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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.
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