This is it, the apocalypse 1x1

[BlueJae]

"Kill me, yes, I think I've caught that already." Aiden said slipping past him, he'd gotten a few feet away before stopping, tugging on his own collar before looking over his shoulder "Nearest exit is two rights and a left, you'll find yourself downtown. " He said, then pinned his eyes ahead and disappeared into the darkness. Well wasn't today eventful. He didn't know what the other was but he certainly didn't want to encounter any more like him. Whatever those were. Angels, or just hybrids, like himself. He didn't like either thought.


The hybrid inhaled the fresh air, shoving the lid up and over, pulling himself out of the sewer. He'd gone farther down, not wanting to end up anywhere near the unstable winged man. He climbed out, almost crawling out, before squabbling around on the ground for a bit. Finally he pushed himself up and dusted himself off, looking up, it was- oh say late afternoon early evening. It was mostly dark, what with the fog always there, but it got even darker during the night so it was by the tints of the day that one could tell what time it was.

 

[ROUX]

-Timeskip-


It wasn't stalking. It really wasn't.


It had been about a week since Gabriel's encounter with the strange being, an entire seven days since his so called 'mental breakdown.' It's not as if he'd gone looking for the other man...they just happened to cross paths. And Gabriel happened to be a little more than curious...so he'd watched. He was perched on the top of one of the numerous tall buildings in the city, his wings folded neatly behind his back as his legs swung over the edge. He'd spotted the man out of the corner of his eye and had decided to observe. Maybe he'd find out what the man was that way. He was curious as to why he'd told Gabriel how to get out of the sewer anyway. The former angel himself certainly wouldn't have. But he wasn't going to walk up and ask...

 

[BlueJae]

Aiden was at it again, scourging for anything and anything, and it was really no good this time. An inventive little thing he was, but oh did he have it now. A nail bomb, why hadn't he thought of it before? Genius. He'd tried a glass one, that didn't work out too well, but this, this would do him good he was sure. He kicked rubble out of his way, pulling out metals and nails when he found them, but then again what was he doing? This was pretty dangerous, working with explosives. He thought about it for a second, then his eyebrows furrowed, feeling something off. You know, that feeling when you're being watched...Hah, yeah right. He shrugged it off, shoving the supplies in a backpack he'd brought along before slinging it over his shoulder. He'd already accomplish explosive bullets, it was the same thing as one would use with a rocket, but more compact- besides, it's not like he was some scientist who could take all that technology and put it in a tiny metal bullet, no no not like that...He just had his way. Amplify the bullets with that oh so special fire power of his and oh did they blow when they came into contact with something. It was useful alright? Dangerous? Yeah, they'd established that, he did a lot of dangerous things, but that's what you'd expect out of a cocky guy, right? Or maybe he was just reckless, what was the difference?

 

[ROUX]

Gabriel was completely clueless as to what the figure below was trying to do. All he'd seen were a bunch of useless pieces of metal picked up off the ground for some unseen creation that the man seemed to be so fascinated with. He thought for a moment that he'd been discovered when the figure looked around, stopping, but the angel relaxed when the work was continued. Deciding to entertain himself, Gabriel grabbed a bit of the broken building, a little broken cement ball. He then flicked it accurately at the person below to land nearby, ducking back out of sight after doing so. When he didn't hear anything, he peered back over with another, shooting the thing at his skin this time.

 

[BlueJae]

Aiden's ears flicked and he leaned back, watching the piece of rubble fly past him, he didn't have time to blink before he suddenly crouched, missing the possible head shot. He made a face,running his tongue over his lower gum and readjusting his jaw, if that wasn't an unamused face he didn't know what was. Clicking his tongue, it was like a woman who was tapping her foot impatiently but in Aiden's own little way, he waited for the third...It didn't come. Getting up he didn't look, logic said it was a silhouette screwing with him. The world was a cruel playground, and he was the new kid on the block. Everyone wanted a piece of him, and not in a good way. Someone was always trying to get at him for whatever the reason, or correction, something. He didn't dare compare these silhouettes to anything close to human. That said, he started forward again, going about his day as if it hadn't even happened. Don't give them a reaction and they would leave you alone, playground rules right?

