Chapter Four in the Guardian Angel Series: There was a long pause until this chapter struck me and everything else stopped.
When Anitta used her bosses name to Phillipe she figured it would be enough to get them to stop. Desmond would have normally killed Phillipe as excuses are not allowed, but an Arch Angel watching a human is so rare it has to be reported. But, reporting it could get him erased, and he hasn't lasted this long by giving bad news to his bosses, Desmond finally figured out he should report it to an architect, they will be more interested in the story and not react as poorly as his boss would.
Nicon, one of the six authors of the calamity reached out for the Ipad on and watched the video 5g network, it showed two tiny bars at his cubical by his window, a little buffering but once watched once, the next few viewings were seamless. "The guardian said it was Michael?"
"He did."
"Is he trustworthy?" Nicon asks, but it wouldn't matter, the video alone was enough to study.
"Absolutely not, he personally knew the guardian that was watching this boy, she vanished years ago and work she worked for Michael, the failed guardian Phillipe thinks he stepped in to fill in for her."
"Hogwash!" Nicon slaps his desk, "Only once before in both Michael and Gabriel's entire existence did they watch over a human, I'll need the previous guardians name, why the were being watched, everything, it's been two thousand years! I'll take this to Abaddon."
"Good, I'll tell Arturo," Desmond ducks out of the office, that went better than expected.
Nicon watches the video again, a fallen and a missing guardian, Michael and a human, that boy is tall, but lean, he couldn't straight arm lift the other human off the ground into the air like that, striking the famous pose, he fly's down the street towards the main offices, the marble lobby, chandeliers, and elevators.
Hell is not some inferno, it's a plane of existence in the forth dimension, the human mind might understand a picture of what that entails but to see it live would be as revealing as showing a two dimensional creature what the third dimension looked like. With a billion souls and legions upon legions of demons they live throughout the world, the HQ in Manhattan. Suits replace the brimstone and cigars instead of sulfur.
Demon Lords Abaddon and Barbas in the same conference room, they manage half of the Legions between them, Abaddon looking over at Nicon and holding up a hand, everyone left the room except Barbas.
"What the Hell made you leave your cubby?" Abaddon asks Nicon, that man hasn't changed his routine for several thousand years. Nicon hands shaking in excitement hands them the Ipad.
Human's guardian vanishes that apparently worked for Michael, another fallen guardian hired by us to setup the mark, Michael shows up and stops it all, we are still investigating the details."
"Something is wrong, this can't happen, this can't happen right?" Abaddon looks at Nicon.
After getting every detail from the architect, both of them take the elevator to the Prince's quarters.
"Calamity Nicon, of all the demons in hell, delivered this to me," Abaddon with Barbas by his side report to the Prince, Lucifer. "The preliminary information, Michael protected that human from a fallen guardian hired by us to briefly interrupt its prophecy.
Lucifer watched the video, "Michael, he saw the stance and seethed, Michael is the only being to lay hands on Lucifer and it was that exact stance. "It; is, my; turn! Those Motherfuckers got Yeshua (Jesus) and then I get my turn in what?" He looks over at his assistant, a succubus that looked like she loved her job was ready. "43 years."
"Forty Three years! If they are sneaking this boy in before mine, they are sorely mistaken, that deal was between me and Father and is non-negotiable." Lucifer stands up and hands the Ipad back, find out more, get Megera to watch him.
Barbas looked up as she was his, "Yes, of course, she is the best there is."
"I know, Abaddon, muster your divisions, I want them ready, if they try and skip my turn, I'll remind them that this contract is binding." Lucifer takes his assistant's hand and they walk through the door behind his chair.
That afternoon Megera, one of the three furies, a succubus that for centuries ruled over thousands, she dreaded seeing Abaddon as female demons have sway over any demon or human below them, nobody gets away with what she can do, but end with her power, Abaddon or Barbas alone would be too much for her, together it felt like she was starstruck, any thought of embarassment replaced with absolute need.
Automatically dropping to her knees before them reaching towards them, they backed off making her look up confused and then, "What do you wish?" she asks as they look serious, she gets the story while watching the video a few times and then stopping on the boy, zooming in as much as the pixels would let her. "This boy, is causing all the fuss? Okay, what are the rules?"
"Don't do anything to let Michael know we are watching."
"You don't really believe he came down for this nonsense?" She points at the screen. "Update how often," she asks after they deadpan her.
"Any new information that confirms or refutes, we have others doing the clerical background checks, you get it from their own mouths, close enough for your magic to work, far enough away not to beckon Him."
"Without Michael around, on a human boy, I like my odds." Megera spent the rest of the day working backward through the clerical staff as nobody knew where the bar scene took place, each lesser demon scrambling to fulfill her needs, she took her time with them after kneeling and being rejected.
Back at James Jericho Letreau's home, we do a Wednesday that doesn't have much going on, meeting the parents has become a thing, Virginia got me during lunch and said my presence was requested after the incident, her mother sat her down and the inquisition began.
Now we're driving to their home, Mrs. Delgado met us at the door. She looked me up and down, her Spaniard looks a bit stronger than her daughter Virginia.
She took three steps and wrapped me in a hug, "My baby said you watched them like a hawk and stopped Melanie from drinking that poison!" I was shocked and looked at Virginia who shrugged, she had no clue her Mother was going to 180 and go sweet on her man.
"Mama, let's go inside first?" Virginia looks around her little court.
"See my baby gets embarrassed so easily." Mrs. Delgado laughs. "Tell me how you knew?" She turns and walks inside with us following, we sit in the living room and we both take some water.
"I'll be back, have to get my charger." Virginia runs upstairs.
"Everything I was told was true?" Mrs. Delgado asks.
"I assume so, we went out as a group," I start and she interrupts.
"All of your girlfriends?"
"With Jason and Sandy as their first date, no drinking of course, and the three guys were watching us, so, I was watching them, Chris was also hovering nearby and he swooped in."
"Chris, I hate that he works there, but I'm glad he could help watch over his sister. He said he saw you walk by them once and didn't notice anything odd about it until the second time you called him and ran over to stop it." She was leaning over, same features as Virginia with the slim petite body, sun-kissed tan, brown curls framing her face with slightly darker brown hair flowing back and down her back.
"She told you we got rooms together at the Uni?" I ask and she nods, "and a house about 2miles from here, you, of course, are welcome to visit anytime you wish."
