It was like waking from a dream, I felt like I've been drugged. I looked around, it was like I was underground, damp, cold. As I turned my head I saw a man looking at me. 

I asked, "where am...who are you?"

He replied "to answer your second  question, call me john. I need you to write for me...and maybe I needed to speak to someone like yourself. A reporter, and now CEO of a large media outlet. Which is quite impressive Julie. You have your hand in everything, t.v. Internet, newspapers even though the latter is almost obsolete. Your not going to believe me, so I'm gonna have to prove it because I'm running out of time."

He pulled out a large hand gun and put it on the table.

"Please don't kill me, I'll do anything you want" I pleaded." He smiled and said "Anything,huh? "Please honey we're not even the same species. What I want is for you to watch me kill myself."

He made me examine the gun, a .357 magnum with hollow points. He fired it at an old refrigerator and it ripped it in half.

He looked deep in my eyes, they seemed so old even though the man in front of me was maybe 30. He said "Since it takes a minute for me to return...I'm shooting myself, so don't move till I wake up" he stood up and put the gun flush against his chest and fired, he flew back with an enormous hole in him, he had to be dead. I thought this is my time to get outta here, but I couldn't Move, it was like I'm obeying a command, then john took a deep breath and stood up. There was no holes in him anymore, just blood on his clothes and the floor where he lay, where I couldn't move...well it vanished right when john woke up...I could move again but I knew I couldn't run, so I listened and wrote.

It was hard to speak because I was fucking  terrified, In a very shaken voice I asked "what are you?"

"I am so old that I don't know My age anymore, let's say I remember the Pangea era when your kind climbed out of the muck."

I had a hard time comprihinding  what I just heard."what does that mean?Are you a demon?or just a crazy asshole?" I asked.

"Both, Of sorts, just the demon remark is an insult to me, I'm so much more than a demon" he replied. "before your kind made fire there was a war from where I'm from. I was convinced that our cause was right by my older brother."

"A war? Where?"

"Start writing, please" he insisted 

"My father created everything, the first made of my kind became very bitter against our father. Saying, or preaching that we aren't loved by him anymore. He loves the garden and the apes that has sprung from it."

"It made so much sense then, so I became my older brothers right hand, his lieutenant. We covinced a large part of our brethren  to join Us, six hundred three score and six joined this futile war against our creator, a third of the garrison."

"This sounds kinda like Sunday school." I replied.

"QUITE!!!" He screamed at me. His voice paralyzed me.

"Please let me finish this part of a very long story. The amount of my breathren that took arms against father was was more on this planet 10 times over. Needless to say we lost, so many died and were cast far from home. my brother...lucifer and myself, Had a different fate. thinking about it over the millenniums it was futile, trying to stop father and his creations."

"May I please ask one question" I asked terrified that he would scream at me with that overwhelming voice.

"Fine" he replied calmly.

I asked "I know some of the Bible and when you said three score and six...I know that verse"

With a sarcastic tone He replied "please enlighten me."

For a second I almost laughed, then I said...

"Let him that hath the understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, six hundred three score and six. That ment  666 right?"

"No" he said with a smirk on his face. "Score has a different meaning in heaven, your kind couldn't understand and I'm running out of time so no more questions unless I ask if you have any. Is that O fucking K with you?"

I was terrified, did he say heaven? he was staring at me and I swear I saw all of time. "Yes sir" I replied with out even realizing it.

"So where was I?"..."lucifer thought he had a better way, now I know it was not, God offered us peace, love, understanding. As long as we gave the same to the garden and your kind that sprang from it. Lucis way was terrifying. But I was too late understanding just how Wrong luci was, Micheal leading the devout, ran us thru. All was cast to a piece of heaven away from the rest. Lucifer and his lieutenant  (me) was brought in front of father. He was so disappointed. Oddly enough I felt the unconditional love father had for myself and lucifer, because if he didn't we would have been blinked out of existence. God is love and was proven to me when he gave us a second chance, although at the time I thought it was cruel punishment, I should have known better."

"Lucifer was put in a cage in the far away piece of heaven (even in the cage luci made that piece of heaven into hell). "I was cursed to roam the earth forever, to see the fault in lucis way, lucifer s vision of earth. I have seen and been part of every war, even the ones you humans now never knew existed, people killing for colored paper and coins with your false kings hammered into them, you call it money, it disgusts me. So, like I said...terrifing."

"How long is forever?" I asked a little sarcastitly. he looked so intense at me and said.

"Till the sun expands and swallows this planet. When this galaxy inevitably collides with another, and another, and another till when all is left is one giant hole that will implode and BANG...start all over again. We have seen this happen countless times,but this time was the only time you...humans came from the garden. The only ones father touched with his grace, your souls. None of us know if father planned you or if you just came to be like a flower growing from the garden. At first we were all loving towards you, then lucifer and his fucking war came, I was dumb enough to believe his bullshit and followed him."

"You're an archangel, like lucifer?"

"No" john replied. "Lucifer was the first of us, the morning star. I believe that's why it was so easy for him to fight father, in his mind, he thinks he is God."

"But Yes, i am an archangel. It took milliumins to understand how wrong we all were. My penance is to roam and fight the darkness inside me.""maybe then father will forgive me... one day"

"Why did He give lucifer a harsher punishment?"

"A HARSHER PUNISHMENT!!!" "Luci is in a cage in the deepest depths of hell, his name and mine were taken, he has many names but one stayed. Satan, it means the advisory, its the one father gave him for his attack."

He looked in my eyes and said "do you want to know my name?"

