XII

THE FOOL CARD! Franco was the holder of the fool card, a card that is said to be the strongest of the whole arcana deck. The numbers card was 0, it represented fresh beginnings, having faith in your future, beginner's luck, and improvisation. This card sure does perfectly define Franco's personality. Franco went out of the casino like the careless child he is, walking through roads without checking if there are cars that could hit him. It is as if danger and unlucky situations were avoiding Franco, or perhaps the Twisted Fate correctly mentored the young prodigy to be able to unveil the hidden patterns and see through them subconsciously without even focusing on them, autopiloting with no care whatsoever.

Yuba was finally getting ready to meet up with the elderly witch after a long and thrilling day. Although, the incident of Lady Luck and the Twisted Fate still haunted his thoughts, what does it mean to be someone's challenger? Why would a literal goddess who lived for centuries, through plagues, wars, and miseries need a mere mortal to help her achieve her goals? Many questions popped into his head, but he had no answer, but the fog shall be dispersed in the end. It was exactly 8 pm, dinner time. Yuba arrived at home famished, he started looking for Numidia and found her in his room scrolling through his old dusty books.

Yuba then started walking slowly and in the most stealthy way, then touched Numidia and said:" Boo! What is this little thief doing in my room? This crime won't go off so easily, your punishment will be butt spanks! That's how I deal with children who are up to bad deeds HAHAHAHA."

Numidia jumped from fear and said with a trembling voice:" Oh my god, you scared the shit out of me you little shit, aren't you old enough to be able to understand that these pranks scare the life out of me? My heart literally stopped for a second."

Yuba then started looking at Numidia with a childish and provoking grimace on his face:" Lord forbid !! Are those bad words I hear from the mouth of Mary the Virgin herself? I can't believe my holy creature just swore! Anyway, what were you looking for? Do you need help?"

Numidia then replied:" Oh shut up, don't make a fuss. You scared me, what do you expect? And for what I am looking for is more insight on the celestials, the angels and archangels I mean, can you help me please?"

Yuba then took one particular book, sat on his bed, started tapping his lap, and said:" Come, join me, my baby. I shall give you great insight. It turns out I have all the answers to all the questions that you would ask. I am quite the expert in the Christian mythology, the canonical and non-canonical one."

Numidia then sat on Yuba's lap, put her arms around his neck, and said: "I am all ears."

Yuba cleared his throat and started his educational speech:" Well well, what a tasty subject. Let's start from the beginning. When you want to learn about mythological creatures in Christian mythology, the bible, old testament, or new doesn't give enough insight but it is canonical because it was written by God himself and assembled by the disciples of Jesus. Your only way to know all about angels or celestials are the non-canonical books, the 14 Apocrypha books. You might ask, why aren't they canonical? Well, the answer to this question is that they're not of divine inspiration, they are mere human writings and are of no authority in the church of the Almighty.  Still some Christians like the magisterial protestants and the Anabaptists recognize these scriptures as being useful for instructions of manners and lessons of life. There are 14 books named :

-1 Esdras

-2 Esdras

-Tobit

-Judith

-The rest of Ether

-The Wisdom of Solomon

-Ecclesiasticus

-Baruch with the epistle Jeremiah

-The Songs of the 3 Holy children

-The history of Susana

-bel and the dragon

-The prayer for Manasses

-1Maccabees

-2 Maccabees

Quite the interesting scriptures if you ask me. It is said that Dante Alighieri was inspired by them when he wrote Dante's divine comedy, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

Now back to the subject in hand, angels, there are if I recall 3 triads  of angels:

-1st triad: Those who contemplate and adore God directly.

-2nd triad: Those who fulfill God's plan in the universe.

-3rd triad: Those who interact and serve humanity directly.

The first triad contains 3 types of angels:

-Seraphims, the Burning Ones, attend to the throne of the Almighty.

-Cherubims, the Fullness of Wisdom, are assigned to protect special places, the silver city maybe? Or other realms? God knows.

-Thrones, the love of God, are the ones who contemplate God's judgment and power.

Now for the 2nd triad, 3 more types of angels are in the middle rank and they are named:

-Dominions, the ones who rule over the Universe, their strength comes from taking light from other stronger hierarchies.

-Virtues, are those who control the movement and operation of such things as planets, elements, seasons, and nature.

-Powers, these are quite interesting, they are fighting a war against the demonic choirs to maintain the natural order of things.

And for the last and lowest triad, guess what? 3 more types of angels again:

-Principalities, the princes of the proletarian triad, I mean the lowest triad aha. They are the ones who care about and guard communities, nations, kingdoms, and states that worship the Lord.

-Archangels, the ones assigned to communicate and carry God's plans for us mortals, Michael (Mikāl), Gabriel (Jībril), and Raphael. Gabriel is usually the one who contacts messengers and apostles of God to inform them about God's plan. Raphael is the Archangel who is believed to be the healing one, basically a doctor or something like that I guess? He sounds a little bit irrelevant compared to Gabriel and Michael, but that's my opinion.

Last but not least, Michael, the All-star of the Archangels, the one who carries the Flaming sword, the one who literally defeated and stabbed Lucifer when the  Unholy Rebellion started and banished him from heaven.

As for the ones that might have contacted you, they are called...