"I'm trying Michael..." Gabriel growled. All his attempts at willing closed the portal had failed. He was in the position also of if he picked up the sygil that Satan had used, he'd only open wider the portal. None of his magic was closing the portal, none of hell's magic was either. He rubbed the bridge of his nose, the sound of Hell in the back of his head laughing in glee at what Satan had done. "You would enjoy this, Hell, you bitch." He mumbled at her.
Drawing the sword of his back, he stepped to the portal. The only thing he could think of to stop this was to destroy the sygl. "Someone hold on to Satan." He called back to Lucifer and Draga. "Don't want him getting sucked into this. Humans, back the fuck up. Eloa, protect them."

Gabriel tried hard not to smirk at Draga's treatment of Satan.
Eloa was keeping safe Dante, Gretchen, Cloe, Julie, and Ybrihim, Draga had a good hold on Satan, now all he had to worry about was Astaroth. "Say good night, Astaroth..." He mumbled as held the hilt of his sword in both hands, the point hovering about a foot over Satan's sygil.
He slammed the sword down into the sygil with full force, shattering it into pieces. It almost sounded as if all of hell had just screamed an unholy scream, the entire church shook violently and the air in the room seemed to be rushing in towards the portal as if it was being sucked into a vacuum. Even the archangels had trouble with standing it.
Raphael pushed himself back against the force so not to be knocked to the floor, not that he could be pulled into the portal, but he didn't feel like falling on his face.
The humans all toppled on to the floor as the church shook, but since Eloa was in front of them she kept then from being pulled in by the evil rushing back to it's portal. Though a human could easily be harmed, no angel or demon were at risk from it.
A sudden eerie silence fell over the room, the storm stopped, Gabriel looked up to where Astaroth had been coming through, flicking back his head trying to get the hair from in front of his eyes where it fallen when the wind stopped. He tilted his head to the side a bit as he looked at the spot, took his right hand off the hilt of the sword and swung the sword up to a defensive position he could fight in. His foot he moved on top of the broken sygil.
"Astaroth...." He called out in an almost sing song voice. "Come out from hiding..."
Astaroth wasn't gone, in fact he had gotten through but the portal was closed. He turned his head to look over his right shoulder. "Dante, release Uriel..." He ordered.
Dante got to his feet, a little hesitant about releasing Uriel as well. Gabriel wasn't trustworthy when pissed, neither was Uriel, but the two of them, both pissed off, and free to do what they wanted was very dangerous. However, at this point, he realized Astaroth was still roaming around and if Gabriel wanted to harm him, he'd have ordered him to release Uzziel instead of Uriel.
"Archangel Uriel, I release you from your bindings." Dante said. "Just don't come after me, yeah?"

"Good question, Lucifer...." Gabriel said as he began pacing back and forth in a 5 foot area he was in. He was watching around him carefully, Astaroth was very cleverly avoiding him. Hoping he'd go after a human or Lucifer, Gabriel kept strict attention on them but didn't let on that he was. "I never used a portal sygil myself... well, inasmuch as I was never drawn through one, I've ported angels through them before and the last few times I didn't do it on such a large scale as this..." He stopped short as if there was something that was meant to be on the end of his statement but he was purposefully leaving it off.
He suddenly stopped and looking over to Draga and Satan. "Satan.... how much influence do you have over Astaroth?" He wondered out loud. "Astaroth has never been one to really play well with others unless you have a common desire as he does..." He watched Satan a moment as the fallen angel struggled under Draga's tight hold on him. "Draga.... make him suffer a bit. If we have to beat it out of him, I will, but I want him to call out Astaroth."
A wicked smirk crossed his lips as he said that. It served a dual purpose, either Satan was calling Astaroth out into exposing himself or Astaroth would come out to protect Satan.... either way they would find out how deep the loyalty was between the two, even if it was temporary loyalty. "We may have to even kill Satan if it comes to it..." He said as he began the pacing again. "Whatever it takes to keep control..."
Though as he paced he sent a mental message to Draga. 'Get him very close to death if you have to, Draga, but don't kill him. I don't have permission, I just want them to think I do.' He said telepathically.

Gabriel stopped pacing a moment to smirk wickedly at Draga. "Satan... did you teach her that?" He asked as he started his pacing again. "No, no you couldn't have. You don't have the finesse or the stomach to work pain as beautifully as that."
Still no sign of Astaroth... but he figured it may take a bit more to get out what he wanted.

Watching Satan scream in the pain Draga inflicted on him made Gabriel smirk a bit. Still no signs of Astaroth, however, there was also no stirrings from the now closed portal either. 'Uriel....' He thought out to Uriel. 'Tell me something about that portal. We need to know if Astaroth can open it back up.'

Gabriel knited his brow. 'It is... why?' He responded. 'You don't think that they were stupid enough to use a moon sygil for this, do you?' He paused a moment as something occured to him. 'And if you wondering if we could draw my power up a level, forget it. Hell severed my ability to do that by disposing of my feminine side.'
"Draga...." He suddenly said out loud. "I think you're taking it too easy on Satan. He's not screaming nearly as loud as he should be. Maybe he's becoming used to the pain....?" He smirked a wicked, sexy little smirk at her.