Micheal's feet touched the Earth's surface and his mighty, white wings went to rest behind his dorsals. He scanned the place with his eyes, "Lucifer!" he yelled. "I know you're here, you'd better show yourself. Don't let me fish you out myself, you demon!" Michael stopped when he felt something from behind him.
Lo and behold, there stood Lucifer, the dragon, that old serpent which is the Devil and Satan.
Michael's eyes were filled with anger, rage, and disgust "They were just kids, why did you murder them?!"
Lucifer chuckled wickedly "Because it was fun" he laughed out, loudly.
"Though the scripture says that you'll be let loose for a little season, but oh! Lucifer, I can't wait to bind you in that bottomless bit again with great chains and shut you up, and set a seal upon you that you should not deceive the nations no more"
"I guess Father still has a soft spot for me even though it's been Thousands of millennials, I used to be his favorite but now you are. You must be so proud...I still have the sword you used in sealing me and look the wound has healed" Lucifer glanced at his chest.
"Just take a look at you, you used to be the most beautiful of us all. Why are you doing this? For thousands of millennials, I have tried to talk some sense into you Lucifer. Why won't you adhere? You know Father would accept you back if you..."
Lucifer cut in defensively, glaring "Don't you dare complete that statement. You know you're just wasting your time trying to talk me back to Utopia"
"When would this madness stop?" Michael's voice was hoarse but calm this time.
"Stop?" he scoffed "There is no stopping me, not even Father can. How's our little brother Yezra doing by the way? He casted me behind him two thousand millennials back while I was trying to help him. Y'all are so narrow-minded. Can't you see that father is cheating you?"
"Lucifer, you're fighting for a lost cause"
"I am fighting for my birthright!"
"What birth right?"
"The one father deprived me of. I am building my empire, a large one, soon all humanity would bow and worship me"
"That's where you thought wrong, Alphaomega would never let his own worship you. The only ones who would do would be your children who'd be left behind with you. The prophecy does not lie; the devil that deceived them will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are"
"I don't care about the prophecy, I write my own story now. I have a message for Father; Tell him that just he wait till I finish mobilizing my Angels, and the gate of hell shall prevail over the gate of Utopia"
"I'm sure he heard you, he sees and hears over everything, remember? I wonder why he still lets you disobey him" Micheal spread his wings and took off up high he went.
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When KK took the grand staircase, he noticed his parents walk in. He had heard the sound of the car parking in the garage and gone down to welcome the white-collar job worker who went out every weekday morning and got back late at dusk.
Though still pissed about Vivienne's lies he couldn't stay mad. He would have known that Skylar wasn't anyway his friend if he hadn't lost part of his memories.
He wouldn't blame her though. With everything that happened in school today, he must have been a pain in the ass to all. He had told himself.
"Welcome home" KK gave his parents a non-judgemental grin after they entered the living room.
The helps had already come to take their bags and was coming up the staircase. They gave slight bows as they walked past him. He kissed Vivienne at the back of her palm and she smiled up at him.
"How're you doing, son?"
"Never been better" KK muttered to their hearing.
Vivienne noticed the sarcasm but redirected it to the wrong place. "Does it still hurt anywhere?" she asked her son, troubled.
"I'm fine, mum"
"Sure?" She simply asked.
"If he says he's fine, then he is, V. He's strong," Kenshin said.
With an innocent smile, KK looked over at Kenshin and nodded "Yep, he's right."
Kenshin's eyes looked a bit more vibrant than what they normally do whenever he looked at him. And his smile. He was smiling for more than a second. Occasionally, he'd only make a straight line with his lips whenever KK spoke to him.
"I don't know, I kinda find that hard to believe. Is there anyone or anything bothering you? You can ask me anything at all" Vivienne said.
You asked for it. KK decided that it was best if he didn't hold anything inside. "Can we sit and talk for a bit?"
"I'll be in the room then" Kenshin was going to excuse himself. You ain't going anywhere, sir. I'm sure you were a part of the plot too.
"And you too, Dad" he added and led the way to the sitting area in the living room. The couple glanced at each other before following their son.
"I found out the truth about Skylar Maverick. I know she's not a friend of mine though it feels like she doesn't hate me like the others...I just want you to be honest with me. I've lost my memories, and I don't know why I was treated the way I was in school earlier but I need you to show me that I could trust you in this shape."
Vivienne switched to sit beside him and took his hands "I'm sorry, son. I just thought you'd recover quicker if...you thought that someone actually...came to visit you. I felt sorry that nobody seemed to care."
"But why? Did I do something wrong before the accident? Please, don't lie to me anymore."
"You were a different KK before the accident with Kenton; sweet, caring, and amazing but after that, you changed to the worst; bitter, filled with hatred, prudent...I guess it was our fault. We owe you an apology for blaming you back then for Kenton's death."
"But it was my fault he died..." He was saying.
She cut him in a rush "Not at all. You didn't do anything wrong, we hurt you for years, and we made you hurt yourself and others too"
"It'd be better if you remembered everything by yourself" Kenshinn finally said something "I've not been the best father. I'm sorry too"
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In the throne compartment. The chamber was made of gold for things to be made of gold, and silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones set, glistering, and of divers colors, and all manner of precious stones and marble stones in abundance. The lofty throne was a sea of glass, clear as crystal and its wheels were like the shining sun, and from beneath the throne was issuing streams of flaming fire. No one of the flesh can behold the light, it'd be difficult to look at it.
And the great glory, Alphaomega was sitting upon it, his gown shining more brightly than the sun, it was whiter than any snow.
