The Neo Age of Gavin

Sometime after Floppa visited the human world, the forces of Inanis attempted to launch a sneak attack on Caelum. It would be an understatement to say they failed, especially since they had not even gotten past RILES. After being captured, they got thrown into an old-fashioned (but enchanted) prison wagon. The driver transported them through half of Caelum before tossing them into Caelum's penitentiary. However, before they reached their destination, every angel and Floppa Cultist in Caelum had seen the prisoners, thus creating a bit of a commotion. This incident was the first of its kind, and everyone acted accordingly.

By the time the wagon reached the jail, the angels had dispersed. Floppa asked the Floppa Cultists to stay and judge the Noctis along with Him. All of the Floppa Cultists agreed - except for a cultist named Gavin. He believed that they should kill the Noctis because they might persuade some angels to join the forces of Inanis. The cultists considered this, but they waved away the idea. After all, it had been long since Marshall had led the angels astray. What were the chances that an insurrection would occur and succeed?

But Gavin didn't accept it. He resisted desperately, going so far as pulling a weapon out of the hands of a passerby angel and charging at the Noctis. Floppa barely managed to stop him and demanded that Gavin stop his atrocious behavior. Eventually, the cultists managed to get Gavin to calm down. Floppa then took the cultists to the courtroom. At the beginning of the trial, Floppa charmed the Noctis, making it so that they would only tell the truth. The questioning then began.

The Noctis' objective was to sneak into Caelum and steal one of the Vectis' scepters. They then would send the misappropriated scepter to some of Inanis' researchers, who would dismantle and reassemble it until they had enough information. From there, the researchers would have created a staff based on the one they stole. This process would happen until the researchers had created a perfect replica of the scepter.

Floppa then moved on to a different subject. When the angels found the Noctis, the Noctis had been attacking a section of RILES. This part of RILES was actually a weak spot, and Floppa found it odd how out of all the places the Noctis could attack, it was that section they chose to hit.

After finding this out, the cultists murmured among themselves. The only people who knew about the weak spot's location were the Floppa and the cultists. If the Noctis had not found the weakness by coincidence, then one of the cultists would be a traitor. Unnoticed by all except Floppa, Gavin slipped away and left the courtroom just as He asked the final, decisive questions.

Yes, the Noctis had help from an insider. Yes, this insider was a cultist. And yes - the insider's name was Gavin.

The Floppa Cultists gasped. Floppa commanded the cultists to stay in their seats and watch the Noctis and then pursued Gavin, who had left before the last few questions. However, it was too late - Gavin had already gone through one of the portals between Caelum and the mortal world. Floppa deduced that Gavin was likely attempting to buy himself enough time to disguise as an angel and then make his way back to Caelum.

Consequently, Floppa blocked off all the portals and called back all the angels in the mortal world immediately.

Unfortunately, Floppa was too late. While Floppa had been looking for Gavin and blocking the portals, Gavin had already disguised himself and made his way back. Gavin rejoined his fellow rebels, who forged him an ID and entered his new face into the Oculi registration. After a few days, Floppa reopened the portals and installed security guards near them. However, since Gavin already had a new identity in the registry, he wasn't singled out. If it weren't for a mistake one of Gavin's fellow rebels made, Floppa would not know about his new face.

A low-ranking officer in the rebel group had been transporting materials from Caelum into Inanis. It was on one such occasion that Floppa captured the officer. Floppa had already been suspicious of this angel, but it was the first time He had sent a spy to follow him. The officer had grown complacent and had not covered his tracks enough to hide his shady dealings. As a result, the spy captured him in the act of transporting them to Inanis.

Sometime after the spy had brought the officer to Floppa, He began to question the officer. From the officer's testimony, Floppa discovered that the rebel group wanted to overthrow Him and replace him with Gavin. To give Gavin enough power to defeat Floppa, they traded with 69, who, in turn, bestowed some of his strength upon Gavin. Floppa was shocked - not only because Gavin did not know that 69 would kill him but also because Gavin had been one of Floppa's closest confidants. How had it all gone so wrong?

The low-ranking officer did not know the location of the main headquarters, so Floppa executed the angel and placed Gavin's new identity on the Oculi's list of rejects. Gathering his spies, he sent them after all the angels he had deemed questionable in the past. Almost all returned with information tying the people they were following to Gavin's rebel group. Floppa learned that one of the angels had killed the spy that didn't report back.

Floppa decided to pursue the angel that had killed the spy (after giving the spy a proper burial, of course) and disguised Himself.

The angel that the dead spy had been tracking was a Gaudium Sergeant. Following her to the human world, Floppa found that she had been preaching Floppa's teachings - but with Gavin in Floppa's place and Floppa in 69's. These actions caused new problems for Floppa. Just as prayers to Floppa gave Him power, hatred directed towards Floppa would decrease His strength. The same would apply to anyone else.

Floppa quickly found all the tainted humans and wiped their memories of their meetings with the Gaudium. Going by their memories of the angels that had "enlightened" them, He located the rebels and executed all but one. Using this angel, Floppa discovered the location of the rebel group's headquarters and destroyed it as discreetly as He could. There, Floppa also found Gavin, and then a battle took place.

In the end, Floppa defeated Gavin, and as Gavin died, he finally realized the error of his ways - but far too late. Apologizing for the trouble, he relinquished the strength he gained from the prayers to Floppa and convinced his followers to believe in Floppa again with his dying breaths.

And that was the end of the Neo Age of Gavin.