Number 666 Chapter 11
Chapter 11
It took 10 minutes for me to come back to myself. 10 whole minutes. I had been crying, I think at least. I wasn't sure what I was doing. I just knew that my mother was dead. She wasn't just dead but she had been mutilated. She had no eyes. Her body lay lifeless in front of me.
“Get on the floor!” I heard a voice say.
It didn't matter. I was just staring at my mother. I had stood in this same spot for 10 minutes. I had just let him walk away. Leviathan. The Bull. I had just let him walk away after he killed my mother. How could I be so weak? How could I just be frozen in fear as he killed my mother and left the house as if it was nothing. He had set me up before he left. He called the cops and mimicked my voice somehow to make it seem like it was me.
“GET ON THE FUCKING GROUND! NOW!”
That was when reality snapped in. I wasn't in my living room alone with my dead mother anymore. There were cops all around me. More cops then I could count. They littered my living room at that moment. Their guns were pointed at me. They were looking at me with these guns and this anger.
I should have explained that I didn't kill my mother. I should have explained that someone else did it.
They wouldn't believe me though. I knew it.
“You might want to get out of my way,” I stated instead.
“We won't say it again. Put your hands up and get on the ground.”
No. I wasn't going to say it again. I was weak. I was weak when my mother died. I let the man who killed her walk right out of the room because I was afraid.
I was never going to be afraid again.
I wouldn't shed another tear.
The world would cry for me.
“GET ON THE FUCKING GROUND!” a cop screamed.
I raised my hands at that moment. I wasn't raising my hands for them though. No. I was raising my hands to the heavens. I was raising my hands for Michael. If my father was up there in the clouds...I wanted him to give me whatever he could.
“Hear me Michael...send your cherubim,” I was chanting, “Here me Michael. Here me Michael...”
All of a sudden the room started to flicker. The cops looked around shocked and confused about what was happening. It didn't matter. None of them mattered. They were just in my way. I had to find Leviathan. I had to make him pay.
And my cherubim were coming. They were coming to clear my path.
“What the fuck is going on?” I heard a voice say, “What the fuck is going on!”
I hadn't noticed what was happening until I heard the voice say that. The guns that the cops had in their hands started started to break apart. They were breaking apart as though they were being minced. The only way I could describe it was the mincing of onions. Pieces of metal clattered to the floor.
“Get out of my way,” I stated again.
This time they were moved out of my way. Bodies flew everywhere. Bodies slammed against walls. I made my way to the door and each step I took caused a body to fly into an opposite direction. I didn't stick around to see the impact of the bodies hitting the walls. I didn't care about the injuries. All of those things were past me now. Now I was angry. Now I wanted to show my anger anyway possible.
“Call for back up. Call for back up!” I heard voices saying.
There was clamoring. There was screaming. The cherubim were around me. This time they didn't take over my body but I could feel them around me even without seeing them. They flew around. They were invisible monsters called down from the heavens to do my bidding. And they didn't have to be angry for me this time. I was angry enough for myself.
I made my way to the front porch. A light flashed in my eye. Cop cars. There were so many cop cars. They were piling up around the block. I noticed a police line. The neighbors were out. There were even news reporters out at that moment. They all looked at me.
Cameras. Lights.
“Michael Vorhees. You are under arrest. I repeat. You are under arrest,” I heard someone say on a bullhorn.
Nonsense. Human nonsense. I didn't have time for this. I had to find Leviathan. I had to make him pay. The demons of hell wanted a war. I would give them one. They had just killed my mother. They had just killed the only good part of me.
“Get on the ground or we'll shoot!”
I didn't care. I kept moving forward. As I walked down the steps of my porch I thought about my mother. I remembered how she used to cook for me on Sundays. She would call me her little angel. Even back then she saw something in me that I never saw in myself. She loved me and I treated her like shit. I treated her like shit until the day that she died.
Everything I touched turned to shit.
“SHOOT! SHOOT!”
The command was pointless. Before the line of cops had fired their bullets the bullets had been sliced up and cut into small useless pieces of scrap metal. I'm sure the camera men were getting it. I didn't care. What I did care about was the lights. There were so many fucking lights. There was even a helicopter over head. I wasn't sure if it was a police helicopter or if it was a news helicopter. It didn't matter. It shined a line down on me as well.
