Rain Seraph
The Demon's bane.

Rain Seraph prior to the Ascension.

Rain Seraph after the Ascension:

Name : Rain Seraph

Age: Over one millennium and counting (looks like he’s 23)

Race: Grim Angel (black-winged angel that serves no one). He still retains most of his vampyric aspects.

Gender: Male

Eyes: Light gold. (His irises turn light purple and his pupils become slits when using Nightingale and/or wings)

Hair: Shortish and Blackish.

height: 6 feet 1 inch

Weight: 130lbs

Themesongs:


Weapons: A Grim Angel wields a main weapon called a Diviner.

Nightingale: A long, dark, slightly curved staff. It is light, smooth and indestructible, forged from the material that angels use to make their weapons and armor. It is hollow, as it houses something more deadly. The staff and it's weapons inside can absorb or dissipate any type of holy or light magic, offensive or defensive. Dark/Evil magic has no effect on him once he's holding the weapon. The staff can be dematerialized and rematerialized at any time, no matter where it is or who's holding it. He only draws the two blades when he wants to, preferring that they be kept concealed most of the time.

Night:

A long katana hidden in the staff. It is extremely sharp and never gets dull. The blade is dark, but it shines a gold-ish colour when there is light. When the sword is swung, it 'hums'. The humming weapons are an attribute associated with Grim Angels. Other than that it has the attributes of a normal katana.

Gale:

On the opposite end of the staff from which the katana is drawn, a kodachi (short katana) is hidden. Like Night, Gale is indestructible and the blade is dark. Unlike Night, however, it does not hum. The shortsword acts as defense, but the blade is as sharp as it's longer brother.

As a small side note: when two Grim Angels' weapons clash, the sound is similar (it's a little higher pitched) to tolling bells.

Rain recently obtained side weapons called “Las Espadas del Prisma” (“Swords of the Prism”) that have a few features of their own. The swords are made from a transparent metal that reflect and refract light in ways unknown to humankind.

As the Angel of Death himself put it: “Ask ten men the colours of these swords as they fly through battle, and you will hear ten different answers.”

The swords change their colour according to the light that hits it. When in the shade, the swords turn pitch black, whereas, in the light (depending on the angle it’s viewed from and the light’s intensity) it can appear white, or any other colour. The swords turn into invisible particles in the air when they are not needed, but the particles can still be used in a variety of ways. When the particles combine to form larger ones, they appear as shining, illuminated silver dust (dubbed “Silverlights”) floating in the air around the wielder. They act as miniature razors, controlled by the wielder; and can number in the thousands. With the two swords come a few magic skills that would be explained in that section.

Armour: none

Strengths: He can walk on walls, and is extremely agile. His humane appearance grants him safety from being noticed when walking among humans. He is also fully nocturnal, making him gain an acute advantage of eyesight in the dark. He can jump higher, and further than any vampire or angel. When he is injured severely, he can heal instantly by drinking blood… (Which he only drinks for extremely critical injuries, lost limbs can be regenerated instantly this way). Small cuts and bruises can instantly regenerate without him having to drink blood. With his wings he cannot fly, but he can glide. He is now even faster and stronger than his former vampyric self.

Although his speed is way above his strength. One word to describe his speed is simply: 'unparalleled', he can move so fast that he cannot be seen, he can move even faster than this, creating an illusion that makes him seem like he's still standing there, while he's really moving at breakneck speed (the image of him standing there is burned into the retina of the viewer, so Rain can move faster than it takes to send a message from the eye to the brain).

Like his sister, he is extremely observant and knowledgeable, but he does not possess photographic memory, which makes her a cut above him.

Rain also has alot of knowledge about demons, implanted into his mind during the fusion when he became a Grim Angel-Vampire hybrid. Rain is also very combat oriented, knowing different styles and how to dodge/counter most attacks. He can fight expertly unarmed, with his staff, or with his swords.

Weaknesses: He isn’t invulnerable, so he can be critically injured. His ‘vampire side’ is still present, and can take over at times, because of not drinking blood, resulting in light-headedness which he suppresses, this happens at random times, which makes him lose concentration. Also, because he is not able to sense humans with his sixth sense, it would be easy for a skilled, stealthy human to sneak up on him and attack him. Crucifixes and holy water no longer have any effect on him, but silver can deal the same damage.

