CHAPTER 9 : WHAT AZAZEL BRINGS

CHAPTER  9

What Azazel Brings 

"9PM" Khloe's mobile device spelled out as soon as she pressed the power button. She stood by the street, beside a restaurant that was engulfed with light internally. The glassy windows exposed the internal features of the restaurant. Unused chair fitted into the tables perfectly. Tables arranged neatly, dressed like souvenirs, food servers and attendants, dressed neatly. Although she made eye contact with an unusual figure. His eyes were as red as they could possibly be, his face, crooked like, hands...pale. Maybe it was just her ephialtes. Khloe quickly blinked and looked away from the attendant. Taking a glimpse back at him, she saw everything was normal. The strangest of all was that face was the one that made the call across the street before she arrived here.

Her brows slowly knitted together as she took a closer look, trying to observe more about the restaurant. It wasn't so long before a message popped in. Without even taking a glimpse at her mobile device, she raised her face and saw someone that waved at her with a wide eye-to-eye smile. 

"Kelvin!" She whispered with a wide smile as she held up her gown, preventing the lower side from scrubbing the floor. 

Kelvin, as she addressed, stood up from his chair which was positioned at the far end corner by the left side of the restaurant. He stretched out his hand, asking for Khloe's. She placed her palm on his and he stooped slowly with his eyes rolled up at her face. He kissed her fingers endowed with a few golden jewelries. They hugged each other before they were interrupted by the attendant Khloe saw earlier. 

"I'm sorry Ma'am." "What can I get you both." His bold voice broke the bonding as he handed out a menu.

"What would you like Aphrodite?" Kelvin asked. With his hand around Khloe's waist, he peeped at her face with a wide smile.

"I'm not really hungry!" Khloe replied.

"Oh! Come on!" Being disappointed by the answer, Kelvin decided to make the order for the both of them. He collected the menu from Khloe and peeped into it. "What is the most expensive here..." He whispered, squinting his eyes.

"An Orange Cocktail!" Hmm!" 

"Yes, that will be nice!" Khloe looked at Kelvin, smiling before turning over to the attendant. 

The two moved over to the table that Kelvin was on earlier, when waiting for Khloe to arrive.

Khloe starred into his ocean eyes with a wide smile as Kelvin spoke. The conversation was quite vague. The burst out of laughter by Khloe meant he said something probably funny.

"So, I was standing over here and he walked over to me and was like " I'm the boss now!" Kelvin added, making Khloe release the laughter. She had her hand over her mouth trying not to look stupid in the almost filled restaurant.

"Okay, stop it!" Khloe said before the cocktail arrived. 

"So how are things from your side." "You know this is literally my first time in Venezuela, and I don't really know much about here!" 

"Well, you'll get to know more about this place soon." Khloe assured starring deeply into his blue sea eyes as she fell for them.

"Really?" He asked. He blinked and raised the cocktails before handing one over to Khloe and having one for himself. 

"So, there isn't really much about me, apart from what I told you on the phone, I almost ran mad on the streets, like I woke up from a dream I couldn't remember and boom! I was on the streets."

"I'm sure you'll get to remember, things will get better for sure!" Kelvin held Khloe's hand which was on the table. He sipped from the cocktail before Khloe spoke up.

"I'm confused Kelvin, they seem to be getting worst, I think I am loosing it." I found this coats in my house, when I literally live alone." Khloe added as she turned her phone over to Kelvin. As soon as she opened up the images, she felt great discomfort by the sound of silence. She heard nothing other than her voice calling out "Kelvin!" In the background.

Contradictorily, the attendant who attended to Khloe had a mobile device with him by the counter. "It's done, Get Ready." He typed and sent to a number tagged as "Unknown."

The sound started to clear off and as she reached for her pause, where she had the note. The pain started all over again just as she was about to get the paper out from the pause. She held the both corners of her head as she grasped for air. She couldn't breathe nor let the air out. 

