Matrix by Katryn Ali (read any book TXT) 📕

He took his hand. “Now Cas, you listen to me! You are going to be alright, you got that?” he blared and squeezed his hand. Hendrix scrubbed up. Tiel was bleeding into his abdomen so he had to go in and try to repair it. The machine kept Tiel breathing.

“Just keep him alive,” Flanagan made clear.

“Flan, we'll do the best we can. We are limited here,” Binny told him.

Tiel was in surgery for almost 2 hours. Worst 2 hours of Flanagan's life. He paced. He sat. He got up and paced again.

Cetera and Binny came out from the room where they had been operating on Tiel. Flan raced up to them. “How is he?” he honked.

“He's alive. That's all I can tell you. It's too soon to know more. He lost a lot of blood. He may not make it,” Cetera told him straight. Flan's face fell.

“Can I see him?” he asked next.

“Best go get some sleep. Tiel is still unconscious and he won't know your there,” Cetera told him.

“Well, I'll know!” Flan snapped.

“Let him go see him,” Hendrix spoke.

When Flanagan went into the room, they had a blanket over Tiel. Up to his chest. He had two IVs. One was for blood. They had Castiel on nasal oxygen now. They also had put him on what antibiotics they had to ward off the flu. Castiel was otherwise very healthy and seemed stronger than Flanagan had been when he got so ill, so Binny was optimistic Tiel would recover with no complications.

“Hey buddy,” Flan said. He sat. “I'm here, Cas,” he told him.

Tiel began to improve but it was slow. He was awake by that next night. But he was still so weak that he just slept a lot. Flan wasn't sure who got more taken out of by this incident, him or Cas. Flan felt like he'd been run over by a bulldozer.

Flanagan awoke from a deep sleep. Someone threw water at him.

“Would you knock that off!”

Flan blinked. His neck was all kinked.

“Man, you snore like an elephant,” Tiel told him. Flanagan just blinked.

“Cas, how you feeling?” Flanagan asked.

“Oh, I'd feel a whole lot better if you and your snoring would get out of my room,” Tiel said. He was in pain and he was CROSS. Flan didn't care. His con-rad looked better. He smiled from ear to ear now. Then he realized he was drenched and that Tiel had thrown a water glass at him.

“Cas, look what you did,” he horned.

“Get out of here!” Castiel roared. So, Flan left. He was never so relived too. Man, that had been too close!

The First Dimension

“Flanagan, Cetera, we need to talk, away from the camp. I do not want Binny to hear what I have to say,” Tiel said one day. He had been studying that book of spells that Matricks had given him a while back. A book of spells that could be helpful in opening doorways to other dimensions. Surely there were better places to live than this. He then showed them the book and all what Matricks had told him.

“I don't know, Cas. It sounds dangerous,” came Cetera’s reply. The book made him feel so uneasy.

Flan took it and flipped through the pages now. It all looked like mumbo-jumbo to him. “Can you read this?” he asked Tiel.

“Yes, Matricks showed me how to decode it,” Cas replied. Flan then popped the book shut. “Then that's enough for me. I say, let's go for it,” he told him.

So Tiel got together the things he'd need to cast the spell to open the portal to leave this place for good. Tiel planned never to return.

Tiel had to cut his arm and the arms of Cetera and Flanagan. He needed all their blood to pour in a basin.

Tiel then placed inside the basin, various other things that were written in the spell book. It had an incantation so he began to recite it.

A portal doorway began to open before them. They then all picked up their duffel bags and went through. Binny Hendrix did not make it in time. The Spirit warned him in a dream what Tiel was up to.

“If he persists and opens the portal, he will only find despair and even harder times ahead. I wish that they not be harmed, but they do have free will, these undecideds,” the Spirit told him.

Binny raced to the place the Spirit told him to go, but by the time he got there it was too late. They had gone through.

The Spirit appeared to Hendrix in special Angelic Form now. He went as Haeh Gaah. (Pronounced - Hahya Gawah) in this Form.

