In the beginning, there was nothing.

There’s no light nor darkness. Until one time, a spark of light appeared. It was as small as a pea, and lifeless. For some reason, it became bigger. Maybe because of the space around it, there was nothing beside it so it tried to become bigger.

As time passes by, the light made itself a body, just like a human body, but it doesn’t have a face, nor everything that you can see in a human body, only the figure of it, instead of flesh it covered itself with light.

And then, he became conscious. He became a being with a mind, with its own thinking. At first, he was satisfied. Just being alive is everything to him. But after millions of years, he became lonely. Being alone in the midst of nothing made him feel scared for the first time. He was confused, “What is this? Why am I feeling like this?” he said. He became confused for years, trying to think of something. When finally, thought of something.

“What if I, make something that’s just like me?” And for the first time, he felt excitement. He didn’t know what powers he had, he only thought of making something that’s just like him. And just by thinking, it happened.

Darkness was born. And just like him, it started as a small ball of darkness. He thought that it’s nothing like him, since it’s small and it doesn’t talk. It made him feel disappointed for the first time. And then, while feeling disappointed, he looked into the darkness.

He looked at it continuously for millions of years, and just like him, it started to create its own body. The Darkness made itself a human body, a female’s body. And Light, while watching the dark became just like him felt happy for the first time.

And then, Darkness became a living being, just like him. The two talked together endlessly, they had fun, they played games, they exchanged knowledge with each other. As years pass by, Light became bored for the first time. Light became tired of everything they did, as he already knew what they are going to do, what they are going to talk about. It was like a man that’s in a relationship. When a man became in love with a woman, at first, he will be so excited. And when days pass by, with their continuously talking and doing the same thing over and over again, the man will finally become bored of their relationship. And by this, light became the first jerk of the universe.

Light decided, “I will make something new, something that can live by itself. But first, they should have a place to live in. And that place should have a place to live in… and that place that has a place to live in should have a place… to… live… ah, I don’t know what I’m saying anymore... But! I will still make something like that. And I will make it as perfect as possible.” He told himself.

Darkness noticed Light mumbling to himself so she tried to approach him but Light looked a lot serious than his normal attitude. Darkness felt amazed for the first time. So she didn’t approach him instead, she looked at him with awe in her eyes.

And so, Light created a land. A circle of land, the earth. There was only soil in it, there were no plants nor any thing.

Darkness thought of something, she wanted to suggest things that light should add to what he is doing. So she went closer towards light. But when she came, she covered the whole land of soil with darkness. The light that Light gave became nothing, and that made him realize.

Darkness didn’t think of it, she only went to say suggestions to light, but light realized it, that the light and the darkness could never be together. So darkness asked him, “I would like to take part of what you are doing, could I?” she said. But Light answered, “The light should be separated from the darkness.”

Darkness was confused, “What do you mean separated? We’ve been together for many years, not to mention that we are friends forever! So what do you mean separated…? Am I that unneeded…?” she told him with pain in her eyes. Light answered with a smile, and looked at the land that he made. Darkness also looked at the land, she saw the land becoming covered with darkness all over it. She knew what that meant. She was the reason why it became dark. She doesn’t want it to become like that, nor she knew that it’ll be like that when she comes closer. And so, she stepped back and far away from the land that light made. And when she looked at it, it still has darkness on it, but only half of the land. The other side was covered by light.

He called the light a day, and he called the darkness a night.

And just like he said, the light should become separated from the darkness.

After that, light created the sky, and he created the sea.

Light created the universe, and he created the stars.

Light, after thinking for a moment, took some mud, and made it look like himself. He breath into it, and it was given life. He called that life Adam. But he thought, “It was the same when I was alone in the universe, I had no one.” And so, he took some of the man’s flesh and created a woman, that just looks like darkness.

Light and darkness watched the humans far away, observing them for life. Light didn’t know what to do to them, he needed someone who’ll help him to guide the humans. So, he created the angels. Darkness on the other hand, wanted to do have a family, so she created the demons.

