BOOK I The Divine Chronicles: The Time Turner

Retrieval Team

The Red Light District was one of the regions of Other realm. It was not much different from the physically present equivalent of that said location in mortal realm. It was located in earthly Amsterdam and unknown to the living mortals, so was Other realm.

Chinny was a Divine Child of the Cosmos and the advice provided to her by Lorentis and her brethren were quite correct. The child would've easily been corrupted if she happened upon the location on her own. Which was why Lorentis and Dhartenius were taking every precaution necessary to keep them from ever showing their faces there. As an added measure, the Divine Archangelics enlisted assistance to cloak the realm for the children's protection. 

The military team who had the power to do that were known in the Divine world as cleaners or Charlie Company to their many brethren. They were an elite group of rough and hardy Archangels, both Light and Dark who first banded together during the biblical times of the Exodus to keep the mortals safe and unknowing of the lives of the Divine beings by the order of the Father. 

There was another team in the mortal realm who modeled their tactical strategies after Charlie Company who also formed to keep mortals ignorant to the many other beings that dwelled there. And they were called Knight Squad.

Knowledge was power and the ever anonymous Charlie Company was indeed quite powerful in a Divine sense. For they often never forgot their endeavors and were not usually prone to the memory erasing anomalies that took place whenever they 'cleaned up' or contained an event.

The Divine brothers Lucifer and Lumiel were rumored to have commanded most of the efforts of that elite team when they served under the Father. Since they mastered memory, it was a match made in heaven. They were quite good at shaking up the system pretty well. So much so, most of their endeavors were entirely erased from history quite covertly.

Such were the ever resistant abilities of the brethren of Charlie Company. 

But more on that later.

Dhartenius and his team were on a reconnaissance mission in Red Light District at a nearby drop point and whistled over to another teammate who was laying behind a bunch of sandbags.

"Psst! Over here!" he whispered.

He motioned the Divine Archangelic who went by the name Samael and gestured for him to keep his eyes open after a group of mortal youths made their way inside one of the many brothel shops displaying a pretty woman in the nude behind a storefront window who was beckoning to the young mortal men.

Lorentis was also laying beside Samael in full tactical gear and grabbed a pair of infrared binoculars, observing the bizarre behavior of the youth. They appeared to be transfixed and hypnotized by the dancing nude woman in the window and narrowed her eyes suspiciously. 

The young men's actions seemed mechanical. She observed them moving as if in slow motion towards the entrance as she further witnessed the woman's eyes flash to two pinpoints of red beams.

"She's a succubus. Psh. Figures," muttered Lorentis over to Samael.

"Huh. Haven't seen one of those around since the Spartan convergence when we allied with the Polynesian realms," chuckled Samael as he too watched behind binoculars.

Just then, Dhartenius dropped in beside them while donning a camouflaged helmet complete with a built- in scope in front of his eyes.

"Those Polynesians could never resist a pretty lady with a vendetta. Fucking amateurs," grinned Dhartenius.

Samael laughed softly and glanced at Dhartenius and Lorentis in humored disbelief.

"Hey. Don't hate, okay? I'm Polynesian myself. Us Agelu'oleatua's can't help that we love instantaneously."

"Hmm...I'll just call it an occupational hazard in that case," joked Lorentis.

"Speaking of...Remember, those poor Sprites? That's something your bloodlines could never ignore. I wouldn't call that situation love at first sight in the slightest. There's no excuse for that little mess you all made. Your beloved general Prospect made sure your clan went down in history as the aggressors of their kind," smiled Dhartenius quite smugly.

"Oof. That's a low blow, cousin," smiled Samael.

Lorentis chuckled amusingly and turned towards them. "That was indeed a low blow, Dhartenius. But you gotta admit, they cleaned up quite nicely over the centuries thanks to those Nether realm brothers Priest and Franco," she grinned.

"Whatever happened to them?" asked Dhartenius dismissively as he continued to casually observe the mortal men dancing with the nude woman behind the window.

"I heard they went deep into hiding and created their own realm after the Horsemen descended. And into a book out of all places," stated Lorentis. "I would know because I granted half of them passage."

"I heard it had something to do with their children," murmured Samael.

"Why weren't you part of that since they're your family?" inquired Dhartenius.

"Psh. That was a Tagaloa and Atapana bloodline issue, not ours," muttered Samael as he snapped a few photos for Divine Central control at topside.

Lorentis grinned humorously. "Aren't all you Polys related anyway? You sure do mate like rabbits already," she laughed softly.

"Again, woman. Don't hate just because we're some virile motherfuckers," grinned Samael.

Suddenly, they all flinched simultaneously and instinctively ducked behind their sandbags because there was a loud explosion that blew a hole in the storefront brothel the men were previously dancing at. Bodies were strewn everywhere as Dhartenius frantically went on his emergency 2-way.

Debris and burning embers fell upon them in that instant as Lorentis enlisted a dark blue bubble of protection around the three of them.

 "CODE RED! REPEAT! CODE RED! RETRIEVAL TEAM IS ON POINT! WE'RE WITNESSING A DIVINE TERRORIST ATTACK ON THREE MORTALS! THERE ARE POSSIBLY NO SURVIVORS! THERE IS A SUCCUBUS ON THE GROUNDS! REPORT, TOPSIDE!" barked out Dhartenius.

"Dart, this is topside. Report back to Central Control with your status on your teammates," ordered an anonymous Divine Archangelic at Divine Central Control.

He and Samael soon rushed in to check on any survivors and for any possible witnesses to clear their memories of the volatile situation that ensued. Lorentis then got on the 2-way line.

"Topside. This is Lore. All three teammates accounted for. Calling in reinforcements."

"Roger that, Lore. Sending in Charlie for clean-up. Stand by," advised topside.

Meanwhile at Kapolei, Hawaii, Lumiel was laughing at something Tanu said about Marie quite humorously until his eyes turned white. Without a word, his energetic form flew up to the Father and spoke with him urgently.

 After a few minutes of hushed conversation, Lumiel made his way back to Marie.

"I have to go, baby. But I'll be back, okay? I love you," he murmured before kissing her on the lips.

"But wait. Where are you going?" inquired Marie with a concerned tone. Her stomach was suddenly tied up in knots to her complete puzzlement.

"Daddy's gonna go on duty for now," he winked while caressing her cheek.

He suddenly disappeared before Marie could ask further.

"Father? Is Lumiel gonna be alright? He never told me whenever he was going on duty before," stated Marie.

Father simply smiled warmly and playfully punched Marie lightly on the cheek.

"Don't worry, child. This is what Lumiel does best. And he'll be back in no time, okay sweetheart?" reassured the Father.

Things were going to be dramatically strategic from then on in. Because unknown to Marie, another Charlie Company teammate was married to her as well. It was Raphael and he had departed with Lumiel without a word.

For such were the ever covert ways of Charlie Company.