CHRONICLES OF THE FOURTH HORSEMAN

NO STONE UNTURNED.

"We have to know just how far heaven have gone.We can't let them harm the world," the elements said in unison.I was just half listening, half wondering how they functioned.Did they hear and see everything from all over the world? Did they have brains? How did they process information? How could they talk without voice boxes? I was dying to know.They already knew about the spiting and the memory loss.Duke had taken me to them so they would check up on me and try to bring back my memories with their insane powers.I was hesitant at first as I was not sure whether to trust them or not.

After a long talk with Ophie, he promised me that I could totally trust them and that was when I agreed to meet with them.Duke was the only person who ever talked or saw them face to face.The rest were not welcome and for that reason only Duke and i could go out to meet them.We went much deeper into the forest.I was scared and it surprised Duke.According to him, I was always a bad a*s who feared nothing, he said I was invincible and the only being that scared me was Michael.

On the way, he told me about the elements and how they introduced him to the supernatural world.He told me the story of how he first met me.He said I was a pain in the butt and he hated me.He explained how he came to really know and understand me with time and he even swore he could die for my course.He termed it as a stupid but noble course.I asked him why he and the rest of the people back at the bunker were willing to follow me and his answer was short and assuring.He said I was fighting to keep the world alive.I was trying to stop earth from getting in the middle of a battle between heaven and hell.I wanted to give the humans a fighting chance.Duke believed that was a good enough reason to keep the course and help me.All the others had the same feeling too.

While he was telling me about myself, I remembered how we had spent a whole week looking for a solution.A way to bring back my memories and return me to my former glory.We tried to pray to Michael and Phanuel but they never answered.Ophie even took me to a guy he thought would use regression therapy to try and recover my memories.We wasted three hours and go nothing out of it.We tried other means but nothing worked.By the end of the week we had exhausted all options.Ophie had swore to not leave any stone unturned.He was even hitting hard on the books.He was looking for a way to summon angels.He had looked through the book shelves but he never found anything.He wasn't ready to give up yet and he planned to do better.

Everyone was out looking for a way forward when Duke came up with a bad idea.He thought the elements would help.John had argued that the elements were never on my side.He knew it was a bad idea to take me to them especially while I was so weak and helpless.Ophie had opted to go with us but Duke refused.He assured me and everyone else that he would look out for me and make sure nothing would happen to me

He promised to bring me back home safe and sound.I remembered how we had to wake up on really Ungodly hours to hit the road.Now we were out in the darkness, walking and talking.We were completely aware of the dangers that surrounded us.There was no telling what kind of deadly creatures lived that deep into the forest.Maybe there were a few magix as well and some of them were much more deadlier than the wild animals.I felt a cold shimmer travel through my spine.My head spinned a little and the hair on my head stood upright with the thought.For a moment I thought I felt eyes looking at me from the dark horizon.

However, I kept following Duke.Making sure I stayed on his heels.I knew he could tell that I was scared, it made him uneasy but he was trying to stay cool.One of us had to be strong.I didn't understand why we had to go through all that.Wouldn't the elements just pop up whenever and wherever they were needed? Why couldn't they come to him when he needed them? He was always devoted to them.He answered their call without hesitation, yet they were never ready to go to him when he needed them.I could have asked that question.It was tempting.I however did not want to blow the one faint hope I had to get my memories back.I held myself tightly together, swallowed hard and asked,"How far are we from the meeting point". Duke looked at his watch using the torch light, he smiled before looking at me and answered," It is just about time he said." I had no idea what that meant. I just kept following him and I kept listening as he told me the stories about himself and his friends.The stories sounded made up but by then I knew better.I had seen everything through the bunker's memories.I sure sounded like bad a*s and hero.I knew I had live up to my promise and make sure I saved him and all the others, or at least I would die trying.I knew now that my course was the reason why I was out here in the dark with a stranger friend whom I had known for over a year.My brothers and sisters had taken out their wrath on me.Turning me into a vegetable that didn't know forwards or backwards.Just how important would a fight be that you would be willing to kill a sister just to get her out of the way.

They never even gave me a chance to explain myself.I never had a fair trial.I was doomed before the council had even met.I was angry and I felt betrayed and lost.Was i a fallen angel now? Even much more important, was I still an angel? How could I possibly know? Maybe the elements had the answers and probably a cure.I needed to understand everything and I would stop at nothing to make sure that happened.It didn't matter whether I had to turn both figurative and literal stones.I would turn all of them in the hunt of answers.I was done being scared, I was done trying to make sense off an empty head.