Militia / Rya and Sara/ Angel distrust/ disturbance at the pond

“You two can come as well.”
“I don't understand, what are we going to talk about?” asked Rya.
“It's a meeting that we have and all the militia members are invited to know what our plan is,” said Joe.

        Rya looked at Grant who nodded his head slowly to show that he wanted to include him in the loop. Rya followed Joe and Grant into a large tent with a big table inside. Sarah and Sarrjel were behind Rya and sensed hostility from the members of the militia. The tent was huge with a large table that was about twenty feet in length and twelve feet in width. It had a strange map and model of all the cities and lands of Wisconsin and Minnesota. There were, what looked like small model cities or towns that had metal tokens. Each token was a different color and there were safety pins with various colored flags.

        Joe took off his helmet and Grant waited patiently for the chatter and comments from the militias to be silent. Grant raised his hand up to show his countrymen it was time for the meeting to start. After the last chatter ceased the second in command nodded to Joe.

“Here we are, several miles from Hustle in the farm country, near the cheese factory and the Ravens have seized control of all major cities and large towns,” said Joe.
“I heard on the CB that the Raven's have been rounding people up and putting them in internment camps,” said Grant.
“Any ideas of what they're doing?” asked Dallas.
“Not a clue,” replied Grant.
“They're probably re-education camps,” said Deputy with a smile. “Time to go to school.”
“I also heard on the CB that there have been attacks on preppers, stragglers and the lone wolves who want to do it alone. Those who have tried to bug out have ended up stuck on the streets or in their home in a gun fight with the Ravens and military police and those alien creatures,” said Grant as he looked at Sarrjel.
“It's ok,” began Sarrjel. “You can call them fallen angels.”
“Yeah, ok fallen angels,” said Grant with his head down and then he raised it up to look at Sarrjel with a light smile.
“What about the children?” asked Irina.
“We don't know what happened to the children,” said Joe.
“What happened? How did this happen?” asked Rya.
“Don't know, it’s nothing we did,” began Joe. “We elected the wrong people and other people were up to no good. The question is, what do we do now?”
“The president said that they found a bunch of aliens in a cave in Nevada,” said Brenda as she continued. “It was all over the news yesterday.”
“So the big man is responsible for all this? How typical,” said Deputy.
“It probably has, but we haven't heard everything,” said Joe.
“If this is happening all over. Why is there not a big revolt?” asked Diamond Back Daryl.
“Man isn’t perfect and will never be perfect,” said Sarah.
“And I suppose you're perfect,” said Joe.
Sarah looked at Joe, “no I am not.”
“Where did the demons come from?” asked Barry. “I mean why didn't we see them come sooner in Earth's history or even the last couple of days?”
“I think I can explain,” said Sarrjel.
“I'm all ears,” said Joe.
“Demons, fallens, super beasts, imps, dragon cats, hell hounds and Satan were locked away in a what we call a Hole. It's a prison for these angels that don't want to follow our ways. The problem is that the demons can still branch out from astral projection and control human beings from committing to their goals, they're natural growth. Somehow your human counter parts, who are the Ravens must have breached the Hole and allowed them to escape from the the meta physical boundaries of the dimensional rift into what you humans call the physical, the human world,” said Sarrjel as she looked at Joe and Grant and then the rest of the militia. “We were sent as guardians for Rya to bring him to salvation and into the world of eternity, which is a skin deep from this world.”
“If that's true, then where are our guardian angels?” asked Barry.
“Our Father, Host of Heaven called us back to allow judgment to fall on the remain who shall bare witness to the Rapture. We came back to bring Rya and anyone else we find to salvation, away from the wicked.”
“I don't understand,” said Irina. “Why send two angels? Why not send hundreds or thousands?”
“Is this some kind of Alice in Wonderland bull-shit?” asked George.
“If this is such an important thing for you then why are there only two of you?” asked Joe. “Two guardian angels against an army of demons plus the Ravens isn't smart thinking,” he continued.
