Mirror Separating Two Worlds

BANG!!!

That sound was a bell of horror that rang throughout the heavens,

Horror is not due to its threat but due to the possibility of higher minds running wild, giving birth to thoughts like,

'Is it finally happening?'

'Someone challenged the absolute king of heaven's authority?'

But, the commoners who knew so little of that had other thoughts,

A man walking on the crowding streets of the Avant city, the first sight encountered by Michael just a while after waking up,

The man heard a sound which reverberated throughout the heavens,

'What was that?'

'Has some artifact around failed?'

'That sounded like a building fell, I pray that no one gets hurt,'

But, the man had better hearing than his fellow Terrestrials, he slowly raised his head to look towards the sky,

As soon as he caught a glimpse of the sky his eyes started widening in surprise and later horror,

He while stuttering fell on the grounds, pointing his fingers towards the sky, he said

"What the hell is that?"

Even though the man said it in a low voice, everyone there can feel his emotions whether by his face or voice,

They followed his finger and looked towards the sky, the clouds had subsided due to shock waves revealing a large giant monster which thousands of red, burning with pain, eyes, striking terror in their hearts and leaving their voice speechless,

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'What the hell just happened?'

That was the only thing on the minds of the two supposed siblings who were thrown away by the shock waves,

Raphael, who was embedded in the wall after being thrown away, slowly with great difficulty slowly peeled his eyes open,

His body felt like it was drained of all energy, well, it indeed was drained,

Angels had another special innate ability,

Aether barrier can be used to block nearly everything harmful, as long as, it was material or aether in nature, it can only be used until an angel is drained of all energy,

His vision was blurry, he can hardly see anything,

His vision slowly recovered, in the process, his eyes wandered toward the throne,

A man- His brother was sitting on the throne,

Below his feet was a giant hole, and so was one on the ceiling, some kind of light was coming from both of the holes,

His eyes went towards the throne again, the face of the man on the throne was blurry and bloody,

He then looked towards the side and saw a girl in the situation as Raphael,

'Huh, I guess even monocle couldn't take the brunt of eldest's attacks,'

His vision was slowly recovered, the face of the man unmoving on the throne became clearer,

'Huh?!'

At least, no, most of the man's head around his right eye was missing, leaving blood splatters,

The wounds were healing at a visible rate, but, he was still technically down,

Raphael and Uriel, two can be categorized as the youngest among the archangels,

For them, their older brother, Helel, was their role model, their everything, an invincible figure,

Not Michael, not Gabriel, not Empra, only Helel,

He wanted to cry out to his brother but it felt like something was stuck inside his throat,

He couldn't make a sound just like the first time, he received his gift, he was out of energy,

His eyes, closed and opened, in the first blink, his brother was healed and in the second he was here,

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'Such a pain,' thought a disinterested voice,

'Would it hurt for him to go easy on me,'

'Most probably, he blew away my brain, I can't move, motor actions can't be performed, senses are quite fine, I can feel a burning sensation on my skin, tingling noises in my ears, my nose smells blood, my tongue can taste burned mouth and I am currently blind... nope, my senses are not okay,'

'Ah, is this why I am not insane, yet? I make quite good jokes,'

'Anyway, rest is over, I can finally see,'

The owner of the voice opened his eyes,

His head was turned towards the roof, and he saw a night sky, and a golden majestic revolving drill-like spear,

The head arched down, and his left eye lifted up and looked towards the kids,

"Whether you did that knowingly or unknowingly, you are going to pay an appropriate price, I don't appreciate violence against them,"

The man on the throne disappeared and reappeared in front of the boy, leaving behind a trail of black lightning, and a booming sound,

The lightning surrounded the two kids and they disappeared, so did the lightning as it got out of the flying palace,

Another man who was seemingly surrounded by light, radiating a divine presence appeared from the hole and reached out towards his spear,

The golden spear was pointed on the both of its ends, the front one was larger and had a drill-like shape while the back one was long and thin like a needle,

The handle was red and was filled with white groove patterns,

Both ends seemed to be rotating in the opposite directions at a pretty high speed, making air start rotating with them,

Michael reached out towards the handle and the ends started rotating at an even greater speed, but calmed out as soon his hand touched it,

Michael pulled out the spear from the small whirlpool of air that formed, looked around him, and said, "You seem to have some weird hobbies brother, having a flying palace, turning it into a peeping tom monster, and putting your best sleeping brother inside a coffin,"

"That was a prank, and what you did is pretty serious," was the only reply he got from the man who was as calm as if he was looking at a dead man,

Calm while looking at dead, Indeed abnormal,

Michael after hearing the reply, knew a fight can no longer be avoided,

This was a long frustration and jealousy, if not resolved now, it will surely take a dangerous form,

"Let's not have fight here, there is a heavily populated city just below us,"

The man in front of him gave no reply,

'Wait! Does he wants to fight here???'

He brandished his spear towards Helel, and was just about to attack him,

But, alas, he was just about to attack him, and all he was, was a flash of black flickering lightning and a man giving a push towards his chest while whispering into his ears,

"Let's go with your choice,"

A booming sound rang in his ears and he flew piercing the palace and the ground at the outskirts of the city,

The clouds parted to reveal two descending figures clad in black lightning with golden rays radiating, the speed was too much for the eyes of the people in the city to follow all they saw a streak of black light,

The projection pierced the ground and it kept going,

Michael's mind was blank, he could not think of anything,

'What is this guy planning? did he find just this time to find the depth of heavens?'

Michael's back was burning and Helel was using him as a cover meat shield against the pebbles and soil,

If Michael opened his mouth, it only got filled with grains of soil, same was the situation with Helel,

Soon, something weird started happening, the soil around them was still radiating light like it would in the heavens but, now instead of brown the color of the soil was cyan blue, and instead of soil it was now sand,

Soil still had some moisture in them, but to have his body rubbed against sand at a supersonic speed,

His brother was cruel,

'Is this his way make me surrender? through pain,'

The spear made of aether and divine light dispersed long ago,

Michael was barehanded now, otherwise, he would have definitely stabbed the shit out of his cute twin,

Now, even the blue sand disappeared, and a layer came to be that had blue sand falling on it,

The final layer, the final layer of pain, a glass mirror with an uneven surface giving an uneven reflection appeared and Michael was banged through it,

The mirror did not break but the same could not be said about Michael's body,

He could not move any longer,

Michael felt like dying, the mirror had too much uneven surface, it must have even left marks on his back,

Helel who long ago separated himself from Michael observed his surrounding, the blue granules were the purest form of crystallized aether called pure enerticules crystals, a superior version of the enerticules found in the Heavens,

They melted to form the uneven mirror showing the distorted selves of the twins, or to be more correct, to form the barrier separating the heavens from the earth,