Silver: Silver only works once it penetrates his skin. His blood reacts with it, sending a burning poison through his veins. His veins turn grey or black as the silver poison goes through, and can be seen on his skin. Once the poison reaches his heart, he has no chance. It can be healed and the poison pushed back out of the initial wound by only drinking blood.

Magic/Skills:

Azrael's Eyes -- A reversal, or counter, that can send an attack (be it physical or magical) back at the attacker. It's basically a mix of potent magic and powerful telekinesis. Rain's eyes appear to become enflamed in gold, he and his opponent are drawn into darkness, from which multitudes of frightening eyes open. The attacker is frozen, time has stopped for him, unable to move his own body while his attack is reversed, and used on himself. The telekinesis kicks in when the attack is magical. For this to work, however, the attacker must initiate the attack with the intent of killing the target, and must be able to look into Rain's eyes. The procedure can be stopped or paused at any time.

Air-current Manipulation – not necessarily changing how wind moves, but the manipulation of air currents to form powerful, cutting vacuums. A large, slicing vacuum can be sent horizontally or vertically by using his hand or weapon. They can move along the ground (ripping it up as it moves along) or through the air. A small vacuum can be formed near the arm/leg while punching/kicking, so even if the attack misses, the target still gets a few cuts.

Prism Sword Spell ~ Wintersun — Everything the sunlight touches in the immediate area becomes ice cold—so cold, it burns. The shadows are the only places that are not affected.

Prism Sword Spell ~ Summersnow – The swords have to be in Silverlight mode for this. The particles, turned into embers, fall from the sky like snowflakes, but they can be controlled like the Silverlights. They cut and burn at the same time.

Prism Sword Spell ~ Angelstorm – The attack needs to start from high up with both prism swords drawn. The target must be way down below. Jumping off the high spot and rotating with swords held out, seemingly forces the clouds to follow the tips of the blades. They twist and when they touch each other, a massive tornado is formed with a spinning ‘vacuum-wall’ outside and powerful air currents inside. It sucks up and tries to shred apart everything within the vicinity and does not move. The wielder of the swords remain in the dead center of the tornado, kept safe and floating by the powerful air currents inside—it’s like a normal floor, if anyone gets through the outer ‘vacuum wall’ then they’ll literally be walking on air. The whole thing lasts for about five minutes. When it’s over, everything within the tornado just drops.

~Bleeding Hell Butterflies/Crimson Seize -- These are paper thin red ‘butterflies’ (Yes, I said ‘butterflies’) that can be easily summoned out of Rain’s sleeves or the back of his cloak. They materialize somewhere around his elbow or upper-back areas. These butterflies are limitless and take no energy (or incantation) to summon or control. One of these is strong enough to break a glass pane by repeatedly slamming into it, while it is thin enough to slip effortlessly under doors or into cracks and crevices. They are also strong, able to withstand swords or bullets, which just knock them out of the sky. When not being controlled, they act like normal butterflies, flying around slowly until they ascend into the stratosphere, where they burst into tiny shreds. When under control, Rain can have them fly up to speeds of approximately 100 miles per hour, able to pack a hit powerful enough to shatter one inch thick glass.


(Actual size)

They are about as large as your hand with your fingers spread wide and appear to have no visible eyes, mouths or appendages. However, they do bite if they can get close enough (it basically feels like a hard pinch) and their non-visible claws can scrape so hard, they can shred paper perfectly.

~Reiatsu/Spiritual Pressure Sensing – This ability is never ending, he can tell whether a human is not a human, but actually of another species in disguise. He doesn’t have to will himself to see it, he just does. On moment, it looks perfectly normal to him, and then he blinks, and whatever it is is revealed to him. This ability also allows him to sense when demons or angels are around him. The stronger the demon, or angel, the stronger this sense tingles. This is also used to see spirits that aren't normally seen. These spirits can be souls, good or bad.

