princesa:
Yeah I guess... What would it take?

The same thing that once gave life to it; A COMPETITION with a N10,000 grand price this time. How about that?

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jerrywill:
U are back?

Yes, I am.

EPISODE 9

Seeing that his mission had come to a quick end, the spy lamented greatly over his soul, for the loss of the mystical instrument would subject him to the fate of the remainders. Now, Apollyon was standing right beside the mystical instrument, ready to pick it up and deliver to his master. But the remainder who had confronted Apollyon at first and told him they wouldn’t deliver the spy to him even if he was there, spoke up again. This time, he placed a curse on Apollyon. In the anguish of his soul, he lifted up his voice and said;

“Until time ends, you will never be anything more than a monster. We are humans, fearfully and wonderfully made. In what I would term jealousy, a heavenly body questioned our creator about the value he placed on us, for we are deemed a little below the heavenly messengers of the blissful paradise. But you are nothing like us! You are a mere slave! You are subject to eternal damnation. You originated from the abyss. And to the abyss, you shall return. We refused to receive the teacher’s teachings, that’s why we suffer all we suffer today. As a matter of fact, there is a man from the third heaven who possesses the power to stop these sufferings. We are still redeemable. But you? You are a damned creature! No one can redeem you from condemnation! Not even that bloody dragon you call “Master!”

On hearing the man’s words, Apollyon fell into a rage and went back to the man, leaving the mystical instrument and the spy for the time being. On getting to the man, he lifted him from the floor like a piece of balloon and unleashed a measure of torture that was only meant to be experienced by the damned souls in the boundless pit of eternal destruction. The rest of the remainders couldn’t stand the sight of the torment. They were so horror struck and cried out to the heavens for safety. When Apollyon heard them crying out to the heavens for safety, his fury further triggered like that of a scorned woman. Then he extended his punishment to them. Soon enough, he remembered he had limited time on the earth. So he ordered one of the locusts who had the spy in his custody to bring him the mystical instrument so they could depart and make way for the next woe.

Just then, the clouds turned into fire. The earth became illuminated by the light from the clouds of fire that none on earth could find his way around. It was the sixth woe. Two hundred million war horses were approaching the earth from the sky. The horses had faces like humans and were vomiting FIRE, SMOKE, and SULPHUR from their mouths. It was the combination of these three elements that turned the clouds into fire and illuminated the earth. The four messengers of the teacher who had been tied up in the great Euphrates River had just been released to lead the two hundred million fierce horses and their riders to kill a third of the remainders with the fire, smoke, and sulfur that proceeded out of the mouths of human-faced horses.

Apollyon understood that his time was up and the sixth woe had come. So he immediately made effort to locate the mystical instrument before he and his army were withdrawn from the earth. But the light from the clouds illuminated everything in the earth and rendered everything out of sight. But Apollyon, in an effort not to disappoint his master, tried his best to use his psychology to trail the instrument. While he was doing that, the spy, as well as the other locusts, were also trailing the mystical instrument. Luckily for the spy, he got to the instrument first since it was quite close to him. As soon as he laid hands on the mystical instrument, he loudly declared to the rest of the remainders saying; “PEOPLE OF THE EARTH, I CAN SAVE YOU IF YOU BELIEVE I CAN. IF YOU BELIEVE, JUST SAY ‘I BELIEVE,’ AND I WILL UTTER A WORD THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO A PLACE WHERE YOU WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO CHANGE YOUR DESTINY.”

Immediately the remainders heard the spy, they all lifted up their voices and screamed repeatedly; “I BELIEVE.” But before the spy could utter the magical word and take the remainders on a trip back in time, the locust that had him in custody got hold of the spy and tied its tail round the spy’s neck in an effort to strangle him and prevent him from uttering the magical word until the mystical instrument was retrieved from him. The spy tried to withhold the mystical instrument and keep the locust from getting to its reach. But then, he fast became weak and couldn’t hold on any longer. If not that death had been withdrawn from the earth, the spy would have choked to death. The locusts ran his hands all through the spy’s body until it touched the mystical instrument.

Then he informed Apollyon loudly, “I’ve got it!” Apollyon ordered him to get it from the spy and wait until it gets to their last minute on earth so they’ll be taken up from the earth. They were to depart from the earth by shrinking and giving way for the sixth woe. But then, it so happened that it had gotten to their last minute and the locusts had already begun shrinking. The process of their departure from earth had commenced already. The locusts couldn’t make any further moves. They became like still monuments while their bodies shrunk in bits into the air. Even the locust that strangled the spy and already had its hands on the mystical instrument couldn’t do any more than hold on to the instrument while shrinking into the air in bits.

