I stared into the abyss

As I rush back to to wreckage that was my house I look at the sky and saw what appeared to be thousands of shooting stars. The only problem is that they're all aiming straight for the city. I dig my family out of the rubble and grab my father who's chair was destroyed along with the house, Kevin takes off in the direction of the rooms after he helped James and mom. We ducked under what was left of the roof and waited for him to return.

"I don't understand!" my father yelled over the sounds of the explosions and fighting.

"How did the sensors not notice them before they got too close?"

He made a good point. Ordinarily the cities sensors would've noticed the army of despair before we could even be seen by them, the alarms would have issued a warning and went on shutdown, and the city would be automatically teleported to a different location. But this time it was different, this time there was nothing. As I was thinking Kevin returned with his bag which was full of weapons.

"I wanted to give these to you guys as a surprise after dinner but now's better than never" he yelled.

From his bag he pulled out a new pair of prosthetic legs, instead of saying anything I immediately started attaching them to my father.

"Thank you Kevin" he said his voice somber.

He gave my mother two new shiny MK 9 silver eagle plasma pistols and tossed a kusurigama to James who looked at it with a murderous glint in his eyes. Lastly he handed me a pair of gauntlets one was made of blessed steel and the other chaotic iron, the two metals of heaven and hell. The last weapon he pulled from his back was a black katana except this blade was double edged. As soon as our preparations were completed my father stood up and tested his new legs on the skull of an angel foot soldier, satisfied we stood in the standard diamond formation with one goal in mind. Survival.

As we made our way to the emergency shelters we slaughtered any who stood in our way, be they demons or angels, we had to get to the center of the city. Once we make it to the shelter we'd be able to get in a pod which would automatically teleport us to the nearest floating city. As we get closer to the inner city we see just how severe the damage really is there are dead everywhere, the streets are overrun by demons and angels and we're forced to take back alleys. We took a right and realize we are right behind a squad of enemy soldiers, we back up around the corner before any of them notices and my father peeks around the corner .

"Five angels six demons all armed, I'm not seeing any ranged weapons but be careful there may be archers nearby" he gives the signal Kevin, James, and I split into the usual formation: Kevin takes the front, I get the middle, James takes the rear, and mom and dad ,being the backup, take out the stragglers. As soon as dad gives the signal we attack. I go first I aim for the demon and angel closest to me and take both of them out with a single blow each, drawing the attention of all the others to me, they don't notice James and Kevin until it's too late. Kevin decapitates a demon then cuts an angel down with the same movement, James being a long distance fighter swings his kusurigama in a tight circle cutting the throats of the three closing in on him, the kid may be nine but damn he's ruthless, then we move to finish off the remaining four. I punch a hole through one angel while Kevin deals with the other, I move to help James who was targeted by the last two but mom beats me to it by putting a hole through one of the soldier's head giving James enough time to finish off the other one. As we move to leave I hear a click and see a shining silver arrow coming at me, dad grabs it and hurls it back at the archer killing him instantly.

"I told you to keep a look out for archers" he scolds me.

"I know I'm sorry" I say ashamed.

We continue on to the center of the city until we finally make it to the shelter we see there are already people there and going inside suddenly the entire shelter explodes killing everyone inside.

"What the hell was that!" I exclaimed.

" That blast came from inside the shelter not outside what the fuck going on?!"

As we stand there trying to figure out what to do I feel numerous power sources headed this way.

" Dad please tell me that I'm trippin right now and that you don't sense that as well." I plead.

"Sorry son unfortunately I can, there's seven of them and they're closing in fast!"

"Shit" James said

"Language mister" mom scolded him

"Really mom? That's your concern?" Kevin couldn't help but chuckle.

"There are seven beings with monstrous power and your mad cause James cursed?"

"Honestly honey I think we can let it slide this time" my dad said. I knew we were I deep shit cause he was covered in a cold sweat. Meanwhile the seven beings were getting closer and I was getting more and more sure that this was their destination, but the question was why? Suddenly we were surrounded on all sides by squadrons of soldiers.

"Shit we were so focused on those guys we didn't even notice these assholes" I yelled

"Everyone back to back" my father ordered

As we stood surrounded on all side I noticed a tear fall down my mother's face.

"Well" she sighed sadly "at least we die as a family"

With that the soldiers charged we all brought our spiritual power to the max, mom let loose a storm of bullets, James swung his kusurigama with everything he had, arcs of blue light were flying off of Kevin's blade cutting down all in his path, dad was letting off shockwaves from each kick, my fist we're moving like bullets punching holes in all who stood before me bodies littered the ground, angels and demons alike, we had the upper hand, for now, but there seemed to be no end to them and our power was dropping steadily. Before long mom was wounded she was hit in the leg with an arrow as Kevin moved to block the next attack aimed at her a lieutenant level soldier attacked him from behind and Kevin ended up loosing his right arm but still we fought on, we fought like we were possessed we ended up reducing their numbers by more than half of the original, eventually they became cautious and wouldn't approach us recklessly and mom took the time to apply first aid to herself and Kevin. But by then our worst fears were realized when the seven beings we sensed earlier appeared and we almost fell into despair.

"What's going on here why aren't these humans dead yet?" A deep voice boomed.

The army parted way to reveal the source of the voice, the source of the eight monstrous power levels, they were the 6 generals of the army of despair each named after the 7 deadly sins, Greed,Lust,Sloth,Wrath,Envy,Gluttony,and Pride. But the most powerful force of all seven was the commander and chief of the army of despair the archangel Michael himself .