Battle For The Heavens

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"I can handle them Noelle, you go after Satan!" Andrew shouted over the demon's cries.

Noelle nodded quickly before slashing her way through the mass of demons to get to the door. Satan had slipped out right after summoning the demons to attack them and there was no way she was going to let him escape that easily.

"I knew you would follow me out here Noelle," Satan said with a slight upturn of his lips.

"Of course I did, Andrew is more than capable of defeating those demons." Noelle gripped her sword tightly in her hands before continuing, "plus, I've been wanting to see your fighting style for a while. So, I guess this is the perfect time to find out, right?"

With a slight smile on her lips, Noelle dashed forward with her sword raised. Neatly stepping to the side, Satan dodged the blow before raising his own sword and bringing it down heavily towards her body. But to Satan's surprise, Noelle managed to block the sword with her own and pushed him away.

"Wow, someone can really fight, huh?" Satan said with his eyebrows raised before slightly shaking his head and smirking. "But unfortunately for you, it's going to take a lot more than that to defeat me."

With that, Satan stepped forward and raised his sword to attack from above causing Noelle to raise her own sword to block. However, that had been a trick as Satan instead pulled another sword out and struck her legs.

Noelle screamed in agony as she fell to the ground. "Two swords, huh? If it had been anyone else, I would be surprised but you? You, I'm not surprised at all. I should've expected it actually!"

Satan just laughed in response before they heard someone shout Noelle's name.

"Noelle!" Andrew shouted as he managed to get out of the house. He had killed many demons but they had just kept on coming and he had grown anxious about how Noelle was faring with Satan.

Andrew stopped suddenly at the sight of Noelle on the ground and clutching her leg, and Satan standing over her with his sword raised. "Well, I guess it's my turn with you then, Satan." Andrew looked at Noelle and indicated with his head for her to get to the side so she could heal herself.

Noelle almost started saying some words of protest before she saw the look on Andrew's face. Nodding quietly, she dragged herself a little distance away.

"Hmm this should be interesting. I've never fought with a human, let alone one with divine powers! Let's see what you got, human."

Andrew stood there for a second, willing himself to be calm before rushing towards Satan. Instead of attacking head on, he tried to go around Satan's body and stab him in the back but unfortunately for him, Satan was able to block the attack.

"It's going to be harder than that, boy. Don't even for one second, think that either you or Noelle will be able to defeat me."

Suddenly, Andrew felt a sort of bubble like thing cover him and Satan. Looking to the side, he noticed Noelle chanting softly. After realising that Noelle had created a shield to protect them for the demons who had come out of the house as well, he turned his attention back to Satan.

Gripping his sword tightly in both hands, Andrew swung it at Satan. Dodging the blade, Satan brought his own sword down which Andrew easily deflected. Andrew saw the second sword in Satan's other hand about to strike him and so, he slid out of his previous position but before he could turn around to continue fighting, Satan knocked him down with his sword, making him land face first onto the floor.

"Andrew, are you okay?" Noelle cried, getting up carefully and making her way towards Andrew. She pushed Satan back, away from Andrew, before kneeling down and quickly whispering in his ear. "Let's try this together, okay? We'll be stronger that way."

Noelle then quickly stood up and moved towards Satan with her sword held tightly in her hands. Swinging her sword, she managed to connect with Satan's own sword. Their swords clanged together in offensive and defensive moves before Noelle managed to slash her sword across his chest, causing a dark liquid to seep out of Satan's skin.

With his eyes full of rage, Satan thrust his sword forward and would've stabbed Noelle's stomach if Andrew hadn't pushed his own sword in between and blocked the attack.

"Woah." Noelle sighed in relief before looking at Andrew whose sword was still against Satan's. Andrew looked back and managed a small smile before pushing Satan off his body.

"Don't mess with me, kid!" Satan muttered darkly.

"Andrew, look out!" Noelle shouted just as Satan threw his two swords, which were spiralling at a great speed, towards him.

Hearing Noelle's cry, Andrew quickly dodged the two swords only to look back and see that Noelle had fallen to the ground. Quickly running to her, he lifted her head slightly and asked what was wrong. "Shield....draining my power....used too much energy..." Noelle mumbled, trying to gather strength to continue fighting.

Taking this as an opportunity, Satan walked towards them and raised his sword, ready to bring it down on the two and get rid of them once and for all.

But just as he started to bring his sword down, the sound of thunder made everyone jump. The same sound of thunder was immediately followed by a sudden blinding white light which forced everyone to close their eyes due to the brightness.

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Opening his eyes carefully, Andrew noticed another man standing before them. His features were indistinct yet the expression on his face was as clear as day. He was angry, angry with Satan based on the direction of his glare.

He also radiated power, more power than what Andrew had ever felt in his entire life. Andrew could practically see the waves of power just roll of his shoulders. His presence alone made Andrew feel like he was invincible, like he could take on Satan and win.

"I see you've escaped your prison then." Satan looked at the man with his lips slightly tilted upwards.

"Of course I did, you didn't think those flimsy chains could hold me for long, did you? I'm made of a lot stronger stuff than that!" The man said with a small smile appearing on his face.

"Of course not, but I have to admit that I didn't think you'd join us so soon," Satan stated.

"Well, I couldn't leave Noelle and Andrew to fight you alone, now could I? Especially not after making Noelle go to all that trouble of coming here and teaching him to fight and what not!"

During this exchange, Andrew had been watching in utter confusion as he could not understand the premise of the conversation. He quickly glanced at Noelle who, in fact, seemed much better than before. She was watching the man with so much love, respect and admiration in her gaze that made Andrew feel even more confused.

Feeling Andrew's eyes on her, Noelle turned and saw Andrew's confused expression and immediately understood the question in his eyes. "Don't you know who that is Andrew?"

Andrew immediately shook his head and furrowed his eyebrows, trying to figure out who the man was. "That's God," Noelle said with a wide smile stretched over her lips.

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a/n

hey everyone, I hope you all liked this chapter! I can't believe that there's only one more chapter left, I hope you've all enjoyed this book so far. And I'll be posting the last chapter soon, so look forward to it!❤️

anyway, happy reading! <3
x Athena.