Slowly and steadily, the shrinking continued until the locust were all gone. The moment the locust’s tail tied round the spy’s neck shrunk, the spy fell to the ground with the mystical instrument still in his hands. At that point, the great illumination disappeared and the earth returned to its normal state. The illumination was only meant to last for the period of the transition from the fifth woe to the sixth woe. Then everything was in sight, and the remainders could see themselves again. However, there was something else they saw, which their eyes didn’t really want to see.

Up in the clouds, the remainders could see the two hundred million human-faced horses approaching from the clouds with fire, smoke and sulfur proceeding from their mouths. In just 60 seconds’ time, the troop will reach the earth and start with the destruction of a third of the remainders. So the remainders all ran to the spy and urged him to save them. But the spy was lying unconscious on the floor. The locust had strangled him to the point of death. But he couldn’t die because death had been withdrawn from the earth.

So he fell unconscious, and no one knew when he was going to regain consciousness. As a matter of fact, he had only 60 seconds to regain consciousness and utter the magical word that would take him and the remainders back in time. All the remainders had already believed he could save them. The only problem they now had was how to make him regain consciousness before the end of 60 seconds. THE CLOCK WAS THICKING!!!

To be continued…

Dear readers, this story is an absolute fictional work of art, inspired by the Apostle John's revelation as recorded in the HOLY BIBLE. The documentations in the original source of this story has been mixed with fantasies to make this tale an enticing and interesting one. However, the scenarios documented in this story are realities to come. To get the full and undiluted version of this story, grab a HOLY BIBLE and open to the book of REVELATION.

Thanks For Reading

EPISODE 8

The worst of all disasters had been unleashed upon the earth. The teacher’s beloved disciple had warned against these days. He had written about the locusts and the days when they would conquer the earth. In his writing, he stated that in the days when the locusts will possess the earth, mankind will seek death but won’t find it, for the locusts would be under strict instruction to only torture the remainders who refused to receive the teacher’s teachings for a period of five months without killing them. The pain caused by the torture would be like the pain caused by a scorpion's sting. During those five months, the unfortunate remainders will want to die, but death will flee from them. Woe to the remainders!!!

As commanded by the voice from the clouds, Apollyon and his army marched forth into the earth to devastate it for the next five months. Having heard and known that his presence in the earth was no longer a secret, the spy became more careful. It also dawned on him that the mission was not as easy as he thought it would be. But then, he was in it already. He had to guard the mystical instrument with his life if he ever wanted to join the fortunate ones in the third heaven again. But Apollyon and his army were determined to never let that happen. The squad was divided into groups and sent out to hunt humans. The various groups went for humans at different parts of the earth, while the last group, led by Apollyon, went in search for the spy.

The spy was horror-struck in his hiding place. He couldn’t imagine being wanted by monstrous devilish locusts. At that point, he regretted having taken on the mission. He would rather have remained with the saints in the third heaven, praising and worshiping the teacher. But his compassion wouldn’t let him. Now, he is in a position where he can’t save the remainders anymore and is likely to meet his own eternal destruction. The mystical instrument was his only hope. And he had to keep it safe until the last day of the seventh year. It was still very early, for it had only been three months since he returned to earth. He still had six years and nine months to go. More so, the next five months could just see his mission coming to an ultimate end, and his soul becoming subject to eternal destruction.

Meanwhile, the fame of the spy had filled the earth. The remainders became aware that there’s a man on the earth who has the power to change their fate and help them escape the woes that were devastating the earth. So, it turned out that the locusts were not the only ones in search of the spy; the remainders had now joined in the search. Soon enough, the locusts found their way to human territory and continued from where they stopped. From the spy’s hiding place, he could hear their wails and screams, and his soul was troubled. Each time he tried to step out of his hiding, he saw a group of locusts surveying the area. It seemed like those sets of locusts had been told to remain at that point and prey on any remainder that crossed that path. So the spy was stuck in his hiding place. There was no way he could leave that environment without being spotted by the locusts. So he kept his calm but always checked to see if there would be an opportunity for him to leave that place.

