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The Final Crusade II: Rebellion's Resurrection

Chapter IV: Falsus Antitheus (False devil)

By HououkageMusha

And there on the throne sat Lucifer.
Lucifer look like a giant anthropomorphic (which means he is a dragon with a humanoid body type.) dragon, with shining golden scales and platinum horns, teeth and claws. His eyes were like twin, faceted, blood red rubies that glowed with their own inner fire. He was clothed in armor made from Orihalcum, a metal that was worth more than gold and was impervious to magic. His armor was inlaid with many jewels, and was further glamorized by detailed images of dragons and skulls. The breast plate was dominated by a massive skull with a oriental dragon weaving in and out of the eye, nose and mouth holes, carved from blood red ruby that glowed like his eyes. The truly odd thing about the carving was not the fact that it was so large, it was the fact that once a person looked at it for a few seconds , they would see that the dragon was actually MOVING. At his side stood a energy scythe, also made from Orihalcum, a blood red blade coming from the mouth a of skull shaped emitter, attached to a handle that was shaped to look like a long thigh bone.

When Lucifer saw Jon and Melissa enter, a great smile crossed his giant maw. "Welcome to castle Judgment. You are welcome to stay here as long as you want. You are always welcome here." Lucifer's voice was soft and kind, not at all what you would expect from the "lord of evil" himself.

Jon and Melissa bowed low before the massive dragon, both of their wings folding against their back as a show of respect. "M'lord, we are honored to be in your presence. I am Jon, direct descendant of the Kesshi no Kami, and this is..."

"I know who she is. I participated in her creation personally. Thank you very much for getting her out of that dank, dark hell hole the Battle church of Christ calls an Asylum." The great dragon spoke, his mighty tail reaching down to Melissa's cheek and stroking it gently. Melissa purred at this gentle stroking, a strange sound not coming from a feline.

"Lucifer, I assume you know why I am here."

"Of course I do, my lad. You want to overthrow the Battle Church of Christ, but you can count the number of soldiers you have on the fingers on one of your feet. So you want to know if you can add my army under your banner. The short answer is yes, with a but. You must also have some troops of your own to use."

"But I..." Jon noticed that this conversation had just gone full circle, and he was back at the point that he had no people to find troops from.

"There are actually more people not under Christ's control than you think. You see, for a long time after the Final Crusade, the prophets of the Church of the Anubisian foretold that Christ and The Beast would rise again. Most people thought this ridiculous, as they had seen the head of Christ held high by the Kesshi no Kami.

But some people with in the Battle arms of the church had seen the signs that the prophets were right and had built the Battle Churches in a very special way. They had built empty shells and then inside the shells, they had set up massive subspace pockets and set up entrance portals that were in the same place as the doors to the empty shells. This not only allowed them to build bigger temples in a smaller space, if there was ever trouble, they could simply seal the portals and the self-contained temples would protect the people inside. When the Second Rapture came, the warrior monks got all their followers into the Battle temples and sealed them. In order to add your army, all you have to do is find a way to open the sealed portals, and you will have thousands of troops. I can give you a map of the locations of the shells of the temples." The great dragon handed Jon another PDA like device, this one made from the same blue crystal as the panel at the door.

"Thank you, M'lord. I will guard this with my life. If troops of Christ got there hands on it, there would be, pardon the phrase, hell to pay."

With that, Jon took Melissa in his arms and carried her out of the castle, then warped to the site of the first Battle Temple of the Anubisian."

T.B.C.