"Come on Gabriel. You're much more capable than that."
Echoes of a past voice ran through the Grand Marshall; Memories of the past decade were flowing through his thoughts.
"I'll give you all that I possess."
"Tell me, foolish boy, what is a human?"
"Ignorant child, a human is no more than flesh & bones, easily broken into fragments. Nothing more than a pawn for Gods, as other races are."
The red cloak, which had been the only item of consistency upon his person since his beginning, was kin for the man who had become the Grand Marshall only a decade ago.
"Much has changed since I took that mantle."
Standing upon his perch, a scrap of metal, he observed the Mechanical Graveyard with those keen eyes of his. At the only glance that would normally be given to this place, it would be filled with nothing more than junk. However, to those who looked underneath the underneath, this place meant much more. It was a cemetery of failed ideas. Yet these parts could be salvaged, brought elsewhere to be built into another creation, another chance.
It was also a reminder of a decade ago, in his 1st mission as the Grand Marshall, in which his own ideas had been lost for a time within the depths of Makyu's Hell. Still, it was a lesson as he reclaimed them in a massive struggle within himself, one in which he had almost lost it all. Now, a decade later, another Earth was under assault by the Black Legion. The military force of Hell would not run unchecked, as it had the last time.
Heaven would now send it's forces to do battle with the Legion, to prevent the batallion from breaching Heaven's gates, as it had done in the past. In this war, however, it was different. For the first time, the Legion actually had a chance in penetration into the domain of Heaven. If successful, Makyu would only grow stronger. One thing was clear to Gabriel, the only survivor not under Makyu's service. Erasmiss would fail in complete domination of the Omniverse due to one simple fact, as he gazed upon the palm of his hand:
"There will always be those prepared to lay their lives for what they believe to be correct. That will never change."
(Kinda off topic a little bit. Just a little bit on his thoughts on Heaven vs. Hell. My next post'll be when Rikken arrives)