Over at the third heaven, serious preparations for the sixth woe was in progress. Over two hundred million war horses were being prepared to invade the earth in five months’ time and kill a third of the remainders. Their riders were clothed in fiery-red and dark-blue, and had yellow armor on their chests. The heads of the horses looked like lions, with FIRE, SMOKE, and SULPHUR coming out of their mouths. They were to be led by four of the teacher’s messengers who had been tied up beside the great Euphrates River for millenniums, waiting for a particular hour, day, month, and year to unleash themselves on the remainders and destroy a third of them. Their mission was to commence in five months’ time, and they couldn’t wait for the sixth messenger to blow his trumpet and unleash them upon the remainders.

Unlike the fifth woe, the sixth woe was allowed to claim human life. A third of the remainders will be wiped off the face of the earth when the four messengers tied beside the great Euphrates River and their battalion is released upon them. The remainders will be destroyed by the FIRE, SMOKE, and SULPHUR which proceeds from the mouths of the battalion. And once a third of the remainders have been killed, the sixth woe will be over, giving way to the seventh and deadliest woe.

The fifth woe was still plaguing mankind, and they thought they had seen the worst. They never know what awaits them upon the blowing of the last two trumpets. Sadly, three months passed without the spy succeeding in taking any remainders back in time. Even he, the spy, had not as much as stepped out of his hiding for those three months. There was never a chance for him to do so, as the territory was never void of locusts. He was starved. He hadn’t eaten anything those three months. Ulcer and other hunger-provoking ailments struck his health as a result. Yet, death wouldn’t come to him, for it had been withdrawn from the earth. The only thing left was sufferings, and torture, and all sorts of affliction; one of which had now caught up with the spy. I wish it would end there. But there is more to come.

It got to the end of five months and the spy still remained hidden in his hideout. During the course of the five months, the locusts had done their worst to the remainders they laid hands on. Now, it was about to come to the end of five months in two hours’ time, and the locust woe would be all over. Just then, the locusts who had scattered in groups and circulated all over the earth came together and assembled themselves at the same place they took off from. But they didn’t return alone. They various groups came back with large numbers of remainders who they had taken captive, hoping that the spy was one of the captured remainders. So they brought those remainders to Apollyon so that he would examine them and spot which of them was the spy, and then take the mystical instrument from him before the two hours they had left was over. Over ten thousand remainders were gathered to that place, and the spy saw them all from his hideout. Then Apollyon began his interrogation.

“Which of you is the intruder from the third heaven?” Apollyon asked. His question remained unanswered, for no one really knew who the spy was. They only heard that there’s someone like that on earth. Apollyon became outraged and screamed in much anger again saying; “which of your damned souls is the intruder from the third heaven? Deliver him to me or be damned forever!” Then a very embittered man, who had been overly tortured by the locusts for the past five months, rose in anger and replied Apollyon with the following words;

“Even if the man you seek was here with us, we wouldn’t deliver him to an ugly monstrous sick creature like you. We would rather have him change our destinies and release us from your devilish hands. And talking about damning us forever, I tell you that you do not have the power to do that. Even as you speak now, you are a damned creature. I read about you in the beloved disciple’s letter to the teacher’s followers. You can neither damn us nor even touch our lives. All you can do is torture us for five months. And your time is over. You will be gone soon.”

In anger, Apollyon reached out for the man and stung him with his poisonous tail. The other locusts joined him in afflicting much pain on the man. They stung his eyes, his nose, his ears, his naval, and every sensitive part of his body. He screamed in pain, and the rest of the remainders broke out in tears, struck by much horror. When Apollyon was through dealing with the man, he threw him on the ground and left him to suffer pain, since he couldn’t die from the affliction. Then Apollyon raised his voice and asked once more; “who is the intruder from the third heaven? Release him to me now or suffer like this man just did.” The shivering crowd began uttering randomly; “we do not know him. He is not here with us.” And again, the man who Apollyon had just harshly tormented raised his weak voice and said again;

“Even if he was here, we wouldn’t deliver him to you. We would rather have him change our destinies and free us from your torment.”

From his hideout, the spy heard the man’s words and thought to himself; “If I come out of this hiding place and declare my identity to the people, they would believe, and I would utter the magical word. Then we would all be gone back in time.” While he was contemplating on whether or not to act on the thought that had crossed his mind, Apollyon was cruelly tormenting the remainders who were there. Their cries and wails from the torment got to the spy, and he couldn’t take it anymore. So he at once stepped out of hiding and loudly declared;

“People of the world, I am the one from the third heaven. I CAN SAVE YOU AND DELIVER YOU FROM THESE LOCUSTS IF YOU BELIEVE I CAN.” Then he raised up the mystical instrument and said; “if you believe, just say I BELIEVE, and I will utter a word that will take us away from here to a place where you will have the chance to rewrite your destiny.”

