Mazdean stared at the angels with shielded masks on their faces with a staff in each of their hands. The journey to this place had taken them more time than he had expected them to reach Heaven. Three hours twelve minutes and ten seconds counting. He had been counting the time since he had last seen Kimberly, and with every second that passed by, the anger in his eyes only increased.
"Step away from the gates!" ordered one of the angels standing in front of the gates. "Heaven is no place for demons. You are not welcome here anymore, Lucifer!"
"Now be good boys and open the gates."
"Never!" shouted another guard. "We are the guards who protect the gates of Heaven. You shall not pass and will leave immediately!"
The other guards stood in position, ready to attack if the demons were to advance forward.
"Do you think I have come here to sightsee Heaven?" asked Mazdean , his eyes turned dark in anger. "You have something of mine, and I have come here to retrieve what rightfully belongs to me. Now move unless you want to die."
The guard angels didn't step away and stubbornly blocked both Mazdean and Lucifer's way. Mazdean didn't have the time to spare talking with the guards, and his wings flapped to raise him from the clouds like ground. Seeing this, the guards looked slightly confused as this person had black feathered wings, while the Devil had bat-like wings.
"If you are not going to step away, don't blame us for burning you," came the calm voice of Lucifer.
And in a blink of an eye, Lucifer's trident came to clash against the staff of one of the guards who had not expected for it to come at them at such speed. Mazdean used his hands to fight the guards off so that he could get inside the gates. Being the Devil's descendant, the ability to harness fire in the palms of his hand came naturally, and he used it against them.
The guards fought together against Lucifer and Mazdean, but Mazdean used the fire to burn them while throwing them far away from the gates so that they wouldn't come back to attack them anytime soon.
The guards were persistent, and as expected, they weren't easy to get rid of. Mazdean then said, "I will take care of these guards. Go find Kimberly ."
Mazdean gave a nod, and he entered the gates of Heaven with his black wings flapped, moving the clouds on the ground.
Back in the heart of the Heaven where most of the people resided, Kimberly had stepped out of the garden of Owe to see what the commotion was about. She had heard the angels instructing the other people to get back inside.
It being only a few hours since she had been brought into Heaven, the curiosity got the best out of her.
"What's going on?" Kimberly asked a fellow angel who was going to walk past her.
"It seems a few demons are trying to enter Heaven and creating a stir. You should go back inside too," informed the angel, and he walked away from there.
Kimberly frowned, and followed the other set of angels running in a specific direction. Someone caught hold of her arm, and Kimberly turned around to see it was another archangel she hadn't met before, he had white wings too.
"Where are you going?" he asked, his eyes sharply looking at her.
"I heard that there was a problem," she said, her eyebrows knitted together.
"It is just a small problem that has come up. You don't have to worry about it... Kimberly ," said the archangel. He had come here on the command to keep Kimberly safe so that the demons would not be able to take her away from here.
"How about I walk you back to your place. The others will solve the problem in no time, and you can then take a walk outside here," he offered.
When another collision took place, Kimberly felt her heart beating loudly, and unconsciously, she placed her hand on her chest. She felt an unexplainable ache in her heart as if something from a distance was calling out for her.
Receiving a pointed look from the archangel who was waiting for her, Kimberly nodded her head, obliging the man's words as all the angels wanted to do was to protect them.
Following him, they made it to the front of a building, when suddenly she heard a clunk sound along with schittering noise like lightning. The archangel who had come along with her fell on the ground, and she saw a man standing there, who wore black gloves.
Madeline took a step away in fear, "W-what did you do to him? W-who are you?"
Instead of agreeing to what this person said, Madeline took a step back from him.
"Why did you hurt him?" questioned Kimberly . She looked down at the archangel who was lying on the ground, who was only trying to get her back to her safety. Could an archangel be hurt? Kimberly didn't know.
Raphael offered her a smile, "I believe my brothers are being irrational and are failing to see the situation in front of them. I know they will. I believe there's someone who wants to see you."
Someone wanted to see her?
Mazdean had made his way through the gates, but some of the angels had arrived on time to stop him. Most of them looked at Mazdean with intrigue as he looked like a mixture of an angel and demon.
"Why does he have feathers?" asked one of the angels. "Only an angel can have feathers on their wings."
"He's a Djinn," said another angel, watching Mazdean.
