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Mephistopheles ([info]feedsmycontempt) wrote in [info]utr_logs,
@ 2010-08-24 17:53:00

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Entry tags:archangel gabriel, mephisto

Who: Mephisto, Gabriel, and other assorted critters.
What: Finding out what happened to Solas.
Where: Here and there.
When: Tuesday.
Warnings: Creepy. Swearing. More swearing.

Mephisto made sure Uzza was able to take care of Jaspre - who had no worry about letting him leave to do his business - before he stepped out of his home and adjusted his sunglasses, walking down to the edge of the block, hands in his pockets, where he waited for his brother. The night before, he was checking on his similarly fallen brothers and sisters, making a note of where they were. Most were where they had been sent - eternal exile and chaining to one place - and the others were doing well, but there was a strange absence. Solas was a wanderer, certainly, but when one called out to him, he usually answered. Especially when that one was Mephisto. They'd had a long-standing familiarity with each other, both obsessed with learning more, with teaching humans, and with their similar bitter feelings for being wronged by the Creator. The reason Mephisto was so fascinated by the stars was, in part, to Solas' credit.

But he was gone. Mephisto couldn't fathom to grasp why. Or, for that matter, how. He did, know, however, that he couldn't just have left. He locked into the place that Solas had been last, and clung to that string, waiting for his brother as he leaned against the signpost, looking like he was - a man with sleep deprivation, too many burdens, and the faintest lining of worry.


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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 12:08 am UTC (link)
Gabe got there as fast as he could, trying his best to sound calm though it wouldn't have taken an angel to tell he was nervous. "Hey." He wore nondescript clothing, but it was all relatively well-fitting. No bags, nothing that might slow him down. He also didn't mince words; after so long he knew Raziel wasn't the sort to fuck around. "Where to?"

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 12:15 am UTC (link)
Mephisto wasn't psychic - far from it, even in his true form - but he could share impressions with his brothers, and put his hand against Gabriel's, sharing the place on the planet with him. It was a mountain in the middle of the Congo, overlooking the vast forest. He could see the place in his mind's eye, a simple home of wood and fronds of nearby trees, with a telescope on a deck that hung off the cliff. He could feel Solas' energy there, but not Solas hirself.

"Can you get us there?" He asked.

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 12:21 am UTC (link)
Gabriel closed his eyes, getting a clear picture slowly and surely. "I think so. Hold on to me." It had been a while since he'd teleported a human, but he figured he still could.

He was proved right, though it was a little bumpy as they landed on the mountain path. "Sorry. Not used to that." He went silent, though, as he could feel the energy now that they were here. Something was off. He could feel the prickle, but only just, like one flat instrument in a perfectly tuned orchestra. He just looked at Raziel, knowing his brother felt it, too.

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 12:30 am UTC (link)
Meph shot Gabriel a Look at the landing but shook it off with a huff of breath, walking up the path to the home. "Something happened. She is not here. It's like pulling one loop out of the a chainmail suit. It won't fall apart, but you will notice." He opened the door and suddenly was hit with the sensation of pain, of anger and warning. Something had been there. If she had blinked out, Solas would have not left such a mark on the world, especially not that mark.

"I don't... I don't know." He said honestly. "It wasn't magical. I would have felt that immediately. It wasn't demonic, it would have left a trace of itself." He could feel Azrael's power here, too. He looked around the home and followed the energy into the heart of it, and there he saw what looked like charred remains of wings, spread out against the floor, as well as blood, and then the odd, negative image of a body sprawled there, and knew that was where Azrael had taken Solas. He turned to Gabriel silently. There was nothing left to say. It looked to him that his brother had struggled and gotten burned by something untraceable, and then was taken by their other brother.

"We need to go to Radek," Mephisto concluded.

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 12:33 am UTC (link)
Gabriel knew the image that was left when Azrael took someone; he'd seen it too many times when births went wrong. But an angel. And the fucking pain in this place. "Shit." Gabe breathed, looking around Solas' home. He would have said more, but he stopped dead when his brother spoke. "... There? Why?"

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 12:45 am UTC (link)
"Three reasons, actually," Mephisto said, righting a table from its fallen position, before walking out to the patio to cap the telescope and bring it inside. "First is to see if whatever it is came looking for me there - if it's going after fallen angels, it would know I was there for a while. Second, to take out the garbage, and third would be to get Azrael to come talk to us." Mephisto sighed. "I feel wrong about letting this go to waste out here, it'll rust and decay before it ever sees use again if we leave it." He motioned to the telescope. "I'll send it to London, I know someone who would love to use it."

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 12:48 am UTC (link)
Gabe didn't frankly care about the telescope, but why the hell not. And what did he mean 'take out the garbage'? "Why would this be anything more than something having a grudge with Solas? Why jump to the conclusion it's going after all Fallen?"

