Angel With A Shotgun (An Ao No Exorcist Fanfic)

Friend Or Foe?

A fallen angel is a wicked or rebellious angel that has been cast out of heaven. 

That's what humans have said about me, a statement that I cannot argue about. For most of us fallen angels, that is. I was sent out because of my link to Gehenna. I assisted in the night most humans know as The Blue Night. Most people, of course, would never know I was a part of it. Then again, there's always one person who knows everything.

Maybe even two.

My name is Riko Soul. This is my story.

The chains around my wrists collided, almost in slow motion.

I've been here for years now, my whole life really. My life in human years at least. I spent years in my cramped grey room, poked at and looked on through everything I do. All that I had in the room was a bed if you could even call it that, and a corner piled up with jumpsuits for this godforsaken place I'm in. It was dark but nothing I couldn't handle, it could be much worse. I could be dead by now. Thinking again, maybe I would be better off dead.

I've been here for too long, my wings, black and tainted, have probably become unusable and my body has become so sore. Any pain I should have felt is just numb. I can't feel anything on the outside, the inside is different. I have been marked unstable and become more of a play toy for researchers and most sick people in the world. They act as f I'm a circus act and leave me to be eaten by the wolves. The wolves can be whatever you want: the people, my emotions, even my own damn body. Everything has turned on me, including me. I willingly let scientists experiment on me, hoping they'll finally kill me. Just wishing for a failed test, a tiny slip up. Maybe then I would be able to talk to the gatekeepers, convince them I did what was right.

There is a careful balance of Gehenna and Assiah, each must be in harmony of some sort,. The fighting of the two worlds doesn't truly mean anything, instead, the equality must come from the beings within each. The demons of Gehenna bring the evil and the angels must bring the good. Few angels ever went near Gehenna, but the balance was slowly tilting, slowing becoming unstable, almost like me. I was going to bring more low-level demons to Assiah, to bring back the peace. I could have never known that other demons would catch on to me a follow me to Assiah, especially not the king of Gehenna himself. He possessed countless bodies and burnt shrines and temples to the ground, it didn't take him long to take out every exorcist there. Draining them of all they had and leaving them a burnt, bloody and bruised on the cold ground. I watched it happen, I had to follow exact orders and protect myself in the process. I could not stay forever though, the last thing I saw was a woman's body falling to the ground from her place in the once burning fires.

At that point, the story becomes almost like a story told in the Bible: I was put before the big guy himself and banished to earth. Instead of doing anything brash, I was almost immediately taken by humans, first I was in a large room, all white and there was no blood on the walls. They strapped me down and showed too much interest in me. The blood belonged not just to me, I should have felt guilty, but I felt alive. I had power over the people for so long before they found ways of stopping me. It was about that time they found I was unstable and began to keep me locked up in my current room.

I got a small amount of time outside each day, it was only fifteen minutes, but that was all I really needed. It felt like hours for me, the sun was usually visible, sometimes it could be weeks between the times I'm out and by then I had almost forgotten about the outside and became worse than usual with outbursts and my whole self. I had woken up one day in my metal plate of a be and been called out almost straight after to be tortured. Sorry, I mean used for the good of science. I was walked down the maze of halls and into a pure white lab.