Aekhem

V

When Bechner arrived knew he was right. He couldn't believe his eyes. Chaos and confusion all around. Those close to Tusuer had man and woman in cages, like animals, as criminals. He couldn't understand how a human could commit a crime against an Angel. The people walking nearby couldn't hide their fear towards the Angels and the Angels coulnd't hide their pleasure knowing the humans were scared of them.

He saw how an Angel took a woman by the arm and took her flying away while she was crying in terror. The other Angels didn't even turn to see what was happening. It seemed that it had a common thing between them to take a woman or whatever they felt like taking from the humans.

Bechner couldn't hold it and yelled to Angel that was watching him:

"Velbetar!. What's going on here? What are you doing?" His voice sounded like thunder and everybody stop what they were doing, even the humans who didn't understand a word the Angel's language.

Velbetar didn't doubt for a second and flew directly to Bechner, pulled out his sword and looked at Bechner, challenging him.

"These damn humans do not understand what we want to teach them. They don't know we came here to help them. And who are you to question your commander in chief's orders? Challenging me is a challenge to Tusuer!".

Bechner stepped back and flew up pulling out his sword, it was more than a hundred years since he last used it. He started to fly away ready for combat. Paying attention to sudden moves from the other Angels who right away surrounded him in the air.

Tusuer appear in front of him, his white hair covering his face because of the wind, his eyes had a strange look, his skin, his clothes had human blood spots on them, some fresh some not.

"Bechner" he said with a dry voice "put your sword down, I order you, let's go down and talk, things have changed, I have to show you how we do things around here now"

Bechner answered:

"Tusuer, something horrible is happening here. I am going to have to ask you to please stand down and renounce your position to me. In the name of the Good we came to do here"

Silence for two seconds, then all of the Angels started laughing including Tusuer for a little while.

Bechner saw how every single one of them had gone mad. Back when Liknal and his followers wanted to convinced them the Father was wrong and create a new order for the Celestial, they had this look in their eyes. He saw the same look at Tusuer's Angels as well as in Tusuer's eyes. That Liknal movement ended in a war and it was clear to Bechner another war was about to start.

He was reasoning all of this, he could see what the future would bring. He decided to put his sword down and wait for an opportunity to escape from them. He knew if he acted as he usually did it could be the end of his own existence.

An Angel asked for his sword as they were moving down, he didn't offer resistance and released the weapon from his hand.

Once on the ground, Tusuer showed him the way with a gesture from his hands. The way he was showing was towards a modified human home or a built by humans home, big enough for Angels to live in it.

Once they went in, he saw a few men and women dressed like them. White suits made by humans similar to theirs.

"What do you think?" Tusuer in a proud tone of voice " if it wasn't for their size you could say they look like us, right? Aside from the fact they don't have wings and their skin is harsh, nothing compared to ours" while saying this he took a man by his neck that was walking near him with a bowl of fruits "but don't you agree that the stench they expel from their bodies is hideous, disgusting, and repulsive?. They are always dirty, and they scare easily just because we are trying to teach them something it's convenient for them" The man was shaking in fear, asking for forgiveness for whatever unknown by him crime he had committed. The terror in the shape of a nine foot giant was holding him.

"Father, don't hurt me, don't hurt me please, I have children, I have a wife, I don't want to die, please forgive my miserable and impure presence" Tusuer looked at him and his eyes turned darker. He asked the man:

"So, you have a wife?" and he turned to one of the Angels standing nearby. The Angel responded with a smile and took off understanding a silenced order.

Tusuer threw the body man against a pillar with no effort.

The Angel that had gone away, came back pulling a woman by the arm, against her will, she was terrorized, yelling, crying and insulting them.

Bechner wanted to tell her to be quiet but he saw how the woman knew everything was lost and her courage showed it.

Tusuer walked towards the man lying on the floor. He was conscious, unable to move, his back was broken, he couldn't talk just mumble the pain he felt and looking at Tusuer with his eyes wide open. He couldn't believe what was happening to him but also knowing there was nothing else he could do.

"Is this your female?. Is this your wife?" The man couldn't answer. All he could do was turn his eyes towards his wife. Tears came from them. "you say have children?" Tusuer turned to look at the women still fighting and spitting and cursing them.

Tusuer answered his own question:

"You don't anymore. You worried so much for them, your wife, and look, here you are, broken in half before me, which by the way is where you belong, and now, you have no more children, and your wife ..."

The Angel holding the woman understood. Pulled out his sword and put it back in. The woman stopped yelling. His body fell on the floor cut in half. The blood gushing out of her lower half splashed Bechner's face.

"you don't have to worry about your wife anymore" the broken man could only see him with hate, disgust, terror, and sadness "and also ..." Tusuer started to say while putting his big boot on top of the humans face. The man's skull cracked

under it "... you can stop worrying about yourself"