 

[ROUX]

Never one to admit defeat, Gabriel moved along the edge of the building until he was directly over the man. He couldn't help but chuckle as he scooped two handfuls full of dust, cement bits, and plaster before tossing it so it showered down in a dusty cloud. Sure, it was childish, but he's been led into a sewer. A sewer! In his mind, he was totally justified. He smirked, satisfied, as he peeked slightly over the edge, not willing to miss the reaction he was sure to get.

 

[BlueJae]

Aiden coughed, spitting out the dust and...Was that..Plaster? He- He- Oh so help him. His eye twitched, tongue clicking in a closed mouth as he shook himself off like a dog. He ran it along his mouth before spitting off to the side, it came out something like magma. Something like. It was a combination of the materials tossed upon him, bu covered in fiery spit. He blinked, then sneezed. Once, twice, thrice, oh god there was dust in his nose. He sniffed, which was a mistake, and sneezed again. After having a fit, he shook his head "If you want to play games," he muttered, marching right over to the building of which the fallen was perched "I will play your games." He not a clue it was in fact the other he'd met days ago, he'd only assumed it was silhouettes. This in mind, silhouettes didn't fly. So if, to say, the building fell over they would certainly be crushed. Yes, all this was in mind as Aiden started kicking in the foundation, or the base level, of the tower like office. Soon, cracking sounds could he heard, and with a last kick, the building started toppling over into the road all whilst Aiden sat watching it until there was no ceiling left. The base level looked like the rest of it had been torn off and thrown in the street. Hoping whatever it was had gotten crushed, Aiden hopped the wall and started walking, grumbling.

 

[ROUX]

Gabriel made a surprised noise as he felt the first crack in the building. He looked over again to realize what the man was going for, and he quickly made his way to the next building before he could be spotted. As the building crumbled, leaving the other man walking away with a grin on his face, Gabriel snickered quietly. Obviously, the being was convinced the silhouettes were screwing with him, and hand just been squashed beneath the skyscraper. Unfortunately for him, entertainment deprived fallen angels were bit harder to kill.


Gabriel allowed the man to walk away for a total or twenty seconds before soaring directly over him, and letting loose yet another pile of rubble he's snagged off of the falling building. Unable to hold it in anymore, he roared with laughter, nearly falling out of the air as he did so.

 

[BlueJae]

Aiden was sent into another sneezing fit, he hated sneezing, it was just the sound he made while doing so that he hated so much, shaking enough off to look up he grimaced "God forbid..." He muttered, recognizing the face through the dust in his eye, which was burning now that he'd taken notice of it. He started rubbing his eyes viciously letting out groans of displeasure and anything but appreciation. Once that was said and done he glared over at the laughing fallen, if looks could kill Gabriel wouldn't be laughing so hard anymore "Are you done or would you like to dump another load of crap and whatever else you can get your hands on on me? I'm on a tight schedule here so if you plan to make my existence a living hell could you at least do it withing a time range? That'd be great, thanks." Aiden tapped his wrist, watching the other. He wanted to get back home before the silhouettes started rolling in, lucky for him, they were not morning creatures.

 

[ROUX]

"Technically we're already in a living hell," he pointed out, landing without warning in the middle of the man's path, a self satisfies smile evidence of his earlier laughter. "Oh I'm sorry, am I interrupting you? Goodness, I wouldn't know what that feels like at all," he added, with absolutely no intention of letting him pass. "Oh and, uh - you've got a little something on your face. There," he said, pointing gleefully at a small portion of the man's face, knowing full well that is entire head and hair were covered in plaster.

 

[BlueJae]

Aiden blinked, this was going to be fantastic "Do I? Didn't even notice." Aiden said, looking up at the sky, yeah- yeah he was going to be late home. Shaking his head and watching the combination fall, he started wiping it out of his hair. Alright. Alright. He would take this, he sort of deserved this, but on the other hand he had in fact been saving a life- and despite what the other had to say, the silhouettes were not scum. Whatever high, white-winged society this guy had come from he was sure it looked down upon demons, and for that exact reason, Aiden didn't want anything to do with him or his kind, but that seemed to be a one sided feeling "Christ." He growled, quite literally, before seating himself on a chunk of building. God it was all over him.