~Reiatsu Release - Taught to him by his sister; Rain's spiritual pressure is at an unimaginable level (though, it's nowhere near his sister's). His spiritual pressure is so powerful that if he chooses to go full power and release all of it, inanimate objects (with no spiritual pressure or resistance) around her can pushed back or uprooted, his power also has the ability to create tremors. The colour of his Reiatsu when released is a gold/black mix. This is mainly used for intimidation.

~Healing Blood - The ability to regenerate automatically after receiving cuts and bruises. He can only heal small wounds on himself, but when he uses his blood to heal others, it can even regenerate a lost limb. To apply this to others, Rain has to either cut himself and place his blood on their wound OR they can instead drink the blood or he can inject it directly into their bloodstream:

~Loving Bite - If the wound is internal, and the person refuses/can't drink his blood, Rain can inject it into their bloodstream by simply biting them and injecting blood through his fangs instead of sucking it out.

~Advanced Shinsoku/God-speed - The constant unparalleled speed that is described in the Strengths section. He can speed up any part of his body, even his eyes. When he speeds up, everything slows down, as if time itself has slowed down.

~Silhouette of Shadow - After drinking Cadenza's magic-laden blood in Sun Surf and Demons, he gained the ability to pass through or meld into shadows, leaving no trace behind. While in the shadow, he can move along almost unhindered, as long as there is shadow cast for him to move. This links to another, more powerful ability:

~Golden Shadow Dragon - An extremely massive, extremely powerful, but very draining transformation. Rain takes on the form of an eastern-style dragon by stabbing himself or just be really beaten down and bleeding just before moving into a shadow, and changing into it. The shadows merge with his blood to create the dragon. At that point, the dragon can appear from any other shadow within the immediate area. The dragon and its scales are composed completely out of thickly layered velvet shadows, the patterns on the form are made from shadows as well, but coloured gold. His speed is drastically lessened, but is still extremely fast, able to run around on the ground or snake up sky scrapers in less than the blink of an eye. In this form, he can also fly without wings, but can only snake through the air instead of flying straight. Other than these attributes, the dragon form comes with some others:

Meld: Whatever Rain has on him during the time he enters the shadows and transforms automatically adds to the transformation. For example, if he has his wings out when he transforms, his dragon form gains large, scaly wings that help him fly straight and fast. If he has Nightingale out, the orihalcon coats his claws and scales, giving them an odd goldish sheen when the light shines a certain way on the black scales. The claws can then tear through anything and his scales become impenetrable shields. While having the Prism swords out will turn his scales and claws into prisms themselves.

Roar: Its roar is so powerful, that its shockwaves push nearby objects away, and the ground quakes a little.

Blend: The dragon can blend flawlessly with shadows, even merging with them to become flat like one. It can also stay completely still against the night sky or dark clouds to blend in with them.

Gran Rey Cero/Grand King Zero: A massive burst of jet-black spiritual energy fired from his mouth. It fires as a massive, lengthy beam that travels as fast as the speed of sound, and is extremely destructive (about five times more than Raisha’s Cero Sincretico).

Drainfang: The dragon can easily take one person into its mouth (but can’t swallow, no digestive tract), and when it does, it absorbs all the person’s magic and energies, sapping them, making them exhausted and unable to use any of their power. Their own power can be put to use in an attack which will be described lower down.

Elemental Burst: The dragon can charge and fire a variety of high powered blasts from its mouth. (the longer it charges, the larger and more powerful it’ll be) All elemental. It can let out searing fireballs, freezing ice blasts, darkening shadow balls, bright lightning bursts etc—all the elements. They can be fired normally, or they can be mixed (like shadow with ice, fire with lightning, or even fire, lightning and shadow in one etc. ) to form “Synchronized Bursts”.

Drainfang Recoil: After absorbing one’s energy through Drainfang, the energy can be compressed and fired right back at them. If the energy sapped is too little, or it that kind of energy has no effect/heals the target, then it can be combined with a number of Elementals to form Synchronized Bursts.

~He also possesses a mediocre two way telepathic link with his sister.

~His weapon, Nightingale, can be summoned by will. It appears as a long, black mist coming out of his hand. The mist subsides to reveal the staff.

