Make The Angel Scream and the Devil Cry! (Part 1)

The vision shifted to yet another one in motion. Deniel saw Arianna and Diabolos's first son, with a lot of friends and women. They seemed to be enjoying themselves, right on the couches that Arianna and Diabolos shared their own moments. But suddenly, the door burst open, and a woman entered. She wore a long white dress, hugging her womanly curves and buxom figure. Her blonde hair reached down to below her waist, and sky-blue eyes. On her back was a pair of white angelic wings, and when she entered, everyone in the room looked at her. Her son...with two naked women around his arms. "MOM!? You're supposed to be dead!" Arianna stood there momentarily, looking at her son with disapproval. And for almost the first time in her life, a frown developed on her face. "I am....and so are you, my wretched son!" On her elbows, two blades made of Holy Energy formed. Arianna had no combat experience, but she didn't need it. She slaughtered her son, his friends, and each and every whore that they were with. Her dress was drenched and stained with blood, along with her face. It was over in seconds, and as she looked down at the corpse of her son, she felt tears well up in her eyes. She screamed and dropped to her knees, "WHY?! WHY DID IT COME TO THIS? ALL I WANTED WAS A NORMAL LIFE...How did it come to this?" Arianna crawled up to the couch she and Diabolos used to sit on together, and hugged her knees.

"I wept. And I wept. And I wept. I never thought I would live in such misery. I thought I would never see my husband again, and my only son was dead. I have no idea how long I cried. And as I did, everything began to freeze around me." Several images instilled themselves in front of Deniel. As Arianna cried while hugging her knees, ice slowly radiated from her, and to the surrounding room. Very soon the entire room was frozen, and soon the entire house of her husband was completely frozen, becoming what is now the Icecrown Citadel. "I thought I would cry there forever, and it seemed like I did. Until one day..."

The vision morphed itself into a new one. As Arianna wept, the door behind her burst open, showing Diabolos passing through. His eyes were blood-red, but everything else remained the same. His figure looked much more muscular than he was as a human, and he wore a jet black armor set, with a cape behind him. He was panting, and upon entering, Arianna jumped. She remained hidden behind the chair, and heard nothing but armor behind him. The clattering footsteps echoced against the hollow icy room, and she was cautious about who it was. She slowly turned her head in the chair, and was stunned to see her husband. Immediately all sadness exited her, and she almost jumped out of the chair into Diabolos. "Diabolos!" She wrapped her arms around him, and he was just as surprised to see his wife alive as she was to see her husband. "I can't believe it's really you..." "Arianna....I....you..." Both of them were at a loss for words, so they shared it with a kiss instead. And as they did, then the visions faded completely, and Deniel once again found himself in the Frozen Throne.

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"So...dad was reincarnated as a devil? That's why his eyes are now red? And that's why I have them? But that still doesn't explain why you kill all of your children. That was just one!" Arianna laughed once again. The visions were over, but her story wasn't. "Hahahahah! You sure want to know a lot, my wretched son. Yes, it's true that he was only one. But he wasn't the only one. Diabolos and I did not care that angels and demons were forbidden to have children. I loved that man, and I wanted another son. However....we were cursed with having Nephalem. The first one tried to kill us. And then the second. And then the third. And so on. Diabolos trained me in combat, and the two of us never found a worthy opponent. Until we realized...you Nephalem are. Each and every one of you are immensely powerful, and it is your destiny to try and kill us. What do we say? Bring it on! Hahahahah! Now it is your time, Deniel!" After hearing Arianna's story, Deniel was having some second thoughts about battling his mother. Perhaps he could work it out, or convince her? None of this seemed right. "Hold on, mom! I don't want to kill you! We don't have to do this I-...I..."

"Spare me your lies. Whether you want to or not right now is irrelevant. You are a Nephalem, and it eventually becomes an instinct for Nephalem to kill their parents so they can become True Nephalem. We just entice it to bring it early...because fighting my sons and daughters is fun! Now come, Deniel! Come at me! Try and kill your mother, and take the first step into becoming a True Nephalem! Hahahahah!"

