Aeon of Wonder: Stories of gods, angels and men Volume I by Carey Henderson

Author:Carey Henderson [Henderson, Carey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-10-11T21:00:00+00:00

The Titan and the (Joshua figured he was some kind of angelic being, anyway) angel stopped discussing things and began trading blows. The Dragon was formidable, using all of itself against the angel; its fire and wind, its physical strength as well as pestilence and plague; the poison in its lungs which it could transmute into vicious fire at will. It hurled it all toward the angel in a burning rage. The earth shook beneath them, beneath Joshua and he watched hundreds of stones rolling down the pyramid, things dropped from the trees all around him. The Dragon put on one hell of a show.

And yet the angel never drew his sword. He fought back every attack from the Dragon as though he knew each one before the move was acted out. The Dragon only became more infuriated as the angel laughed, narrowly missing blow after blow from the twisted monster. The earth shook more and Joshua thought once that he actually saw a star from heaven fall to the earth during the battle.

Yet the angel kept the Dragon from destroying everything around it just as the Dragon protected the pyramids.

"Why do you fight," the Dragon howled, "WHAT IS IT BETWEEN ME AND THEE, whoever thou art?"

At this, the angel dealt a final blow that opened the earth from beneath the Dragon that stretched only a hundred yards or so from Joshua's feet.

The Dragon fell, not dead, just hurt. The angel flipped it onto its back, air from the act rushing all the way to Joshua's face. He smelled things on that air that were foul and things that were wonderful. His mind threatened to give. Joshua felt himself about to black out from all of the stimuli and so he said four words into the night, "Not yet, please, no..." He snapped his head up and watched as the angel placed his foot on the Dragon's neck.

The angel lifted his sword high into the night. The glint from it nearly blinded Joshua. The angel brought the sword down at full speed and the Dragon howled. But the angel did not slay the Dragon. He stopped the sword at the malformed neck of the monster.

"I am His messenger," the angel said, his voice resonating so loudly in the night that Joshua felt his chest vibrating. The rocks in front of him seemed to be making noise themselves. None of it made any sense to him. He figured he was either mad or this was happening and, either way, he was stuck for the duration of it.

"Your time is now, Azazel. But let it be marked that only a messenger defeated you. One will come after me who will put His foot on your neck and break it, and cast you away, where you belong."

"I will not allow that," the Dragon howled.

When the angel yelled silence, Joshua heard something that he had never heard in his entire life on earth: utter quiet. Not only was the Dragon stilled but the very air and earth and all their creatures did not breathe nor move.

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