Chapter 4
" One Step Forward, Three Steps Back "
special ' Micheal Proves His Point '


At the same time at Cade, Elly, Enutrof, Myr, and Clive were in East Cameron there was also another group from "The End of the World" (Harfein) who were captured by Micheal not two days earlier. Rend, Zanzabar, Aisa, Profit were being held with many other prisoners in an open prison with guards standing all around. After Rend saved a young woman from being rapped by another prisoner Micheal had that 'animal' put down and Rend taken from his friends. Micheal also picked five other people for his little lesson. Outside he made Rend stand back and watch as the other five were made to stand in a line.

Micheal walked up to Rend and said, "Hey, how's it going. Are you settling in ok? Yeah, I wanted you to see this. Give you a little better idea of what I'm trying to do here." Micheal walked up the the first person in the line. "Hi, how're you doing. I'm Micheal. Nice to meet you, what's your name?" The man, being very scarred about what was going to happen at this point felt a little releaved with how he was being treated answered, "Jeff. My name's Jeff."
"Hi Jeff. Let me ask you something. Do you believe in God?," asked Micheal.
Jeff stammered, "I uhhh, yeah. I mean I think so."
Micheal straightened his postuer, "Do you believe in the efficacy of prayer?"
Jeff tried to pronounce it, "the eff, effi..."
Micheal finished for him, "The efficacy of prayer. That it works."
"It would sure help right about now," said Jeff as he lowered his head a little.
Micheal smiles and laughs at that answer, "Give it a shot. Pray to a God that you are going to get out of this alive."
"I don't know what you want from me. . "
"NOW! please," yelled Micheal as one of the guard cocked a rifle.
Jeff looks up towards the sky, "God get me out of this, please. Get me out of here, Forseti."
Micheal interrupted and leaned in closer, "I'm sorry who?"
"Forseti," was all Jeff could say before his brains were splatterd across the gound.

Micheal walks up to the nex guy and asks him, "and what about you?"
"That I, don't believe in God," he answered right before being killed.
"You son of a bitch what are you doing!" Rend screams out and tries to do something before he's stopped by the two guards on him. Micheal looked back, "Its alright, just wait and see."

Micheal walks up to the third person, a girl, and asks,"and your name is?"
"Lisa..."
"Hi Lisa, do you have anything you'd like to say to me? Do you believe in the Efficacy of Prayer?"
Her eyes light up and Lisa answers, "yes, Micheal I pray to you. I pray to you for my life."
"Done," he answers raising his hand to her forehead then he walks to the next guy.
"I'm Rick, save me Micheal."
"And so I shall," Micheal says and raises his hand to Rick's forehead then he walks to the next guy.
"I'm Adam, save me."
Micheal starts to hold his hand up but stops in mid-motion and looks over to Rend, "How do you work that Gate? Where is 'The End of the World'?"
"I don't know," Rend answers.
Adam then starts to plead, "please Micheal I pray to you spare my life."
Micheal leans in closer, "Do you think that God answers every prayer?" Adam then is shot through the head as Micheal turns and walks toward Rend, "It's ok, it's ok, we'll try this again tomorrow. And Tomorrow I'll ask you twice, the day after I'll ask you four time and double it each day. The number of times that God will disappoint his people is entirely in your hands." Micheal then turns to the two survivors and says, "You're free to go. You are free to help my kindom as you will. But, you owe your lives to me. Never forget that." As those two are taken away he turns again back to Rend, "Don't fight this, it isn't goin to work. Someone once said that power comes at the tip of a wand and the barrel of a gun. I've got all the firepower in the world with me." Micheal then walks away with Diana slowly walking behind gently sobbing.

Micheal then let Rend, Zanzabar, Aisa, Profit think about what happened for a day then sent some of his soldiers to get them from their rest, in the middle of the night to bring that party to meet Micheal. Micheal was a little busy at the time and his woman, Diana, was there. She didn't like what she saw the other day but says about Micheal, "It takes a very special person to organize all of this. To get people to follow him. Micheal is very complex." Of course the next question that they had to ask was why she stayed with him. Diana answered, "Because he saved me, many years ago. I was dying and he brought me back, he was younger than. Different. I mean, he always knew there was something big in front of him, you know. But, he wasn't like this - he wasn't . . . heh . . . he has this image of himself, you see. And its gotten bigger, and now it's like its almost bigger than he is. I don't think that he understands what he's doing half of the time." Diana then fell silent as Micheal walks into the room.

"Ok, I've been thinking. The problem is that you don't know me. And I don't know you. You have no reason to trust me. But, I know, that we're going to work this out one way or another. Couple of ways we can do that. First of all, just so things don't seem so one sided - I'll give you something, if you give me something." They asked what he wanted and he continued, "We could share information. Save you a lot of time finding out who's gonna be a problem in the future. Like the Skull Children to the south, the Crimson knights to the west, those Pents in the north, the Army of the South, and The Black Army. Well the point is, that the Black Army is a perfect example of why we should work together. At the end of the day they'll fight you guys just as hard as they'll fight us." Micheal stands up walks around to the back of the desk, "This is important because I, am, meant for something better. I'm meant for something special. Important. I knew it as a child, I just didn't know what it was. Then the Big War happened and everyone I knew, died. And everyone they knew died. All of those people, hundreds of thousands of people, died. And I thought that there must be a reason. Then I realized the only way the Great Mage War could of happened was if God, was dead. And if God is dead, someone has to take his place, right. I've got my tribes, I've got my people, I've got believers and I've got a Vision. I've got a vision for the new world and I see Flags, and I see Banners, and I see Armies marching in my name and its all in here," Micheal says as he points to his own head.
"So like, your God?"
Micheal's eyes light up as he continues, "No, I'm not a God. To be a God you have to get people to believe in you: Jesus, Muhammad, Buddah. All of the GOOD Gods started out as regular guys and worked their way up. I mean you got to start somewhere. Christianity wasn't spread by love. It was spread at the point of a sword. There were crusades, there were inquisitions, there were soldiers saying, 'Believe or Die!'. The only difference between that and this is that I'm not gonna wait till I'm dead to get the ball rolling. And you can be a part of it or you can be in my way. Either way I just need to know where you stand, and I will."

"Remember that little problem that we were having in East Cameron," he looks at the party then explains, "East Cameron is a little town some fifty miles from here, about five hundred people. It's pretty but, well you know. The way I keep everybody happy is to cut them in for a little piece of everythign that is going on. But, it seems that East Cameron just doesn't want to play anymore." He pulls back the covering on a large metal orb turns to Diana and asks, "Diana is that East Cameron on the Vocuume (spy orb)?"
"Yes," she answers while staying to the back.
"This is an army, we've got swords, we've got horses, we've got guns, and just like every self-respecting army in what used to be the Sword Coast we've got Magical Weapons. I've got 114 Magical Bombs that I call Daisy Cutters. These babies will incinerate anything within two hundred yards." He lifts his hand in front of his face examines it and says, "The Hand of God." Micheal then turns to the window and continues, "Now I'ved place six in East Cameron this night. Difficult for me to part with understand. But, I need you gentlmen to understand just how serious I am. You want to know why you should side with me or stay the FUCK out of my way. Welcome to the Future gentlemen it looks a lot like this." Micheal then activated the tigger mechanism as each one of the Daisy Cutters exploded making a blinding light in the Vocuume and disabaling it. The explosion was so intense that it could even been seen from that window that Micheal was looking out of. "All I want is the truth. You withheld that truth and a town had to die. Understand that I am merciful. Understand that I can forgive. But, also understand that I have 108 more of those," Micheal finishes then leaves.