Deniel never believed her, but when she brought up becoming a True Nephalem, his desires to kill her were once again fueled. He remembered the day she and Diabolos gave him up. He remebered the day they wanted to kill him. He remembered all of the torture she put him through while coming here! Most important of all, he wanted power! He needed more power. A True Nephalem...the ultimate form of creation! Power! Infinite power! "Fine! I'll kill you mom, just like I said I will! I'll make your sorry ass weep as much as you did when you thought you lost dad! You whiny little bitch!" Even for Deniel...what he was saying was low. But that did not matter to him right now. He was consumed with rage and anger, and only wanted his mother to perish. however, he looked down at himself, and found that his White Angel form was slowly fading away. It glowed blue, and some of the parts started to come off of him. "What's happening?" Nidhogg had finally opened his mouth as his master's powers were slowly fading away. In a certain way, that is. "Your power is diminishing. You've been in that form too long, and cannot sustain it even more."

"What!? This can't be, Nidhogg!"

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It was. Deniel's White Angel form vanished from timing out. For the very first time, it was not under Deniel's will. He realized that Arianna's story took up quite some time, and that's also what caused it to fade away. As Deniel's armor disappeared, and looked up at his mother in rage. "You cowardly bitch! Now look! You only did that to stall off my powers! Just so you could win!" Arianna scoffed at Deniel, and snapped her fingers. A wall of Holy Energy surrounded Deniel, and then closed in one him. It engulfed his body, before completely fading away. Deniel immediately felt all of his Magic Power restored, along with his body being in a healthy condition, as if he just started his adventure. "Are you happy now, whiny brat? I planned to heal you from the start. It wouldn't be fun fighting someone so weak." Deniel's White Angel Take Over was once again activated, but at the cost of no Magic Power, and he felt as good as new. "Now that's more like it! Nidhogg! Let's kick her ass!" Deniel drew both of his twin katanas, Vita and Mors, and pointed the one in his right hand at his mother. And for the first time Deniel had been in the Icecrown Citadel, Arianna slowly started to rise from her throne.



She was laughing, but it was more of a low chuckle as she rose. And as she did, two angelic white wings came out of her back. And then two more. And then two more. Arianna had six wings total, with three on each side. And as she rose from her throne, she and Deniel completely vanished from where they were. Each of them clashed in the very center, with Arianna using two blades made of Holy Energy just as she did in the vision Deniel saw. Each of them attacked each other several times, only to have the other deflect or block it. They both flew back to different positions, and clashed at different parts of the room. Each time, none of them seemed to gain the advantage. And every time the two of them met, shockwaves were sent throughout the room against the ice. Upon flying back, Deniel charged Holy Energy into his sword, Vita, and went in for Arianna again. "Silencing Strike!" Arianna, in response, changed her blade. Instead of a blade of Holy Energy clashing with Deniel, a blade made of ice did instead. Deniel was surprised by her ability to use two completely separate types of Magic. Not only did she block his attack, but it froze right over his Holy Energy, trapping it and destroying it. Arianna used Deniel's surprise to her advantage by sending her heel into his stomach. Her strength was enough to knock him back, and send a more powerful shockwave throughout the room. Deniel flew back into the walls of the Frozen Throne, cracking the ice.

Recovering himself, the son of White Angel pushed himself off of the wall and back down on to his feet. He looked Arianna, who still remained in the air. "Ice Magic...And Holy Energy?" Arianna smirked at him, but did not laugh. On her right hand she formed a small bit of Holy Energy, while her left one started to freeze over with pure white ice. "Not just any ice, my boy. Ice Devil Slayer Magic! I was reincarnated as an Angel, and that is the Magic I chose to learn!" The White Angel lifted up her hand covered in ice. Beneath Deniel, shards and spikes made up of Holy Ice pierced right under him, impaling his arms and parts of his legs. And immediately after that, the shards around him grew needles, which further pierced at his armor. Arianna could not see what happened, and she wasn't expecting a victory. What she did not expect, however, was for Deniel to have minimal damage....but that's what she found out. The ice started to crack, and then shattered like glass. Deniel was still standing, with not a single scratch on him, nor bleeding. He had been damaged, but it seemed very minimal. "What!?" Her son looked up at her, and his body glowed with Holy Energy. "Ice attacks have minimal effect on me....and Holy attacks even worse!"

