The Rebellion of The Angels, page 25
But it was to the volcano where the group of Envy, Revenge, Rage, Hate, Pain and Suffering went, in the company of Rahab, while the demon soldiers who came with them, were distributed through the vast military camp.
The six leaders, who pushed the handcuffed hostage, Rahab, to walk in front of them, entered through a wide entrance that looked like a cave inside the volcano. They a single path that descended around a kind of small valley inside the volcano, and as they advanced the face of Rahab was drenched in sweat; the temperature became suffocating. Only the demons, by their condition of Lords and Ladies of the Hells, felt at room temperature and although it was not precisely the hell they were going to, that place so underground hot and surrounded by lava on the sides of the road, was similar.
The group arrived at the most subterranean room, according to the shape of that rocky wall site, which breathed moisture on the heights until falling into the lava pools that surrounded a long table, next to which the other six demon leaders rested, named by Satan as his disciples, baptizing them with the names of Lust, Greed and Darkness to the three of female sex, and Repression, Vice and Selfishness to the three of masculine sex.
There was also a mirror there, but in this case, against the wall at the farthest end, and much larger than the one the demon leaders had at that terrifying tent they had in the cloudy forest camp and as it happened there, also in this new place and at the foot of the mirror, there was a small fountain and both were in flames. Both fulfilled the functions already known: the sinister face of Satan was reflected in the mirror, and through the fountain, his messenger demon appeared, looking much more disgusting than any other, announcing the future appearance of his master.
Pushing Rahab as they always did for her to walk, the group of leaders made of Envy, Rage, Revenge, Hate, Suffering and Pain approached the table where their six colleagues rested, who immediately stood up.
However, without even letting his disciples greet each other, the messenger demon of Satan emerged from the flames of the fountain in front of the mirror, which immediately reflected the face of the master of all demons.
—Welcome home, my faithful servants. Welcome home to my beautiful mother —Satan said ironically to Rahab, reminding her that she would be force to have sexual relationships with one of his disciples, with Hate, so that Satan could be incarnated in the belly of Rahab as the future son of the young woman, and sowed the definitive evil control over the kingdom of Earth—. I want you to immediately prepare for the ritual that will take place today at midnight —It was already early in the afternoon—. Until then, I will let you work in the decoration of this place. As for my mother —He repeated ironically, looking at Rahab—. You can remove the turban from her mouth, but do not untie her —He ordered disappearing later.
Rage approached the young woman to remove the turban from her mouth and Rahab, who seemed more animated, without hesitation shouted “Help, help”...
—This young woman is more stupid than I thought —Envy said—. You have not realised that we brought you to an island, we only inhabit it, and that in your continent there should not be a single man left...
—As long as my friends live, man will still have hope... —Rahab answered.
—Cover her mouth again —Revenge demanded, but Envy approached the girl saying:
—If you open your mouth again, I will pierce your stomach with my sword.
—Well, I prefer that to being raped by your disgusting friend... —And Envy threw a slap on her face that turned her face and threw her to the floor, and there Rahab was left without the strength or the will to get up. The hours passed and the disciple demons of Satan prepared the place as their master asked. In front of the fountain in flames, they prepared a large bed surrounded by black candles that formed a circle.
Later they took turns to dress according to the satanic ceremony and thus not leaving Rahab alone, since there were no more demons there than the twelve leaders.
First it was the women who left, appearing shortly after with trousers and thin tight jackets, covered by long red capes according to the colour of the previous clothes, and later the men did the same, who presented the same clothes as the women, but somewhat thicker.
Hate approached the bed and waited for Envy and Rage to get Rahab closer, while the rest was already making a circle, just like the black candles surrounding the bed.
Then it was the little messenger demon of Satan who first appeared out of the burning fountain, and then the face of his master, who was reflected in the burning mirror placed next to the wall but suddenly, when Rahab was force to approach Hate by the hands of Envy and Rage, a demon soldier came from the surface running with desperation and interrupting the ritual that was going to be developed...
—Oh my Lord, Satan, king of the Hell and all the demons, excuse my interruption but something terrible happens on the surface... —The twelve disciples and Rahab looked at him in amazement.
—What can be so terrible as to interrupt this ceremony? —Satan asked with Rage. The demon, gasping and delaying in answering but charging energies, said with fear:
—The arrival of around three hundred enemies, my Lord.
—¡What…! Can you explain me what is this useless being talking about...? —Satan asked. The six disciples who arrived with Rahab as a hostage did not understand anything, reason why that demon, a little more recovered, answered for them:
—I also came from the cloudy forests, my Lord, and I can assure you that there was not a single ship in the Ghost Port, therefore, I could not explain how they got here, but our celestial enemies are camping uphill and I repeat, they are no more than three hundred.
—I told you, Lord, that our old Father had sent those who together with you were his disciples, and that our plan was at risk —Rage assured.