“It's part of His plan,” said Sarrjel. “We were sent to bring a small group of humans that would trust in His judgment and ours.”
“What is the other world and what is a skin deep from this world?” asked Grant.
“This world isn't real,” began Sarrjel slowly. “It's a training ground, to test you, to give you new ideas to take with you for what you left behind. It is new thinking.”
“New thinking? What is that shit from? The book 1984?” asked Deputy.
“Left behind? Does that mean re-incarnation?” asked Cab.
Sarrjel didn't answer, “there is so much you don't understand.”
“If things are so perfect in your world and we already lived there then why the fuck would we want to leave and live in this shit hole in the first place?” asked Deputy.
“I will say no more,” said Sarrjel. “If you read the bible you will get your answers. The scribes worked hard to make the answers available, even as corruption in the church has removed the wisdom of what Jesus has taught, those that listen and open their arms shall receive. The fruits of the wisdom shall grow plentiful, but for those that keep their hands crossed and their head down the seeds shall not grow and the future shall be lost.”
“So for me to understand this magical world I need to go to a church and read a bible?” said Deputy as he started laughing.
“Knock it off,” said Joe
“You cross your arms and spite the teachings of your great lord and so you shall receive nothing, but if you open your arms wide you shall be plentiful and live in abundance. There you will open your eyes and see the Kingdom of God,” declared Sarrjel as she felt a huge weight of silence that lasted for minutes.
“Ok, well, back to what we were talking about,” began Joe. “How are we doing on supplies?”
“Supplies are good,” said Grant. “We've been planting gardens and trying to barter with farmers to get some live stock, but we haven't been successful. We've got enough canned foods as well as perishable foods to last two years maybe three.”
“How are we doing on fuel?” asked Joe.
“We were able to get twenty medium propane tanks and ten large tanks. We have about 50 gallons of gasoline in five gallon jugs for our trucks and campers. We have about twenty gallons of premium to power our motorcycles and dirt bikes, our electric fat bikes have been a big help, but they rely on the batteries. If the batteries go dead then it will make it difficult to peddle in the outback, over hills.”
“Excellent work,” said Joe as he continued. “The Raven Army is moving populations to centers. These centers are huge and house thousands of people. I was there, myself, to watch with my binoculars. A contact of mine, who escaped, told me what went on inside.”
“What is that?” asked Rya.
“The doctors do operations and experiments on people by injecting them with two computer chips one on each of their hands. Whoever is in charge is maximizing their efforts to get every man, woman and child with a chip and a symbol of the Nations United that has that 'V' shape wheat symbol. The man who escaped told me that he was shown videos of how everyone would be living in a small honey comb apartment and that money would be embedded in these chips. Paper money, gold and silver would be worthless and the people in charge would have their green tax. They would tax the crap out of us and if a group of us were to protest then they would just turn off our chips. Nobody would be able to buy food, get a job or a car, you would be virtually powerless. When the chips turn off they would slowly release cyanide which would kill you and they wouldn’t have to worry about over population because they could control it. They’ve actually been controlling the population by using SHAARP to control the weather and create aggressive weather patterns like hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes.”
“We can control the weather?” asked Rya.
“We’ve been able to control the weather for the last fifty years,” said Grant.
“How?” asked Rya
“There’s a facility in Alaska that uses one-hundred and thirty-eight antennas that unleashes radio waves to the sky,” continued Grant.
“I'm confused, what does the Nations United have to do with this?” asked Rya as he continued. “How does that fit in with the Ravens?”
“The Ravens are a subdivision of the Nations United.”
“The people in charge have been using biological weapons on American citizens starting with the bogus Lymes Disease from Connecticut that spread all over the country, killing and permanently injuring everyone.

