Chapter 1 : Trust a Lion's Roar

Axreon was awoken by a start his feline eyes snapping awake when he felt the surge of power flare up from the earth. It was Lucifer he had awoken from his casted out slumber. The large lion that stood about the size of a truck growled gently but hears the call of god and nodded. The paws took him to the human world and as he landed he came to his human form.

Standing near a church as it was raining he called out in the rain "yield not the flames of heaven, yield not the fallen star, Yield not the blazing wings, Yield not the call, Lucifer has awoken , Lucifer has stirred, All heaven and all of earth shall tremble, Rise of once Archangel, Rise like the Bird of flames, Rise and be ready" Said the male in a loud sharp voice as people gave him that very strange look as if he was crazy but he only chanted that out louder and louder, his voice reaching the entire city as he chanted the vision's he saw.

The earth shook sharply, the waters in the ocean became rough and dangerous, boats sunk, Volcano's erupted, the end of days ? No the coming of a fallen archangel who;s rage showed no bounds. Criminals seemed to now find their time as they started to grow ruthless and more cunning out-witting police and agents of secret services. The world was thrown out of wack as the blazing green eyes of the Archangel snapped open and his wings unfurled. His body started to fix itself but his heart was blacker then the night that shaowed the earth.

Reports came in of the weather was strange, reports of violance came out like a furry, something was going on and it wasn't humanly caused something was happening. The chains of the archangel snapped and the furry turned to the human world making sin powerful and all the world seemed to be falling into darkness and chaos.

New York, 9.05am.

Varia hadnt slept for days. She'd had constant nightmares. She rolls into work late at the NYPD, where it was just as chaotic inside as it was outside. She knew nothing of her past Angelic life before the fall of Lucifer. She was now a mortal, living a human life. She had a strong desire for seeing justice being done, so she became a detective. Newly promoted from the rank of police officer due to her extreme vigilance and hard work at catching criminals on the daily beat.

With wavy messy hair and not bothering with make-up she slams herself down on her desk chair. She heard the yelling, phones constantly ringing of crisis. The crime rate rose sharply amidst the last few weeks of crazy weather. She put her head on her desk, so tired. All she wanted was some peace.

“Crest! You're late!” Her boss screamed across the room. She puts a hand up and then drops it floppily down and gets up grabbing her cup of coffee. “Come on Sarge, I've been doing all hours too you know....” She sighs and sees the pile of paperwork on my desk.

“Hey V. Got a potential lead on the Triad gang bank job.” Her partner Anna-Maria handed her a file. Varia completely ignored her as she stared at the morning paper.

-Ramblings of Priest – Armageddon confirmed?-

She picks up the paper. “Yield not the flames of heaven, yield not the fallen star, Yield not the blazing wings, Yield not the call, Lucifer has awoken , Lucifer has stirred, All heaven and all of earth shall tremble, Rise of once Archangel, Rise like the Bird of flames, Rise and be ready"

Varia looks at Maria. “We've got to see this man.” Something in her mind thought this was all connected to the chaos in the world, all of her nightmares of what looked like angels and demons at war, blood being spilled that made her feel sick to her stomach, so much death.

And so she set off to find the priest Axreon and learn more of his ramblings of the rise of Lucifer. As always, following her gut instinct and she turned out to be right most of the time.

Axreon was shouting louder and louder his voice boomed over the city in a cry before he finally stopped and snuffed slightly. He sat down and felt the earth shake and placed a hand on the ground grumbling "what are you looking for Lucifer?" he mumbled as a snarl camr from the ground from the angry hearted archangel thast blasted through hell and speed toward hell's gate with blind fury roaring as he slammed the Gates of hell open as demons released onto the world to get into the bodies of mortal man.

The priest raised an eyebrow and sighed as mumbled "Praise God, praise Angels, Betrothed Archangel calm yourself, humans are not ones to harm" he kept muttering to himself as he sat his eyes closed and then his eyes snapped open hearing the footsteps of a female coming toward him. His eyes gazed at a female with a deep wise look.

"and you must be here to laugh st my words miss hmmm?" he asked scoffting.

Varia walked toward the mysterious priest. She heard him scoff his words at her. She made sure her gun was covered under the breast pocket of her black leather jacket. She looked serious but non-threatening.

