Ch#02 Angel and the Devil

“ Black hole?  Sun?” confused and afraid he glanced at the black hole, a feeling of extreme suffocation overwhelmed his senses. It had an eerie sinister black aura coming out of it which was causing the gray space around it to blacken. Contrary to it the sun was shining brightly and instead of feeling uncomfortable, his soul felt pleasant and warm. It gave off a pure and holy aura making it drastically different from the black hole

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From deep within the black hole emerged the outline of a dark silhouette.

“hrm” feeling an piercing sense of coldness assault his very being Brian turned his head to stare at an entity which seemed to have walked out of a fantasy.

A woman with a soul capturing beauty coupled with a heart trembling devilish charm, a pair of curved goat horns were decorated the top of her head like a crown.

She had a slender frame with ample breasts and a plump bottom. She was wearing a revealing red dress which lightly exposed her twin peaks and her snow white thighs, her blood red lips matched her red dress. Both her hair and eyes were black which had a depth similar to the devouring hole she came out of. Her hands were grabbing a black whip and she had a tail coming out of her bottom. She looked at Brain a seductive grin etched on her face.

“What?!” Brian had his alexithymia to thank for or he might have lost his mind to her charms. This women is dangerous he thought  

“Hmm,” Seeing her charms having no effect a frown appeared on her petite face. But the frown turned to a sneer when she felt the change occuring in the sun “Gabriel,” she muttered

Following her gaze Brian looked at the sun to discover a blonde man holding a golden spear garbed in a white robe. His frame was tall and sturdy with a pair of pure white wings protruding from his back. He was enveloped by a halo of golden light which excluded the same holiness as the sun he was standing in, he looked at jack with a stern and serious expression his aura was calm, steady and peaceful.

Brian felt extremely confused and curious as he looked at them, it was the first time he had seen such fantastical entities with such bizarre appearance and bearing

Am I truly dreaming? Or have I lost my mind. to be trapped in a barren gray space is one thing but, a winged angel? ...this is just absurd 

“What are you? What kind of species are the both of you? What is this place? Am I really dead? Are the both of you also dead?” asked brain, his blurry soul flickered due to his intense curiosity.

Disregarding Brian the women continued to stare at the winged man, “Hey you, winged monkey,” she said, “are you going to explain it to him or me”

The angel’s expression changed to that of disgust as he looked at the women “devil! How dare a disgusting thing like you tarnish the name of a God’s angel?” he said, pointing his spear towards Brian he continued, “You can go ahead and do it, I’ll explain myself later. I am a patient man after all”

As if predicted his response, she puffed out her chest making her pair of breasts seem to burst out of her blouse “I guess I’ll go first,”

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“My name is Veronica DeLafron I am a 2nd tier succubus from the 1st hell ruled by his majesty the devil king Lucifer”

Lucifer? Hell? But before Brian could comprehend what he was told the winged man continued

“Poor soul, my name is Gabriel, the messenger and one of the nine holy arch angles of his majesty the sovereign and the God of Seventh heaven Akaros”

Feeling his mind spun he blurted, “What is this nonsense”

“God and devil ?!”

“Heaven and hell ?!”

“Ha-ha… is this a joke? Is this some virtual stimulation?” Brian started to laugh, how could he a proud scientist throw his lifetime of beliefs and ideologies for such absurd nonsense. Is this how having your beliefs crushed apart feels like.

Brian was astonished at this emotional outbreak, but soon his rampaging temper settled down allowing him to analyze the situation rationally.   

Gabriel’s look became grave he stared dangerously at Brian while veronica burst into laughter

“Ungrateful soul” he shouted pounding the spear on the ground, the force of the blow was so immense that the whole space started to tremble; Brian felt his soul shudder just from its sound.

“How come your faith be so weak !?”

“How dare you make little of his majes-”

But before he could continue, veronica interrupted “You don’t have to hear all his bullshit, this winged monkey has some loose screws,” she continued smiling at Brian, “I can concur that  all this may seem to be a shock to you. But can an intelligent person like you deny what is laid bare before your very sight?”

“But-” he wanted to retort but recalling how unreal his previous experiences were and how mythical they felt he forced himself to swallow the bitter pill.

True, let’s figure my situation out first

“Alright, so what happened to me? Why am I here” asked Brian

Gabriel once again looked at brain with his pure and holy smile, his previous anger and fury dissipating into thin air, “poor soul, your reason for being here is the mutation of your elements”

“My elements? ”

“Yes elements” he pointed his spear towards Brian releasing his domineering aura, “Due to some reason, the affinity of your elements are neither aligned to darkness nor light”

“hmm?” still confused by the explanation Brian looked towards the person who he thought was more reasonable

“hahahahaha” laughed veronica, “oh Brian you don’t have to look at me like that, what that winged monkey meant was, souls have an affinity at death, based primarily on their spiritual and emotional tendencies of either good or evil”

‘Alexithymia,’ the disease he had since birth popped in his head “but why? ”

“Pitiful soul, tell me, what is good and what is evil,” asked Gabriel

“A perspective of the society to perceive things to maintain law and order,” he replied

“As you already know the whole of the universe is governed by certain laws, even on earth people have perceived some of these laws like that of force.

“But there is a law which none of the humans have perceived and that is a law that deals with the soul.

“according to the law, having done good or evil effects your soul’s affinity with the elements, a newborn human has a high affinity with water and earth but with time according to the deeds it has done or his emotional tendencies and beliefs its soul will either be contaminated with darkness or blessed with the holy light. When the contamination reaches a certain point, the soul is then extracted by the laws and sent to either heaven or hell based on its current affinity”

Brian was once more stunned speechless, and here I thought that nothing else would surprise me anymore he sighed,” so my soul is what… something in between”

Nodding her head she confirmed his speculation, “yes you somehow managed to keep a balance between the affinities, which is why you are stuck here between heaven and hell”

Scanning this new space he convinced his bewildered soul to the new reality. God and devil, soul affinity is this the afterlife told in the bible, it truly is astonishing. All things considered what an interesting afterlife. A wide smirk appeared on his foggy face

“What now?” he asked confronting the two otherworldly existences