"Fallen Radio" (Azrael x Alastor) HH!

✧. ┊ Chapter 2 - | The Downfall |

[Azrael's point of view]

"This wasn't supposed to happen, no... n- no It was a mistake! I swear!"

I begged, my wings flaring in desperation as I looked around at all the other authorities in the court room, I could feel the tension and hear the whispers all around the room. They only found out my part in the rebellion after Adam decided to snitch. I looked up at 'Father' and then Sera, tears streaming from my eyes.

"w- we can figure this out! Father! PLEASE!"

"SILENCE."

the courtroom fell to a deafening silence, I could see 'Father's fury, his fist curled up as his eyes scanned my body. He glanced down at Adam, his voice going soft as he looked at the stand where Adam and his trusty right-hand woman, Lute. 

"Adam, my child. Please recite what you told thy a few hours before the trial".

I could see Adam's snarky grin as he put on the facade of innocence in front of MY 'Father', I felt enraged, I felt like I could rip his wings off at any moment. I tried to get up to stop him but two exterminators held me back, I screamed at 'Father'.

"F- FATHER PLEASE! DON'T LISTEN TO HIM! HE- HE SPEAKS OF LIES!"

Adam stood at the pew and sighed sadly, his fake alligator tears on display. He fluttered his eyelashes at me, I swore that they were so big that he could fly away with them- onto the point. He tapped the microphone gently and cleared his throat. 

"Father, you know I'd never lie to you... that DISGRACE you call your son, HELPED that vermin Lucifer and that whore Lilith with the rebellion!"

I felt the whole courtrooms eyes pierce into my flesh, my nails digging into the table as I looked up at Father with tears in my eyes, I tried to speak, I tried to reason and bargain. I heard a loud and thunderous boom.

"Azrael, there were witnesses. You know what the punishment of this heinous act is, yes?"

I screamed at him, tears rolling down my face as I tried to escape the exterminators' grasps, their spears piercing into my skin as they tried to hold me back from "harming anyone". I looked at the members of the jury.

"C- Come on-- y- you all don't believe him, right? I- I only did what was best for my brother! f- for my family! I am the sole reason why people even get into heaven anymore!"

The members of the jury all shook their heads, casting their votes for the verdict, I felt a bone chilling wave of fear wash over me as 'Father' got the votes, I gulped, a bead of sweat rolling down the side of my face.

"Azrael has been declared..."

"... guilty."

I felt my world come crashing down, my eyes frantic as I looked around the room, my wings beating in fear as my words came out as whimpers and babbling, I started sobbing, my words becoming incoherent as I looked up at the one person that I admired, the one person that I devoted my whole life to. 'Father' looked down at me with indifference, he cleared his throat. 

"Tomorrow at dawn, he'll be sentenced to 100 slashes with the holy blade from the 'Garden of Eden', the punishment will be led by Adam, who will take over Azrael's order and authority in heaven... and to be banished from heaven to hell."

My world fell apart, I was thrown into the dungeons like a peasant! like a criminal! I tried to reason with the guards, this was all unreasonable!... 

-The next morning.-

I was pulled out of the cell I was trapped in, my mind blank as they brought me to the arena. I saw a post and a table with the holy blade, my wings shuddered in fear as they tied me to the pole. I saw that arrogant, vile, backstabbing Adam and his disgustingly snarky smirk, I felt tears welling up in my eyes, each slice causing me to scream out in pain, blood splattering onto the floor as the wounds on my back got bigger and bigger. I looked up at 'Father' with tears rolling down my face, I screamed at him, begging him to stop, begging him to find some decency and to stop this heinous act.

"FATHER PL- ACK!! PLEASE!!!"

"Is... Is this what justice means to you?! ANSWER ME FATHER!!!"

My screams fell on deaf ears, he simply turned away and walked off, like a coward. The deity that promised to always be there for me, that promised to always be on my side, the deity that promised me that he loved me with all his 'heart'. I blacked out soon after, when I woke up, my wings and back were mangled, I saw 'Father staring me down as I stood on the outskirts of the gates of a place that I once called 'home', I heard his thunderous voice.

"May the world I created and the pits of hell you've come to reside in forgive you, but I must not."

I was thrown down, a few of my feathers flying off my wings as I fell down into hell like a meteorite, I broke down in tears as I tried to reach up to 'Father', my hands trembling as my tears fell. My head hit a wall and then I blacked out....

-Current timeline-

I woke up to a strange gentleman staring me down, his piercing red eyes and his... comical large toothy grin staring at me, he was dressed like one of the occupations that I had helped Leonardo to invent, a... radio host? I couldn't remember anymore. I felt tears welling up in my eyes again, I could hear the static in the demons voice, he sounded like he was supposed to be in a real radio.

"What's your name, my dear?"

The strange demon questioned, I tried speaking, but I choked slightly on the liquid in my throat, that liquid being my blood. My words came out jumbled as I tried not to break down crying in front of this... stranger.

"... Az... Azr-..."

"... Azrael..."