Ch. 5
The news


Well, it's been a week since the battle with the Dremek, which in fact we found out it was a kind of child like Dremek in power so that kind of worried Julie and I. The fact still remained of why Lucifer had an army and why he was challenging us with it...we didn't even have an army to fight his with. For some reason Ekimus has an idea of where to get an army from, but he hasn't told us yet. Julie still worries me even more, she has turned into a killer, that and her fighting skills are increasing to match mine. Ekimus and I still don't know how she could have done it.
My blood lust has been decreasing ever since I battled Lisseth for some reason, but Julies is as strong as ever. Even Joe hadn't feed that much since the battle, which was weird cause Joe feed whenever he had the chance. So Joe and I decided to go on a personal quest to find out what army Ekimus was talking about, we decided to do it before Julie woke up so she wouldn't get to excited about fighting and start a fight with Joe again.
"Ekimus, Joe and I just wanted to know what the hell you're talking about when you say we have an army?" I really didn't think Ekimus was telling the truth about the army.
"I have many friends who want Lucifer dead, and I also have many friends who owe me favors....and I need those debts to be paid now!" He said it with almost hate, he was looking at some scrolls, so it got me wondering what the heck he was doing.
"Uh Ekimus who might these friends be?" Joe said while trying to look over his shoulder at his scrolls.
"Wizards, Half-Elves, Dragons, and other such legendary things that you probably don't believe in...right?"
"Well Ekimus sense I've fought Angels, Holy Dragons, she bitches from hell, imps, and demons, and who knows what kind of other folks hang out in those bars I go to.....but your right I wouldn't believe in em." Joe said as he stuck out his tongue at him, which Ekimus grabbed and pulled out until Joe started squirming away.
"Well Ekimus, how do you plan on getting in touch with all of your friends?" I started to wonder myself if Ekimus had gone insane.
"I will summon them, and then ask them if they will join us, and if they refuse I will send them back to where ever they came from....but first I have to find my SCROLLS FOR SUMMONING, so if you don't mind please leave me alone."
I started thinking to myself what the heck he was getting so upset about, I mean it was just a battle against us and the odds where incredibly against us....nothing new in my book.
Then I noticed Julie waking up, I quickly ran to her so I could be the first to wake her, as I usually did. "Good evening angel, how are you doing..." Already know the response.
"I'm hungry, lets go eat." I almost shuddered again at the thought of another one of her kills.
"Okay dear but Joe is going to have to take you today cause I got some work to do..."
She looked at me funny, but then nodded. She got dressed then walked out with Joe to go get something to eat. I went to the staircase and started to go on top of the cathedral to get a better view of the city. When I reached the top I just plopped down.
I sat for a good hour or so, and then suddenly my anger just rose for no reason. I just had to yell out. "DAMN YOU LUCIFER WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT!!!"
Suddenly I felt a cold breeze.
"You called." I quickly turned around to see the prince of darkness there before me, I almost wanted to jump on him right then, but I had a few questions first.
"What the hell is going on here, why do you want your army to fight mine, I don't even have an army..."
"Didn't you know Alex?" I looked at him puzzled; I didn't know what the hell he was getting at. "Ever since you saved heaven and earth. Joe, Ekimus, and you have become generals of heaven and now I am prepared with an army to fight against heaven, and you are the ones I'm supposed to challenge. I offered my formal declaration of peace to you the night you saved me from those imps, but you said no."
"What are you talking about, where no generals, where all Vampires for the love of god, Vampires can't be on Heavens side..." Suddenly another person appeared in front of me, I recognized him right away...it was Michael the archangel.
"It's true Alex, when ever souls save heaven they are appointed to generals, and Lucifer has the right to challenge any army he wants...and he choose your army."
"Wait a second if where heavenly generals how come nobody gave us anything like improved abilities like they gave you, or something really neat to handle him with?"
"We did Alex, we took away your need for blood, and you can walk in the sun now, and we also gave you Julie back, and also gave her the killer instinct of a fighter." Hearing all this almost made me cry, the fact of me getting Julie was enough, but I could also walk in the sun too, I haven't even seen the sun in a year.
"Wait but how long do I have to raise an army against his?" I started thinking of things to ask while they where both in front of me.
"Well your given usually one year to raise your army in front of his before he wins by default...and all of heaven with him." Michael looked at me almost weeping from his own news.
"A year from when?" I was about to faint from all this.
"Well I might be the Devil, but I still like to play fair, you have a year from today to get ready, then prepare to meet me on the fields of Purgatory where all battles are fought between heaven and hell." As quickly as he had made the comment he disappeared, and so did Michael. I was in for a huge headache when I started think about everything.
I quickly ran down the stairs and explained everything to Ekimus; he acted as though he had known it all along. "I think we'll need a little bit more help than I had originally planed for." Well duh I thought to myself.
"Well where are we going to get it."
"Will start when Joe gets back with Julie, I will teach you how to open a portal to anywhere in the world and then we will begin our search for others to join our army, we will need wizards and sorcerers to do battle against his personal witches, so they will be picked first. Then we will need to find our muscle, I was thinking dragons but then again we killed most of the dragons so we can count them out."
"What about Dragoons, you where always telling me how ancient knights of the past that killed dragons could be summoned again if we needed to kill dragons, and sense the Dremeks are a lot like dragons, maybe they can help, right?" I was still confused on the whole matter of where we became generals, but hey it wasn't a first time I was confused about my lot in life.
"We will also need great leaders, I will go to the angel Gabriel and ask him to join us. He cannot refuse, which makes him a great ally to us. This is a first for me, fighting along side angels...I don't think we will lose this." I almost fainted from this whole thing and he was looking forward to it, I always thought he was nuts, just not this nuts.
Suddenly I heard Joe enter the cathedral, and I saw him holding his stomach from Julie's feeding habits, and I figured if I'm going to tell him, now would be a good time so he can get it all out. "Hey Joe I got some crazy things to tell you, uhh you better sit down for this by the way.

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