“Don’t you see the problem here? You took one of their destinies among yourself and got a vision that was not meant for you, and now you want to change everything! We had the oath to keep!” Anki argued.

“What oath are you talking about!” Harut shouted. “They would slaughter us, one by one, end all humanity by their actions! Our oath was to protect both worlds, theirs, and ours.”

“You are right, but still we cannot jeopardize our world and risk everything for the humans,” Mariat said.

“We are not,” Gabriela said. Everyone looked at her, not believing she would agree with Harut. “He saw another vision. We must take the sacred heart to ourselves before it goes to the human. By doing that, we would prevent that horrible future from ever happening.”

“No, this is unbelievable. I will not agree to do such thing!” Anki said. Meika looked at her, then at Gabriela, who still looked indecisive.

“Show us what you saw. You are our leader, but this decision will not be taken unless we all agree,” Meika said.

All of them agreed with Meika. Harut raised his palms, and a golden light came out of it, resting in the middle ground between them. An image slowly appeared from within the light.

A human city that was no longer recognized, filled with burning dead bodies, shredded flesh, and blood running between demolished buildings that looked like a waterfall covering the cracked ground mixed with burning flesh.

“They looked the same,” Harut said. “All realities end in the same way.”

The image faded into another one, a back of a human woman slaughtering divines with one powerful thrust, screams filling their ears as they saw other divines killed and vanishing. The woman went inside the cloudy palace after killing the last divine standing in her way. She raised the sword she was holding and struck it in the middle of the sacred acacia tree, splitting it into half, and everything in their world vanished from existence.

A gasp escaped Anki’s mouth. She looked at Harut and said, “The humans are weaker than us… how could they?!”

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“The sacred heart will control them, must stop before this doomed future happens,” Harut said. “We must have the sacred heart for ourselves.”

Anki and Mariat eyed each other, Mariat looked more confused than anyone, he shifted his eyes to Harut and said, “I understand why you think it shouldn’t be delivered to them, they are indeed terrible creatures… weak and not worthy but taking their destiny is not an easy and quick decision we can make.”

“Mariat is right, we must see more evidence proving that future vision,” Meika said.

“We cannot forget our oath,” Anki said.

“I didn’t forget our oath… I want all of this because of our oath… the sacred heart will not be a great destiny for them… it would be their end and ours… it is our duty to serve all, to protect them even if it means breaking the oath itself,” Harut said, looking into their eyes in a way they never saw before.

He was different.

“Nothing will happen till there is more proof. I will let nothing destroy the balance of our world and theirs,” Anki said.

“I have been around humans for too long. I know how weak they became. Mariat would agree with me,” Harut said.

Mariat looked uncomfortable. “I must admit… Harut is right, they are insane, out of order, and filled with evil. At the beginning of our destiny, humans were unique. They could take control over their destinies, but by the time they grew weaker, and their destinies became much stronger,” he said.

“That is not enough. You want to invade their world, change the course of their nature and ours because you believe they are weak and unworthy,” Meika said. He looked at Gabriela, who looked muddled. “You want to invade?!”

Gabriela sighed and said, “I do not want any of this to happen in the first place! But this is beyond us and beyond our oath… they will kill us, vanish our world from existence along with theirs, nothing will be left to protect.”

“The thought of invading and taking their destiny is beyond any sense! Harut took upon himself a destiny meant for a human! He got a vision that wasn’t meant for him! We may be stronger, but we are creatures of order. We don’t have a say on this matter,” Anki argued.

Harut vaguely stood and walked between them and said, “You want proof for what? Don’t you trust me? I delivered infinite numbers of destinies to them, they are getting weaker, not able to grasp how strong their destinies are, they took their powerful force to kill each other, they don’t have mercy… they don’t have any sense of responsibility or order.”

“I understand your concern about changing our world, but I saw it, too. Humans are ruthless. They will use every force they have to destroy everything, including us,” Mariat said.

Meika and Anki looked at each other. Both wanted to argue more, but something in their soul believed them. If humans would destroy both their worlds, if they had such a powerful destiny, what is left for them to protect? “You must see with your own eyes to believe,” Harut said, raising his palms and the golden light came out of it, it covered them all, transforming them into the human world.