of Jason's sick games to break them.

It didn't end for Lucifel with that one child speaking to him and repeating his words like a malicious chanting.

On August 15th The original three were joined by two more shadow children, one of them decided to latch itself to Lucifel and hung over his shoulder. By now the remaining original shadow children had started to talk as well. Two of the original ones walked next to him, the Shadow-Enoch was on his left, the other child to his right.

It was the one to his right that spoke to him "Didn't you say that we would always be together since we were born?" I know I did Michael.

"I looked everywhere for you but even though I saw your face everywhere, you weren't here." He had no idea what he was talking about. But the usually not so easily fazed Lucifel slowly became more and more restless... and there was a reason why.

"Now you abandoned me like they have, Luci..." I haven't. I never would. This shadow child walked in front of him as it continued to speak.

"I had so high expectations of you... All for nothing." It shook its head as if it was greatly disappointed. I would never let You down.

"You had one job Luci. And you didn't even get that done." Lucifel swallowed. No. He had done what he had been told. And still does.

"I don't see how this doesn't make you a Fallen one as well. It was you who killed me, the Almighty." It turned to look at the archangel, like it wanted to intimidate him. "Stop it..." He didn't kill Him. He didn't kill God.

Without noticing the color of his collar turned into lighter shades of violet.

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"Oh my God, do they ever stop talking!" Seriously, he really wants the things to shut up for one freaking day. It's messing up his plans. Mitch throws an annoyed look at the shadows, then to Lucifel. "And you, stop your bitching and ignore them." Then go to the nearest terminal, sit there for several hours until he hears his station and tries to unravel the data. The last thing he needs right now are distractions.

Though luckily enough for him, he has no shadows fallowing him around. If he did then he would seriously have to use his anima to burn a bitch to ashes.

chaos himself had been surrounded by six shadow children, and while they were kind enough to let him wander wherever he wished, their words were anything but kind, as most accused him of abandoning them when they needed him most, and others said that the universe, humanity, and they would have been better off if his powers and he himself did not exist. While chaos looked more melancholy than usual, he did not speak to them and just let the words stab him in the heart. After all, they were partially right..and he was attempting to ignore them by not replying.

However, today, he had had enough. He was simply exhausted and needed a break from the emotional harassment. So, using his powers he teleported away from them. It would be a temporary relief, as he was sure they would find him again soon, but relief was still relief, even if it just drained him even further. However, chaos didn't expect to teleport behind a very interesting-sensing person who was also having trouble with the shadows.

"I..do not mean to intrude, but I find that it sometimes helps if you try and block them from your mind. They will not stop speaking though, I'm afraid."

Edited (Sorry about that. I should have added the date in earlier.) 2013-08-14 22:19 (UTC)

Zett had run. He had run like he could outrace his shadow children, and found that they could keep up with him.

(Of course. Setsuna was always good at this. Didn't he want to be a soccer player when he grew up? And who did the children get it from but their father-)

He had run until he was almost out of breath, and that was when he bumped into Lucifel. Zett gave the archangel's shadow children a narrow look, as his own group of three shadows caught up to him.

Is this how you've replaced your king?

"Oh, fuck off, sir," he shot back at him, before turning back to Lucifel. "Ignoring what I just said - you really shouldn't listen to them at all."

Edited 2013-08-14 17:48 (UTC)

If it hadn't been for him feeling worse for wear then Lucifel would have frowned at Zett. But at the time being he seriously couldn't care less than he already did. And the swearing was kindly ignored as well.

"If it were so easy..." He had given up on ignoring them by now. The moment he heard God's voice he had lost the last bit of will to fight them back.

"So you get along with the demon child but disapprove of Armaros? You are a hypocrite." Shadow-Enoch let his head hang down to stress his words.

At the time being Lucifel did his best not to pay attention to this shadow child version of Enoch. He knew what the other was like, he would never dare to blame others for things that happened to him. He would rather blame himself if anything. But that shadow child didn't make it easy for him, speaking and acting like a broken and kicked puppy.

It was no surprise that Lucifel hadn't noticed chaos presence first, as he kept looking at this miserable acting figure in front of him, this thing he couldn't touch or get away from.

"I'd prefer it to keep quiet, like it had from the start."

"Your selfishness is what made me become like this. Not the loss of everyone I ever loved, not Belial, it was you."

That was what chaos had tried to do at first..but it was hard to ignore a group of six, especially if you knew that most of what they were saying was partially true. Being a failsafe for the universe did not make these words easier to deal with.