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 12:52 am UTC (link)
Mephisto shook his head, "What the hell would go through all the fucking trouble, Gabriel, of not using magic on her but lighting her on fucking fire?" He pointed to the burn marks of the wings. "And then leaving her in so much pain that she called Azrael to put her out of it? Huh? This is Solas. She had no enemies. She was in love with the stars and planets. My brother was many things, but a maker of enemies was not one of them, Gabriel."

He sighed. "Take me to Radek, we're going to talk to Azrael."

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 12:54 am UTC (link)
"Give me an impression, I've obviously never fucking been there." Gabe looked decidedly unsettled, but he wasn't backing out now. He went through the same thing as before with Raziel, and found himself standing at the door of a monstrous castle. Dark bedrock, gothic spires and a low din he could make out; a never-ending party.

If he had blood, it would have run cold. He swallowed, nodding toward the door. "Come the fuck on." Between this place and probably meeting up with Azrael, he was officially fucking creeped out now.

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 01:03 am UTC (link)
Mephisto chuckled and shook his head, looking over at Gabriel, "Like you've never seen a den of sin before in your life." He did a silent glamour spell to make his eyes look as they once did to all around him, though he could see people perfectly well. "See, they slip deeply into their desire and lust, they feed off their own sins. These people the mortals of my prior reign, bound for hell, whether or not they died today or tomorrow. Unrepentant, uncaring." He walked into the main hall and he put on his prior voice, hopping up onto one of the ledges, holding a pillar for balance.

"I return to you," he boomed in his positively demonic bass, and the crowd looked up and cheered, "But not for merriment. I see you all here, cheerful, and I want to see you cheerful in death as much as you are in life. My brother comes to take you all away to your new fates!" He watched as the humans writhed and cheered, finding their knives and claws and other instruments of pain and death. "CALL to him!" Mephisto demanded, his tone passionate and delighted, "Call to Azrael, the darkest true angel! For I command your souls to him!"

He hopped off the ledge back over to Gabriel's side, "You may want to turn away, brother," He mentioned idly, as the blood began to spill, the shrieks of rapture and pain coming from the pit of followers.

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 01:11 am UTC (link)
The inside was less foreboding than the outside, and Gabe said so. "The outside looks like fucking Cocytus. The inside looks like a whorehouse." Despite his relative purity, Gabe had been inside a whorehouse or three.

As the bloodshed started, Gabe winced, though he didn't turn away right at first. He knew these were sinners and he might have had the job of striking them down himself, but at least his methods were quick. It was effective, though. He knew the creepy motherfucker wouldn't be far behind this spectacle.

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 01:16 am UTC (link)
Mephisto wasn't upset by the blood, and in fact, rather found the scent comforting after weeks of being without the mingling odors of merrymaking, blood, and liquor. He murmured the incantation of summoning his brother, in the True Language, as if the mass death wouldn't be enough. He mimed out the motion to draw his summoning circle, and although it didn't exist in the corporeal world, it made all the difference with the words behind it.

At the end of his chant, he put his hands behind his back, and waited patiently. He knew the creepy fuck of a brother would be along presently.

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 01:22 am UTC (link)
Gabe was about to move, ask a question, do something, when footsteps were heard behind them, walking in through the main hall against the whirlwinds of sand outside. He turned around and saw a black-swathed form, dressed in the fashion of the 19th century. His face was not visible, as usual. It never was.

Azrael's voice was slow, faintly ponderous, but modern and amused. "Cute, Raziel." was all the Angel of Death said as he walked into the room, folding his arms as he stared at the pit of human refuse. "Really cute. You must have something important to discuss with me." He giggled softly, an insinuating sound that seemed to slink out of his black cowl.

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 01:26 am UTC (link)
Mephisto never did give Azrael the joy of looking at him full on, even back when he could. "Well, it was either that or borrow one of Ares' bombs. You know what happened to Solas, don't you? Mind telling Gabriel and I what happened?" He held his position as the blood slowly pooled around the now-dead party people. The amusing thing was, in his mind, that in a month, they'd be replaced by just as many people with just as much desire to be as sinful as possible.

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 01:31 am UTC (link)
"Should've borrowed a bomb," Azrael said promptly. "It'd have made me so happy." He sighed, no doubt imagining it. "Solas. I took hir."

"No shit," Gabriel muttered dryly. "Seen the fucking burn marks."

Azrael just laughed again, that faintly tinkling laugh, like a maid at a party. "Teacher's pet had to come along, since Raziel can't teleport or do anything worthy of our kind? Aren't you scared She'll make you Fall, and then what got Solas will get you?" He giggled again. "What a pair of twats."

