One Does Not Simply Become The Guardian of A Hell Gate


Actually, it's two of them but it doesn't sound good if I put two up there.

Anyways, Gevirash and Zoran were two of many other guardians of Hell Gates that were scattered all over the globe, but, they were the only ones Yverna and her companions could tolerate as opposed to the others, what with their rigidness that would give a granny a run for her money.

The two had been standing at their post for thousands of years without the luxury of patrolling the area, so you can imagine the level of boredom they'd reached. Yverna and the others were used to finding weird, and oftentimes, obscene symbols on the ground around them, courtesy of them poking the soil with their spears - actually, it was a surprise they haven't begun to sharpen their skills in art and started painting the scenery using their spears. In some other time, the two lazily battled each other, well, more like hit the tip of each other's spears while they were sitting, because serious sparring would be against the rule.

Yverna and her companions' willingness to talk to them was a chance they grabbed immediately, and they started asking any kind of update to whatever problems Yverna and the others were in, even though they couldn't actually do anything except keeping an eye out  for them when they asked - something that should be reported to the higher-ups, but neither Gevirash nor Zoran wanted to rat on those elite soldiers, for they were the only ones who gave a damn about them.

When both Valthors learned of Cain's prophecy, and not long afterwards, they heard few other soldiers were talking about the Sisters of Mayhem would be caught regarding the death of three Archangels
- there was this deal Lucifer made with Michael and Gabriel that no Arc would be touched unless it was an open war, a deal the Morningstar made more to ensure that no soldier dared to defy him rather than ensuring that the balance hadn't been disturbed - they realized that there was something more sinister behind it, and from what they'd learned from the Sisters, they could only conclude that Kathiera was leading the Echelons to ensnare Yverna, again - something that had been a public secret for thousands of years.

Since the Echelons seemed to care more about maintaining their ego than maintaining the loyalty of the soldiers, and their half-brother, Amon, couldn't be of more help, the two decided to hang themselves as baits, knowing that the risk was death. Regardless, they ceased it, knowing that their deaths would give more time to the elite soldiers to do what they must to act accordingly to the prophecy.

Furthermore, it would give them a chance to do something for the people that mattered most for once in thousands of years they had lived.