ARCHANGELS FURY

by Moerland, Scott; Clarke, Marnie; Gaspandrei

  Amitiel spoke. “So after our Lord Jesus was on earth 2000 years ago, 600 years later they were here. Then again in the 1300s and they should have been here again in 1998 but there wasn’t enough evil here, so it took longer. This means Satan’s influence over people is weakening. Satan’s agents will be trying to wipe out the entire human race this cycle! Satan is enslaved to non-physical form but he can use his power for his agents to adopt physical form.”

  As Jim listened to this, the radio was still playing news stories about people doing horrible things and he couldn’t contain himself any longer. “How the hell is there not enough evil here?” he burst out. “All you ever hear about is people doing fucked-up shit all the time. For every scumbag we lock up there are 10 to replace them!”

  As Jim was furiously ranting about all the evil you ever heard about on the news Amitiel’s eyes began to glow a very bright blue. The SERT van started to shake but not lose control as Bondy was driving. Amitiel pointed to the radio and it began to screech and squelch as the channel changed without him touching it. The same newsreader then said, “And in other news, a mother gave birth to a beautiful baby boy and unconditionally loved him, worked three jobs to raise him and gave him everything she could without ever asking for anything in return. This is happening as we speak thousands of times around the planet. In other top news approximately 2 billion people went to work today in order to advance society in their own respective areas.

  Also in breaking news today in the past 24 hours, 14 billion 712 million 432 thousand 789 gestures and acts that would be considered nice were carried out by the human race on the planet earth. Finally, Sergeant Jim Nolan’s wife Melinda, after finding out her husband survived an attack of the most horrendous nature, hugged him, kissed him and told him how much she loved him!”

  Jim interrupted. “OK, all right, I get it!” After a brief pause he added, “That was pretty cool by the way, that radio thingy you just did!”

  CHAPTER 4

  ATTACK ON THE FAMILY

  Melinda was just finishing up her final phone call to worried relatives about Jim’s miraculous recovery while the children slept silently in their bedrooms. Little did she know that on the either side of her house, each about 200 metres away, sat the archangels Raphael and Uriel in two trees, watching their home. They knew it was only a matter of time before the demons would mount an attack on the unsuspecting family, so they waited patiently.

  Melinda had arranged for one of her friends to come and spend the night at their house because Jim was in hospital and she was shaken by the day’s events.

  Before too long she heard the car of her friend Holly pull up, so she went to the front door to let her in. To her surprise her friend Holly wasn’t in the car. Instead a man got out of the driver’s seat. He was carrying a bag. Three men got out of the back seat and followed him.

  As the man reached her she said, “Hi, where is Holly?”

  The man smiled and replied, “She’s here.”

  “Where?”

  The man then pushed Melinda so hard that she fell on her backside and slid several metres across the tiled floor. He held the door open as the other three men rushed in and closed the door behind them. Panicking, Melinda screamed as the man opened the bag and emptied out the severed head of her friend. He picked Melinda up by her neck with one hand and threw her onto her back on the lounge. His wings sprouted and his eyes turned red as he held her down and began sniffing at her face like a dog. The three other demons also began to change into their real selves.

  At that moment, Jim’s son Scott walked around the corner from his bedroom to investigate his mother’s scream. He halted in shock as the demons made eye contact with him. Just as one of the demons began to walk over to grab him, the doorbell rang. The demon froze and looked at his leader, who nodded at him to answer the door. When the demon opened the door, however, no one was there. The doorway had an opening and a wall on either side so the demon walked out about two metres when all of a sudden the wing of the archangel Raphael went straight across his neck, almost cutting his head clean off.

  Raphael then stormed into the house with lightning speed, grabbed Scott and gently placed him into a cupboard and said, “It’ll be OK,” and closed the door. Using his wings, Raphael propelled himself towards another demon and hit him with a flurry of blows so hard and fast that every attempt the demon made to block or counter was thwarted almost before he tried. After hitting the demon with multiple strikes Raphael drew his sword and cut both the demon’s wings off and then sliced him from his shoulder down through to his hip in a 45-degree angle, cutting him in half.

  The leader of the demons then held Melinda up in front of him as a hostage. His fingernails grew out into razors towards her neck as a threat. The other demon knew he was no match and ran straight towards the back door as fast as he could. When he arrived at the back door and ran out, an arm came straight out from behind the wall, hitting the demon in the face so hard his body did a backward somersault and he landed on his head. The sound of the demon’s neck breaking was like a tree branch snapping.

  The archangel Uriel then walked into the lounge room and stood beside Raphael as they watched the demon holding Melinda at ransom.

  “You know you have no chance of beating us and I don’t normally make deals with you filth but I’ll make one with you,” Raphael said.

  “I could kill this little bitch right here,” the demon snarled.

  “Yes and then we will kill you and send you straight back to hell where you belong,” said Uriel.

  “You’ve been on the earth plane for 10 days now,” Raphael continued. “Do you think your master will be pleased with you if you go back and tell him you’ve only managed to kill a few of God’s children, when there are more than 6 billion left to flourish?”