She closed her eyes tight trying to control the noise that silence made but it was to no avail. She took her pause and stormed off the restaurant, forcing Kelvin after her, unintentionally.

"Khloe!" Kelvin's voice was heard in the background as he walked behind Khloe. 

"Stay away!" Khloe ordered. He called again and Khloe's reply wasn't so pleading. "Stay the fuck away!" Khloe yelled not even hearing her own voice. Kelvin stood there as Khloe went further and it wasn't long before He coughed. As he coughed on, he gushed out blood and suddenly fell to his knees. The attendant suddenly redressed as he walked out of the counter. An Ambulance no one called for arrived immediately. The attendant walked over to the table just to realise, one drink was taken and the other was not. And Khloe left her phone with the image of the coat she saw in her wardrobe, displaying openly. He took the device and some officials walked out from the ambulance and took Kelvin in. 

"Wrong Person!" The attendant said angrily. "Get him in fast before anyone sees." He added before getting into the driver's seat and they drove off. 

And it all started again! "Tempest Day! Tempest Night!" A bold, deep and strange voice called out. 

Scene changed immediately to Maria's house, where Maria happened to be in her room, destroying everything, raging from her bed to the cupboard. She heard the same sound as Khloe! The sound of silence. "Be you worthy see the light." The voice said as she held her head, trying to rip it apart and scene changes suddenly over to Butt in his kingdom that was now, falling apart. Sight quickly found him, at his podium, where he had been. His eyes closed, his skin was pale and his wasn't breathing. People were left still, running helter skelter. 

"The Day Of Help, The Day Of Trouble." The voice added as the lashes of the dead King fluttered. His eyes opened to the chaos of his world before the last line was heard.

"See Ozais And See Life." A dramatic loud bang was heard, along with the harmony of a music. Scene changes speedily as the three were seen again yelling at the top of their voices as the memories made its way back to them. It was not even all. The dark sky got corrupted by red flares with lightening above them. The three yelled continually and they instantly vanished. It was then, the sky gave way to four horses with their various riders. 

The Harbingers Of The Apocalypse.

Light fades.

Suddenly the three were seen together in a flourishing field, more like a mountain. "Hills behind hills, above hills, around hill," was the description of the place. At their arrival, the leaves and plants started dying from afar, reaching for them. A bright light illuminated from above. They had their hands and arms over their faces, squinting their eyes to prevent the light blinding them. It was quite sudden as the light they saw fell right before them. No damage was made to the environment, rather as the light went down, they saw a figure, one knee down and the other halfway. His fingers were on the ground and as he stood up he looked at them. And expression on their faces were priceless.

"John!" Khloe called. The leaves died on and abruptly, a portal spawned and swallowed all of them, Including John.

They appeared in a new area, a new location. There was no Field but it has the same structure of the previous place. Dry sandy and rocky mountains peaks reaching for the skies. The steeps and sides were not flourished, although the four of them stood at the bottom of the mountain, a plain large dry field, they saw how the immersive mountains were.

The warm afternoon breeze blew across the dry mountains bringing chills to each of them. Khloe stood upright and panting heavily due to the portal crossing. The veins visible showed on the King's head, his face was as pale as the dead. 

"John!" Khloe called. Distress was marked on her face as she ran to hug him.

Butt raised his head up and coughed mildly before asking "Where am I?"

"A realm far from earth." "This is where the brain behind history lives." "This is the home of Arakah, the living embodiment of Wisdom!" John replied as the sight zoomed in, catching a glimpse of the a part of the whole realm. Mountains of various kinds and shapes. And of course, there was a temple, right at the top of the mountain behind the one John and the rest stood before.

"There is only one person that can tell us how to end all of this." "Arakah, the first." "He lives here alone, in peace, watching across realms, and marking histories as an event unfolds." John detailed.

"How do you know so much?" Maria asked as she swivelled, glancing at the environment. 

