A shadow with flaming wings of crimson fire came from the sky and it started killing everyone. in a mass panic people ran and were cut down or turned to dust, Mountains turned to rubble, forests turned to ash and blown away in the tempest of its wings. Adam was a Shepherd tending his flock when it happened he could feel the heat of the flames that engulfed the settlement over the next hill. He rushed to crest the hill he was on while his sheep had all run off in terror, he should have run too but what he saw was pure evil, so terrible he was frozen in place. What he saw would be the origin  story of the devil,  a town that was once filled with life now a flaming canyon that stretches from horizon to horizon and so deep it was filled with blackness.  Hovering inside the canyon was a shadowed figure engulfed in a swirl of fire and ash. Adams heart felt like it was about to explode from fear as he fell to his knees. Almost not breathing Adam cried, for all the people he had ever known were in that town and now it was gone erased from existence. He looked on in a historical frenzy not knowing what to do until the man surrounded by flame took notice, in one step he traversed the distance between the new cannon and adam while the wind and flame harassed Adams scenes and skin. Then it was calm, the flaming wings folded down warping space as a man in a gold embroidered cloth With black hair and red eyes looked down at him " So"? He said with the most melodic voice Adam had ever heard, what was he to say? Adam looked up at the man who was unspeakably gorgeous and their eyes locked, the man smiled. " You know! you are almost the last of your kind. There are only a few more settlements I have to take care off and a few more stragglers like you" at that moment Adam knew he was looking at death itself and death was smiling at him just a few paces away. The man Adam proclaimed as death itself raised a hand pointing a single finger at him around that finger warped a black and red light the light pulsed with power and heat. "Good bye." death said at Adam. The light pulsed and shot out from the tip of his finger towards him at a blinding speed. Before the red light struck Adam it was deflected by another man with a cape so blue it gave the impression  that it was more blue  then the clearest sky or the deepest ocean. The red light struck the ground vaporizing a huge swath of area around it. Death looked at the newcomer his smile now turns to sadness, " why have you come brother?"  "You know why " the man in blue said. Death tilted his head " you would give your life for these monkeys you and I fought on the front line against the old ones so many of our brothers died and here you are, defending mortals. whose lives are so short hundreds of generations could live and die before you took a single breath. They will do nothing but pollute and destroy everything they touch, they will build and conquer kill and rape and you would risk your life to stop me your own blood? I'm doing good here they will grow to be destroyers of this healthy planet maybe even others. You dying here when you could do such good elsewhere. " All life is sacred Lucifer  and who says your going to win?" the man in blue gave a hit of a smile. Lucifer smiled back, "oh! is that so little brother our battle will kill the rest of the people and if you hold back you will die where as I don't care what happens ". Just then a green pillar of light shot skyward far off in the distance then a pink one and another and another "no the last of our kind are giving what little life force they have left to protect the people of this world.'' Lucifer frowned deeply " so Michael, sword vs spear like the good old days one last time winner takes all?" They both nod in agreement Adam needed to get away from this place scrambling to his feet drawing the attention of Lucifer,he is looking at Adam his smile returned. Lucifer the man who brought so much death moved through a fluid stance toward him drawing in smoke and ash from all around forming a long shaft and spinning it through the air, as it solidified with deeply engraved etchings of dragons everything on the spear flowed and it almost looked like it was alive. In the same instance Michael reached into a small hole in the air his hand disappearing for a second then drawing a sword made of light stepping in-between Lucifer and Adam deflecting the first blow, when the blades touched lightning sparked and thunder shook the lands. Adam was blinded by the light, the shockwave flung him tumbling backwards down the hill while lighting and thunder crashed in rapid succession again and again. The earth trembled and the sky lit up as he tumbled down head over heels trying to grab at anything to slow his clumsy descent. Sparks started falling from the sky setting the dry brush from the long summer on fire and the fire spread quickly. "Get up and run" a voice whispered into his ear giving him renewed strength. Scuffed and bruised all over Adam pulled himself to his feat, fire spreading all around he began the run for his life. 

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