CHRONICLES OF THE FOURTH HORSEMAN

BLINDING LOVE

Maurice had an excited face as he opened the door.He was about to have a very special gift.Finally his wait was over and he could hold her into his arms.He remembered how it started.He met her about three months earlier.It was one of the most unusual meets one could imagine.It was the end of a long working day.He was tired and just wanted to go home and rest.He walked out of the building and headed for his car.He was almost off the parking lot when his friend called him and asked him to join them at a certain club.It was on a Friday and he didn't have to go to work the next morning, he thought it would do no harm for him to grab a beer or two before heading home.

By the time he got to the club his friends had already started the fun.He joined in and the fun went on.Apparently he had way too much fun and way too much beer.When he felt he had had enough,he walked out of the club without telling his friends and headed for his car, walking three steps ahead and two backwards, he was headed for his car.He never realized he was way too drunk to drive and what he was about to do was not just a danger to himself but also to everybody else around him.He was about to start the engine when he had a soft voice call him from outside."Hey, don't you think what you are about to do is dangerous?," the voice hit his years with a heavy impact and he turned to see.It was the most beautiful voice he had ever heard.And so was the lady it was coming from.

He thought in his mind she was probably a p********e or a thief, but he was way too drunk to give it a serious though."young sir, I think you should call a cab or something," she went this time with a much more serious voice than before.He listened to her even though it was not the first thing he could have thought to do.He got out of the car and asked her to call a one for him and she deed exactly that.She also helped him lock his car and put the car keys carefully into his pocket.The cab came by and took Maurice home safely.The girl was left to her business.

Ever since that day, Maurice searched for the girl and in the process she found her contact.He had been talking to her ever since, asking her to meet so he could thank her in person.She had been claiming to be busy all the time but she finally came through.Now he was walking back home from the stores where he had gone to do some shopping.He planned to prepare for her a meal to remember.He walked into the house with a wide smile on his face.Placed the shopping bag on the kitchen counter and walked out to get her.

Looking at her while he was sober, she was even much more beautiful than the night he was drunk.She stood about six feet tall.He black skin shinning from the evening sun.Her hair was plaited with beautiful, black and well kept braids.Her little bit big ,white eyes made her unique.Her lips with red lipstick were what caught his eyes much.She was lean with a sweet figure.Dressed in a red top, black jeans and black shoes with white strips and a black leather jacket to complete the looks.Maurice stood there for a while trying to figure out what to say to her.

After a long awkward moment he reached out and held her hand.The two then walked back to his house in silence.There was not much to talk about and when he had thanked her he ren short of words to a point that when he talked again he asked her to help him cook.The plan for the night was some bread , pork , fried potatoes and vegetables.She took on the baking and he went down to preparing the rest.The would exchange a sweet look every ones in a while and she would look away shyly.At one point he walked out and came back to find her still doing her part.He walked up to her and held her from behind resting his head on her shoulder.She leaned back and turned to look at him.Their lips locked and they kissed before he went back to his side of the job.

Within two hours the food was ready and they were seated on the couch enjoying it as they watched a movie.Later the washed it down with a beer and Maurice asked her why she stopped him from drunk driving that day.She told a sad story about his fathers death.She explained that her father died on a road accident that involved his car which he was drunk driving and an innocent woman who was crossing the road.No one could really tell what happened that day but two people died, one was her father and the other was an innocent lady walking home to her daughter and sick mother, but she never got home because she was killed by a reckless driver.Since that day the girl Poly swore to prevent other deaths like those if she could.Maurice was touched and he fell in love with her even more.The night was still young and the two decided to dance.They put on her favorite song, held hands and went for it.

The air started getting hot for him and some places started to react to the close contact.Slowly by slowly he reached back to her well rounded bottom and grabbed it by his hands.She pulled him back but after a while he went right back and this time she didn't protest.Slowly the two danced towards the bedroom and before they could think things through they were n***d and ready to go.As she moaned softly holding his huge sexy arms, the lights went off and the music died down.The whole neighborhood was in total darkness but the two were all caught up in their thing to even notice.

Back at the bunker the Ring Pin machine went off.Tom had named it that and even though it sounded stupid non of us had the authority to ask him to change it.It was hid, he built it and that meant he could name it whatever he wanted.Personally I had no problem with that but John was.He often wondered how could be soo smart and soo dumb at the same time.He could have come up with a name big enough to make one bite their tongue trying to mention it but, Ring pin! anyway he had to live with it and that gave Tom some sort of satisfaction.Almost as if he had named it to hurt John.

Alice was the one who went to the machine first.A few seconds later she called in sounding excited.When we got there we looked at each other in surprise.The machine had the location set in Nairobi kenya.A small surburb in the capital."home , the ping is coming from home," John said out loud.He may have been one strong a*s man but deep down he missed home dearly.Before he had transferred to the village years back, he and his family lived in the big city.But then life got hard and he went back to the village with his mother and sister.Leaving the father there to hustle for them.I still remembered how he acted different when he first came to our school back in the village.He spoke a better Swahili than everybody else in school.He also had better skills when it came to english.He was afraid of the dirt and he avoided mud pools and the famous slido.We thought he was being proud and not in a good way.Everybody hated him more than they hated me and Tom and that was how he became one of us.Two years later he was of course like everybody else.Dancing on the mud pools, taking shoes off just so he could feel the mud under his feet all squishy and seriously looking back, gross.But that was how we had fun those days, no TV, no phones and definitely no wifi.We had fun the old fashioned way.Parents were tough back then and so were the children.

