Chapter 4: The Godkiller and The Resurrection

"It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all."

Luke 17: 28-29

Before the arrow could drive itself dead center between my eyes the Lightbringer slashed the arrow, and I watched in slight amazement as the arrow dispersed into spiritual energy. While I had known it wasn't an actual arrow per say, the damage her arrow would have left would have killed me on impact.

There was a reason she was the 1st Ascended Nephilim, and was boastful enough to call her weapon the Godkiller.

She had ruthlessly murdered the 5th Mohammed Mujadeen.

Mohammed Mujadeen had been someone I had looked up to prior to the ascension. He had been someone I had personally respected as a Christian and I had taken some of his qualities into my beliefs. He had been an Iranian pastor who had preached the teachings of Yehoshua HaMasiach in Iran and had been arrested and sentenced to execution.

The Iranians had given him the option to renounce his faith or face execution and he had not denied the Son of God. He had held on to his faith at 11:11 on December 21, 2012 he crossed through the veil and rose as an angelic human.

He had chosen to return to Earth and preach to the Arab community about the Anti-Christ's true identity. Then Antiochus Mabus had broken the peace treaty after the first 42 months and there had been a bloody battle that had resulted in the death of the Anti-Christ.

The world had gone in shock; they could not believe that it had been possible to take out the King. The man wielded ten Islamist nations, and conquered the US and Europe and forcefully spread Islam across the globe. Then the Anti-Christ had been resurrected and the façade he had before of Islamist messiah was removed, and he had ordered the ascended to be slain, branded them a terrorist organization and started the Universal War against Yahuwah Most High.

Mabus had offered the mark to the second and fifth ascended, and they had refused. They had been slain by the 1st and 3rd ascended for it.

Even though it had saddened me to see his passing, deep down I rejoiced.

I knew where he was, sitting next to Yehoshua in Heaven enjoying eternal life. For Alexis Jones, there would be no eternal life, nothing but fire and brimstone where she was going. I took a good look at her, she was slightly shorter than me at five feet, seven inches.

She had once been so beautiful.

The most beautiful of all the ascended, now her beauty was marred by sin, blaspheme, murder, and Godlessness.

Dark hazel eyes on caramel skin and long, flowing red hair.

Even now she was still beautiful, but to me her beauty was gone. I saw her for who she was. A six was tattooed on her forehead and on her hands, worship to her god, and an ultimate death sentence for her blasphemous mouth.

She was the Harlot.

The worst of the worst, the most powerful of the ascended and wife to no other than King Mabus.

"Hello Ezekiel, how are you darling?" she greeted me warmly, a false smile plastered on her mouth. She let her bow dissipate, the Godkiller disappearing in a burst of spiritual energy.

"Not bad, got kidnapped by homunculi and now I'm back to helping people. You wouldn't know about that though." I replied with a little bit of attitude.

To say I wasn't bitter towards her since she executed the 5th six months ago would be a lie.

Alexis and Michael had executed Isaiah the second and Mohammed the fifth ascended and broadcasted on the Onenet around the world.

King Mabus had captured them after he had been resurrected and kept them in high security prison for two days before ordering Alexis and Michael to behead them both. After murdering them, they had left their bodies in the streets of Jerusalem for three and a half days. I had come to Jerusalem for a suicidal rescue mission and failed.

I was not supposed to save them.

After the 3 and a half days, the breath of life from God was blown into their bodies and they had resurrected. A voice had spoken from the heavens saying, "Come up here." And they had ascended into the clouds while King Mabus and his armies watched angrily.

I had left after that, which had been a good thing because an earthquake struck afterwards killing 7,000 and a tenth of the city collapsed. That had been the sounding of the sixth trumpet. There were different trumpets for different plagues, a symbol of God's wrath on Earth.

An angel had blown the first trumpet was blown and fire and hail rained on Earth, and a third of the world's plant population had burned up in a fiery blaze.

The second trumpet was blown and an asteroid called Wormwood struck earth, impacting Russia and wiping the great nation off the country. Body parts had turned a third of the ocean red and a third of the sea creatures had died after the impact. Numerous naval ships had gone down and the casualties had amassed to over 200 million. Those who hadn't died from the initial impact of the asteroid had died afterwards as the water turned bitter.

The fourth angel had blasted his trumpet and the sun was cracked by the impact of collision with a roving star. Pieces of the sun struck the moon and the stars, taking out a third of the moon and stars in the solar system.

Another angel had appeared on Earth and cried out in a loud voice. "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels."

The fifth trumpet was sounded and an alien spaceship had invaded earth. The visitors had come from somewhere in the Orion belt. The spaceship crashed on Earth and smoke had risen all the way to the heavens. After the smoke had passed, aliens had come out and declared war against King Mabus. The war was nothing more than an orchestrated affair as the aliens were actually under the rule of the Anti-Christ.

The aliens had killed a few million of humans in the fight but they were only allowed to harm those who were not ascended or the 144,000. If one didn't have the seal of God on their foreheads the aliens tortured them for five months.

People had been abducted in fake "Raptures" and none had returned.

The aliens all wore gold crowns on their humanoid heads. Their faces were somewhat human; their hair was long and silver in color. Instead of teeth they had fangs like that of a lion and they had barbed tails with poison on them that they used to hurt humanity with.

