Song Remains the Same

Chapter 83: Destroyer

"Stars have died so that you may live."
- Unknown

*** CONTENT TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual Assault(s) and Non-Consensual Situations ***

In the beginning, when humanity was in its infancy, God created the brothers Behemoth and Leviathan—one to rule over the earth, one to rule over the sea. They were both fierce beasts in their own rights, but none was so great as Behemoth, who stalked the land in monstrous form. He towered above all other creatures and commanded fear, respect, and awe. Behemoth valued justice, purity, and righteousness of his own understanding and for some time, he was content to do what God had tasked him to do: govern in justice over humanity and punish small infractions as they arose. The humans worshiped him as a god—they called him Destroyer—and in attempts to appease him and stay his wrath, they gave him sacrifices of young animals, fruit and grain harvests, and virgins. He reveled in being loved and feared, and for some time he was happy with the status quo.

The Leviathan dwelt in the dark waters alone, cut off from the world and left to watch his brother from what felt like a distance. He swallowed down whole those who tempted fate by entering his kingdom and he was known as the monster in the deep. Very few people offered sacrifice to Leviathan—most fled the oceans and shores instead and Leviathan was furious that his brother was greater and more feared than he.

As humans grew in number, as they began to spread out across the land, Behemoth's reign became flimsier and flimsier. His worshipers began to forsake him and forget him and disregard his power as they built civilizations and became more intelligent. Growing angry and irrational at being ignored, Behemoth began to kill all those who did even the slightest wrong in his eyes and he was not sorry—he truly believed he should be revered and that his viewpoints were law. When it became too much, God locked him away.

At that time, the Leviathan thought he would take his chance and become the new deity that the humans worshiped. He disobeyed the command to remain in his watery confines and he instead began to steal his way into humans, using their bodies as his own, splitting himself into many beings as he did so. Leviathan consumed the flesh of people as food and was greedy. God grew angry with him and threw him into exile too.

The creator was disappointed. The brother beasts who were supposed to create order and enforce boundaries had become chaotic and self-serving and murderous. This is why God banished them to Purgatory where they would remain until the end of time, where they could no longer harm humans. In time, humans and history forgot these fierce monsters. Only two small verses remained in the Holy Bible reminding the world of the forgotten catastrophes God removed from existence...

Behold the Behemoth. What strength he has, what power! He ranks first among the works of God, his Maker can only approach him with a sword. Can anyone capture him?

And here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great. See the Leviathan: No one is so fierce that he dares to stir this creature up. Surely death is in his jaws.

Behemoth and Leviathan were gone forever, a memory and a legend and something most people scoffed at as caveman lore. And then in the year 2012, a desperate and fallen angel did what was never supposed to be done: He cracked open the veil that separated Purgatory from earth and he let an innumerable amount of souls enter him, all for the purpose of saving the one he loved. Among those souls he absorbed? Two of the most powerful and dangerous beings of all time. Behemoth and Leviathan.

Inside this angel, a war began to wage. It was a blurred and confused struggle between three ancient beings—Angel, Behemoth, and Leviathan. Each wanted control and dominance over the other. Underneath the weight of millions of souls, the angel floundered and failed and tried again and again to regain control as Behemoth and Leviathan joined forces and quashed him down inside of himself. However, what they could not crush or diminish was the love and affection so deeply seared into the vessel Castiel had inhabited for so long. As such, they mistook his feelings and convictions for their own.