Chapter 26 / the reunion

Lust and Greed walk back to the cottage with Vesper following behind them. Everyone was silent aside from a few bugs and frogs making noise in the forest. Kiyan glanced at Hiroshi as he smirked walking to the door. "I believe we have guests" Kiyan stated recognizing Lusts perfume coming in from outside. He swung the door open revealing Vesper escorted by a thin, slender man and a very lovely women with deep purple eyes. the male had forest green eyes with dark hair. The female having blonde curly long hair that reached to the middle of her back. Hiroshi looked at Kiyan with a curious gaze. He looked at the open door seeing his little sister was alive and well. "Vesper" is all Hiroshi could mutter as he tears up. Vesper looks up to see her brother then she runs up to him giving him a hug. "Big brother it's good to see you" Vesper says as the two goof around having a sibling moment in front of Kiyan, Lust, and Greed. Kiyan would smile watching as the two hugged and he leaned back against the wall looking down at Greed he whispered, "find Andras." Greed quietly nodded and disappeared to find Andras. After a couple of minutes Greed returns with Andras beside him. Andras walks up to next to Kiyan softly says "you have called for me Kiyan" Kiyan looked to Andras "I think you should get to know your stepson. If that's alright with you." He suggested gently as he went back to watching Vesper talk to Hiroshi. Andras thinks for a moment. "I don't see too much harm in that. is her brother aware that she is part daemon?" Andras asked, watching the two softly smiling at them. Then Andras calmly approaches Vesper and Hiroshi.

Hiroshi stops talking suddenly unfolding his wings shoving vesper behind him quickly as he shouts to Kiyan. "KIYAN! There are three sin lords in the cabin you should seriously consider getting now. " Kiyan would chuckle at Hiroshi's alarmed state. "He isn't aware of everything, but he knows a bit I filled him in on a few things just not everything yet." "Obviously, Kiyan" Andras says bluntly not amused. Kiyan looks at Hiroshi "at ease Hiroshi no need for alarm." Vesper hugs her brother's side speaking in a happy tone. "Relax brother it's just my father, Kiyan, Lust, and Greed" Hiroshi looked baffled by her statement. "Your father is the sin lord of Andras? " He asked startled as he looked to Kiyan for explanation. "As you can see there are in fact three sin lords in the room with us." Kiyan begins to inform Hiroshi. Andras cut in speaking. "Technically four" Kiyan looked over to him with a raised brow. " I'm getting their Andras, Lust, Greed, and Wrath." Kiyan as he stated himself, his hair flushed back to its shimmering white. He leaned against the wall looking at Hiroshi. "Dying had a price, but it allowed me to resurrect myself fortunately your sister was there. Those elves you spoke of Hiroshi that was me and Andras. As far as I am aware we are likely being hunted by the higher ups to rescue your sister. You are being left out of the loop due to you being my closest friend. You cannot trust them. I am sure by now your brother Abaddon is on to us. We all know she will need to report to the high council soon enough about her status. They will want to know more about her demonic half." Kiyan tells Hiroshi this information leaving him puzzled. "Why would they do that? Far as I know they think you are still dead Kiyan. Also, they think that Vesper ran away with a sea dragon and an elf." Hiroshi says sounding a little hurt thinking they would not trust him. Vesper gently pets her brothers' wings calming him down a little. Then he remembered about the Arinian. "But a woman appeared in the heavens. She says she is Arinian, and that Vesper is as well. Making it to where she would not be killed for being an angel/daemon hybrid. so, she shouldn't be in any harm's way in the heavens." Hiroshi informs them with what he knows. Vesper looks at her brother "Arinian like the ones in the scrolls you read to me brother?" Vesper asked Hiroshi with hope in her tone. Hiroshi nods his head to Vesper.

