CHAPTER 10 : THE BATTLE

CHAPTER 10

The Battle

Venezuela,

Caracas.

Gateway To Eregdrix.

Continuation From The Previous Chapter 

The Blade is Referred To As "Him", having no specific name yet.

His breathe summoned what only a demon can control, His mind channeled the deadly embodiments of hell, his life force brought them to him and his flesh and power led them to destroy what their prince has brought upon the earth, with the order "Destroy Evil With Evil!"

Light fades

His closed eyes gazed upon the heavens as he took his breath in and out. His lips smooth and fresh, his hair like a baby, the skin of his palm soft and the flares emitting from his body, were the flares that called the hounds. He stretched forth his hand and a with ease, the way parted for him. The hounds were accumulating, getting in their pack, using the shortest cuts of streets. Jumping over cars, rushing with their bloody teeth and red devil eyes. Dust was seen being raised stones bouncing up and back down at the pound of the feet of the hounds. The harmony of a church choir without the melody of music played. Just sounds and the sweetness of the harp played on. The wind blew his the lower side of his coat, blowing the untied belt aswell.

His hands rested at his lower back waist and the hounds rushed into the street that was leading to Eregdrix, behind the angel. A few were before him and a few were beside him but none was around him, he led them to war. 

Eregdrix

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"Where did he go!" Massaca yelled at the top of his voice, walking out of the walkway into the palace. A number of guards, stood before him, under his compulsion.

"I killed him!" "There was no way he could have gotten away!" He spoke to himself. Thinking and trying to find the King, to kill him and claim his throne once and for all, here by proofing himself worthy to Azazel.

"Find him and kill him!" He ordered as the guards walked out. "Do not dare resist!" He added.

He stood by a corner of the palace which had little windows. As he peeped out of the window, he saw the strangest thing of all. It wasn't the city on fire, it wasn't human torment,  was the pack of hounds, rushing through the fallen camouflage of Eregdrix, and this was the downfall of the realm, with Eregdrix existence intertwining with earth's existence as an open realm, the world will fall.

The Angel walked along with the hounds and Massaca watched from the top of the Palace as his guards got ripped apart, limp by limp, flesh to bone. His brows knitted in awe and he got engulfed with fear. At the presence of the Morningstar blade, the fire burning in each street and path he passes through immediately gets quenched. A few unfortunate humans crying for the losses that they had, holding their dead relatives by the arms and at the sight of the Walking Blade, they returned from the dead. 

He walked forward, still until before the tower, where Massaca had been in. Massaca, the top of his voice yelled the name "Azazel" crying for his presence and when he saw that it was to no avail, he decided to take his own life by jumping off the tower. The barks and strange roars from the hounds were heard. Their feet's stomping hard and shaking the foundation of the building as they climbed up to the palace. 

Massaca got frozen and lost in his thoughts if he should or shouldn't. The power that Azazel had given him slowly began to ware off and before he could finish with his thoughts and make final decision, he hear the roar so close to him. 

"Bollocks!" He whispered as his brows made their final expression of release.  The light fades as sudden as it came after the hound jumped up for him. 

The Blade which took the form of a man stood before the chaos that had happened. The camouflage shield that had been taken down at his presence was placed back up as it slowly rebuilt itself, hiding Eregdrix one more time. The hounds were sent back to hell by the crack of the ground they stood upon. It collapsed into itself, and beneath was a quickly portal to the forever burning inferno. 

The blade took a deep breath and the floor reversed its action and was replenished without the hounds. After the wipe out of the evil that had been brought upon Eregdrix, the blade vanished from sight, probably, back to it's keeper. 

Light fades.

First Person Narrative 

John Screeman

The angels had swam across the sky and across this realm to earth to protect the humans from the harbingers of the Apocalypse. I had not seen Raphael since and it was us versus Azazel at the moment. 

