THE WARRIOR KING-THE WARRIOR'S JOURNEY-THE LOST ORACLE

In the days when Rakaetopia was still one kingdom, there was a great King called King Raka. He was a just king who feared God. When King Raka died, his son Benjamin succeeded him. Benjamin ruled well and died, and his son Eto succeeded him. Eto also died, and his son Gilead succeeded him. After Gilead's death, his son Manoses succeeded him. Now Manoses was different from all the kings before him. He was about two metres tall and weighed about 45 kilograms. He was a Giant — but not a thick giant. He was tall, thin, with long arms like sticks, but with terrible strength in them. When he walked into a room, his head almost touched the top of the door. People feared him not because he was big like a bear, but because he looked like a spirit — tall, thin, and unnatural. He was very arrogant and proud. Yes, he was fearless and bold, but sometimes his boldness turned into foolishness. In Rakaetopia, there was a law from the days of King Raka. During the time of battle, every king must pray to his God. The kings before Manoses would kneel and pray to the one and only God of Rakaetopia, the God who made their kingdom great. But during his first battle, Manoses refused. He stood before his army and said, "Look at me! A man of my size and with my strength — why should I pray? I am like a god already. I need not pray to any god, but rather my people shall pray to me!" His generals were silent. They were afraid. After he won that battle — not by God's power but by luck — his pride grew bigger. He commanded the guards and the messengers to go throughout all Rakaetopia, to the descendants of his forefathers, the same people who worshipped the one and only God of Rakaetopia, and command them to now worship him. His command was: "Every man who does not worship me shall be put to death." So the messengers did as he said. And for the fear of the king and for the fear of death, the people worshipped him. Every Tuesday, instead of going to the Temple of God, the people went to the palace and worshipped King Manoses like they did for God. They bowed to his thin, tall legs. They called him "God of Rakaetopia." This made God very angry. For it was written in their book of commandments — the book given to King Raka — that they shall worship not any god but Him alone. And they had disobeyed. But only one family in the whole kingdom still worshipped Him. In a small house at the edge of the city, a man called Gibel refused to bow to Manoses. Gibel, his wife, his five daughters and his two sons — every Tuesday they closed their doors and prayed to the true God. Because of that one family, God's glory had not yet left the kingdom completely. And God saw them. And God said, "I will choose a King from their family." While Manoses was at his palace one day and the people had gathered there to worship him, God made His decision. God sent an Angel from heaven to go and slap him and take the crown away from him, and take the crown to the house of Gibel — His beloved family. So the Angel came down from heaven to the palace. The appearance of the Angel was like flames. He was very bright, like the fire inside a volcano. His presence was very hot, as if the sun had moved closer to the earth. When he entered the palace, the air itself became heavy and hot. The people fell to the ground, fearing him. Their clothes were sweating from his heat. The king saw him and thought he had come to worship him too. "So even the gods from heaven bow to me now?" Manoses said, laughing on his throne. The Angel did not bow. The king's face changed. He was angry because the Angel did not bow. He shouted, "Why do you not bow to your King and your God?!" The Angel looked at him with eyes of fire and said, "Why should I bow to such an unwise mortal? You are a stick dressed as a king." The king got angrier and commanded the guards to kill him. "Kill this insolent spirit!" But the guards refused. They dropped their spears because they were too scared to move. No man can fight fire. Manoses, in his foolish pride, took a sword from his guard's sheath and struck at the Angel himself. The moment the iron touched the Angel's flame-body — the sword melted. It became like water and burnt his hand. Manoses screamed, holding his burnt hand. The Angel then stepped forward. He raised his hand and slapped him. One slap. But it was not a human slap. The sound echoed like thunder in the palace. Manoses fell from his throne to the ground. The Angel then took the crown off his head — the royal crown of Rakaetopia that had been passed from Raka to Benjamin to Eto to Gilead to Manoses. And he said, "Now God has taken the throne away from you and your family. For your fathers were good men, I shall not kill you. I shall let you keep your belongings and reign over this city as a common man till I choose my people who shall become royals. But you are no longer King of Rakaetopia." And the Angel turned and walked out of the palace, with the crown in his fiery hand. No one dared to stop him. He walked straight to the house the Lord had chosen — the house of Gibel. He knocked on the door, and surely it was opened for him. Gibel and his family were inside praying when the hot wind blew. When they opened the door and saw the Angel of flames, they were