 

[ROUX]

Gabriel sighed, watching the man try - and fail - to get the whiteish rubble out of his hair after taking a seat on part of the destroyed building. He watched for a moment, letting his feet touch the ground, once again studying. It was odd how so much frustration could be kept in one little body, or at least Gabriel thought it was. He came closer, stopping just in front of the being, staring at him with his piercing gaze. The way the man spoke, he wasn't used to it. Most angels were straightforward and often stony, too concentrated on their tasks to pay anyone else mind.


"Do you have a name?"

 

[BlueJae]

"No I was born nameless." Aiden said, looking up at the fallen, it wasn't his fault he had so much sarcasm in his answer. A stupid question came with a stupid answer, or, at least that's what he was told. He gave it a minute, then shrugged "Aiden." He muttered, having given up on cleaning himself off anymore than he had already. Instead, he focused more on what he'd gathered, there were less nails than metal scraps but for now it would have to do, he was already as far from home as he would like to be. 'Home' was on the other side of the city, so needless to say when he went scavenging he got a little caught up. That wasn't his fault either, he had a tendency to get distracted easily.

 

[ROUX]

"Aiden..." he repeated the word, liking it even though it was foreign on his lips. Gabriel decided not to point out that he himself had been born - if you could call it that - nameless. He and his siblings only named themselves as an effort to disperse the fear of whatever humans they'd been assigned to help in the old days...who would have thought the messenger angel would miss his tedious job?


He wracked his brain for the memory of the human greeting, as he was no longer trying to kill the man, and instead just wanted to know more. He held out his hand, still scarred with the rune from before on the back of his hand, accompanied with the thick black lines and symbols that ran up his arm and disappeared under his armor.


"I'm Gabriel."

 

[BlueJae]

Aiden nodded slowly when the other said his name, wondering if he was trying to figure out how to pronounce it. This one was a weird one, there was no doubt, let's recap. First he tried to kill him, then he let him go, then he dumped mass amounts of rubble on him- thrice, now he was trying to...What would you call this, be friends? Or he was just trying to friend him then stab him in the back. Too many books? Maybe, but what else were you supposed to do in a dead world where the outside wanted to kill you? Not much. He looked down at the extended hand, as if trying to figure it out, like how one would deactivate a bomb of some sort. Unfortunately for him hands did not deactivate. As such, with more or less reluctance, he shook the hand since that was the right thing to do "Right." He said, still trying to figure the other out. Why did that sound so familiar, or maybe it was the wings, he didn't know.

 

[ROUX]

"I'm not going to kill you. Hopefully not. But I want to know more about you," Gabriel stated, obviously not understanding the concept of personal space as he held on to Aiden's hand, turning it as he stared. "How long have you been here?" he asked as he did so, his eyes flickering to the man's for a second before looking back at the hand again. Gabriel himself had only been in the area for a fortnight or so. Of course, it was longer than he'd spent in any other area, but he had a reason. He was still searching for the gate, as he always was, and he suspected that it was here for a couple of reasons. It further fueled his interest in Aiden, who may be connected to it all as far as the former angel knew.

 

[BlueJae]

Aiden pulled his hand back sticking it in his pocket in case the other wanted to take it back for whatever reason. That was weird "As long as I can remember." And that wasn't much, Aiden had terrible memory that was true, but it wasn't the reason some of his memories were missing. It was like they were either erased or taken out, all the ones of him being human, but he knew he had been at some point or he wouldn't be in this body. He knew what they were, their customs, different lifestyles, he had to have known that some how. This brought him to the thought that he was once human and thus- it didn't matter if he couldn't remember his older days. He must've been human, must've had a family and friends. He like to think he had an older sister, for whatever reason. It just seemed to fit.

 

[ROUX]

He wasn't good at this. People. Even when he'd had to bring messages to the humans from his days in the holy kingdom, he'd never been very good at speaking beyond what he'd been instructed to say. "Are there more...like you? Whatever that may be," he asked, noticing the way Aiden snatched his hand back and away from his own. So he didn't like being touched? Or was that just not a very mundane way to do things? Gabriel wasn't sure. Angels spoke more through actions than audible words. He pulled his own arm back, dropping his hand at his side and giving the man a strange look. Before he could add to his question, his head snapped to the side to spot a wandering demon. It hadn't noticed them, but Gabriel suppressed the urge to go after it, only because what he was after at the moment was far more interesting than some simple minded beast.

