Darkness Unleashed

[gabrielthetrickster]

Gabriel shrugged. "Pretty much. The Darkness and anything holy are opposites. Darkness corrupts light, light banishes darkness. This infection is just the beggining though, and it's not like there's an unlimited supply of holy oil laying around." he replied. He tilted his head, noticing her look. "Hey, don't blame yourself for the people you shot. You didn't know, and you did what you had to to survive." he said, patting her shoulder.

[Ellis Morgan]

Ellis looked up at Gabriel and shrugged, trying to seem more apathetic than she actually felt. Feeling sorry wouldn't help them now. Additionally, according to the archangel, there was a lot more of the shitstorm to deal with. "Doesn't change the fact that I feel guilty about it," she replied. "But that's done and over with. Now, assuming this Darkness problem extends beyond the infected people, how do we stop that? Would holy oil do the trick like it did with the infection?"

[gabrielthetrickster]

Gabriel laughed. "Whoa there tiger! You do realize the infection is spreading around the world? You're far from done. You know how to cure them now, so what do you say I hook you up with some more holy oil and you and your gal pal here can get on that? The Darkness is in a whole other league. Holy oil ain't gonna do anything to that." he said in wry amusement. 

[Ellis Morgan]

Ellis crossed her arms somewhat stubbornly and narrowed her eyes a little at him. Being independent by nature, she wasn't fond of being ordered around, even by an archangel. "Well I'm not gonna sit around and do nothing about it. I'll cure the infected, but the only thing it's going to do is buy a little time. It's useless unless we stop the Darkness itself. I think I speak for everyone when I say I'd rather not die right now, and the way to do that is to end this whole thing." She took the holy oil from his hands and began to do as he had done before striking her lighter against it. The few infected she had been able to cast a circle around screamed in blood-curdling agony, but went back to normal as the infection subsided.

[gabrielthetrickster]

Gabriel finally became more serious, frowning slightly. He shook his head slowly. "Look, there's nothing you can do about it. The Darkness existed before God and my brothers and I. There was a huge war and we only just managed to seal it away. Even then we never could have anticipated the costs.... now fighting it like before isn't even possible." he said with a heavy sigh.

[Harley Eve]

"What about the big guy downstairs?" Harley had been listening in silence, keeping her back pressed to them. Although they had never met, there was no need for an introduction between her and the new guy. The fun thing between angels and demons was the ability to see each other's true faces. Which meant he knew she was a demon just as much as she knew he was the archangel Gabriel.

The holy oil. It made every bit of sense and she could have kicked herself for not thinking of it earlier. It wasn't something she wanted to go flinging around either, considering it could cause serious damage. She didn't care for fixing the infection: the underdogs could take care of that. No, she wanted to fight the big bad.

"Let's not forget your oldest brother, either. You can't hear them but they're going a little wild down in the cage." She watched the infection burn off the necks of those Ellis dosed in holy oil, before turning around to face him. "Leaving them out of the fight seems a little unfair. It's not everyday that everyone can be on the common side of Satan."

[gabrielthetrickster]

Gabriel let out a humorless laugh, actually doubling over for a minute unable to stop until he finally pulled himself together and pretended to wipe away a few nonexistent tears. "Wow, you are one naive little demon. Actually I can hear Mikey and Luci just fine down there, being an archangel too and all. Setting them free is the last thing we need, and you do realize your Daddy wants you and all your demon brethren dead as much as the humans right? Besides that, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Luci sided with the Darkness. They do have quite the history." he replied with a grim smirk. He shook his head. "Not to mention we'd still be short Dad and one archangel. And my big bros can't get along for two seconds let alone actually fight together. Clearly the two of you could use a little history lesson. No one left except my brothers and I know even half the story."

[Harley Eve]

"Oh I'm sorry. I forgot I'm talking to the angel who runs away every time big brothers get a little angry." Harley glared towards him. She didn't like the idea of letting Lucifer free just as much as the next guy, but help from the only people whom fought the Darkness before seemed like their only good chance. "What's your game plan then? Just letting the world end, or are we supposed to rely on you to stop it? Either way we'd be screwed."