"Djinn?" came the shocked words of another angel, his eyes turned wide as he looked at Mazdean.
Mazdean watched the five angels who had come to greet him. He could sense more angels making their way here, but it didn't matter to him.
"Tell me where Kimberly is, and there won't be a need for a fight to break in here," announced Mazdean
"Do you think we would let a demon-like yourself to be here? Go back to where you came from. This is no place for you unless you want an angel's staff to smote you to death," warned one of the angels with a stern gaze as he looked at Mazdean.
"Do you think he is as strong as Lucifer?" asked another angel.
"Lucifer is no more powerful," said the earlier angel, "He's a fallen angel who has fallen and made the underworld his home."
While the angels were having a quiet and pleasant chit chat with each other about the former angel of Heaven, who was now the Devil, Mazdean raised his hand forward for the fire to appear in his fists.
"I guess I will have to burn you fuckers to get an answer," came the low, threatening voice from Mazdean.
"How dare you use words like that in here!" one of the angels looked upset and angry.
Mazdean stared at the angel with a dead expression on his face, "Polite words didn't seem to work, so I decided to go back to the way I speak."
He remembered the words that Lucifer spoke to him before arriving near the gates of Heaven.
'There are angels guarding the front gates, but there are more angels inside to protect Heaven. If you are trying to go and get back Kimberly, it is tougher than you expect because there are archangels who have abilities and immense strength. And apart from it, you don't know where they have kept Kimberly,' Lucifer had informed Mazdean.
'Where do you think they have kept her?' inquired Mazdean.
'Probably in the heart of Heaven. Remember that Kimberly's memory has been erased related to the life she once had in the living world. You cannot take a soul by force from here, that is not willing to leave. Which means abducting is not possible,' stated Lucifer.
'Great,' cursed Mazdean.
Mazdean remembered the time he had taken in the past for Kimberly to fall in love with him. Now with her memory erased, he would have to rebuild the memories which he didn't mind. But the problem was that if Kimberly didn't want to come with him, stepping out of Heaven, he wouldn't be able to take her from here.
The angels didn't play fair by erasing Kimberly's memory, and it boiled his blood. Raising both his hands when the angels came at him, his hands released scorching fire that had the angels step away from him as they could feel the heat. Some of the angels who were brave, they went to attack the Djinn, who was a sinner too.
The angel's staff were quick to attack Mazdean, but he stopped it with his bare hands. He didn't need any weapon, and he used his demon abilities to hit and push the angels one after another who came at him like swarming bees.
"We have been given the order to kill the demon. Don't hold back!" came another angel's voice from behind who had only joined the battle.
But no matter how many angels came and tried to attack Mazdean, the Djin was too strong for them to defeat. One of the angels threw the wire that was similar to the bolt of lightning to capture the demon. The wire moved back and forth Mazdean as they tightly circled around his body to stop him from using any more of his abilities.
"Ha! I caught him! We angels are much stronger than the demons. The angels will always prevail," said the angel who had thrown the electric gold wires.
"Good job, Luth!" praised one of the fellow angels who was nearby. "We need to take him-"
His words were interrupted when Mazdean's body started to break the wire, and the angels quickly threw some more wires on the demon. Something started to change within Mazdean as he tried to break himself free from the wires.
Mazdean's eyes completely turned pitch black and the complexion of his skin looked paler than before, along with the little nerves beneath his skin that came into view. Something started to protrude from the top of his head like a stem that was growing and branching like a tree. It resembled him to look like the Salvette Mortems that had antlers. Even the wings that were on his back grew larger.
With one push, the wires that had tried to keep Mazdean still had broken and turned ineffective.
The angel's eyes widened, watching something they had never seen before. Did demons have antlers like that?!
"I have no time to play with you people," Mazdean glared at them, and when he moved his hand, the angels who were on his right suddenly flew away from their position because of the force produced by his one single movement.
The angels tried to resist him by bringing their staffs forward to stop them from being swept away. But when Mazdean raised his hand towards the angel and moved his hand, the angels were either blown away.
"Mazdean." came the voice that Mazdean was familiar with. He had existed from the beginning of time, so he knew some archangel. His eyes fell on the archangel, who had arrived at the scene.
"Michael," Mazdean said the angel's name.
"Heaven is no place for the Devil or for you," stated Michael. The archangel noticed the strange appearance of the Lord of Wales while feeling his power being emitted from where he was.
