And Then Heaven Descended Unto Earth

Broken Wings and Shattered Heart

I don't want to deal with this anymore. I hate my life, I hate my friends, and they hate me too. I watch the shallow cuts appear one after the other on my left wrist, watch the crimson blood drip down my pale skin. 

My name is Marcus. I am a nineteen year old male with light brown eyes and hair dyed a unnatural shade of dark green. I hate my life. I am an orphan, living in an orphanage for the moment until they can find another foster home for me. I said screw it and ran away.

I kneel in the open field, in the center of a cleared circle. I am prepared to do this even though; especially because; it might end with me dead. I watch drops of my blood splatter onto the ground inside the sacred circle, and I watch as smoke rises around me. 

Wings are the first thing I see, pale gray yet a bluish color that I can only place as gunmetal gray. I summoned an angel. I stare at him in shock, my eyes fixed on the being before me. He kneels down, bandages in his slender hands.

He binds my wrist, tugging me to my feet. I stand, watching him the entire time to make sure that I'm not hallucinating. He looks at me with such adoration that I blush, reminding me harshly of the reason I was so hated. 

I like boys. 

I divert my gaze to the ground, trying to hide the light pink blush coloring my face. I don't want an angel to hate me like everyone else. I don't want even heaven to think of me as less than a human being.

He gently tugs my head up, not seeming to care that I'm blushing like crazy. I look at him for a moment, and decide it's worth the risk. 

I kiss the angel.

He seems shocked for a moment, then he's kissing me back. I'm blushing shamelessly, this is my first kiss. I don't quite know what to do but the angel seems to not care. He just holds me close and kisses me passionately.

He draws back and I'm left out of breath and confused and blushing bright red. God what just happened. I want more but I know it's the lustful side of me so I don't try anything. I just had my first kiss. From a boy, an angel no less.

A shadow appears in the sky behind him, wingbeats echoing in my ears. I don't quite realize what's happening until he's yanked away from me, thrown to the ground by another deity with pale white wings that look like someone splatted ink on the upper half.

A demon.

My mind is still in overdrive from his kiss, embarassment and lust and love coloring my face red. I notice after a moment that the angel; my angel; is trying to crawl away but the demon has a hold of his wings and is trying to remove them with brute force.

"You don't deserve to live Cain! You hurt Gale! I'll murder you right here, right now if I have to!"

The demon's voice is pitched high in  feverishly manic register, his eyes wide with fury and ecstasy as he rips at Cain's wings. Feathers float to the ground, blood dripping down to the earth as the demon tries and tries to sever Cain's wings.

"Riiiiin! Stop hurting meeeee!"

Each of the angel's cries are drawn out and high pitched, his voice breaking with pain. The demon; Rin; continues to pull at his wings and continues to rake his clawed hands into Cain's shoulders in a vain attempt to sever the wings at the base. 

"STOP!"

My voice is louder than I had ever imagined it would be, louder than the quiet screams the other children at my old home knew me for. Both deities stop mid fight and stare at me. I can feel hot tears streaming down my face but I don't care. I just want Rin to stop hurting Cain.

"stop please"

Rin stares at me for a moment, the eerie silence broken only by Cain's pain-broken voice moaning. Then he redoubles his efforts to hurt Cain, screaming at the angel again.

"You went from Gale to another human!? Does he even know how badly it hurts to be abandoned by the one you love!? Does he know how it hurts to think an angel loves him only to find out it was all a lie!?"

I can only watch frozen to the spot as Rin rips at Cain's wings, shredding his shirt to rip up his back; the angel's ribs starting to show through where the demon gouges him. The angel screms, his head snapping back as I hear one of his ribs crack under the demon's blow. Cain's arms are soon littered with bone-deep, raking wounds that bleed red onto the dirt.

Rin stands back as Cain collapses, watching with satisfaction as the angel's body twitches before he passes out. Rin grabs a handful of the angel's hair, tugging his head up. Cain screams as his wounds are forced open wider, the horrible pain waking him. Rin whispers harshly in his ear.

"Do you love him? Or is he just a cute human you've taken an interest in like Gale?"

Cain tries to answer but his eyes roll back in his head and he passes out. I'm no expert but I can tell that the angel is near dead. The dirt below him is stained a deep crimson. I can't stay still any longer. Something snaps in me.

I scream, loud and furious, then lunge forwards at Rin. He tries to block me but I'm so furious I don't even feel the impact of his talons on my forearm. I just strike out at him again and again, trying my best to fight him off. 

A glancing blow to my ribs stops me dead though. I can only stare at the bleeding gashes in my side before I collapse. My vision is fading in and out, but I can hear the angel's moans as he wakes up again. He's near dead. 

I drag my bleeding, dying body across the ground as my vision blurs and I can't see anything for a moment. I fall down, my bloodied arms unable to support me. The angel's wing is right in front of my face. 

I watch his eyes meet mine, widen in shock, then roll back in his head as he passes out again. His breathing starts to slow down, and I know he's about to die. I pass out before I can do anything though.