        They've been working with companies to put additives in the food to kill people. It’s known to them as a soft kill, but they had plans to do one last strike that would cause a pandemic and force everyone to take vaccines. The vaccines are worthless and cause learning disabilities, ADHD, ADD, autism and behavioral problems. It’s there way of dumbing us down along with the fluoride to calm us down while our body rots.”
Suddenly, there was a commotion and screaming with loud barking from the dogs and everyone walked outside. They saw it was Jerry and the militia had their guns pointed at him.

        Jerry was a messenger angel that was dressed like a soldier of Rome and wore a metal armor and carried a sword in its sheath with a whip that was rolled up by his tunic. His red flaming hair was short and he had a high forehead with brown eyes. He had a stubble five o'clock shadow on his face that was reddish and high cheek bones. He was small boned with a medium build and was a few inches shorter than Sarrjel. The messenger smiled at the militia as his large white wings folded up into a cape.

“He’s with us,” assured Sarah as she put her hand out to gesture the militia to lower their weapons.
“At ease!” commanded Joe as he gestured for his country men to lower their guns.    

        Sarrjel walked up to Sarah and was followed by Rya who was curious about what was going on. Jerry looked like he didn't have good news and the angels could tell by the expression on his face. Joe watched the angels carefully and his militias as he wondered what was going on. Grant walked up behind his leader and whispered, “what's going on?” Joe gestured with his hand to be quiet.
“What news do you have?” asked Sarah.
“Master Scaven is looking for you both. I overheard him talking about you while I was hiding close.
“What does he want?” asked Sarrjel.
“He wants your lives in return for injuring Brehem. Master Scaven is one of the best warriors from Satan himself. As long as you’re hidden with humans at this camp you should be safe but at some point you need to get moving.”
“I understand, keep us informed,” replied Sarrjel as she turned to see Rya walk towards her with a concerned expression on his face and then he stopped.

        Jerry nodded as he took a few steps back and his wings spread open and moved up and down like a bird as he took to the sky. The dogs barked at the angel as it left from sight and then quieted down when they looked at Sarah who looked at them. Sarah and Sarrjel turned to look at the front of the tent, to look at Joe and Grant just before they walked back inside. The expression on their face seemed suspicious but curious as to why they were here. Sarah sighed and realized there was much work to be done to win their trust.        

        The militia walked back into the tent and were followed by the angels to hear what Joe had to say, “ I know many of you love this area and want to stay here and fight the Ravens, but we can't stay here.”
“Why?” asked Irina.
“Yeah, why not? We got the fire power,” said Barry.
“They have the numbers and those creatures with the drones flying around. It's a matter of time before they find our camp and attack us,” said Grant.
“What are we going to do?” asked Jason. “Where are we going to go that will give us an edge?”
“In a remote spot on a farmer's lot in the middle of the state towards Marshfield there’s another militia group, about twelve militia groups, that have about two-thousand people and they have marine units that have recently joined them and want us to join as well. We would have more weapons, food and increased status.”
“What if it's a trap?” asked Jason.
“This is our home,” said George.
“Let's stay and fight,” said Johnny.
“It's not a trap, we've been communicating Morse code for the last several hours,” said Grant. “It's highly unlikely that the Raven's know about it.”
“Yeah, well how would you know?” asked Jeremy.
“Because we've been doing it by radio telegraph. Almost nobody has those anymore,” answered Grant.
“Tim has been in contact with them for ten years before the shit started. I know you want to stay, but we are not enough to stop the Ravens,” said Joe.
“Why don't we reach out to the Militia's in Minnesota? ,” asked Rya. “I'm sure they would help us.”
“Then the militia chattered in agreement, “let's put it to a vote.” Joe heard it but didn't acknowledge it because he believed in Marshfield.
“I'm sure they would, but we haven't heard anything and they are one-hundred and eighty degrees in the wrong direction,” said Joe. “We'll postpone any decisions for today to tomorrow.”
“The road to salvation is in Minnesota,” said Sarah and everyone stopped from leaving to listen to her.
“We're not going into Minnesota. With the river at our back we would be trapped.”
“But that's where salvation is,” replied Sarah.
“What will we find there?” asked Grant. “Where would we be going if we did?”
“We would gather at the capital building and wait until it is time,” said Sarah.
“Wait for what?” asked Joe slowly and annoyed.
“That is what we were told,” said Sarah.
“We?” asked Jason.
“Me and Sarrjel.”
“We can not and will not cross the river for something that is impossible when we have a legion of demons and the Raven army damning us to hell!” commanded Joe.
“I have told you what you must do. It is up to you to make the decision,” said Sarah.
“I need to go back into town,” said Rya.
“What?” said Joe.
“Why?” asked Grant.
“There's a girl I left behind and she's all I got,” said Rya.
“No, forget it. We don’t even know if she’s still alive,” replied Joe. “I risked everything to get you out, now you want to go back?”
“She is alive and is hidden in her apartment,” said Sarrjel.
“We can help her,” continued Sarah. “We came here to protect all of you and bring you to salvation.”
Rya turned his head to look at his guardian angels, “She needs me.”
Sarah nodded her head and looked at Sarrjel, “we’ll go with you and protect you both.”
“I don’t believe this,” gasped Joe as he looked at Grant, but then Sarah spoke up.
“It’s the human thing to do.”
“This is fool hearty,” said Grant as he looked at Sarah. “We should leave this area before our enemies come.”
“You people are crazy!” added Joe. “The country has gone to hell and you want to run off and risk losing your life and our position for some girl.”
“Don't underestimate us as the Pharaoh underestimated Mosses when he threw his staff down. It turned into a snake and it ate the two snakes bound by Satan. They were created from the wood from the pharaoh's servants. We are stronger than the demons,” commanded Sarrjel. “. . . And we will prevail.”
“I’m leaving, even if it means walking,” replied Rya.
“If he leaves he could give away our position to the enemy,” said Grant.
“Don’t worry we’ll protect him,” assured Sarrjel.
“We’re not talking about his protection we’re talking about spies that are hiding in the woods to find a way to bring down our network,” said Grant.
“We’ll hide, I’ll creep through the woods and keep out of sight,” assured Rya.
There was silence and Joe shook his head, “no, I’ll have to go with you.”
Grant looked at Joe surprised, “sir we need you here.”
“I can’t risk letting them go and alert the Raven's of our position. So I’ll take them in the Jeep and we’ll take a secret rout back to Hustle. How long is this going to take?” asked Joe as he turned around to Rya.