"Um no Sir I'm not." She stopped and showed him her police badge. "Detective Varia Crest with the NYPD." And then she looked around this place. "Is there somewhere we could sit? I wanted to ask you what your words mean, if I may?"

She shows him the newspaper. "You've made quite a stir. And when everyone thinks its just a mad man, I think there's a different reasoning behind your "ramblings." I thought maybe....they were warnings...."

She paced with her hands held clasped together and gracefully glided her feet as she walked. "Weather we cannot explain. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions...my nightmares. All point toward what is mentioned in the end of days of the Bible." She turned her pensive gaze toward the priest.

"oh Dear child its nit the end of days believe me" The priest said before he pulled over a chair so she ould sir and he sat down and looked at her "nightmares ? explain?" he said looking at her with deep golden eyes. Her eyes almost looked feline or cat like and his aura is something else very holy and wise.

"there are reasons behind my ramblings but I can't tell you the reasoning, I can't tell you the creator will not let me speak the truth behind the words of his tongue" he said slowly, a messenger ?

Varia sits herself gently and looks at the priest's eyes. She saw a wisdom in him she saw in no other.

"I'm dreaming that I'm falling. Falling so very far from world into a deep darkness, full of death and blood." She held her heart in pain. "I see demonic creatures, battles. I'm in the middle of it all in white armour...I....am glowing. I am trying to reach people butI keep getting dragged away."

And suddenly as if reliving her dream, she was transported inside her own mind.

A battlefield, full of the dead, she walks amongst the bodies. Looking around she hears the fires crackling. All had gone quiet now. She knew she had to reach someone. Someone very important. On the horizon, the hot wind blowing against her soft cheeks and gently furrows her long locks back from her shoulders. A man stood in silhouette against the blood red sky. It was the person she was searching for. Her hand reaches out to reach for him. He slowly turned around to face her.

But before she could reach him and see his face, the ground beneath her falls away and she wakes up on Earth every morning after the same repeated nightmare. Every night she dreamt one step further and sees a little bit more of the mysterious man turning to face her inch by inch but still she couldnt make out the colour of his eyes. All she knew was the shape of his chin and nose as a black shadow.

"And that's when I wake up. I dream of somewhere that isn't on this Earth. I have no idea who this man is but I know him." Varia sighs and leans back in her chair. "I have no idea if this is all connected or not but it all started at the same time as these earthquakes and eruptions. It's more than just a hunch. It's like I can feel it inside my soul." She explained best she could, thinking she was beginning to sound crazy.

The priest looked at her "A vision I see, God has granted you to see a former life i think. I do not know of the man you speak of that is for you to find out but whoever he is your bound to him in some way or another. Tell me what yu know about the battle of heaven ? the war between the good and the evil that currpted the souls of so many angels that dared to stand with the lizard of lies?" he asked, he knew she was there she was the one that cried as lucifer and his angels fell from the heaven's golden floors and into the darkness that closed the gates to him.

Lucifer flew into the sky snarling eyes looking deeply at the cities around him. his wings outstreached and thunder boomed across earth as he gave a roar of the dragon that fell from the skies and into never ending torment that locked away the angel deep in the pits of darkness. he flew across the sky snarling and eyes peeled before landing down on the ground in the city shifting human form eyes narrowed and dangerous. Walking along the streets and whistled a old tuen he once knew, the promise of the blue bird the bird that was acred to lucifer himself. Above him flew a small blue bird.

Varia tilted her head and let her long wavy hair shift lightly over her shoulder. "Not much. Only from the stories I read growing up." She lead a human life now, she was born to human parents and lived as a mortal, experiencing modern day life on Earth. She remembered nothing of her past life.

"I don't know if God exists or not. Humanity isn't religious anymore. The last known sighting of any angels walking amongst us was in 500 AD. 1500 years later without much to go on...people start to lose faith. That is...until now. You're here, like a Herald. Strange events we cannot explain." She gets up from her chair and holds her forearms arms in her hands.

"If God has granted me the vision to see things in this chaos. It must have been for a reason, no?" The mortal detective turned to Axreon with bright blue eyes twinkling softly. She could not help but smile with sincerity, as he made her feel very calm and at ease with his gentle aura. She smiled once. A very long time ago.