I raised my hand in the air and when I did the entire block had went pitch black. I could hear screams. I wasn't sure who was screaming. Maybe they were civilians or maybe the camera crews. Maybe it was even the cops who were screaming in horror right now.
“Where is LEVIATHAN!” I screamed out.
There was madness that had hit me. It was a madness that I didn't understand. Of course I knew the humans wouldn't know where Leviathan was. I didn't care truly. I hoped he was still around. I wanted him to hear me. I wanted him to know that I was going to find him and I was going to kill him. I wanted to know that nothing would be able to save him.
Why fear the devil? Something was much worse.
I hadn't noticed the punch but it struck the side of my face. There was a cop there. He had attempted to take me down. I was shocked that I had allowed him to come so close though. The blood was in my hands but I was in such a state that I didn't feel pain really. I turned to him. He was an idiot. He was such an idiot.
The cherubim were unhappy that he touched me. When I turned to him he started to disappear. I honestly meant it as well. Right before my eyes he started to unravel. His hands went first falling from his body as though sliced off. Then his head went. Then his body started to get hacked by a sword. I knew it was a sword. I could almost feel the sharpness in the air as an invisible sword hacked at this man right in front of me.
He was hacked away until there was nothing. There was nothing left.
And I felt nothing. Even with this man dead in front of me. I felt nothing.
“I warned you,” I told them.
That was all I could get out before all hell broke loose. There was a crash. I was pretty sure it was a crash but I wasn't paying attention. It may have been the helicopter above us that fell to the ground. Maybe it was more cop cars crashing into one another. I didn't care what the caused the crash. The streets were being raised all of a sudden. Granite filled the air. The pavement was disfigured to rocks. The trees became logs tossed around at moving cars and people. Cars started to fold in on themselves. The street lamps came crashing down all around us. People were flying all over the place.
I continued to walk. Walking out into the middle of the street. I was walking into the middle of the street. At this point people weren't running towards me. They were running away from me. They were fucking running away from me.
The stupid humans thought I was alone but they had no idea that the cherubs themselves had come out from their clouds.
I had an entire army behind me.
“Michael...”
I felt a hand on me. I had made it grasp on to me. The person must have gotten close to me. I realized who it was all of a sudden and it was someone familiar. The voice was soft...almost comforting. For some reason the voice brought me down back. It brought me down from my anger. He soothed me. He soothed me by just saying my name.
“Uri?”
“Calm down. Michael. You have to stop...you hear me? I'm here now. You have to stop...”
Uri was here. I hadn't noticed how he got there. I felt calmer though and for some reason the cherubim must have knew that I felt...safer...with Uri. By the time he held me in his arms I knew I was safe. The cherubim were gone and Uri was hugging me...protecting me like he always did.
Uri didn't speak to me the entire time but somehow he managed to get me out of there. I wasn't sure what all kinds of damage I had done back there but I knew that we weren't being followed. I was in Uri's car. I wanted to ask him what I had done. I wanted to ask him how bad I was but I couldn't.
“Uri...”
“It's OK. You're safe now.”
“He killed my mother Uri. I...I went crazy.”
“I understand,” Uri replied to me in the calmest manner that I could ever imagine, “I understand what you're going through. It's OK. I'm always here. If no one has your back. I got your back. You hear me. I got your back...”
I didn't know what caused me to hold his hands at that moment. I was holding his hands in that car and I was saying something. The words just came out. Maybe I was still in my daze. I didn't know what happened. It seemed like I almost blacked out while still awake.
In the next few minutes we were parked outside Rag's office building.
As we pulled over I was so full of emotion that all I could do was thank him, “Thank you. Uri. Thank you, man. For coming to get me. I...I love you.”
I didn't know why the words came out and I regretted them as soon as I said it. Maybe I meant to say it. Maybe this was how I really truly felt about Uri. Maybe I always loved Uri...even before I knew him. Maybe I loved Uri when I saw him around. I knew I at least had a crush. Love though. Had I really just told Uri that I loved him.
Uri just looked at me. His eyes opened wide. He hadn't expected me to say anything.
“Whoa...”
