Deal With The Devil

Renounced

As he landed on the crumbling steps of the castle clutching her frail and lifeless body. She was cold. Lucifers wings folded away, panic arising in his blood. He frantically paced, eyes darted everywhere, but all that remained was mist.

"Tell me it worked!" He shouted. His voice broke. "Tell me she'll come back!"

After all thats why he created the binding, to give his love a second chance at life if she was ever taken away. But it had not been three days time.

Lucifer fell to his knees gently laying her down in front of him, he couldnt find the strenght to stand, he had to push back his tears.

"My sweet prince-" Zodia sang. Yet he could not see her.

"Im so sorry-" Amety called. His eyes darted about searching for the voices.

"No!" He snapped. "Tell me it isnt True." His teeth clenched with rage, with anger, with saddness.

"Her life force cannot be sensed-" Gyra informed in an eerie and haunting croak.

"Meaning, the binding did not complete. It has not been three days time. "

Lucifer let his face fall into his hands as his breath heaved and his heart fell. There was silence. A pause. He couldnt think, it was hard for him to breath, leaning down he scooped her up and held her against his chest. Clutching to her in hope. But she would not wake up.

His hand went to brush her hair. Her eyes, although closed, held rings around them. As if she struggled, as if she strained to breath. It was not peaceful for her. She died alone. Alone, meaning, without him.

Him.

All her life she only knew him. She relied on him to protect her, relied on him for company, to take care of her when she was young, and now she had relied on him to love her. He was all she ever had.

And he couldnt even save her from her last breath.

"Tell me witches-" He had to force the words. "Who hath done this deed?"

He looked up to the thundered sky and awaited the answer.

Gyra, Zodia, and Amety did not respond at first but they felt the Angels pain and could sense that, although he was the Angel of music, his song had ended. Lucifer could sense their pity.

For heaven taught to love, yet he would be punished for loving. Heaven taught to protect, yet he who tried to be good, would be bannished for protecting. Heaven taught sacrifice, and he who knew what he was giving up, gave up without a gain.

"Are you sure you want us to answer that my prince?" Zodia's voice seemed serious.

"It was someone that was dear to you-" Gyra wheezed in agony.

"Do you want to lose another someone in the process of grief?" Amety whispered to him from the mist.

"For you have lost so much my prince-" They sang together.

"Prince of darkness-" Amety suddenly chimed.

"No longer a welcome angel in heaven!" Gyra cried.

"Thee who loved and lost!" Zodia rang.

He clutched onto Clementine harder as he listened. His head began to pound. For the first time, the Angel experienced heartbreak and pain. He who trusted in God, no longer held faith. Where was the God who loved him?

"Tell me." He commanded.

And all at once, what was left of his heart fell. At the words that would forever burn in his ears and hold the meaning of betrayal.

"Esmeralda murdered your beloved." The witches cried.

His lips parted in disbelief. But it made sense. How could she have done this to him. His dear sister.

Lucifer leaned down to graze Clementine with one last kiss before gently laying her body at the steps of the castle. He stood, his white wings outstretched farther then they ever had before.

"Hear this now!" His voice boomed in anguish. The tips of his wings began to grey and darken, soon blackening as he spoke, spreading until his wings were consumed in darkness and tainted. "I hearby renounce God! I renounce Heaven! I will rule my own Realm. A realm that invites all that Heaven determined as sin."

Lucifers voice had hissed in hate. The storm above them raged as it had never done before, the witches wept, and sin would rejoice in a new leader. The embodiment of all that was unholy lied within the Angel of music.

No, The prince of Darkness.

"I will take an army of the fallen with me." Lucifer commanded. "And i will Avenge her death. "

That was the last day his heart felt pain, remorse, or anger. For the Angel grew cold over time until the eighth of August, centuries later, arrived.

A new life had been born this caused a jolt of radiation in Lucifer. He had rushed to the hospital where her energy radiated, peering down unseen by the world, he watched a babygirl be braught into the cruel world.

Her name was Amelia. He had such a feeling about her, that he had watched her all her life. Though he never made himself known, he was there when she cried at night and stayed until her nightmares were soothed.

It wasnt until her seventeenth birthday that he was sure it was his Clementine. Thats when the binding had been complete. Thats when he made himself Known to her.

Thats when she became his.

But it was no longer love. Power had awakened for him.