"oh there is a lot of faith in the world, you just have to look hard enough to find it truly" Said the wise priest and then spoke once more his voice, seemed to grow grave and deep " God sent you that ability for a reason that you might save the shadowed heart of a outraged angel" said slowly before he turned sharply and looked down the street and hears a gunshot and sighed gently. He looked at the place and smiled gently as eyes glowed slightly.

"I must go unfrounately, Faith young one faith is the only thing that will save humanity now. Beware of the sly lier, he seeks you. Trust a lion's roar" he said before he turned and started to walk away and as he did his form changed. Standing around twenty feet from her was now a form of Lion his main glowing sharply. he looked back at her and then roared at the sky sharply and was gone in a blazing flaming pillar of light and she was left alone in the cold world.

A man walked down the street humming to himself whilsing a dark tune.

Varia watches Axreon disappear with wide eyes and wonderment. Never before she saw a man change into a magnificent lion. She runs to the spot where he lifted upto the sky in a blazing pillar of light and stared up at the clouds.

"Beware of the sly liar?" She repeats and then puts her hands on her hips. "Oh yeah very helpful. I deal with them every day in the NYPD!" She hears another gunshot and her radio goes off. It was Anna-Maria her partner.

"V! T49. Backup. In pursuit." Her voice crackled over the device and Varia picks up her feet and runs down the alleyway where the gun shot was heard from.

She caught glimpse of Anna-Maria's body turning a corner. "He's cornered." Anna-Maria tells her over intercom, then a gunshot. Varia gasps as she thought the worst and Maria had gotten shot. She ran as fast as she could, the wind blowing back her long hair, gun at the ready.

"ANNA!" She turns the corner. Maria was down, the criminal shoots at Varia who dive rolled out of the way behind a dumpster. The criminal runs straight past her and down the alleyway. "Gah, he got away." But she had to make sure Maria was okay.

She ran to her side. "Anna!" She held her friend's head up gently. Anna-Maria strained and opened her jacket to reveal a bulletproof vest under. "Still hurts." Varia smiles with relief. "But you're alive."

"Go. Get him!" Anna-Maria tells her. Varia nods and takes up pursuit of the criminal again, running as fast as she can with gun in hand.



"Stop! NYPD!"

The Crimnal was much faster then she was smiling as Lucifer's legs where very long and effortlessly making him run across the streets and roads a breeze while maria had trouble keeping up with this fast runner. he ran around for a while never seeming to get tried and watchned thw girl sytruggle to keep up eventually slowling down so she could actually catch up with him.

"For an officer your very slow" he said slowly turning toward her eyes glinted in the light of the sky a grin lacing his face. He looked at the gun and sighed gently "Oh come on a gun really like those things do anything" he said eyes narrowed with disgust looking at the former angel he once admired. But hey mortal means was something stupid so he gave up the fight and went along with Maria eyes looking at the sky humming to himself. His sets where extremely light as he was handcuffed and sighed gently "yep stupid stupid mortal"

Varia cuffs him, she panted out of breath, he was extremely fast. She wondered why she was able to catch up - as if he WANTED to be caught. She had to be cautious around this one. He even called her mortal. That was highly unusual. But as her job, she had to remain strong and silent, could show no sign of weakness. Talking to him would only prove to get what he wanted out of her. A rise.

"Alright, that's enough out of you. We're going downtown." She leads him to her car where her partner also met her. They enter the car and she places him in the back seat and the two girls seated in front. Varia drove as Rodriguez was still in pain from the bullet impact. They make their way down the busy streets where there were many protestors with signs

"END OF THE WORLD"

"YOUR GOD IS NOT HERE FOR YOU"

And various other signs. This disturbed Varia's mind more so, one of them seemed to have black eyes and looked directly at her. But then he seemed to back off as if afraid of her blue eyes that shone brighter than the stars. She didn't notice her soul was resonating within her.

They soon got to the station, where she opens the door for this unknown criminal.

He hummed a smirk laced his lips as the car stopped and he got out and grinned gently. His eyes glowing deeply in the light of the station. He looked at a desk and it caught on fire burning the files as he was shoved and placed in interrogation room.

He sat there leaning back "how desperate you people are to seek out answers that your mind can't wrap around. You seek an answer young police officer you saw a lion you saw something of god" he cackled standing up eyes cold and sharply looking at the glass his eyes more deep.