—What are you talking about, stupid! Do you think that three hundred angels will defeat fifteen hundred demons, including you, who are my twelve best warriors? —Satan insulted her. Rage remained silent and Satan demanded:—. Answer: Do you think that three hundred angels will defeat fifteen hundred demons, including you and the eleven of them? I do not listen to you —As Envy smiled, making fun of Rage, who immediately answered:
—No Lord, no Satan, they will never defeat us.
—I still do not feel your complete anger. Do you think that three hundred angels will be able to defeat fifteen hundred demons including you and the eleven of them? —Satan asked.
—¡I do not...! —Rage screamed this time, unleashing all her fury—. They will not defeat me... —She finished.
—I do not know how they got here or how I did not notice their presence. Surely the desire to be reborn again in the belly of this young woman betrayed me. But in any case we will temporarily cancel this ceremony, which will be resumed with the corpses of my old fellow disciples as witnesses. I want those eleven corpses here. Use all the necessary forces and destroy whatever enemy crosses your path. Go now...
—My Lord, meanwhile, what do we do with the girl? —Envy asked.
—Take her to witness the end of her friends whom she appreciates so much. Those idiots will die for betraying me, for supporting the creation of man, for accepting to revere and love such a despicable being. Bring them dead, now... —Satan ordered, and his twelve disciples went for their weapons with Rahab still handcuffed and with the demon that came to warn them about the presence of their enemies, leaving that place at the same time that the face of Satan disappeared from the burning mirror on the wall.
Upon reaching the surface of the volcano and leaving it by its mouth, which took the form of entrance to a cave, the twelve demon leaders, in the company of the handcuffed Rahab and the demon soldier, went to open military camp, where there was a great movement of troops, who little by little abandoned the tents, which in their interior actually had wells that led to underground galleries; that is why there were dozens and dozens of demons looking towards the West, where a few minutes ago, up the hill, they discovered their celestial enemies, the group of Experience and Youth, which apparently camped on the other side of the hill, outside the sight of all the demons.
Soon, the twelve demon leaders decided to tie Rahab against a wooden horizontal near the volcano, covering her mouth with the turban once again; and as if it were part of the plan, Rage, Envy, Revenge, Hate, Suffering and Pain, stayed close to the girl as inviting her next enemies to go for her, although for that they should defeat or avoid the defence that a thousand five hundred demons would impose, who, commanded by their remaining leaders Greed, Darkness, Lust, Vice, Repression and Selfishness, were already queue up with weapons in hand: swords, shields, axes, spears, bows and arrows, facing the hills to the West, and although they knew from seeing them that their celestial enemies had horses, that advantage would be possibly annulled, before the amount of demons.
Precisely Experience, Youth and their whole group were on the other side of the hills to the West. There they had camped to protect themselves from the strong wind that hit with desire, from where Kindness arrived telling her closest companions that they had lit a fire as the rest of the group close to the horses did, which in some cases grazed and in others rested.
—The enemy is queuing up in front of us.
—The dawn is falling —Eyes of Heaven said, unable to escape his mountain life.
Experience looked at the grey sky as if waiting for a signal, as if waiting to be told what to do, but without finding more response than what she decided, so she said:
—Break camp and get ready for war...
Without wasting any more time they were all up as Eyes of Heaven, and after they extinguished some of the campfires they lit to fight the cold, they did what many others did. They took their belongings and got up their horses and then they rode to the top of the hill. Their arrival coincided with dawn, but even so the sky remained gray.
Fortunately for the horsemen, the wind blowing from the East had abated, otherwise, once the descent of the hill started once the war started, they would have had it against, being one more opponent to defeat.
The clouds seemed distant. The sun was not known by that island. The days used to be very cloudy, hence the grey of the sky threatened as a storm, when no kind of storm approached or manifested, actually.
Once all the horsemen had been placed on the top of the hill to the West, and before the hostile gaze of their enemies down in the valley, the group made up of a total of three hundred horsemen experienced a slight sensation of difficulty. The fifteen hundred demons were in a thick column, covering the entire valley behind who would be the six leaders in that war at the beginning: Greed, Lust, Darkness, Repression, Vice and Selfishness.
—Where did they get so many soldiers? —Youth asked loudly.
—They are three times more than us —Peace agreed.
—There were not so many when I came to see —Kindness said.
—There, near the volcano, they have someone tied in a horizontal —Eyes of Heaven could saw in the distance.
—It must be Rahab —Compassion supposed.
—We will never rescue my daughter. It is impossible to even evade so many demons —Abed said, disappointed.
—You are still in time to leave —Offer said.
—I think that there is no other plan than to give ourselves to the fight for love for man —Love thought.
—This will be an unequal war —Temperance said before the number of enemies, while Experience looked everywhere as if asking for help. In fact, she remembered what God, his father, told her after she died, and after he received her in soul in the room where the angels met to their daily meals and, fundamentally, to have meetings and prayers with God: “At the moment the reinforcements will arrive...” but there was no one there but them, the three hundred horsemen, or any sign that they would receive help.
—Even so, light will emerge from darkness —Light said.