[gabrielthetrickster]

Gabriel had her pinned the wall by the throat in an instant. "Hey, watch your mouth demon. I stood up to Lucifer fully expecting to die and I nearly did. My own brother stabbed me through the heart. I'm not afraid of him or Michael anymore. I'm pissed. They can keep rotting in Hell for all I care. I've stopped running." he said sternly. He let her go. "And just for the record, if I hadn't given the Winchester brothers the literal keys to the Cage, the world would have ended years ago."

[Ellis Morgan]

Ellis rolled her eyes and stopped what she was doing, setting the holy oil down for a moment and whistling at the two to grab their attention. "Hey! Can we cut the crap for five seconds, please? You know, correct me if I'm wrong, but killing each other right now isn't really going to stop the Darkness. We have a bigger enemy here and as far as I know, no one else has tried to stop it, so right now we're all allies for the time being, like it or not. You can kill each other all you want when the world isn't about to end, but for the love of God, save it!" She sighed, fed up with listening to the angel and the demon bicker. This was going to be very a long day.

[Harley Eve]

Although she grinned as her back was put to the wall, her eyes turned black in anger. Normally, she'd be itching to rip his tongue out and wrap it around his neck. But seeing as he wasn't any ordinary angel to pick a fight with, and they needed him at the moment, she bit her own tongue. Her eyes returned to their normal shade as Ellis called to them. She stood upright again, fixing her jacket. She didn't plan on becoming best friends with Gabriel, but this was indeed getting them nowhere. "I like when you get all frisky like that," she retorted sarcastically. "Surprisingly she's right. We can all worry about whose Daddy hates whose when the Darkness isn't here to end everything. For now, let's make ourselves useful. Starting with these guys." Harley nodded over his shoulder towards a group of infection that turned the hallway, walking towards them with determination.

[gabrielthetrickster]

Gabriel rolled his eyes. He turned to the group of infected, holding out a hand. White light enveloped him and with pained screams the infection was burned right out of the humans as the light spread to them. His power faded and he glanced back at them. "There, happy?" he quipped. He shook his head, sighing in annoyance as he realized Harley may have somewhat of a point. He hated it, but they needed to understand more about the Darkness if they had a chance to get rid of her (hopefully without having to find a way to repeat the past). "We need to understand the Darkness to beat her. I fought her once but that's not the same thing... that way is closed to us but I know from experience there's always another loophole. Lucifer knows her better than anyone so... since there is no way in all of Hell I'm letting my bros out... it's time to make a long distance call kiddos. A massacre, check... plenty of bodies to use..." he said, the last part more to himself as he went around looking for one suitable for the same spell Azazel had used decades ago to contact his Daddy Dearest.

[Ellis Morgan]

"Wait, wait, wait." Ellis looked up at Gabriel, a perplexed expression on her face. "Her?   The Darkness is a woman now?"  She huffed a little sigh of annoyance.  Everyone had something different to say about the Darkness, and every bit of new information made two things clear: A, there was no way the three of them could talk her down from destroying the world over a cup of coffee and everything would be peachy again, and B, being the most mortal of the group, the odds weren't so great for Ellis.  Nevertheless, there was no turning back now, so continuing to act as the buffer between Harley and Gabriel and digging up whatever information she could on the Darkness was the only way to go.

[gabrielthetrickster]

Gabriel nodded. "Yep. Or at least she's always appeared as one." he replied with a shrug. He found a dead man who had just died and seemed in fairly good shape other than the infection leaking from his body. He burned it away and then began drawing an inverted pentagram around him in blood, snapping his fingers and producing a few candles that he set at the points of the star. He glanced at Harley briefly and then Ellis. "I'd let me do the talking. My brother isn't so fond of either of your kind." he commented. Then he lit the candles with a wave of his hand, sat on the ground in front of the makeshift alter and began an ancient Enochian incantation.

[Lucifer]

Lucifer felt the connection forming, grinning slowly. Well look who was still breathing. He was actually a bit glad his baby brother was alive. He'd hated killing him, really. He pushed his power through, seeking out the body that he could speak through. When the connection was finally made, the man's body in front of them jerked with a sharp intake of breath, and when Lucifer spoke his voice echoed eerily out of the guy's mouth. "Well well, Gabriel. Guess I won't ask how you're still around. If you're contacting me, it must be big... so let me guess, you want to know about the Darkness?"