The sixth trumpet was the last one to be blown so far. When the trumpet was sounded, four fallen angels had been released from their prison somewhere in the Euphrates. Abaddon, the fallen angel and king of the abyss was released as well as Sammael, Azazel, and Lilith.

Those four angels were part of the first rebellion against God, which caused for them to be cast out of Heaven and imprisoned until the sixth trumpet was sounded. I didn't know too much about the fallen angels, mainly because I had never encountered them before and didn't know too much to base my knowledge off.

Mohammed had once told me there had been a whole book dedicated to the fallen angels called the Book of Enoch but it had been purged from the bible with a few other books because they had been controversial.

I did know about Lilith.

She was infamous.

She was the first wife of Adam.

Lilith was an angel who had been sent to Earth as Adam's companion but had been rejected by Adam because she was powerful and superior to him. Spurned by his rejection she had joined Lucifer and the others and rebelled against God. After being tossed from Heaven she had seduced many men, creating the first Nephilim and afterwards became known as the mother of all demons.

She was Lucifer's wife.

Alexis Jones, the 1st ascended watched me with mocking eyes. "You love sucking up to Daddy don't you?" she asked.

I turned to Sam the homunculi. "Get out of here, she'll easily kill you. I'll meet you later." I told her.

Sam shook her head. "I'm not going anywhere." She replied, baring her fangs at Alexis.

"Someone's got a crush… You've been naughty haven't you Ezekiel? Someone's been straying from God?" Alexis said sneering at me, a haughty look on her face.

"You would know all about that wouldn't you Harlot?" I replied, the Lightbringer steady in my hands.

"You think you're going to be saved?" Alexis said, laughing. "You think God really gives two fucks about you? Foolish little boy, there is no God, just the Great Pretender, and I will kill him, I swear I will." Alexis shouted, her voice blasphemous. If I could have, I might have ripped off her head right then and there.

"Alexis, the only who will die is you. For all your blasphemies, for your betrayal, you will burn in the lake of fire next to your husband. I promise you'll get front row tickets bitch. I'm not perfect, but to deny God to the level you have is beyond all understanding. You saw the Veil, the first to ascend to come back to Earth as a Nephilim and yet you betrayed your Maker and Master." I replied sadly.

"I'm not going to die…ever. I won't. I will become God." Alexis snapped. "You're the worst of them all number seven. You think you're faithful to God; you couldn't even be faithful to your wife. You have no right to be so self-righteous fornicator, adulterer. Your weapon is named after Lucifer, and you too will be betrayed by God just like he was." Alexis added cynically.

"While it's true that Lucifer's name means Light Bringer, I will not suffer his fate. I will be faithful to God, until the very end. This weapon, my power isn't used to bring evil upon the world like yours. This weapon, the power bestowed to me by God will be used exactly as He meant for me to use it. It is called the Lightbringer because it does what Lucifer was supposed to be." I said.

"What's that?" Alexis asked.

"A beacon of light to illuminate the world and give glory to the Most High. No matter how close to death I am, no matter how dark the world may appear, this weapon will never lose its light as long as I remain faithful to God, and that I will be until I return to His side." I responded.

"You're delusional. Join me, take this one last offer I'm going to give you Ezekiel and join us. We will have the world, we will have Heaven, and we will kill God and anyone who worships him." Alexis offered.

I chortled with laughter.

"No thanks whore." I replied, vanishing in a blur as I swung the Lightbringer to lop off her head.

I would have to come up with a good plan to defeat her; she was the strongest ascended, and amassed even more power since her corruption. She had killed legions of the weaker ascended and plenty of the higher ranking ones. There was a reason King Mabus had married her and kept her around his side.

Before I could take off her head, the Godkiller bow smashed into my sword sending me stumbling back. "Call me a whore again and I'll castrate you!" Alexis warned, her red hair whipping in the air as her hazel eyes burned holes into my head.

"Try it." I told her, disappearing again and reappearing in front of her, my sword slicing in a wide arc. Yellow energy brimmed off the sword and she deflected it once again.

"You're nowhere near strong enough to kill a god!" Alexis screamed, smashing the bow into my face, blood gushing out of my broken nose.

"I'm strong enough to kill a whore." I replied, punching her in the face with my free hand. It just bounced off her chin, hurting me more than it did her.

"I'LL KILL YOU!" Alexis screamed, her hazel eyes dark with rage. Purple black flames surrounded her as she mounted another arrow on the bow. The Godkiller was fired, a purple black flame arrow flying towards my crotch and I dodged it narrowly, skating across the tunnel floor.

"Run Sam." I ordered.

Sam ignored me and charged in. Disappearing with superhuman speed, she appeared in front of Alexis and kicked her across the mouth as hard as she could, not moving Alexis in the slightest. "Dumb bitch." Alexis replied. "You should have listened to your boyfriend." Alexis warned, her hands shooting out and grabbing Sam by the throat.

Alexis snapped Sam's throat and tossed her body to the side.

I knew she wouldn't die from that but it might momentarily incapacitate her for a second. I flew towards Alexis, yellow energy building up in the Lightbringer. "Light Bomb!" A blast of yellow energy came out of the Light Bringer enveloping Alexis in it.

Black purple flames shot up and wrapped itself around her like a shield.

Black purple flames wrapped themselves around her hands. "Flash Fire!"