The demons were formed because of darkness’ feeling of sadness, and the angels were created because of light’s feeling of happiness. As time goes by, that sadness became hatred, it was because darkness was jealous of the humans. She wanted attention from light, she wanted him to do what they both did in the early years, but he couldn’t give any time to her.

Light found a more important thing than playing games and talking; guiding the humans.

Darkness’ jealous made her go into the earth, and tempt the humans.

And then, that’s where everything started from.

There were supposed to be only two beings, but because of God’s words, he was able to make a whole another race of celestial beings; the Asmoriths.

Turning a demon into an angel, or turning an angel into a demon is possible, but it needs a whole lot of demonic or angelic power in order to do that.

Only God and Sanata can do that.

For Sanata’s case, she used mostly all of her power just to transform Azazel into a demon. When Azazel became a demon, he didn’t lose his memories, his feelings were just warped.

And so, the story continues now.

“Azazel… became a demon?!” Shiro said.

Shiro was shocked, he didn’t know that it is possible to turn a being into a demon. So he looked at Raphael, and when he did, he saw Raphael just standing there, looking amused. Shiro was confused, “Why are they so calm? The leader of the Asmoriths just got turned into a demon! How can they be so calm?” he asked himself. Raphael looked at him and answered, “Don’t be so scared, kid. She just turned Azazel into a demon, he didn’t become more powerful than he is. He just became evil; his mind is full of bloodlust right now. But even so, we should stay calm. If we don’t, then we’re going to have problems fighting.” Raphael said.

Shiro understands it now. “Stay calm, stay calm.” He told himself.

Lucifer puts his hands into his pockets as he walked closer towards them. But he was stopped by a white laser that came from the throne. It was Azazel’s. “Don’t come any closer, or I’ll shoot again.” Azazel said. Lucifer sighed and replies:

“What am I, a police that’s going to capture a thief?”

Azazel shot another laser towards his body, but it was deflected.

Lucifer closed his eyes and said: “Stop. I don’t want to fight you. We’re here to help you, not to fight.” He said. Azazel stopped for a second as he tries to understand what just Lucifer said to him.

But it didn’t work. Azazel shot another laser at him and just like earlier, it was deflected. Lucifer looked at Sanata and asked, “What are you trying to do? Are you trying to make us kill each other?” he said.

Sanata smiled and replies: “No, not at all. Whatever problems you both have in the past are yours, not mine. I don’t have any reason to do so. But still, it’s amusing to know that the Almighty Lucifer was a murderer. Isn’t that fun?” she said. Lucifer replies: “I don’t want to hear that from you, demon. You drived millions of people into their deaths using your demons, with that power, you can create everything. But instead, you used it to drive people to their deaths. Why do you do so?”

Lucifer asked Sanata with curiousity. Sanata becomes silent for a second, but she gets back to her senses when Lucifer dashed towards her.

Sanata didn’t try to dodge, it was because Azazel stopped Lucifer from reaching Sanata. Lucifer’s hands were still on the pocket at that time, so he used his eyes and looked at Azazel. His eyes became full of pity towards Azazel. Azazel was stunned for a second, his memories came back to him, about the peace treaty towards the Angels and the demons of Lucifer. It was the time to attack Sanata, the true priority of Lucifer was to apprehend Sanata, and she used almost all of her power just to transform Azazel. It was the perfect time to strike, so Lucifer released his left hand on his pocket, his hand was glowing with black ball of light, and he called it…

“Black hole.”

Lucifer knew that even if Sanata used almost all of her power he still wouldn’t defeat her. Even if he used the vacuum that destroys heavenly bodies; the black hole.

But it was enough to stop Sanata from moving, rendering her unable to escape and while on his grasp, Lucifer would try to use another method in order to completely capture Sanata.

That was his plan. But unfortunately, it didn’t go too well. Sanata, just before Lucifer uses his Black Hole, casted a spell. Lucifer didn’t hear it but he continued to power up his black hole.

Lucifer released the power of the black hole, the whole castle was shaking from the pressure that it releases. Cairn couldn’t stop going towards the black hole, for he is just a magic-type demon, and his body is not strong enough. Luckily, Shiro was there. Shiro used his power to lock his feet down to the ground and held Cairn. Even with the strong enhancement of Shiro, he was still a little shaken by that.

