“The place is everybody?” Eoch whispered, his divinii blade held out in entrance of him as if anticipating an assault.

“It’s like they only vanished,” an equally haunted-looking Munna replied.

“Let’s get to the palace.” Metatron led the best way to a spot as equally bereft, the troopers by the pearly gates lacking, the portals themselves ajar. Their boots echoed loudly, a warning to all they approached. Nobody challenged their proper to enter, and having been referred to as earlier than Elyon many occasions, his toes knew the trail.

They discovered Lucifer/Elyon in his throne room, splayed on his throne, arms unfold huge, his wings torn from him and thrown at random. They didn’t have to see the empty eye sockets, gouged clear, the center ripped from his physique, or the blood that soaked the previously fluffy throne to know he was useless.

“Do you suppose the angels revolted?” Elija requested, circling the physique.

“Appears awfully violent,” Aziel famous.

“Does it matter who did it?” Metatron didn’t state his concept, that Gaaya acquired her revenge, however at what value? He couldn’t assist however consider all of the angels now lacking. Had they fed the abused goddess?

“The extra vital factor is, how will we steer?” Munna, ever sensible, requested.

It turned out they couldn’t. In keeping with Shard, “Heaven is now not alive.” It made sense, although. In spite of everything, Heaven had at all times supplied, and in its loss of life, it might now take, since its physique, set in movement, couldn’t be diverted from its crash course with Earth.

“Guess we’ve got no selection.” It was with heavy hearts they set the explosives. This had been their residence, and whereas they’d come ready to do what it took to cease Heaven’s remaining voyage, part of them had hoped to avert tragedy and catastrophe.

A minimum of nobody remained aboard. Gathering some mementos of the as soon as wondrous place, they left, triggering the blasts as soon as they’d gone a protected distance. Alas, they’d gravely miscalculated. Whereas just a few items did separate—the creche the place they’d been raised being one constructing that spun off—the majority of Heaven remained.

They’d failed, and Earth had lower than three days earlier than impression. Three days of governments vainly firing off missiles as they immediately realized their folly. Missiles that failed. Regardless of being useless, some protections lingered. The explosions brought on glowing fireworks within the sky, because the defend round Heaven held.

By the point the choir made it again to Earth, there was solely a day left earlier than impression. Not a lot time to evacuate.

The second he beamed aboard Zilla, Francesca threw herself into his arms, kissing him then haranguing. “Don’t you ever run off to be a hero once more.”

“Hardly a hero. We failed.” His lips turned down.

“Don’t be so certain. You weren’t the one one working to cease the apocalypse.” She appeared smug.

“What did you do?” he requested.

“Used my mind. Prepared, Zilla?”

“Prepared.”

Zilla put herself in Heaven’s path and shot a beam of holy gentle. Stronger than something he’d ever seen. Potent sufficient they couldn’t look ahead to quite a lot of seconds. It took longer than that earlier than the extreme laser bored a gap deep sufficient into Heaven to destabilize its construction. In contrast to Hell, it didn’t explode however turned to mud. A mud that drifted on galactic winds. Motes that may even make it to a number of the flocks on the colony planets, solely they wouldn’t notice what it meant. They’d must convey a message that Heaven and Hell had been destroyed, particularly to the choirs stationed off Heaven when all the pieces occurred.

However that might wait a second whereas he hugged the girl he beloved. He buried his face in her hair. Breathed in. Breathed out.

They had been alive, collectively, and had a vivid future, and a universe to get pleasure from.

With every kind of potentialities now unfold earlier than him, Metatron began his new life making like to his mate.

Epilogue

It had been a number of years for the reason that destruction of Heaven and Hell. Years throughout which I’d chosen to journey with Metatron to close by galaxies, sending out beacons to let others know what occurred in our far-away, tucked pocket of area. We didn’t say something about Gaaya in these open messages, however we did maintain a lookout for her. Metatron had advised me what occurred on Heaven, and part of me nervous that she would possibly flip her sights on Earth subsequent. How did you cease an indignant goddess?

Years of nothing taking place led to that worry lessening, principally as a result of we had different issues to occupy us. It will appear Earth had drawn consideration, first with Lilith’s space-faring drones after which the entire Heaven/Hell fiasco. With different cultures—and a few alien pirates—exhibiting some curiosity in our no-longer-hidden galaxy, humanity needed to shortly mount an area protection system, to make sure these pondering we’d be straightforward marks knew to take Earth’s Republic significantly.

However having a standing galactic protection power didn’t cease a set of actually nasty pirates from being very public with their raping and pillaging of a small city in Newfoundland. It backfired on them as a result of it turned out Canadians weren’t at all times very good. They hunted these pirates down and hung them. It didn’t finish there. Humanity determined the films had it principally proper and aliens had been dangerous. As such, an alien ban got here into impact that forbade them from setting foot—or tentacle or claw—on Earth. That prohibition included not solely all refugees from Hell however the infants we’d rescued and the angels, too. In spite of everything that had occurred, individuals had been decided to expunge all the pieces they thought of alien from the planet.

A great factor we had a pal named Zilla, who, alongside along with her mentee, Shard, took the choir together with as many as could possibly be match on board—provided that they wished to go, in fact. There was a big quantity, because it turned out, who wished to take an opportunity on aliens and a life post-Earth. Aboard Zilla, we travelled not solely in security, however in consolation too as we explored unusual new worlds. We noticed so many wonders. Planets of water with precise merpeople. Worlds of sand and lizards. Others of bugs. But additionally locations with people that seemed similar to me.

Elyon’s seeds. Or had been they Gaaya’s? Didn’t matter in the long run as a result of we had been all free.

Free to stay. Free to snigger. Free to like.

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