The Rebellion of The Angels, page 26
The winged angels continued shooting arrows from the clouds and in turn they received arrows thrown from the surface by the demons that also defended themselves with spears.
Some horsemen had fallen in combat and others, as Light did, were already fighting with sword in hand on land without their horses, such as the cases of Experience, Youth, Peace, Hope, Eyes of Heaven and Abed. Precisely, Repression was looking for the last one, who with three horizontal strokes of the sword could open a wound in his shoulder, and the human, who with that arm held his weapon, was at the mercy of the demon, who at the time of giving the final blow to eliminate him, was attacked by Youth, while Experience ran through Abed, to heal his arm with the gift of her hands for which Peace came to her defence with the imperative need to get rid of the demon soldiers who sought to attack her friend.
Youth and Repression fought side by side with equality until the cunning young woman with her unoccupied arm, took an arrow from her quiver and like a sword or knife maybe, she stuck it in her opponent´s ribs, eliminating her, and provoking a new tremor on Earth, as if every time one of his disciples died, Satan felt it in his own flesh, as real blows that weakened him.
Peace, who was entertained getting rid of the soldiers near Experience who then healed the wounded man, Abed on his shoulder, did not notice that Greed was approaching her friend with her sword held high and when she did, it was too late, because Greed´s sword was already looking for the Experience´s body, but surprisingly, a shield thrown by Light came by her side as a boomerang and struck Greed´s sword, who, surprised by the action of her enemy, fell under the weight of Peace's sword , who reacted immediately, and a new movement of seismic nature happened for the third time...
Experience was able to heal Abed's shoulder, thanks to the gift she had in her hands, and after tying a rag to cover the area and thus prevented the wound from becoming infected, she continued to fight normally —Because this time the wound had not been as serious as the wizard Suleiman´s one, who Experience had to return from death, and for this reason she did not feel affected neither physically nor spiritually— while he, still aching as it was to be expected, got on, with great difficulty, a horse that lost its rider in so much battle, riding then in the direction of his daughter Rahab, who was still tied to the wooden horizontal, and who was still watched by the other six demon leaders, that even knowing about the loss of some of their colleagues for they saw them in the distance, they decided not to enter into combat.
Meanwhile, Eyes of Heaven threw himself against Vice, who wanted to attack Hope... And getting up first that his enemy, Eyes of Heaven pierced Vice´s stomach with his sword, eliminating him and thus causing a fourth tremor on Earth while the volcano was insinuating to erupt at any time.
Shortly after, the Earth became mobilized more violently, because Hope, with a bowl, eliminated Lust, who was riding a horse that stole from one of her victims.
Of those six demon leaders who had to command the deteriorated army, because of so many winged angels that appeared among the clouds by God's grace, there was only one left, Greed, who without hesitation sought to take revenge for the death of Lust in the fight against Hope; but the last one, who lost her sword by the brutal blows thrown by her opponent, took an axe from the ground and in one blow, she broke Greed´s back in two, and with a second blow she also sliced her head in two parts, like an apple, causing a sixth tremor in the Earth, according to the same number of fallen leaders.
Experience, Youth, Light, Peace, Eyes of Heaven and Hope continued to fight close to each other, leading those who, like them, fought on foot; while Love, Compassion, Temperance, Offer and Kindness did it still from their respective horses, leading the few members of the cavalry, although if it was about numbers, considering how many soldiers began the war in each group, the demons were undoubtedly who experienced the greatest loss.
Experience had just a few seconds to raise her head and discover that Abed was no longer near them... because he was lost in the distance approaching the volcano near Rahab, avoiding the fighting around him.
—¡No! —Experience shouted, and her closest friends turned around—. Abed goes to Rahab's meeting, they will kill him —Then Light took off two opponents from above and she mounted with great skill another of the many horses that galloped alone near her and she went after him, although she would not do it alone... Since when she passed in front of Youth, she jumped and with as much skill as Light before, she mounted behind her screaming to be heard:
—¡If I did not love you I would have let you go alone! —And Light smiled answering:
—¡Clear the way! —Then Youth took her bow, and from her quiver she began to shot arrows, eliminating whatever demon tried to obstruct their way.
—Go for them, they will need help —Experienced shouted, unable to get rid of several demons that forced her to stay there, instead of going for her friends.
Then Hope and Eyes of Heaven, free of struggle, took a horse each and went after Light y Youth, followed later by Love and Compassion, who also left on horses; while Peace went with Experience to give battle, as Offer, Temperance and Kindness did from their respective horses.
Abed, avoiding so much battle around, came to where the demon leaders were, in front of Rahab, tied to a wooden horizontal, as preventing her friends and in this case her father, from reaching her, who in turn was near that volcano, that, with every second, threatened more seriously with the possibility of erupting. In fact, it never stopped roaring from its inside. Perhaps, from that rocky room so underground, where the burning mirror by which Satan appeared was, the fountain by which the devil messenger of Satan did, warning of his soon appearance, and the bed surrounded by black candles, as a decoration of the ritual that would have meant the development of the sexual relationship that Hate would have with Rahab though in the form of rape.