~He has four wings that can also be summoned in a similar way. The mist extends from his back (whether he has something covering his back or not) and forms wings as black as the void. There are two lower wings (which are small) and two upper wings (which are larger). Every few seconds, the wings drop one feather each at the same time. The four feathers disintegrate before touching the ground.

~When Rain uses his staff and/or his wings, his irises become a faint purple and the pupils become slits, to give a more frightening and deadly appearance.

Fighting Style:
Rain uses a sword technique called Battojutsu.


Techniques:
Dragon's Howl/Ryumeisen: This is a sword-technique opposite to the god-speed battojutsu: god-speed notojutsu (literally: god-speed sheathing). When the sword hilt connects with the sheath, the god-speed sheathing produces a sonic boom that temporarily stuns an opponent's auditory nerve, impairing their hearing and equilibrium.

Dragon's Swift/Jinsokuryusen: A combination of vampyric speed and battojutsu. It is a draw-attack so fast, that there isn't a moment to feel pain. After the attack is over, it takes a few seconds for the opponent's body to show the results of the attack (The skin seems to part for itself). This attack, however is based on more speed than power, so it is very weak.

Dragon's Earth Strike/Doryusen involves drawing the sword while it is almost parallel to the ground in front of the attacker. The air forced downward from the blade, which causes the ground to 'explode', sending rubble and dust everywhere.

Dragon Hammer/Ryutsuisen: The "Dragon Hammer" is a sword-drop technique delivered from above, targeting the crown of the head or the shoulder of the adversary. The key to the technique lays in the height gained from the user’s jump and the free-fall, which is applied to the sword to multiply the force of the sword-stroke.

Dragon's Flight/Ryushosen: The "Dragon Flight" is a move meant to utilize the edge of the sword, cutting the adversary below while aiming for the jaw. The key to this technique lays in jumping power, utilizing it to its fullest.

Dragon's Nest/Ryusosen: is a rapid-strike technique which deals a flurry of successive blows at god-like speed. Rain can even do this while moving.

Dragon Hammer ~ Tragedy/Zan: The 'Tragedy' is a brutal variant of the 'Dragon Hammer'. It uses a sword plant to plunge the sword into the target, rather than a simple sword stroke.

Dragon Flight ~ Nail/Kugi: 'The Nail' is a brutal variant of the 'Dragon Flight', where it uses the tip of the sword instead of the edge.

Dragon's Nest Strike ~ Strangle/Garami: A variation of the normal 'Dragon's Nest', this technique targets the neck/head instead of the body.

Six-Headed Dragon/Roku-ryusen:
This technique is extremely fast and is impossible to block, but it can be dodged easily as it is extremely inaccurate. It can be blocked fully, however, in cases where a magic barrier is used. Rain uses almost his full speed and initiates an attack from all sides:
~Rising vertical attack from underneath
~Descending vertical attack from above
~Horizontal attack to the neck from the front
~Horizontal attack to the chest from the left
~Horizontal attack to the waist from the back
~Horizontal attack to the knees from the right
He can use his hands, his staff, or either of the swords. It would be useless against a moving opponent.

Dragon's Flight of Heaven/Amakakeru Ryu No Hirameki involves three stages.

1st strike: The basic Battojutsu stance is made with the right foot forward, left foot back, so when the draw is made, there is no danger of severing the left leg (as it's in the back, it's away from the blade). However, with this move, an extra step forward is made with the left foot in mid-draw, adding more force and speed to an already powerful and swift draw. The sheath of the sword also swings with the draw, adding more speed to it. The draw altogether is so fast that it is invisible to the naked eye. If this first strike is parried or blocked, the second stage begins.

2nd strike: If the initial attack is somehow avoided, the sheer force of the draw itself displaces the air in front of the attacker, creating a small vacuum which sucks the opponent in. While the opponent is being sucked in, the attacker completes a 360 degree spin that started from the initial attack. This second attack adds the force of the spin to the blow. If this strike is somehow parried or blocked, the third stage begins.

3rd strike: If the 2nd strike is somehow avoided, another 360 degree turn is made. The 360 degree turn in the second strike creates a vacuum around Rain instead of in front of him, drawing almost everything in (dust, rocks, leaves. It can even drag a car towards it). At this point, the sword vibrates furiously, and its hum turns into a deafening screech. This last attack is even faster and more powerful than the first two and is almost impossible to block

Even if you manage to avoid the fangs of the flying dragon, the wind of it's passage will render you immobile and it's claws will tear your apart.

