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High Spirits - Chapter 10 - Song of Angels, Book IV

Mindy Woczlewski courtesy of Nastya Muratokova

Inside the nexus of universes with a soldier screaming in the air, with soldiers firing at the invisible Nergal, self proclaimed God of Death, something smacked Rephael between the eyes. Forrest and Schrock lead their troops to the battle and were almost in position to fire. Behind them, he saw a group of soldiers he did not recognize.

“HALT!” Rephael yelled. No one stopped. They kept firing. “Stop shooting!” Rephael yelled over and over again and then he screamed at Lennox, “How do we order people to stop shooting?”

Lennox, looked at Rephael his attention on what could be Nergal broken, “Huh?”

“How do we stop soldiers from firing?” Rephael yelled again.

“CEASE FIRE!” Lennox ordered.

“CEASE FIRE!” Rephael yelled over and over again. The shooting stopped.

Rephael bowed himself to the ground in the direction of the screaming soldier and said, “The worm that I am oh Lord Nergal, understands the box is yours.”

“What are you doing?” Lennox screamed at Rephael.

Rephael did not answer Lennox he continued to speak, “Asmodeus escaped from you didn’t he Lord Nergal. You are the Lord of death with many names, not Asmodeus. This is your box and Asmodeus took the box. You are a God and can easily kill us all but the only thing you want is the return of your box. You helped us to put Asmodeus back in did you not? Is this the truth?” Rephael said.

The screaming soldier was set down on the ground unharmed and he stopped screaming.

“Worms, the box is mine and I will have it back in my possession. You are nothing to me, give me the box or I will take it.” A disembodied voice spoke within the cavern.

“Don’t give him the box, or I will shoot you.” Lennox ordered Rephael and pointed his pistol at Rephael’s head.

“Lord, you helped us to put Asmodeus back or we could not have done that and you have been following the events in here the whole time. You even stepped out of here without our awareness to retrieve your box.” Rephael said as he ignored the pistol at the back of his head.

“I will have my box returned to me now that is it before me again. Yes, I have many names. Yes, you could never have thrown Asmodeus back in without me to help you. Yes, nothing that you have has no effect on me because that is what you will say next, Rephael Weeks, whose name is Eon. And yes the next thing you will ask is that I have not killed you solely because it is not your times yet. Now, give me my box.”

“Soldiers, Lennox bow down before him before your time arrives or you will never leave this place.” Rephael said loud enough for everyone to hear.

“How do I know what you say is true?” Lennox asked with the pistol still at Rephael’s head.

“We have shot him with the ammo that hurt Asmodeus. Has he cried or yelled even once like Asmodeus and whether we put a net up or not, it will not matter with him. I will show you, if you let me.” Rephael took his piece and threw it at where Nergal should be.

“What, what are doing!” Lennox exclaimed.

“Lord, you took a piece from outside and left it in here so we would know someone can come and go as they want and you can pick that up, unlike Asmodeus.”

“Worms, I will pick everything up in here that you may see.” The voice said.

Everything, everyone, the piece, the net, Shrock, Lennox, the other soldiers began to rise off the ground.

“Lennox, fall down and bow. Soldiers, bow before him or the next thing that will happen will be the arrival of your time of death.” Rephael said.

Lennox thought, was startled, was struck with disbelief but ordered, “All Bow Before Nergal!” And he did so. One by one the soldiers that Rephael could see bowed before the Lord of Death their bodies prostrated still in the air. Yes, even the soldier that Nergal had set down.

Rephael thought. Nergal had to take the form of a dead human being in order to try to take the box because he did it with four soldiers and so Rephael asked, “Lord, how do we give you the box?” Rephael asked.

Previous Chapters:
Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9
Previous books in the series:
Song of Angels - Books I, II, III - Table of Contents

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