The Glassy Sky

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Escaping Hell

Now that Sam, Toby, Sully, Hunter and I are all here, even Azrael is here as our companion. I've decided that we should hang on in this place for a moment. I'm honestly very tired. I've been using the sword for quite some time now. The power of this blade is extraordinary. It's very useful especially in fighting demons, but it takes a toll on my energy. So I told them, "let's find a place to stay for now." We walked along the streets finding a good place to stay and relax. This place looks like houses from Ancient Greek and Roman times as if there's no discrimination in this place. This world is vast that the entire village can be seen up to the mountain ranges of this place. There is sunlight, but always looks like dawn. Unlike what I've seen a while ago, everything is on fire, but here it's more relaxed. Maybe souls of those who died in peace and has done nothing wrong have lived here in the past? Maybe, because the houses are all too cozy, but now every houses that we see are covered in vines and flowers that only can be seen here. A moment later, we found a huge house made of stones and wood as its foundation, with decorated stone pillars all over the entrance to the entire corners of this place and a working fountain in the middle of the house. I feel as if a rich family have lived here in the past. We tried to look and there are four rooms available, so we all picked our rooms and tried to rest for a bit. I called everyone and asked them to stay at the living room. Azrael said as we all sat on the living room, "I think it's best if you all go back to the dream world and finish what we've started."

"Why should we listen to you?" Sam said. "You're the one who got us into trouble, in the first place."

"Yeah," Hunter said, "And why should we destroy that demon before we can get out of the dream world?"

"I understand what all of you are feeling," Azrael said, "but I'm only following orders. And your mission is to destroy Morpheus once and for all for he disrupted the balance that the God's have made for many centuries."

"I'm with Sam on this," I said, "why should we correct the mistakes that the Gods did to him?"

"Because the God's could not interfere with matters beyond their dimension, and that's the rule that they've established for eons."

"Who are they to establish such crap?" Hunter asked.

"They are the all-powerful being who created this universe that you're stepping in right now. They are even more powerful than us Seraphs combined."

"If they are that powerful, then why don't they do it themselves?" I replied.

"Please, I'm begging you." Azrael kneeled before us as if they are that desperate to destroy him. "You're all that we have left," Azrael said, "even my brother sacrificed his life because he knew that you're all that's left to restore the balance in this world. So, please don't let our sacrifice be put in vain." Then we noticed that there's another angel with blonde hair, red eyes and a pair of wings that are white, dove like and exudes a golden aura. "Found you!" He said. Then he descended from the sky and is now standing on the living area. "Samael, what are you doing here?" Azrael asked.

"I go by Lucifer now, and I should be the one asking you that question. Why are you here?"

"Whatever you call yourself, you're still a monster for killing dozens of our brothers just for your cost."

"Am I, or are you the monster? I only wanted change, but you all decided to abandon my cause and sided with the God's."

"I'm only following the law. This is nothing personal brother, and I'm here to collect them and we'll be leaving."

"Unfortunately that won't work." Lilith said, she teleported from Lucifer's back. "Honey, they've caused a lot of trouble in our castle."

"I see, one of you also killed my best friend."

"Who? Azazel? He's on our way and it was an accident."

"You can't lie to me, Azrael and you of all the seraphs know that."

"Okay, I killed him. But only to protect them."

"Why are they that important to you?"

"That's none of your business."

"Then you're on my way. Kill them!" Lucifer commanded the demons, and they are flying and lurking everywhere and came in and destroyed the house that we're standing right now. Meanwhile, we're preparing to fight as Azrael said that we should prepare for it. Sam materialized the twin blade, Hunter materialized his trident from the water on the fountain and Toby materialized his staff from the thin air. While Lucifer materialized from his hands a golden sword from the light that reminds me of the sword that I currently have. I called upon the sword's name and it flamed up a bright blue hue. "Where did you get that sword?" Lucifer asked.

"Why is everyone so interested about this sword?" I asked.

"Lahat Chereb is my sword. Unlike most angels, I have the power of creation. So I created two swords, the one that I have right now is Jehova the sword of the spirits and the other one is his twin Lahat Chereb or the flaming sword. Hand me the sword and I'll let you all live."

"Don't do it, Zack." Azrael said.

"I'm sorry, but this was given to me so I won't hand it to you even if you're the creator."

"Then I'll just have to take it from you the hard way." Luckily I have an idea, it's still a theory but I can try. "Guys, don't move. I have an idea." I said. I summoned upon the flames that encircled us while destroying the enemies in front of us as it gets bigger, thicker, denser and stronger. From that flame that shoots up to the sky, it turned into a tornado of blue flame that is both bright and warm. Then I compressed the flames until it exploded. The massive explosion killed a lot of demons, but not Lucifer and Lilith. They're standing still in front of us. "What now?" Sam asked. "Hunter, can you lock them up?" I asked Hunter.

"I can try." Hunter summoned a huge amount of water that encapsulated both Lilith and Lucifer. While they're trying to catch their breath and trying to escape, I concentrated to open a portal leading us to the dream world. Then the flames encircled us once again and I command it to teleport us to the dream world and we're about to succeed until Lucifer used his sword to shoot us with its divine light. Then I saw that light was pointed directly towards Toby, so I rushed in and lost my focus, but Azrael blocked the attack, hurting him on the process. And we we're transferred in to a huge forest filed with vegetation, animals and insects that are not known in the real world. "What is this place?" I asked. "I don't know, but we're not in the dream world." Sully said. Then where are we?