Revolving Lantern
“Hmm, Nothing much. Just wondering what you will do with that Jar now that you no longer have a use for the soul contained.” Lucifer persuasively says.
“What use is Lilith’s soul to you? Wanting to obtain yet another mistress?” I openly tease him while lightly throwing the Jar up and letting it fall back on my opened hand.
“Tis true that the soul doesn’t mean anything to me, but that body behi-“ before he could finish that sentence, I shot a ball of light at his face. His own personal shield which briefly shone like a dark dome, absorbs and diminishes the ball. “Let me finish first, sheesh. As I was saying, that body behind you wouldn’t be able to survive a confrontation between the 2 of us dueling. Therefore, it is in your best interest to hand the jar over.”
“And if I don’t? I can just break the jar, leaving nothing left.”
“if you do decide that, then the duel would just turn into a battle to the death. YOU personally don’t want that now, do you?” He sneers.
“I’ll repeat myself once more. What does this Jar mean to you?” I stress the words out clearly, clenching down on the jar. Pretending to initiate crushing it with one hand.
“Fine. Fine. You win this round.” Lucifer backs away a few steps. At that I make sure to cast a shield on the body behind me, just in case he tries anything. “Always the cautious one. You were the brightest student I trained, but now you do the bidding of those Gods who grew fat on their own status.”
As Lucifer states that last retort at my face, he throws down the sword which belonged to Belial, proclaiming no tricks.
“Well, you did train me in ALL your methods of deceit after all.” I answered. Placing the Jar down on the floor and backing away near the table.
“That was a long time ago, now I’m stuck governing those dam fools who kill over the slightest thing. One does wonder how civilized humanity is when they consider how monstrously stupid they can be every now and then.” He extends his right hand and retrieves the jar through telekinesis.
“By the way, just as that person means something to you, this soul means something to me. I only became aware of it when Lilith disappeared from my side 500,000 years ago and I couldn’t locate her. I only sensed her once more today when you swapped souls. I thought I wouldn’t feel her presence ever again. I guess we do share a common enemy for now, but make no mistake on that. We will fight each other when the day comes, so once it does. Fight me with all your strength.” On those final words, he vanishes slowly, along with the sword.
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Yes, we will fight for real in the near future.
I turn around to the sleeping figure, sleeping as if nothing in the world could do any harm. Which causes me, after all these years to shed a tear in happiness. I carefully pick her up and with a wave of my right hand, send everything into the storage space. This building’s location might be compromised now since that fight. The safest course of action to make sure that she doesn’t leave my sight, and become those scum’s puppet once again. I must retreat for now until her soul attunes to the long forgotten body.
I cast the spell to open a one-way portal to another location of mine, extremely far away. Only with a heavy heart do I regret not being able to finish what I came here to accomplish. Deciding to cancel the protective barrier that prevented it from being seen on the surface should scare them enough to signify that some Gods don’t forget, shall be enough for now.
Enjoy the extended Holiday.
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Several days later on the world’s surface, an archaeological mystery surfaces up in the Sahara Desert. The seemingly brand new Egyptian ruin declares as if it was made yesterday. Hundreds of archaeological experts’ way in on the heated struggle to conclude on whether or not this is a hoax. The entire world witnesses the ruin’s strange structure which is massively larger than known ruins excavated. What peeks the curiosity of a majority of the researchers is the inner room. From what some concluded, tells the tale of a recent battle. Crescent moon shaped cuts gouge out a straight cylindrical shaped mystery. Causing an even more heated debate on how such a thing was possible.
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In a meeting room somewhere in the Italian City of Rome, several people gather to determine what the significance of this temple’s revealing means.