Inferno rage was boiling like a magma, he was cursing the humans ready to exterminate them, everything around him was burning and turning to ash, if there were any people close to him they would have been killed slowly and painfully and would have been turned crisp already.

Not everyone could understand what he was saying, but everyone looking at him knew, he was enraged.

It was obvious thanks to the hateful glare with which he was looking at the prison, something even clearer was that “Inferno” whose name only few knew belonged to the being in their sight could burn them all to the ground.

For the first time in their life the prisoners were thankful for the unbreakable walls surrounding them, they usually looked at them with disgust as they were keepers of their freedom but now they were the thing preventing them from being melted alive, of course the people in charge knew that those walls would break like a candle fire in the wind but there was no need to spread even more panic than there already was.

White Orbs made of a pure white flame started to appear around Inferno, when the orbs started to fill the sky, the night no more looked like one, instead of one sun there were hundreds, no thousands of suns in the sky, but it didn’t look like day no more either, the white orbs turned into white spears pointing towards the prison as their first target, everyone who saw the sky brighter than a headlight in their eyes, and the numerous giant spears from white flames that were about to rain on them had only one thought.

{Judgment Day}

What was worse was that everyone was found guilty.

The fear in them bloomed like a flower in the summer, Hades and Tom werent an exception, the moment they saw the spears the fear which they didn’t know they still had appeared from within them, Hades was the only one who didn’t let it show on his face.

Tom made a completely blank expression

“We are dead, aren’t we”

Hades however didn’t answer and remained unmoved trying to prevent the panic inside of him from overflowing and showing outside as well, he was of the same opinion as Tom but…

Hades”I don’t know”

He didn’t want to drive his fateful assistant even further into despair, if he was right about the power of the white spears, at least their end would be peaceful, there were many worst outcomes in this world, and he knew that for sure, the bigger part of the prisoners in here would probably cheer at that outcome.

Inferno was still screaming in anger with a blood thirsty look on his flame face, just the intense burning of his flames gave away his thirst for violence.

All the white flame spears shot towards the prison, the spectators gave up every hope and everyone reacted their own way, the funniest ones of which were the one that prayed since it was exactly god who wanted to kill them right now.

As the spears were about to land and destroy everything… they suddenly disappeared.

Inferno who made confuse expression at the disappearance of his attack heard a sudden voice.

???[Stop].

inferno was momentarily stunned but he was too angry to think straight, so he summoned three humongous white dragons made of flames unimaginably stronger than the spears before and shot them towards the direction it came from, the moment the flame dragons were shot they disappeared like the spears.

All the people seeing this felt cold sweat running down their backs but still let out a breath of relieve, they didn’t know what had happened, but one thing was clear, for now they were safe.

Seeing what happened Inferno quickly came back to his senses and as his anger had given a place to the confusion he quickly remembered to which being the voice belonged.

He then began surging with even more anger, but this time there was fear in there as well, as he didn’t know what to do he waited for the being which suddenly had appeared out of nothingness with cushion and pijamas at hand to speak first.

Those few minutes helped him calm down a bit, after he thought about it, he wanted to know a few things as well.

The being which had been rudely woken up from his sleep and was now sipping tea on a table, sitting on a chair, looked at the fire god, placed the cup on the table and started to have a conversation with Inferno.

??? [Long time no see Fire].

Inferno frowned at the attitude of the opposite party.

Inferno [John, what are you doing here ]

The gods voice clearly contained anger in it.

The boy who had been hiding in the bushes looked at the giant fire and the strange man having a conversation dumbfounded.

He had stopped running towards Day and had come here after he saw the pillar in the sky, he wasn’t giving up on his brother it was the opposite, when he was running towards the prison he had been scared, he was sure they would both be killed for traying to escape, but as he saw this mighty being of unknown origin he thought it was a demon, and he knew a thing about demons, they make deals.

He didn’t know what it would coast him but he knew, this was the only way for them to escape their death, this creature was powerful beyond believe, with the power it could give him let alone the guards even the lord wouldn’t be able to stop them from escaping.

He knew that Day would never allow him to do something like a contract with a demon but life usually didn’t give you any choice in the first place, it was either that or death for both of them and he didn’t like the latter.

What surprised him even more however was that when he came as close as he could thanks to the heat, he saw something reality defying, a being in pijamas with a pillow not only had suddenly appeared out of thin air but with no actions whatsoever had made the earth beneath it to grow on its own and form a chair, the chair from rocks and dirt then turned into beautiful silver one, with delicate decoration and beautiful feather cushion for the being rear end.