Gabe's face was stony. "Fuck you."

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 01:35 am UTC (link)
"Azrael, don't ruffle Gabriel's feathers. I can be rid of this form and be just as powerful as I was, but I'm doing you and all your kind a favor. You can be a fucking heel all you'd like when we're not around, but we're not fucking around. Did sie say what it was? Did you see it?" He turned to Gabriel and put a hand on his shoulder.

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 01:43 am UTC (link)
Gabe did his best to calm down; Raziel was right, they needed to know what was going on. He could knock the shit out of Azrael the next time they met.

"At least you admit you're not one of us anymore." Azrael sounded petulant. "Never saw it. I only felt Solas' pain. Sie begged me to take it away." He idly conjured up a blue ball, moving in his hand. "Hir pain was blue. Fire. Inverses. Must have hurt like the fires of hell." He laughed more fully, as if sharing the latest internet blonde joke around the water cooler.

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 01:49 am UTC (link)
"Fascinating," Mephisto muttered, turning to - but still not looking at Azrael, setting his hand on the other angel's shoulder. "Careful how you speak to me, bookkeeper," He whispered, "Even if God pays no attention to the way you behave, I sure as hell will, and I know ways to destroy you and find someone to take your place. Do not test me." He walked back to Gabe's side and put his hand in his brother's. "The castle is yours now, Azrael, do with it what you will." He wished Gabriel would get them out of this place. Something with the power to kill his kind was more unsettling than Azrael ever could be.

He hoped it would keep the mortals out of it.

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 01:57 am UTC (link)
Gabe saw Azrael stop in his tracks, if only for a moment, and faintly smirked. He was about to turn away and teleport when the Angel of Death spoke once more, sounding even more petulant. "Got there when Solas was dying. Begging. Never saw it, but saw hir." It was almost hissed, as if in spite. "Branded on the forehead! With Mercury!"

Gabe blinked hard. "Mercury?" he echoed. But that made no fucking sense!

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 02:04 am UTC (link)
"The symbol, or the metal?" Mephisto stopped as well and turned his head to look over his shoulder, not directly at the other angel. "It means poison alchemically, and mercury is very poisonous to humans. If this thing can make Solas so pained that sie wanted to die, it would definitely take a poison to do it. Azrael? Thank you. If it's after us first, rest assured, your kind will be next. And I won't let that happen to either of you, or any of my other brothers. Gabriel, please."

He put his hand back on Gabe's.

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 02:22 am UTC (link)
"Scratched with claws!" Gabe heard Azrael howl before he teleported them to the first place he could think of, anywhere but that fucking castle (which turned out to be a side street in Hawaii).

When the usual teleportation woozy had worn off, Gabe looked up at Raziel. "So," he said, trying to keep his cool. "There's something out there hunting Fallen. Branding them with the symbol for 'poison'." He blinked, realizing something. "Shit. Uzza."

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 02:27 am UTC (link)
Mephisto took a moment, his eyes flicking from a far left to straight ahead and than up. "Uzza is at his temple in Toshima." He blinked and made sure Ariel was still all right, then Navi, then April, Napalm, and Mary. If it was hunting fallen angels, he had a feeling it would be tracking down the favorite mortals of them, as well. It was better to be safe than sorry in this case.

"Let's go tell him."

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 02:34 am UTC (link)
Gabe nodded, picking up Raziel's hand and instantly heading for Toshima. The island was tranquil as always, but Gabe was fucking on edge now. "Lead on, Raz, you know this place better than me." He'd only discovered its existence since being here, for fuck's sake.

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 02:38 am UTC (link)
Mephistopheles took a deep breath and started up the hundreds of stairs, oddly calming himself in the process. The last time he did this, it was a catharsis, and this time was no different. It gave him enough time to center himself and put his thoughts together coherently. Once they arrived, Mephisto walked up to the door and slid it quietly open, bowing his head down out of custom, before taking off his boots and walking barefoot to the area he felt his brother.

Jaspre, in the meanwhile, had gone off to pick flowers out of the garden for a bouquet to have at home. She'd never seen so many exotic flowers, so she was taking the opportunity to bring them with her, so she could press and save them.

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[info]oceanangel
2010-08-25 02:43 am UTC (link)
Uzza had long ago adopted the practice of meditation. While still in the jeans and t-shirt he'd been wearing when he took Jaspre with him to the temple, he was sitting in full lotus, relaxed, a half-smile on his face. He could feel something in the room with him, and he opened one eye. "Back so soon?"

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 02:44 am UTC (link)
Gabriel followed. He would have been struck by the beauty of this place if he wasn't worried; worried for his brothers he'd just fucking gotten back again. He remembered to remove his boots, but it was hard to be as calm as the place seemed to demand.

