The PulseTeam, Book One: Origins

Chapter Twenty-Five: The War For Cleveland

When we charge, I take flight and begin slashing. Even though they're supernaturally fast, none of the demons are as fast as I am. So everywhere I look, I see a jet black fluid flying out of the demonic creatures everywhere.

I look to my left and see Tia about to get battered by an orc-looking demon. Thing looks like it came almost straight out of the World Of Warcraft game.

I tornado slash through the demons and imps who were unfortunate enough to try to block my path, I jump, and I bring my swords down, upside down, into the beast.

When it falls, I ask Tia, "You okay?"

"Yeah," she replies as we keep fighting, "I am. I just got distracted by seeing an angel's wing get sliced off."

"Ouch," I say. "Was there a lot of blood?"

"Considerably, yeah. I mean the angel just got part of its body hacked off. It looked pretty painful."

"Changing the subject, those weapons of yours, what do you call them? Because I've never seen anything like them."

"Well, they kind of look like a mouse's two front bottom teeth, so, I call them 'MouseTeeth' to save time. It's simple, and really easy to remember. What about you?"

"Upon close observation, I've come to the conclusion that the blades are shaped like a bat's wings. Therefore, they've been dubbed 'BatWings'."

"How original," she says sarcastically.

"Oh, really," I say, "As original as your 'MouseTeeth'?"

"Oh, dear David," she replies, "That's gonna cost you when we get home."

I shudder after I drop one of my swords and hurl a 5'× 7' axe back at a giant demon, because I know that Tia will make me pay for that remark when we get home. How I'll be paying for it, I'll never know, because she's so unpredictable. And coming from me, that's saying something.

I open my right hand, palm down, and the sword I dropped instantly materializes into it. Grinning like a madman, I lift up into the air and put my arms out to my side. Then, I come back down, spinning as fast as I can, but seeing everything. I carve out a path straight through the demonic horde and make my way straight to Michael.

I ask him after I stop spinning, still fighting, "You think we're winning?"

"Barely scratched the surface," replies the ArchAngel Commander. "We are going to be here for a while."

"Perfect," I say with much sarcasm as Michael flies off.

Suddenly, I feel a strange presence, and I receive some really weird images in my head. Dropping my swords, I clutch my head in pain because the images are way too much for my brain to handle at this point.

Not a moment after it subsides, I get hit by a hammer-like weapon and it sends me flying in the opposite direction that I was facing.

This really agitates me, and I get payback by taking the weapon from the demon that hit me and giving him a plateful of his own medicine.

I then take the weapon and hurl it Thor-style and watch for a split second as it makes every demon it hits go splat. I then will my BatWings to me, and I resume slicing and dicing.

The weird mental thing keeps bugging me, so I tell Tia and John about it.

"DEELEX," I say, "establish a four-way pocket link within our com system."

"Link established," she says. "Do you want managing control over this new link?" she asks.

"Yes, I do," I reply.

"Very well," she says. "Please select the other three recipients of this link."

"Tia, John, and you."

"Link sent... link received."

"Thanks, DEELEX. Tia, John," I say through the pocket link, "Something really weird just happened to me."

"You turned gay," jokes John.

"No, you idiot!" I reply, laughing. "I had these really really weird images flash through my mind, and I'm gonna need you guys' help in extrapolating those images when we get home."

"You think you'll remember them all?" asks Tia.

"Well, sweetie, that's kind of the point of a photographic memory," I reply matter-of-factly.

"Alright, then. I'm having Computer set a reminder for me right now," says John.

At that moment, I guess we've been dealing the Accuser a big blow, because we suddenly hear an ear-splitting, Godzilla-sounding roar, and then every demon on this battlefield starts cheering and fighting even harder.

I will my "SpiritWeapons" to disappear, and I send an energy shockwave out of my body to clear the area around me for a second. I use the second given to me to lift myself into the air and see where and what that roar came from.

And I see it. A big... lizard-looking creature. In the 2017 Netflix anime, "Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters", the king of all the Kaiju, King Godzilla, is 300 meters tall. That movie monster, however, pales in comparison to the real deal.

"What... the hell is that, DEELEX?" I ask her.

"Sir, I, um... I don't exactly know how to describe it using words," she replies with a sincere tone of fear in her voice.

"Then show me, DEELEX," I say, "so that I at least know what we're dealing with."

"Alright, sir, here it is..."

And she gives me a satellite view of the monster.

Let me tell you something: This thing is nothing short of a nightmare. DEELEX gives me the full dimensions of this creature, and it is petrifying, to say the least. It is 485 meters tall, 400 meters wide, and 1,000 meters from its snout to the tip of its tail. About half the angelic army is attacking it with everything they've got, and it isn't even annoyed. Its body can be divided (figuratively) in thirds: The head and neck takes up a third of its body, the body itself, and then its tail.

Then it flies past me. It is a dark greenish-gray, but it looks to be slimy, almost like it just came out of a body of water. Upon close inspection of this new development, its monstrous claws are webbed. Looking at its face directly is like looking into the eyes of death itself, as its eyes are glowing bright red. Its nostrils are literally smoking, and it has very long, very sharp, very jagged dark yellow teeth. And it has, like, two thirty foot horns at the top of its gigantic head.

I'm trying to get over my dazed stupor and figure out where I've read about a creature even remotely similar to the gruesome monster before my eyes. Then, it hits me: The entire 41st chapter of Job in the Bible describes a creature almost exactly like what I'm seeing. And if memory serves, that creature was called...

Leviathan, the Sea Dragon.

Shit.