 

[BlueJae]

"I wouldn't know, I've never left the city. I'm going to say no, but if there are I'll let you know- you can go toss rubble on them." He said, wiping some more out of his hair before brushing it off his legs. Yeah, it was going to be in there for a while longer bit at least it wasn't in his eyes, that was painful- but not as painful as dealing with Gabriel who seemed to have no first hand experience on dealing with people. You don't almost kill them then introduce yourself. It's the other way around, obviously. He watched him turn his head in a rather quick motion, Aiden was almost hoping it would snap like his almost did, but when it didn't he turned his head as well just out of curiosity. Mm, silhouettes, looked like it was close to twelve. Aiden didn't used time anymore, but, he still remembered some of them. Twelve and six. He knew when it was midnight, he knew when it had turned to the afternoon, and he knew when it was halfway through the day. That was all he really needed.

 

[ROUX]

"Why can't I read you?" Gabriel blurted out the question, which he'd been wondering for a long time now. None of his sight runes had worked on the man, and Gabriel wanted to know why. Perhaps his connection was fading as the other's did. He grimaced as he thought of what had happened to the other Fallen after the close. Like a violent plague, something had ruined them. They'd lost their wings, their magic - and their minds. The angels had done so much more than simply falling from they ski above - they'd fallen from grace. And for some reason, the person that had caused all this had let Gabriel keep his powers. No wonder his entire family hated him.

 

[BlueJae]

"Because I don't have words on me?" Aiden asked, he wasn't sure exactly what 'read you' meant. What was that, like, figure out what he was? He still wasn't going to tell the angel, or whatever he was, willingly. It was too much fun keeping him wondering, but then again, maybe if he told him it would all be over with. Maybe he'd loose interest and leave him alone. Then again, keeping him wondering was like an on going game and it was never not fun at this point. It was the only thing keeping Aiden form not completely hating the other, just the fact that he could relish in the other's frustration was enough for him to find some amusement in Gabriel.

 

[ROUX]

Gabriel gave up on the questions, knowing he wasn't going to get much of an answer, and instead settled for intense staring. It was his own little way of getting back at the man, as his gaze would have made any mundane uncomfortable at the least. He reached forward again, this time towards his face, placing his fingers under Aiden' chin, tilting the man's head to the side. He wasn't sure what he was looking for, but he was making comparisons to himself. He was too small to be an angel. But he wasn't a human, or a demon. But he could be half and half.

 

[BlueJae]

Aiden blinked, out of instinct his hand came up and jerked Gabriel's hand away from him before letting go "Don't do that." He said, rather flatly, physical contact was not his strong suit. He hadn't had any with anyone or thing close to human since...Well there wasn't a since, he just hadn't, until now that was, and adding onto the stare it made him a little more than uncomfortable. It unnerved him and he hated it, it was creepy. Personal space, it was a great thing, no physical contact was even better, oh and let's not forget not staring at anyone.

 

[ROUX]

"Why not?" Gabriel asked, his attention completely turned away from all the wandering silhouettes somehow, intrigued from the brief contact from Aiden's hand as one of the man's fingers brushed a rune scar. The symbol flickered on his skin for a moment, though out of warning or something else he couldn't decipher. His gaze hadn't wavered, and he didn't move a muscle as he thought. He reached out again, deliberately ignoring Aiden's request, though he didn't exactly touch the other man. His hand hovered above Aiden's black hair, and the strange breeze around it ruffled the dark locks on his head. The mess of plaster lifted and was carried away in the wind, and the former angel retracted his hand when it was done.

 

[BlueJae]

Aiden shrunk under the hand, as if to make sure that it wouldn't touch him if the other tried "Lesson one, physical contact is not a fun thing." Aiden said, answer the other's question in a direct way for once. He didn't thank him for taking the left over rubble out of his hair but he was more or less thankful. It would have been a pain to get out on his own. Another thing he didn't like, that thing on the back of the angle's hand, the way it would glow or did whatever it did anytime it came near him. He'd rather be ordinary, and if anything, make it go out rather than light up. He really wasn't getting anything he wanted lately was he? Shame.