"We have to go there and I mean like right now, my father is there," John said with a concerned look in his face.Of course I knew what he was feeling and without question I flew all of them with me to Nairobi.It sure felt good to be back home.Here we could move freely, do our thing without anyone getting concerned.Of course there were weird looks at Alice, Duke, and Ophie, but no one meant any harm.Here everybody is welcome despite who they are.Squishy knew how to blend in and he could change himself to anything, any color he felt like.He was one of the many shape shifter the world of Magix had.Our search was not very long but it had its own problem.How would we explain ourselves to John's dad ones we were there?

We had to find our way to his place since only John knew where he lived.We planned to start there and I flew us as close as possible.We might have been home ourselves but others like Alice weren't.They had no passports or legal permission to be on the country and we couldn't risk them getting caught by the police.We hurried to John's father apartment but we had not gone far when we realized the strangeness hanging around the place.There was the feeling of love in the air.Everywhere you went people were busy making out and nobody seemed bothered by that.A police car still had its siren on but the two officers inside were busy making out instead of stopping the ones outside.It was strange.

I turned to enquire from the others but I was shocked.Tom and Ophie had each other on their arms dancing to love song that came from a shop across the road.John and Duke were telling each other how cute their noses and ears among other things too crazy to mention.Alice and Squishy had each other dancing around with squishy's horns and huge flappy years going round and round.It remainded me of a book but in the moment I was too shocked to think about it.I tried to break them apart but they all seemed like they were hypnotized or something.The were all wide awake but had no control over what they said or deed.

I looked all around and everybody was the same.Something was going on and I had to know what and stop it before people deed some things they could never recover from.No one else was in a position to help.It was as if whatever was affecting them was in the air.Everybody who went into the area where it had touched was affected.There was no one who could get in without changing and ones they deed they were incapable of going out.We had carried a few books with us and I flipped them over and over looking for an explanation and lucky enough I found one.But that explanation lead to even much more questions.

From the book, the only being powerful enough to cause something like that was the fairies of love.If two met , fell in love and shag it on, a sort of love spell is released into the area around them.Covering itself around like a blanket.The way to stop the spell was to find the two fairies and make them swear to live by each others side.More like get them to get married and the love blanket will cover them instead of everybody else around.That was the biggest task of the day.I had to look for two, probably ordinary looking people from a crowd of hundreds of people and convince them to say vows to each other.How hard could that be.I wished it was back when the fairies were tiny winged creatures.

Ever since the world of magic was concealed away from the normal world, the fairies were given a choice by the elements.They were either to give up their wings, small bodies and become humans, or go to the magix dimension.Some of course chose to go but others wanted to stay.They were turned into normal looking humans and they probably passed the fairy properties down to their decedants.Now that the magic was slowly spilling back to the world, maybe their maybe so was their magical beings.They may have not gotten their wings back since magic was not fully back but they had enough to affect the world around them.Finding them was the only way I could open the eyes of the people around.They were all blinded by love so non of them could see properly.

I went out looking but I had no idea who or what I was looking for.I flew from house to house but I was just finding people fooling around.I felt helpless for the first time in my long angelic life.The fairies were so much human and that meant at the moment I couldn't tell them apart from the heartbeats or smell.I just kept on jumping from home to home, couple to couple.I was still on my rounds when I heard two people engaged in a worried conversation.It sounded like they were under the love dome but they were unaffected.I fugured they were either imune to the love spell or they were the source.I went to them Completely forgeting to hide my true self.I landed with my wings still out and i scared the hell out of them.They had just seen an angel and amidst the crazy things they were seeing around they didn't know if it was for the best.They took to their heels and i jumped right in front of them.Scaring them even more.

"We have a feeling we did it but please don't punish us, we have no idea how it happened," Poly said holding on tight to her newly found lover.I talked to them camly and made them understand that they were capable of stopping it.They exchanged vows and the love spell was lifted.I was left standing there watching them disappear into the buildings holding hands.It took me a moment to realize everything had gone back to normal around me.I quickly went all invisible and flew about looking for my friends.

When I got to them, they were all looking embarrassed and confused.They remembered everything that had happened.The just couldn't explain how it happened or why they couldn't stop themselves.The flight back to the bunker was surrounded by awkward silence.When we got back everybody got busy and went off to work.The events of the day still fresh and terrifying at the back of my mind.Eight months later we would seat around enjoying the festivities and we would make fun and laugh about the events of this day.But till then we avoided the conversations and for a moment things stayed weird around the bunker.The six kept distance from each other but it didn't affect them in the other areas