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Authors note: Do you all hate me for taking so long? I bet you do! No EC this chapter im trying to work some plot in but it might suck I dunno. No one complain about spelling and grammar I tried to write this as quickly as possible when I came up with the idea so I hope you enjoy it!
Nightmares
Chapter 14The halls of the abandoned church echoed ominously as the nephralim Raphael strutted up to the front altar past the slaughtered bodies of the Sunday morning congregation. The only other living being was an aged blind woman kneeling before the altar head bowed and knarled hands clutched tightly in prayer. Raphael came to stop just behind her a smug look on his face; he stood as if waiting for her to speak while retrieving a handkerchief from his inside jacket pocket and wiping his hands clean of blood. He then threw said handkerchief forward allowing it to come to rest in front of the woman. Finally Raphael received his response:
"I know who you are and I know why you have come it has been written for millennia, but it is for naught. I will not tell you where they are"
Raphael made a snort like sound and retorted, "Now that isn't a very positive attitude is it? I'm certain you know whom I am, who wouldn't want to know my dashingly handsome self? But as for you not telling me what I want to know? Well we wouldn't want any bodily harm to come to such a sweet old lady now would we?" he said with a quirk of the lip.
"Destiny cannot be overwritten, if not here it would have been somewhere else the strings of fate cannot be cut…"
"Bla bla bla fates you're all the same! High and mighty little martyrs aren't you? Just because you were trusted with a bloody book. What's the point of being trusted with a bloody book if you're blind? You can't even read it! And you spend you're entire life moving from place to place never being able to settle anywhere because of it! Shows how much your great and merciful God loves you! as for me? I've met God several times, wasn't really that impressed, he had this whole guilt and misery thing going at the time made him real fun at parties."
"Do your work hand of the devil I will not hinder thee, know only that I will receive my rightful place in heaven for my good service."
"Listen lady here's the thing" Raphael came to crouch in front of the old woman putting his hands on her shoulders and looking into her sightless eyes "I'm here on authority of Azazeal who at the moment is making the devil look like the Easter bunny on crack, I really don't want to be pissing him of at the moment you know? So I'll tell you what, you tell me where this boring old book is and you can go! No more running no more fearing for your life just rest in a little retirement home in Cornwall with all the other old biddies. So what do you say? Help a gent out?"
A silence followed where the woman seemed to be contemplating what Raphael had said, then replied, "I would rather die now and face God's judgment than betray him and live"
Raphael rolled his eyes and made a theatrical sigh, he stood up and came to stand behind the old woman. He placed his hands on either side of her head and said:
"I'm sorry to hear that, and we could have been such friends! I could have told you about my glorious fights in heaven and you would have sat there and been…old."
The woman's breathing suddenly became laboured as her impending doom inched closer. She began to shake slightly but battled to maintain her composure. Then Raphael leaned close to her ear and whispered.
"Oh..and my dear you really shouldn't think about secret locations near telepaths, I've known where the book was since the moment I entered the room, I just wanted to screw with you for a little while I have to get my kicks somehow. Looks like you've lost that deposit on a villa in heaven after all but oh well"
With that Raphael snapped her neck with a twisting corkscrew motion and watched her fall limp on the floor. He limbered up his body and sighed saying:
"I never get tired of doing that"
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Nadir sat in his office or what remained of it contemplating what he had just been told. Amelia Garnier the guardian of the book of prophecy was now dead along with 56 innocent bystanders. This had Raphael written all over it, Azazeal's second in command always did have a weakness for theatrics. Attacking a church in broad daylight was rather a tame escapade compared to his long repertoire of massacres.
The entire order was still in a shambles, national divisions all over the world had cut off communications and f Nadir feared a similar attack had happened to them. He, however, had to see to his own borders, Nephralim had been killing and destroying key members of the organisation assassinating relic protectors and their families. It seemed they were trying to gather as many Holy and powerful objects as possible for some reason. Most likely so that the order could not use them against Azazeal, although Nadir feared that they had a terrible unforeseen agenda that would possibly make the entire situation worse.