The flames shot at me like a flamethrower, ready to burn me away into a charred crisp. Placing the Lightbringer in front of me, I summoned up as much energy as I could muster to counter. The flames hit the sword and kept going, and I could feel the heat at my sides.

Alexis vanished and reappeared in front of me. "Flame Punch!"

Her fist found her way into my stomach, searing the flesh and bending me over in pain. "Flame Kick!" Alexis shouted, giving me a spinning kick to the face that sent me reeling. I could feel the energy all around me slowly being drawn into me. I was trying to heal the wounds her fire left.

Ironically it wasn't even her original power.

It was the power she had stolen from Mohammed Mujadeen.

Alexis vanished in a blur and reappeared in front of me. Her fists were angry, connecting with my face, more blood spilling on the floor. I feebly tried to fight back to no avail. She was much too powerful.

'God, give me the strength to do what must be done.' I prayed silently.

The Lightbringer slashed at her midsection, catching her by surprise as the sword cut a deep gash into her side. Within seconds it began reconstructing itself as she regenerated her wound.

This would be a tough fight.

Not only was she stronger than me but also she could heal much faster than I could. Hell, she could regenerate wounds in seconds. Not giving her the opportunity to attack again, the Lightbringer arced once more and blew apart her right arm.

Alexis screeched in pain and back stepped, placing some much-needed distance between us. Her right arm regenerated itself and the arm I had cut off decayed before dispersing into purple black flames. "You will die!" Alexis screamed, firing another arrow out of her bow.

The arrow flew towards me at the speed of sound and I ducked underneath it. I flew towards her before she could react. "Light Bomb!" A sphere constructed from my spiritual energy formed in my hands and I slammed it into her chest. Her sternum caved before exploding outward, her bones flying.

One of her bone shards find its way into my neck, blood gushing out of the wound. I fell to the ground, forcing the energy to try to close the wound. Summoning up some more spiritual energy into the Lightbringer I leapt at Alexis.

"Light Gun Destroyer!"

Her chest still hadn't healed, an open maw in the middle of her chest where blood flowed freely and I could see her heart, pumping away as energy began to try to regenerate.

I aimed the Lightbringer at her chest. A massive wave of yellow energy exploded outwards from my sword, blinding me and her, enveloping us in its brightness.

The resounding explosion was like a nuclear bomb. My eardrums burst and blood oozed from my ears as I was blown backwards, caught up in my own attack's crescendo.

Alexis wailed in pain, as guttural animal sounds came out of her mouth. Flames burst outward trying to protect her but they sputtered and died.

The Light Gun Destroyer was my strongest attack. Focusing all the energy in the area around me, I honed it into the Lightbringer, unleashing a wave of destructive energy at whatever it was aimed at. The bad part about it was that not only did it drain me of my own physical energy, but the resulting explosion also backfired onto me, wounding me some.

I rarely ever resorted to using it, but Alexis was not any opponent.

She was the first ascended, slayer of many ascended, the Harlot, wife of the Anti-Christ King Mabus. She was the most powerful foe I've ever faced and dear God she was fucking scary. The Light Gun Destroyer didn't even kill her.

She stood back up to her feet; her green dress was torn in tatters, her breasts splayed out for me to see.

I had the decency to blush.

She stared at me through feral hazel eyes, her anger evident on her face. Her hair was ragged, and a snarl formed on her face. The Godkiller was in her hands before I could even move. "Godkiller Flame Destroyer." She said, her voice eerily quiet.

I could see spiritual energy being drawn into her. It was a nauseating feeling, as the pure energy that was drawn into her was converted into a dark, malicious energy. A fiery arrow was mounted on the black bow, but it was bigger than all the arrows she had shot at me earlier. The fire became a raging maelstrom, scorching the very air.

I looked around to see how we could escape but I was fucked, I was in a fucking tunnel. Alexis was on the side with the exit and was currently blocking it with a massive fire arrow she was about to shoot at me. Sam's body was laid out behind, neck still broken and tossed next to the vault door.

This might be it.

I think I'm about to die.

'I'll see you in Paradise.' I prayed.

I closed my eyes as Alexis fired the arrow. There was a whooshing sound, like if the very air was sucked from the room. I opened up my eyes and I could literally see hell coming towards me. Flames formed from dark energy, powered by the slain souls, and tainted with King Mabus' evil. The flame coming for me had the face of a beast.

"Goodbye Ezekiel Rivera, you almost had me."

The beast opened up his fiery mouth.

I closed my eyes again.

I heard a painful scream but I was sure it didn't come from my mouth. I could feel the heat from the arrow scorching me but it hadn't hit. I opened up my eyes again and I saw Sam standing in front of me. The massive black flame arrow had lodged itself in her chest and was burning her alive in front of me. Sam screamed. "Get out of the way!"

I nodded weakly and moved away from her. She was trying weakly to hold the arrow and stop it from bursting out her back.

She had sacrificed herself for me.

Tears sprung to my eyes. "Why?" I asked her.

"Because the world is better off with you in it Ezekiel. I'm mad we didn't get to fuck… Marlene always did beat me." She said and I swallowed the sob in my throat. I forced out a laugh, and then I screamed as I watched the arrow tear right through her.

"No!" I reached out for her and she fell backwards. Everything below her neck was charred and there was a massive hole where her midsection used to be.