Then Abed drew his sword and continued approaching those six demon leaders while desperate, Rahab tried to remove the turban from her mouth, so she could shout to her father to leave or the demons will kill him.
But like every father in this situation, in defence of his daughter, Abed decided to face Hate, who moved away from his companions, also drawing his sword.
—Set my daughter free or...
—Or what? —Hate interrupted—. Will you kill me?
Abed threw a blow that Hate avoided smiling and saying:
—How will you kill me, like this? —When suddenly an arrow of Youth´s bow fell on his chest from a distance. Abed was surprised, but even wounded, Hate seemed to assimilate that arrow and he continued fighting, this time throwing sword blows to Abed, with the intervention of his five companions, who now shot arrows at Light and Youth, who still mounted on the horse, zigzagged trying to avoid the projectiles without stopping to approach them all.
Weakened by the arrow that hung from his chest, Hate lost strength in his blows and the Earth gradually began to tremble, as if announcing the next death of another of the leading demons; but it was Rage who came out in defence of Hate, and she struck Abed with a sword until he said enough, or until she made sure that he died, seen by his daughter, who, tied to the wooden horizontal, let herself fall bursting into tears.
—¡No! —Light exclaimed weakly, almost reaching her enemies, that did not stop throwing arrows at her. However, one of the many arrows thrown by Revenge did not want to reach them, but it tried to reach Eyes of Heaven, impacting his chest and making him fall from his horse... which caused Hope to help her beloved, instead of helping Youth and Light, but Eyes of Heaven did not stop rolling on the floor, until finally the body of a horse fallen in combat stopped him.
A few meters away from her enemies, Youth shot a new arrow on the body of Hate, who stumbled, until, with a third arrow that also hit his body, he fell lifeless and a new tremor happened, with the difference that, this time, from the top of the volcano, the lava could be seen falling on the valley, and if that happened, not even the winged angels could rescue their brothers with the skin of surviving men and women.
In a juggling manoeuvre typical of a circus, Youth stood on the horse helping herself with Light´s shoulders, who did not hesitate to ask Youth, while they continued approaching their enemies riding swiftly, “What are you doing?”, because of the discomfort of the action but without getting an answer. Then, when they wanted to agree, they had their enemies on top, some of whom were throwing arrows at Love and Compassion, who, also mounted on their horses, were approaching the place; and Youth threw herself above Rage, who, concentrated on the first two, did not see Light´s horse and even less saw Youth, who threw her to the ground making her spit soil...
There, a focus of sword fighting started, while Light rode without using her hands, since she was using them to carry her bow and arrows and without hesitation to shoot looking for Revenge´s hand, where Light stuck her arrow, causing Revenge not to throw arrows against Love, and on the contrary throw her armament to the floor shaking of pain.
Love and Compassion managed to get down their horses in aid of Youth, who now not only fought against Rage but also against Envy, but Pain and Suffering appeared in their way opening another battle focus, while Rahab was still tied to the wooden horizontal, lost in tears for the death of her father in the hands of Rage.
Revenge tied a rag to her wounded hand, and without hesitation, she drew her sword and went after Rahab to get rid of her, but at the time of doing so, Light, still mounted on her horse, reached her and with a sword bowl, she threw her to the floor, so, once she got down the horse, she continued fighting against Revenge, who managed to hurt Light in the arm, but perhaps highlighting the figure of that one, who with three blows eliminated a new demon leader, causing a new and bigger tremor in the Earth, and that the volcano, this time, entered in total eruption, dripping lava as water would pour from a container. Then Light ran immediately to Rahab and untied her with hurry, shortly before the lava that was already moving over the Earth reached them. They managed to ride Light's horse just in time, but Rahab kept crying and shouting her father's name. Once they were both mounted on the same horse, they went at full gallop back to the hill, and as they passed through where Youth was still fighting against Rage and Envy, and Love and Compassion against Hate and Suffering respectively, Light shouted:
—Leave, leave... —Then both stopped fighting, but Satan, who provoked that volcanic manifestation of catastrophic nature, after accepting the imminent defeat reflected in the loss of eight of his demon leaders, would never allow the rest of his demons to escape without his consent, even those four leaders, who still wanted to fight in Satan´s name, fulfilling his orders. Therefore, before the lava reached his followers, he caught all the demons, whether leaders or not, by means of a phenomenon never seen before: He absorbed them as if sucking them from the depths of the Earth, taking away their soul and thus causing their instantaneous death, taking them with him to the depths of the Hells.
And not only there was such a phenomenon, but it moved to the kingdom of Chacra, located on the southern continent, where its men, united in alliance with those of the kingdoms of Agade, Kish, Anu and Enlil were still fighting, already on their third day of war, against the armies of demons that arrived there seeking to eliminate man and steal the Holy Grail. That sacred cup that the neutral angels of the Heavenly Kingdom once descended, after the celestial contest began, between the angels followers of God and those who were against the creation of man, coinciding with Lucifer, later called Satan, or the Devil himself. Far away, thousands and thousands of miles away, in the kingdom of Chacra, where no one understood what was happening, why the demons fell lifeless as if a plague ended with them, all the men of those allied kingdoms of the South celebrated even astonished by such a phenomenon.
