(Cain POV)
Roughly 7 Million Years prior to the present, Deep within the Abyss.
"Good, looks like you have truly begun to gather real strength of your own unlike that which you have borrowed from me so far." Master said to me as I laid on the ground trying to catch my breath after a grueling training session with her.
I don't particularly enjoy having my bones being ground into dust only to have them forcibly be remade with the use of her corrupted dark ooze of pure evil that looked thicker and darker than blood itself.
"Now even without my aid you are stronger than even Paimon himself, and he's right under the sins in raw power alone, though Lucifer is still way out of your league to beat as you are now it's almost like an ant up against an Elephant." She said as she barred her long fanged teeth while the corruption constantly oozed off her very body(See the Auxiliary Chapter on Characters for her original Looks)
"Well, it's not like I want to fight him in the first place." I said with a sigh as I clenched my fist while looking up to the dark sky above as I heard the screams of sinners and demons who she wanted as her personal toys as she enjoyed the screams of agony and pain they gave out.
'You are the son of Eve and you must forever bare those sins on your back for the rest of my days.' I remembered those words from that bitch clearly and it infuriated me to no end, no matter what I would ever do I would always have been forsaken by those Angels and by their oh so benevolent 'God' of theirs.
But unless I'm as strong as Lucifer I can't hope to make a march on Heaven Personally for what they did to me.
'Brother….. Do what you must….. I don't feel I have long to Live anyway *Cough Cough Cough*….' I even remembered Ables last words, he was always of weak and constantly in pain and could barely do anything without me and my brothers aid so I asked if he was sure of this and he agreed and so I killed him in one quick strike to his head with a rock and that's how I ended up murdering Able.
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"Wait wait, hold just a second there, so your telling me that you didn't kill your brother out of spite?" Lucifer said surprised at the fact of it not being murder but a mercy killing or how they call it now assisted suicide.
"No, I never hated Able, but he was always sick and couldn't really do anything without our help, but the angels loved him as he was 'The Son of Adam' in their eyes and thus when I did kill him I was judged so severely that I was cast down straight into hell, and I guess that's when we first met with Lillith welcoming me and you…. Despising me from the moment I came down to hell as I was considered Humanity's First Greatest Sinner after all." I say looking at Lucifer who, after realizing the truth he never wanted to hear purely because he hated me for what I was, felt conflicted before looking down at his hands while I looked up towards the ceiling to continue my story for Charlie and the rest.
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"Oh and I should mention this now but this year's extermination has just begun, you plan on going up their to deal with those wretched angels?" She said appearing next to me as she laid by my side and trailed her sharp claws gently over my bare chest.
I just sit up making her have to stop as I summon my shirt back to me before summoning my armor entirely as I cracked my neck and summoned my blades before unfurling my wings, "You know it." I say to her before flicking my long curly hair back before flying off towards the sky's as I headed for Pride personally.
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(Lucifer's POV)
The day before the Extermination.
At that time was working in my workshop creating things to pass the time and not think about the world I had no real choice but to reside in.
"Another Extermination is tomorrow… not like it had anything to do with me…" I said to myself as I sighed.
I never really cared about the exterminations that they had implemented, and to this day I don't care that much either, as in my eyes that sinners were the worst of humanity and had no redeeming qualities to them, though I guess that wasn't completely true as I knew Cains wife Awan and his sons and daughters after their deaths were sent to hell specifically for being related to him.
I only knew that thanks to my wife telling me about their circumstances and thus I took pity on Cains wife Awan and his Children, but I would always feel disdain and disgust at the first sinner until the day he died.
As for how I took pity on his family is that I gave them a safe place to live while down here and away from hells other denizens, it was a safe and secure location that I believed that none of the angels knew about so they would never need to fear of them being killed.
But I didn't realize how mistaken I was with that claim as later that day I received a personal message from Adam himself, signed by him personally.
It asked me to personally keep Cain at bay for this years extermination, if I did so he would personally put in word with Sera and the rest of the Seraphim to possibly have my sentence down in this hellhole revoked.
And hearing that moved me, I really wanted to leave this place and return to heaven where I truly felt I belonged, and believing he would keep his end of the deal I ultimately agreed to his request, not knowing the ramifications of my actions, and the price that would be payed for it all.
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(3rd Person, Cain & Lucifer's POV's)
Extermination day.
"Grrrr! Why do you stand in my way Lucifer! You have never cared for stopping me before!" Cain growled out at Lucifer who had stopped him at the entrance to the ring of Pride.
"I don't care whatever you try and say, I'm stopping you from advancing until this extermination is over personally!" As he easily dodged and deflected any and all of Cains attacks with ease.
But as I knew Cain was under 'her' protection, I couldn't go out of my way to actually try and kill him, it also doesn't help that up until that point I hadn't ever tried to kill someone before, intentionally or otherwise.