He launched himself from where he was standing, straight at his mother. His swords glowed with Holy Energy, and on his way to his mother, Deniel began to spiral himself. He launched a galaxy-shaped torrent of Holy Energy at his mother. She raised her eyebrow at it, and with minimal effort, swatted it all away with her hand. But once she did, she left herself open, and that's what Deniel took advantage of. He appeared right in front of his mother, and cut her with both of his swords at the same time in an X shape at her stomach. The swords cut through her, but not too deep. Her blue eyes widened at Deniel's attack, and just before she flew away, she put her hand on her son's stomach, marking him. "Tch!" The force was enough to send Arianna straight into the ground, but not nearly enough to faze her. Blood oozed out of the wound and on to her dress, but she could care less. When she landed, she snapped her fingers, and Deniel seemed to explode with Holy Energy. "Gaaaaah!" He flew up high into the ceiling from the force, but since the Frozen Throne's top was so high, he still couldn't hit it. Through the smoke he couldn't see Arianna, but he knew she was on the ground. And with all of his speed, he flew down there so he could attack her again. "You bitch!"

Arianna knew of her son's recklessness from watching him. She predicted he would come down after she let loose her attack, and she was prepared.

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Once Deniel had gotten past the smoke, he could clearly see what Deniel had laid for him, and it was a trap. She had charged up Holy Energy into each of her palms, and once she saw Deniel through the smoke, she fire a very powerful beam right at her son, almost from a point-blank range. The Holy Energy consumed Deniel, and it hurt, but it wasn't enough to stop him. He still fought on, and through Arianna firing the beam, his balde came out of the Holy Energy, and cut her once more. "What!?" This one went from Arianna's shoulder down to her chest, and spilled much more blood than last time. It was enough to make her grunt, and her beam immediately stopped. Beneath it, Deniel's armor showed, smoking from the intense power, but still in tact. He tried to go in for another cut, only to have Arianna dodge it. He chased after her, and the two clashed several times more. Just like the beginning of the fight, they fought with their blades to no avail. It was obvious that only Magic would be able to determine the victor, because when it came to their speed and skill, they were seemingly equal. Deniel brought his blade in from below, only to have Arianna block and deflect it. She tried stabbing Deniel with both of her Holy-made blades at once, and he knocked them away. Then the two of them flew away from each other, only to go back in and have their weapons collide once again.

The Icecrown Citadel still retained its structure despite all of the collateral damage and shockwaves that had been happening with each and every blow. Deniel was impressed that Arianna could make ice that was so hard. Even though Magic was the factor that would determine the fight, it was far from easy for one of them to hit the other. Arianna tried yet another beam to Deniel from across the room, but he dodged it with ease. Deniel charved up his Heaven's Meteors attacks on his blades, and launched both of them at Arianna. But she evaded them both like dodgeballs. Damn it! Nidhogg, we'll never win this fight! Deniel spoke to his sword in his mind as he tried cutting Arianna from a horizontal way on the ground, only to have her leap right over him. She appeared behind him, but before she could strike, he blocked her attackw ith his other sword. Have faith in yourself, Deniel! Vergil had faith, and so do I! You can win! Deniel would have nodded at his sword if he wasn't so preoccupied. "Take this!" Deniel came at his mother while spinning with both of his swords in a bladestorm. She only held up her two blades on her elbows, and blocked all of Deniel's blows. "Pathetic! HIYAH!" She made a careful swing right at Deniel's head with her blade between one of his blows. She was so fast, he could beat him spinning around.

The blow was powerful enough to stagger Deniel, and she made every use of it. She hit his armor in his stomach area with her fist so she could send him flying away and on to his back. Once he had landed, Arianna was already above Deniel. She slammed her heels down into his stomach, making him gag and cough blood through his helmet. "I'm not done yet!" Arianna ascended herself high up in the Frozen Throne room, and cast a very powerful spell. From out of her back, twelve shots of Holy Energy fired. Each one shot outwards, until they all curved in right on Deniel, making contact with him from his back and sides. They were strong enough to send him flying back up into the air, straight to his mother. He was still fazed from her blow to the head earlier, but the one to his stomach had made it even worse. When he finally reached his mother, she looked him dead in the eye and smirked. "You're finished." She created a lance made out of Holy Energy, and threw it straight at Deniel's chest. It peirced through him, and sent him all the way back to the wall. During each second that Deniel flew, he felt surges of pain go through his body, as the lance sent shockwaves of Holy Energy into him.

