Night Demons : Revelations

Pain. It was such an on going theme. Annoying. Thunder brought my eyes skyward again as I shoved the boulder sized chunk of building off of me. All around me the sounds of battle raged, blade meeting claw, roars of anger and pain. In to the darkness above me I stared as the rain poured down - this was no war anymore. They were attempting to exterminate us. Those that had been kin to us, shared with us so long. Heat boiled under my skin as my hackles raised. This was to be our end if Kabil had his way.  

“Its over Celest! It’s always been over… your cattle was too blind to see. Lucifer never intended for elementals to survive so long.. you’ve outlived your need..” He called from the darkness above. Was he teasing? “ It should have ended in Rome.”

Then something clicked in the back of my head, like a light coming on. Still staring dazed at the pouring sky above, lit by lightning which only highlighted the war raging in the sky above and the rooftops for the flightless. This had been his goal all along. The reason his clan had tried to use my packs as hunt fodder, the deaths in Rome that wiped out the original elder council that would listen to me and reason. It was a build up to this moment. Something new took light in my core, a new fire I’d not felt before but some how felt familiar. Like an old friend. It began to spread through me like liquid honey, warming my limbs, renewing them.

“ Whats wrong Celest? “ That mocking tone called from the darkness, as my head bowed staring at my hands in confusion. “ Finally realizing that you won’t win this time?”

He drew in, knowing better than to approach too closely with his taunts - he hasn’t officially won yet. That heat, it felt like it was boiling now. I struggled to look around me, gain bearing. What the hell was going on!? I felt suddenly so heavy, and despite my enemy being before me I could no longer stand. My rage doubled inwardly as I dropped to a knee, my hands out before me to brace the sudden drop.

“Aww… looks like I finally broke you.. that wild spirit of a leader.” He crooned with malice and a sick joy. My stomach turned. The heat that had been molten in every limb now felt as though it was going to pour out my chest. The heat was more than I’d ever felt before. My muscles twisted and writhed it seemed under my skin, I couldn’t stop from crying out in pain. I heard the soft drop of his feet on the broken shards of the building he had just thrown me in to before I felt his hand in my hair. Twisting the wet locks painfully to cause me to cry out again. “ Ahh now thats a sound I’ve always loved. Your pain and suffering.. “ My eyes struggled to focus as he turned my face up to his, my only response was to snarl, baring my fangs at him. “Now now you oversized house cat.. “ His hilt came down hard on my muzzle but he held me there. FUCK my head was spinning, though to some small piece of me I was grateful it wasn’t entirely his fault. Something was happening to me, and for fucks sake I wish it would hurry up.

“You know at one time.. I had thought to take you.” He leaned closer, speaking as though one might to a lover.”You have always been a prime specimen of your breed. Not many fire deamons you know lasted beyond the first years. But you.. “ Was he looking at me with wonder? Just when the night couldn’t get any weirder.” there has always been something special about you. Such a shame you never saw it… such a shame it has to go to waste.”

He shoved me to the side hard, I struggled to keep my arm under me as I skidded into a wall. The pressure in my chest felt unbearable now. It was like I was going to explode. Glass tore at my flesh, cutting through leather armor as I struggled back to my knees. I refused to die on anything but my feet with this bastard. To bad the pressure building in my chest refused to let me get there.

“ See thats the difference between our breeds..” I struggled to speak as I looked up at his approaching form. The broken light glittered off his blade as I kept on. “ I saw power in everyone.. I saw their raw power.. their beauty and unlike you.. I let them decide how it came.”

“Such sad words for the end of the Queen of the elementals..” Her crooned again. There was that word again. But then I was seeing stars, this was pain. But not from him. For fucks sake it felt like something was trying to rip itself out of me. Now I could say I knew what it felt like to have a chest burster. My bones cracked and I roared, with flaming breath this time which made him step back. Well.. that was a new trick. I wasn’t given time though to marvel at it as the next wave of pain sent me back on all fours. My insides were suddenly at war.

“Whats this? Some new trick you’ve been keeping from me?” He hissed, disappointed I couldn’t tell him to go fuck himself at the moment my lips only curled against my teeth. It felt like my back a was splitting open, I couldn’t stop from crying out, my claws digging into rubble and office carpet for bracing.  Well at least I could count on him to watch whatever was going on, more pain as my muscles twisted under the flesh. I was putting out so much heat right now I was no longer wet. I could hear the faintest sounds of droplets sizzling as they attempted to pelt me. More new tricks. I had to say the night couldn’t get any weirder.

And then, it was done. Like turning a light off and on. Over. Slowly I stretched my shoulders and then I felt something new, the beat of heat against me. Wait. What. The. Fuck. My head snapped up as I tried to figure out what was going on and thats when I heard a familiar voice in my head. “My beautiful girl.. you’ve finally awakened..” I knew that voice.. it was.. it was home. That was the only way I could describe it, was home. Such peace and clarity. I looked to Kabil who was stuck in a state of shock, awe and… wait was that fear? I could also see as clearly as day. Not like before - there was such a clarity and rawness I had to blink and glance to the hole in the building, it was still night but I could clearly see the fighters on the rooftops. I knew which were mine and who were his as though I was standing next to them.

