Gooday everyone and welcome to another When Day Breaks video this time with the Gate Guardian.
This encounter is separate from the main canon we have been developing so treat this as more
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Uriel stood calm and bold before the gate to heaven.
Surrounding him on all sides, a wall of flesh probed the perimeter.
Thing that once were human.
Corrupted and mutilated into something new.
Something inferior to his master's creation.
The Sun stared down at him with its evil red eye.
Taunting him.
Uriel felt no fear.
The flesh could not pass the barrier.
A deep moat of ash and charred earth marked where so many of these abominations had tried
and failed to cross.
Uriel sneered.
The sun still stared at him.
-- A blinding explosion shook the landscape as
another monster tried its luck.
It was obliterated in an instant.
Another tried.
And then another.
Uriel looked out with disdain.
These were once people.
They had families, commitments and dreams.
His master’s very first creation had turned on them all.
What once lit up the sky had now plunged creation into a different kind of darkness.
Why did his master not act?
The question entered his mind again.
His thoughts were interrupted as another creature crossed the boundary.
No.
All of them were crossing.
This he would like to see.
Uriel arose and surveyed the scene.
He was shocked to see the sun pushing all of its infantry onto the frontline.
What was this?
Did the Sun hate his masters’ creations so much that it was determined to see its
own warped attempt at life destroyed?
It was inconsequential.
His great sword danced across the landscape cutting down the flesh in seconds.
Reducing them to dust once more.
Fertiliser for the Garden.
Then he understood.
These weren’t infantry.
They were pawns.
He sensed something bigger cross the boundary.
Great conglomerations of humans and animals now melted and moulded into monstrous forms
approached him.
The bishops made their move.
Two great horned beasts charged straight at him.
They were too immense for a direct strike so instead he swiftly darted to the side and
with one great swipe decapitated them.
A quick follow up attack reduced the pieces to ash.
He heard a screech from behind and dodged as several smaller but more nimble things
on large legs appeared above him.
The enemy's knights darted from side to side.
A futile effort.
Blinding arcs of energy shot out from his weapon and vaporised them all.
He continued mopping up the pawns, awaiting the rooks.
The tide of flesh was relentless.
His sword spiralled around the perimeter, creating a whirlpool of ash and embers.
A low bellow vibrated off the ground as two titanic pillars of flesh approached him from
opposite sides.
Uriel had to physically crane his neck to look up at them.
His weapon blasted chunks out of them but their wounds were very quickly healed by more
flesh.
They came closer.
They were going to swallow him and the Gate.
Uriel thrust his sword deep into the ground.
The Earth's crust fractured and the ground collapsed into the fire below.
Uriel and the Gate stood there on a pedestal as the rest of the ground, and the flesh with
it, fell to flame.
The pillars of flesh collapsed into millions of tendrils, all screeching as they tried
to pull themselves out.
Instead, they slowly burnt away and were silent.
A high-pitched tone pierced him and he looked out to see a deer approaching him.
The opponent's queen.
A broken memory returned.
Had he seen this thing before?
In another time and another place?
Fire, blood, ice and concrete filled his mind; he could not remember.
The angel looked on, incredulous, as the ground reformed around him, sealing away the monsters.
The deer commanded it.
Its shaky legs moved without symmetry as the distorted head showed signs of what once was
a face.
This hybrid creature was fighting the sunlight.
Unsuccessfully.
It was not of this world.
The power the thing radiated was palpable.
And Uriel felt fear.
He summoned the legions.
His own army lined up in front of him, all looking at this creature that continued to
advance.
The legions of heaven stood firm.
But it didn't seem to care.
It crossed the boundary and the first line of angels moved to attack.
There was a crack and a flash and Uriel was shocked to see several large hexagonal, grey
columns standing where his allies once did.
The second line attacked and a second flash and crack resulted in another line of columns.
Uriel ordered his remaining angels back through the garden gate.
They quickly obeyed.
He then spun on his heels, took a final look at paradise and slammed the Gate shut.
A ball of metallic elements hit him in his back and he went sprawling into the dirt.
He quickly recovered and brought his sword around, colliding with another ball that was
spiralling around the creature’s head.
It shattered, sending particles of creation out like sparks.
Tiny portals to other realities opened and shut up as the sparks fizzled away.
Uriel went to swing again but the deer fixed its gaze on his sword and it turned to sand
in his hands.
The thing's antlers pinned Uriel against the gate.
Then a mass of flesh rising out of the deer gave Uriel a command:
“OPEN THE GATE”.
His one purpose, given to him, was to guard the Garden.
To the end.
Uriel reached back, gripped the bars of the gate and begun pulling.
The gate resisted.
He focused his strength and power into his arms.
With a final crack, the bar broke free.
The blast sent both Uriel and the deer backwards.
Before the deer could recover, Uriel summoned the last of his strength and plunged the bar
from the gate into the deer’s neck.
Cracks of light began to spread across them both before a final flash enveloped everything.
The light cleared.
An unspoiled gate to Eden could briefly be seen before fading away.
In front of it was the charred and lifeless husks of the two combatants, slowly crumbling
away to join the Earth.
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