This move is Rain's trump card, but it is not used often.

Nine-Headed Dragon/Kuzu-ryusen: Variation of the Roku-ryusen, the "Nine-Headed Dragon" is a formidable technique which utilizes Rain's god-speed to the fullest extent; dealing nine strikes to the most fundamental targets of swordsmanship (Head, shoulders, chest, arms, legs, below the belt), all at the same time. These points are the focus of the technique as they make up the basis of one’s guarding stance, regardless of style or weapon. So with this technique, attacking all nine all at once, guarding and dodging becomes virtually pointless.


Other Techniques:

Spinning Sword/Kaiten Kenbu: It involves Rain rapidly spinning around three times, while holding the kodachi backhand, to slash the opponent thrice in an instant.

Spinning Sword Six Series/Kaiten Kenbu Rokuren: The attack involves attacker gripping both kodachi (Gale and holding Night’s blade instead of the handle to make it shorter) backhand, then slashing the opponent six times in rapid succession, from both sides (it relies on confusing the opponent on the direction from which each subsequent strike is going to come). It's basically 'Spinning Sword' but done with two kodachi.

White Feather Catch/Shiraha Dori: A defensive technique where the enemy's sword is stopped by using the bare hands, no matter how hard it is swung.

Reversing Cut/Modoshi Giri: The most skilled swordsmen using the best of blades are supposedly able to slice an object in two and rejoin the halves together, as if it were never cut at all.

Appearance before the Ascension

Current Appearance.


Personality: Usually, Rain has a very 'happy-go-lucky' character. Mostly always with a small smile. He seems to be very oblivious and clumsy sometimes. If someone jokingly throws a punch or something else at him, he usually takes it, pretending to be surprised. But truth be told, even when he's like that, he's always observing and alert. When facing danger, you see a completely different person than you see normally. It seems like his whole personality changes, because he goes from being a sort of bumbling guy to an expert fighter, even though he usually has a small smile on his face to stop opponents from trying to read his emotions or thoughts. He's also usually quite the gentleman too, and has to literally force himself to hit a lady.

Biography:

Darkness reigned. Demons and angels walked the earth. The sun was almost never seen; it only seeped through the small crevices in the grey clouds. Chaos was prevalent, as the gates of hell were waiting to be opened. The angels could do nothing but stand by and watch destiny be fulfilled.

***

In the midst of this dark age, lived a boy, Rain, seventeen years, and his sister, Raisha, of twenty three years. They protected each other, because they had no one to do it for them. Orphaned by past wars, the two had to find their own way to make ends meet. While Raisha spent her time ‘entertaining’ the men of the town, Rain helped around the households with works of construction. They put together whatever little they made to buy clothes and food. Their ‘home’ was an old, abandoned house, old and broken, from age and weather.

One night, Raisha didn’t come back.

Rain, fearing the worst, searched frantically around town for her. At the edge of the town, at the grey well, he saw a figure, clothed in a grayish white gown. The sleeves of the gown, along with her long, dark hair, rippled in the winds. She turned slightly, and saw Rain out of the corner of her eye, she started humming, and turned back, walking away slowly. Rain’s eyes widened.

”Raisha…?” He whispered

He carefully walked up to her, and put his hand on her shoulder. She stopped humming, turned around, and stared straight into his eyes. Rain reached to touch her face under the pale moonlight. Her skin was still soft, and slightly cold. Rain’s thumb went under her bottom lip slightly. He jerked his hand away upon feeling a wet substance on her chin.
He raised his thumb to the moonlight, the crimson liquid glowed.

Blood.

She had a blank, merciless stare. It remained unchanged, even after blood ran down her neck, staining her blouse. Rain’s eyes were trembling.

”Raisha… what… what happened?”

A devilish grin spread across her face, baring her blood soaked fangs. Rain stumbled backwards as Raisha grabbed his shoulder and his hair, and pulled them apart, stretching his neck. Rain gritted his teeth and struggled, looking up at his sister.