It didn't make sense to him...how could his own power cause him harm? Once Deniel landed on the ground, the spear detonated in a powerful explosion of Holy Energy. This dealt the most damage out of anything Deniel had ever felt before, and it left his body in a critical condition. The explosion was finally enough to crack Deniel's White Angel armor. It wasn't enough to destroy it, but there were cracks, dents, and charred marks all around. Arianna though the fight was finished after the explosion happened, so she laughed once more. "Hahahahah! Just like all of my children! You fall before me!"

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Arianna slowly, but gracefully started to descend back down to ground-level. And once she was there, her heels clicked on to the ice, and she started to walk back to the frozen throne. But just before she got to it, she heard a loud clanging sound right behind her. She froze in her tracks, and slowly looked behind her. She saw her son, up off the ground, and still alive. He barely was, however. His helmet was completely gone, too broken for him to wear. Most of his armor was cracked, and some of the feathers on his wings had begun to molt. But regardless, he was still alive. "I'm not done with you yet...you bitch..." He panted very harshly as he spoke, and his words were sometimes barely understandable. Arianna frowned at him, and created her blades made of Holy Energy once more. "Hmph. You should have stayed down. Or left. But now, you will--" Arianna coughed up blood as she felt the fist of her son go straight into her stomach, and send her knocking back into her Frozen Throne. She collided with it, hearing her own spine crack from the impact, but not break. Deniel appeared right in front of her, and grabbed on to her shoulders. He butt his head straight into hers with all of the force he could muster, damaging the both of the slightly, but he didn't care. It didn't deal too much damage, but he just needed to get that out of his sytem.

"THIS IS THE END FOR YOUUUUU!" Deniel grabbed his mother by one of her arms, and threw her up into the air. He drew both of his blades once again. He used some of the Energy he gathered throughout the Icecrown Citadel to once again be given the chance to use his Silencing Strike. His sword was surrounded in Holy Energy, and he flew straight for Arianna. Arianna was still confident she could win, so she just tried to dodge Deniel's attack. But when she did, she found that she was slower than she had been, and Denie's attack connected. What!? Deniel had cut deep into her skin, and it hurt more than it ever did. Now Arianna's mind and heart began to race. She was panicking, and she had begun to doubt that she could win this fight. "Arianna the White Angel! Your time has come!" Arianna recognized that voice. She knew it from somewhere, but couldn't remember. Not that she had time to think. Now that Deniel had silenced her connection to Magic, and his Purify stacks had slowed her down to the point where he could get away with attacking her, it was all over. Deniel cut her from beneath with a blow so powerful it sent her sky-high once again. He chased after her, and just before she reached the ceiling, he beat her to it, and cut her back down all the way towards the ground. Diabolos....help me...

"Divine Wrath!" Time suddenly stopped. At least from Deniel's point of view. From Arianna's point of view, while she was in mid-air, she suddenly felt as if she were cut a thousand times. And that was almost accurate. Deniel's Divine Wrath spell made him go faster than anyone could ever go. And he used it to cut his mother like a pig. He cut her once. Twice. Three times. Four, five, six, seven, ten, fifteen, twenty times. All in one instant, Deniel cut her that many times, but he wasn't over. He positioned himself right in the center of the room, and charged up Holy Energy on his hands. Just as his Divine Wrath spell finished, Arianna could see him once again. "The Light of Dawn!" Deniel unleashed his Holy Energy in a glorious burst that flooded the Frozen Throne, and cracked the ice just like it did his armor. The Holy Energy caused Arianna to scream from its power and pain. Deniel had made the angel scream. It was high-pitched, and sounded like she was in complete misery and pain. Just like he wanted.

