“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

So God created mankind in his own image,

in the image of God he created them;

male and female he created them.

But they were still filled with sin.

He needed to cleanse this sin.”

It was only a mundane morning on the world of earth, a world full of sin and lies where everyone was normal. Everyone was full of sin, full of lies and hatred and most of all, uncleansed. A mundane Sunday where pastors were reading from the bible, many praying as they pray to be forgiven for even existing. They will see their savior soon enough. As the streets of Tokyo were busy with people of many kind, children, teenagers, parents and adults like young or old were not cleansed of sin, not yet at least. Suddenly, a ring of light struck down throughout what people claimed to be the heavens as people were confused, they didn’t see their god just yet at least. Archangel Michael flew above the people in the sky, his appearance confused people, scared many at best. He was only rings with an eyeball for a body, with many more eyeballs covering his body along with wings on the eyes back. Some people screamed and looked up at him, demons they were. “Do not be afraid” he said, his words were comforting for the ears of the believers, the true children of God as others were still afraid of him. ‘The people who fear me must be demons in disguise’ Archangel Micheal thought as God told him they were secretly demons, trying to taint his children. No, they were trying to taint Gods Children. As the Archangel sees over the city of Tokyo, people took pictures of him and even start to record as he doesn’t mind, the world has to see his selection. Remembering Gods words as God said ‘Pick whoever you know will spread the word of my name throughout the land as your Champion my child.’ taking Gods words by heart he scans the area and thinks, he thinks of who he can choose for his Champion. Someone who will both spread the name of the holy lord as well as be Gods sword, finally he picks as he wasn’t going to go to them just yet, not until he spreads the word of “The Cleanse”.

As Michael picks his Champion, ten people go on screen on skyscrapers as they all seem to be news reporters, with one of them saying “This is Shiroi Sakura coming from Channel 7News live here today as we have seen what looks to be a giant floating eyeball with rings around it as well as eyes on the rings, as well as what seems to be with six wings. Quick studies have shown here that angels typically have two wings but angels of higher power have more than one. Is this really an angel? Well it certainly doesn’t look like a regular one to me, maybe Kiyoshi can answer this question” The news reporter says as the male reporter starts to speak “Well Ms. Shiroi, it seems that in The Bible the angels are much different than many kinds of art, looks like we’ve been lied too” The reporter jokingly says as he goes back to a more informative voice “But it seems like the highest of all angels, Seraphim’s have this form so maybe this is the highest form of angel from this ‘God’?” the reporter jokes again as he looks at the angel and says “Who exactly are you? Are you truly an angel or are you actually an alien from another planet who took the form of some of gods highest angels?” The man looks at Micheal curiously as suddenly, as if they can all hear each other everyone on the screen looks at him, wondering who exactly he is as they finally hear the archangel speak his first words after thousands of years from being away from the human world. “I am Archangel Michael, a messenger from God but you may know me as ‘Gods Sword’” everyone looked amazed, even Mr. Kiyoshi, who first questioned him and seemed to make fun of him was a bit speechless after hearing those first words. “W…why are you here exactly? What do you want from us?” Mr. Kiyoshi questioned as he was astonished at that there was a real angel here. Suddenly, the eyeball opened with an angelic man coming out from the eyeball, as he had short blonde hair, bright baby blue eye, and lips that had a pink hue due to it. He looked like a real angel, an angel that The Bible described which looked to be in perfect detail. He dressed like a warrior, no an officer from the Byzantine Empire as he looked almost…disappointed with everyone. He utters his second words, no first real words to the humans since it had been so long. “Do not be afraid, I am Archangel Michael, I am Gods Sword and Shield, a protector to Gods followers. I am here to tell you all, even these sinners who walk this earth that you shall all be cleansed soon. Free of all sin and be able to be allowed to enter the Holy Kingdom of God. As your Lord and Savior intended.” He says as people start to get calm, as well as others discussing with their family members, peers, or even random strangers who are close by to them. They will soon see God, and God will welcome them in open arms, as they are all his children. The Cleanse was nigh.