"I think I'm going to die… everything feels cold." Sam whispered.

"Don't, don't leave me Sam." I begged her.

"I don't think I have a choice," she said quietly. "If I did, I'd stay with you forever Ezekiel. I don't know much about you, but there is a beauty to you that you don't even see. You're so beautiful; you shine so bright with God's love. I can feel Him. God will never abandon you Ezekiel." She said.

"Thank you." I wasn't sure what to say, my heart was torn in pieces. While I hadn't known Sam for longer than a few hours, we had bonded closely. We had talked about each other and gotten to know each other, and for once my stone cold heart had woken up from its slumber.

My heart hadn't cared for anyone since Selena.

Much too fast the green-eyed woman had wormed her way into my heart. How could I lose her now?

"Kiss me." She begged softly and how could I deny her when she just sacrificed her life for mine?

I smiled and leaned down until my lips grazed hers. "I'm sorry." I said honestly, pain marred all over my face.

"Don't be."

Her eyes closed and she died.

"I wonder what your God would have to say, you hooking up with one of Lucifer's creations." Alexis teased, her voice cutting through the silence.

"Shut the fuck up…" I growled out, sobs shaking my body.

"You must have really had feelings for that corpse. You realize she's been dead for some time right?" Alexis said sneering.

I was shaking with rage now. A black hole of infernal fury consumed me. I tried to bury it within me, to force my thoughts on purity, calamity. But I couldn't, because deep down I wanted to kill Alexis. I wanted to cut her up into as many pieces as possible then set her body on fire.

"Shut up!" I shouted, turning towards her.

Her hazel eyes were bright with excitement, a sadistic smile on her face. "Make me bitch!" Alexis replied cockily.

I lost it.

I disappeared, closing the distance between us in microseconds, my right hand grabbing her by the throat and slamming her in the wall. I held her up in the air, squeezing tightly on her throat, watching the surprise in her eyes, enjoying the pain I was about to inflict. "Light Gun Cannon." I whispered in her ear before ramming my sword into her heart.

I knew it wouldn't be enough to kill her, but for now I was content on pinning her to the wall with the Lightbringer. The explosion rocked the tunnel and Alexis screamed in pain as I blew her midsection apart, her entrails bouncing off the metal floor with a wet thud.

"Fuck you Ezekiel." She said, spitting blood in my face.

I laughed cruelly and wiped off the blood. "Who'd want to fuck that disgusting pussy anyway other than the vilest King Mabus himself?" I said, sneering.

The pain in her eyes was worth every second of it. "You're not sounding so Christian like right now… What happened to turn the other cheek?" she asked, frightened now.

She had never seen me this angry before, and really I couldn't recall every being this furious. All I knew was that I wanted to hurt her like she hurt me. I couldn't kill King Mabus so tearing her down would have to be enough. "No cheek left to turn. You don't have a soul worth saving anymore, your existence is blasphemous to God. Your mouth is a resting place for sin and blasphemies. God would probably want me to kill you right about now." I said cruelly.

"Why can't you get it already, there is no God. We are Gods." Alexis spat out.

I shook my head and laughed in her face. "If there is no God then how where we ascended?" I asked her before punching her in the face, snapping her neck to the side viciously.

"If there is no God, where will I find forgiveness?" I demanded, spiritual energy forming a sphere in my hand, before I rammed it into her stomach, shoving my hands into her intestines.

"Forgive yourself, only you can judge yourself." Alexis replied, screaming as I squeezed her intestines in a vice grip.

"It can't work like that, someone has to hold us accountable…" Alexis interrupted me.

"And who fucking holds him responsible… he created us and abandoned us, like we were nothing. Are we so insignificant to him?" she asked.

"If He didn't love you, you wouldn't have been transformed and ascended. All you had to do was be faithful to him, and instead you whored yourself to the enemy and you dare judge God? Who are you to do so?" I demanded.

"Who are you to judge me?" Alexis whispered weakly, blood spilling from her lips. Because the Lightbringer was still buried inside her she had healed with the sword still in her, reopening the wounds over and over again.

"I'm His sword." I responded. "Who will defend God from your mockery and blasphemy? He allows you to speak those words because His mercy is great. Mine is not…" I sliced through her some more.

There was a crack of thunder, and I could hear the beating of wings. "Stand down Ezekiel!" I heard a voice order.

I turned my head and beside me was the archangel Gabriel. "Spare her now." He commanded.

I could feel myself being irritated. I was too far gone in my bloodlust to stop now. "Why? Why must she live when Sam couldn't?" I demanded angrily.

"She cannot die yet. You and her will fight again and then you will kill her but it is not time for her yet. You must let her go. If you kill her now, not only are you breaking the orders given to you by God Himself but also you will become as evil as she is. You can't handle her power Ezekiel, not yet." Gabriel said with a tone of authority.

He was still dressed in the white garb from last time. He had a golden sash wrapped around him with a large broadsword behind him.

"This is bullshit." I snapped, pulling the sword from her chest.

"You shouldn't let me live to see another day… I will kill God himself." Alexis boasted. It took everything I had not to kill her.

Apparently I wasn't the only one annoyed by her. "Silence your mouth, infidel." Gabriel commanded and she did, her lips had been sealed by force. Gabriel looked at us both. "Listen, both of you."