Order security was already stretched to its limit and the media attention these strange phenomena was having was not making things easier. More and more people were saying they had seen 'angels' and supernatural activity was at its peak, something big was happening and it was happening soon.
Just then a man wearing a lab coat burst into the office unannounced looking as if he were in anguished pain.
"Sir I've found something sir!" he exclaimed.
"Found what?" Nadir asked in an exasperated voice. They had been looking for any more information on the girls sudden blood change or her and Azazeals location for weeks and had found nothing.
"It's best if you come down to the lab sir and see for yourself!" with that the man went running out of the office.
When Nadir reached the lab he was surprised by the plethora of activity in it. Despite the loss of all their equipment the scientists had proven themselves to be resourceful resorting to old school science and bare essentials to make more tests on Christine's DNA.
"Sir" snapping Nadir attention back to the young scientist "We did some initial testing after we found the bloody changes and we have come to the conclusions the subjects blood in symbiotic with her body."
"What?" asked Nadir utterly confused.
"Well it's changeling blood, whatever changes are happening to the her body happen to this particular sample. It truly is extraordinary what angels blood can do! I would have liked to have more to experiment with but we have managed to come up with enough findings with what we have."
There was a pause where Nadir waited for the man to continue, when he didn't Nadir prompted, "Well what did you find?"
"Oh yes right well… apart from the chromosome change and the mutation of the haemoglobin there wasn't much to say until I did some hormone tests."
"Oh really? And what did these tests say?"
"Well we ran several and …we didn't think it was possible…but its happened only God knows how…oh no pun intended sir but…"
At this rambling Nadir got impatient and shouted "For gods sakes man! What were the results of the test!"
"Well sir she's…she's pregnant sir…"
"She's what?" said Nadir astounded.
"I know sir I couldn't believe it myself I mean her becoming an angel was unbelievable but pregnant? But I double and triple checked my results and its conclusive the girl is pregnant."
"But…but how?" whispered Nadir.
"Um…the normal way sir…you know..you do know right?" said the scientist apprehensively.
"Of course I know you half wit I am well aware of the reproductive process what I want to know is how this can be possible from what we know of angel biology they were specifically designed to be sterile."
"That's just it Sir we don't know! It might factor into a lot of things, the fact that she is very young, the world they are in, that she used to be human…"
At this Nadir stopped listening, the cogs in his head were grinding until he finally reached it.
"Thank you Stebbins no I mean Thompson that will be all" with that Nadir left the lab.
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Once out of sight p Nadir practically ran to the archive room and locked the door behind him. Inside this room was all the historical sightings and knowledge of the Nephralim throughout the ages.
Nadir knew what he was looking for and headed straight for a painting of an angel painting in a far corner of the room, unhooking it a green Iris scanner lay behind after doing all the necessary security checks the safe opened to reveal a package. Glancing around him he made sure the coast was clear before removing the packages contents. A well-worn torn and frayed book appeared from inside. Nadir quickly opened the book and skipped to halfway through trying to find the passage he was looking for. Raphael may have managed to obtain Amelia's book but the orders was still well hidden even from Azazeals eyes. Finding the passage he wanted he slowly read it and a grim expression came upon him. A feeling of dread came upon him…she was just a child surely there was another way. Closing the book he sighed heavily and replaced the book in its hiding place, he would have to inform the council of his findings and when given the chance they would act upon them. Why did it have to come to this? With that he walked away with a heavy heart thinking over the words he had read and praying he had mistranslated them,
The reckoning shall begin when a mortal breaks the laws of time and becomes mate and equal to the banished angel. Their progeny shall lay waste to the world as Doomsday comes nigh and the Nephralim will be released forever to prey on mankind. The blood of innocent will flow till that of the mother runs dry and Gods judgement held onto the world.
Authors note: yes yes I know long time no write but I've had lotsa work! But here I am so if you don't hate me then R and R and tell me if it sucks it took me a while to write this chapter as you see, the next chapter will have some EC in it I promise until then adieu!