War in Heaven

Guido Reni depicts Michael the Archangel casting Lucifer down to Hell.

Commanders| * God of the Bible
* Michael
* Gabriel
* Merkabah

Casualties| **Heavy** | **Catastrophic*** Helel is banished to the Underworld by Michael alongside the other rebellious Angels.

The **War in Heaven** was the grand conflict between the angels who rebelled against God under Helel, and the loyal angels under Michael. It is widely regarded by many as the first conflict in the Draconic Deus universe.

## Prelude

After God told Helel of His plans for His latest creations, that being mankind, her paranoia grew to the point where she believed that God will allow them equal share of the Heavens and the Earth, in the form of the Garden of Eden, with Him as nothing but a farce and they would be under his father's puppet strings like his own siblings.

Helel saw that there would be no freedom or true desire under God's rule and as a result proclaimed that God is now flawed himself, and does not deserve to be the rightful ruler of creation, thus declaring that she should take the throne for herself. Even before humanity, Helel had always harbored some desire of taking the Throne of Heaven for himself and becoming Lord of the Universe, but he had concealed her feelings like any good angel and continued to serve God's will, despite her thoughts.

He also managed to persuade one-third of all the other Angels to swear allegiance to her and rebel against God and the Heavenly Host. At some point before this time, Helel also managed to persuade Lilith, the first Human woman, into siding with him as well. In fact, she is the reason why Lilith was so adamant in not being subservient to Adam in the first place as he convinced her that since Lilith had been created from clay the same as Adam she is equal to him and therefore should not be under him. This resulted in Lilith's expulsion from the Garden of Eden as a result. While this counted as the first strike against God, even indirectly, the latter's strike against Helel was more severe.

Right before the war, Helel discovered from Michael that her own twin brother was destined to kill him and the Morning Star was enraged by the fact that something like this was kept from her. With a betrayal so deep, she snapped and declared open war against God and all of Heaven.

## War

### The War Begins

Helel lead her armies into Heaven to destroy the Heavenly Host whom would dare oppose them and to storm God's throne room. However, the Archangel Michael, and his own army of Angels, made a counter attack and warred with Helel's rebel army. The war seemed endless, with Heaven being stained by the blood of angels, as the celestial beings fell from the sky with their wings torn, along others whom fell from Heaven after rebelling against their lord.

While the other angels fought each other, Helel was able to enter the Seventh Heaven as he was planning to face God on his own. It was there that Helel found herself in confrontation with Gabriel herself. Gabriel pleaded for her to stop this rebellion as billions of angels in both sides had perished but soon realized that it was futile. Left with no other choice, Gabriel charged at her sister only for her to be quickly knocked out by Helel. Before leaving, Helel looked back at her sister's unconscious body with remorse and said that her fight wasn't with Gabriel but with their father.

Helel was able to enter the throne room as he was planning to face God on his own. Instead, Michael was in front of him with the remaining Seven Archangels around him. Michael had went into the final hallway while the rest had then rush to Helel who was able to defeat them all with only minor injuries which she healed.

### The Morning Star vs The Right Hand of God

After defeating and subduing her siblings, Helel chased Michael to face each other one-on-one. Unlike his sister, Michael did not plead for Helel to stop as he knew Helel's pride would not allow her to end this foolishness. Realizing that defeating her was the only way this war would end, Michael was left with no choice but to kill her sister. The fight to end this war was about to begin. Brother versus sister, Archangel versus archangel. After a few minutes of staring each other down, Helel struck first and the two began to go at it. While the Right Hand of God was a formidable warrior, even he could not compare to the Morning Star and so was swiftly defeated and thrown back into the Chamber where God currently presides in.

As Helel, now fully filled with the demonic taint of Hell, had finally confronted God about her destined loss. God asked her what truly was the point in this war. She replied that God was going senile to believe that humanity deserved to be served by the perfect beings of Heaven, especially since the humans would be the cause of great evils in the future. God made the argument that the rise of sin would be her own doing only for his daughter to rebuke by saying that she simply introduced sin while mankind would use it for their own selfish benefits.