Kiyan thinks deeply as he looks at Andras. "Should we go for her sake sir?" he asked Andras for his thoughts on the matter. Andras thought deeply about it then said with a sigh. "Unfortunately, I have to say yes she would be safer from Gluttony's prying hands. " Kiyan sighed looking over to vesper. "It's your choice vesper we will go if you choose." Kiyan tells her to make it her choice without any force. Vesper looks between everyone thinking of what to say " let us do it because I have a feeling one way or another it will happen. After all this is fixed and straightened out, we can go explore the world together maybe" vesper smiles with hopeful thinking. Hiroshi lightly pats vespers head with a soft smile on his face. Andras nods to her decision. " Kiyan, vesper, Hiroshi you three go to the heavens. I will stay behind to talk with lust, and greed on other matters." Andras stated calmly with a firm tone. Kiyan nodded looking at Hiroshi "Lead the way Brother." Kiyan states stepping over, opening the door politely. "Will do brother" Hiroshi says he nods to Kiyan with vesper following behind him. Hiroshi and Vesper stretch out their wings ready for flight. "Think you can keep up brother?" Hiroshi calls Kiyan up on the challenge. Kiyan chuckled then retorted back. "Can you?" Kiyan unfurled his draconic white wings that were at least a foot longer than Hiroshi's on each side. "Angel wings are agile, but dragon wings are strong and built for speed." Kiyan states with pride in his tone. Vesper chuckles as she flaps her wings hovering around the two. Hiroshi looks stunned by the size of Kiyan's wings saying " man you would give Castiel a run for his money" Kiyan chuckles at Hiroshi's statement. "Only way to find out guys" vesper says flying up into the sky quickly leaving the two to catch up with her. Kiyan takes a running start within two wing beats he catches up soaring above vespers wings as they take to the sky. Hiroshi takes flight catching up with Vesper then Hiroshi compliments Kiyan. " Wow they look even bigger in-flight Kiyan" and starts flying towards the heavens with vesper flying between the boys giggling. Kiyan grinned enjoying the feeling of flight. "I've missed flying so much." He replied with a chuckle as he soared across into the clouds. Vesper and Hiroshi smile seeing Kiyan happy. As they get closer to heaven, they feel they entered the heavenly domain by the gate entrance. A silhouette of an angel can be seen ahead of them landing at the gates.

Kiyan had landed ahead his wings at a defensive angle as he drew his long-curved blade. Kiyan can see more details on the angel more clearly. The angel is too tall to be Abaddon or vespers mother. Hiroshi sees Kiyan's stance hovering next to him whispering " easy Kiyan we don't know if it is needed yet" vesper lands next to Kiyan with a worried look she says. " Kiyan calm down it looks like you want to fight" she hugs his side wanting to calm him out of his defensive stance. He exhaled slowly as he relaxed, sheathing his blade. "I apologize I guess I'm just on edge after everything that's happened. " Kiyan admits looking down at vesper " are you ready for This? I will be right here for you. " Kiyan asked her. she nods, looking up at Kiyan with a smile "as ready as I'll ever be" speaking with confidence. The angel before them stopped moving to open the gate questioning his hearing. "Vesper? Hiroshi?" The angel asked, turning around revealing its Castiel at the gate. Kiyan would fold his wings in and cross his arms as he looked over to Vesper then to Castiel. Castiel looks shocked but relieved that they're alive " I'm glad to see you all alive and well given the circumstances that you three are in" Castiel says in a kind and gentle tone to them. "What circumstances?" Kiyan asked raising a brow. "To put it bluntly far as we knew you died Kiyan, vesper took off during a storm that even I wouldn't fly in, Hiroshi disappears for a while. then you three appear before my eyes at heaven's gate. I'm glad you all are well but, there's a lot to discuss with a few others to calm things down up here." Castiel replied with concern. Vesper rubs her arm thinking about it, feeling she disappointed the angels and her mother. "Well then let's get to business shall we" Kiyan announced rolling up his sleeves marching toward the gateway. Castiel nods, leading the trio through the gates into the open courtyard. Hiroshi pats vespers shoulder to reassure her as they walk through the courtyard. Kiyan placed his hands in his pockets looking down quietly as they walked along. After a few minutes Narina walks up to the group with a mixture of emotions, pulls Hiroshi and Vesper into a big bear hug. "you two had me beyond worried. especially you, vesper I know you're hurting, but it was extremely dangerous thing you did from what Abaddon told me you did." She lets go of them looking over them like a worried mother.