"..Even quiet, they could still harm you, I'd imagine. However, it would make it easier if they were silent."

After all, looking into their minds had produced semi-jarring images.

"I know it's not. But it's the best way to stay sane."

When have you ever known about sanity...

"And something being hard hasn't stopped us," Zett added.

It may be just three following him around and only one of them speaking, but he'd rather not find out who the other two are. Although... he had a vague idea. A vague idea he didn't like at all.

"Even when quiet you say. I wonder how to get rid of them."

"You can't get rid of us like you have of Armaros. Then again you have already killed us."

"Staying sane, huh?" He's just so tired of being blamed all the time since they have shown up, they even continued talking during his sleep.

"In most cases, that's a good goal to have."

Zett approaches, trying to make his way through the shadow children. "I'm sure you can manage that."

Sadly, if chaos were to peek into the minds of Lucifel's shadows, he still wouldn't be able to tell who they were. Not that chaos would.

"Perhaps closing the elevator door on them quickly enough would give you some peace and quiet." As chaos spoke, his group of six shadow children wandered up to him, having finally found him. Inwardly, he sighed as Shadow Jr. spoke to him.

"Man, I always knew you were ambiguous, but lying is a new low for ya. Not that it doesn't suit you. You did do a lot of terrible things to us and everyone else in our universe."

Lucifel wasn't so sure if he could manage anything for once. He hadn't even thought that hearing God talk to him like this would be so painful to him.

"And you? Can you manage it?"

"Now you even are concerned about him? You always thought so lowly of the Grigori and even the other Archangels, but it's okay for you to worry about that demon? Don't you have any shame, brother? You destroyed the world He created, killed your own flesh and blood..."

You wouldn't even be alive if it wasn't for our help and now you abandoned us...

Zett looks back at his shadows for a moment before turning again to Lucifel.

"It's not a crime to live. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar."

It's probably better this way, if they are left not knowing. The archangel wasn't eager to find out who they are anyways.

"If not even teleporting is working then closing the door on them probably isn't helping much either. That's the impression I got."

"It's not like I came here on my own in the first place." He won't use the term free will, that's something humans had.

"You did act like you have a free will when you joined that revolution Luci. It was that free will that doomed us all."

"There's that too. Nobody chose to come here. If you ask me, our personal stalkers should be bugging the administrators instead."

Zett sighs, listening to his shadows chatter worthless servant! traitor! never was my friend!

The truth wasn't always pleasant to know, so some avoided it..but it was probably impossible to evade it forever, especially here.

"Probably not, but might give you some relief from them, at least for a little while. Pardon my asking, but can you teleport?"

If he could, chaos could stop worrying about whether this person could sense his powers. If he couldn't..he was in a bit of trouble.

That would be something, that's for sure. But at the same time it wouldn't be that nice, considering that they would let it out on them all.

"Or bug themselves."

"There's enough of them for that..." And Zett's shadows and Lucifel's shadows sure wouldn't like each other.

"That's true..." It would be a war of shadow children... It was the last thing he needed after the month had already been so bad.

The truth could hurt and damage more things than fix them at times. Running away from it only worked for a short while.

"I can." But doing so had started to make him feel more tired. It was probably the influence of the shadow children as well.

Which was why it was usually best to seek it out. Jump to meet it instead of run away from it.

"I see..it is a good skill to usually have here. Even if it can make one tired sometimes."

"Just like you, ya lazy bum. If you hadn't slept so much, we might have been able to get a few more things accomplished." "Indeed. The plot is much easier to move when the characters are not lazing about."

Inwardly, chaos sighed as Shadow Jr. and Wilhelm spoke up again, but, as usual, he ignored them. Speaking to them would only further hurt him and make this person curious as to what they were saying.

Lucifel couldn't care less what the other shadow children said to the people they were following. Most of them that is. He had his own set to fight again with all his mind and will.

"Don't put yourself higher than you are. To think that I ever respected you..."

"If we could get rid of them by lightning I'd spook away yours for you, but it doesn't do much for mine."

"We can't touch them at all, but they can touch us." Which wasn't very good either, now that he thought of it.

"That would be like you, to have someone else do the dirty job, Luci."

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2nd Call - The Archangel's Nightmare

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14th!

15th!

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It's okay, it was my mistake to begin with, I forgot to mention there's the 15th as well.

It's alright! I know! ^^

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