ONE FAILED SALVATION

Sacrifices

De Coelorum Proditore, Part three

All text in Latin and other languages will be translated in the comments

A/N: Before we begin, I want to say that in two occasion when Lilith is present/mentioned it is hinted that sexual activity has happened or said sexual activity is actually mentioned. There's nothing that's straight up NSFW but I wanted to mention that before we began. Also try to read the comments as sometimes I'll also explain some lore in them

Earth was beautiful, hundreds of thousands of luscious trees covering its surface. Clean rivers ran amongst them, and birds chirped on the trees.

Exceeding everything in beauty was the Garden of Eden, where Heaven's Gate and the Three Trees resided. These three trees were the Tree of Life, capable of giving Eternal Life, the Tree of Knowledge, capable of giving Infinite Knowledge, and the Tree of Desire, whose only quality was the desire others felt for it: in thruth, it was the least important of the trees, but the first of these three: it had been gifted to Lucipher by the Creator, and anyone else who dared to try to steal from it would fall to the might of Atanti-Ql-Paneu, the giant immortal snake sent to guard it and the other trees.

One thing stood out amongst the nature: a collection of white marble tombstones, adorned by many colorful flowers, stood near the Pearly Gates. One of them read "Azrael, beloved child and brother. If it cost you everything, it was the right thing to do." Before nature was born, a thousand white roses adorned this grave. Now, two more had joined them, one placed each year on the day of Azrael's death.

In front of it Micheal, Archangel, Angel of Old and Princeps Militiae Celestis stood, another white rose in his hands. He carefully set it down amongst the others, and stood up to read the grave again. Azreal had never said those words when he was alive, but the Creator said that that's what he would want written on his grave. Micheal didn't question it, as he never questioned anything else the Creator did. And now that he spent most of his days by the Creator's side as he slumbered, knowing he wouldn't wake up soon, he thought that he had many, many questions for God, and none of them came to his mind when he could ask them.

He reached into his pocket, and felt a piece of paper. He pulled it out and looked at it: it read Ιησούς Χριστός, Θεού Υιός, Σωτερ (Iesous Cristos, Theu Yios, Soter).

"Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour" Micheal translated once again. He had found this enigmatic message many years before, and still had no idea of what its meaning was.

Nimbus, his little Ender Dragon, gently nuzzled against his legs. He was unique amongst the Ender Dragons, for all the others were pitch black while he was white like a cloud in the morning, hence his name. Micheal gently caressed him, remembering the day three years before when Gabriel had brought him Nimbus' egg. It had hatched not long after, and it had brought him a little joy that nothing else seemed to give him.

"Maybe it's over" Micheal thought "Maybe we won"

But they hadn't.

The depths of Hell, Lucipher's palace

"Aw come on Daddy!" Lilith said in a childlike tone, seemingly speaking to a mirror in her husband's bedroom.

"I said no" The Elder replied from the other side of the mirror "I have other business to attend and with the intel I gave you you should be able to reach your goal in a short time"

"Fine" Lilith sighed. Her father passed his hand in front of the mirror and the image of him vanished, leaving Lilith alone with her sleeping husband. Lilith sat down next to Lucipher and began pummeling him in the face, leaving him with a bloodied nose. She found punching stuff to be quite relaxing, and she had quickly figured out that Lucipher's face was the most relaxing to hit.