Some hours later, the man awoke in the darkness of his cave and immediately realized he was aloneand then, to his horror realized that he was not wearing his mask and that it was laying on the cave floor beside him. Jumping to his feet he ran from the cave and to the shack but to his dismay the shack was empty. Neither the small and pretty woman nor her father nor any of their belongings remained in the shack and the man knew he had been rejected. The shame he had not felt since he was a child and the pain he ahd not known since he had last been abandonned, flooded from his memory and back through his heart. The sun god staring down applauded and now the man with the hideous face heard the god and screamed into the sky. He swore his hatred on the god who had once promised him happiness and love. He cursed the sun god and named him a liar and leapt into the sky. He struck the veil of night with his sword over and over until he tore through it and then he passed into the heavens. There in the heavens he began a war as he slaughtered angels, saints, and heroes alike. All the while the sun god smiled and neither did he, nor would he allow any of his brethern, to offer the man any resistance.
And as the years passed, when few except the gods themselves remained in heaven, the sun god at last assembled an army. Down in the tunnel that lead to the pit, stood those who guarded against the gates of darkness and they were considered the harshest of all the heroes. The man with the hideous face saw this assemblage, and laughed mirthlessly. He raised his sword above his head and bellowed.