"Michael. I thought I told you not to confront Lucifer again?" He said frowning at the beautiful being that stood before him in worship.
"I'm sorry, Father but I couldn't hold back, they were just kids. He's still skilled with his fights and he uses the heavenly techniques. You taught him so much, you let him in on so many things and now he's using them against humanity because he knows you love them so much" Michael reported
"I know Lucifer has gone rogue but the prophecy must go uninterrupted. We don't work with emotions, we do things as the scripture says. I know he's jealous of mankind, I gave them a whole empire and I give most of them second chances now and then but none of these I ever gave to him."
Was Alphaomega defending Lucifer? "You never gave us any of those. Being your favorite got into his head, father. You never found any flaws in Lucifer, you made him your wingman and passed onto him everything you know"
Every word was right. Alphaomega trusted him with everything, he opened his mind to countless opportunities; even to things that were yet made, to his plans for humanity but Lucifer was foolish."I regret every bit of it up to this day. I should have just eradicated him from existence. I shouldn't have kept him alive and immortal but I had hopes that the old Lucifer would come back to us"
"But he's not coming back, Father. Why can't you eradicate him from existence now? He's ruining their minds, he's messing up their thoughts, their lives."
"Because the prophecy must happen, the scriptures had been written"
He couldn't hold back anymore, Micheal was so flooded with rage that his hands were starting to shake. "But you gave the prophecy, you wrote the scriptures. You've delayed rapture countless times hoping that Lucifer would repent." He raised his voice, "He's not coming back, Father! And you know that he doesn't love you anymore. If Lucifer ever reaches those gates again, it is to destroy Utopia!" He breathed and his tone changed but was still high-pitched " I love my brother too but we've lost him, we've waited so many millennia for him already!"
"Micheal! Leave!" Alphaomega dismissed. Michael wanted to hesitate and have the conversation at that moment but he calmed himself down and bowed down to Alohaomega. "I'm sorry I lost to Lucifer, father, I couldn't save them."
"You did your best Michael, I saw how hard you fought"
Michael gave another bow and walked out of the throne compartment. He met his hexa brothers outside the huge doors but walked past them without halting for a second like they weren't there.
Gabriel followed him and stopped him before he could leave the entire vicinity. "Where are you off to this time? You've been having too many fights with father lately, calm down Michael. Father knows exactly what he's doing"
"I'm going down to earth. I'd like to visit someone I haven't seen in a while."
"The human girl? You're subconsciously growing fond of her but remember the rules of Utopia, we can't fall in love with a human, we're meant to serve and protect them"
"It is imprinted in my mind like there was a chip planted in my brain. I clearly understand the discreetness of the rules of Utopia, see you around brother" Michael's wings rose and he was gone in an instant and out of view.
"Saint Michael?!" Skylar called, surprised after she noticed the figure sitting on the bed, she was just beside it in the reading corner "I kept thinking of you every minute, every hour, hoping you'd show up but you never came to me, where have you been?"
"Around the world, I feel you summoning me but I couldn't appear to you in the frame I was in"
"What frame?"
You can't comprehend even if I told you, it is a battle way more than you "Why did you want to see me?"
"I have so much to ask you"
"About KK?"
"About a lot that's happened lately and I keep having these weird dreams, they were really terrifying. I kept seeing this dragon trying to hurt me"
Dragon? Lucifer. What does he want with Skylar? And what the hell is up his sleeves this time? "Tell me about them, every one of them detailed and how many times it'd happened"
Skylar was taken aback by the rush of words and reflexes but she knew he must be worried about her "It's only been twice" First it was her trying to help a little boy and the next moment he turned into a huge scary dragon and tried to hurt her. The second was closely related but the location, age, gender, and the time was the difference. "I was very scared, I've never had a dream that scary but it also felt real so I was hoping you could interpret the dreams for me"
"Did they mention anything before transforming?"
"Nothing I can remember...am I in danger?" She asked inquisitively.
Micheal knew she was. Lucifer was messing with him, trying to get him pissed to confront him again and get on Alphaomega's bad side.
The dream only sent one warning sign. Skylar was his next target on this side of the planet. He must have found out so much about Skylar to know that she meant so much to Saint Michael...
He was out to devour and Saint Michael won't let him. He was treading on the wrong zone. Michael swore that instant not to loose a fight to him this time, he had rather die than to see Skylar get hurt.
He knew there was something special about her and that would reveal itself someday.
He said to her, "He has commanded his Guardians to keep charge over the Guardients in all their paths, you shall tremble on serpents and scorpions, fierce lions and poisonous snakes but they will not harm you. Do you know this scripture?"
She nodded "Psallien 91"
"Do you believe in it?" He asked.
She did. It was Alphaomega's words and assurance, so why not? She nodded her head again.
"Then you shouldn't be afraid, you're secure" He leaned forward with a smile "Did you forget who I am because we haven't seen in a couple of weeks? Ouch! I'm hurt"
She was amused by his childishness "You're my Guardian and I trust you" Not just him, she trusted the ways of Utopia.
"Are you not gonna ask me about KK" He was smiling sheepishly.
Why was he smiling like that? No, he was not thinking...was he? "What's on your mind is never happening Saint Michael, my friends hate this dude"
"You see the good in people. He moved a finger close to her chest and she looked down. It was more manicured and pedicured than her. It was beautiful "Your heart. That is what makes you extraordinary" He moved his hand away and suddenly chuckled "We don't have spars in heaven."
Oh shit! How did he...? He read her thoughts? Skylar jolted feeling embarrassed. And he continued to giggle at her as she remained awkwardly silent.
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