His Love In Time: Volume I

WAKING UP, I KNOW THAT IT IS EARLY. I AM beginning to get everything mixed up. I am starting to wonder what life would be like when time just stopped playing with my mind. The incense is burning. The only light in the room is coming in from the tiny cubicle window above the tent. I can hear the sound of voices speaking outside about the war they are planning. I lay still on the cot, listening for a minute, waiting for my cue to make my presence known.

I realized that it is strange that they are talking amongst themselves without the king in

the room. That is when I realized that the reason there is no king, is because one has not been appointed, yet.

I sat up.

Samuel comes into the tent, a man next to him.

I get up and walk over to them. Neither one of them look like they were worried as to why I am here.

I go around Samuel and Saul to look outside.

“I am sure that you are here for a reason,” Samuel says behind me.

“Yes, I am here to deliver a message and to give you a fair warning.”

“What is it?”

“Saul,” I say. “God has asked me to come and help you and Samuel. He has chosen to make you king of His people. But I need you to understand, when the Israelites, the Hebrews, were attacked by the Amalek clan. These are the people of Cain. He wants us to make sure that Cain pays for what he did to the Hebrews.”

“How?” Saul asks.

“We are to attack the Amalekites. We must destroy them and everything they have. We can’t have any pity for them. We must kill the men, the women, the children, and their babies. We have to kill the cattle, the sheep, the camels, the donkeys, and their weapons. Everything must be destroyed.”

“We have to kill babies?!” Samuel asks.

“Yes, we have to destroy everything. Do not worry about the aftermath of destroying everything. Cain has created a demonic clan. The men and women are blood sucking vampires. The children and babies are offspring of the vampires. It is our job that they do not continue to grow.”

“If we are going after a supernatural army, I am not sure we have enough men,” Saul says.

“Do not worry, I will fight with you.”

I arch down and bring the entire Armor of God to shine onto me. My wings opened up, and though Saul is not able to see the divine, Samuel was in awe.

“Saul, trust Jacob. God has sent us what we need to defeat the Cain army.”

“While we are fighting, Saul, there is one amongst the army. His name is Cain, but he goes by Agog. He is the leader of the tribe here. Leave him for me.”

Cain’s army and the army of the Israelites are facing one another across the vast land. As the two armies square off, the air has changed. From a cold, breezy, winter desert to a mushy, fog, meadow. The shouts of excitement, agony, with the two-hundred thousand young soldiers getting ready for a battle. It is a lot like a young football team before the first kick off of the season.

The fog makes it a little more comfortable so that everyone can focus on one person at a time.

I begin looking for the Vampire King among the heard. I know that if I kill him, all will be saved. Or at least I hoped for that kind of miracle.

As I walk through the foggy meadow, I trip over bodies. Bodies from vampires that have lost their heads, and Hebrews that have been killed. I look down to see the twitching corpse of a young soldier, he could not have been more than nineteen years old.

Alone and confused, I stumble through the fog, looking for help. Before long, I stop in front of Cain. Masked as Agog, the face of the vampire locks its gaze on me. Unprepared, I turn and run in fear. But Agog is hot on my tail. He chases me, fast, and catching up.

I am easily overtaken and is attacked by the ambitious vampire with him bringing his claws into my neck, digging deep. The blow knocks me to the ground, hard. I roll over to see the monster crouching over me. He leans down next to me, getting ready to sink his teeth into me. He opens his mouth wide as one of the soldiers on my side to tackle him.

A brave but foolish move on his part. Agog rolls over and takes the life of the unfortunate individual, but it gives me enough time to get up and retreat. The vampire runs the opposite way, vanishing into the fog.

I can feel my neck healing as I am walking back to camp. Saul’s army is overjoyed that they think that they have won. However, I can hear sheep baaing behind me. I also hear ox. The part that scares me the most as I walk back to the camp; I can hear an angry Agog.

As we near the camp, a distraught Samuel marches to us.

“Saul!” he yells, “what have you done!”

“We won, there were a few losses but…”

“No! Jacob had stringent instructions that you destroy everything.”

“So, I kept the women and children. They are harmless, and I kept the good animals.”