“I don’t know, a few minutes to run in her motel room, pick up a few clothes and run back out,” said Rya as he watched Joe nod his head to Grant.

“If I’m not back by tomorrow, you’ll be in command. Take everyone to the lot like we discussed to meet with the militia down there,” commanded Joe

“Understood sir,” replied Grant.

        Joe left the tent to go to his quarters, his personal quarters to get some extra ammunition and grenades. He walked over to the Jeep to meet with Rya and got in the vehicle. Everyone watched and hoped that he would be ok and the angels could tell that he was well respected.

Rya got in the passenger side of the Jeep and they left the camp. Sarah and Sarrjel opened their wings and flew to the sky to follow them several miles above. They drove through secret paths in the woods and pulled up from the ditch to a street leading to Hustle.
Once in town, they could see smoke in the sky, cars were turned on their side, buildings were smoldering and there was debris all over the road. Luckily there was no sign of the Ravens and Joe continued to drive as Rya gave him directions to the motel and before they knew it they were there.

“I’m going to park behind the motel. I don’t want to attract any unwanted attention in the front,” commanded Joe.
“That's fine, I'll only need five minutes,” said Rya as he got out.

        Rya watched the Jeep disappear behind the edge of the motel and turned around to knock on Sara’s door, but didn’t get an answer. After repeated attempts of knocking, Rya took a couple steps back and kicked the door down. Rya ran inside the room calling out her name.
“Oh thank God it’s you!” gasped Sara from around the corner of the closet with a broken broomstick raised over her head, “what’s going on?”
“I’ll explain later, but we need to get out of here.”
“Where are we going?”
“Somewhere safe.”    

        For five minutes, Sara quickly packed everything from her closet into her suit case. Rya pulled down one of the blinds in front of the window of the room with his finger to see a black Jeep pull up in the parking spot with two more Jeeps next to it.

        Inside the first Jeep, that pulled in, were officers dressed in black uniforms and in the other two Jeeps were about six soldiers wearing armor and helmets with big guns in their hands. One of the men that stepped out of the first Jeep looked like an officer with the way he was decorated. Then the door slammed shut and Rya turned his head to see it was Sarah and Sarrjel. He wondered why did they do that, but most of all how did they get by without being seen.

“What are you doing?” whispered Rya as he turned back to the window and saw the men in black uniform stare at the apartment that they were in and started walking to the room.
“I’m fixing the door you broke,” commanded Sarrjel as she used her hands to repair the lock. After a sudden flash of light the door was back to the way it was.
“Our enemy is here,” commanded Sarah.
“Yeah well, they heard you slam the door shut,” replied Rya.
Then Sara walked out of her room and into the living room. She dropped her suitcase to see Sarah. The angels turned their head to look at the girl that looked identical to them.
“They look like me,” said Sara in shock.
“It’s a long story,” replied Rya.
“How do we escape?” he asked as he heard the pounding at the door.
Sarah and Sarrjel looked at each other until Sara sulked, “you’re suppose to be angels. Can't you do any magic.”
“We don't do magic tricks,” said Sarrjel. “We're not fickle.”
“Only small miracles,” added Sarah.
The door burst open and soldiers wearing bullet proof armor marched in with their leader. They looked around the apartment and scavenged through Sara’s room.
“Sir it looks like we just missed her,” said the first soldier as he showed Sara's bra and underwear.
“Are the other occupants from the other rooms, restraint in the truck?” asked the officer.
“Yes Colonel Lex,” answered the second soldier.

