Seraphim in ruin

She was one of 17 angels cast out from the heavens, no trumpet sounded their exile. No mercy was shown as the  sisters were punished with a single sentence.

“I have given you all too many chances, as a last resort I must cast you out, I sentence all of you to  join the mortals and sort out their endless conflict. .” Said the almighty lord, as he cast out his 17 angels to suffer the toils of the infinite wars of the mortal realm. 

The 17 angels did not have their powers taken, but their abilities were greatly diminished, so much so that  many of their wings disappeared.

Michael was the one who pushed them, he was the will of heaven.   The lords command was clear,

Fall

They fell  like lightning , their once holy ethereal glow began to dim but didn’t go out entirely  as they came closer to the surface before crashing. 

The 17 angels dominated the battlefield, at first they fought to survive.  But slowly cracks in their grouping began to emerge.  7 of them chose to hide their divinity and fight for what is good,  the remaining 10 embraced the corruption that claimed Lucifer eons ago and  became monsters.

The final battle ensued and the 7 slaughtered most of their corrupted sisters with 3 escaping, the redeemed 7 then dispersed.

They scattered themselves across the globe ,  most of them took up lives as normal people but  2 of the 7 decided to hunt down their 3 escaped corrupted sisters. 

A long time had passed since then,  the lives of so many humans being born and dying but the 10 remaining angels are still here. 

This is the story of how I met one of the 7, her name was Park Minju.  

My own name is Taehyun and I met her when I entered University. She was beautiful,  a religious studies major and extremely popular. 

I didn’t know what she was then, and nothing could prepare me for when I did. 

I found myself being pulled into her little friend group, her friends became mine and she seemed to take a special interest in me. 

“Hey, Taehyun.” Her melodic voice called out to me, I immediately put all of my attention onto her.

“Y-Yeah?” I replied, cursing my voice cracks internally as I waited for what she had to say. 

“You going to that upcoming party?” She asked, a soft smile on her face. 

My thought process was further scrambled when she grabbed onto my arm gently. 

“Please?” she pouted. 

I ended up relenting and was forced to go to this crazy party on Friday.

I got there a bit late, it was 6pm and the party had begun an hour ago. It was rather chill, nobody was too loud. 

I searched around for Minju and when I finally found her,my breath was taken away.

She was…………..glowing and her hair was a golden  blonde? 

She was talking to her friend Moka, they were sitting at a table with some other people.   She hadn’t spotted me yet, and I didn’t want to interrupt her so I went to a couch and sat down. 

I sat there for a few moments before something cold was pressed on the back of my neck, I turned around and it was Minu holding a can of beer. 

“Hey handsome” She grinned down at me, tossing  me  the beer and moving to sit down across from me. 

“I was wondering when you’d show up.” she continued as she sat down. 

I cracked open the beer and took a sip, letting the alcohol numb my senses. Hopefully they’d make me less susceptible to her visuals. 

She took a long sip of her own, her eyes never leaving my face.  I’d seen at least 3 other empty cans by over where she had been sitting with her friends.  This had to be her 4th drink, yet her eyes seemed as sharp as ever. 

I reach out to try and stop her. “Hey, that’s your 4th drink. You should stop.”  But she stopped me,  pulling back with a grin. 

“This is nothing, I haven’t gotten drunk in a long time…………..don’t even know if I can anymore.”   Her face went eerily still as she said that,  as if a thousand years of memories had gone through her head. 

She schooled her face back into her usual smile the second she finished, sipping her beer again. “Drink up” She gestured to me. 

Moka came over, holding another can of beer and sat down next to us.

“Hey there love birds” She cooed drunkenly, face flushed from all the alcohol.