"Help" The woman who lost half of her body begged me.

"Take me now," The other one said.

"I don't want to fade; I don't want to fade", The girl cried while looking at her hands.
"Do something, act now...please" The man wearing a military uniform said with sadness in his eyes while looking at me.

As I walk in a line of death and life, I feel the mournings rising from the dead. Some are asking for my help, and their voices echo in my ears, and most are trying to grab me, ride on my back and ask me to take them to the other side. They feel that they are getting weaker every day, so they want to cross as soon as possible. Those who died thousands of years ago already faded and turned into a ball of energy. They will remain here on earth until the judgment comes for them to be reincarnated. That is what I discovered last night—the downloaded message for me from the Father or another memory that is coming back. I spread my wings and fly. I went to the barrier, and I heard the voices below. Thousands of voices are crying, mourning, and begging for me to fly them across the borderline. I touched the barrier, and it didn't ground me at all. I saw my reflection in a clear sky and accepted the real me. I am not human. I am an angel, and the angel doesn't need to interact with humans. I will not make the same mistake that I did a billion years ago. I heard a screeching sound again, and a memory flashed in my head. I recall last night in my dream that a transformation happened to me. I am less human now. Maybe because of the effect of the sixth task. Each stage that I passed removed something in me. First my hunger, then second, the physical pain. Since my reconciliation journey started, I have never gotten sick, and now, I feel like my weight has become light even without losing weight. I feel like soon I will float like I am just an air. I went down and looked at Maria.

"Are you ready?" I asked. She can't look at me, but I can see a worry in her eyes.

"We need to find him now," I said, but she remained silent. I know she won't want to live again without me, but she has to. The last task is her. I knew it because I saw it in her.

"You will never live with me again," I told her, and she shook her head.

"Come on", And turn my back on her. She ran to me and hugged me. I know her tears fell from her eyes when she told me she loved me. Well, that is the last time she will say that to me because she will forget everything about me after the task. The pain of regret, the pain of losing me, will be gone in just a snap.

"Please," She begged.

"Let me hug you for the last time," She cried.
"If ever I will see you on the other side. Please remember that I love you," She whispered. I smile and spread my wings, and fly with her.

I know the pain, but it will end soon. We need to find her lover and make him pay for everything. I am ready for everything because I have nothing to lose since they involve Tania in this game. We went back to Aurora to find him there. My instinct tells me he is home and I will see him today. The house looks the same. His wealth is flaunted by the things that he owns. I wonder what his job is? I looked around and saw Husk and Tusk were drinking milk on their plate. Their big fangs are showing every time they lick the milk.

"Husky, Tusky", Maria tried to call them, and they stopped licking their milk and looked around. As if they heard Maria's voice, and then they didn't see anything. They growl and start licking their milk again. Maria walks near them and gives them a head massage.

"I miss the two of you," She said. The two growl and look at each other before finishing their milk. They can sense us, especially Maria.

"Maria", I called her. "Stay close to me," I said, and she immediately stood up and came close to me.

We go to the backyard, hoping to find him there because I know he is home, but I don't know where part of the house he is staying in. His house is too big, and there are too many rooms. If we need to check it one by one, we will do it. We saw a mini white fountain shaped like a naked woman in the middle of a white circle with three koi fish swimming around. Maria looked at me. She suddenly looked scared and worried. She continues walking even without me. As if she is looking for something because she keeps on looking around too. She ran to the bushes and kneeled. She starts digging with her hands, but she can't touch the soil anymore.

"No…no," She whispered while trying to dig. She looked at me, and she cried and dug again.

"I remember now. He buried me here," She said with a rush in her voice. She tried to dig even though she couldn't touch the soil anymore.

"What's wrong?" She asked while looking at her hands with worried. She looked at me again and said, "He buried me here."

"I know", I answered because I could see her rotten body from where I stood.

"Help me", She begged, and I raised my hand. The wind blew hard that blew the leaves and the soil covering her dead body, and little by little, her body raised. She was surprised at the same time, devasted to see her body again. She tried to touch her body, but she couldn't feel it either. She looked at me and said, "I remember now."

"He shot me behind and then buried me here", She added, and she shook her head and cried again.

"He is so evil", she whispered and then she remembered something again.

"He is a drug lord," She said with a terrified in her voice. It seems that her lover is a very dangerous man because the fears in her eyes say it all.

"I discovered his illegal business. I discovered about his plan that he just used me against you, and I told him that I wanted to go back to you. He shot me. He killed me," She cried while recalling everything that happened that night. I am just watching her silently. I know what she feels, and I am sympathizing, but it has already happened, and we cannot go back to those times to fix everything. She is sad and crying, but I don't know what the feeling of crying is anymore. I don't feel like a human anymore. I watched her crying while sitting on the ground with her dead body in front of her.

