Hound of Fire by Jared Bledsoe-sams (that summer book .txt) 📕

suicide Father.” Clarise looked down at the Cross-Tags in her hand and shed a silent tear for the recently departed.
She honestly questioned if H.A.D.I. would be capable of avenging their deaths.
“Clarise, gather their Cross-Tags and wait for a Scrubber unit to arrive. Once they get there you are to return.
“Yes Father Varugat. Clarise out.”
“Clarise!”
“Yes Father?”
“I thank the Holy Ghost for your safe return. Just as I am personally overjoyed that you were spared, my friend.”
“Thank you, Traland. Clarise out.”


Garmr took a turn onto the street to his left. The H.A.D.I. truck had left his sight minutes ago. Clarise’s heartbeat had slowed down once he left and was now slowly fading from his ears. Now the heartbeats that filled his ears were the regular rate for humans. Once or twice he passed a pair of fast heartbeats that were accompanied with a plethora of moans and squeaking beds.
On the roofs of buildings various birds cooed and cawed or twittered. Most of the birds Garmr knew to be Pigeons from their distinct sound. A few early bats flittered about as the sun began to set. The bats screech registered on Garmr’s sensitive demonic ears. With the birds on the roof there were other animals trapped upon the earth’s surface. Cats slinked about were ever they pleased while domesticated dogs tried their best to catch that quick feline meal.
As Garmr progressed down the street, he slowly became away of another presence following him. Whatever it was couldn’t be seen so Garmr was fairly sure that it was following him along the rooftops. Now he was going to find out if the follower was friend or foe, or if he was even being followed at all. After his dealing with H.A.D.I., Garmr just wanted to relax. The presence was all he could feel moving along the rooftops.
Still something worried Garmr. Perhaps it was the simple fact that he could sense only a presence on the rooftops. Many Celestial Beings, both angelic and demonic, were capable of hiding their power. It was entirely possible that it was another H.A.D.I. lackey. There was also a chance that this was a bystander that witnessed him disposing of the armed humans that hand grown curious.
Garmr continued down the road at a light trot. Who or what ever was following Garmr kept the same pace as him. They didn’t move ahead or fall behind. It always stayed parallel to him. He decided to send a greeting card to draw his follower out into the open.
Garmr opened his mouth wide. A roaring fire filled his open jaws. By simple thought Garmr sent the raging fire from his mouth to the rooftop in front of him. Like a napalm bomb the fire burst upon impacting the roof. His demon fire burned like a raging beast, consuming everything on the rooftop.
Garmr looked back to the road. At first look it appeared a simple human male stood in the middle of the road in front of him. He looked to be human because Garmr could feel no demonic aura and could see no physical Angelic wings. As Garmr studied this man, he could see them.
This angel’s wings were hidden. Magically hidden from mortal sight on the ethereal plane of existence. After a moment of studying him, the Angel stopped hiding his power. Now Garmr knew that this was no ordinary angel.
What stood before the Hellhound was now a great and mighty six-winged Seraphim. The highest and strongest of the Angelic Choirs. Even the strength of the wrath bearing Archangels paled in comparison to the holy Seraphim.
The Seraphim called two of his wings out and spread them. It was a declaration of war between Angels and Demons. A sphere of red light glowed in the palm of his right hand.
“Tell me Seraphim, why do you hide your glorious wings?” Garmr sat on his haunches. If battle were to be done, then he would at least know why.
“Only my Keeper knows of my six wings. The humans of H.A.D.I. believe me to be a four-winged Throne. I believe they’d try to put me their front lines.” Despite the Angel’s declaration he did not appear eager to fight.
“You are with H.A.D.I. so why not be as zealous as they are with the upholding and enforcing of their beliefs?”
“All I wish to do is stay with my Keeper and her only friend Clarise. I will not let anyone threaten my Keeper’s happiness. Not even one of the Seven Satans.”
“How do you know that I am one of the Seven Satans?” Garmr stood just as his hair stood on end. His rank in the Circles of Hell was a mostly unknown fact.
“I’d be a fool if I did not know who the Keeper of Judecca’s Fire is.” The Angel had a small laugh.
“So why do you wish to fight me, Seraphim?”
“Because you almost trapped Clarise in your Suicide Matrix Spell. I wish to know the being I will reap if you threaten my Keeper’s happiness.”