Her newfound strength was too much for him.

She cleaned her fangs with her tongue, and bent her head over his neck.

”This is how you die.”

***

The whispers came from all around, echoing and overlapping….

”Rain…”
”Wake up…”
”Open your eyes- Rain…”
“Wake up, open your eyes”
”WAKE UP, RAIN”

Rain’s eyes snapped open; a length of his dark hair fell before his face.

It wasn’t that long before…

More importantly, where am I…?

Blood stained the walls of the room he was in, even more blood seeped through cracks in the rock walls, slowly moving towards the ground. The room reeked of rotting flesh and blood.

The smell of death.

There was a tablet on the wall, with ancient characters. It was old and worn, he moved slowly towards it. His jacket moved with him, he stopped and looked upon himself.

Where… did these clothes come from? … I wasn’t wearing this when Raisha…

Raisha!

He looked around and called out her name. Screaming her name at the top of his lungs.
The whispers surrounded him once again.

”Stop…”
”Do you see…”
”… The tablet? Do you see?”
”Go over… walk over to it”
”Go over to it…”

Rain heeded the words of the whispers, and moved over to the stone tablet. The whispers doubled in volume…

”Destiny… your”
”Your destiny… accept destiny”
”It’s yours… accept your destiny…”

Rain couldn’t understand a thing, on the tablet. An ancient language, too ancient, beyond Rain’s current knowledge. He stepped back, and looked up at the ceiling, which was stained crimson.

”What is my destiny… I.. I don’t understand this. Where am I?!”

A dark and heavy voice crept through the whispers. A shadow, floating in mid-air, crept around the boy, encircling him…

”It’s your destiny, Rain… it tells that you will be the one to kill the key keeper to hell.”

”Why would I want to kill him… or it…?”

The shadow laughed.

”Did you not see what he did to your sister? Ah… the delicate and sweet Raisha, turned by the one Lord of the Vampires.”

Rain grew angry, but still scared at his surroundings.

”Where is my sister?!”

”At his side,” the shadow responded, “where he wanted her.”

Rain looked down for a second, and then looked at the shadow.

”… How do I kill him?”

It laughed again.

It explained that Rain wouldn’t have been able to kill him before, that’s why he’s here now.

”And where is here?”

”You’re in Hell.”

Rain’s eyes widened, he looked around at the walls. This time they were changing, the walls were different, there were faces engraved on them, faces that showed expressions of pain and suffering, all stained crimson.
The shadow cackled.

”Go back to your foolish Earth, kill the keeper with your new…. abilities, and bring me the key, otherwise, you spend your eternity here, in this room.”

”… Wait… why do you want the key to hell anyway? You live here!”

”DO NOT QUESTION MY MOTIVE, BOY! JUST DO IT!”

***

Rain blinked. He was in front of huge castle doors, wooden and dark. He looked upward, the soft snow fell on his face, but he didn’t shiver. The doors creaked open on their own, cracking and moaning, as if they hadn’t been open for ages.

The sight that greeted him, filled him with perplex confusion.

A woman, grey gown, long black hair, almost pale complexion, running towards him.

She called out his name.

”Rain!”

She extended her arms and jumped into his.

It can’t be…. he thought, Raisha…?

She held him tight.

”How are you still alive? What happened to you?”

Rain was utterly speechless. He felt her warm breath on his neck.

”Rain..? Where are the bite marks I gave you…?”

His mouth opened, eyes widened. What had happened the night he died, it was real.
Rain grabbed her neck, and slammed her up against one of the doors. He looked up at her, as she bared her fangs, and looked down on him, grinning. She snarled and writhed.
Rain bared his fangs as she did hers, he was a vampire now, strong enough to bring down this ‘key keeper’.

She grinned even more when she saw his fangs.

”So… you joined your sister in the vampire world!”

Rain looked up at her, tears about to flow from his gold eyes.

”I’m stronger than any vampire…,” He gritted his teeth, “and you’re not my sister anymore.”

He twisted his hand sideways, and broke her neck. Rain broke a piece of wood from the door and sent it through her heart. He lifted her up, and walked to the entrance of the main room with her. With his new strength, he flung her body through the doors, smashing them open. The Vampire Lord behind the doors leapt up, startled. Rain pounced on him, and drove a stake from the remains of the doors into the Vampire Lord’s heart.

