Nimrod awoke with six of his chiefs holding onto him. He raised his head as he saw Semiramis standing on top of him with his own sword.

"How do you open the gates of heaven?" She asked.
"Heaven? You are not worthy of the Earth and you want to rule Heaven??!" Nimrod mocked her.
"Tell me the secret or I will slaughter you." She insisted.
"No!" He shouted. "There are guardians in the gates of heaven, they will repel you. You need more than your spear or my sword to gain access to it."
She wondered if he was bluffing then suddenly felt a tiny buzz in her head, as if her brain received a new set of information. "You are lying. The Sword is the KEY into Heaven. The Angels fear the tokens... Because. Wisdom. Of course, the one thing that angels have always longed for, yet are banned from... A free will."

Then she looked at the sword, and realised that the sword was feeding her these revelations.
"So this date of sacrificing the ram coincides with a rare simultaneous alignment with the constellation of the ram, and that constellation can be redrawn to represent the divine letter of Aleph, the First Devic Letter. The key to opening the gateway. Oh I love wisdom." She said as she held the sword up high above her head.
"I don't need you anymore Nimrod so, yes, you are the sacrificial goat now. Say a prayer, Nimrod. Say a prayer to any God that you want. It is the last thing will be able to do."

Nimrod shut his eyes. "Avenge me, God. For I am the one you had forsaken so many times. Avenge me, the one whose thousand and one children's souls you've claimed. Avenge me, for I am the First Born. Avenge me, for I repent. Avenge me, for I have always longed for you." The chiefs looked at each other trembling more than ever. They knew for certain, that the "First Born" was Cain. Their own alleged God!!
Semiramis sighed: "I could've almost shed a tear for that." She raised her hand in the air again and the sword came down seemlessly.
Far away, among the stars, a wheel in the sky churned and spun, clicked three times then stopped on a stellar combination.

"The Vernal Equinox. And it's right on schedule." Raziel said. His sister stood next to him as they watched the unfolding events from their Devic vintage point.
An interstellar particle shot across the stars and landed in the earth's sun. An explosion ripped across the surface of the sun, dwarfing its natural eruptions.

Semiramis winced in pain as the sun's rays shone into the temple. The chiefs blocked their eyes.

They went outside. The city was blanketed with the pure brightness of the sun, and to turn and look at the sun, it would've been excruciatingly painful.
The head chief looked at Semiramis. "What is going on?"
Semiramis shook her head: "I don't know..."
Semiramis raised the Queen of Spades in the air and uttered something in a strange language, and what she said, although was uncomprehensible, felt serene, and in fact, sent a warm feeling to everyone that heard it.
Suddenly, everyone gasped as a dark object started moving across the surface of the sun. A few minutes later, it was completely covered.

An eclipse.

"Quick! To the top of the tower!" She shouted at the chiefs.
They ran towards the staircase and climbed to the top of the temple, where Nimrod had instructed his chief astrologist to build a belt of the twelve zodiac symbols around it.
She walked towards the symbol of Aries inscribed on the stone and looked to the sky towards the constellation. She then took the sword and retraced the symbol of the Devic letter Aleph on the wall. She stepped back with a gasp as the margins around the inscription cracked and light shone from within the letter.
The head of the chiefs looked at her with burning anxiety: "My queen. Is it working?"
"Silence!" She shouted.
She reached her hand for the symbol and suddenly there was a ripple in the air, as if she was underwater. She looked around in a sudden panic then relaxed as she realized that the vortex that connects the realms of reality and dream was starting to open.

Suddenly there was a thunder clap.

A gigantic bolt of lightning struck the tower and it exploded with a roar. Several chiefs fell to their deaths. Semiramis, who was flung violently to the outside wall shook her head in pain and felt the crack on her head. She reached for the Queen of Spades and it sealed her wound.

She stood up and saw a female looking at him with a smile. She kicked Semiramis in the face and she stumbled to the ground again. The woman looked at the sword with a shiver then kicked it away.

