Last Son: Book One

Chapter 25 Old Church: Azurian Watcher Part 2

Samael cleared the area, the red barriers disappeared, the howling continued to echo beneath the church underground, and now Samael is searching the room. Samael discovered a path, a stairway that led down beneath the church underground, and now Samael is starting to feel a cool breeze as he is walking at a slower pace. Samael noticed blood painted on the stairway walls, on both sides of him and Samael came to the bottom of the stairway. As he enters this part of the church underground, there is some candlelight lighting the area and he follows the flames that are pointing in one direction. "Adventurous!!! I got a bad feeling about this." Samael chuckles and replies; "You??? Nothing to worry about—because you're not even real." Abbie appears right in front of Samael and shouts; "I am too!!! Take that back adventurous." Samael entered into another odd room that had two paths to take but as soon he entered the red barriers blocked the two pathways. Samael is standing firmly in battle position, ready for whatever comes out of these black dim spheres that just appeared. "Adventurous!!! Be ready... You just never know what might come out of it." Samael chuckles and replies; "I am always ready—for a good fight." A human-like and half-beast creature comes out of the black dim spheres. The creatures have a form of humanity but their gestures are from a beast that lingers in the darkness and these kinds are different from the half-man and half-bat that first appeared in the Aza digital world. The creatures are with, and without clothes of all kinds, without and with different armor of all kinds. The creatures held some sort of unusual long steel sword, just like the one our adventurer is holding tightly into his hands but their sword was a demonic version of Samael's mystic blade that was found inside the Azazel church underground, where Samael discovered his sword in the sacrificial room. The room is overrun by these creatures, Samael stands guard, the creatures sound wicked, and out of nowhere, someone comes to Samael's aid. The aider that entered the scene, is wearing a black sackcloth, fast on foot, he also holds an unusual long steel sword and with this sword, he kills these creatures instantly. Samael rushed into battle, swinging his sword but these creatures withstand his blade and they strike him with their demonic sword. Samael fell to the ground, bleeding from the demonic blade piercing his flesh, he groaned and looked down on the ground as the aider approached him from the left side. "Don't fret." Samael looked up with confusion, as the blood was gushing out from his wounds and the aider continued to fight and speak. "You won't be able to kill them with your sword!!! I mean your sword does have a tap of power—but not when you're going against them." Samael is stunned by the black sackcloth aider combat, the way he mastered the sword in his hands, fending his way through battle by slaying these creatures with his superior blade. Samael's vision gets blurry, as he is bleeding out, he closes his eyes then moments later he sees a white light but his body just lying there in a puddle of blood. "Get up!!! You are destined to do more son of Azazel." Samael is getting up slowly, looking for the one who is speaking but sees nothing except a great measure of light, and then the audible voice continues to speak to him. "I know who you are—son of High Priest, Azazel." Samael thinks to himself; "Your voice—I heard it before. Not because of a dream... but someone from my past. It's becoming clear." Samael is thinking hard, trying to remember this person, the voice of his past, and then she speaks. "It's like a lost child—who heeds to their mother but never seen or heard her voice." Samael thinks to himself; "Wait... that voice sounds like." Samael shouted; "are you, my mother!?." Now the time has passed by, Samael is walking away and then the audible voice speaks again before Samael's departure. "Son of High Priest, Azazel—take this." Samael put the item in his pocket, walked away, and then woke up from his rest. The aider witnesses the [great light] resurrecting Samael from the dead and stands amazed as Samael takes up his sword to kill these creatures. The battle ended, the aider and Samael standing at least six feet away from each other, just staring eye to eye. "So the prophecy's is right all along." Samael smirked and replied; "What do you mean about that!?." The aider walks closer to Samael with a smile and replies as he puts away his sword. "Azariah spoke about many prophecies. Now I see the prophetic word is fulfilling right before my eyes." Samael chuckles and replies; "What prophetic words are you talking about!?." The aider aims his way closer to Samael and continues to speak about the prophecy. "According to the book of Azurian—the [great light] gifted my people to see the future." Samael folds his arms, pays closer attention to the aider's words and the aider continues to speak more about the [great light]. "The [great light] not only gifted us the ability to foresee the future but to prepare us for the [great darkness]. Now that sword you got... it is an ancient sword from the land of Pterodac—it is huh?." Samael is examining his unusual long steel sword, then looks up at the aider and replies; "What do you mean—Pterodac sword!?." The aider pointed at Samael's sword, then pulled out his very own sword that is tucked away, kept hidden in his black sackcloth, then goes into details about the sword that is in Samael's hand and the sword that is in the aider's very own hands. "Your sword is not a usual Pterodac weapon but the weapon itself comes from Pterodac—right!?." Samael nodded and then the aider continued to carry on his speech as he approached closer to Samael. "The two distinct swords—are not different at all but they both bring well-edged to the battlefield. The only way to kill these things... is this!." The aider draws his sword from his black sackcloth, standing with style, and continues to speak of the sword and these creatures. "My blade is an Azurian!!! The Azurian swords are blessed by the [great light] we are chosen to do away with this darkness and to claim our home—"[the light]." The sword begins to glow, Samael stands with curiosity in his eyes and continues to listen to the aider. "The creatures we killed—are people of the past. People of ["Azurians"] are not part of us—me... but these creatures still have Azurian minds. Now the dead ["Azurians"] we call these creatures... "Azurian Fiends." Samael quickly replied; "Azurian fiend... huh!?." The aider continues his speech about the Azurians and how to kill these "Azurian Fiends." Samael folded his arms, listening to the aider's words, as he made eye contact, Samael was standing with awareness of his surroundings and the darkness thickened. What will Samael find out from the aider? Are his tales true, do the Azurians exist or existed? And will he continue to aid Samael or will he renegade? As we are seated, waiting for Samael's adventures to continue, the next chapter will be a short origin story of the "Azurians."