peace will win, and fear will loose | Complete

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Demons can only come out at night.

It's the one weakness they have- while the angels can fly around and send goodness during the long hours of the day and throughout the night, protect their loved ones from the demons- the darker ghosts are only available when the sun sets and from then until it rises once again.

But it is the only weakness, as they are much stronger than angels and in the battles of the night, very rarely do angels win.

There were rules for angels. It's what made them good ghosts, it's what made them human, it's what brought them apart from the demons. They had rules and regulations, keeping themselves in line so that chaos wasn't everywhere.

The first rule: never reveal yourself to humans. Angels could only reveal themselves if they wanted to, and while demons were always aware of their location, humans could only see them if the angel chose to reveal themselves.

The second rule: never kill the demon. Although it was a controversial topic in heaven, almost taboo, really, it was enforced heavily. Angels were not allowed to kill anything, even demons.

The third rule: never, never fall in love with your assignment, whether it be the human you protect, or the demon you take care of. Falling in love with a demon would be absolute madness- a failure from the beginning. Falling in love with a human... that could bring unforeseen consequences.

If angels broke any of these rules, they were stripped of their titles and cast out of heaven, bound to the Earth forever, an outcast to all the societies. Fallen angels, they were called. And fallen angels had no chance at becoming an angel again. They would never have a guardian angel of their own.

So most good ghosts followed the rules.

Josh Dun became an angel at twenty-two, after dying in a car crash. Obviously he immediately went to become the guardian angel to his family, but unfortunately they died shortly thereafter in a terrorist bombing. It was nice to see them again afterwards, with the exception of his father, who wasn't in heaven.

(Angels weren't supposed to talk about those who had gone to hell, though... it was dishonorable.)

Most of his living friends had their own guardian angels, mostly consisting of his old friends who had left before he had.

Josh didn't have anyone to protect, which in of itself was an extremely odd occurrence. The higher angels had explained to him that he would have to find someone to protect. He searched for weeks. Everyone had problems, yes, but Josh wasn't searching for someone with problems like 'got a bad haircut' or 'breakup issues'. He wanted to protect someone who was being possessed, or getting harassed by demons.

He wanted to make an actual difference in someone's life.

Which is about the time he found Tyler Joseph.

It was the middle of the day when he found the twenty-one year old, sitting in the back of his closet, shaking and whispering things under his breath, in a full-out panic attack.

Josh was stunned, at first, because it was noon and demons couldn't come out for at least another seven hours, and from the looks of it, Tyler was already possessed. So he placed his intangible hand on Tyler's shoulder and filed through his thoughts, sending relaxation and calmness through his hand.

Tyler's thoughts were like lightning.

"He's coming!" Tyler was shuddering. "Don't- go away, go away! Shut up, go away, leave me alone! Leave me alone!"

Josh stopped his search and placed his other hand on Tyler's forehead and pushed calming emotions through the bond he had created. In a sick, twisted sort of way, Josh was excited that he finally had found a human with a demon. By the sound of it, a demon that came to him regularly.