"Gaze at the heavens and see, and view the skies, which are higher than you. If you sinned, how do you harm God, and if your transgressions are many, what do you do to God? If you are righteous, what do you give God? Or what does God take from your hand? Your wickedness affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness a child of humanity."

"Throwing some Job at me?" I asked, my voice full of mirth.

Gabriel actually smiled. "You remind me of him. You question God so much because you lost every one you've ever loved like him. Instead of questioning God, thank Him for allowing you to still live, while many had perished." Gabriel told me.

"So do I get another wife, a bunch of kids, and be rich for the rest of my life?" I asked.

Gabriel laughed and gave me a shrug. "Perhaps. You shouldn't worry about your life here on Earth, for that is short. Yehoshua of Nazareth will return soon and all your suffering here will be worth it, but you must maintain like Job, or you will burn away like your enemies." Gabriel told me.

I could hear his wings fluttering. "Alexis and Ezekiel, follow me." Gabriel said, walking towards Sam's corpse.

"What do you want with her?" I asked.

"You'll see." Gabriel grunted out.

He kneeled over her corpse and held his hand out. "Alexis, this is what God thinks of Ezekiel's feelings towards Samantha the Homunculi." Tendrils of pure white energy left his fingertips. The energy began to pour into her body and reconstructed her body entirely as if she had never been hurt.

Her eyes were still closed in peace.

"Are you saying that God wants her alive?" Alexis asked, dumbfounded.

"Yes." Gabriel said curtly.

"And that Ezekiel will kill me, but not now?" Alexis continued.

"Yes." Gabriel replied, a look of annoyance on his face.

She pulled out her Godkiller bow and aimed it at Gabriel's face. "Then why don't I just end both of you right now?"

"Are you foolish enough to challenge me Gabriel, one of the seven guardian Archangels?" He asked, reaching behind him to grab his sword. His four massive wings were completely spread out and the look on his face let Alexis know that this was one fight she didn't want.

"I'll see you real soon Ezekiel, until next time." Alexis said hurriedly, before blasting off into flight.

Gabriel opened his mouth and breathed some more of the white tendrils of energy into Sam's mouth. "She is alive." Gabriel said quickly, getting back up to his feet. "I must go, but before I do, know this. If Sam is here, alive and well it's because God wanted her to be. If she chose to be by your side for this fight, then maybe it's for a reason." Gabriel continued.

I looked at Sam's body. Her chestnut hair was splayed out, eyes closed serenely. She had this peaceful, innocent look to her. Slowly her eyelids fluttered open and she stood up. Immediately the first thing she did was plant a kiss on my lips.

"I'm ascended." Sam said, and my eyes widened.

"What?" I asked, dumbfounded.

"Yeah. I died and went to Heaven and God gave me the choice to stay there or come back to you. I wanted to come back to you, I did the right thing right?" Sam asked, her lips kissing mine once again.

"Ezekiel, Samantha." Gabriel called out, interrupting us. We looked at him and gave him our undivided attention. "Now that Samantha has ascended you will be in charge of her. Go to what's left of Puerto Rico together and train. You must leave before the eclipse; you do not want to be here when that happens. King Mabus and his followers will not be able to find you there. Stay there and await further orders." Gabriel ordered.

"Not that I'm bitching, but there's not much left there. Why Puerto Rico?" I asked.

Gabriel snorted in annoyance. "You ask too much. King Mabus has an ascended who's a sensor type. He can find you almost anywhere, except there's an interference around the island that doesn't allow the sensors to find you." Gabriel explained.

"The Bermuda Triangle." I said and Gabriel nodded sagely.

"No more questions." Gabriel said quickly before I could ask away. "I must go now." He burst off into flight.

I looked up and saw his wings spread and he was gone. Turning back to Sam, I grabbed her by the hand. "I'm glad you're alive, and I'm glad you're one of us now." I told her, she smiled and I pulled her towards me, flush against my body.

"I'm glad God sent me back to you." Sam said, her emerald green eyes shining brightly.

"You have no idea Sam, I was scared you were gone forever…" I admitted, kissing her forehead gently. I cradled her face in my hands, her eyes boring into mine. God's power illuminated us; thick flames of spiritual energy rising in the form of an aura cloaked us. Sam's flames were white, and began to mix with my yellow flames.

"I like you, I really do, and that's what scares me."

I kissed her.

My body was sore, and while I was no longer hurt I still felt physically drained. It felt like I was coming down off an adrenaline high. Her lips were soft, softer than anything I've ever felt. Her arms wrapped themselves around me and I honestly felt no shame or guilt. This felt right and best of all it felt pure. There was no malice, no feverish lust to fornicate hazing my thoughts.

This clearly felt right.

"There's nothing wrong with this right?" Sam asked me openly, her face full of joy.

"How can it be?" I asked, kissing her again. She smiled against my lips and I pulled away before I could keep kissing her. "We still have to follow the rules Sam. If we sin, it taints the color of your spiritual energy. It tells us how we appear before God. Right now your flames are white because you're untainted. I've fornicated, I sometimes curse, I question God even though it's not my place, I mess up. So my flames are yellow because it's been tainted, but because the blood of the Lamb redeems me, God has forgiven me. Alexis as you saw, was purple black because of how far she's fallen."

Sam nodded numbly. "I understand."