"A guardian... You're an angel?" Semiramis asked.
The woman revealed her wings then nodded: "Yes I am. Known by many names, Tarot the Angel of Time, or Tetra the Angel of Glory. Which I came to strip you of."
Semiramis smiled: "You don't even know who I am. So I suggest you leave."
Another angel descended behind her. "Oh really? Who are you?"
She turned around and smiled... "Well, well. Hello Raziel." She said with a smile.
Both Tetra and Raziel quirked their eyebrows in confusion.
"Why... Don't you remember me? You spared my soul from banishment, a long time ago, in a land called Eden... Before you stole it from me and gave it to Man." She said.
"Umm.. Brother... Wanna fill me in?" Tetra asked.
Raziel sighed. "Inanna."
She nodded. "Step away Raziel. I'm only going back to what is rightfully mine, and bring my family home."

Raziel raised his hands towards her and an ethereal glass formed around her. "I'm sorry about your garden, but I'm afraid it's not going to be that easy."

Semiramis walked forwards then hit herself with the invisible glass, she screamed and her body changed to that of Inanna's then she shouted out for the Queen of Spades and it flew across the air, shattering the glass spell. "Out of my way, Angel. Or you shall taste what it is to be banished." Raziel stepped back but was nevertheless stabbed by the spear. "Raziel!" Tetra shouted and she flew towards her brother. Tetra touched his wound and it healed. "Raziel! Are you alright?" She asked. He shook his head: "Yes, she didn't intend to kill me. Inanna. STOP HER!"

Inanna raised her hands in the air and called out into ancient names: "ANU! ENKI! NANNA! UTU! Awake from your dwellings and come join me in our ascent back to our home."

There was an earthquake. "The invocations!" Raziel shouted suddenly. He stood up, raised his wings and flew to the ground where a crowd of people stood watching. Tetra flew next to him and looked at her brother. "What are you doing?" Raziel: "I know we were only bluffing when we confronted Nimrod. But it's time to do it. We need to teach people how to invoke the words, it is the only way to stop the Annunnaki from returning." Tetra shivered: "But God told us not to give the secret to anyone." Raziel shook his head: "This is an exception. The only way to save Mankind, and to regain their worship of the One true God." She nodded: "Ok."

They raised their hands in the air and the Name of God shone in twelve different languages.
The people from the different parts of Shinar read and gasped as they each remembered what was instilled into their souls by the ancient powers of existence.
"What shall we do with this knowledge?" One man asked.
"It shall grant you the power of Magick. Invoking a combination of words will cast a Devic spell. You can invoke the powers of the Earth in order to confront the onslaught of the Annunaki."
"For example, forming this combination, will move the moon back in its course." Tetra said as she formed two letters in the air and the moon moved away from the sun, breaking the eclipse.
Inanna looked down and saw the letters being taught to the people of Shinar. "NO!!!!" She screamed.
She leaned against the edge of the tower and screamed with anguish: "STOP!"
Raziel and Tetra appeared next to her and crossed their hands. "So you shall desist?" Inanna cried then her form turned back to Semiramis'. "I shall. Leave my people alone, they don't need to have so much power." He nodded: "Spoken like a true and just Queen... Agreed. But on one condition, I shall erase the secret of the name from your mind, then we shall take these tokens away. We can't destroy them, but we can hide them." Semiramis wept.

Raziel raised his hand towards her head and sighed as he deleted the secrets from her head. Then walked towards the wall and wiped off the mystic form of the letter Aleph. Tetra flew down to the people and snapped her fingers in the air. The letters dissapeared.
"What... Why?" The people asked in pure confusion.
"Not yet." She smiled, and flew back to the tower.

Raziel stood next to Semiramis and placed his hand on her. "Semir... Inanna." Semiramis looked up at him with her tears. "I truly am sorry. It was destined. Trust me, when this is all over, you will get what you truly deserve. Think of it, as a really really long story, with everyone in the universe acting it out. And with you as one of the actresses." and for a moment, Raziel shed a tear, overcome with emotion. "I guess that stab did more than what I thought it would... But thank you for sparing my life." He stood up and sighed.

Tetra carried the sword and the spear, ready to throw them into the ends of the earth. Raziel looked at her: "You know, I'm glad you can't wield those things otherwise you could've been wise and ended up killing me." Tetra looked at him with a frown: "What?"

"Never mind." He shook his head.
The sky opened and they ascended.

Semiramis wept once again. This time, for her family, whom she shall never see again.

[THE END]