Moreover, Helel saw the evils that mankind would bring while God would simply sit back on his throne and not do anything about it and as a result, feels that his time of being ruler would only make creation descend into chaos and anarchy. God tried to rebuke her but was answered with a blast from Helel which God easily reflected. God then asked why she seeks to defeat him which Helel answered that she truly loves her father and only wishes to save him by taking his place.

However, Helel also rightfully said that with God preserving his seat of authority and power, he would subjugate all beings under fate and they would have no free will of their own. There will be no advancement if they were to have no control over their own lives. God made the argument that he would only guide them and that they were free to choose what paths they take of their own volition. Helel saw only the calamities that would be wrought under God's method of ruling, all while he simply sat back on his throne and not raise his hand. A capricious observer of his creations following his grand plan.

God, noticing the taint and sadly realizing that her favorite child had truly fell from grace, brought Michael to full power and gave him a piece of His power which allowed God's Right Hand to force the Morning Star out of the Seventh Heaven. The two most powerful Archangels then began a long, arduous, and terrible battle which was said to have nearly ravaged all of Heaven from the sheer force of their power alone.

During the climax of the fight, Michael struck Lucifer with a savage blow that left a scar across her face and chest, making the Morning Star back down briefly. Michael, in a final attempt, pleaded for his sister to stop this madness. But Helel, in unyielding rage, only responded by rushing back towards Michael who responded in kind.

At the end of the battle, Michael struck Helel in the chest, flinging her to the depths of the Underworld where her wings turn as black as coal. Helel, enraged by her pride being utterly devastated, transformed into a great dragon and launched towards Michael, intending to kill her once-beloved twin brother.

### Chariot of God

As the battle raged on and the Heavenly Host were slowly being overwhelmed, God took the essences of all the angels that fell in His name and molded them into one being to stop His wayward daughter, and the result became the angelic weapon known as Merkabah who was sent to assist Amenadiel with Helel while God sent the rest of the Seven Archangels, who were recently revived by Gabriel, to deal with the rebel army.

Merkabah soon arrived to the battlefield was able to push Helel off Michael and helped the Right Hand of God up before watching as the Morning Star turned back into her humanoid form, her once snow white wings changed to black coal. Helel now fully taken by the energies of Hell immediately attacked the two angels, starting another world-destroying battle.

### Defeat of the Morning Star

While it was long and difficult fight, to the point where they were pushed to their absolute limit and threatened to ravage the very cosmos, Helel gained the upper hand and managed to defeat Amenadiel and Merkabah. With both of them being at her mercy, Helel did not hesitate to bring her sword up intending to finish them once and for all. Just as she was about to bring down her wrath upon her siblings, the rest of the Seven Archangels had just arrived in time to stop the killing blow. They had just finished defeating Helel's rebel army and had showed up to assist their elder brother in defeating their sister.

Using the full might of their powers, the Celestial Princes and Merkabah was able to defeat the most powerful of them all, ending the War in Heaven.

### Aftermath

Michael, at the behest of God, cast all the rebels angels, down to the depths of Hell, with many becoming the first Fallen Angels while the rest died of their wounds. However, the punishment of the rebel leader were more excruciating. Amenadiel sent Helel to be trapped into a cage specifically created for her so she couldn't escape. Before that, Helel was renounced of her status as a Primordial Archangel and became the first known Nephalem. Centuries later, Lilith and the rest of Helel's followers freed the Morning Star from her cage. Swearing vengeance, Helel would take on the name Lucifer and conquer most of the realms in the Underworld and create the species known as Devils to fight against God and his Angels.

This war would set the stage for the catastrophic conflict known as the Great War.

## Trivia

* The author is a big fan of *Warhammer 40k* and decided to make a conflict just like the War in Heaven.

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