"Sam, even though we're ascended, we're still human. Because we're so far from God's Throne, the less perfect we become. We can still sin and lose the promise of eternal salvation. But God chose us, to spread the message of repentance. But they will not listen, their ears are closed, their eyes are blind. They will curse us, persecute us, because of the son of God. We are the last of his faithful and we still have a mission to follow, and in that we cannot falter, that comes before us."

"I know, Yehoshua explained it when I was up there. He said Mabus will use this as a weapon against you and you have to be prepared to make a choice too." Sam revealed.

"Did he saw about what?" I asked nervously.

"He said you'd ask that. It is not for you to know, not yet. He said that a time will come when you will lose all hope and faith. At that time in your worst suffering you will have to make a choice, and its outcome will decide whether you will saved or fall. Persevere and you will wear a crown, you will have a new name written into the Book of Life. Fall and you will perish in the flames of the lake of fire. Those who try to save their life will lose it, those who lose their life will save it. Fret not over which day is your last because you have been chosen by God and He will reward you for your faithfulness." Sam told me.

I nodded weakly. So I was going to lose all my faith and have to make a choice huh? That did not sound good, talk about some foreboding.

"Let's do some scouting to see if there's any more human population. I doubt it though, if there were they'd probably be slaves in that underground complex. If after we scout there's no one else, let's go to Puerto Rico and see what that's like." Sam said.

"Can you fly?" I asked her.

She looked at me funny for a second before her eyes got wide and she decided to test it out. She looked down at her feet and could feel energy being redistributed to the bottom of her feet and she could feel herself start floating.

"That's what flying feels like?" Sam asked.

I nodded.

"It's awesome." I replied. "Give me your hand." I told her, and she did.

"Only one thing left to do." I said reaching into my pants for something.

"What's that?" Sam asked.

"Smoke of course…" I said laughing. "We're about to fly high, literally."

Sam burst out laughing. "You're so different from anyone I've ever met." She said.

I shook my head in denial. "I'm nothing special." I said, lighting up a joint. I took a long drag of the marijuana cigarette.

"Nothing special?" Sam asked in clear annoyance. "Stop putting yourself down Ezekiel. I know what happened in your past that makes you feel like that but you have to stop. You are the kindest man I ever met. You tried to save me and the other homunculi on that ship and Marlene raped you, I was going to rape you…" She trailed off, her eyes getting misty.

"Sam, I don't blame you." I told her softly.

"See!" She exclaimed. "You forgave me back then, you freed me from Satan's grasp. You brought me to the light, and because of God and your kindness I'm now ascended. How can you not be special?" Sam asked me, a lone tear rolling down her cheek.

I was stupefied and didn't know what to say.

I pulled her into my arms again, kissing her on the lips again, tendrils of smoke coming out of our mouth. "Who are you and how did I find you?" I asked her, passing her the joint.

"I found you." She said, taking a hard hit, before blowing a cloud of smoke into my mouth. I nearly choked from how much smoke it was.

The whites of her eyes were tinted red from the smoke and her eyes were half closed. "I'm high as fuck…" she said giggling.

I took another hit and put the joint out. "I'm up there too."

"This feels amazing, I never smoked before this…" Sam confessed.

"Really? I love it, God created it for to be used. I like to call it God's Gift, a plant that could have saved the world if they hadn't rejected it much like they do with all of God's things." I said.

"Why?" Sam asked.

"Because the United States government conditioned the people and the churches as it belonging to the devil and therefore should be illegalized. Honestly I think it was politics, weed was illegal to keep a caste system in place. You had rich people who can do it without consequence because they're so rich and then you had the minorities who didn't have money and spent years behind bars over marijuana. The US profited from the drug trafficking, on top of that they made billions of dollars off people being in jail. But enough talking, c'mon time to fly." I said grinning.

Leading her by the hand I slowly began to take flight. The only real way I can explain how we fly is that spiritual energy comes out the souls of our feet in a thick burst like a rocket, propelling us forward. I looked over at Sam and saw the huge smile on her face, her hair long and flowing.

That moment I thought she had to be the most beautiful girl I had ever seen.

We flew through the tunnels and headed back up into the PX. I figured it'd be best if we changed again seeing how our stuff was in tatters. Once we were fully clothed again, we took off towards the skies.

We flew through the whole Potomac area scanning to see if we could find any life, we had not been able to find any more humans. There were zombies running around and even a pack of werewolves running loose but nothing had strayed in our path.

We had to assume that the only humans left had to be the bunkers. "We're going to have to go back to the tunnel and try to rescue those humans." I informed her.

She nodded, "I figured you'd say that." She said and we stopped our flight in mid air. We turned around and blasted off towards New Egypt.

It was daytime out now and New Egypt looked so different than it did at night. The skies were not filled with UFO's like at night and the city square looked so much more vibrant. The gold sphinxes stood over the city, a giant reminder of alien engineering for as long as mankind could remember.

In between the sphinxes was a massive golden statue in the likeness of King Mabus. After his resurrection, when he started demanding to be called God he had several statues built in his honor in all the major cities.

The false Jesus Christ bewitched the golden statues, he had ordered them to talk and the statues began demanding worship. Refusal had led to fire streaming from the statue's mouth for anyone who didn't worship the king.

