Anthony slashed at one demon felling the wind expel as it turned to ash, he then flipped a charging one over his back, slicing it in half before it hit the ground. As he brought himself up back from the blow, a quicker demon slashed at his chest, leaving a clear furrow in it.
Anthony looked at the chaos around him; children screaming, crying as people they had known their entire life lay scattered in ribbons across the orphanage. It was horrible to see; his team fought valiantly, but blood was being spilt, they were fighting but were they winning? It was tough to say as demon turned to ash and human and Mythos blood was soaked into the ground. Then there was the question of how; how did they finally break through, Lucifer might have, but even something like a lesser demon? This was absurd.
His questions would soon be answered though as he saw in the foray of the fight, a man walking through the blood and dust of battle. The caretaker...no, what used to be the caretaker, Anthony could see the red lust of death in his eye. A black smoke consumed the man and when he emerged, it could be seen clear as day that Lucifer was amongst them all once again. He smiled showing his sharpened teeth, "Anthony," he said as time appeared to stand still around him.
"Lucifer," Anthony spat, catching the demon that had slashed him and breaking its neck in one clean motion, "I thought that you would have fled to your region of Hell when the Mother was found to still exist and your previous plans failed to kill me."
"Anthony, Anthony, simply a setback; we are never without a plan and your humans, those you seek to protect are never above manipulation; even now, as we finally reveal ourselves to you, we have already set plans into motion that you can't even anticipate , hate, the driving force of your civil war is what brought us here and what allowed us to control those who had the power to stop this; now it is too late, you shall fall and when you do, your plane of reality shall too. "In short, " he said stopping in front of Anthony, "Eden and Earth are mine now."
Lucifer's plans indeed were far reaching and the consequences would be severe and could mean the destruction of Eden very soon. His pawns, the United Nations all sat in conference, "We have confirmation that Lucifer has indeed surfaced, the French ambassador was right; the Mythos has called in the big guns; we need to act now! What's our Status on Hoover?"
It looks like she's still at Eden, this is our chance, we can deal the blow now, crush them, end this threat, but we need to act now."
"Agreed, it is the time to strike while the primary forces are out of the base, they'll be some resistance, but this is the best time, lest we miss this window. What are our predictions for lost troops?"
"They calling for roughly 50-60 lost men, can we spare that?"
Of course, approve the Order, operation Eden can begin now," as the final words were spoken the flickering holograms vanished as the U.N secured its name in history to come, as the men who tried to destroy a deity.
"Earth cannot be yours Lucifer," Anthony said drawing his sword and watching as an orange cascading flame cast itself around the blade, "The people of this world will never bow to you, Lord of hatred and violence."
Lucifer laughed and raised his own blade, "Don't you see though Anthony, they already do; this war, this is what allowed me and now my followers to pass through the planes through our own Edens, did you really think this would end easily when hatred and violence surround us so readily, that the Mythos and the humans would never stay at peace, nay this was always going to happen and that is why you will fail," a black flame cast itself around Lucifer's blade and he leapt at Anthony who barely parried the strike, sparks and fire flying in all directions as the two duelled.
The demons were growing fewer in number, but the few remaining were more than just lesser demons; these were greater demons, beings that thrived on fear, anger and anguish and there was much to go around in this battle. The stood there, flame snorting from their inflamed flesh and they formed a circle around Anthony and Lucifer; there was only one way out to do battle and flush the demons out; the team was in a race against time at this point, blood, steel and claw would show itself again.