When he heard Uzza, he relaxed a little, though. "Found out some interesting s - stuff." It was a temple, even a temple just to Uzza; he'd try to mind his mouth. "You need to know what's going on."

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 02:57 am UTC (link)
Mephisto took a seat, albeit kneeling, his hands relaxed on his legs as he spoke. "She's gone. Azrael took her after she was... savaged." The chilly ability to sound impartial while inside, he was boiling over was one he'd worked on for ages. "Azrael has told us that it's coming after our kind, Uzza, so we'd better stay on our guard. Keep our people safe. If someone is going to destroy us, they'll start with the parts of us they can easily destroy. Our mortal family. So be wary." He paused and looked at Gabriel. "The symbol of Mercury, find who or what would take that up as their banner, ask the cherubim if you have to." He was going to start working on wards. Wards he hadn't had to put up in several thousand years.

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[info]oceanangel
2010-08-25 03:07 am UTC (link)
Uzza listened, immediately wondering if the feather he'd given Anlace would protect her from the assassin. "Mercury? Is that bastard here? I saw Mars. Ares. Whoever." Uzza shrugged, turning his head to look off to Jaspre. "I suppose there's many who would want us dead." Uzza didn't want to die, but he understood why. It was his way to see all sides of things.

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 03:18 am UTC (link)
Gabe's, however, wasn't. "Raz said the symbol of mercury is the alchemical shorthand for poison." He shook his head. "I think it's more of a brand. That's what that creepy bastard said, anyway." He felt somewhat of an outsider; he'd never Fallen, after all. Still, he wondered. "I agree that whatever's doing this shit will go for the mortals first, but do you think they'd try to get me because I've been so close to you two?"

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 03:23 am UTC (link)
"Does it matter, Gabriel?" Mephisto grumbled, head tilting faintly as he eyed his unfallen brother. "Sooner or later those that haven't fallen will come under line of fire by it. And I don't think you want to see a world without the unfallen. If we weren't disposed of, there's a reason for us, right? If there were no more of us, then the world would be on a table with one leg kicked out from under it." He looked over to Uzza. "I do not believe we're dealing with gods here, the Olympians have found no reason to meddle with us before, and I doubt they'd start now."

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[info]oceanangel
2010-08-25 03:27 am UTC (link)
Seeing his older brother in distress, Uzza smiled and moved to pour him some tea. "Sit. No sense preparing for strategies when you're so worked up." He thought for a few moments. "Are we the only ones this assassin is finding? Only angels? I'm certain we could ask a few people to ensure we're the only sort of thing it is after." He sighed. "I suppose I can bring Anlace here. She would likely not want to put her family into danger. I'd discreetly warn any other humans you're friends with. No sense in alarming them, it won't help our cause."

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 03:31 am UTC (link)
Gabe nodded, thinking of Lilo and Mary. Mary. "We should probably warn Luce, never mind mortals." Who knew how this fucking thing worked; Lucifer had fallen emphatically in some reality, even if he wasn't Fallen here.

He sighed, needing to move around. "I can also be the one to ask the fu - the Cherubim. It'd just be easier for me to do it than either of you." He hated going to that fucking accounting hall, but of all the good reasons to deal with it.

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 03:35 am UTC (link)
"I'll talk to Mary, she'll talk to Lucifer. I'll let the alchemist and Napalm know as well. If anything happens to any of us, we'll know. Keep your mind open to them, Uzza, I know you don't listen to them as often as I do, but I ask that you please do. If anyone else noticed, we can talk to them and tell them what we know." Mephisto stood then, and walked to go collect his girl. "As for the rest of them, they've held their own for this long, I'm certain they can continue to."

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[info]oceanangel
2010-08-25 03:40 am UTC (link)
Uzza nodded. "I'll try." He hugged his brothers in turn, clapping them on the back and sighing. "We'll be fine." They had to be. He didn't see dying as an option; he had to look after his family.

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[info]thereisakingdom
2010-08-25 03:50 am UTC (link)
Gabe nodded, returning the gesture with Uzza and laying a hand on Raziel's shoulder. "Keep an eye out, I'll do the same thing." And he was going to talk to Lilo, fuck the both of them if they objected.

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[info]feedsmycontempt
2010-08-25 04:00 am UTC (link)
Mephisto smiled faintly as he wrapped his arms protectively around the young lady, and she curled up tight against him, looking warily up at Gabriel. She didn't speak to him, but Mephisto could feel that she wanted to. Jaspre was wary of the blond man, but that was only natural for her.

"I'll be in touch, my brother." He said to Uzza and nodded to Gabriel. "This isn't a very good day," He mentioned.

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