The air around him had condensed and turned into the table and teacups, the table was exceptional, it was pure white whit not even a speck of dirt on it, it was made from unknown material and the teacups looked like the peak of craftsmanship.

The tea he drank was strange as well, the black omnivore three which had tuned to ash had returned to its former form to let the tea flow from its branches and fill the cup, Night could smell it from here, it smelled even more refine than the one at the kings palace which he had tried at the banket.

It felt like the world itself tried to please this unknown creature to the best of its abilities, even though it had the appearance of a human. Night wasn’t sure if he was daydreaming or had died from the heat because he didn’t feel hot anymore, but he decided to stay quiet and continue eavesdrops on their conversation.

Inferno knew someone was here but didn’t care, the person in front of him must know as well but still didn’t do anything, it was normal after all nobody could understand god language and even if they did John in front of him was more important.

“Guardian” the God who could be said to be the strongest was now in front of him.

John had many other names as well, but from them one fit him perfectly “executioner”, even the gods had few rules which they had to follow and if they broke them it was the guardian job to deal with it.

There has always been only one guardian and that was the person drinking tea in his sight, his way to deal with problems was simple, no troublemaker no trouble, gods were usually immortal but that wasn’t always the case, there was difference in power even in the god world and that was proven several times thanks to foolish Gods who thought the rules could be bent.

Hilariously the God of Death was one of them, one day for no reason except to prove that there was nothing stronger than death he picked a fight with John only to get completely crushed and then deleted with not even the slightest of effort and even if from the fight it looked like Death was weak he wasn’t, how could he be, Gods wore the name of the thing they controlled, but their power didn’t come from the same place, for Inferno his power came from fire, the more fire was used on the lower plane the stronger he was, but even if all the fire was to disappear he still could freely create and control fire to the tiniest of details.

For Death his power came from Death, every being was afraid of death everything had an end, and that end was the biggest fear for most even if they themselves weren’t aware of it, death was the scariest thing ever to exist , and Death himself wasn’t weak either he could control that power even better than inferno could control his fire but that didn’t seem to matter at all.

The thing Gods watched wasn’t even a fight, Death challenged the guardian which didn’t matter as John just exhaled, told the god of Death to act a bit more godlike turned around and walked away, but that made Death angry beyond believe as for him nobody walks away from Death, he gathered all his power in a single attack which could cut even their world, created specifically to handle their power and aimed at John, the guardian didn’t turn or even guard, he took the attack with zero protection but for surprise to everyone he wasn’t harmed at all, after that he walked away unharmed not even turning to look at them, the god of death who was wondering what just took place suddenly started to scream, his spirit bent, twisted, then bent again, it folded into itself like a collapsing black hole, and after condensing into an orb shattered into black dust.

That was the moment everyone started to call him “executioner”, the moment he decided to kill you, your head is on the guillotine, you cant escape and resistance didn’t matter as well.

But the scariest thing of all was that no one knew which god he was, gods didn’t come with name tags, god true name was the name of their power and their dominion, for him it was Fire, for Death, the god of death was obviously Death, for the god of life it was Life and etc, the Gods true name told you which god they were but John never revealed his God name for some reason.

He preferred to just be called John.

Inferno knew himself, he was strong but he was nowhere near the same level as the god of death, he was infuriated but he wasn’t insane, it doesn’t matter how angry a lion was it would never attack a dragon, and in that case he was more like a bug than a lion, cause lion would have a chance to at least scratch the dragon before its dead but that wasn’t the case here, he was on almost friendly terms with the guardian, but exactly because they used to be friends he knew better than anyone else, do not cross the line.

John[Fire, sorry Inferno, you know the rules, there aren’t many of them but that only means that the few there are must be followed, I consider you one of my few friends that is why I decided to warn you, annihilating all of humanity or any kind of living creature for that matter is a no]

Inferno eyes didn’t look happy, he was grateful for the warning and thankful that John, who didn’t treat even most of his fellow gods with respect, except for a few exceptions thought of him as a friend which resulted in that warning, but even if it was saving his life Inferno still wanted revenge.

Inferno still had an angry expression, even the presence of John couldn’t make it disappear, it only made him calm a bit to think clearer ,the anger was still there.