"I am sorry… I am sorry," She whispered to me and her body.

"Come on, we need to find him," I said, but she kept on mourning.

"Maria", I called. I saw the white smoke appear in the sky again. That is why I hurriedly grabbed her, and we hid somewhere safe.

"Stay close to me. If you want to have your body again," I reminded her, and she nodded.

We continue walking to find him. I need to see him first before he finds us. I watched his white smoke go up in the sky and then disappear behind the clouds. I looked at Maria to make sure that she was beside me. She holds my hand tight. I know she is scared again; that is why I let her hold me. Now that she remembers what happened to her. Her fears of her lover come back. We continued walking and looked around to find my dear brother. I saw his guards and maids keep on smelling and open their mouths. I saw their fangs and their eyes glow. They are not humans but angels too who follow him. Who is he? Why does he have a protector of angels? Those lesser angels who follow him know and feel our presence. I know they know that we are here. They are just letting us, maybe they are waiting for something big to happen because they can attack us now, but they didn't, or maybe they are just waiting for the order. Impossible. They are waiting for his order instead of God. Now it makes me interested in facing him and knowing everything about him. I saw a lamp too, and a cloud of smoke came out from it. The lamp looked familiar to me, and I tried to recall where I saw the lamp, but I couldn't remember any. I tried to touch it, but I couldn't touch it. I stared at the lamp, and I watched the smoke coming out from it. It is forming words, and that is the deadly sin distributed to the world for humans to inhale. That is where the controlling of emotions came from. I saw an angel with long black hair that touched the floor, looking at me eye to eye. She didn't say anything, but she followed me with her stare as we kept on walking to find him. Until we saw a huge, plain door, I knew he was there, that is why I opened it slowly. The doorknob is more extensive than my palms. I need to use my hands to open it. I heard a creaking sound as I slowly opened the door. Maria and I went inside. She holds me tight on my arm, too, and she is hiding behind me. The room is too big and quiet, and I don't see anything but a big chair in front of us. I walked closer to the empty chair when I heard a voice behind me saying,

"Welcome home, brother."

I slowly turned around, and I saw a man who was just like me, wearing a white coat and tie looking at me. His eyes are all white, and he also has a tattoo like mine on his left arm. He slowly walked closer to me and looked at Maria behind me.

"And you are with my girlfriend," He said. His voice is so calm, but I know there's a danger behind that calm voice. From toe to head, he looked at Maria and asked, "Are you not happy to see me?" Maria didn't answer. She can't even look at him because of her fear of him. He wet his lips and whispered, "Come to me" His white smoke automatically went to Maria, but I used my black smoke to protect her, making him smile. I feel the tension inside the room, but I am not scared of him. He looked at his white smoke and commanded them to come back, and they immediately returned to him.

"You think I didn't know that you escaped," He asked while staring at Maria. Maria didn't answer; she hid behind me while holding my hand tightly. She is so scared.

"I just used you as bait", added. "I know", Maria whispered without looking at him. He looked at me and said, "And now you are here."

"You have decided to reconcile and finish the task?" He asked me. His sharp eyes tell me that he is ready in any battle. His serenity will rinse at any time. He is not scared because he is confident that he will win again, but I am ready to erase his confidence. He will never be going to win on me. I will make him pay for ruining my life.

"Who are you?" I asked him, but he just laughed.

"Is that a question?" He insulted me, and he took a deep breath while still looking at me.

"My dear brother. Don't you forget how we plan to escape heaven to plan a revolution?" He asked. "We are the second batch of angels who fought—" Then he looked up, and he looked back at me.

"When he didn't allow us to interact with humans. Like the first batch. We plan to fight him and bring him down, but unfortunately, during the battle, you changed your mind and left me behind," He said.

"Such a traitor", He whispered with his sharp eyes fixed on me.

"but the good thing is that I still won the battle. Until he punished us and sent us here on earth…oh…not us… but you and the others who are weak" And he snapped his finger, and a metal table with wine and grapes appeared in front of him. He opens the bottle and pours it into his glass, and takes a sip on it.

"You want some?" He asked, but I didn't answer. I didn't come here for a toss and drink. He put down the glass and took a piece of a grape, and ate it.

"You left me. That is why I decided to follow you here on earth. I know you will become human. That is why I choose to be human first before you. So if I am not mistaken, I am older than you," He continued.

"Why do we never grow together if you are my brother? Why I didn't know you?" I asked.

"Because Pen, our beloved poetic mother. Choose to take me away from you. She already knows that I am dangerous to you," He answered. "And oh, by the way, Pen is a fallen angel too. Punished her for being human and bearing a child, I mean children, and that is us," He added.

"Where is she now?"