  “What’s the deal?”

  “Release this child and we will let you walk out of here.”

  “Why is this little whore so important? When you know if I walk out of here I will kill hundreds, maybe even thousands, more of your precious little rodents.”

  “We will let you go because we want you to deliver a message to Sammael,” Raphael said.

  “What ridiculous message could you have that would be of even the remotest interest?”

  “You tell him he is going to have to face God’s wrath in the future but our wrath is coming much sooner!” Raphael boomed. “Hell is going to seem like paradise when we are finished with him.”

  “Sammael has been granted even more power by Satan and even though I don’t have the power to match you, Sammael and the other arch demons do!” the demon countered.

  Uriel laughed. “Is that why Lilith is dead? A human killed him! What chance do they have against us? All of your little bitch masters have been beaten by us over and over again and we will beat them again this time.”

  Raphael spoke. “We are actually glad you idiots took physical form again because even though you are killing humans we love, they are going to heaven and we quite enjoy killing you and sending you back to hell!”

  The demon pondered the deal for a moment and slowly released Melinda. She fell to the ground and began to get her breath back. The demon took a couple of steps to the left and picked up speed while the archangels stood still and watched him go.

  Uriel held his hand out to Melinda and said, “It’s OK,” as Raphael went to collect the children.

  As the family sat on the lounge crying and consoling each other they heard the screeching of a van pulling up. A terrified Jim ran in, almost tripping over the disintegrating bodies of the dead demons. He picked his children up and began to kiss them and his wife, as Bondy re-holstered his side arm. The archangels greeted each other with a hug and a handshake.

  Raphael dragged the demons’ bodies one by one into the yard and threw them about 50 metres through the air over Jim’s back fence into bushland.

  “We need to leave,” Uriel said. “We can’t stay here.”

  “Where can we go?”
Bondy asked.

  “Somewhere open but secluded. Jim, the property your father left you out west will be a good place to hole up. It’s in the middle of the outback and we will be able to see them coming.”

  “It’s about a six-hour drive from here and we need to fight these things, not run away from them,” Jim said.

  “We are not running away, we are simply changing the battle ground,” Raphael said. “Central Queensland is very open and there are not many people out there, so fewer innocent people will get caught in the crossfire.”

  “How long will we have to stay out there?” Jim asked.

  “Until it is over. We will drive out there tonight. From there we want you to ring as many people as you can and convince them to pack as much food, water and weapons as they can and get out of the cities.”

  Uriel spoke. “I know this is very hard to hear but there is about to be an apocalypse. Sammael is pure evil and he is cunning and devious. We don’t know how he is going to do it but he plans to kill every human on earth.”

  “Why can’t we just find him and cap him?” Bondy asked.

  “Satan has cloaked all the arch demons,” Raphael answered. “He is very powerful but every now and then his power drops just enough for us to sense the positions of the lower-ranking demons. If one of them is killed we can read all their thoughts simultaneously for about 10 seconds.”

  “That’s why when Jim killed Lilith,” Uriel said, “the demons’ cloaking power dropped for long enough for me to sense where the others were. I was the closest to you and that’s how I was able to save you.”

  “Not that I don’t appreciate you saving my life and all but why did you wait for me to go to hospital before you healed me?” Jim asked.

  “Because God needed you to have a near-death experience. Almost every person who has a glimpse of heaven changes their lives dramatically. They realise what is important in life, and that is spreading love and peace to each other. Unless we can stop the demons, they are going to kill a lot of people. If they succeed, the survivors need to start educating the next generation in the correct way to live.”

  “Jim,” Uriel continued, “We need you to gather as many supplies as you can and we will drive out to your father’s property. We have to wait and see what Sammael’s next move will be.”

  “Melinda, we need you to get some very warm clothes for yourself and the kids,” said Raphael.

  Melinda started gathering clothes as Jim and Bondy put all the canned food from the cupboard into boxes and threw them into the SERT van.

  As the men hurried around the house, gathering stores, the archangels stood in a circle with their hands on each other’s shoulders and prayed silently.

  The five archangels, Jim, Bondy, Melinda and the kids then piled into the van and Jim began driving. Bondy called Captain Taylor and relayed what the archs had told them. He tried to persuade the captain to convince as many cops as he could to relocate from the cities.

  Within an hour they were clear of the city and well on their way on a quiet highway, heading west. There was enough food to keep them going for a week. Jim’s property was an empty cattle station. Though it was no longer in use it still had all the amenities and a generator for electricity.

  By the time they arrived at the property the sun was coming up so Melinda woke the kids. They all began to shuttle the stores into the house.

  Jim went out to the back of the house and fired up the generator as the archs placed themselves around the house and watched the sky. Only Raphael went inside with the others and switched on the television. He flicked through the channels looking for the news and eventually found it.

