Michael

Hey guys! Sorry for the wait again, but it takes me a while to get these chapters written, but I think that I might start making them a little bit shorter. That is something I need to work on really bad. So I was originally going to have this chapter be from Will's perspective but I realized that you would need some background info. So this is going to be a relatively short chapter from Michael's (the archangel) perspective and trying to figure out all of this stuff to do with Victoria and her past. This chapter is going to pick up right after the end of chapter Seven, after Michael sounded the bells of war across all of Heaven. That's right war is coming, but it may take a little bit longer that you'd expect especially to get everyone united in order to defeat Gaea. Anyways I'm super excited for all of you to finally know about Vic and Will's past. So go crazy and enjoy the chapter!

Love,

Bootzie2

The bells of war rang fierce throughout all of Heaven summoning every angel to their post and readying them for war. Michael stared across his domain in the sky icily and prepared to do whatever it took to take down the Pagan goddess who dared call herself the Earth Mother. He was ready for war and would put an end to the darkness that plagued this world. He would bring about paradise on Earth after this war was over, and he would fight this war with no care for how many lives were lost. That was the price of war and it would be paid because that was the price that God demanded.

"You summoned me Michael?" The angel Joshua inquired as he appeared behind Michael.

"You know I did, so there is no need to ask about it now is there," Michael replied curtly.

"As you wish," the low-ranking angel bowed his head as Michael passed him. Joshua could tell there was something different about Michael, it was in his posture. He was stiff and radiated a form of hostility that Joshua could not place, however Joshua chose not to mention it. Michael was an Archangel after all and could end him with a snap of his fingers. "How may I help you?"

"I have a few questions that I need answers to, and I figured that you would be the person who would know the answers I seek." Michael turned to face Joshua and his golden eyes burned brighter than ever. They burned bright with the prospects of war.

"I will tell all that I can. What is it you wish to know?"

"This girl who embodies Gaea and was once the true vessel of Ariel, who is she? I've seen her face across all of time and history even before the Garden of Eden was created and the fall of Lucifer. I need to know what she is capable of if we are to win this fight against her."

"I presume you mean Victoria Carstairs?" Joshua questioned. Michael nodded in response before walking toward a newly erected throne and sitting in it. Joshua stayed a few steps behind Michael and stayed on the ground below Michael's throne.

"The story of Victoria is not one that I am too familiar with. The better person to ask would have been Metatron if he was still here, but I know enough."

"I don't need a story I need answers," he shouted in response.

"I understand, but what I know of her is just myth and legend. She was first born in the second world, which was after the fall of the first world, Danu Talis, a place where beings with power ruled over humans who were subjugated to their very will. Beings that would start all of myth and legend," Joshua began.

"Yes, yes," Michael said dismissively, "you speak of the first world and of the Great Elders, like Odin which would create god like beings for the early Scandinavians."

"Yes," Joshua replied warily, "she is the "chosen one" for the Greek and Roman sect of those Great Elders."

"The chosen one?"

"There's a prophecy, you've heard the prophecy about King Arthur being the Once and Future king. Well this one tells more of the story for a much younger Victoria. 'The empire of the sea is ravaged by the harbinger of war. The queen of light will wed the god of death and the princess of the earth will court the king of the stars to end years of suffering, but the love of the warrior of soul and the queen of light will end the peace, and a time of war and death will begin. When light and soul are unified once more with the earth and stars they will bring about a time of serenity for they will be the rulers of all nations and the Once and Future Kings and Queens,'" Joshua finished the prophecy with a note of heaviness in his voice.

"What does that have to do with Gaea?"

"This was the start of Victoria's curse, to roam the world for millennia and dying in the most brutal of ways before she could ever reach her 18th birthday. For when she is reborn once more as Victoria, princess of the sea, and a protector of the world only then will she be able to achieve the gift of the gods," Joshua paused for dramatic affect. "Immortality."

"Immortality?" Michael scoffed. "Who do these Pagans think they are? They cannot upset the balance of life and death."

"But the god Erlik has been for millennia. He reaps Victoria's soul every time she dies, but he won't this time. Death will do everything in its power to bring her down, but I'm afraid with Gaea possessing Victoria, she will reach her 18th birthday and achieve immortality leaving Gaea with an unstoppable vessel."

"Then we must stop her before that happens," Michael mused.

"Death would be the only option my liege."

"I understand that," Michael roared causing Joshua to flinch. Michael's eyes were wild with loathing.

"But she is Ariel's vessel as well would it not be wiser to stop the Earth Mother without harming the girl for Ariel's sake?" Joshua hit a nerve, for just as quickly as the insanity had entered Michael's eyes it left and was replaced with a grief that Joshua did not share.

"No Victoria is no longer of use to us as a vessel if Ariel no longer exists as she once had," Michael breathed. His shoulder slumped forward as he was wrought with grief for the loss of yet another one of his siblings. The first angels. Michael the First, Ariel the Lion, Raphael the Healer, and Lucifer the Morning star. All that remained now were Michael and Raphael with Lucifer and Ariel fallen to darkness. Michael turned his thoughts to the day when the first angels fell with Lucifer by their side. That was the day that Ariel and Michael had solidified their power as rulers of heaven. That was the day that they lied to all of their brethren.

"Is Ariel truly gone?" Joshua was shocked at this revelation.

"She was consumed by the darkness that plagued her soul," Michael whispered faintly.

"I'm sorry to hear that, Ariel was a good soldier."

"That she was."

"What do you propose we do about Gaea then," Joshua asked quickly changing the subject.

"We have to be able to stand our best chance. We are fewer now than we were a couple months ago and Johnathan Morgenstern has provided Gaea with a demonic army and an army of Endarkend warriors. I suppose we will need the aid of the humans. As much as I hate it they are our best chance at winning this war." Michael managed to put enough compassion and pain in his voice to have Joshua not question his motives, but all Michael felt was hate for these creatures who were below him.

He would find their weak points and expose them in the years after this war to bring about the Time of Revelation.