As Archangel Michael spoke, people were confused as most didn’t think God would cleanse all sinners himself, some were terrified as they thought they were going to die, and some who were believers of God were joyful as they could finally be with their Lord and Savior. “God has made me, eleven other Archangels, and his six Seraphim’s to pick the person to become our ‘champion’ a becon of light who will uphold Gods order and spread the name of our Holy Lord.” as Michael uttered those worlds, many people started to try and convince him to be their champion, some prayed, some yelled out for Michael while others even resorted to violence to get the archangels attention so they could be picked, it was simply chaos. Michael however was stumped, he wanted to pick the holiest out of Japan but didn’t know who, as those who were did not believe in God but most believed in Buddha. ‘They aren’t worthy of being my champion anyway’ Michael said, trying to calm himself as he sighed and picked someone, the one who he thought was the holiest out of them all. “You” the archangel said as he pointed to a middle aged man who was trying to get to work “You are chosen to be my champion, what is thy name?” Michael asked as people were envious of the man, chosen by an archangel himself instead of them. The man sheepishly says “Juurou Ayumu…” the archangel felt bad for the man, he was scared out of his mind but he was a true believer of god, even if nobody knew. A sword then appears in the archangels hand as he flies to the man, his wings shining with light as people look in pure awe. He reaches the man as he touches the ground and holds up his sword to him saying “I have chosen you as God has chosen me Juurou Ayumu, I am your sword and shield, your protector from evil as well as sinners.” He then bows down to him and holds his sword for him to pick up. “I am archangel Michael. You are Gods child, will you take that role and help me cleanse this land filled with sin?” He asks as he keeps his head down. The man looks nervous but picks up the sword as he feels almost confident but relieved as he says in a monotone voice “I will carry out Gods plan and cleanse the sinners of the world.”

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*“Father, are you sure about this?” Jesus looks concerned as he looks at his father who was dead set on this ‘cleanse’ “I am perfectly sure of this my son.” God says, a shining orb of light that Jesus was used too as he’s seen him for his entire life since he died and was reborn. “What about Satan and Lucifer? Do you think they’ll be angry once…” Jesus stops himself as he’s unsure on what to say next. “Once ‘The Cleanse’ arrives?” Jesus whispered ‘The Cleanse’ as he was still unsure about this new saying. “My son, I am sure they will understand and besides, I’m planning something big for our believers, we will make my perfect kingdom.” But before he could say what it was, a few angels bursted in the room as they looked injured, one of the angels wings was on fire as one said ”My Lord! Lucifer and the princes of hell have broken into heaven! They’re killing everyone and have even killed many of our guards! What’s happening?!” the angel says in pure panic as Jesus and God hear a voice, the voice of Lucifer “God, if you don’t come out of your castle I will kill every single angel in heaven with my bear hands!” Jesus looked terrified as Lucifer sounded angrier than ever had before, Jesus comes out as he carries God as the white orb doesn’t move, he seemingly knows what he’s doing as they finally come out of the Holy Castle and into heaven as the clouds seem weak. Lucifer is at the entrance, his long light blonde hair rises along with his light blue eyes fuming with anger as he looks anything from happy as he tries to calm down but can’t and says “God! What do you think you’re doing?! First you banished me, Second you killed my wife Lilith, and now you’re trying to cleanse the earth of sin?! I thought we had an agreement!” He says as God simply says “And I have sadly broken it as I have a better plan for humanity Lucifer, and that involves getting rid of all sin.” Lucifer almost stabbed god with his blade when Jesus stopped him saying “Do not start this Lucifer. Not in Gods Holy Kingdom, you’ve done enough damage as it is.” He says coldly, he obviously didn’t like Lucifer at all as he says “Settle this peacefully or I will intervene.” Lucifer looks enraged but manages to calm down as he says coldly “Look what you’ve done now, are you happy with yourself, God?” he says with a snarky voice as God simply says “Yes, very happy.” but this made Lucifer all the more angry as Jesus had to intervene again and say “Father, why exactly are you ridding the world of sin in the first place?” Jesus asked, curious as to why his father would do such a thing “You see my son, the world needs to be cleansed of sin in order for our Holy Kingdom to form, a perfect kingdom in which everyone will follow my order.” God says calmly as Lucifer raises his blade again and says “I will not let this happen God, it happened once and I stopped you before, I won’t hesitate to stop you again.” he says as the pure white orb which was God looks at him and says “Come at me then, Lucifer.”*

