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Blackness filled the skies,

and the tainted earth split,

before an ocean of lifeless eyes

and the yawning of a red pit.

So it was that the Great Beast arrived

glimmering, shivering, laughing, seething.

Bearing the weight of impending demise

ethereal fire its unholy breathing.

Assembled legions cackled and screamed

raising bloody hands and weeping with joy.

Feverishly bellowing their blackened creed

witnessing fruition of the unhallowed ploy.

Amidst a forest of blades they sang

bloody hymns and foul salutations,

and they let hang the dead as they

declared their plot to unmake creation.

And yet as they cried of the end

hundreds died in a moment's span.

The sky broke once again

and the angels descended upon them.

Bright hammers broke their swords

and fight they did with fury and craft.

On ivory wings, flanked by his wards,

their leader charged the arch-demon and with him clashed.

Solo: Jerry