"Cause I have spent my last two weeks here." "He has opened my eyes, maybe he can open yours too." "To see what you truly are, maybe what your parents are as well." John replied calmly with a bit tone of rude at the last sentence of his words. "We have to get over to the top, there we can summon him. John added pointing at over to the top of the mountain. No one specifically but to the north.

"Pfft!" "What I truly am!." Maria joked and giggled, mimicking John as he said it. John led the way and just as he was about to spawn a portal, a man in a black coat walked out of the depth of the darkness, between rocks of the lower layer of the mountain.

"Now the party can get started." The face was unseen but the voice was familiar.

"Azazel!" Khloe exclaimed. 

Light fades.

"I see you brought an army." Azazel asked as his teeth dragged the ending of each word he said. He stretched out his palm as he looked into the midst of it. 

"Well! I brought one too!" He added before turning over speedily. The sudden wind blew his dark coat and his palms were engulfed with the flares of darkness. He raised his both hands high above his head and the ground before him cracked. An inferno was seen before him, before them all. 

"Shit!" John exclaimed as the ground trembled. The unleveled floors slowly made cracks as it split up into various parts. Fortunately and unfortunately, John was together with the three as well as the demon.

Sight catches a glimpse through Azazel's eyes. The mountain before them sank into the ground. The effect of that act raised dust all around as everything became misty to the sight.

Light fades.

The barks of dogs were heard, at the top of their voices. Through the misty sight and red eyes were seen all around the leveled field. 

Four standing figures were seen through the murky atmosphere. A bold voice spoke forth and it was like roars of multiple lions. The word spoken was vague to the ears. Suddenly the smoke cleared and everything was seen clearly. 

Sight slowly moved from the floors where a crack divided three feet from one. At the left, stood John, a lady clothed in a white garment, Hilda and a man in an orange garment. The dressing style was unspecific and indescribable other than the colour that was seen and it was more like a hooded garment. Khloe, Maria and Butt were seen behind the three that stood forth. The expression of awe on their face detailed much of what they saw.

"What...The..." Khloe started off.

"Fuck!" Maria concluded.

An unspecific number of demons in the form of dogs addressed as hellhounds were seen behind Azazel. By his side stood a multitude of unfortunate individuals whose souls were taken in order for Azazel's work to be accomplished.

"You do not get it still, do you?" Azazel's hands were at his lower back waist. The eyes of every creature fashioned against the six of them on the other side. 

"You fear me when you haven't even met evil!" ""How pathetic." Like I said..."I am just a forerunner." Azazel spoke forth and scene changes immediately with his voice in the background. 

The ambulance that Khloe's presumed boyfriend was taken in, (after the incident at the bar,) drove into a dark street. 

"What is coming is worst....." Azazel added as the driver looked into his side screen in the depths of night. Starring at his side mirror for a while, he saw something unusual which raised fear in him. A three headed beast, running after the ambulance.

"No...no..I can bring her for you father!" He exclaimed. "Give me another chance please." He begged as he tried going faster.

".....And you cannot escape it." He added. The unfortunate driver who previously planned to get Khloe instead of Kelvin happened to see another creature before him. It was clothed in a dark garment all over and it had no face. It's skin crawled over the existing skin, eating it up and it went on and on. The driver trying to get away from what he saw and he unfortunately crashed into a tree.

Scene changes back to Azazel in the mountain realm "You will die, along side, the one you love." Azazel added as he stared deeply into Khloe's eyes. 

Scene changes again to the ambulance accident and it was seen, the driver bleeding from the forehead crawled out of the ambulance and just before him, stood the three headed monster, saliva gushing from its mouth, endowing him with the crown of failure. The others were dead already. And all that was left was Kelvin. The faceless creature that stopped the way, walked forward. He opened to ambulance and took out the device, and he saw the image of John's coat. He held the phone and moved behind the ambulance and opened it up. It wasn't long before the yells of human suffering and death engulfed the unidentified street. The car light shined on, brightly at a building. A huge sign of letters were placed above the building to be seen boldly. And it was written "Home Of Sedah," with blood flowing down the letters that accumulated to the sentence. It was quite unfortunate as all that was seen was seen through Khloe's eyes. Azazel made her see how her boyfriend died.