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*As both gods fought, even though they were both powerful people, it was clear Lucifer was no match for the likes of God as he easily defeated him with Lucifer being speechless. ‘It must be his influence making him more powerful’ Lucifer thought as he tried to stand up but was commanded by God to kneel as Jesus held God in his hands, the orb looks at Lucifer as he coldly says “The plan will not fail. There is nothing you can do about it but watch as I rid all humans from sin and bring my children into the New Holy Kingdom where all sinners even you demons will be reborn as worshippers and my children. Maybe even…you can be my most beloved angel again Lucifer.” God said as Lucifer was fuming but couldn’t say anything due to Gods word as he was then taken to an observatory of the world, where he is destined to watch humanity be cleansed and there was nothing he could do about it. “Now watch Lucifer as I cleanse Earth of all sin as my subjects have finished the selection process of picking their champions.” God said as a beam of light comes out of the pure white orb, slowly engulfing other the planets until earth was left, as earth was so tiny compared to how big the light was. “No…I won’t let this happen”* Lucifer said as he charges up something, it wasn’t to attack God but it was to protect Earth as darkness engulfed Earth with light engulfing it as well, Jesus looked shocked as Lucifer felt God wasn’t even surprised with this action. “It is useless to reason with you Lucifer. Until we meet again.” God says as Lucifer passes out, he felt happy to know that at least he put a stop to this…

“And that is all for today reporting live from Channel 7News, I am Shiroi Sakura and have a good-“

“Is the news always this boring?” Hazuno said with a yawn as he turned off the TV with his remote, he had just finished homework from his class and thought it would be a good idea to watch the news ‘This was obviously a bad idea’ Hazuno thought as he grimaced and looked at his phone and gone on Twitter to see the latest controversies as that’s what kept him entertained for so long. There was a new tag on twitter that had blown up with millions of posts with the tag being #Doomsday as well as other tags being #TheEndOfTheWorld which confused Hanzuno the more he thought about it. When he tapped on #Doomsday as one person said ‘Is this the end of the world??’ with the person having hundreds of comments, he couldn’t understand what people were saying as it seemed to be surreal.

He seemed both confused and panicked as he didn’t know what to do, he immediately turned the TV back on to see if the news was covering this and as like his wish was granted the news turned to some sort of eyeball creature looking down at the city as one of the news reporters said “W…why are you here exactly? What do you want from us?” as suddenly the eyeball opened and from the inside came a man with beauty that could not been described, wearing Byzantine officer armor with long light blonde hair and baby blue eyes matched with white feathered wings. This ethereal beauty of a man looks at the news reporter as this handsome but mysterious man says “Do not be afraid, I am Archangel Michael, I am Gods Sword and Shield, a protector to Gods followers. I am here to tell you all, even these sinners who walk this earth that you shall all be cleansed soon. Free of all sin and be able to be allowed to enter the Holy Kingdom of God. As your Lord and Savior intended.” As Hazuno questions what exactly this so called ‘Archangel Michael’ meant, Hazuno wasn’t religious or anything even though he was studying religious studies (his parents wanted that) but he did read (forced) The Bible on a daily basis. ‘If this person was Archangel Michael, then why did he come to Earth?’ Hazuno questioned himself as he sighed, but was genuinely worried. He did believe in God (anymore) but he was scared, scared for himself along with others who aren’t religious or believe in a different religion when they were going to be ‘cleansed’ as Archangel Michael puts it. No, he didn’t want to believe it..he couldn’t believe it.

As he was deep in thought, he suddenly heard the screams of people outside as blood splattered on his window, in a panic he didn’t want to do anything as he continued to watch the news, as he heard Archangel Michael’s words, the angel said “God has made me, eleven other Archangels, and his six Seraphim’s to pick the person to become our ‘champion’ a becon of light who will uphold Gods order and spread the name of our Holy Lord.” What did this even mean?! The news then showed people begging, praying, and even fighting others for a chance to be Michael’s ‘champion’ as after a few minutes of pure bloodshed and prayer, the angel finally picked. The news showed the angel flying to a middle aged businessman got on the ground as he asked for the businessmans name, when given his answer he said “I have chosen you as God has chosen me Juurou Ayumu, I am your sword and shield, your protector from evil as well as sinners.” with the angel bowing down and offering him his sword, once Juurou touched the sword he didn’t seem…human anymore as he flowed a bright light and said in a voice that wasn’t even human anymore “I will carry out Gods plan and cleanse the sinners of the world.” then suddenly, the news station cuts out as Hanson looks shocked. He tried to ponder on it but he could think about what just happened though the young man heard knocking on the door as he heard his landlords voice saying “Open up Ryo!” Hanzou then goes to open the door and sees a frustrated middle aged man at the door, he looked poor in condition as his shirt was stained and his beer belly was showing but Hanzou couldn’t comment on it, not unless he wanted an eviction notice the next day. Hanzou sighed internally as he tried to be as nice to the man as possible, saying “Is there something you need Mr. Kenzo?” Hanzou said as he just wanted him to leave already. “Ryo! Did you see what happened on the news?! How could I have missed that opportunity!?” Mr. Kenzo complained as Hanzou didn’t want to hear him complain today, so Hanzou did what he always does and tried to calm the situation down as he said “Wow, that was uh, a bummer…yeah…” he said as if he just played along with whatever Mr. Kenzo was saying then he would eventually leave, and he did just as Hanzou expected as Hanzou sees him going around the apartment, trying to find someone else to ***** and complain too. Hanzou sighed as he slammed the door shut and sighed, he just wished his life was better.