“Dad, I knew you aren’t just an ordinary demon.” He said.

Shiro's amazement reached Lucifer.

And then, the black hole stopped. It was vanished instantly. Lucifer was shocked, he didn’t expect Sanata to cancel his spell, he knew Sanata could perform a spell or two, but he didn’t expect her to use a spell- breaker.

“H-How…?! That spell was a celestial-class magic! How—”

“Who do you think I am, Lucifer? I'm the one who made those things. I'm the one who controls them. I am the dark lord.”

Lucifer became shocked, he didn’t realize it.

“Ah, ah. So, are you done now? Why don’t I show you a true black hole?”

Lucifer's eyes widened, he looked back towards Shiro and the others and shouted:

“RUN!!!”

Sanata raised her left hand, and a big ball of darkness appeared right in front of them, the ball was so powerful that the whole castle was destroyed and sucked into it. Lucifer was the closest but he managed to step down and used gravity manipulation to drop his feet to the ground. He countered the black hole.

True, Sanata used almost all of her power. Considering she can still make a black hole, her power was 1000 times stronger than Lucifer, she only hid it because she thought it was fun to make Lucifer believe that she was as strong as him. What a troll.

Raphael understood what Lucifer had said so he created a portal at his back and took Shiro and Cairn.

“The black hole was still unactive, we can still made it.” He said, risking all of his powers just to let the two escape.

The black hole's true power wasn’t just sucking things, it can also be used to teleport them to another Galaxy, rendering them unable to come back even if they use all of their power. In Sanata's case, the black hole's passive effect; the vacuum is so strong that she didn't need to activate it in order for them to get sucked instantly. She wanted to watch them get sucked into the void slowly. But it appears that it is not possible right now, since Raphael created a portal at his back and was about to teleport, while Lucifer used his gravity manipulation to stay on the ground.

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Sanata noticed them, so she casted a spell on Azazel, making him conscious. It was in an instant, and Azazel understood what his new master wanted, to cut off their escapes.

So just before Raphael and the others gets to teleport, a huge rail of lighting was shot unto them, it was Azazel's main power, Lighting.

Raphael was forced to closed his portal and was dropped to the ground. He dropped the two on the ground, he was sucked by the pressure of the hole that was on Sanata's hand, he was about to fly towards it when Shiro grabbed his arm. Shiro also grabbed Cairn with his left hand, but he doesn’t have enough hands to stop them from the pressure of the black hole.

But, the pressure stopped. They fell on the ground right behind Lucifer.

They looked at Sanata who was laughing at them. And then, Raphael felt something. He felt a feeling back when Azazel and Kuro fought each other, the activation of Armageddon.

He puts his hands to the ground and looked at it while he says:

“The chain of—”

But he was cutted-off when a beam of light appeared on top of the castle. There was a beam of light that appeared on top. There was also a being, it was an angel. He came down from the heaven to tell them the news.

Raphael's eyes couldn’t believe it.

Lucifer looked at the angel with shock in his eyes. Shiro's eyes widened, and Cairn's jaw dropped.

“Beings. I came down from heaven to tell you that the Armageddon is happening. It was not a decision of the heaven, it is a catastrophe that even the heaven couldn’t stop. My name is Michael, I'm an angel of God, and I'm here to tell you that.”

Yes. It was the archangel Michael. Raphael's brother, Lucifer’s too. And the messenger of the heaven.

Lucifer became so angry that the ground beneath him broke, he looked at Sanata with malice on his eyes and said:

“This was your plan all along?! To activate Armageddon?!”

“Yes, I was so amused that I almost killed you all. Now, the preparations are complete. We just need to take some being that’ll help me raid the heaven.”

Lucifer’s eyes widened as he turned his back at Sanata and tried to get a hold of Shiro. Shiro wasn’t aware of what's happening, but he felt another demon's aura that's getting nearer towards them.

Sanata smiled and said: “Alistair-san, take him.”

And then, a demon appeared right behind Shiro. Lucifer was too late, he couldn’t get a hold of Shiro. Alistair was already holding Shiro's shoulder. He teleported Shiro at the throne beside Sanata.

