Astaroth - The Fallen Knight - Alert Boss

Born to human parents on Earth, Ajay started off life in England, surrounded by a loving family and siblings. His parents were devout believers in The Almighty – The King of Kings & Lord of Lords and had been practicing believers since their mid-twenties. As such, they had raised their family in the same faith to try and give their own children the best start in life possible via a good moral foundation and philosophy about the world they would grow up into.

Before Ajay was born, his father had a dream where he had been visited by an angel of the Almighty who called himself Dikaios. The angel said to him that he would have a son and that he must be trained in the Heavenly Kingdom’s ways until the time came for Dikaios to come and teach him directly. Waking soon after, Ajay’s father knew without a doubt that the dream was real and that he had been visited by the angelic host of The Almighty.

One week later, Ajay’s to-be mother announced she was pregnant. And so, the months went by with both parents in prayer and Dikaios visiting Ajay’s father in his dreams on multiple occasions to pass him further instructions on where he must go and what he must do. Ajay was born during a bitterly cold and snowy December, with Dikaios standing guard besides his parents as Ajay came into the world. With his first breaths, Dikaios spoke a blessing from The Almighty onto him “He is your good shepherd, you shall not want. You will not be afraid, nor dismayed. Goodness and mercy and power shall follow you and shall be with you, all the days of your life, to the glory of The Almighty; The King of Kings & Lord of Lords.” And with this, Dikaios departed.

In time, Ajay grew in stature, wisdom and strength. His parents teaching and guidance, nurturing him in the ways of The Almighty. During a family trip to the Welsh mountains when Ajay was ten years old, Dikaios appeared on his mission to Ajay and his father during one of their hikes in Snowdonia. Ajay’s father recognised Dikaios as he stood sitting on an old wall that miners of previous generations had built up in the mountains. His father introduced Dikaios as a good friend of his to Ajay.

Dikaios had an immediate affinity with Ajay and Ajay felt as if he had known Dikaios his whole life but somehow had never met him in person. Ajay’s father sat him down alongside he and Dikaios and began to carefully explain what had happened until now. Upon completion and having answered Ajay’s questions, Dikaios said to Ajay and his father that Ajay must now be trained by him if he is to realise his full potential and fulfil the plan of The Almighty.

Initially, Ajay was hesitant, but his father explained that both he and Ajay’s mother were not going anywhere and that neither was he. Except only when Dikaios arrived to train him for a mission of vital importance. Ajay began to take all of this as a joke and jested a little too much – it was all a bit too over the top. This prompted Dikaios to then reveal his true angelic appearance which made Ajay drop with his face low to the floor in fear. The sheer majesty of his presence from which he represents the Heavenly Kingdom was too much to bear. But Dikaios restored Ajay by telling him not to fear and not to be afraid, for he had been born into good favour with The Almighty and that this was a most serious, vital and blessed thing to be.

Ajay rose to his feet. The truth undeniable, but little did he know that this was just part of his journey to becoming who The Almighty had destined him to be, should he choose the path that had been laid out for him. Ajay now at an age of understanding, had to accept in faith and trust in The Almighty. Afterall, he had just seen and experienced something most people only read about and believed in faith and others flat out denied was true – but Dikaios had also given him eyes to see and so Ajay believed and accepted.

Dikaios spoke more blessings over Ajay’s parents and siblings and then left. Upon the families return home to England, Ajay felt entirely different, and it wouldn’t be long before Dikaios was back…

Later that evening as Ajay closed his eyes in his bedroom, Dikaios came down from the Heavenly Kingdom and took Ajay up with him to one of the twelve gates that bordered the Heavenly Kingdom. Having been blessed years prior at his birth, Ajay was able to receive and understand what he saw. However, he did not know why Dikaios had taken his spirit with him to the gates of the Heavenly Kingdom. Dikaios went on to explain that it was the absolutely the only place he could train him and guarantee the eyes of the enemy could not see anything going on there.

Being in the presence of eternity, Ajay’s heart settled and a peace that surpasses all understanding was within him. True contentment and fulfilment abounded all around him and within him, without restraint or limit. This place was home. This is where humans were meant to be. He didn’t want to leave.

Here Dikaios explained to him the true mission – Ajay would be blessed with angelic power from The Almighty as if it were from his own beating heart and breath within his lungs; as the assurance of presence would be within him forever, so long as he did not stray from the path The Almighty had laid out for him. If he were to do so, then he would lose the power bestowed upon him. He must protect the weak and deliver them from the hand of the wicked. He must champion the cause of The Almighty to all of humanity and fight off mortal incursions from evil spirits and fight off incursions from hostile life forms from across the universe. Earth was to be under his watch and under his protection. He would not receive all this power immediately. He had to learn that his obedience and growing in that obedience would enable him to increase in that power.

The authority bestowed upon him came directly from the Heavenly Kingdom and he was to use the power of the word to legitimise the authority to any doubter, challenger or denier. When he matured into physical manhood, at a time of The Almighty’s choosing, Dikaios would arrive to bless him with long life. So much in fact that a thousand years would be the equivalent of a year to him due to the power of angelic might, sustaining his mortal life.

When Ajay asked why Dikaios could not tell him a specific age, Dikaios simply told him that it was not for his mortal mind to know the day nor the hour because of the fallen world which he must return to and live on. But to rest assured that the time would come. Being just a boy, this was still a lot to take in, but nonetheless it still excited him due to his thirst for adventure. The superheroes he had read about and seen on TV were no longer this out-of-world untouchable ‘thing’. He was now destined to be one of them.