  “As reports about these murders flood in from all over the world, conspiracy theories range broadly. Everything from aliens to devil worshippers to Al-Qaeda has been blamed. One thing is certain. The victims are being killed in the most horrific manner. Police are remaining tight lipped as to the whereabouts of the two Special Operations officers who survived a shootout with some of the suspected terrorists yesterday. According to sources Sergeant Jim Nolan and Constable Nick Bond survived a vicious attack and killed five suspects. Unfortunately three members of the special operations team were killed. Reports suggest Sergeant Nolan was severely wounded in the incident and has been relocated to an unknown medical facility. Captain Taylor of the Queensland Police Service will hold a press conference this afternoon, which is hoped to shed some light on this devastating week.”

  Concerned by the news report, Raphael stared silently at the television as Jim came back inside and joined them. Melinda rose to go to the kitchen to make coffee. She paused and asked Raphael, “Do you guys even eat or drink?”

  “We don’t need to but I will have a coffee with you,” he said.

  “OK, I’ll get you some.”

  The children went outside and walked up to where Metatron stood watching the sky.

  Scott was eight years old and Rebecca was six so they were restless. Apparently unconcerned by the previous day’s events, Scott asked the archangel, “Do you wanna play?”

  “Sure, what would you like to play?” he replied.

  “Soccer.”

  “How about I take you two kids for a ride?”

  Rebecca piped up, “Me first.”

  Metatron smiled and picked them up, one in each arm, and sprouted his wings. He slowly flew up in the air and started circling the house as the children squealed out for their mother to come and watch. Melinda stopped making the coffee and walked out onto the balcony and waved at the kids as they flew around the house, laughing. She was surprised to see that Metatron’s wings were not flapping at a hundred miles an hour but only slowly. It was as if he was levitating and the wings were just there for show.

  She walked back inside and started back up where she left off, but soon stopped again and started to cry as the stress of what she had seen in the past 24 hours and what the archs had told them finally hit her.

  Hearing her, Amitiel entered the kitchen and gave her a hug. “You are safe,” he said. “We won’t let anything happen to you or the kids.”

  “How can they do this?” Melinda sobbed, wiping her eyes on her sleeve.

  “They are the complete opposite of what you would refer to as good. They exist only to cause pain and misery.”

  “Well they’ve done a good job,” she said shakily. “What do they get out of it?”

  “The more negativity they create, the more of that energy they absorb. It’s their ambrosia. It’s kind of like eating for them except they don’t get full.”

  Collecting herself, Melinda walked with Amitiel to the lounge room with the cups of coffee.

  As they sat drinking, Jim asked Uriel, “How come the demons look like any other man but they weigh so much?”

  Uriel turned and lifted his shirt up. His wings were not sprouted so all that was there were two cleavages in his skin where his shoulder blades were. He directed Jim to feel the indents and around them. Jim poked the archangel’s back in several places.

  “You’re rock hard.”

  “We are more powerful in non-physical form than physical form, believe it or not,” Uriel said. “In non-physical form we can fly around the earth seven and a half times a second and can influence hundreds of people at once. In physical form our influence is reduced to only those we encounter and talk to. When we adopt physical form our muscles are much more condensed than those of humans but that’s not our source of strength. Our source of power comes directly from the light in heaven; we use love and compassion as power. The fallen use hate and pride. The energy is real and as a soul you can actually see it.”

  “So why are you all such good fighters if you are all about love?” Jim asked.

  “That’s our purpose. We are to keep the balance here on earth and keep the fallen out of heaven. It doesn’t mean we love any less than other angels; it is simply one of our duties. If Lucifer hadn’t defected we would never have the need to fight but he is the source of all evil. We need to kee
p a balance here on the earth plane for you to have free will and decide which path you want to follow. The trouble is, he and his minions underestimated the human race. The fallen have been causing humans to do evil since the beginning of time but humans are slowly turning out better than even we had hoped. So now Satan wants to have one last act of revenge. He knows he is no match for God so he wants to kill God’s most loved creation.”

  “So why have they waited all this time and why are there so many of them and only you five?”

  “The fallen have tried twice before in physical form to cause as much damage as possible but they didn’t reveal themselves as demons to humans and if they had they would have made sure the witnesses were dead.”

  “Why?” Melinda asked. “I don’t get it.”

  “Satan’s best trick was convincing the world he didn’t exist!” Uriel said. “That way the fallen could tempt humans in non-physical form and humans wouldn’t know it was them. When they do adopt physical form, we can too but we can’t unleash heaven’s army here on earth because the war would be unimaginable. Worse than any war your species has ever seen. The planet would be uninhabitable. We won’t bring forth our army unless Satan attempts to send more of his warriors here than God has allowed him to. So basically unless the fallen succeed in killing the majority of humans here on earth, we are it. Satan’s demons basically have squatting rights.”

  “You’ve got to be shitting me!” Bondy burst out. “I was an atheist up until yesterday and now all of a sudden I’ve killed demons, met archangels and been told that God won’t unleash His warriors unless a couple of billion people get killed.”