Shiro's instincts told him to fight back, so he did. He turned around and clenched his left fist to punch Alistair, but the demon stopped his punch. A gust of wind was released just by receiving Shiro's punch.

“Resistance is futile.” Alistair told him while crushing Shiro's hands.

Shiro was screaming in pain. Lucifer couldn’t take it anymore, so he dashed towards the demon and created a sword. He was about to slice him when Azazel appeared in front of him, crushing his sword with his lighting.

Lucifer used both of his hands to create black holes, but it vanished instantly because of Sanata.

“Admit it, Lucifer. You can’t save your son. You’re weak. That’s why you always rely on other people, like that archangel.” Sanata told him.

Lucifer stopped as he fell on his knees to the ground.

“Look. Stop fooling yourself. You may be a lord, but it is because I didn’t kill you. You may be a strong demon, but you are thousand times weaker than me. And I can take care of everything alone, not like you.” Sanata told him.

“If you want your son back, come to hell. Make a deal with the demon. And maybe, well, maybe. I would spare his life.”

Sanata laughed while vanishing into the air along with Azazel, Shiro, and Alistair.

It became silent for the three of them, they couldn’t do a thing against the demon. It was a wrong decision to go and help Azazel, they were lured into a trap.

The Armageddon was activated because Sanata is releasing a huge amount of demonic power through the black hole, and Lucifer was using his angelic power to stay on the ground, while Raphael is also using his power to open the portal.

While Azazel, he became a demon, but his powers are not demonic. He used his lighting to stop Raphael from escaping. It is still a power of an Asmorith. At that instant, the chain of heaven moved and the fate of the human world were guided towards destruction.

Lucifer cried. He cried because he couldn’t protect his only son. He cried because he prepared for years, and it was not enough.

The archangel Michael went up to the heaven without saying anything. Raphael looked at the ground with hopeless eyes.

Cairn looked at them both with sad eyes. It was short, but his time together with Shiro was fun. He wanted to know what’s Shiro's name, he still didn’t know it.

And so, Cairn talked to them.

“We’ll save him.” He said.

But he didn’t got any reply from them.

“Hey, we're going to save him—”

“How are we suppose to do that?!

Didn’t you see what happened to us?! We don’t stand a chance against her! We'll just kill ourselves if we try to save him.” Raphael answered.

Lucifer became angry at Raphael, he held Raphael's collar and said:

“What did you say?! You wouldn’t save him?! You’re his teacher, right!?

Then why wouldn’t you save him?!”

Raphael punched Lucifer in the face and replied:

“It was all your fault. You are not strong enough to protect him. We are not strong enough. We wouldn’t stand a chance against them.” He said.

Lucifer stood up and clenched his fist, he's about to punch Raphael when a voice that’s familiar to them was heard.

“Stop! What are you two doing!? Stop fighting!”

It was Kuro. She felt something strange so she went to check it, and now she’s here. Unaware of what happened to the world and her love.

Lucifer and Raphael looked at each other, they realized something.

“So it really started huh.” Raphael said.

Kuro was confused, “What started?”

Lucifer replies: “Armageddon.”

Kuro's eyes widened, and then the three of them filled her with the explanations.

“Shiro-kun is…"

“Yes. I’m very sorry, Sanata was strong, I didn’t—”

Raphael patted Lucifer’s back and said: “It’s okay now. Don’t blame yourself. I also didn’t get to teleport him far away. It’s partly my fault.”

“Me too, I couldn’t do anything.” Cairn added.

Kuro's eyes became sad as she try to understand the situation. Even if she went there by herself, she still wouldn’t be able to save Shiro. It was all for nothing if she went.

“It is painful… I couldn’t do anything for him… I should've stayed with him… I'm sorry… I’m sorry Shiro-kun…” she said as she starts to cry.

Cairn looked at Kuro with pity, his reason to save him became much more stronger. Cairn devised a plan, he said: “We’re going to save him, no matter what. But first, what was his name again?” he asked. Kuro looked at him and replies: “Shiro-kun… that's his name. How come you did not know his name?” she said. Cairn held his head with his hand and said:

“Well, he didn’t have the time to answer me. Forget that, we need to have a plan, a plan in which we could save him, and humanity. I've heard of this before, the Armageddon. To stop it, we need to do the Ritual of Gods. But Azazel is no longer an Asmorith. That means he can no longer be a part of the ritual.” He explained.