Inferno[I know of gods who killed people who didn’t get punished so there must me be a way]

John who knew his friend and that Infernos hate wouldn’t last long answered

[Yes there is, killing all of them is prohibited but that means that as long as your actions don’t lead to their complete extermination you can do whatever you want ]

Inferno didn’t have a mouth but if he had a bone friezing, no a bone burning smile would be on it now.

Inferno[So how many can I exterminate before it becomes a problem]. he knew that John was usually competent there was no way he didn’t know the answer to his question, and it was better to know beforehand so his actions dont get out of control, leading to something unpleasant.

John who was wondering if they would all ask that question answered [half, half of the people of every race on this continent could die, but you cant kill all of the people of the same race]

Inferno wasn’t happy about Johns words but he knew, the guardian didn’t create the rules, he only enforced them.

He wanted to kill all of the Human race which imprisoned him, but he couldn’t, so he would make sure to torture them to the best of his abilities so he doesn’t feel regret later on, and while he was thinking he thought of something that he wanted to ask, but John spoke first.

John[Actually you could kill a bit more than half, but I will make you a deal. As long as only half die you can return to our world, you wont need to stay any longer on earth, the lower plane]

Inferno was flabbergasted, he had had his reasons to come to earth, which for the gods meant, unable go to their realm again but now he was given this opportunity, he couldn’t kill all of the humans either way so it was obvious he would take the offer, but something didnt sit right with him, and he knew what it was, so he asked the question he already wanted from the moment he saw John.

Inferno[you know, I knew that the humans would try to kill us or imprison us at some point, but we all knew they wouldn’t be able to do it, and now this offer… did you help them at the time ]

Even thou that was a question, the tone made it seem more like a statement.

Even if he was in front of the strongest God, Inferno had to know, why, why did their friend betray them.

For the first time John changed his expression, a sad smile appeared on his lips, followed by a nod of his head.

John [Yes, I did]

John observed Inferno whose face seemed to be urging him to explain and continued [the humans at that time found an artifact, the “silver ticket”].

Inferno anger disappeared and a surprised expression appeared on his face, ”silver ticket” there were only 5 such items in existence all of which were on earth, none were in their realm but they all knew what they were and what they did, it was literally a ticket made of 2 different metals, 2 were made of gold and 3 were made of silver, they had one use and one use only, “make the guardian do a thing you say” it might not look like much at first glance but we are talking about an existence to which even the conquest of all the gods might be possible, that was the only thing that the gods envied the humans about, and its existence wasn’t a secret too, John himself told the gods about them and what they did, so Inferno was just glad that they didn’t actually get killed and him and his friends were only sealed on earth.

John [this ticket couldn’t be used to kill Gods, so they decided to seal you all, thankfully the person who used the ticket wasn’t bright and instead of telling me to seal you forever which could be done, he told me to help them to seal you by giving them power, of course humans cant seal you forever and as they had already used the ticked it was too late when they actually thought about it in the correct way, but I am responsible for your imprisonment and that deal is the best way for me to apologize, I cant take you to our world for free but the deal goes around the rules in a way, so do you take it]

John looked at Inferno, his feeling of regret clear on his face, the look made it clear that John was telling the truth.

Inferno knew the personality of the guardian, he was like the big brother of the gods who kept them out of trouble, he wasn’t respectful and was ruthless to those who crossed the line but he never attacked first, helped even if he was disrespectful, and even if he didn’t speak much he would always answer when asked, he was the quiet brother who punished those who caused trouble and helped those who didn’t.

They hanged out as a group with few others in the celestial world before things changed, but now he was even gladder about his friendship with the guardian so he agreed without a second thought.

As John has finishing what he came to do and was ready to go back and continue his sleep which was one of the few things he loved, he saw something unusual, the boy with Dark blue hair which had been hiding in the bushes was now standing in front of him fearlessly and shouted something which made him doubt his ears, he knew they were watched but he didn’t care, the boy wasn’t a treat they were also speaking like gods, which made people unable to understand them, but as the boy repeated his words, he was dumbstruck, John looked at inferno to see if he was hearing right or was still a bit sleepy from his sudden wake up, but the look on Inferno face was as surprised as his own, then he heard the boy again, a voice speaking in the celestial language, the language of the gods.

Night [AHH you are pissing me off, for the third time PLEASE MAKE A DEAL WITH ME DEVILS ]

Inferno [the fuck]

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