1.
A safe house near the Vatican
Miles dropped his bow and
slumped himself onto the seat there in the living area of the safe house while
the rest took their own seating except for Thor and Balder. The duo choose to
stand by the window looking at the star light skies, wondering how far their
homes are.
"Please have a drink as
I update you all." Father Ricken laid the drinks for the weary Crusaders
and their ally, The Asgardian. "Lucifer have suffered a number of
setbacks. His American charter at the prison have been 'exorcised', while you
dispersed his European charter with your timely attack.. You also closed the
Hell new gateway. We heard that the Middle East and Pacific charter are going
back into hiding leaving two more charter; Asia and then Siberia which would be
the last one to be taken care of."
"We were also advised
that you have taken care of the Norse Dimension issue and Odin have assigned
you two formidable heroes to retrieve the trickster." Father Ricken
continue on as he topped up the glasses. "But the main leaders still evade
us including the Prince of Darkness, Lucifer."
"Father Ricken, there
are some unanswered questions in my mind." Geraldine stood up and faced
the priest. "We encountered gateways between dimensions in our quest. I
was sent to their dimension, Clawler sent back to his forest, Miles and Kruger
to another version of Hell. I am beginning to wonder if there are more to his
than just a recruitment drive."
Father Ricken looked at the
lady among the group of men. He nodded and placed down the bottle he was
holding onto.
"Sometime back, we had
uncovered a hidden scroll which was kept in the vault for nineteenth centuries;
it was the sacred oath to hold it until a certain time and date. It was the
final chapter of the Book of Revelation but this chapter was never revealed
till now." Father Ricken took up an untouched glass and gulped down the
wine. "The scroll speaks of the collapse of the dimensions when the
gateways between it would open. It would be the free migration of good and evil
between the gates, but there was a warning. If the gates are not closed, then
the worlds in all the dimensions may be changed."
"But what it means by
the changes, the author of the scroll did not reveal. Could it bad or good? We
did not know." Father head slumped down in despair. "The committee of
the House governing this scroll then had a new shock; an apparition of a scene
from another dimension appeared. It was the House of Judgment in Asgard."
"Yes, I heard of such
scroll." Balder spoke up. "I was summoned to the Hall by Odin who
showed me his Scepter. The Scepter emits a picture of writings of the olden
days, when our fore fathers rides the plains or sailed the high waves on the
sea.. There was no Asgard then, but settlements. Among one of the settlement
was the structure we knew as the Hall of Judgment. The words spoke of similar
writings to yours, and Odin consulted Yggdrasil but the tree of life would not
tell. That was when he told me to be vigilant of the realm and above all,
Yggdrasil."
"Why didn't you tell me,
Balder? I am your brother." Thor asked of the other. "Do you know of
late, I dreamed of defending Yggdrasil from evils. They want to take Yggdrasil
but I fought them all."
"Brave words, mighty
warrior of Asgard." Father Ricken praised the warrior. Then he looked at
the Crusaders. "All of you had dreams too. You called them nightmares but
they are actually training you for your real war. The war to preserve the
dimensions from converging. Lucifer may not know it but he is just the pawn in
the war here."
"Don't make me wring out
the information from you, Father? Who is the one behind this war?" Miles
was getting agitated with the information withheld.
"God himself."
2.
Makati City
Lord Seth was fuming on the
leather bindings in his inter dimension travel in an uncompromising position.
He found himself in a strange chamber with many crates of blinking lights and
funny looking tools. There are servants sitting at these crates and looking at
some mirror on the wall, but the images it portrayed was not themselves but
something else.
"Please unbind pur
guest." The command was given and the order done by Loki, as he recalled
the spell on the leather bindings. Lord Seth looked from the trickster to the
man who gave the command.
"Who dares to hold me
captive? I am Lord ..." The Egyptian roared out his defiance.
"Lord Seth of the
Egyptian Lords." Baal replied. "I am fully aware of your status and
current predicament of your rank among the other Lords. If you choose to
compose your emotions to a more tolerable level, we would talk. If not, I would
have you expel back to the desert with your innards spilled out for the
vultures."
"How dare you challenge
me? I would not tolerate..." Lord Seth was ever defiant in his stance
until he find himself restrained by a group of ghoulies which appeared out of
the walls.
"My servants would hold
you there while I speak." Baal smiled at the Egyptian. "I am Baal and
you are my guest in my dimension. Here you may be strong but you are not the
all powerful Lord Seth anymore. I called upon you to seek your alliance with me
in fighting the dreaded war that is against us. Do you heed or yield, Lord
Seth?"
Lord Seth looked around him
and then lowered his head.
"I would heed your
words, but not yield to you in defeat. My heeding of the words would be a
temporary truce until I am stronger and able to challenge you." Lord Seth
glared at Baal, who in turn laugh.
"I expected you to do
just that but till them, hear me out. You may changed your mind." Baal
offered his hand as a token of alliance. Lord Seth took it and bowed to him.
"Now let me explain to
you the bigger picture." Baal continued. "You see, my dear ally; we
are not the bad ones here."
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