I felt my skin duplicating its location, tearing me apart from my flesh, my heart beating faster, my eyes tearing up and my skin dying up. I heard the sound of a hover and I opened up my eyes. My forehead crumbled at the sight. I looked around and Arakah was gone, as well as Hilda. All that was left was Khloe, Maria, Butt and I.

I looked around as I took multiple glances of where we were. I had no idea of what happened and I, I didn't get us here.

At the voice I heard, I wished I was dead.

"Welcome to the Sahara Desert!" The voice of a bastard uttered. The demon Azazel. I turned over and he gestured our welcome with his hands apart.

"With ease I wiped out what you love and what you love." He said pointing at Khloe and Maria. 

"Did...did you just refer to me?" Maria slowly stood up from where she was consoling Khloe. "What do you mean?" I asked with doubt in the back ground of my voice. 

"Oh, don't act unaware little one." Perhaps, if you stayed at home, they wouldn't have wanted to look for you." "But they are dead now." He threw hints at Maria trying to make it clear for her that her parents are dead.

"Do not believe him, he is trying to break through." I said. I tried to make us strong at least through out this moment. If we were broken by emotions, we fail and the world falls by our shoulders.

"Now do you wish to accept your defeat and fall." "Azazel asked with his hands above his head." He seemed like he had a trick up his sleeves. A trick to play off. "Surrender and be my herald." 

"Make any move and I will make you make me the channel to your doom!" Azazel added. His eyes moved like torch lights, catching our facial expressions. 

Khloe crawled over to where I was, I felt her finger flicking against mine. I looked at her and her eyes were half way open. I held her by the hand. I saw as she held Maria's hand as well. I was not sure of what she was about to do. 

Butt stood behind us and the desert breeze blew against our bodies, coating us with the sand and forming new waves. Maria, you are stronger than you think. "Believe in yourself." Khloe said to Maria. Khloe seemed to have been drastically drained by the death of Kelvin. Her face doll and saggy. 

"I need you to do something for me." "I need the power in you two to make this work." "You have more than you think!" Khloe assured Maria as her grip became tighter. 

"Your deepest desires will be your downfall!" Khloe uttered and yelled at the top of her voice. "We open the gates of hell, to return what has been unleashed!" I felt my power being drained. Suddenly, I heard the loudest roar of the thunders. The clear sky gave way to thick dark set of clouds and it was then I saw, from afar, the desert was collapsing into a deep fall of hell fire. 

"John!" Khloe called in a sick way. "Banish him before it is too late, if that fire consumes you all, there is no going back and the world falls apart." "Perhaps this is my destiny, I lived the best life offered and I...I regret nothing." "Protect your kind and never give up."

The last line of Khloe's words reminded me of my mum. "And never give up." The word rang in my head multiple times and I just heard other things Khloe said. She was about to sacrifice herself. Before I could move, I felt her cold palm slip away from mine. My actions were slow and I was late. She ascended to the skies.

"Khloe!" I yelled at the top of my voice. Before my eyes could be set above at the skies, a blast of luminous light sent them back down. I had my arm over my face and my heart got soaked in anger, in rage. I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't control it. I had to let it all out. Suddenly, Arakah and Hilda spawned beside Butt. Maria took a fee steps back and stood at the same line with the three behind me. I saw as the fire collapsed the desert, swallowing the entire eastern area from a distance.

"Hilda do it now!" Arakah yelled as I was to unleash the power inside of me.

And suddenly I saw as the desert that slowly turned into an inferno became a grassy field, filled with all beauty nature could offer, along side a lady who stood by the rivers. She was clothed in a white garment and have leaves over her head. The animals toying around her in happiness and the clear river moving peacefully. 

I walked slowly towards her and she turned over to me. The face was the face I had not seen in a while. The face of love and peace. "Mum!" I called out. I was unaware of when tears slowly flowed down my cheeks. 

"John!" She called back in awe. She walked over to me and took me into her warm hands like she always do before I go to school. The scent of peace and happiness emitted from her fair skin. "Mum!" "Am I dead?" 

"You are not, Ozais..." "What you are at this moment is my comforter." She spoke with her smooth thin voice. 