One side of Mazdean's lips pulled up, "Don't worry, I don't have any plans to stay here. We will leave, once I find Kimberly and take her back with me."
The angels belonging to the lower level gave way for the archangel Michael to make his way to the front. The other angels were similar to the archangels with the wings and the staff in their hands, except that they had smaller wings with fewer abilities. It made Michael stand out in the crowd of the angels apart from Mazdean whose wings were as big as the archangel.
"What makes you think that I would let you take an innocent soul from Heaven and allow the soul to leave with a demon like you?" asked Michael, his eyes were calm and his expression passive as he looked at Mazdean.
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"Where is Kimberly ?" questioned Mazdean .
"It would be best if you leave this place now and forget about her," advised Michael, and he brought his staff forward. "We had nothing to do with her death in the living world. Her soul was brought here because it rightfully belongs to Heaven. I will give you a chance, Mazdean.
A large gust of wind blew across the place where everyone stood, and Mazdean stared at Michael.
A chuckle escaped from Mazdean's lips, and the angels looked at the demon with an apprehensive look in their eyes, "I am not leaving Heaven without Kimberly, Michael. You either give her to me, and we leave in peace without causing any trouble here. Or I will take her by force while creating chaos in here. Why do you want to hurt your fellow angels?"
A spark of fire lit in Michael's eyes by hearing Mazdean's words.
Michael had seen many demons, but never had he seen anyone like Mazdean who now had antlers on his head. Even the Devil didn't possess an appearance like this, and Mazdean's presence only put a threat in Heaven. Because he's a Djinn.
"Every soul that comes and passes through the gates of Heaven is given shelter. Kimberly has found the peace and solace in her mind just like when she was a child, why do you want to disrupt her peace?" Michael tried reasoning, not wanting a fight to break in Heaven.
Michael had always spread harmony, and he had no interest to fight. But if Mazdean and Lucifer were going to create trouble, he would not hold himself back. The archangels were assigned to maintain order and to protect the people. He wouldn't allow a demon or a Devil to steal a soul from here so that they could taint it!
"Suit yourself," came Mazdean's next words.
Before anyone knew, the archangel and the demon with antlers clashed against each other. Michael used his golden staff while Mazdean had manifested a weapon in his hand, holding it, that looked like a burning iron rod covered with fire.
The force that both of them used, it sent out a vibration through the wind and people around them could see the intensity with the way they fought. Sparks flew with every clash and crash, but neither stopped or held back in attacking the other in the sky. When both Mazdean and Michael moved towards the ground of the clouds, the gathered clouds moved away from their places because of their agility, sweeping them away.
"The Salvette Mortem was supposed to bring her soul to Hell, but one of your angels brought her here," said Mazdean , blocking Michael's staff which he had brought up and above his head so that Mazdean's staff would not hit his head. "By doing that, you only waged war with me!"
Michael used all his strength to keep Mazdean's attack away from him. Somewhere in the corner of his mind, the archangel knew Mazdean was strong, but he hadn't expected Mazdean to be as strong as him.
"You know what the problem is with you demons? It is that you believe in snatching things by force and going against the rules," responded Michael. He pushed Mazdean's burning metal rod away and put all his might in his hand to swing his golden staff at Mazdean.
The other angels who stood away from them, witnessed the impressive fight that was taking place in front of them. It didn't look like it would be getting over any time soon.
"I don't care about your other souls here. The only person I want is Kimberly," declared Mazdean, his movements persistent. Michael's body disappeared from the place, and in an instant, he came to stand behind Mazdean. Michael hit Mazdean with his staff, sending the demon flying to a distance before Michael caught hold of his footing in the air.
The angels looked happy, noticing the blood that appeared from the demon's mouth that he spat it out.
"It is not too late to leave, Mazdean," advised Michael with a small frown on his face.
Mazdean ran his tongue around the corner of his lips, and he then looked up at Michael, "Do you think you are the only one with tricks?" he asked with a smirk on his lips. Like Michael, he was able to apparate from where he stood, and he came to stand behind Michael.
Michael's eyes widened as he hadn't expected a person from the living world like Mazdean to be able to apparate. Soon enough, Mazdean had brought the burning rod to take a successful hit against the archangel. But Michael was quick to recover and the fight between the two looked like it was not going to end anytime soon.
To be continued...
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