Is All Really Fair In Love And War?

Chapter 7

Although there was a delicate balance between Zaphikel and Sevothtarte, Zaphikel decided to add another secret weight to the scale. He banded together with some citizens of Shamayim as well as a few religious dissenters and refugees to form the Anima Mundi, a rebellion against Sevothtarte's government. He hid this behind the scenes career by staying on as the Great One of the Thrones. No one would expect an angel that high to be the leader of a rebel group.

Meanwhile, the child of Zaphikel and Anael turned out to be a boy and was named Raziel by the doctors at the laboratory. He appeared totally normal with no qualities of an I-Child, so he dwelt at the laboratory nursery like all angel children and was cared for until he was about five years old. At that age, angel children were sent to heaven's military academy, and that's where Raziel went in order to begin his education of the world around him.

Raziel, himself had no idea of his origin and assumed that he was a normal angel. He turned out to be a very ambitious boy, and he sometimes went a little overboard with his studies. So, he didn't have much time for a social life, and he didn't have many friends. He was an angel geek without the stereotypical glasses, but one day, that became the least of his worries. He was about eight years old at the time, and he "overheard" that his classmate, Shiad had stolen some money from the class's most popular boy, Karl. The problem was that he had learned of the theft by way of his telepathy, a power that came so naturally to him that he didn't even know he possessed it. That was because this power came from being an I-Child. He had unknowingly read Shiad's mind and found out where the other child had hidden the money. Raziel was a very honest boy, but he was also very naive, so he took the money out of Shiad's bag and gave it to Karl. However, Karl and his group of friends were skeptical as to how Raziel ended up with the money, so they blamed him for stealing it instead of Shiad. Because of the false accusations against him and the fact that Karl and his friends had cornered Raziel against the wall, the boy became frightened, and the rest of his powers awakened. He was an I-Child, so he had an unusual chi which enabled him to possess telepathy, empathy, telekinesis, and other abilities that were potentially dangerous to those around him.

When Raziel opened his eyes after the awakening of his powers, he noticed that Karl and the other boys were no more than corpses in a puddle of their gradually mixing blood. And soon, Raziel was surrounded by a group of soldiers in white uniforms. The boy was given a tranquilizer and soon fell asleep.

Upon awakening, Raziel found himself in a laboratory, but it was not the same place in which he had spent his years as a toddler. He wasn't in a room with any toys or other angel children. This time, he was lying in a bed with restraints around his wrists and ankles. There was an IV coming out of his lower arm which was attached to two bags on a pole. One bag contained saline, but the other had a silverish liquid in it. Raziel's first reaction was to try to scream for help, but then he realized something else. He couldn't move his body at all with the exception of his eyes. He could move enough to breath as well, but that was it. As Raziel looked further around the room, he noticed that there were no windows and that the door had bars on it. Something was really wrong. He had accidentally killed several others, but wasn't the punishment for that crime death? Why was he in a hospital bed in a prison. He didn't seem to be injured.

Soon, a scientist entered the room and explained that because of Raziel's powers, he was to stay there and be studied as well as experimented on. The facility was not a prison or a hospital. It was the White Room, a laboratory of the angel government.