"Oh, you've always been a hermit Narina my dad would agree." Kiyan said as he smiled brightly at her. " He would say you have sheltered them it is time for them to leave the nest blah blah. " He said waving his arm with his hand in a blah motion. Narina turns her attention to Kiyan "Ryuji probably would say something like that" she lightly laughs at Kiyan's action. "I'm guessing vesper found a way to bring you back. I am glad, that kind of pain I would not wish upon anyone" Narina replies to him. "Yes, well some of it was trickier than expected. It's hard to keep some things uninvolved with the angelic counsel." He replied resting his hands on his waistline as his eyes flickered red if only for a moment to Narnia's eyes. Narnia raises an eyebrow at Kiyan with curiosity "Kiyan I understand that some things don't need to be said and I won't push it any further." she says calmly to Kiyan. Abaddon sees his mother talking and heads to her hollering "hey mother what is all the talk about!" He could not see the trio just yet. Kiyan softly hissed as he stuffed his hands in his pockets, his ears sharp as he quietly watched the ground listening. Hiroshi looks at Kiyan confused as vesper looks toward Abaddon's voice. Narina replies "vesper and Hiroshi returned to check in and get things situated" Narina says stepping to the side revealing the trio. Abaddon looked at the trio "so you finally came home vesper after all the trouble you made" Abaddon says upset with his sister. Vesper expression goes from happy to a blank expression. Hiroshi speaks up next to Vesper "she's here to clear things up and fix what she can no need to be hateful with her brother" the siblings continue to argue with each other. Kiyan stepped up looming over Abaddon as his hair faded to black. He can feel Abaddon's wrath radiating from his body. " Calm yourself before I settle things my way. " Kiyan seethed his eyes flashing to red once more. Abaddon faces him with no fear "and why should I? you're the one that put her in that state making her act out" he barked as he summons his sword taking a swing at Kiyan. Kiyan catches it with his hand open he can feel the blade burn into his skin. Suddenly the atmosphere gets cold, Vesper stands in her demon form behind Abaddon with one hand raised with her claws extended out growling menacingly at Abaddon.

Kiyan grasped the blade fully as it burned his skin away his shining white scales underneath bared. "I'd hardly say I made her this way child " Kiyan said with a sigh. Vesper grabs the back of Abaddon's shirt tossing him away from Kiyan making the blade fall to the ground " leave him alone before I do worse brother" vesper threatens Abaddon her gaze moves from Abaddon to Kiyan " is your hand alright dear?" she questioned Kiyan's injury as Abaddon hit the ground with a groan. Hiroshi looks shocked and worried but does not move unsure on what to do, seeing his sister in her in her daemon form for the first time. Kiyan shook his wrist as his skin remained burned, he simply shrugged and tore his sleeve wrapping his hand looking at vesper. "Calm down you're scaring them all. Vesper, you need to relax deep breaths remember " he gave her a gentle expression and smiled lightly. Vesper takes deep breaths slowly shrinking down to her original height looking less threatening "sorry everyone" she says looking down feeling bad she acted out without thinking. Hiroshi and the others slowly calmed down seeing vesper calm. Abaddon gets up dusting himself off not looking up yet. Kiyan sighed with his body still tense as he looked over to Narina. He rolled his shoulders cracking his neck as he stepped forward unfurling his large draconic wings, his hands curled around with long curved talons, he narrowed his gaze down and grasped Abaddon by the collar of his shirt. " You need a lesson in manners boy. I am sure while Vesper is being seen your mother can send you with me for a week or two, I will break you like I did Hiroshi. " He hissed watching the boy's wings sag underneath him forcing him to look Kiyan in the eyes as Kiyan waited for anyone's answer. Narina speaks up firmly "I think that will work Kiyan." As everyone nods in agreement for Abaddon's punishment. Hiroshi pats Vesper's shoulder in comfort. "This isn't your fault little brother