Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Knights Of the Royal Priesthood 1

Almost one month has passed since the end of the End of Days saga. Finally it seemed that the earth would once more be safe from demonic creatures and God's judgement upon the earth was delayed, giving humanity another chance to realise its wicked ways and turn to the Lord for salvation.

What? Don't tell me you missed out the last few exciting months, where the brave Grifter and Samuel Wolfwood joined the ranks of the Shinigami and penetrated the gates of hell, attacking the very source of evil at its heart? Did you miss out on the climatic finale battles that occured simultaneously on earth as the remaining survivors battled huge waves of monstrous creatures, demons, menos and the undead, even as Grifter led his small team of heroes into a seemingly suicidal attempt to defeat Satan?

What a pity. You've missed much, my friends. But to cut a long story short, at the end of the day, at the cost of many lives no doubt, good always triumphs over evil. There would always be a remnant because God is a merciful God. Though He did not play an active role, many things were inspired or caused indirectly by Him or in accordance with His will. And because the humans have proven themselves worthy of brave sacrificial acts akin to those of the Son of God, there was a new hope that all of mankind could be saved eventually, and judgement day was postponed.

And yet, the poor vile forgetful humans soon plunged into their materialistic, narcissistic world once again.

Countries which had been ravaged by the Endtime disaster soon began to recover. Buildings were rebuilt, trade commenced. Although many proclaimed a new age of peace and calm for mankind, the sin in the sinners soon reared its ugly head.

In this post-endtimes age, technology improved by leaps and bounds. Powerful governments competed for resources and territory, raging wars across desserts, oceans, even space. Even as weapons of mass destruction were abandoned so that the earth would be free from being totally annihilated, deadlier weapons of precision damage were invented. Biological weapons were the rage of the day, as were lazer and nano weapons.

But there was no peace for the citizens either. Even as the corrupt governments battled over resources and land, crime lords began to prosper. It would seem that humans somehow found its way into gambling, alcoholism, drugs and gangsterism, at no matter what level of society. Businesses grew because of firepower, hit men and mercenaries sprouted in every city. Private armies became popular as suspicion and distrust grew to the point of exploding. Racism, hate-crimes, prostitution and all sorts of criminal activity flourished in the major cities. The people seem to have forgotten that not so long ago, all of humanity joined together against a common enemy, a supernatural enemy that could have wiped out all traces of living things.

They seem to have forgotten the thousands of lives that were sacrificed so that man could carry on living on the earth. They forgot the heroes who inspired them in the darkest hours, they forgot the reason they fought so hard to survive. They forgot the One who restrained His hand from destroying them all, should evil prevail after the Endtimes. Despite winning over the devil himself, mankind seemed doomed to fall even deeper in sin, perhaps attempting to replace hell with earth, or rather to meld the two places so that in death one could not tell the difference! Bullets of man and the blazes of hell didn't seem too different after all.

It was a time where suffering filled the earth, and the people called out for heroes, saviours.

But there was none to be found on this planet, not this time. So...

******

Jan 24th 2007, 2.03 am on a Wednesday morning.

"..alright then.. we'll meet up on saturday to practice the rest of the songs for the wedding! bye!"

Weiwen hanged up. Finally his dream of setting up a band was coming true! No doubt it took a long time to find his band members, but they had a gig coming up in march, and it was quite a big one. 190 pple would be attending! He was simply too excited for words. Yeah well, at 25 years old, he seemed a little too old to still be in love with rock music. Especially when he was about to become a lawyer! Nobody would want to be a musician in singapore, where musicians bite the dust most of the time. (Unlike some stupid Korean pop stars like Rain, who can't sing, can't speak properly, and can only frolick around on the stage with plenty of gimmicks to trick young girls' money.)

Suddenly, his handphone vibrated and the screen flashed. He had a message.

"Hi Weiwen. Do you remember you prayed let My will be done? This is your chance to fulfil your prayer... who is this guy?? i don't remember telling anyone about what i prayed last night.. what the heck.. 777-7777? what number is this??"

Great, he thought. I think i've watched Bruce Almighty too many times last year. Time to turn in, got a long day at school tomorrow.. But first i think i'll chat a bit with my band members online.

"Hey arthur.. how's the bass guitar that you bought? You know i had a really strange message just now on my handphone! totally weird man!"

"Huh? really ah? just now i also got a SMS from some weird number... all 7! so funny sia.."

"What?? You mean both of you also got that message? but quite scary leh, the person message me also!"

Edwin and Arthur also had the strange message from the weird number. What was going on?

******

To be continued

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