"If you do not know what is going on, I better tell you now." "I sent into script the prophecy that will ruin your existence immediately I released those horsemen." "Perhaps I have the chance to speed up the prophecy, why waste it." Azazel added and suddenly the hounds trampled upon the cracked floors and suddenly vanished.

Catching at glimpse at across Venezuela, Caracas, the city was on fire. The horsemen riding across he streets, each of them, causing something relating to their names to happen. Each street death rode upon, people end up falling dead without any cause and each Street war rode upon, people fought continually until one kills the other.

"You see you cannot stop me now!" "It is already late!" Your reality will crash, your realm will intersect with another, evil will rise and you will shall fall! Azazel added as a different world was seen. The world Pete had been to. The world which had all human replicas. Marvava. And a lady was seen on a throne, in a red gown, with wire connected to her head, her eyes wide open and her mind, controlled the entire pocket dimension.

Back to earth, a multitude of hell hounds made their ways across each Street and road, ripping humans apart, cloth to flesh to muscle to bone. 

Meanwhile in Caracas, "Maria!" Mrs Juliet called as she searched the whole house for her daughter. 

"We have to seal the house now!" Maria's father ordered. A pentagram was seen drawn already in the midst of the living room. 

"Not without my daughter, there are more like us out there in that house of Sedah, we can save them too!" Juliet insured as she opened the door up. Although her last words weren't clear as no one knows what the house of Sedah meant! Little did they know it was all for them. 

Juliet watch out! Maria's father yelled. Just as she turned over, a huge demon dog pounced on her, forcing the lights to fade.

Khloe broke down instantly after what she had seen, how Kelvin died. She fell to the ground, tears flowing down her dry cheeks. Her arms lost power, her heart gave up, her mind lost it. Maria and the King held Khloe trying to make her feel better. Trying to wash away what the demon had made her seen. 

"We have no other choice, "we cannot take him down on our own." "We need help!" Hilda said in distress and fear. "John summon the angel!" Arakah ordered. 

John's fingers flicked as he turned over to Khloe. His heart felt for her but what had to be done must be done. What destiny had made so must happen. That was the word of Raphael. "John what are you waiting for!" Arakah yelled.

"Tempest day, tempest night, be you worthy, see the light, the day of trouble, the day of help, I summon Raphael, angel of the bright!" John spoke forth as all background sounds ceased. His eyes were shut and the clouds gave way to a bright light, a light that burnt through the skin of the demon. 

Azazel groaned in pain and suddenly turned into his primordial opposite form, the smoke. 

Raphael was seen above them all, in the clouds armoured like he was ready for war with his flaming blade, alongside a thousand angels behind him. Their white wings fluttering in glory. Raphael looked down at them (John, Arakah, Hilda, and the other three), and he made eye contact with John. And his face was engulfed with worry. 

He held his sword in the midst of this face, between his palms with his eyes shut. "Go, if the bad you see in the land of eregdrix cannot be comprehended, destroy evil with evil!"

As he opened his both eyes, he flung his sword down at the ground, striking it with all energy he had in him. The sword struck down at the floors, rearranging the cracked and broken grounds and it vanished. 

Behold, it stood at the known gate way to Eregdrix and took the form of a man in a white coat, dark hair and brown eyes. "A war bringer, a war taker and a war ender...the morningstar sword." As the sword inhaled the breeze of the air concentrating his breathing towards evil, all hounds that had been seen, suddenly stopped all ongoing activities and rushed towards the creature Raphael forged from the sword, in respect to the order he gave, "Destroy Evil with evil."

Light fades. 

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