needs this lesson," Vesper nods as she watches Kiyan. Kiyan looked at Vesper "remember I'm banished from here anyway only reason I made it past those gates was I had permission once as your guardian." He looked back to Narnia speaking. "With your consent we will return once I finish with Abaddon. " Narina looked to Kiyan thinking for a moment then replied " you have my consent to give Abaddon his lesson" "yeah right you can't break me. I'm not weak like my older brother and sister." Abaddon hissed with an overconfident tone trying to move out of Kiyan's grasp. Hiroshi looked at his brother annoyed by his comment with Vesper looking at Abaddon upset by it. Narina sighs shaking her head at Abaddon. "Hiroshi go with them so there can be a witness so no one can point fingers and no unfairness happens" Castiel says to Hiroshi. "Vesper is safe here no one will harm her while things are getting taken care of" Castiel reassures Kiyan and Hiroshi. Kiyan grinned slyly. " Boy this is goanna be great I get to rip those wings of yours off " Kiyan whispered in Abaddon's ear just to spook him as he let his wings vanish in a plume of black ash dragging the young angel down with him. Hiroshi hugs Vesper one last time then takes off flying knowing where he needed to go. Vesper waves at him as he flies away fully returned to her normal form. She then turns to her mother and Castiel. " What do I need to do?" She tries to sound confident but shows she is nervous. " You will stay with Narina while things get taken care of. I have some duties I need to finish." Castiel states as he turns around leaving them both alone together.

Narina motions vesper to follow her as she begins to walk through various halls and corridors in heaven. Vesper follows next to her mother in silence not sure what to say. "Are you sure you want Kiyan as your soulmate? When you can have one here to be prosperous and safe. The suiters here are far better than him." Narina breaks the silence as she questioned her daughter's choice with a disapproving demeanor. "Yes, mother he has been kind to me and protected me from harm" vesper explained with confidence to her mother. "Only because you brought him back to life vesper. Any man or women would be nice to their savoir and hide their darkest intentions from them. Kiyan is no different from all the other liars of the world" Narnia scoffed stopping at the hall of records grinning with a plan in mind to sway vesper. "What do you mean by that mother?" Vesper questioned her mother's words and intentions. "Here I will show you what I mean by it" Narina leads vesper into the hall of records searching for Kiyan's orb. Vesper looks at the shelves they pass by seeing the names of different people from around the world. "Ah here we are" Narina speaks with a pleased tone and posture. She picks up the orb that has Kiyan's name etched into it then holds it in front of vesper for her to look at. Vesper stares at the orb then to her mother with a questioning glance. "Hahaha, this is about Kiyan. Beware, beware, be skeptical of their smiles, their smiles of plated gold. Deceit is so natural. But a wolf in sheep's clothing is more than a warning. Baa, baa, black sheep, does he have a soul? No ma'am, by the way, what the hell are morals for him?" Narina sang as she throughs the orb to the ground shattering it releasing the past held within it. Vesper looks at the cloud of smoke rising seeing Kiyan drinking and flirting with many women in taverns without a care in the world. Vesper feels a twinge pain in her chest hurt by the sight of what she is seeing. "Vesper be nimble, vesper be quick. Kiyan's a little whore, and his alibis are dirty tricks. So, could you? Tell me how you sleep easily. knowing he only thought of himself. Show me how he justifies telling all his lies like second nature. Listen, mark my words, one day. He will pay, he will pay. Karma's going to come collect his debt." Narina sang as she moved her hand through the smoke, changing to another moment in time for vesper to see. Kiyan is walking in a market area slipping his hands into other people's pockets stealing whatever he could get his fingers on. Kiyan continues through the market area he enters an underground ring fighting other people and placing bets when he is not fighting.