But as I was weaker than Lucifer at the time, no matter what tricks I pulled or attacks I made, it was no use as I didn't have the strength to fight him, and as I hadn't had full control over my Abyssal powers then all I could do was brute force it, but it didn't matter your Father would beat me back every single time as my body was progressively getting covered in more and more wounds from his flaming holy sword that to anyone else would have been unrecoverable attacks but thanks to the abyssal powers I had I could survive attacks from angels weapons, but I could only regenerate so much….
As time went on I could feel an existential dread washing over me, making my attacks faster and fiercer as I got more desperate by the second.
"LUCIFER! LET ME THROUGH! I CAN FEEL IT! MY FAMILY! THEIR IN DANGER!" I screamed out in desperation but your father ignored it.
At that time I believed he was saying anything he could to allow me to let him pass into Pride, but the thought I'd never have the chance at escaping hell ever again if I fucked this up, I ignored everything he said and forced him to stay in place for the entirety of the extermination until the bells began toll in the distance signaling the exterminations end.
Hearing it was over I stopped fighting him as he flew with all his might like a mighty tempest as I sighed while I prayed Heaven would allow me back into their grace…. But….
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" A gut wrenching scream could be heard throughout all of Pride as it sent tremors all throughout the Ring as a giant wave of malevolent energy shot out into the sky like a pillar.
Seeing this, me and your mother went to see what was at the epicenter of the pillar of malevolent energy and what I saw…..
It was me, I was kneeling on the ground as blood red tears were streaming down my face as I clutched my wife's headless corpse….. while I held the corpses of my mutilated children with me as well.
Lillith who saw this began to cry as she buried her head into my chest as I just stood their and stared on blankly and….. I realized what I had done….. I indirectly was the cause of his wife and his children's death….. but I soon noticed that 'She' was trying to use this chance to truly make him into her vessel, something that would be a great disaster to heaven, Hell and Earth as well.
So I convinced Lillith we needed to seal his memories or else Hell could possibly become ruined and so we did so, but I wasn't perfect as 'She' got in the way of entirely sealing his memories and only the memories of his Children were locked away but he would remember that I was the cause of his wife's death, and ever since he has hated me everytime he ever saw me.
Slowly he began to purposely take more of the things I could do away from me, all out of it from pure spite, but no matter how much I hated him for doing all those things, now I couldn't kill him because what I had done, and it wasn't until Charlie was born would I ever confront Cain about taking what was mine away from me.
Truthfully in the beginning I took care of Charlie just to Spite him, but as time went on and I cared for her more and more I realized, I truly looked at her as my child, as it had been thousands of years since my last child I had with one of the various demons here in hell had passed away of old age as just like Lillith I could also have children with non-sinner demons if I wanted it and…..
"All I wanted…. Was to have a child who will live forever just like me…. To fill the hole deep inside me of the family I always wanted….." I said sadly as I covered my eyes to keep the tears threatening to fall from falling as I let my heart bare for the little girl I call my daughter.
Hearing everything and all that happened Charlie was also crying but she kept herself from sobbing as she had seen the entire story of why we both hate each other play out on a magical sphere that plays out memories for all to see.
And by the end of it all when she heard the last bit she jumped over to me and hugged me tightly in her arms as I could feel my shoulder getting wet from the tears streaming down her face as she began to sob into my shoulder while I grit my teeth as the tears still came down from my eyes even though I covered my eyes they just wouldn't stop.
Feeling bad about it all, Lucifer just sighed and stood up, "I Should-" But before he could finish trying to walk away he was stopped as Cain grabbed his arm and held him there as Lucifer looked surprised seeing Cain do this.
"No, your staying right here, you don't get to run away like you always do, she doesn't just need me, she needs both of us, and much as it pains me to say this, Charlie isn't going to get anywhere with her dream without both of her fathers help." I say wiping the tears from my eyes as I look at him with a sly grin.
"What's this? Is This The Cain, the one guy who would sooner just kill whoever pissed him off than try to talk it out, That Cain is proposing a Truce?" He says both surprised but in a slightly mocking tone.
"Oi, this truce is only good until the next extermination, alright?" I say as I hold Charlie with one arm as I hold out my other one to him to shake on it.
"…. I'm only doing this for Charlie." He says as he takes it and shakes it.
I just grin, "Same for me as well." I say before Charlie hops out from my arms before she goes and pulls us both in and hugs us both.
"I love you both, and I'm the luckiest girl to have you both as my dads." She said to us which made us both get teary eyed hearing that.
"We love you too Charlie." We both say as we hold her tightly in our arms.
For now me and Lucifer will stop fighting as soon enough it will be time for Charlie to Shine as she's going to soon go into unknown territory.
It's time to see if these angels will approve of Charlie's Dream or if it's time to march to war.