Immediately he raised the mystical instrument in the air, Apollyon saw it and confirmed that he was the said man from the third heaven. But instead of the remainders to simply say I BELIEVE, they turned to Apollyon and said; “that’s the man you are looking for. Take him and leave us, we beg you.” The spy was shocked by their words. He couldn’t believe the very people he risked his soul to save were handing him over to the beasts he had come to save them from. Tears rolled down his eyes. He became downhearted. His emotions made him lose guard. Then from nowhere, a locust’s tail suddenly stung him from behind, and he fell to the ground, letting go off the mystical instrument from his hands due to the impact of the sting. And then, slowly and gently, with a feeling of conquest, Apollyon began walking towards the spy to get the mystical instrument. Having gotten pretty close to the fallen spy, Apollyon let out a devilish laugh and declared to the spy saying; “IT IS OVER.”

To be continued…

Dear readers, this story is an absolute fictional work of art, inspired by the Apostle John's revelation as recorded in the HOLY BIBLE. The documentations in the original source of this story has been mixed with fantasies to make this tale an enticing and interesting one. However, the scenarios documented in this story are realities to come. To get the full and undiluted version of this story, grab a HOLY BIBLE and open to the book of REVELATION.

Thanks For Reading

EPISODE 7

The spy disciple was everything but selfish. He wasn’t capable of taking on a journey back in time alone just to save himself from the raging locusts. So he shunned the two options he had; which was either to save himself by traveling back in time alone or to join the remainders in their race to safety. Instead, he persisted and dared to try his best to save any of the remainders running towards him from the locusts. Again, he placed himself in the middle of the road, lifted up the magical instrument and loudly declared; “I CAN SAVE YOU IF YOU BELIEVE I CAN.” He kept repeating that statement until the crowd on the run were just some distance away from him. But just before the crowd ran close enough to him and possibly run him over a second time, the spy closed his eyes and uttered the magical word; “RACHAMIM.” And at once, he was gone from the present to the past. On landing at some point in the past, he was still in shock due to the danger that was about playing out before his trip back in time.

It was a baffling thing for the spy to open his eyes and see that all the remainders who were running from the locust had heard what he said and all believed he could save them. Because of their belief in the spy’s words, they all joined him on a trip back in time the moment he uttered the magical word. They were there with him, he was so happy. At least, he was able to take a couple of hundreds of remainders on his third trip back in time. At once, he ordered them to follow him, as he searches for a point where the teacher’s teachings were declared so they could receive and join the fortunate ones in the third heaven.

Just like the spy’s first trip, the third was an easy one, as his landing point was a point where he, the spy, had shared the teacher's teachings with a group of young folks who skipped a Sunday Service to play football a school field. In the actual time, the spy spotted these groups of young folks after Church Service on that faithful Sabbath Day and was burdened in his soul. He had approached them to share the teacher’s teachings with them. But they all declined. However, what was an unfruitful venture in the actual time turned out to be a soul-saving second chance encounter for the remainders.

The spy did just as he had done in the actual time. But while the folks of the actual time declined, the remainders all received the teacher’s teaching and were at once caught up in the air, away from the spy. It didn’t even take up to 5 minutes to accomplish the mission. The spy sat back with his eye in the sky, watching the remainders who had now become a part of the fortunate once to live forever without experiencing death again. Tears welled up in his eyes as he watched them ascend to the third heaven. Soon enough, they were lost in the clouds, and the spy couldn’t see them anymore. So he just sat back thinking of all he had accomplished so far while waiting for the expiration of his time in the past so he could be back in the present to continue his quest. 10 minutes was over soon enough, and he was back!

Meanwhile, the hundreds of fortunate remainders who just traveled back in time with the spy to receive the teacher’s teachings arrived at the third heaven, and the attention of the heavenly bodies fell on them. It seemed like a confusing development to them. But the teacher just watched them join the other saints to sing praises to him. It appeared like the teacher was overwhelmed by their praises that he didn’t care to know or find out how they made it to the third heaven after being left behind on earth to suffer doom. Of course, the teacher knew it wasn’t possible for that to happen except there was someone on earth making it happen. As far as the heavenly beings were concerned, the only one who was empowered to carry out such mission was the Beloved Disciple, who declined.