That was too easy…

He looked down on his victim. Who was shaking as words escaped his mouth, he was… smiling.

”You fool,” He started, “I’ve been waiting for this day… when I would no longer be the key to hell… That’s right… you see the key, quivering before you… the person who destroys the key, becomes the key… the key allows the devil himself to walk the earth, he didn’t know I was actually the key!”

He raised his eyebrows, smiling a little.
Rain looked at him, and narrowed his eyes.

”Hahahaa…Demon from Heaven, Angel from Hell, now the king of Hell is after you… start running, boy…”

***The Child***

He wasn’t always this cheerful. He was once a silent, serious person who always gave off the air of dark mystery and death. That was until he encountered a duo of vampires once in his travels. These two had ‘recruited’ Rain into attacking and breaking part of an organization called D.A.M. (Demons Are Monsters). Just before the attack began, a vampire-mother was murdered in front of her young daughters by one of the members of DAM, making them orphans. During the fighting the Rain and Vanyel had kept the two young vampire-girls safe from harm. After the chaos, the two vampires decided to take care of the young ones, even though that would mean that they would be splitting the sisters up.

Rain took the older one, Jessica Black, with him.

He wanted her to trust him, and as a result, he practiced being a little more social, and more fun to be around. It took a while, but the personality he had adopted made her warm up to him, making her see him as more of a brother than a father-figure. Rain himself thought of her more as a sister, but told people that she was his daughter. She stuck with him for years, making that personality stick, as well.

…It was foul play. They were separated for a few brief moments in a dangerous old city in the dead of night. Even though he was fast, he wasn’t fast enough. Rain arrived too late to save her neck from being ripped away and all her precious blood drained by a rogue vampire.

She was eighteen at that time.

But he loved her so much…

*** The Ascension ***

He doesn't know why... It was a stupid thing to do. A deal with with the Devil himself. A deal that would endanger the world as a result of just one possibly selfish act.

One life for another. That was the bargain.

It was only after the key had opened the locks, and the locks had opened the gates, he realized what he had done. Six angels had broken the laws of Heaven to save his soul from being tossed into flames all because they had perfect reason.

Alexiel. Rosiel. Sylver. Arinel. Orinth. Denya.

All Archangels. All realized the mistake Rain had made and that he would want to make up for it. They had watched him all his life. Cried when he had cried, smiled when he had laughed. They knew him. And they knew that he had something to love, someone to protect. Rain was going to atone for his mistake even if it means thwarting death itself and at the same time, it would grant him time to be with the ones he loves, his sister included.

The six broke the Covenant that was held up for centuries. They fused Rain's soul with that of a Grim Angel, transforming his body. In doing so, they took something precious from him as a price for his folly and for his rebirth; his relationship with the one he wanted to bring back. He was only allowed to see and interact with Jessica once every century (or lifetime, basically).

Rain awoke in the place that he had died. His four black wings on his back, the swords in his hand. The majority of Lucifer's minions had escaped into the world. Since the key was used, the gates couldn't feed on it anymore, so they began to close. The key was useless now, even if he were to be used again.

With one last look with purple eyes and a menacing grin behind him, he walked out through the gates just as they closed.

The six angels that had helped him had been cast down to Earth, to live the rest of their eternity suffering along with the suffering. Rain is now an anomaly. He was supposed to be dead, but since death did not befall him at the appointed time, the Angel of Death now hunts him. Azrael, the only black winged angel put into service. Although reluctant because he knows that Rain closed the gates, he has no other choice. Every time he catches up to Rain, he comes close to overpowering him, but then, he begins to hold back, allowing Rain to defeat him.

Rain sought out the six angels, hoping that they would know of ways to stop the demons that had escaped from hell. They knew of none, but they prompted him to find his reformed sister, at which point they'll realize what they need to do.

Together they would make a formidable, if not unbeatable team. He also searches for his now grown-up daughter, the one who he had rescued and not seen in century.

“A lifetime searching is worth it even if I only see her once.”

(Approved by Safer)

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