Narina smirks seeing it slowly sinking into Vesper's head on how impure he really is "Aware, aware, he stalks his prey with criminal mentality. He sinks his teeth into the people he depends on infecting everyone, he is quite the problem. Fee-fi-fo-fum, Vesper you better run and hide. I smell the blood of a petty little coward. vesper be lethal, vesper be slick. Kiyan will leave you lonely, dying in a filthy ditch. So, could you tell me how you sleep easily? knowing he is only thinking of himself. Show me how he justifies telling all his lies like second nature. Listen, mark my words, one day he will pay, he will pay. Karma's going to come collect his debt." Narina flaps her wings making the smoke disappear. She holds up vespers chin making her look at her giving her a sincere gaze. "Maybe He will change abandon all his wicked ways. Make amends and start anew again. Maybe he will see all the wrongs he will do to you and start all over, start all over again" Narina sang giving her a tad bit of hope that she would approve of him. Vesper smiles looking hopeful then Narina laughs backing away with her hands on her hips. "Who am I kidding? Now, let us not get overzealous here, he has always been a huge piece of shit. If I could kill him, I would but it is frowned upon in all thirty-two realms having said that, he can burn in hell, yes Oh, oh, oh" vesper looks at her mom heart broken by her words but does not speak against her fearing her mother's punishments. "So, tell me how you sleep easily. knowing he is only thinking of himself. Show me how he justifies telling all his lies like second nature. Listen, mark my words, one day. He will pay, he will pay. karma's going to come collect his debt" Narina finished singing looking at her defeated daughter before her. Narina walks closer to her placing her hand on vespers shoulder "now follow me to choose a better suiter for you to be paired with my daughter" Narnia states with firm authority. "Yes mother" vesper murmured in defeat hanging her head low. Narina nods and leads Vesper to the courting grounds.

They entered the courting grounds seeing a few angels talking to each other walking around. "Vesper sweetie put on a smile for them okay" Narnia mumbled into vesper's ear then gives her a gentle nudge. Vesper smiles kindly to make her mother happy walking over to the group of angels. The group of angel's eyes vesper as they all smiled seeing an opportunity to have her as their soulmate. Vesper softly waves at them "hi" One angel gently grabs her hand kissing it with a flirty smile asking. "What brings you here today little dove" vesper lightly pulls her hand away not amused by his flirting tack tick. "I'm here because my mom doesn't approve of the suitor I want" vesper says huffing annoyed by being here with her wings puffing up behind her some. "Maybe she is right you need one of us instead to be there for you always. When you know he cannot" another angel replies standing next to her with a matter-of-fact tone. The rest of them gather around her in a circle and begin to sing to her. "We cannot believe we are finally alone. We cannot believe we almost went home. What are the chances? Everyone's dancing and he is not with you. The universe must have divined this. What are we going to do? Not grab your wrist?" one angel grabs her wrist pulling her to him dancing around the others. "We can be better a better partner than he can. We can do the shit that he never did. Up all night, we will not quit. Thinking we are going to steal you from him. we can be such a gentleman plus; all our clothes would fit" he passes her to another angel to dance with as they all have big smiles on their faces excited for this opportunity. "We can be better partners then he can. We do not need to tell you twice. All the ways he cannot suffice. If we can give you some advice. You should leave with one of us tonight. The universe must have divined this. Ladies first, baby, we insist." Another scoops her up bridal style swinging around vesper held on out of instinct. Narina watches them try to court Vesper, smiling, thinking she won her daughter over to stay here in heaven. "We can be better partners then he can. We can do the shit that he never did. Up all night, we will not quit. Thinking we are going to steal you from him. We could be such gentlemen plus; all our clothes would fit. We can be better partners then he can. We can be better partners. We never would have left you alone, here on your own glued to your letters" the angel sets her down lightly taping her nose playfully. The rest of them gather in front of her once more showing off what they can do for her. "We never would have left you alone for someone else to take you home. We can be better partners then he can. We can do the shit that he never did up all night, we will not quit. We are going to steal you from him. We can be such a gentleman plus; you know our clothes would fit. We can be better partners then he can. We can do the shit that he never did up all night, we will not quit. Thinking we are going to steal you from him. We can be such a gentleman plus; all our clothes would fit" the group angels finish singing to her with each striking a different pose "which one of us do you choose little dove?" one questioned Vesper as they watched her shuffle trying to decide. In the background unknown to the angel's, Lust was hiding behind a tree checking up on vesper for Kiyan. She watches vesper with concern knowing how easy she is to be pushed around. "Come on vesper don't fall for their lies" lust mumbles to herself with her grip tightened on the tree's bark.