So, the heavenly bodies got curious and tried to determine who it was but couldn’t. None of them seemed to know; none but the teacher, whose eyes nothing is hidden from. But then, he never said anything about it. Instead, he asked for the preparation of the sixth woe, which was due in the next five months. The fifth woe was meant to last for a period of five whole months. Oh dear!!! The remainders on earth had just begun experiencing the “locusts’ woe.” The next five months was going to be hell for them. Their only hope was the spy. But out of the millions of remainders who were still on earth, how many would the spy be able to save in the next five months. And talking about the spy, it’s not like he’s invincible. If a locust caught up with him, it would inflict the same measure of pain on him.

However, death had been withdrawn from the earth. The only thing the remainders could experience was pain, torment, and suffering. As for the spy, the only thing that differentiated him from the remainders was the magical instrument which aids a trip back in time. If he loses that instrument, it would be over, as he would have to suffer the same fate as the remainders, which is to burn in a raging fire that never goes out. Worst of all, this fire doesn’t kill its victims. It just keeps burning them forever and ever. And the only thing that would stop the spy and any lucky remainder from experiencing such fate was the magical instrument.

On reaching the earth from back in time, the spy hurriedly went forth to continue his mission. The success he just achieved with the last set of remainders who traveled back in time with him was a great motivation for him. He quickly forgot that nothing good comes easy. A great apostle of the teacher had even written in his letter to other followers of the teacher, telling them about a great opportunity the teacher presented to him, which was greatly opposed by beasts. It was now time for the spy disciple to understand the situation the apostle was referring to in his letter, as he was about to face great beasts who were now standing in his way of further saving the remainders; and even himself.

As the spy ran off to locate more remainders to do what he came to do, his eyes met an army of gigantic images proceeding out from the shadows. Frightened by the sight, he hid and tried to examine what they were. He couldn’t believe his eyes. They were the locusts. But for the first time, the spy saw them as they truly were. The locusts looked like horses ready for battle. On their heads, they wore something like gold crowns, and they had human faces. Their hair was like a woman's long hair, and their teeth were like those of a lion. On their chests, they wore armor made of iron. Their wings roared like an army of horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle. Their tails were like a scorpion's tail with a stinger that had the power to hurt someone for five months.

Their king was the angel in charge of the deep pit that harbored the deadliest dragon in the world. The locusts’ king summoned all the locust together and were matching to the human territory to continue what they had already started, but this time will full force. The spy was horror struck! And right in his hiding place, he saw and heard the locusts’ king address his army saying;

“The earth has been given to us for the next five months. Our mission is to torment the people of the earth. Ready your poisonous tails to sting human flesh and inflict a five-month pain on them. This is the purpose for which we have been unleashed. Let us go and serve our master; for we are not like men who refused to serve their creator. And that is why they will have to suffer in our hands. The next five months will be the worst times they have ever experienced. Woe on humans!!!”

And immediately he finished giving his speech, a voice from the clouds echoed and shook the earth, calling to the locusts’ king to inform him about the presence of the spy in the earth.

“Apollyon!!!” the great voice echoed…

The locusts’ king, whose Greek name was Apollyon, looked up to the sky and responded; “Yes Master!”

“There is a man in the earth from the heavenly realms,” the great voice continued. “He is stealing my fellow hell-bound souls and leading them to the third heaven with the aid of a mystical instrument. Locate him and get the instrument from him. Without the instrument, he is as good as the rest of my souls. He has stolen thousands of souls so far. Don’t let him steal one more. Now go, and do as you have been commanded.”

“Yes, Master,” the locust’s king replied. Turning to his army, Apollyon said, you heard the words of the master. We have an intruder from the third heaven. He is coming between us and our mission. Locate him and get the mystical instrument from him.”

The locust army roared in concurrence and matched off violently in search of the spy and to do to the remainders as they had been unleashed to do.

To be continued…

Dear readers, this story is an absolute fictional work of art, inspired by the Apostle John's revelation as recorded in the HOLY BIBLE. The documentations in the original source of this story has been mixed with fantasies to make this tale an enticing and interesting one. However, the scenarios documented in this story are realities to come. To get the full and undiluted version of this story, grab a HOLY BIBLE and open to the book of REVELATION.

Thanks For Reading