Ch. 7

First of the Mages



As I awakened I looked over at Julie who was lying next to me, and kissed her forehead gently so I wouldn't wake her. I slipped into my clothes, trying to be quit. I hated saying goodbye to Julie, I didn't know how long I was going to be gone. I walked into the giant halls of the cathedral when I saw Ekimus getting a backpack ready, or something that looked like a backpack. As I moved closer I could see he was putting scrolls into his bag like thingy.

"Ahh I see you've finally awaken. Ready for your journey." Ekimus looked at me as though he was enjoying this.

"Uhhh yah all I have to do is brush my teeth." He looked at me with utmost disgust; he reared his hand back and made a motion that looked like he was going to hit me then laughed. I never heard him laugh. It must be that when the angels told him he was forgiven it took out a 4,000 old stick that had been stuck up his ass. I turned away and started to think over the plan again, first we where to get those who had magic in them, very powerful mages he said. I had the picture of were they lived in my mind, but how I was suppose to convince them to join us, I still hadn't figured out.

"I have everything ready Ekimus and the angels that are suppose to escort us should be here any moment." I looked at him and noticed he had a small smile on him at the thought that angels would be there.

A wind suddenly hit the cathedral and I saw the angels had appeared behind Ekimus. There were only two of them but that was enough to make me happy.

"We are ready to travel with you, I am Shatale, I was chosen to watch over Ekimus, and this is my companion, Raziel. He is a very zealous archangel, and young at that, you two should get along perfectly. I think we should get moving Ekimus."

"Okay Raziel right this way." I put my hand past me to were the place I usually went to create a portal. He followed my motions and stood there watching me, studying my every move.

"Something the matter guy, your looking at me kind of weird." He suddenly jerked his head up pretending that he wasn't doing anything.

"Sorry Mr. uh chosen one sir, it's just that I've never seen a vampire up this close. Nor a evolved vampire for that matter. Sorry, I'll stop if you like." He looked down as though he had done something wrong.

"No it's okay, hey don't worry I'm really just a normal guy. Just with some slight differences." I lied of course, nothing about me is normal, not my life, my girlfriend, and not even my friends were normal.

"Just give me a second to open the portal for us." I concentrated on the picture in my head of a stone castle in Scotland that Ekimus had shown me a picture of, then I charged my energy at just the right level, then the words came again. "Porta Navigas." Suddenly a mirror appeared in front of us, on the other side I could see the castle.

"Were off to see the wizard." I started laughing hysterically as I made the joke but after I looked up I noticed nobody was laughing with me, I'd been hanging around Joe to much and realized I better stop.

"Well we better be off then, don't want to keep anything waiting." I could have sworn Ekimus called me a name right before I walked into the portal.

I've never felt anything so weird it felt like you were ripped apart into several pieces then put back together again. I fell onto the ground and started looking around to see where I had landed, from the looks of it we were on a hilltop over looking the moor. My comrade landed by me short after I made my observations.

We had been walking around the castle for a good two hours talking a little bit about how heaven was rebuilding and how the angels were now wanting to help me if I wanted it, but I kept telling him that we didn't need it but he didn't want to listen. We had walked into a huge room that was lit by a single fireplace, that's funny I don't remember any of the other rooms having fire in it.

"Well that's weird don't you think." Raziel looked at the fire as though it were a crucial clue in solving a puzzle, he put his finger out to touch in when he jumped back, four fire demons had jumped out at them. I knew how to handle these things quickly, the two that had decided to attack me were very quick, I dodged their first attacks rather easily. "Flame." The demon had shot out a torch at me, I jumped up and dodged it, but my left hand got burned, I was pissed now. "WATER BOMB." I had never shot it when I was angry before, the water shot out my hands and I hit them both at the same time, the water was steaming when it came out of my hand, was it because of the fire demons or me being angry when I shot it. The demons died almost instantly after I hit them. I looked around to see how Raziel was doing, he had cut off one of the two's heads, he had a sword in his hand that I didn't know he had with him. Suddenly Raziel jumped into the air and looked like he curled himself up and then sprung out, "Death touch." A green ball of energy shot out of him and hit the demon in the chest that sent him spiraling back, he hit the wall and then just leaned over and died.

"I'm impressed Raziel." I started clapping at him and he took small bow and laughed about it.

"You have passed my test now what do you want." Said a deep voice that came out of the fire. We turned around to see a wizard wearing a black velvet robe kind of thing. He had a wooden stick with a red ball at the top.

"Are you Shavel?" I asked thinking he of what he say like, no go away.

"Yes, what do you need of me." He said it in almost a rude voice.

"I have come for your help in a battle for the domains of the three kingdoms, heaven, earth, and hell. I have an official request from God that you serve this army." He took out a paper from under his coat and handed it to the wizard. He looked at it for a good three minutes before he gave us his answer.

"If the lord our god has command this of me, then I will do it, may I ask who the general is that I am serving." Raziel pointed to me, and he looked at me in utter revolt.

"A child is to be my commanding officer, when did heavens rank go so low as to hire a child." He started laughing at his own comment.

On the other hand my anger was beginning to rise, I hated people calling me a child. My energy started to rise, I knew I should have contained it but I didn't care, "MARS JUDGEMENT." The ground started rumbling and the wizard looked at me then raised his staff, "Procifita." A large blue orb started hovering over him. A ball of energy bust through the ceiling just like it had when I did it the last time. The ball hit the orb and then shot threw the orb as the orb shattered and hit the wizard, he fell to the ground. I knew I hadn't killed him because he was still breathing when I walked up to him, though it did take him a good hour for him to wake up.

"I guess I was wrong about that child thing, my orb was suppose to be able to stand any basic spell, but I didn't think that a vampire could summon a spell more or less a advanced spell such as that, I'm sorry I doubted you my boy." He put out his hand in friendship; I took it and shook his hand.

"Please come this way Shavel, we need to get you to the meeting of the lieutenants to discuss the tactics, our army is going to be formed in a matter of days, we have not yet been informed of the senior officer of what or who the army is, but we are sure he has one." Raziel went on and on with the wizard about who he was and what the wizard could do. I almost smacked him once for asking the wizard if he needed to eat.

We reached the outside and I started to summon the portal to go back home. One down three more mages to go. "Porta Navigas." The cathedral was on the other side, right as I walked threw I knew this battle wasn't going to be that hard after all. For the first time in weeks I started to feel happy again.