Lucifer stood up and think.

“Yeah, you're right. So you’re saying that there is another being that can stand-in as the leader of the Asmoriths?” he asked.

Cairn nodded and replies: “Yes. It is his advisor, the one called Mordecai.

He may look weak but he's the second strongest Asmorith. The gap on them is very high though, he needs to have a whole lot of Asmorith power in order to become a participant of the ritual.”

Lucifer realized it, “By the way, where are the Asmoriths when Sanata attacked?” he asked them.

Raphael holds his chin to think, and then he realized that Azazel was the only Asmorith when it happened, so it means that the Asmoriths escaped while Azazel stopped Sanata from capturing them.

“If we want to fight her, we need an army. We could use them as well as that Asmorith named Mordecai, he could be the next Lord of Asmoriths.” Cairn told them.

But Kuro disagreed. “Even with the numbers of Asmoriths, we still couldn’t fight them. Sanata have demons, we only have Asmoriths and not to mention her whole power could be released when the fighting starts.” She explained to them.

“If an army of Asmoriths are not enough, why don’t you add my army?” Lucifer said to them.

Raphael clicked his fingers and added: “I could ask some of the Angels, even Gabriel to help us. Michael, he's out of the option. He may be as strong as Sanata, but he doesn’t want to involve himself with that, he just wants to do his mission.” He said.

Kuro realized something and asked Raphael: “If his mission is to take Shiro-kun and use him as the cleanser of all evil, why don’t we use that to our advantage? We could persuade Michael and the other Angels to help and take back Shiro-kun. Well, their plan won’t happen unless Shiro-kun is alive. If Sanata uses him and disposes him, then Michael’s mission won’t be able to happen. We could use that.” She said.

The four of them looked at each other, and nodded.

For the Asmoriths, Cairn is the one who will find them. For the Demons, Lucifer will get help from his army.

For the Angels, Raphael will persuade them to help. That leaves Kuro.

“I will do something.” Kuro said.

And they nodded again and teleported to wherever they are supposed to gather help.

Cairn started to use his wits to try and pin-point where the Asmoriths are staying. First, he uses his Presence Sensing. He didn't sense any traces of them at Alagahad, so he went down to earth. When he went down, he noticed the large amount of Asmorith aura at the forest. So he teleported there and saw the Asmoriths, they were beaten up, some of them couldn’t stand up.

He looked at them and they noticed him. The other Asmoriths stood up and prepared themselves for fighting, even ones that were beaten stood up.

Cairn panicked, but he get a hold of himself a while later.

He walked towards them and then kneel. He bowed his head to them.

The Asmoriths were confused, they don’t know why is he kneeling nor bowing.

And then, an Asmorith came from behind.

“Move.” He said as he walks to the front.

That Asmorith looked at Cairn and said: “Lift your head. There are no lords here, so lift your head and stand up.” The Asmorith said to him.

Cairn stood up, and the Asmorith instantly remembered him.

“You… you were there, you came along with the Nephilim, Zenainiel and the Archangel Raphael, what are you doing here?” the Asmorith said.

Cairn looked at the Asmorith's face.

He smiled and said, “Perfect timing.”

The Asmorith didn’t know what he meant by that, so he asked again.

“What are you doing here?”

Cairn's expression became sad when he remembered that Azazel became a demon.

Cairn explained to them what happened.

“Your lord, Azazel, became a demon.” He said.

The other Asmoriths didn’t believe what he just said, while the others thought that he is just kidding.

But, the only one who believed is the Asmorith in front of him, Mordecai.

“My liege, he became a demon? Is that true? How?” he asked Cairn.

“Through demonic power. The Dark Lord uses her power in order to transform Azazel into a demon. He is with her right now, and also…”

Cairn didn't finish his sentence as he pointed towards the houses of humans near them.

The houses are burning, the people were fighting, the trees are dying, the birds are flying away from them. It was like the end of the world.

