The fallen.

Chapter 7.

Northern Sahara. It is the peak of day and partially buried by sand in the middle of a few dust devils ,under the intense heat of the sun. Ahgony lies unconscious when a tug at his back wakes him up and as he turns to see who ,he sees Vicissitude with his wings spread out and anger in his eyes. For a while he was confused then memories of their altercation with The fallen angel a few moments ago come rushing into his head and he sighs
"What now? This is obvious proof that we're no match for even one of them much less all five of them."
"I know that" Vicissitude replies in a snappy tone "but what can we do? We have to keep fighting, that's the only way out of this"
"There is another way" Counters Ahgony with a subtle smile. And Vicissitude immediately realizing what he was talking about ,shakes his head frantically
"No. No way. That would involve breaking divine protocol. The punishment will be worse than death"
"But think about it" Ahgony said , raising his voice
"If we don't do that then we lose"
"No!" Vicissitude interjects ,not wanting to accept the possibility that they were out of options.
"We're not doing that ,and that's final"
The serious tone in his voice tells Ahgony that he would have no more of it.
"Alright alright" As he gets up his mind flashes back to when they fought Holocaust
"Back then... What did he do to us. That aura which came out of him. It's like it was forcing my body to shut down"
"I'm not sure" Vicissitude replies "but I know for sure that if we were lower life forms ,we would have been long dead by now"
Ahgony stands up from the dirt and spreads his wings out. Pleased to see that they were still working ,he flies a few inches into the air.
"It angers me. Our weakness that is. I shall leave you to decide what our next course of action will be ,since you refuse to consider mine"
After saying these words ,with a few flaps of the wings ,he takes off into the distant horizon leaving Vicissitude alone with his thoughts
"Damn! Shit keeps getting harder by the second!"
Looks into the sky and mutters "God help us"
Takes off too , flying in Ahgony's direction.

At the Sky palace, Celio is seen sitting on the edge of the sky palace once more staring at the clouds until he sees Ahgony land on the concrete floor , low-key seething with rage and walks by without saying a word. This doesn't bother Celio However as almost immediately ,he sees Vicissitude fly unto the concrete platform and decides to talk to him. With an expressionless face ,he waves
"Welcome back, how was it"
"It was bad kid, bad. We took quite a beating"
On hearing this ,Celio closes his eyes and lies down on the hard floor
"And you guys are the ones to save this world? Pathetic" He says the last word with a slight snicker
"We don't seek to save just this world. We seek to save every other realm there is. And yes we will succeed ,our mission is to succeed and we never fail a mission"
He Snickers again and leaps into a squatting position before finally standing fully
"Yeah right. You guys do that. I don't really care what happens in the end. So long as I kill every last one of those fallen angels I don't care what becomes of this world or any other." Hesitates. "Wait how many realms are there exactly"
Vicissitude looks at him for a while as if trying to judge if he has worthy of knowing or if he was still too underdeveloped. He chose the later.
"There are some truths of the universe that mere mortals are not developed mentally enough to know. Maybe one day"
Celio turns around and begins to walk into the palace.
" Sure whatever. Have fun playing super hero ,maybe you'll eventually get bored and realize your powerlessness and the futility of your efforts. Then maybe also ,it won't be too late"