It was like a storm that had hit. It came and went. Once Deniel's spell was over, Arianna was on the ground, almost dead. He slowly descended his way down to her, and landed on the ground. And just as he did, he de-activated his White Angel Take Over. Holy Energy from it faded away almost like the wind, and Deniel was left standing. Black clothes and hair, red eyes, and his regular old katana. "Hmph...good riddance." Deniel was prepared to walk away, thinking Arianna was dead. But suddenly, he heard her gasp for air. She was still alive. He quickly turned around and put his hand on Nidhogg, preparing to strike her down once and for all. "Deniel...come here." Her voice was much more soft and sweet, despite it being weak from her suffering so much damage. Deniel was cautious about it, but he came to her anyway. She was flat on her back, with her wings gone. Her dress was torn with all of the cuts, and she was leaking a lot of blood. Deniel knelt down next to her, and picked her up by the back of the head. "What is it?" Arianna's sky-blue eyes looked into Deniel's red ones, and she tried to muster a smile.

"All I ever wanted was what a mother really wants. To raise kids, and see them grow up strong...part of it came true, but never complete. They all tried to kill me, but they all perished. First the hand of Diabolos, but then I started to get a sick, twisted pleasure out of it. And now...I regret it." Tears welled up in her eyes, and she started to weep just like she did when she thought she was without her husband. Deniel couldn't figure out why, but he suddenly felt sorry for hurting his mother in such a way. He felt a deep sadness go into him. "M-Mom...I..." "Shhh. Hush now, Deniel. You don't need to say anything. My dream has come true..." She put her hand up to Deniel's cheek, and caressed it as if he were a baby. Deniel closed his eyes, and felt the warm embrace of his mother for the first time. "My own boy has grown up to become a handsome young man. I couldn't be more proud. I hope you sleep tight tonight, Deniel...my little Nephalem. Please...don't...don't challenge you father. But no matter what happens remember: I love you, Deniel." And with that, life escaped Arianna's eyes, and her body.

Her hand fell from Deniel's cheek on to the ground, and Deniel was left holding the corpse of his mother, with blood on his hands.

In some ways, Deniel thought she deserved it. But in most ways, she didn't. She was once a normal girl, living a normal life. And she fell in love with a rich boy named Diabolos. The two of them spent many years together, married, and attempted to have children. But that is where it all went wrong. "Why...? Why must they be denied the one thing that all species must do? Produce offspring to survive..." Deniel still held Arianna's corpse, and he used one of his hands to shut both of her eyes so that she may rest in peace. Then, from out of his coat, he took the lacrima that Vergil had given him. He almost forgot about this. "Let's get out of here--" before Deniel could activate it and get him and his mother out of the place, he suddenly realized that he could see through the ice. Before, it was completely foggy and clouded inside of it, and Deniel couldn't even see his own reflection. But now, he could see it all. And inside of the ice...he saw the bodies of many people. They all looked similar to Deniel in some ways, but in some ways not. There were boys and girls alike. And each of them were frozen solid, encased in Arianna's Frozen Throne. Deniel knew who they were. "These are all...my brothers and sisters?" They all had their distinct features, but universally there were some similarities. They all had either black, white, or blonde hair, and they all had blue or red eyes.

Deniel didn't want to look at them for long, though. He clenched on to his mother's corpse, and started to activate the lacrima. "I've had enough of this place..." And with that, Deniel, Nidhogg, and Arianna were gone from the Icecrown Citadel. Once and for all.




The three of them appeared back at Vergil's shrine, right in front of it, with Deniel still holding on to Arianna's corpse. He picked her up, and brought her inside, knowing what he must do. The lacrima was still in-tact, but it had some cracks developing in it. Vergil did say that he could only use it twice. "Whelp. Time to get to work." Deniel used the tombstone Vergil provided, and dug Arianna her own grave. He also made sure that her body wasn't still bruised or cut. He did whatever he could to heal her and patch her up, so that she could look as nice as possible. He fixed up her dress, so that she could be buried in it. She put her inside of a coffin, but realized it could fit two people inside of it. So Deniel made the hole even bigger, but did not patch it up when he put Arianna inside of the coffin. "Just wait, mom...you'll reunite with dad soon." Deniel looked down at his mother's corpse, and forced back tears. Then he looked behind him, at the very direction that the land of Sin was located at. "DO YOU HEAR ME, DAD!? I'M COMING FOR YOU! AND I'M GONNA' KICK YOUR ASS BACK TO HELL!"



"Master Diabolos...I regret to inform you but...your wife. Arianna. she is...dead."


"Is that so?"