“No.. You.. This..” He suddenly was at a loss for words. It looked like he was struggling to remember something. “ Why now? If.. if it was to be why not Rome?” My head tilted as I stared at him, faintly aware of the heat I was now projecting out. I was careful to roll my muscles as I stood. I felt better then I had in ages. I felt like my self. Which was a weird thought in its own way.

“If this was.. then..” He was still blabbering like an idiot. Giving me a chance to steal a look over my shoulder. Wings? Flaming. Wings. Well THAT is new. I tested them stretching them to their full span, watching as bits of paper caught fire as they brushed desks. More lights seemed to be going on in my head. Memories coming to light, things that brought a rather cruel smile to my face. Some that weren’t mine. But yet I knew.

“Oh dear oh dear Kabil.. Such a naughty boy we’ve been. “ The voice was mine, and it was others. He bleached. “ You claim to know what Lucifer and Lilith want.. as though speaking for them. Destroying the firsts to gain power..” I tisk tisked softly, as I wagged a finger at him.

“NO! This isn’t how its supposed to be!” New rage filled his face as he charged in my direction. It was as though I was watching it in slow motion, my hand jerked back and fire sprang from the tips, a whip of smoke and ash forming in my hand recoiled as I swung forward cracking him across the face. A red burn left in its wake across his cheek as he stumbled back.

“ The elementals were the true demons, the first… and you saught to take their powers for your own. “ Another tisk tisk followed as I began to advance on him. “ Very naughty indeed. “ I roared in his direction again, I felt the flames burst past my lips with intention of setting him ablaze. He stumbled back before he turned, attempting to take flight to the sky above, but the burst of it hit against his back launched him across the way in to the building across the street.

No thought was given as I followed suit at a leisurely pace. I stopped at the edge of the building, looking down to the streets below. I seriously hope these things aren’t just for show. I gave a soft beat against my skin before I jumped skyward. It was like floating, the wings keeping me in mid air as I looked in to the hole I had made with Kabil in the building. It was then that I got a good look at my self in the reflection of polished glass windows, my wings weren’t the only thing made of flame. My eyes seemed to blaze, as well as my hair. I no longer had a feline form, but I was still very female. More lights went off in my head. This was my pure form. A form I had forgotten in the ages of living on earth along side mortals. This is what heated that core inside of the beast.

I could hear the sounds of battle slowing around me. I could feel eyes on me, of both sides trying to figure out what had happened.

“It is time child.. Wake them.. Remind them of what they really are..” That voice whispered again in my head. It was as though my body knew what to do like muscle memory of fight training. But this, I was drawing up something. I could feel a pull as a wind from my swirling heat raged around me. I drew on every memory to fund this, pulling from my core. I could feel the pressure as it expanded beyond my skin. My wings beat harder moving me higher in the sky - as this was for them all. Not those that raged in battle here, but in other planes, other existences where they may be hidden.  It was time to remember.

Something snapped inside - releasing it all. I no longer had control. I watched as it pushed out this hellstrom I had brought to earth. Scathing winds rippled over building tops, knocking my kin to their knees. Some even flat. Into each of them I watched wisps of my heat enter them, wisps of smoke. I could hear Kabil raging, shouting for them to take out my kin while they were down, but none listened. To confused and scientific in their methods for their own good - they were compelled to watch what was happening. The wind blistered their skin as they fought just to keep upright. Not all of them were pure demon it would seem. I watched in awe though - getting to see what Kabil saw when I changed. It was as though the flesh was melting from the bodies of my kin. The first I could see was Marc, a wind elemental, it was like staring at a contained tornado. Besides him Lorn was shaping up, an earth elemental, it was as though rocks were hunting him down. I could see them rolling across the roof tops to build his massive form back up.

It was happening everywhere around me, new roars, old forms, a reunion that was unlike anything the earth had seen before. Kabils necromancers weren’t ready for this. The shock on some faces did manage to make me smile.

“ Brothers.. Sisters…Children of the elements.. Children of the firsts..” I called, my breath becoming hot with the words as I called to them. “ Remind these wizards.. these false deamons - who the real deamons are!” I felt a new rage within me. I felt their rage, their renewed memories with the return of forgotten strengths and bodies. A new war.. a different battle had erupted then.

I watched in awe for a lingering moment as they all fought. Chasing them across rooftops as they attempted to regroup. One skittering away as a violent windstorm ripped at his clothing taking him away to parts unknown. I watched as earth was taken back from the buildings and turned in to new weapons against our enemies. Some seemed to take flight and simply flee. Somewhere below Kabil was in a fit of rage close to insanity, I could hear him ranting.

“ NO.. You weren’t supposed remember.. you were supposed to die!” He raged, blade swinging blindly as he flew at me. Narrowly I ducked avoiding his swing, but I was quick to close the gap.  My fist making contact with the side of his head with a solid crack.