“I can send you there but in this dimension the powers of darkness are very strong. Think of it like a cesspool dimension for demons, and lost angels, full of all their demonic corruption. They have abducted humans from Earth even, and brought them here to live out their sick games of living one illusion after another. Unless you are protected, you will get caught up too in the chaos and lose yourself. Tiel, Flanagan, and Cetera may never find each other once they lose their memories. And they will lose them there. It is only a matter of time. You must wear this always and try to locate them. Bring them back here if you can. My love goes with you, My son. Know that if you cannot find them, I know you will give it your best,” Gaah told him.

“Oh, I'll find them,” Binny insisted.

“Do not lose this as this is your only means back to here,” the Holy Ghost told him. Hendrix placed the necklace around his head. This key opened the door back to here. All he had to do was open the locket.

Right off Tiel felt strange. Flanagan and Cetera felt it too. The air was as thick as pea soup full of demonic activity.

“I think we have made a grave error,” Tiel spoke looking around. Soon demons came on the attack so each angel took out their sword. They fought off the group of devils. Tiel being an Arch Angel once, noticed his powers were re-established back to him here, for some reason.

Tiel could fly. Cetera, because he had been an Arch Angel too in training, found that he could bring his wings forth. That made it easier fighting these horrid things. They were as ugly as sin here. Flan could not fly but he could fight and fight he did. Cas and Cetera swooped in and slashed away.

Many times, knowing they should have died when attacked by demons, Tiel was able to heal his two boys. Flanagan had been killed. He had no life signs. But when Tiel touched him, power surged and healed him. He began to breathe again.

Tiel then healed Cetera's deep wounds that he would have soon perished from as well if they still had been in that matrix colony dimension. Tiel then killed over. Cetera, who had some power too, not as strong as Tiel, then healed Cas.

“I am beginning to forget. I am trying to find a spell that we can use to stop this from occurring and reverse its effects but I fear sooner or later, we all will forget everything and get swept away by the disillusions going on all around us. The air here is so full of chaos and confusion. It is just a matter of time till it takes over us as well,” Tiel told his boys.

They were staying at a motel for the night because they all had saved up enough money doing odd jobs and it was to get below zero tonight and for the next week as well.

The place was a run-down junk heap but it had a roof over their heads and heat. Well some anyway. The vent wasn't working properly. Flanagan began to tinker with it.

“Why is this universe this way?” Cetera spoke. Tiel sighed. “It is infested with demonic activity. I believe this is one of their main sects. I talked to this other angel. He is absolutely convinced that God left Heaven and deserted all His Angels, and left them to kind of fend for themselves in a universe full of demons, devils, and all sorts of monsters. We need to come up with alternate names to call ourselves here, to try to stay connected some way. So, I can get the spell mixed up,” Tiel told them.

They decided to go as Castiel Grant, or Castel, as he was also called. Flanagan went as Thomas, and Cetera, Samuel.

Tiel then cast a spell to help ward off the effects of this universe by placing the new identities into a basin. They had to cut their arms and each bleed onto their own identification cards. (Stupid stuff huh)

“Cas, can you just open a portal to get us out of here? We could go back to where we started from. At least we'd remember everything,” Cetera now asked.

“Cetera, I mean, Samuel, I have tried. Nothing works. There is a spell I could use, using my own body as a transportation spell, but it will severely drain me. I might not even survive the transition,” Tiel told them.

“Can you use our bodies too, to help?” Flanagan asked.

“No. Only an Arch Angel, and I once was,” Cas explained.

“But I was an arch angel,” Cetera reminded.

“Sam, you are just not strong enough. I was your commander and chief of our garrison. You were an arch angel in training, to one day soon be given your own garrison to command, the Leviticus. But then Lucifer rebelled and it all went to hell. It must be me. I am willing to sacrifice my own life to save you two. If I get us out of here, and I don't make it, I want you two to immediately give your alliance back to the Lord,” Tiel told them.

Flanagan began to do that old annoying protesting and Tiel was not going to put up with it. “No! If I get you two out of this, you are going back to God! Do I make myself clear!” he roared at them.

“We'll do as you say,” Cetera promised. Flanagan squeezed his shoulder. “You are going to make it Cas, and we 3 will then decide together to make that choice,” he spoke.

Tiel, satisfied with their answers now, began to get the spell ready. He had to use some of his blood and other things that they all had to go collect.

Tiel then began to recite the spell's incantation. A portal then opened. It had a terrible turbulent force. “Hold onto me! Don't let go!” Tiel barked.