“Very well then, Angel.” Garmr polymorphed his body to a human form. “Then I will show you the power of one of the Seven Satans.”
“So be it Garmr.” The Angel spread his feet and called out the rest of his wings. A Seraphim ready battle was a truly terrifying and glorious thing to see.
“Sixth power seal, Antenora, open! Now know the greatest heresy of all. Heresy to life is all your actions have accumulated up to now! Antenora will now be your house and home of heresy, forever!” Garmr’s demonic aura glowed red with is freshly released power. “Tell me Angel, what is your name?”
The Angel smiled in response. “Let ye now know that ye pass through the valley of death. I am its great shadow!” A second red light appeared in his left hand. Both lights grew together into one long single red light. Moments later this red light he held took shape and hardened into a great red scythe. “My Keeper and all those of H.A.D.I. call me Gilvader. You may call me Uriel, The Angel of Death!”
“Hello and Farewell Uriel.” Garmr held his left hand out to his side with his open palm downward. “I call to the great hellfire in Judecca’s belly. As the fire shears the soul the steel will pierce the flesh. Now come to me, Velgrumd, the Lance of Hellfire!”
From the road below his palm fire burst forth from the earth. It rose up and past his hand until the column of fire was taller than him in human form. He gripped the burning spire in his let hand. The fire condensed itself into a slim lance of fiery glory. Garmr held the lance in both hands as he shifted into a battle stance.
For minutes neither moved. Both celestial warriors stared each other down. Then, in the blink of an eye, Uriel took the first strike.
He swung his scythe at shoulder height.
Garmr ducked below the swing and retaliated by thrusting at Uriel’s middle.
Uriel blocked the thrust with one wing. He held the wing in place. Velgrumd’s fire slowly began to spread over Uriel’s white wing. With a burst of energy Uriel threw his wing open and forced Garmr back. Again Uriel swung his scythe at shoulder height.
Garmr blocked the strike with Velgrumd. As Uriel pulled the scythe back, Garmr thrust at Uriel’s right shoulder.
Uriel dodged the attack. In the blink of an eye he brought his scythe down in an overhead strike.
Within the blink of an eye Garmr leapt to Uriel’s right. Garmr swung Velgrumd flat against Uriel’s back.
Scythe met lance and prevented Garmr’s debilitating strike.
Quick thrust with the butt of his scythe made Garmr take a defensive leap back. Uriel charged, swinging his scythe in a low arc to cut Garmr’s legs out from under him. The scythe’s blade gouged the earth as Garmr dodged to the right. With a middle wing Uriel blocked Garmr’s retaliatory thrust.
For a moment the battle came to a stand still. Both Angel and Demon slowly circled each other. The air crackled with the clashing of their powerful auras.
Uriel pulled a feather from one of his wings. He broke the stand still by throwing the feather at Garmr. As the feather quickly closed the distance a sphere of red energy grew at Velgrumd’s tip.
The feather stopped dead in front of Garmr.
“Repel!” Uriel called out. A cross-shaped cascade of blue energy erupted from the single feather.
Garmr slammed the red orb at Velgrumd’s tip against the energy from the feather.
Violently the two energies clashed against each other. Each trying to overtake and destroy the other. The raging blast of energy from the clashing grew between Garmr’s and Uriel’s attacks. Quickly it grew to more and more dangerous as both warriors poured more energy into their strikes.
With one final surge of energy from both combatants, the blast of clashing energies reached critical mass. The resulting explosion was blinding. Garmr had to magically shield himself, lest he be destroyed.
It took a good minute for the dust to settle. The crater from the explosion was deep and extended beyond both sidewalks on either side of the road. Garmr felt surprised by the depth and width of the crater.
More surprising was the fact the Uriel was nowhere to be seen. Garmr could not sense his energy nor hear the Angel’s heartbeat. He decided to wait a moment just to be sure. Before the fight the Angel hid his energy. It was possible Uriel was doing so again.
Once Garmr was sure the Angel was gone he dispelled Velgrumd and return to his true canine form.
Off in the distance police, fire truck, and ambulance sirens could be heard. Sooner or later humans would be there to investigate the crater.
Garmr had a small laugh to himself before continuing his aimless trek across the world of humanity. His long, never ending, aimless wander.
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Publication Date: 04-11-2010

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