"That letter I saw!" "Tell me it isn't real!" "I begged her." "Please just tell me the letter was a lie or something!" I added not knowing when my heavy eyes dropped the tears it held resting by my lashes immediately I blinked. 

"John! John! Listen to me." She called as she withdrew her arms.

"John leave the letter, you have a battle here and you were going to war with rage, you could die John." "The lady that brought you here wanted me to speak to you one last time before I move on." "She waited for the right time John." "Listen"...she added. "We do not have enough time." "Raise the spark John, bring it to life." "Awaken that power you have always feared, if you do not, Khloe's death will be in vain." 

"And your mother..., her name is..." A blast sent me out of the world where I saw my mum. The answer I have wanted, as she was about to say it, I got pulled out.

I realised nothing had changed since I left. I felt my skin burning like fire..my heart clenched, the rage dampened, my eyes shut and my body emitted flares of white fire. The fire burnt on and on and it was then I realised what Khloe did. I saw it all. As she ascended, her last words were "Till we meet again." At the wave of the blast, I saw as the horsemen that Azazel unleashed on earth vanished into thin air. The lucky survived, the fight stopped but the dead remained dead.

I felt the heat of the inferno, hell, coming closer. The wind, drained by the flares of flames. The sky still dark. The fire collapsed everything in its way and all that was left was a circle we all stood in. 

"John!" I heard the yell of Arakah, with my eyes closed. 

I caused the wind to return, ceasing the flames of hell. I lifted my body from the ground, still with my eyes closed. The wind blew my coat in all directions it went to and I stretched my hands far apart.

I heard a great bang and it was like the destruction of a planet. The background noises I heard got concealed. I felt the power flowing through me. I placed my palms before me in a praying gesture and I whispered "I unlock the seven gates of hell, of flames!"

Fire immediately surrounded the demon as it seemed. He looked towards me with words he uttered asking for his release. 

"Of darkness!" I added. "Of pain!" He yelled in pain as I heard. 

"You cannot stop it!" "Your world will fall, you all will!" Azazel yelled as the flames burnt through his skin. 

For the cause of the pain Azazel has brought upon, I summon thee Phanuel. At the call of the name, I opened my eyes and saw six lines of bright light falling from the sky. The lines descended, surrounding Azazel. I heard more yells from him as I stared at the light. I slowly descended and saw as Hilda and Arakah had their hands over their faces, along side the King and Maria.

Suddenly the lights ascended back to the skies. As soon as it met the clouds, clothed in darkness, light was brought upon earth once more and all chaos that was made was reversed. I fell to my knees on the desert floors and felt the warmth of the dry sand.

Sight slowly vanishes from this scene and is backed up by the harmony and calmness of "Copycat By Billy Elish."

Catching a glimpse at the rest of the city, Caracas, the residing chaos could not be taken back. The buildings, schools, homes, cars, properties...lives.

It was quite sudden that the lifeless bodies that flooded the streets rose back from the dead. 

Scene changes back to Hilda as she opened up her eyes and turned to Arakah. "It is done." She said nodding. No sight of evidence to what had occurred was traceable. News got filled with the fact that it was climate change and its effect that led to the destructions, but deep down we know it is just getting started. If Azazel was the forerunner, then worst is coming. 

Light fades.

Closing Scene ;

The sweet ruffles of river flowing and rushing over was heard. The wind blowing swiftly as the leaves flew with it. It was by a shore. Sight suddenly catches the closed eyes of someone by the shore. The lashes of the unknown person slowly flicked and sight zoomed out. The face got slowly revealed, the perfect shaped nose, the full lips, the smooth cheeks and it was at that moment the eyes got opened and behold it was Khloe. Sight zoomed in further and the rest of the shore was revealed. There was more to the place than a shore. It was somewhere that had been seen before. A land of advanced Technology. The Planet, Marvava!

Light fades.

Song Of Choice : CopyCat By Billy Elish

Word Count : 2.59k

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