"Yes" I replied "please"

"In fathers grace I was called samu-el, since I was second in command and didn't instigate the war...father called me lamia, to humans it means vampire""then I was thrown by my beloved brother micheal to the garden, if you haven't guessed yet, the garden is your earth"

"Ok, I am sure you have questions, please ask away"

"The only question at the moment is vampires are real?"

He replied "no I am the only one, yes, I can make others but I control what they can and can't do. I just can't take anybody, the free will that god gave you is all powerful, it's a part of his grace. the ones I turn must say yes to me and denounce the grace or soul god bestowed upon you. then only can they be cursed like me and do my bidding . After that if my creation gets out of control I can think of one anokian word and they explode. Humans call it spontaneous combustion."

I asked "anokian? Is that a language?"

"It's the language of all angels, Gods' language. And no, no humans can speak it, the closest is Latin, ever wonder why Latin is the root of most languages here on the garden?"

"Could you please call it earth, when you say garden for some reason I feel sad. I have another question if that's ok?"

"Yes, that's fine"

"Do you need blood to live?" His stare was so intense "nothing can kill me but yes I do drink many dry, but only the ones that I feel deserve it" I said "who makes you executioner?"

He screamed "I DO, if god doesn't like it than he can fucking come down here and stop me!!!"

His fangs came out as he was screaming, then something happened that made me pass out. His wings came out, they were huge, kinda dirty white like they have seen war, war like no human has seen. There were scares all over his chest and arms.....then all went black.

                                                                             II.

When I came to, john looked normal again. He actually seemed a little embarrassed.

His gaze caught my eye, he said slowly "no one has seen me in my angelic and cursed form at the same time, at least not dieing very soon after."

"Ok" I said with a shakier voice, "let's move on."

"You kept saying you're running out of time, could you elaborate why?"

"Absolutely, but your not going to like it." He actually looked concerned.

Just two weeks ago I saw a demon that was possessing a young woman, before  I could do anything for the poor girl it jumped out of her, I saw it going to a wounded reaper then I saw that was no wounded reaper, it was my brother....I watched anglus mortus rip that rotten demons soul and tear it to shreds, it screamed and I knew my brother... death wanted it to scream I thought"that's my brother angles mortus, you may know him as the angel of death."

He saw me and I came to him and hugged, mourtis is feared by all other angles including arch, except two, Michael  and myself, the only reason I don't fear him is because I know I'm cursed to be here till the end, father made sure of that."

I asked death "is it time my brother?"

"Yes." mortus replied.

"I want to clear something up, god didn't curse me to drink humans or turn them. When I was first banished here on earth, my brother death came. He said "father sent me here to tell you that the curse he gave you is to find and destroy affilims."

"Affilims are half angel and human, they are insane, with powers that could eliminate humanity and fathers garden."

"The only way to stop them is to compel them and drain them."

Julie asked "can they destroy you? Since you're an arch angel?"

"Haven't you been listing?" He said with irritation "father cursed me for this task, I am immortal till this planets end, nothing can kill me....do you fucking understand?"

"Yes" I replied terrified.

He looked at me with what almost seemed scared eyes and said.

"I feel, no, I know the war that was in heaven is coming here. There will be none of you left, or at least very few."

I started to cry, I don't think I ever felt so much fear. John put his hand in mine and the fear lift. 

"I do apologize,I seem to forget most humans don't know or believe this."

"Thank you."I replied. "Do you want me to continue? He asked.

"Yes please"

"God said after the war that happened in heaven so shall happen in the garden...earth, I'm sorry. I forgot that garden saddened you. It saddens you because in your DNA you had paradise till lucifer twisted the first soul to become the first demon."john looked at the ground with tears rolling from his extremely light blue eyes. "Adam and eve is a metaphor for all the men and woman on earth at the time, yes Adam was the first chosen then came his first wife, her name is Lilith. After lucifer darkened her soul, god took away the garden you humans and us angels loved and is now the violent, greedy, place you call earth, thanks to lucifer. "At that moment I realized luci was wrong about how he thinks fathers creations should be, so I departed as far as possible from his demons or anything that resembled him. To be clear lucifer is in a cage but he is so powerful that with a whisper he can start wars, destroy and twist souls, imagine if he was out. That's why I feel we are all running out of time."

"I'm sorry, I have a question."

"Go ahead"

"You said Adams first wife? I thought it was eve?dident Satan make her eat from the apple?"

"Your bible is close but Adams first wife was made into the first demon, after that god turned his eyes from you. Adam did marry a second time to eve. They bore children, first was Cain then Abel and so forth, Cain became the father of murder when he killed Abel. What your bible doesn't mention is Cain was tricked by lucifer to kill Abel. Somehow lucifer tricked Abel to sell his soul, Cain saw this and asked if he could take abels place, lucifer said sure as long as you kill him now and send him to heaven only then will Abel be safe and your soul is mine to do with as  I please."

I was almost in shock by this. I asked "is Cain in hell now?" John replied "no, he is like me in a way, cursed to walk earth till the end and keep murder alive, that was lucis first deceit after the war to destroy all father created...so came the cainanites.

"I watched all this unfold but like I said I stay away from anything that luci does....till now"

Suddenly john tilted his head I saw fear in his face, he said "get on the ground" I did and Johnson wings came out and coved me. Then it felt like the whole world shook, the old building we were in fell on us but johns wings protected me. Then I felt like I was flying, the next thing I see when I open my eyes was that we were in a cave. I looked out and saw fire, the world seemed like it was burning.

John said "stay here, if I don't return be strong." I asked "what happened?" L

He looked at me with such sadness and said "times up" an he was gone.

                                                       Arthors note

This is the second part of three. I'm going to put all together and hopefully I will be able to put it all out at once. I hope you enjoyed reading my first chapters. All my love, Chris fogleman author