As Hanzou went inside the living room, suddenly he saw a beam of light through one of his windows followed by darkness, he covered his eyes in pain as the two clashed and eventually it stopped but it left Hanzou confused as he opened his eyes as he felt…weird “What the hell…?” Hanzou says confused as he holds his head, suddenly he got flashed with thousands of memories of what looked to be religious imagery, one image was a garden with a woman, the next was a woman who looked to be a demon turning into a fragment of light and finally, him seeing what he could only describe as hell. In the middle of these weird memories if he could even call them that it was a man who he would’ve mistaken as a woman if not for the covering of his crotch with a silk like white robe as he would’ve mistaken him as an angel if not for him slowly growing horns before it evaporating as the figure opened his eyes and says “You’re perfect.” with the figure being engulfed in darkness before he was back in his apartment, wondering what that was all about…that’s when he held his head as it was in pain, he needed painkillers again. So Hanzou went to the bathroom and when he looked in the mirror, he screamed.

He saw he saw a strange but beautiful marking on his face, it was red as he now looked different, his body was covered in these beautiful vine like markings starting with roses, anemones along with fruits like figs and apricots and even thorns that seemed to bleed that slowly turned dark. ‘What is going on?!’ Hanzou thought as he panicked and slipped, suddenly seeing a figure looking above him as he had long golden blonde hair and blue eyes, but the most terrifying thing of all was that he was *****. “Who the hell are you?!” Hanzou screamed as he saw the figure as the figure had no reaction as the ethereal man said “I am nor your servant or your master. You have just inherited my powers until they can be at its full potential once more.” This figure speaks as it was perfect, it would’ve been beautiful if not for the fact he broke into his house and is ***** from head to toe. The figure then got on top of him as he held onto Hanzou’s cheeks as the figure got closer until they almost kissed, but Hanzou doubt those were his intentions as he felt absolutely no emotion from the figure. The figure looked at Hanzou with as the ethereal figure simply said *“You human, you may call me Lucifer”*

*“You may call me, Lucifer”* The strange ethereal man said, Hazuno could feel the man’s breath, it wasn’t hot but it was cold to the point of it feeling like his breath was frozen. If the man who was on top of him didn’t appear he would’ve thought he was in a different room or that the heat suddenly cut off from the apartment like it usually does. His breath smelled like a familiar perfume, maybe his mother put it on? No matter. The man who claimed to be the devil himself pulled away from him but he still held Hazuno’s cheeks as he simply smiled but his smile it wasn’t genuine at all, the smile felt emotionless and cold, not like a humans smile. Even if a human’s smile was false it wouldn’t amount to the feeling of uncomfortableness and anxiety, it was like the man was tempting him, tempting him to do something…immoral

As the man finally spoke he did so with elegance but still filled with curiosity and intent as it seemed like he had no intent on letting Hazuno talk if the man didn’t talk first. He muttered his second sentence to him as it felt as if he was of a higher being then Hazuno, which he most likely was as it seemed like he was an otherworldly being outside of the realm of understanding. “You’re the perfect vessel for my powers, tell me human, what is thy name?” he said with no emotion to his voice, it felt inhuman which he most likely was as his golden light blonde locks covered his chest along with touch most of the floor as Hazuno most likely thought his hair could touch his feet as Hazuno stammered, he didn’t know what to do or say other than to answer him. He simply said to this being “R…Ryo Hazuno” the young man mutters out as he feels terrified of whoever this is, he just wanted to know who or what he was. After a moment of staring at the man Hazuno finally got the courage to speak as he says “What…what is going on? W-What do you mean ‘vessel’?” the man simply grinned, it wasn’t a big grin but a grin he wouldn’t even notice if this man wasn’t staring right at him. The man simply said from his red hued lips, *“You are a vessel for my power Ryo, you will help me regain my power that was once stolen from me by God. I am not here to help you, simply to guide you on my journey to regain my power, is that understood?”* Hazuno felt confused, was he actually talked to the devil himself?! Hazuno felt terrified as he wanted to say something but couldn’t, he was too afraid to do so as he felt as if one wrong move and he would die in an instant. Hazuno felt his mysterious man play with his black curls, they were short but the man didn’t seem to mind as he seemed…intrigued by him.