"Don't you want to know what your nightmares are about who you reach for all the time but never can touch ? Do you not want to save humanity?" His voice was like ice daggers so cold and sharp. But there was truth behind it as he could see past her eyes and into the soul and mind with no issues.

Varia blinks at the man stood before him. How could he know all of this? She now realised this was all just a game to this man.

"I..." She looks down, not knowing what to say, she didnt know what was happening. He must have overheard him and the lion. He was just pretending to be all-knowing like many criminals did.

"We're not here to talk about me." She stood up to match him with her determined eyes. She slams her hands on the table. "Let's begin with you shooting my best friend, shall we?" She looks into his eyes without fear, not like the rest of them. That look she always gave him when she disagreed with him. Not that she remembered.

"Tell me who you are." She had a file on the table. All it stated was the incident, but nothing on him, and her full name as the arresting police office: Victoria Starlight-Crest. Starlight was given to her by her mother. Stars that shined brightest in Heaven with her kindness and grace. Her human name was given as Victoria but she shortened it to Varia just because it felt right. Her mortal father's surname was Crest. He was dead now.

"Beelz Johnson is my name " purred silky eyes glowed as the handouts melted right off his wrist and smiled. "Though you humans where better with your stuff but I guess not. Still the same with Adam and Eve flawed and mistakes miss Varia" he grinned standing there thunder boomed outside but no rain fell lightning flashed.

"I know you seek answers but that lion can't give you all that you need girl" he said smiling daeklu before his massive wings unfolded sharply. The wings where golden black color something amazingly to blend together.

"My real name ? Ah...Lucifer" and with that a bolt of lightning filled the room and when the light was gone so was the male but he left a feather behind almost as a parting gift and on it was written a place.

Fall peak a large cliff at the outskirts of town.

This caused Varia to fall backwards but she didn't scream as she didn't feel threatened by him. More like she was a puppet in a bigger game. She watched as the feather drifted down into her hands, she caught it gently and saw the writing on it.

Three cops ran in to see if she was alright. They help her to her feet, she was bedazzled by the devil. She thought God was on her side. But it turned out. It was the other guy.

"Beelz Johnson." She says and orders them to run some searches on him. Meanwhile, she made tracks for this Fall Peak. She must have been crazy, she thought as she drove to the outskirts of town. She stopped and looked at the map. It was not on the map.

She got out of the car and looked around, seeing a few different cliffs. "I think I'm lost..." She states as she wandered slowly around the area, wind picking up slowly. Suddenly her feet tread onto softly falling snow. The weather had changed drastically, it was the middle of summer. The snowflakes fall onto her hair and stick into her dark locks, standing out in contrast. She looked past the falling snow and saw a shadowy figure. It looked like the same figure in her dreams. Masked by the snow, she couldn't quite make it out.

"Is this weather...your mood?" She talks out loudly to herself.

my dear child no not my mood the demons mood a Voice very different then Lucifer's demonic raged one. This one was kinder and softer as if a angel spoke to her. The snow figured turned to her his wings where massive and glowing white and yellow now. Then as she got close hr was gone like an illusion of her past.

"Welcome to the Fallen Peak" said the demonic voice of Lucifer as he stood on a rock his eyes narrowed and sharp. Her clothing was a leather jacket and blue jeans. He had a scar running down his cheek to the base of his neck.

"You do search for answers then"

Varia walked toward this mysterious man. "Yes." She felt compelled toward him, drawn even. She didn't know what made her feel like that. She wanted more though. More out of life. She just had to know.

"Are you..really Lucifer? The first Angel?" She asked as she stood beneath his magnificence as he stood over her on the rock.

The archangel looked at her and nodded "Yes I am Lucifer the first angel and the first to fall before my family" said slowly looking at her his eyes dull and viod of emotions. He stood there looking at her with sharp glare. He looked put at the city below them knowing his demons where out there and sighed gently.

Varia watches him. The way he moved. She KNEW this man. "Then...what are you doing here? And what does it have to do with my nightmares?" She wondered what he could possibly want with a nobody like her. "I'm a nobody. Surely you have better things to be doing...?" Her angelic modesty had been overwhelmed with insecurity and a low self-esteem. That's why she always felt sad. Or was it because of another reason she chose to forget?