That was all he managed to get out before I got out of the car. I was beyond embarrassed. I couldn't believe I just spilled my fucking guts like that. There was no coming back from that. I had just fucking told Uri that I loved him. I had just told Uri the one thing that I couldn't tell anyone.
We got up to the office and by the time we walked in Uri and I were beyond awkward. The others were gathered there. I had no doubt Uri probably told them to meet us there.
“Oh my god...” I saw Cham at that moment.
Cham was looking over at me like he saw a ghost. I noticed they were all gathered around his computer. Rag, Raphael, Cham and Gabby were all standing at his computer looking at something. By the looks of their expressions I knew that it had to be something crazy.
“What have you done?” Rag asked.
Rag looked over at me.
I didn't have anything to say. I was still trying to calm down.
“He's the devil. I told you guys. Didn't I fucking tell you guys?” Raphael asked.
“Yo fall back,” Uri stated.
Uri came to my defense. I wanted him closer. I wanted him to try to calm me down like he did before. It seemed like he had the ability to do that. It was so important that I remained calm.
“Uri, yo...Michael is all over the internet. He's all over the news,” Cham was saying at that moment crossing his arms.
“What have you done?” Rag was saying again.
They all started talking at once. They all started going at me. Raphael was coming at me with the religious bullshit. Rag just kept asking me what I'd done. Gabby was just shaking her head like I was some child that was misbehaving in school. Cham seemed like a teenager who just saw a fight in the school yard. The voices were just coming all at once. They were just coming all at once.
“Leviathan killed his mother,” Uri replied, “He was...he was emotional.”
“Uri stay out of this,” Gabby replied.
It was Rag who walked over to me. His breath was hot when he spoke to me. He was basically screaming in my face. I was trying my best to keep my composure. I knew he was mad though. I knew he was beyond mad. I had never seen Rag like this. He was flipping out at that moment.
“You killed innocent people,” Rag stated.
“Get out of my way,” I warned him.
“I told you guys. I told you guys he was the devil,” Raphael stated again, “Just as bad as Leviathan. No one believed me. No one fucking believed me. Dear God help us. Dear God help us all...”
Raphael had actually started to pray at that moment. This guy was really praying as though I was some devil possessing a body and he was trying to do an exorcism. He had clasped his hands in the middle of the room and was praying so loud that the others turned to him.
I didn't have time for this.
“Where is Ariel?” I stated.
I didn't wait for an answer. I walked past Rag. I more like stormed past Rag. He reached out to grab my hand but I shook away. I ran into the room where I had seen Ariel before. She was still tied up in the conference room.
I dragged the chair out into the main office suite and threw it on the floor. I stood over her. I could see her eyes fill up with fear as she looked up at me.
“What...what's going on?” she stated.
She was staring up at me with this look. She looked horrified. A part of me felt bad but that right now I didn't show that part of me. Right now I showed the side of me that was a monster. I showed the side of me that had been changed...but changed in a horrible way.
“Where is Leviathan?” I asked.
“I don't know...”
“Bitch I'll kill you hear and now if you don't tell me where he is,” I threatened her with a voice that was so full of intention that Ariel started to cry.
I didn't believe her for one minute. I knew the kind of game Ariel liked to play. I saw it. She liked to act like she as so innocent. She loved to pretend to be so helpless. I knew she wasn't some blond princess as she liked people to believe. She was a monster...just like I was becoming. Even worse she was a monster in love.
“It's not up to you to judge her,” Rag stated at that moment, “I understand your anger with her but we are having a representative come from the Vatican. They will be the voice of the church in judging what Ariel has done and what her punishment will be.”
“She tried to kill me. I'll be the one to decide her punishment,” I replied.
I didn't get another word of out my mouth before I felt the pain shoot through my back. I hadn't noticed where it came from but it felt like my lungs were completely collapsing. I turned to see that it was Gabby. Gabby had hit me. She had hit me in my chest at that moment. She grabbed my arm before I could react and tossed me.
My body flew like a rag doll across the room. Only the wall stopped me. I guess it was humbling to realize that I wasn't the only one with true power at that moment. It as humbling to know that someone had the power to do this. No cherubim came to my defense either. No strange abilities came to revenge me. I just laid there against the wall...completely useless with a sore body.
“Behold the strength of God,” she replied.