Vesper stared at the angels with her hand resting on her chest. She feels her necklace around her neck that was made by Kiyan, her true mate. Vesper's demeanor changes from shy, uncertain girl to a strong, confident woman. "Want his bad romance. Want his bad romance... I want his ugly, I want his disease. I want his everything as long as it is free. I want his love, love, love, love, I want his love. I want his drama, the touch of his hand. I want his leather-studded kiss in the sand. I want his love, love, love, love, I want his love. You know that I want him, and you know that I need him" vesper walks up to them pushing some of them over and out of her way in a defiant fashion. The ones that did not fall over back up from shock not ever seeing her like this before. Narnia's smile drops seeing vesper act defiant with them, shaking her head in disapproval not believing what she is seeing. "I want it bad, a bad romance. I want his love and I want his revenge. Me and Kiyan can write a bad romance. I want his love and all his lovers' revenge. Me and Kiyan can write a bad romance. Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh. Caught in a bad romance. Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh. Caught in a bad romance. Want his bad romance...Want his bad romance" Lust watches vesper with pride for her standing up for herself. Lust sees her outfit no longer matches her for who she is anymore. She snaps her fingers, in a swirl of smoke around vesper her clothes change into a beautiful long black silk dress with gold trim along the edges, and a small slit up the side. Thin gold ribbons laced through her wings making them look beautifully decorated. Vesper hooks her finger lightly under one angel's chin making him look at her she smiles at him then pushes him away from her. "I want his horror. I want his design. Cause he is a criminal as long as he is mine. I want his love, love, love, love. I want his love. I want his psycho, his vertigo stair. I want his love, love, love, love. I want his love. You know that I want him, and you know that I need him. I want it bad, a bad romance. I want his love, and I want his revenge. Me and Kiyan can write a bad romance. I want his love and all his love has revenge. Me and Kiyan can write a bad romance. OH-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh. Caught in a bad romance. Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh. Caught in a bad romance. Want his bad romance... Want his bad romance. Want his bad romance" Lust appears next to vesper in her full daemon lord form dancing with her singing. "She wants his love, and she wants his revenge. She wants his love - she does not wanna be friends! Je veux ton amour. Et je veux ta revanche. Je veux ton amour. She does not wanna be friends. She does not wanna be friends. No, she does not wanna be friends! She wants his bad romance. Want his bad romance!!!" Lust finishes singing with her demon wings spread out spooking the boys back further in fear away from vesper. Vesper smiles with Lust then she turns to her mother and sings with determination and defiance. "I want his love, and I want his revenge. We could write a bad romance. I want his love and all his lovers' revenge. We can write a bad romance. Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh. Caught in a bad romance. Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh. Caught in a bad romance. Want his bad romance. I want Kiyan's bad romance!" When Vesper finished singing, a group of older angels flew into capture lust so she could not escape them. Vesper pushes Lust behind her getting in their way for Lust to make her escape. Lust vanishes in a ploom of smoke with a Cheshire smile as the angels grab ahold of vesper taking her away to another building with Narina following the other angels.