He simply smiled as the he watched what Hazuno could only describe as get off of him and watch him get up like he was some sort of prey. He simply looked bored when Hazuno was on the ground but his attention span grew as he stood up with Hazuno holding back all of the nervousness and fear as he says “Ok ok, first of all why am I covered in vine tattoos, second of all why is this red making on my face and third of all who the hell are you and why have you broken into my house?!” Hazuno questioned with worry as the man stopped crouching and got up from his spot on the floor as his hair flows through his body and a bit of his hair is picked up from the floor but some of his hair is still touching the dirty floor as Hazuno could finally see the man clearly. The man had long luscious blonde locks that made its way to the floor and even touched it while some of his hair covered his chest and nipples, along with covering his crotch as he was ***** from head to toe. The man had light blue eyes that reminded him of the blue used to paint skies in artworks he’d seen at the museum while he had luscious blonde eyelashes that shouldn’t be this blonde for a normal human along with cheeks that he would’ve mistaken for blush if it didn’t seem so natural for him to have such cheeks as a color, it had a pink hue almost as he had red hued lips in the middle that faded to a regular color as the ethereal beauty which didn’t even seem human or was too hard trying to look human and forgot humans didn’t look this beautiful finally opened his mouth and said “That human, is my power. As my power grows stronger you will soon understand my reasoning for choosing you, you are perfect for this role as my vessel, is that understood?” Hazuno felt shocked but didn’t speak until he could answer the man as he says “I…uh…accept I guess, just tell me why have you broken into my house?!” Hazuno yells as the man simply says “I needed to meet you if you were to inherit my powers do I not?” he sounded cocky and mischievous but he still kept that maturity and elegance in his voice, just like how he looked. Both someone who was elegant and felt like they didn’t belong here as he was too beautiful for the eyes along with being mature, althoguh youthful he didn’t have the appearance of a child nor teenager but Hazuno would’ve mistaken him for a man in his 20’s if it wasn’t for the fact he said he was Lucifer himself.

‘Lucifer’ simply smiles and says “Ah…well, I’ll explain everything you want.” he says as he looked like he knew what he was talking about as he puts his hand to his chin as he says *“You see, what you and humanity almost experienced was ‘The Cleanse’, ‘The Cleanse’ was supposed to be an event in which all humans would be free of sin and was a plan carried out by God, those who believed in him would enter The New Holy Kingdom while those who did not were not to suffer eternal damnation but instead be reborn from these believers as the new believers of God. All the whole eradicating Earth along with anyone who opposed of his order, leaving humans with no control on what they could do in life as well as eradicate me and ‘cleanse’ me, which would essentially mean everything about me would be reset and I would be his favorite angel again, before I was banished.” he says this with concern as it seems like he was concerned about what was about to happen, until he said “The Cleanse was going to happen, until I stopped it with my abilities, ultimately both protecting and destroying humanity as the world will never be the same again, but I know God and he is always determined to do something and do what he sees fit for the world. So, my powers were reset as it connected with the light that was God’s power and ultimately I’m left with almost no power, that’s where you come in.” he says with a grin as he points at Hazuno and says “You are the key to getting my powers back. God would not expect a mortal which believes in him or well…he thinks believes in him. I know you and I know your past Ryo, you do not believe in God, do you?” Lucifer said as he looked at Hazuno with a grin, Lucifer felt like he had won the lottery with him as Lucifer was true, Ryo didn’t exactly believe in God anymore after he moved out of his parents house and into Tokyo. Hazuno felt hesitant as he finally said “You’re…right about that. But, why should I help the devil?!” he said as Hazuno would’ve been mad to accept a deal from Lucifer himself, suddenly the world turned dark for Hazuno as he felt like he couldn’t breathe as Lucifer was behind him and grabbed his shoulder and whispered into his ear saying “I could always kill you now but, you want to live, I can feel it in your soul.” he says as Hazuno looks terrified and nods until his neck almost snapped until Lucifer held his head and says ”Very well human, I will spare you.” he calmly says as he looks into Hazuno’s eyes and Hazuno wakes up on the floor of the bathroom as Lucifer is on top of him again and says “Come now Ryo, *we have a lot of work to do.”