As the years passed by, Dikaios would return more and more frequently to take Ajay’s spirit up to the Heavenly Kingdom’s gates and train him, out of the sight of evil and any prying eyes. By the time Ajay was eighteen years old, he had been training in the use of his abilities and in combat whilst using his body and an enormous manner of weaponry, angelic combat, mortal martial arts, celestial energy projection, spiritual defence, angelic flight and soul sensing.

When transformed, he no longer required oxygen to breathe in the vacuum of space or whilst under water due to the angelic might transforming his mortal being into a celestial powered body and his overall durability to extreme gravitational forces which enables him to lift enormous weight, abound in the full spectrum of radiological effects, blunt force impacts & heavy shock/concussive forces/overpressure (equivalent to large buildings collapsing on top of him, tank rounds, heavy artillery/MRLS, JDAM/bunker busters, cruise missiles), toxins, corrosions and disease overall was astronomically heightened as he grew in power through his training. Extremes of temperatures had little to no effect on him or his functions; that being he can stand on the surface of the Sun or ice skate on Pluto if he so desired.

His cognitive, neurological and thus fine twitch muscle fibre reaction times are on par with his fastest flight speed when going at full power, meaning his overall battle power makes him a being who can move/react, travel, fight and withstand forces generated at high hypersonic speeds. This means he can accelerate to top speed whether in running, swimming (which is more akin to a hyper fast torpedo in this sense), flight, evading/defending or even attacking/countering and decelerate if required at the speeds in the hypersonic spectrum within a few seconds when he is serious and pushes himself. He can strike (punch, kick etc.) through very dense and strong metals such as tungsten and titanium and hardened/reinforced structures and lift/move weights equivalent of five hundred tonnes (this roughly equates to large freight trains/locomotives, large jets such as fully loaded B52, Boeing 747 etc. and very large monuments etc.).

Ajay had learned to awaken the power he had been blessed with from within himself and this would instantaneously shroud him in angelic armour that felt like the softest of silk to touch but was as durable as anything he could think of on Earth. With the increase in age, learning and strength, this meant that Ajay’s spirit, body and mind could handle more and more training.

But still, he wondered why this power was not always there in his normal day-to-day interactions and why he had to bring it out from within him. Dikaios explained this simply as “to prevent you from becoming conceited”. Ajay was still a mortal man, he was blessed but still, he lived in a fallen world that was full of evil and he had to always be on guard with his own thoughts, emotions, speech and actions. He had to filter everything very carefully and this meant as a mortal, he would walk a very fine line at times but even he could not break it. His advantage in this aspect over the angelic host was that because he is a mortal, grace for his mistakes is still available but this was not to be abused, lest he lose everything.

With age and experience, his strength and becoming one with the power within him can only grow until it is all his being is, no longer having to call out the power to envelope him, but instead it will be him in completeness. He had learned through all his years of intense training to control his power to not accidentally harm anyone or anything he did not intent to by doing something as simple as picking up a pen or shaking someone’s hand. Ajay was left to go back to the earth and find his own ways to continue in his training. He developed a routine of spiritual control from the moment he awoke to keep himself in a state of humility and always looking to Heaven above for his path and guidance.

Ajay eventually married his high school sweetheart named Jeni as they had fallen in love with one another from the moment they had first me, and Jeni had always known something was very different about Ajay that attracted her to him. They married in their early twenties and currently have one child together so far, a boy named Elijah. Ajay’s family moved to the Welsh mountains to begin a homestead, home-school their son and earn a humble living whilst being happily content in their private lives. Ajay now teaches and assists at the local church as an elder and helps the youth groups from the few surrounding mountain villages. His other job is selling lumber and kindling which he runs as his own private business, along with local honey he and his wife farm and other produce on their homestead via an online web-shop he and his wife run. His wife Jeni manages a home-schooling club where other families join for activities and day trips.

Whilst this simple and content life suited them and worked best for their family, Ajay knew it was the only way he could think of to keep his identity off the radar, being both a husband and a father as well as Ascendant; this was the best that he could do whilst trying to maintain some form of a normal life and without anyone noticing as well as keep his family much safer. If he had lived in an urban environment or even a semi-rural cul-de-sac, then it would have been difficult for him to call upon the power of the Heavenly Kingdom and transform into Ascendant and not have someone eventually discover him. Instead, out in the wilderness in his own homestead, he could easily transform and set off in flight with much less chance of being noticed.

The only mortals who are aware of his blessing and therefore his powers so far, are his wife and his parents. Jeni is aware that Ajay has been blessed with long life and that as time goes by, he will not age, but she will because Ajay will over time conform more and more into being Ascendant as his powers grow until The Almighty tells him his time is up and calls him home. Despite the potential for a growing void between them, they have cast all mortal problems aside and obeyed “until death do you part” in their marriage covenant and love for one another, knowing that ultimately, they will be together again in the Heavenly Kingdom, forever. Neither Ajay or Jeni knows if Elijah or any future children have inherited powers as a blessing, it remains to be seen.

Ascendant now spends his time training in the remote parts of the earth or off the planet in outer space. Every morning, evening or when the time calls for it; he rises high into the air over the United Kingdom and looks down from above at it and at other nations, looking at the souls of every mortal within his line of sight, seeking to save and protect as he has been called to do by The Almighty. He stands ready to face any threat that comes from the cosmos and from behind the veil of creation, where the spiritual forces of evil are also at work.