afraid, but they welcomed him with warm hearts. They gave him water. They gave him a seat. Gibel's wife quickly covered her daughters. The Angel was delighted by their kindness. In a kingdom that worships a man, he had found one house that still worships God. Gibel had 5 daughters and 2 sons. The Angel looked and saw his first daughter. Her name was Adhara. And he saw her beauty. Not just the beauty of the face, but the beauty of her heart — she was the one who prayed the loudest. The Angel blessed the family and said, "For your faithfulness, God has not forgotten you." But he did not leave the crown there. The crown was too holy to stay in a city where Manoses still lived. The Angel was on Earth 39 days and 40 nights, watching, waiting. Then he went back to heaven. He went to heaven with the crown. In heaven, he told God about Adhara, the first daughter of Gibel, and that he wanted to marry her. God was angry at first. "You are an Angel! You are made of flame! How can you love a mortal?" But God saw his heart was true, and He calmed down and told him, "If you want to marry her, you can. But all your strength and power as an Angel shall be lost. You will become a man." The Angel agreed to it. He loved Adhara more than power. He asked God for forgiveness for his desire, and God forgave him and blessed him. The Angel was now sent from heaven to Earth — not as an Angel, but as a man. His new home was Earth. His earthly name was Antonio. Antonio went back to Rakaetopia. Antony and Adhara got married. It was a small wedding, but God blessed it. After the wedding, they moved out of the kingdom of Rakaetopia, because Manoses' people still hated Gibel's family. They lived in a kingdom called Aporia. But God's mission was not done. One day as Antonio and Adhara were asleep in Aporia, God appeared to Antonio in a dream and told him, "Even as you are now human, you still serve me!" "Yes Lord, I do," said Antonio, going down on his knees in the dream. God said, "I shall give you back your strength and power, not to fight in human wars, but to complete your mission. Go across the seven seas to the lost sea — there is an island there. There on that Island I want you to keep the crown and my treasures. The one I shall choose to be king shall journey to find the crown." God told him this as a command. God also told him he will become king of Aporia before he will embark on his journey. This prophecy came true quickly. One day, Antonio went to the king's house to greet him. When Antonio went to the king's house, the king invited him for dinner. As they were eating, the king asked him, "I am the king of Aporia and your God you claim guides you. If I asked you to choose one, who will you choose? Me, or Him?" "My king, you are king but remember He made you king, He created you so surely Him I will pick," Antonio replied boldly. The king remained silent and Antonio left to his house. When Antonio left, the king ordered his men to attack Antonio and his family that night. But God told Antonio what the king was about to do, and told him to leave the kingdom to Eija, the kingdom at Aporia's West. So Antonio and his family left that night. The king was very angry when he heard this. He sent a spy to find where Antonio was. The spy found out where he was and went to tell the king. The king then attacked him at night in Eija and brought him back to Aporia in chains. On the execution platform stood the king, his royal guard, and Antonio. Antonio was chained in iron and forced to kneel before all the people. He looked down and saw his wife Adhara and his children, his father-in-law Gibel and his brothers-in-law crying. He looked up to heaven and said, "Lord God Almighty, look down from heaven to thy servant and delivereth me from the power of the sword." The king laughed and said, "Ha Ha Ha, where is the God of Antonio, his servant now? Perhaps he is asleep!" And he spat on his face. Antonio replied, "My God is never asleep and He hears all my cries and also He heard what you said!" Immediately after his saying, the king ordered the guard to kill him. Finally as the guard lifted his sword, the clouds became darker and the air became heavier. The sky was so low like the people could touch it. Then the guard charged at him. A great fire from heaven fell upon the execution platform. The king fell backwards. The iron chains on Antonio's hands, legs and neck melted like wax. Antonio stood up, with flames all over his body — his Angel power returned — and picked up the crown of Aporia that fell from the wicked king's head. The people bowed. He became King of Aporia, just as God had said. But he did not stay. He remembered his final mission. Antonio Journeyed on the seas to finally the last and final sea — the Lost Sea. He saw with his own eye Leviathan — the monster of the seas, the killer of courage. No man can fight it. If every man, even the bravest and the strongest, when he sees its horrifying teeth falls down with no courage and dies of fear. But Antonio, with the power of God, conquered Leviathan. He did not kill it — he tamed it. And on that Lost Land, guarded by Leviathan itself, Antonio buried the Crown of Rakaetopia and the treasures of God, waiting for the one God would choose to be the true Warrior King to come and find it. *END OF EPISODE 1*