The Fallen Angel

The story revolves around Nathan, an elite assassin. While on a mission to kill a random mobster, Nathan ends up getting killed. As he is on his dying breath, an angel appears in front of Nathan. The angel, named Lucas, gives Nathan the choice to either go to Heaven or to become a fallen angel and find out what really happened to his parents when he was young.

Nathan then has a flashback of waking up in a burning house. He finds his father brutally murdered in their room and then manages to escape the flaming house. Nathan saves his younger brother from death, but his younger brother ends up going into a coma. This causes massive amounts of distress for Nathan and he still visits his brother on a very regular basis in hospital.

The scene cuts back to the present time, where Nathan eagerly accepts the deal. In becoming a fallen angel, Nathan loses passage into heaven, but is able to traverse through the mortal world and also the demon world. He also has many different powers that over the course of the game he will learn to control and utilize.

The angel then starts to give Nathan assignments (usually demon hunts) with the promise that they will lead to Nathan finding the truth about his parent’s gruesome death. On one of the first demon hunts Nathan chooses to save a sacrificial dog from certain death. They instantly share a connection and the dog, which Nathan names Forgo, begins to gain some of Nathan’s powers. Forgo becomes quite intelligent and an asset on many of Nathan’s subsequent missions.

As the game progresses, Nathan learns about the ordered chaos in Hell and the rules that govern it. And also about facts like God not actually knowing what happens in Hell first hand (as this was a deal struck between God and Lucifer). He also learns about how fallen angels usually become that way (through falling out of favour with God), and that he’ll probably never get back into heaven because he has become one of the fallen.

Through these assignments Nathan learns the whereabouts of his father. It turns out that his father stuck in one of the provinces of Hell. His father tells Nathan that there is a demon that was behind the death of his family. This demon was Gabriel. His father strongly urges Nathan not to go looking for Gabriel, as the demon could easily destroy him. They are both still puzzled as to why Nathan’s dad is in Hell though, considering the fact that he hadn’t committed a mortal sin.

Not deterred, Nathan then begins searching for Gabriel and through his queries finds out that Gabriel is also a fallen angel who was sent to the Halls of the Requiem. These halls are kind of like the gaol for those too bad for even Lucifer to easily control.

Nathan then decides to find a way to confront Gabriel about his parents’ death. Lucas warns Nathan of the perils of the Halls of Requiem, because Nathan could possibly become trapped in the Halls if he isn’t careful. After all, the Halls are where Lucas was able to trap the demons that Nathan hunted.

Nathan, with help and guidance from Lucas, is able to get into the Halls of Requiem. The main reason he can do this is that he is still part human and can therefore feel anguish and repentance. This quality allows him the opportunity to get into the Halls. Once he reaches the prison-like area that holds Gabriel, Nathan opens the gates and stares into the face of the demon that sentenced his father to an eternity in the flaming underworld.

Nathan is shocked to be staring at the face of Lucas, or so he thinks. Gabriel then begins to explain that Lucas is in fact his twin brother, and also a fallen angel. After scoffing at how foolish Nathan was to come down here, Gabriel overpowers him and escapes using the route forged open by Nathan.

Nathan then spends a fair chunk of time trying to figure out a way to escape from the prison that Gabriel has just left him in. He finally is able to hone one of his fallen skills to summon Forgo to help him escape.

Nathan, realising that he has just unleashed a force that even Lucifer had trouble containing, goes back to the only person that he can still trust, his father. Nathan’s father then begins to explain that there are rumours of a demon uprising against Lucifer and a rebellion against the Holy Throne and God himself. Nathan’s father also tells him that all of the main guardians to Lucifer himself have mysteriously vanished. Nathan realises that these demons were the ones that he hunted for Lucas.

As Nathan tries to get the word out to a high ranking demon but finds that he is just too late. Nathan arrives at the Unholy Palace just in time to see the end of a massive battle between Lucifer’s army and the rebellion led by Lucas and Gabriel. Now that they have been united, Gabriel and Lucas are a force to be reckoned with.

The final power that Nathan is able to focus is one that allows him to see glimpses of the future. One of these glimpses is of him sitting by his brother’s bedside, pulling the plug and therefore killing his brother. In this moment of realisation, Nathan finds that the only way that he’ll be able to warn Heaven in time is through telling and then killing his brother.

It then becomes a mad frenzy for Nathan as he tries to work his way through an army of demons to get out of Hell and onto the mortal plane. It becomes a race between Nathan and the rebellion to see who can get to the gates of heaven first, Nathan’s brother or the demonic army.

Nathan finally reaches his brother, who is still in a coma, and tells him all that he needs to know. Then, with a look of absolute anguish on his face, Nathan pulls the plug on his brother. As he feels the spirit slip away, Nathan realises the extent of what he has done, and that he’ll never be able to get into heaven and see his brother again, due to the fact that he has just killed an innocent (killing an innocent denies a fallen angel any hope of getting back into heaven).

Nathan’s brother is able to warn the Holy Throne just in time, and the demonic rebellion is crushed. God frees Lucifer, and all set right again. Even Nathan’s father is allowed into heaven, seeing as Lucas was the one who was keeping him trapped in hell.

The story ends with Nathan continuing his life as a fallen angel. With his new powers steadily coming under control and Forgo by his side, Nathan begins his search for a way into Heaven.