CHRONICLES OF THE FOURTH HORSEMAN

RECKLESS. (conclusion)

"Dominic Smith i presume," Michael said putting his hand forward awkwardly."Yes and who are you if I may ask," he answered shaking Michael's hand after a shared awkward moment." I am Michael, these are my sisters Azrael and Phanuel," he said trying to sound normal and human."Oooh your parents must be fanatics of angels and heavenly names, anyways come on in," he answered with a mocking smile on his face.We had been looking for him for like two hours.Naturally we would have found him within seconds but we spent most of our time arguing over whose fault it was for loosing Michael's spear.

Michael blamed Phanuel since she was the one who had left it on the mountain that day.Phanuel blamed me as she believed if I had lived my course she couldn't have been on that mountain that day.All the other angels blamed me too and no matter how much Michael defended me, I was always the one that deed things in a "not heavenly way".The council gave me a day to retrieve the spear and I would be forgiven.Even though I was not the culprit, they still held me responsible.I knew sooner or later they would cast me away.It was just a matter of time.

Together with Phanuel we had started the hunt but we fought way too much until Michael himself decided to join.We could not give the humans a prove of the Celestials and Michael suggested we went to Dom like three rich individuals interested in his discoveries.He had told the world through his social media that he had discovered something that would blow their minds.Something he said would change everybody's believes in the celestial life.

Under different circumstances we would not have bothered to check in on him and his claims, but we knew it was possible that he actually possessed the prove.Now we were in his house, eager to know what prove he had.We were not completely sure that he had the spear as Michael could not feel its power, but we sort of hoped he had it.Dom was a guy living his life to the fullest.His house was huge enough to hold about ten families.Artifacts of all sorts were all round his house and he estimated there worth as one billion dollars or more.The house itself and everything in it was maybe triple the number.He even had an elevator as the way up to his bedroom was some sort of a hike.

"There are at least fifty rooms in this house, how do we inspect them all without being noticed," Phanuel asked.We were communicating telepathically as we waited for Dom to freshen up so he could take us to the research facility.I walked up to the cameras blindspot area and went all invisible.I flew silently around the house looking all over.When I was satisfied that the spear was not there, i came back to where Michael and Phanuel were seated and gave them the news just as the elevator doors opened and Dom came out.

Outside a helicopter was waiting for us.For beings fast enough to go all around earth in seconds, the helicopter seemed pretty slow and such a waste of precious time that I didn't have much of. After what seemed like a lifetime to me, we eventually got to the reserch facility which was more of a bunker really.No one except Dom and his scientist knew what it really was.On the outside, it was a normal looking beer company.A lot of workers were going on with there job as we walked through the place filled with bottles moving through conveyor belts. At first I couldn't get it, but then we went to a back room which had a high tech lock system.We then took an elevator and we were heading down for over two minutes.And there it was.

I could feel something was wrong from the moment I stepped into the elevator.I could tell something powerful had been in the elevator not long ago and judging from Michael's reactions, he could feel it too.By the time we got out of the elevator, the feeling had grown stronger and there was something else hanging in the air.A strong stench of death.I half walked half ren out of the elevator, Michael and Phanuel followed."What the hell happened here?," Dom asked.He was feeling a strong urge to throw up and he ren looking for a place to do so.My mouth dropped.

All around me were bodies of dead scientists, most of whom were cut into pieces.There was blood everywhere and from the looks of it, it had happened recently.I walked around looking for whoever killed them or even for a survivor who could atleast explained what happened.We all had a clue but we wanted to be sure.I made a complete sweep through the huge bunker but there was no sign of any living creature, except for two rats and a rabbit.

"Ralph was right, there was something about that spear that felt all wrong and right at the same time.He even said that he could hear it whispering to him to return it or it would find it's way back without his consent.We didn't believe him when he said it was not made on earth.He was the one who suggested we keep it locked up as he claimed it was not meant to be with humans.I thought it was a joke and I was planning to tell the world it was an alien weapon so I could sell it at an impossible plan.I killed them, I killed all of them," Dom broke out into tears.