"You mean, Pen?" He asked back, and then he changed himself to Pen, and then back to himself again. He laughed when he saw me staring quietly at him. "I killed her," He added, which made me close my fist. I feel a little angry at what he said even though I don't know my mother personally. My mother chose her and abandoned me, and yet. He will kill her. He has no heart. He looked at me for seconds because he saw me react to what he said about our mother, but he didn't say anything. He just pretended that he didn't see me closing my fist. He ate a grape again and drank his wine.

"Pen didn't know that everything was planned. Her soft heart as a mother killed her," He said, and then he laughed like he was happy that he killed his mother.

"Did she own the lamp?" I asked

"Not anymore", He answered

"So, what is your name?"

"Samael", He answered, and his eyes turned all white, and I heard the angels scream outside. As if he is connected to them.

Maria looked at me and asked, "What is going on?" I didn't answer because I didn't know what was going on. It seems that he is controlling all the others outside.

"Hush," He said, and they immediately tame.

"Don't you see? I can control human emotions. I have an army of angels. I am higher and more powerful than him now, and now you still choose to reconcile with him rather than to your brother?"

"We are twins. You are dead, and I am life."

"How can you become life?"

"I am the rebirth of everything. The rebirth of the new angels and the new humanity" I laughed at what he said because he will never be the rebirth. All he wants is chaos because he is hungry for power and the throne. That makes him ambitious.

"He made me test people if they will do bad or listen to Lucifer to do good. That is what I do. I am inflicting sins on people to test them. To turn their back to him and be with me. In the kingdom that I made and tomorrow. That kingdom will be mine," He said, and he pointed up again with a smile on his face because he believed that he would be going to win the battle.

"That is why you choose to ruin my life?" And he just looks at me and laughs, "Ruin?" He asked me to make sure if he heard it right. "You are the one who ruins your life. Humans used to ruin their lives, and they will blame it on others" He snapped again, and there was a chair that appeared, and he sat on it.

"Brother…brother…my twin brother… I didn't ruin any life. They chose to be ruined because they were weak. I only control and manipulate the weak, but the problem is—" And then he took a cigarette and a lighter inside his pocket and lit it. He starts smoking while still looking at me with his sharp eyes.

"The problem is…all humans are weak", He continued, and he laughed. He laughed as hard as he could, and then he spoke again. I am speechless while I keep my eye on him. He looks so relaxed that I am not a threat to him. He offers me a cigarette, but I refuse. I am not smoking, and I don't
feel comfortable with him even though he is my brother.

"By tomorrow, I will be the new God. All angels and saints will bow at me, and I am giving you time to think. Which side are you" He said, putting his cigarette in the ashtray and finishing his wine.

"The time is ticking," He said, and he inhaled and exhaled and said, "Choose now", but I had already chosen which side, and it is not his side.

"You will abandon your brother, huh?" He asked again as if he was really giving me a last chance and still hoping to choose his side, but my decision is already made, and it cannot be changed. He snaps, and his white smoke suddenly appears behind him. He pointed to Maria, and his smoke immediately followed his command, and they went to Maria, but they failed because I snapped at them and dissolved them instantly. He smiled without any threat and said,

"It is clear now which side you are on" I smile back at him. Good thing he already knows.

"You will never get here," I told him while looking into his eyes.

"Awww. Sweet," He said. "I will never get her, but they will," He added.

"Wrath will get you."

He opens his palm, creates a ball of energy, and sends it outside. At first, nothing happens. After a moment, we heard heavy feet running, and the two white cubs grew into monsters suddenly appearing. They were running to get us, and they were twice as big as me, and they immediately ran to us. While he is relaxed, watching us taking his wine. We ran as fast as we could away from the monsters he created. We run outside the room, but it keeps on following us. They were fast because they had bigger steps than us. I spread my wings and grab Maria and fly before it reaches us. Their nails are too sharp enough to tear our flesh.

"That was close," Maria said.

Until there's someone who kicks me behind that makes me drop Maria. Good thing that my smokes are fast. They caught Maria and covered her as they did before. I looked behind, and I saw the angel who kicked me. She is the angel who looks at me eye to eye when we are looking for her master. She smiles at me, and she will kick me again, but I grab his leg when I am about to throw her. She is gone, and then she will appear again in front of me. She is good at teleporting like my brother. She is fast, and I don't think I can catch her because I still don't have plans in mind, aside from avoiding her kicks and punches. "Concentrate", The voice from somewhere suddenly reminded me. I need to concentrate because this is the start of the battle. That is why I concentrated, and I learned how to teleport like her. I teleported and punched her hard on her face when I saw her off guard. She fell to the ground, and the other angels looked at me. The grinches their teeth, and they don't look like angels anymore. They look like demons now. The demons who are thirsty for power. They open their wings, and I know they will come to Maria and me, that is why. I fly going back to the room where Samael is. I need to face him, not his army. I saw him waiting for me. He smiled and said,

"Let's the battle begin."