King Mabus demanded worship from the aliens as well; it was part of the peace treaty they had brokered at the end of their small military excursion. Not that peace treaties meant much to the King, ask the Jews.

New Egypt was now more like an alien trading town. Spaceships docked there and continuously traded with the underground elitists trading supplies for technology. The elitists even gave them slaves to experiment on too; their disregard for human life was astounding.

During the daytime New Egypt was literally zombie land. Zombies and homunculi ran amuck, trying to find food to eat. Vamps and werewolves were at least smart enough to realize that there was no more human population they could eat and slowly migrated west but zombies were without reason and intelligence.

They only knew how to hunt, being led by a primal desire to eat flesh.

Sam and I headed back to Ft. Belvoir and back inside the PX. We made a quick meal out of some food we found there and headed back down to the tunnels. "Sam, we will try to avoid bloodshed but most likely the elitist will attack us with their military. If they do, kill them. We are here to save those who haven't gotten the mark, those that have will not hesitate to kill us or sell us out." I told her.

We burst into flight and flew down the 5 mile trek underground until we reached the vault door. "Identify yourself." A voice commanded.

"You know who I am." I replied swiftly.

"Access granted, Ezekiel Rivera." A voice called out and the vault door swung open.

We walked inside and there was a group of military men with weapons drawn and aimed at our heads. "You would be wise not to shoot, or I will defend myself." I told them and their grip on the weapons got tighter.

I looked over at Sam who was trying to remain calm.

They looked at me expectantly like I was a barely restrained dog.

Perhaps they were right…

I decided to be calm and appear at ease and that seemed to cool off the soldiers some. "Why are you here?" A voice called out and out stepped out Robert Vaughn. "We warned you not to come back, especially after you threatened us."

I rolled my eyes flippantly at him. "Your human slaves, how many of them have the mark of the beast?" I asked.

He looked at me offended. "None. If they had the mark they would be treated as equals and could not be our slaves." He said brusquely.

"So what happens to the slaves in the afterlife?" Sam asked.

"They're slaves in the afterlife for all eternity. If they do not have the mark they were not chosen for apotheosis." Vaughn replied coldly.

I scowled. "You sadistic fuck…" I spat out angrily. "You force this people into slavery for the rest of their shitty human life and then expect them to be your slaves in the afterlife?" I asked angrily.

Vaughn was about to say something but I cut him off. "Do not fucking talk right now…" I warned him, it angered me how casual he was to condemn these poor people to that reality. They had been doing it for so long…

I looked over at the human slaves who were still at work. "Do you see who you elected as senators and presidents over you? These are the very people who ran your government and sacrificed your existences for their happiness. You rejected God, when all he wanted was some repentance and a thank you and you give these cowards power?" I shouted out to them.

"You have no right! You unpatriotic terrorist!" Vaughn responded hysterically. Spittle flew from his mouth.

"That's where you're wrong. I grew up in the US, I loved my country enough to join the military and defend its constitution. I loved my country enough to risk my life to spread the message, to help people and maybe save a few. But it's been futile and hopeless. You elitist sicken me… You're depraved beyond help. And most of humanity is so fucking stupid… you've been doing this for quite some time. Pearl Harbor, Vietnam, Nine Eleven, you've been subtly killing millions of people because you can. Not because you have to, but because you're greedy and you can't share a planet with seven billion people without killing each other!" I snapped, flames bursting out of every pour in my body.

I hated Vaughn and everything he represented.

"If that's all you're here for I suggest you leave." Another voice called out. It belonged to another one of the older gentlemen with black robes.

"No, that is not all we came here for. We want to free all the slaves, we will not let you enslave them here while an earthquake is about to wipe everything out." Sam confessed.

"There's no way in hell we're letting you free the slaves!" Vaughn snapped.

"There's no way in hell you're going to stop me, this is exactly what God sent me here to do." I replied, summoning up the Lightbringer. Shots were immediately fired and I blurred out of sight. I reappeared behind Vaughn and saw Sam had me beat and had wrapped her arm around the other chancellor's throat, cutting off the oxygen.

"Do not fuck with us." Sam warned, releasing her hold a bit.

"How'd you get there so fast?" I asked, looking over at her.

"I can teleport." She deadpanned. She had the most serious look on her face, I wanted to burst out laughing.

"No way…since when?" I asked.

"Since now."

I couldn't help it… I let out a snicker.

I contemplated what to do with the situation at hand, this would be tricky at best. "Let the slaves go or we'll kill them." I ordered.

"Don't listen to them… if you let go of the slaves, who'll do the work? Who will cook our meals, clean our laundry, or grow our crops?" Vaughn asked.

One of the soldiers stepped out of the ranks. "I guess we will, we're men after all. If there's really an earthquake coming, we should all evacuate." He said.

"We will not go anywhere." Vaughn shouted.

"Then I guess we'll all agree to disagree. Vaughn you and your council can stay here and everyone else goes." I suggested.

"But we need the military, and we need slaves." One of the older men whined.

"Then I guess you're all fucked. We're the majority so what we say goes." I said mockingly. I released Robert Vaughn and Sam released her captive.

After that all the slaves were freed and armed themselves up after putting on fresh clothes. They ate real meals for the first time and some of them even smoked a giant joint with me. It was finally their time to be the elite, even if only for a little bit.

