Azazel just grunts at Gabriel. He steps back and stands attention to michael behind him.

Varia watched from the window and gasps as michael hit the lion. She heard his harsh words.

'I can never go back...' She thought sadly. Perhaps she could learn how to make a home on earth. It would be hard but she was not alone.

The lion growled "I will speak with you alone Michael tommrow" he said as Micheal eyes narrowed "tratior" he yelled. Gabriel gave a powerful roar that made the legion fall to their knees. He huffed and watched the two angels.

Azazel backs off with michael's legion. As varia senses them leave she sighed with relief. But she worried for raphael being left on his own without gabriel to protect him.

Maybe this was their plan? No gabriel would know.

"Come we must gather some of my old friends" he said walking into the house still in lion form as a portal oensd and he went through and they where back at the church with Raphael

Varia followed the lion back to earth. She turned to him "perhaps it would be quicker if we split up? Tell me where to go and who to see, my lord."

Raphael was resting "she is my best messenger, and the most loyal angel you will meet" he told gabriel of his prodigical pupil.

"There has to be something or someone that isn't in the war" he said placing slightly sighing softly thinking

Varia watched the archangel thinking. Still in awe at the power of his roar and glad she was on his side. "I'm sure michael and lucifer have many enemies who despise them both. Sometimes we have to fight fire with fire..."

Gabriel looked out the window, thinking and then sighed "I will find Lucifer" he said, he must be MAD or CRAZY Lucifer was evil ? right ?

"Please you have to be careful Gabriel" varia pleaded with him, she took his hands gently "we only just found you alive and well, we could not bare to lose you again! Raphael could not take it. Nor I.."

"worry not my child I shall be fine" promised softly kissing her forehead and then was gone deep into hell where no godly creature should be but walking in was the golden lion of god. He walked across the plains of hell and came to the kingdom. the guards backed away from him as he came into the throneroom and saw Lucifer sitting there "Lucifer" he said sharply. The to brothers had been the cloest of all the archangels and still where thats why gabriel didn't worry about going into hell.

(mind playing him for a small bit?)

(I can try!)

Lucifer looked up from his throne slowly. "Gabriel. My brother." He had not seen him in the longest time. He stands up and steps toward the lion. "You must be desperate to come here."

"I am on my last legs here Lucifer" he said softly looking at the other slowly "This war has gone too far bother you can't keeo going on like this" he said smoothly looking at him.

Lucifer scoffs. "Tell that to Michael, little brother." Folding his arms. "He's never let go."

"you don't think I have tried ?" asked gabriel sadly as he sighed and shook his head "there got to be a waybto make him see" he said tiredly and hears a little voice and looked over seeing Lucifer's daughter and his eyes widened "your ....a dad?" he asked comfused as the little girl yawned "daddy who is that?" asked the small young girl.

"That. Is your Uncle Gabriel, Demi." Lucifer had even named her something nice. Surely this was not the angel of evil everyone pictured.

The little girl smiles at Gabriel. "Uncle Gabriel!"

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Meanwhile back on Earth Varia decided to take more of a look around at Gabriel’s church where he preached.
“500 AD is when humanity last saw an angel visit. Deemed too unworthy of our presence?” She had wondered why.
It had all gone too quiet outside for her liking. Gabriel had been gone a long while with the time difference in dimension travel between the realms of the dead and living. She wandered out of the church to an empty street.
“There were children here…” She grew confused, as she ventured further from the church. She heard a giggle and saw a shadow turn behind a corner. She follows it.

She saw a little girl standing in a black coat. “Little girl?” No reply. Varia walked closer. “Are..you alright?” The girl just stood there blank and then disappeared in a cloud of black smoke. Varia steps back. Someone was abducting people.

She gasps and runs down the street – bicycles, cars, toys, all left empty on the street. One bicycle wheel turned on its own; they had been taken recently. She wandered for miles in a now empty city. “What is going on?!” She wasn’t used to life on Earth but she was sure this wasn’t right.

“Do you think Gabriel loves you?” A woman’s voice came from behind her. Varia turned around to see a ghostly apparition. “He loves everyone.” She replied heart fully.

The woman disappeared. “But he does not love you.”

“If you are trying to scare me, it will not work!” Varia narrows her eyes.

“You are alone, Angel. You always have been. You always will be. I feel it in your soul.” The mysterious woman appears behind her again as a black wisp. “You seek something an angel should never want. And that makes you destined to Fall…” The entity whispered.

Varia steps backward in horror. “No…” She tries to get away from the despair spirit but it swirls around her.

“Desire. That is your sin.” It strangles the Angel, Varia falls to her knees, unable to breathe. The swirling darkness grapples her leg and lifts her upside down off the ground. “I think you’d best serve Lucifer as Gabriel's memory…”

Varia's body resonates as her body was consumed by the darkness, she lets out an almighty holy barrier of light that explodes outward in a bubble. She lands on her front and chokes. It had gone away for now and Varia looked up through her long strands of hair, gasping for air.

As time went past Gabriel ears perked and growled gently "I must go, Good bye young one we shall meet once again in time" he said ina promise and with that he lunge out of the castle and ran through the world and found the angel and looked at her and dashed over. he croyched near her "hey hey you okay?" he asked turning angle form looking at the empty city and shuddered slightly at the feeling of demons around the place.

"A little shaky." Varia states as she gets up dusting herself off. "There is a despair demon here." She didn't want to focus on her own thoughts, filled with doubt. She hid a terrible secret. And the demon fed off of her mind.

"It's taken everyone. It tried to take me too." She looked around the grey, lifeless city, devoid of colour. "Light shall always prevail." She held her glowing hand upto her face. Thankful her power rid her of the darkness.

"How was Lucifer?" She asked him, wanting to know more. The demon mentioned Lucifer. Something within her had changed her into a colder state of mind.

"well your in the demon camp you should have expected demons to be here" he said and vanished off with her back to the church and sighed seeing it empty and sighed gently. "Lucifer is fine, wants the war to end but its Michael the problem now" he said slowly as he made her some tea as it had gotten bitterly cold.

Varia sat down in the church and couldn't stop thinking about the child who disappeared. Was it real or just an illusion? And what the demon said to her was bizarre. She had a feeling it wasnt the last she would see of them.

"Michael has changed." She softly speaks over her cup of tea. The steam rising, the warmth hitting her soft rosy cheeks.

"He is blurring the lines between a Fallen and an Angel who simply disagrees with him now." She reminisced. "He used to be so worldly. Graceful." She looks over to Gabriel, but only glanced, as she couldn't look him in the eye. "I think your leaving affected him the most..."

"But I came back, I came back and yet he didn't change he hit me" gabriel said worridly eyes closed and worried "Something had overshadowed my brother and playing with his emotions playing with his mind there is something....playing" he said tiredly rubbing his head slightly "Lucifer has a daughter "