Zen sighs and shakes his head. "Well, I'm not sure I can say I even helped fight Nephilim. Right after that other person showed up, the fight stopped. Rukia was freaked out by something she saw or felt but I don't know what." Zen says as he looks up at the sky. "When I went back to hell, I found that someone had left a strange orb at my castle's front gate. That's when we figured out Sorin was inside. Maybe I'm just overthinking this, but doesn't this seem a little too well set up?" Zen says as he looks at me. "Set up? What do you mean?" I ask as he sighs. "Think about it, event after event has been happening ever since you decided to start fighting again. You can't tell me this is just an extraordinary coincidence. This feel like someone is playing with us from the shadows. It feels like we're the stars of a show that's setting up for a main event. You feel it too, don't you?" He asks as I nod slightly. "Yea, but why would someone be pulling strings from the shadows? What could they get from this?" I ask as Zen smirks. "They might be doing it just for fun. Oh, that reminds me, how did Telas actually become the scarlet angel? You told us he became it before we all went our separate ways, but you didn't tell us how. So how did that work?" He asks as I sigh. "I didn't beat Silvia; he capitalized on a distraction to finish the fight. And he said we were all his pawns in his game. So it would make it feasible for him to be doing all this." I say as Zen nods. "Yea." He says as he pops his neck. "Well, I have some stuff to look into. I'll be seeing you around." He says as he teleports away. He seemed to be in a hurry. I think as I knock on Sakara's door. After a moment the door creaks open. As I walk in, I notice the house is completely vacant with a heavy layer of dust on everything. "What the hell, she had furniture and stuff here a minute ago. This house couldn't have been cleared out in any way in the minute or so I was talking to Zen." I whisper as I got to where I had woken up. As I open the door, a loud creek moves through the silent home. I notice there's nothing inside. The bed I woke up in is completely gone along with all the decorations that were in the room. I hear Zen's words in the back of my mind. Doesn't this seem a little too well set up? I stand in the doorway for a few minutes thinking back to our conversation. "I know you can hear me, you're always listening. I don't know what kind of game you're trying to play, but I want to know. So how about it, care to explain to me why any of this is happening?" I ask as I feel the Goddesses energy behind me. As I turn around, all I see is a green field. "All will be clear in time." I hear her say as I look around. I'm in a field somewhere. I try to teleport, but I don't sense any energy within myself. "Zen, I swear, you know something I don't." I mumble as I start walking. After walking for hours, I still haven't got out of the field. I see trees in the distance, but they never get closer. No matter how fast or how far I run, they never get closer. "I wonder." I mumble as I close my eyes. Hey, angel. Can you hear me? I really need your help right now. I think but nothing happens. I hear a slight whisper and jolt my eyes open, looking around frantically. "Here." I hear my angel say quietly as I see Evony appear in my hands. "Let go." I hear myself say. I look up and see someone lunging toward me. I block him sword with mine, but he cuts clean through it. As I stumble back, I notice he looks like me, but his eyes are black and his hair is pitch black and falling to the back of his knees. As he lunges at me again, I feel all my energy return. "Back off!" I yell as I hold up my hand and send a beam of concentrated energy ripping through everything in front of it. As I blink a few times I see I'm holding my hand with a giant hole in a white ceiling. As I sit up I see I'm on a large circular table. The council that Azura brought me too before, all the members are standing around the table with their weapons drawn. Azura jumps onto the table and gets in front of me. "I will not allow you to hurt my servant." She says as she summons her scythe. "That boy has been marked! We must exterminate him!" One of them says as I look around confused. "Marked? What does that mean?" I ask as Azura looks over her shoulder at me. She starts to speak but one of the council men cut her off. "It means that you have been chosen by a celestial to be their servant. And that means she'll start staying around him no matter what. He could endanger all of us!" He says as I shake my head "I don't know what you mean." I say as another guy speaks. "You were fighting yourself in that dream, weren't you? That's the proof you've been marked!" he yells as suddenly his head gets ripped off. I see Azura standing beside his dead body. The future will always be different than what you want. I hear a voice echo through my head. Suddenly the council doors get flung open. I see everyone except me and Azura go to one knee and bow. I look over to the doors. "What's with all this commotion?" Telas says with heavy gold armor nearly covering his entire body.
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Of Angels and Demons: Ragnarok
Fantastik--Book 2 of 5-- 5 years have passed since the altercation with Silvia. Kai is in college trying to finally lead a normal life, but is unaware of the threat quickly closing in.