Mordecai looked back at Cairn and said: “The Armageddon…”

“Yes. It activated. And we need your help along with the other Asmoriths to take back Shiro, the Nephilim.”

The Asmoriths looked at Mordecai, they were looking at him saying:

“What should we do?” but he didn’t accept it.

“Some of us are injured, we are not sure if we can be enough to help. Also, we need to hide somewhere, Alagahad isn’t safe now. So we can’t accept your offer.”

“But what if…” Cairn said.

“What if?” Mordecai replied.

“What if we take back your master after you help? Would you help us?”

The Asmoriths became silent, and Mordecai, he thinks of something.

“But, we are not sure if we could take him back. Knowing that, would you still help us?” Cairn added.

There really are no point in risking lives of many people just to take back their master, but they just couldn’t live without him. He's like a king to them, they needed a king like him.

And so, Mordecai decided.

“We’ll help.”

Cairn bowed his head to them and said: “Thank you.”

Raphael went up into the heaven.

There he found some of the Angels going down to the earth. The Angels knew about the Armageddon, but they didn’t know that Sanata is going to raid the heaven while the angels are on earth.

So he warned them, he told them what would happen. Some of the Angels listened, but they couldn’t just stay in the heaven, praying for their lives when the humans down on Earth is killing each other.

Raphael understood it, but he just couldn’t let Sanata do what she wants. Heaven is their home, if Sanata raids it along with her demons, then they won't have any place to stay. He doesn’t want that to happen.

When an angel came, he's a very close angel to him.

"Raphael, are you telling the truth?” the angel asked.

Raphael nodded. “I am telling the truth. I swear on the name of our father, this place will be raided by the dark lord.” He said.

The angel believed him.

“But… that could be avoided if you help me.” Raphael said to him.

The angel was surprised.

“How can we do that?” the angel said.

“We'll have to stop her from ascending. She's still gathering her strength, she wouldn’t attack for a week or so, since she used almost all of her power.” Raphael explained.

The angel nodded and said: “Take all the angels you need. I'll stay here and talk to Michael.”

“Thank you, Gabriel. I will not forget this.” He said.

It seems like it really is impossible for Michael to join them.

Raphael might be an archangel but he don’t have enough authority to take angels when it’s the dire time of the world.

And so, Raphael, along with a whole army of angels came down to earth.

When they went down to earth, they saw the situation that all of the human beings are in right now.

Raphael told them to help the humans, since they still have time to prepare. He just needed the angels to help him fight Sanata, but he could also make the angels help the humans.

And so, the Armageddon was still happening. Even if little, Raphael and his angels are helping the humans suppress their feelings, in order to avoid any fights.

That leaves the demons.

Lucifer came back to hell, he saw his demons lying around, doing whatever they want.

Sanata could go through the gate of hell all by herself, but now that she have Azazel, she could teleport many beings at once.

She teleported to the bottom part of hell.

Lucifer explained them everything.

“We, by the order of God tortures human souls to give them punishment for the sins that they have done. But, the humans are being tortured by the heaven even if they are innocent. We will not accept this, the universe should abide the universal law of life, and this situation is not a part of them. My demons, my army, you swore to follow me even in death. Now, you shall see your oath and listen to all my orders! We will fight the demon lord and we will take back the job that is supposed to be done by us!”

He said to the demons. The demons shouted, 'hail the almighty Lucifer' they said. They will follow his orders, whatever that might be. In order for them to take back what’s supposed to be theirs.

And so, the three factions joined together in order to fight the demon lord.

While Kuro, she went to the highest point on the earth. The Mount Everest.

She released her wings and created a demonic circle, a reverse star with a circle around it.

She held her hands while she talked to herself.

“I may be weak compared to the demon lord, but I won’t give up. Because, I have someone to protect, I have someone to save. And that alone, will make me strong. I don’t need any powerful spells, I just need a simple sword. A sword in which it is made to save, not to kill. A sword that is fitting to the demon who was created by the world’s sadness, not born from hatred. I hereby call, the sword of the savior—”

“—Asmodeus.”

-End of Chapter 14-