In the Valleys of Fire, Youth, Love and Compassion did not understand how their opponents Rage, Envy, Pain and Suffering fell dead since they were not hit by fatal blows. But they did not stay for much longer to understand what was happening, and also riding a horse each one, they went behind the footsteps of Light and Rahab.
Meanwhile, hurried and having already got her beloved and wounded Eyes of Heaven on her horse, thanks to the cooperation of the animal, who lay down for such action, Hope also mounted on the horse, behind Eyes of Heaven, and without losing a second more, she left in the direction of the hill, as all the angels with the skin of men and women survivors of the war did, among them also Experience, Peace, Temperance, Offer and Kindness.
Then it was there, at the top of the hill, where the surviving angels with the skin of men and women met again, and where Experience was able to give first aids to Eyes of Heaven, seriously wounded in his chest because of an arrow, and Light, wounded in her arm more lightly, by the attack of a sword —Although she did it by the gift of her hands and not thanks to the use of surgical elements as a doctor— But when she realised that the lava, that came out of that volcano thanks to the forces of Satan, perhaps much stronger after stealing the souls of so many of his followers by calling them to hell, would reach the top of the hill and perhaps it would pass to the shore where the pier was many miles away, Experience said:
—We'd better leave this place. The lava will reach us and cover us from one moment to another. Light, you will heal quickly; your cut was not serious. However, I would cure Eyes of Heaven again in the caravel. For now he is out of danger —Taking her head since she was affected both physically and spiritually for doing such a miracle with her hands.
Once all the survivors were riding their horses, —although there were surviving animals that would travel alone since they lost their horsemen in the war— the group continued to gallop towards the pier, where after the second day after the horsemen that went to the war disembarked, the captain and the wizard Suleiman were waiting in the ship, sitting close to the prow.
With the passing of the minutes the cold and cloudy early morning of the third day of arrival at the port was gone, and supposedly with the rebirth of dawn, the horsemen who had gone to the war would arrive if they were successful —according to what Experience said to the captain of the caravel—.
.Several more minutes passed, a few hours perhaps and everything continued the same. Only the captain of the caravel and Suleiman breathed in that port representing men.
They both looked at each other as if wondering what to do.
—Let's raise the anchors —The captain of the caravel said. The bridges through which the horses and their horsemen descended at the time were already up.
They both bent down to take the moorings that would lift the anchors, and when they straightened up pulling back...
—Look —Suleiman said, and the captain looked at the East, discovering that among the trees that made up the bare and twisting forest, several lonely horses zigzagged.
—¡It cannot be... They all died! —The captain exclaimed without consolation, looking down.
—No, not all of them. There they come some of them —Suleiman answered, overflowing with joy when he saw that behind those lonely horses that lost their horsemen, the survivors of the war appeared even if they were no more than fifty.
—Come on, we have to throw the bridges so they can go up and open the cellars to keep the horses. Come on, let's not waste time —The captain said, and they both ran to the side of the ship and slid the bridges by contacting them against the pier platform and then they opened the cellars.
Shortly after, the group of horsemen arrived at the caravel, being received by their captain and by Suleiman, who quickly discovered Rahab occupying the same horse as Light, but they did not see her father Abed, who fell in battle like many others.
—Are you all the survivors? —The wizard Suleiman asked sadly.
—My father is dead —Rahab summed up with no consolation, getting down the horse that was carried into the cellars by Light.
Once all the horses were in their places, Experience said:
—Captain, we can go now —She headed towards the rooms area to heal again the wounded Eyes of Heaven, who was accompanied by her beloved Hope, and his inseparable and faithful friends, Temperance and Offer...
—Lift bridges and anchors, let's go now —The captain shouted, obeyed by some angels with the skin of men who no longer had the strength to lift a feather, but the desire to leave that place was stronger. So soon after, that ship left the port of the island of Valleys of Fire, which faithful to its name, was now covered with the lava that the volcano erupted in the middle of war, started by Satan himself.
After some months, almost reaching the summer, the caravel, crewed mostly by angels with the skin of men and women, came to the pier from where it originally started, after picking up the wooden canoes that the captain himself lent them when Experience, Youth and company needed it, to reach the town of Chacra; canoes that that group hid in the forest until some day they collected them, as it happened finally.
It was a day of radiant sun and fresh breeze and bright air, as any crewman of that caravel did not breathe or enjoyed for months.
The horsemen were ready to continue the journey. They had to reach the kingdom of Chacra and that would take several weeks.
Then, once all the horsemen were together near the road that led to the South, Experience said:
—Captain, on behalf of this whole group, I thank you very much for your help. Without it, we would never have achieved our mission.
—The grateful one is me. If it were not for you, and fundamentally for the two of you —He said, referring to Experience and Youth—. I would never have fulfilled my dream. You gave life to this old heart. You taught me that it is never too late to dream. Thank you, really thank you. I thank you from the bottom of my heart —Youth smiled saying:
