WOAH! Talk about heavy. What changes was He talking about? And how on this earth am I supposed to use a book to beat an army. Questions will be answered one day, but not quite yet. The call has been accepted, now it's time to get ready for the "changes" up ahead.
Chapter III
The first day at The Academy. It was a total let down. It was orientation, no weapons, no book training, just setting ground rules and working on academics, FOR THE NEXT DAY! No training equipment, I didn't even know what happened to my armor. It was just a school. After the first semester, all we did was talk about The Book, we memorized passages out of it, discussed what they meant, and we did academics. How was this supposed to help us with the future? I just kept going on. At the second semester, I finally asked the principle, "I was told that I was going to be training, training to be a spirit-realm warrior, when is that going to happen?!"
He looked at me as if I was stupid, "You have been receiving this training the entire time?"
"No, I have not. I have been doing academics, we've memorized passages from The Book, talked about the book, but we haven't even began to use it as a sword!"
He laughed. "Have you ever used a passage from The Book to stop yourself from doing something wrong?" I thought for a second. There was one time about a week ago where I was hungry, I was fixing to take some food out of the pantry that I was not allowed to eat, but I remembered a passage from The Book that told me not to steal, and so I didn't. I told him that story, and he looked at me and said, "Then you are accelerating at a phenomenal rate. You see, whenever you do something in the physical realm, it has an effect in the spirit realm. When you wanted to take the food in the physical realm; that was a demon trying to get you to walk right into a horrible trap he had set out, which many people fall in. You however, said 'That is wrong', and did otherwise. That was the same thing as using The Book to see the trap, going around it, and then chasing the demon off with The Sword."
"I thought I would be doing fighting which I could see with my own eyes," I said, slightly disappointed.
"Don't look so down, there is a way to go to the spirit realm. All you have to do is ask the King to give you His Spirit. That Spirit will open your eyes, you will see the world in a new light, the demons will flee from you, and you will speak in a language only mans' and the King's spirits can understand. Come with me, and I will bring you to that place."
In the summer time, I went back to that same summer camp, where they showed me how to enter the spirit realm. I would see demon after demon, devil after devil, and I would block their fire arrows with my shield of faith. I would run at them with my shoes of preparedness, giving me speed of which I never knew. I was dangerous, and the demons knew it, and feared. My victories were not without losses though. I have lost my girdle of truth and breastplate of righteousness many times. I had even lost my shield of faith a few times. Each incident I would go through times where the demons would pelt me down until I made amends and got them back. Each time a demon got a small hit on me, I would end up losing quite a bit of my armor, and would then be proceeded to be beaten half to death. Do you know what the cool thing was though? I could ask The General to forgive me, and when He saw I was truly sorry, He would take all the evil I had ever done, and He put on the paperwork that He had been the one who'd done it, then give me back my armor, He loved me, He had dominion over the entire earth, yet chose me. So I kept on fighting all the way through graduation.
Training is complete. I have done many great things. Now I will go to college, where it is crawling with agents of darkness. Will they lead me astray? Will I too serve the demon king once again? And what will happen when the "changes" that will affect my entire life come. Find out in the rest of Book I.
Also, as promised, I will give you the name and basic, non-spoiler summary of the second book. Book II will be called The Fight for the Finish. Waylon will have finally found out all of the "changes" The General told him. He now has to fight for his physical and spiritual life. With the world falling apart around him, he is hopeless unless he focuses on The King. Will he be able to keep his mind straight, or will the demon king have finally gotten ahold of him, for eternity. Book III name and summary will be coming out next Wednesday with the next chapter.