Weeks, even months pass as Mao and Bella face the greatest challenges that only the strongest of mankind can face. When they solve one problem on one side of the world, another problem pops up on the other side, which is sometimes worse than the previous. Time is taking its toll on them as there doesn’t seem to be an end to the atrocities that man creates through their weakness to sin. God strengthens the couple and their love allows them to keep going despite their fatigue. The devil has noticed their weakening nature and sends his most trusted fallen angels to put them in their graves once and for all.
During their travels, Mao and Bella come across an injured woman with her child trapped underneath a dead horse.
“What happened here?” Mao asks as begins to lift up the dead horse.
“We were traveling and got attacked by a group of bandits. Our horse was injured, but at least we lost our pursuers,” the woman explains.
“At least you and your child are safe,” Bella says, “Here, let me hold your child so you can get out from under the horse.”
Bella takes the child, but it bites her as soon as she is in her arms, which knocks her out. The mother’s neck extends and bite’s Mao and both are now out cold. Hours later, Mao wakes up by himself in a misty forest.
“Bella,” he calls out, “Bella? Bella! What happened? Where am I?”
The forest has dew on every surface of it and the sunlight fails to shine through the thick leaves. There’s very little light in the forest to see anything in it. There aren’t even any trails or sights or sounds of life in it. It’s eerily quiet as Mao tries to find Bella. A familiar voice echoes and Mao walks in the direction of it to find his mother and father. They have the appearance of his parents when he was a child along with the same kinds of poor clothes.
“Mom? Dad?”
“Come to mommy and daddy. You’ve earned your rest,” his mother says with a bright smile.
His father smiles with open arms and says, “You’ve made us proud son. I knew you would.”
Tears fill Mao’s eyes, but he’s hesitant to enter the arms of his parents.
“What are you two doing here?”
“We’re here to take you back home,” his mother says.
“That’s right son. God’s sent other people to take care of your work. You can finally be with us forever with your wife. Let me tell you son you sure know how to pick them out. I’m quite jealous of you. Hahaha.”
“I…I…I gotta make sure this is real.”
Mao transforms into his angel form, but when he does, it mutates into a more horrific grim reaper angel with eyes on its body and its skull split open with Mao’s face inside. His parents disappear after his transformation, which makes him focus on his appearance.
“This forest must’ve changed my appearance somehow. Where did mom and dad go?”
Two shadows slash at Mao’s shoulders then appear in front of him as demonic versions of his parents. Mao’s rage starts to burn as he sees the image of his parents perverted by these demons. He can hear them taunting him, but he only focuses on their appearance, which he tears apart with his hands.
Mao rips the flesh off the demons as he says, “You are not worthy to pretend to be such great people!”
The demons die, and their bodies melt into the ground once they are de-fleshed. More demons come out of the mist of the forest and they wear the skin of Mao’s best friend Shun and Mao’s own children. Mao’s rage now burns so hot that flames start coming out of his body to form wings of fire and blades made of flames that he uses to cut the flesh off his foes. Nothing the demons say bother him since he knows that they’re all fakes and that the people he knew would never say such things. The skin of Bella is the last one that the demons wear to catch Mao off guard. This is the only one that gives him pause.
“Bella is dead Mao and her soul rots in hell,” the demon says.
“Not my Bella. Not my queen. Not my angel.”
With one cut, Mao takes care of the last demon and transforms back into his normal human self.
“I’m coming to find you, my love,” Mao says with conviction, “Wait for me.”
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