Sam and I loaded up two bags full of nothing but good food and a couple ounces of pot. "To Puerto Rico?" Sam inquired giving me a warm smile.

I nodded and we both grabbed our bags and flew out of the vault, racing down the long stretch of the tunnels and coming out into the PX. We continued out of the store and took off into the skies. Flying through the skies at mach speeds was unreal and addictive. The exhilarating rush it gave you sometimes made you feel invincible.

We arrived to what was left of Puerto Rico. The once beautiful island was not as it used to be, it too had suffered from the chaos of the last couple years. Category 5 hurricanes had flooded the shoreline, killing thousands in their wake. A 9.6 earthquake off the coast of San Juan tore off a good chunk of the island. The people who had been left in Puerto Rico had rioted and waged a civil war.

Back then America had been too poor to give them a helping hand and for once Puerto Rico had to help itself.

They had not been prepared for the large scale violence that tore what was left of the island.

After all that… Iran nuked it to kingdom come.

Now Puerto Rico was broken up into several misshapen islands, with one big central one in the middle. It's what was left of Cidra which was mountainous hills and lush vegetation. Now it was mountainous hills and scarce vegetation leading to a small sandy beach with the ocean overlooking everything.

Sam and I landed on the beach and we quickly began gathering the huge palm tree leafs to form a little makeshift tent we could sleep under.

We crawled underneath the tent we both laid down. She curled up and laid against my body, before letting out a content sigh and a soft snore.

I kissed her on the forehead and let my eyes close as well, drifting off into the deep.

May 22, 2017

In The Remains of Puerto Rico

6:00 am

I woke up and it was bright outside, massively bright.

Heat unlike I've ever felt before cooked me alive and I looked over at Sam who was lying next to me, her pale skin now tanned from the early morning sun. Her chestnut brown hair, shone bright in the light, her eyes closed in content sleep.

I looked at our surroundings and saw that we were sleeping under a coconut tree on the beach. I had pulled some of the thick leaves to form a makeshift little tent. The ocean was clear blue. It was beautiful beyond imagination. I looked up at the sky, trying to locate the sun.

I could see the moon slowly start to eclipse the sun. It would still take at least another half hour for the moon to fully eclipse and the earthquake to happen. We still hadn't received further orders.

"Damn it's hot…" I could hear Sam call out.

She got up and I had to avert my gaze as I blushed. She looked down and saw her cleavage was a bit exposed. "God, what are you a virgin?" She asked laughing.

I stuck my tongue out at her. "Let's see if you found it funny if I walk around with my dick out." I said with a grin.

"I might like that." Sam teased.

"Ahem…" A voice interrupted and I could hear the rustle of wings.

I didn't even have to look up to see who it was. "Hello Gabriel." I greeted casually.

"Follow me." He ordered militantly. I guess he wasn't dropping by to bullshit with me. His four massive wings spread out. Each wing was had a ten foot wingspan, and could easily cover his body if needed to. Gabriel began flying upwards in the air and I followed him, not even bothering to look behind me. Sam had gotten used to flying and chased behind me in a burst.

Gabriel took us high above the skies until we could see the North America in its entirety. "What are our orders?" I asked.

Gabriel didn't bother to look behind him. "You must wait until afterwards." Gabriel said quickly and the three of us just floated in the air.

Gabriel turned and looked at me. "Look at the sun and the moon." He ordered.

I did.

My eyes widened and I let out a gasp. "Holy crap."

"What?" Sam asked.

I pointed it out to her.

The sun was getting brighter and brighter, X-class solar flares bursting and shooting outward towards the planets.

"It is done." Gabriel said ominously. He motioned for us to stay there and flew higher in the sky.

Flames burst outward and engulfed the planets, hot magma flying in the air, suspended in space. I turned towards Gabriel.

It looked as if the sky had parted and white light streamed onto the angel, giving him a more heavenly visage. His long curly blonde hair was bright and gleaming. His eyes were hardened, steely orbs focusing on whatever heavenly mission he had been sent on. He had something in his hands, it looked like a golden bowl.

He tilted the bowl over and there was a loud cracking sound in the sky. Thunder cracked and lightning rumbled.

I looked back towards the heavens. The heat from the explosion turned the moon red from flames as the eclipse set.

It was a good thing we were in the sky and not on the ground.

Gabriel pointed the end of his sword towards where New Egypt was located. White light streamed from his sword and suddenly there was a loud bang, like a lone gunshot but louder... A massive earthquake unlike anything the world ever saw happened and there would never be one like it again.

New Egypt cracked, splitting into three parts but the wreckage did not stop there. The cracks continued spreading out throughout the continent. I looked down and the earthquake caused a massive wave to build up over the Atlantic Ocean.

Dirt flew up into the air as well as thick lush vegetation.

The tidal wave rose higher and higher, seemingly reaching the heavens. "Oh my God."

Puerto Rico, whatever was left of it began to get dragged into the wave as well as all the smaller outlying islands.

Cuba had been dragged in as well.

Stars began to drop from the skies like flies, crashing down into the earth. The sound of the explosions was deafening.

"I can't believe it." Sam said quietly, her voice either full of awe or terror.

The earthquake had split New Babylon into 3 chunks and crumbled into nothing.

What was used to be known as the United States of America was buried underneath an earthquake that rocked the world.

Babylon had fallen.

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