She was cocky. Her voice was full of pride with no purpose other than showing off how strong she was. She was making her way towards me again. I noticed the others didn't stop her. Rag wasn't saying anything. Raphael hadn't stopped praying. Even Cham was completely silent and just watching.
Then I noticed Uri. Well...actually I noticed the flames first. I noticed a flame quickly spin out of no where like a cyclone of red, fiery heat in the room.
It shocked all of us and caused Gabby to stop in her foot tracks.
“ENOUGH!”
He had come to my aid. My knight in shining armor again. And I knew at that moment that I did love him. I had meant what I had said to him in that car outside. I was in love with Uri and it fucking sucked. I hated every moment of it. I couldn't believe this. He was standing up against the rest of them and coming to my defense.
“You're still protecting him?” Gabby asked.
“Did you want to look at the news, Uri?” Raphael backed her up, “Three people died. Three innocent people died in the Michael's rant.”
I wanted to defend myself. I wanted to tell them that I couldn't control my abilities completely. The cherubim had minds of their owns really. I couldn't control when they came or left. I couldn't control who they cut. I couldn't control what they did. It would be useless though, because they didn't believe me. I could see the distrust in their eyes. I'd completely lost the others.
So I didn't defend myself. I just stood up and crossed my arms. I looked down at Ariel. She was afraid. She had a right to be. I wanted her to tell me where Leviathan was and I was going to make her tell me one way or the other.
“He's had a long day. His mother died. Now I'm taking him away whether you guys like it or not. I'm taking him to my apartment. If you guys are going to fight me about it, we can fight. We can fight all day but I'd rather not. I'll bring him back tomorrow. I'll keep an eye on him. I'll make sure he comes back.”
Uri waited for the reply.
It was Rag who replied, “Take him.”
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Raphael had just taken Ariel back to the conference room and fed her. He'd been staying in the office suite with Ariel for awhile now. He had told them he was keeping an eye on her but truth be told he had lost his apartment. He didn't have money to pay any bills. The others had jobs before this war. Raphael always struggled. He honestly found himself getting to know more and more about Ariel as he spent time with her and every day he felt worse that she was in this position.
She was just another victim of Michael.
“How is she?” Raguel asked when he walked into the office room.
“Considering a mad half angel just walked into the office and threatened to kill her. I'd assume she was ok...” Raphael replied.
Chamuel shook his head, “She did try to kill him...”
Raphael looked over at Chamuel. Chamuel had changed a little bit. It all started when he came back from being with the demons. Chamuel wasn't seeing how dangerous Michael was. Even when they watched the news and saw the destruction of Michael...Chamuel just thought it was cool. He kept expressing how cool it was. Raphael would pray for him. Hopefully Chamuel hadn't been possessed. He'd read that it was possible. Maybe even possible with angels.
Gabby rolled her eyes, “I don't feel bad for either of them. If it was up to me I'd get rid of both of them. We don't need them. All we need is Cham to tell me where to go and Raphael to heal me. I'll win this war alone.”
Raphael looked at Gabby. He knew she suffered from an inflated ego. She was his biggest ally in this war against Michael though so maybe the ego wasn't a bad thing.
“He killed people. He's no good. He's no good. I get messages. Dreams...”
“Like a third eye?” Cham asked.
Raphael hesitated. He got silent. They weren't like the third eye. He had been having a different kind of dream. It was dreams about Michael. In his dreams he was always having sex with Michael. In his dreams he was always around Michael. He'd wake up in the middle of the night with his pants soaked in semen.
They were unnatural. Michael had put a curse on him and he no matter how hard he prayed God didn't lift these unnatural feelings he had for Michael.
The only thing he could do was get rid of Michael.
“Raphael doesn't have a third eye,” Raguel stated, “He is right though. Michael has killed innocents. He has revealed his powers to people He's probably going to be wanted by cops all around the city. He's dangerous to our cause.”
Raphael was relieved. Finally Raguel was coming around. Finally they were seeing Michael for the devil he was. He had to be free of Michael. He had to be free of these desires to be around Michael.
“We have to get rid of him,” Raphael stated.
“Get rid of him? Are you joking? We don't even know what he was going through,” Cham replied almost immediately, “Boy. You're my best friend. I love you, but what's up with the Michael-hating-obsession you have?”