"Wait is this Ralph one of the dead scientists on the ground?," I asked.Dom looked around and confirmed that he was not amongst them.I walked back to the elevator and the others followed me.At the reception desk I asked if anyone has seen Ralph and the receptionist confirmed that he left about two hours ago carrying something which she could not see as it was wrapped up.I knew then where Ralph was going.The spear needed him to return it to the mountain so Michael could find it.I also knew he would do anything including kill while he was under its influence.He was no longer in control of himself.There was no telling what he was capable of during that period.

I flew away in search of him now that I knew what and where to look.I knew he could never think to use any other mode of transport as he was not the one in control and the spear had no idea there were other ways of transport.I totally forgot that Dom was still around and I had just proved to him that we were not just kids of a religion fanatic, but we were real angels.At the point all that mattered was to make sure I found Michael's spear before the day was over which was in about two hours.The search was short, but there was much more to answer to back in heaven.On its wake, the spear has killed over a sixty people and as usual I would automatically be the one to blame.This time round I figured there was no way out.

As Michael took back the spear from Ralphs hands, we could hear the whispers.The spear was glad to be back on his arms and it fell silent as soon as he touched it.The day was not over yet and I knew I was forgiven for loosing it.What I didn't know then was the fact that another hearing had been set up there to decide what to do about the people who had died in the process.A harsh ruling was on the way and I was not aware.

Of course I had to explain to Dom and Ralph about heaven and angels and convince him to not go around saying he met or saw me as it would create unwanted attention and that was the last thing I needed.Luckily enough, the two were way too scared to go talking about it.They volunteered to help me and my course and Dom stopped being skeptical about religion.Ralph also decided to be a doctor so he could help people and maybe right a few wrongs in the process.I had phanuel do something she was not supposed to do and by that I added to my transgressions without even knowing it.It was one thing for people to die because my mistakes, but it was a totally different thing having them returned back to life without permission from up there.Another nail was added to my coffin.

That night I went back to the bunker counting my loss.I was glad Michael was not mad at me.In fact, for the first time in forever he thanked me and he even smiled at me.I was now one of the few who had seen Gods strongest soldier smile.I was also relieved that he didn't count that days help as a debt.He had not even told me about the ongoing preparations.At the bunker I was met by a worried crowd that was more than relieved to see me.The had thought maybe Michael had decided to take me back home or worse.I told them about my day and I watched them eat before they all went to bed.The next day was a Saturday and I had a shopping date with the girls and a party to host later.That was what I planned to bother myself with for the rest of the night, but I always found myself worried about other things as well.

" You know you can always talk to me, and right now I can feel there is more than you have told us.Something is bothering you," Ophie said.I was seated there for a while and I thought he was fast asleep."Yeah Ophie, you know there is always something bothering me.Ever since I decided to do this, I have no idea what I am doing and whether its the right thing to do.Lately all I have been doing is wrong and reckless.I am not sure I am on the right path anymore.But that is not all of it.I have a very bad feeling about what happened today.I feel like all around me I am being judged and not in a good way either.I just feel tired and trapped.Not that there is anything you could do about it or anything I would want you to do about it," I answered him even though I never meant to.

He walked up to me and held my shoulders.He assured me everything was going to be alright and that I should not worry because now I had a family.People who would do anything and everything for me.He reminded me the reasons why I was doing everything I was doing and for a moment my head was clear.Still the feeling of an impending doom never left me.I could feel something was about to go down, but I didn't tell him.

I walked towards my bedroom and made a brief stop at Duke's as I had just realized he was back.We had a little chat where he told me a bit about the elements and what they had taught him.He seemed to have no doubt that we were heading to the right direction and what we were doing was for the good of earth and everything in it.He told me that the elements were ready to follow my lead and the only reason they never admitted it was because they didn't want to admit that I was right.I then left him to rest as I could tell he really needed it.I walked to my bedroom and as usual I glued my eyes to the ceiling.Listening to the sleeping crowd.

The night was unusually long but i had no choice than to live it a minute at a time.At a certain point i heard Phanuel calling to me through angel radio but when i answered she was gone.I tried to reach to her but i could not get through and i thought maybe i had imagined it.I never made a follow up or even bother to go up and check.Another one of my reckless actions.