—And while there is light, there will be hope —Hope said, and with these last two sentences, Experience got her self—esteem back and she rose her heart asking:
—Make a single and extensive line —Leaving the group of her closest and galloping to one side, while the rest were in a single file in an organised way as she asked.
They made an extensive line along the high hill, leaving those angels with the skin of men and women who wore white clothes among those who wore light—blue clothes, thus establishing that those located in the centre of the extensive line were those closest to God, those that God once named as his disciples although one was missing, the inverted angel Lucifer, the now enemy Satan.
Experience galloped to one end of the extensive line of horsemen, who without hesitation raised their swords to the front, in the direction of the demons. Then the young woman drew her own at the same time that the clouds caught her attention, as they moved as if approaching in descent towards the valley, and as if they wanted to let the light in, but she did not give much importance and galloping fast, she travelled the long line formed by her companions, hitting with her sword the one of each one of them and saying at the same time:
—My dear angels, my beloved celestial brothers. This day can only remain in history, in the memory of man, if we, as faithful servants of God, our Father, do our duty. And what is our duty? Revere and love man, as well as God our Father, as such. Let’s fulfil his will and let’s fight until we no longer breathe. Let the man choose between doing good or doing evil, let the man decide how much time he will breathe in this planet. By and for that, we must send our enemies to the hell, and achieve the will of God, our Father on Earth, as it was done in Heaven when he granted us the grace to live with him, us, his angels. And do not be afraid of what you see in front of you —one thousand five hundred demons very strongly armed against three hundred horsemen— because from the darkness, from the darkness the light will emerge... —And they all exploded in a shout of joy and support, as Experience positioned herself in front of her closest friends and colleagues: Youth, Light, Peace, Love, Compassion, Offer, Temperance, Kindness, Eyes of Heaven and Hope, who breaking the long line, led the rest of the horsemen, among whom was Abed, Rahab's father, as the only representative of the natural men of the human race.
Then, while the three hundred horsemen led by Experience and their closest friends, —those known at one time as disciples of God— rode with their swords pointing to the front down the hill, seeking to fight against the fifteen hundred demons led by Greed, Lust , Darkness, Repression, Egoism and Vice; far behind all those, near the volcano where Rahab was tied to a wooden horizontal in a hostage condition, Rage thought aloud for her fellow leaders, Envy, Revenge, Hate, Suffering and Pain, who were observing the kidnapped young.
—There is a strange movement of clouds...
—It is true. They seem to be approaching in descent —Revenge added.
—Concentrate on our triumph —Hate said. However Envy coincided with her companions.
—It is as if they wanted to let something or someone passes through…
And shortly before some archery horsemen shot their arrows and that the first of the lines with swords in hand impacted against their enemy demons, and that in turn the demons also shot arrows and spears and received the onslaught of the first horsemen, those clouds that descended so much, as closely accompanying the route made by the horsemen descending the hill, opened by letting a halo of light in. From the very clouds, astonishingly, hundreds and hundreds of winged angels appeared, throwing their arrows shortly after the first archery demons and those who possessed spears did; but immediately another group of winged angels intervened that appearing from other clouds, and as a shield, they protected the horsemen from the waves of arrows and spears fired by the demons, which hit precisely against the winged angels, making them disappear as a result of their death, but those weapons fell out of reach of the wanted horsemen.
—Look at the front. Put your eyes on the enemy. Concentrate on your opponents —Experienced shouted, seeing that many of her companions, who were not precisely her closest friends, were lost in fascination with the supernatural help that came by the grace of her father God.
Then, the first horsemen of the long line impacted the first demons with their swords, who tried to resist in vain, and thus they opened furrows between the demons, although later, some of those members of the cavalry fell of their horses impacted by the weapons of the enemies.
The winged angels continued appearing from the clouds, which overcame the demons that in some cases, for not wearing shields, tried to reach the tents to protect themselves in the underground galleries as trenches, but the speed of the arrows shot from the heights by their winged enemies, made that only a few managed to avoid them.
—Do not back down, fight. Point your arrows at the winged ones —Darkness shouted, being surprised by Light, who threw herself above her, flying from her horse. Both rolled abruptly on the floor but stopping before, Light threw two blows followed by a sword, which, with great skill, Darkness could avoid until reaching her sword and counterattack saying:
—You will regret having run over me like you did —And she threw so many blows at Light, that she stumbled so Darkness mocked saying:—. If I remember correctly my old father had you and must have you still, I imagine, a great esteem, how can you be one of his disciples being so vulnerable? —And she threw many other blows believing that she would eliminate her, but Light recovered by answering:
—You will have to do too much if your intention is to turn me off... —Not only with that phrase but with a series of crossed sword blows that defeat the resistance of Darkness, who then received a bowl in the stomach from Light, which ended her life.
It was then that there was a strong tremor in that valley where the volcano was located at the distance of so much battle, and close to the prisoner, Rahab, and the other six demon leaders that remained with her, what caused the volcano to begin to roar as a sign of soon eruption, as if Satan himself from the underworld had felt in his own flesh that loss of one of his disciples, in this case, Darkness.