“But God told you, destroy everything!”

“I did destroy everything Samuel, ask Jacob.”

“No, leave me out of it,” I defend myself. “I told you what God said, and I know He will NOT be happy.”

“I did what He asked. The animals were going to be killed anyway, so we took them with to make a meal. The women and children were going to die, so why not put them to good use. The king is my prisoner.”

“No, Saul, you disobeyed. Now, you must not be allowed to be king.”

Agog, in chains, is pulled by the soldiers. He tells Samuel with a smile, “They couldn’t kill me before, what makes you think they will kill me now?”

“If I have to tear you apart, piece by piece, I will.”

In the distance, I hear a familiar voice. A voice that I have not heard in hundreds of years. A voice that started a clan.

“Jacob!” Cain yells in the distance, with more followers.

“Great,” I say. “Wait, I thought you were Cain,” I say to Agog.

“I am much worse than Cain.”

“Whatever,” I say making my way to Agog.

“Release him! Or my followers will charge the camp and destroy everything in it!”

“Cain, good to see you,” I say, mocking him.

Cain inches his way towards me, angry.

“Samuel, go get David.”

“David?”

“Yes, he is to be the new king. Send Saul away, and get David.”

“But he is just a shepherd.”

“Go!”

Samuel escorts Saul out of the camp and runs to where the sheep of the Israelites are. While he was away, I stood toe to toe against Cain. He was just as well built as ever. “Where is your wife?” I ask.

“Lilith? She chose to be with Lucifer.”

“So, you’re single?”

“I have many wives, none of which are here. None of which are what I am.”

“You just love to live in sin.”

“God may have allowed this to happen, he may have created me. But down here, I am god. Not even He can kill me.”

“I have instructions to end your life.”

“Really?” Cain pulls out a sword. “This sword was made with the blood of a dragon. In fact, the dragon is not too far from you.” He twirls it around his hand. “We have never found out, who was a better swordsman.”

Cain runs at me, fast, hard and it is time to see who can fight better. Our blades are a blur of metal as we work on each other, driving forward, backward, circling one another. I draw first blood, cutting Cain’s arm. Cain grabs his arm in pain, growls but continues after me.

Back at camp, I can hear Agog screaming in agony. Before long a giant dragon begins to appear, as David and Samuel return to square off with him. ’I knew it was a giant, I just never thought a giant dragon,’ I thought to myself. Cain and I circle around to where the dragon is in view of my site.

Cain dives and rolls out of the way of my swing, me right after him. I knock the sword from his grasp, kick him into a tree.

David picks up a rock from the ground and begins to swing the rock, in his slingshot. Picking up speed, he releases the rock into the dragon’s head. The dragon falls, hard. David and Samuel jump for joy.

I approach Cain, sword in hand. He tries to move around the tree, but I move with him. I box him in to make sure that he has nowhere to go. I point the sword near his face, giving small little cuts on his nose, smiling.

“Who’s the better fighter, huh? Your army is waiting to attack, but take that away, and you’re no better than Lucifer. A wimp.”

Cain stares at me, knowing that my words are hitting home.

“Your wife ran away with the devil, Cain. Think about it.”

He shuts his eyes.

“Who’s the better fighter, Cain?”

I lunge, shooting my arm out, the sword straight to his face. Without opening his eyes, he slams his palms together over the blade, stopping it an inch from his face. He opens his eyes and says, “I am.”

He jerks the sword back and hits me in the face with the handle, then kicks me in the chest.

Falling back, I see the dragon get back up. He dives down and grabs Samuel with his mouth, swings him around, throws him in the air, and eats him.

I fly back, landing hard. I try to get up, but Cain is after me, sword in hand, pounding me. Driving me back until I am near a small cliff. Cain knocks the sword out my hand, cutting my hand. I stand there, exhausted, beaten. I watch as the dragon reaches down and does the same to David. Thinking to myself, ‘That wasn’t in the bible.’

Cain says to me, “Don’t worry about them, you haven’t much time.”

My eyes focus in on Cain, “What do you mean?”

Cain steps back and thrusts the sword through my chest, directly into a portal that opens behind me.

Silence.