Colonel Lex felt like someone was watching them, but he couldn’t see them. He didn’t realize that Sarah and Sarrjel were using their powers to make Rya and Sara invisible. They stood silent and watched the soldier tip over the couch, tables and throw clothes around the bedroom. Sara was about to gasp, but then Sarah, the angel, put her hand over Sara’s mouth to keep her quiet.

        The colonel stopped as though he heard her and looked around in their direction. At first Rya thought they were discovered, but then the officer snapped his fingers together and the soldiers stopped.

“Come on she’s gone, we need to get back to headquarters.”
There was a CB radio similar to a cop radio on the soldiers that was giving all kinds of code information from a human voice that revealed an attack from the US Army engaging the Raven Army. They left and slammed the door shut as Rya took a deep breath and crept by the window with the blinds. He watched the soldiers get back in their black Jeep.

“Well we can’t go out the front,” said Rya.
“Why not?” asked Sara. “If they can turn us invisible then we can make a clean escape.”
“We can't abuse our power,” said Sarrjel.
“Then we'll have to bust through the wall to get to Joe’s Jeep,” replied Sarah.
“Sarah, leave and find Joe. Tell him that we’re busting through the back wall to get out,” said Rya as he watched Sara freak out. “It’s ok, we’ll get out of here.”
Sarah nodded as she carefully as fast as she could opened the front door and flew away.
“I’m scared,” said Sara. “If it wasn’t for you those men would have broken in my room and taken me away. I feel like a Jew in Nazi Germany,” she started crying.
“No it’s ok, we’re going escape from this,” assured Rya

“Rya,” said Sarrjel from the bathroom. “There’s a window here.”
Rya walked into the bathroom and saw a small window that was big enough for them to fit through, “that’ll work.”

        Joe waited in his Jeep about a block horizontally behind the motel and looked at his watch. Sarah landed on her feet in front of the Jeep with her wings wide open. Her body was glowing white and she walked quickly to Joe in the driver’s side.

“The enemies broke into the apartment, but they’re alright,” said Sarah.
“Are they still inside?” he asked.
“No, they’re on their way out from the back. Go now and pick them up!” she exclaimed.

        Joe turned the key in his ignition and peeled out from Sarah’s position. He drove quickly to the back of the motel and could see a woman with blonde hair fall down onto the pavement from the small window with an average sized suit case. He then saw Rya slip through it as well and when they were both out Joe twisted the steering wheel around in a sharp turn and the Jeep skidded right up to them to a grinding halt as they both climbed in the back seat.

“Go, go, go!” exclaimed Rya as he heard the tires peel and the Jeep’s motor roar.
“Oh shit, we got company!” yelled Joe after he looked in his rear view mirror and Rya looked back to see the same black Jeeps closing in. “Hang on! I’m going to try to lose them!”

        The Jeep accelerated faster and as they drove through the neighborhood at 70 mph Rya could see the three black Jeeps had caught up to them, but when he turned around the front he saw Sarah behind a dead oak tree on the edge of the block. The tree was huge and when she opened her wings she push the tree down with her hands and it began to buckle as they drove by and then it collapse on the black Jeep behind them. It landed on the hood of the black Jeep and because it had a large thick trunk it prevented the other two Jeeps from pursuing as well. Rya smiled and Joe laughed, but they knew they weren’t out of the woods yet.

        Sarah looked at the colonel and the officer in the Jeep that she totaled and with a smile she bowed her head at them before taking flight to the sky. The officers looked at each other and watched her disappear from sight.

        Joe arrived at the militia camp and Sara looked around to see groups of people dressed for war. The German Shepherds were present and started barking, but once they came close to smell her they relaxed. Rya could tell she looked out of place, shaking hands with strangers that were going to be protecting them.

        Grant walked up to Sara and shook her hand, “don't worry the dogs won't bite. Welcome to the Zion Militia Outpost.”
“Thank you,” said Sara as she shook his hand.
“Come,” began Grant. “I’ll take you to your tent. After Rya left, we decided to put something together for both of you.”

        The couple followed Grant to their tent and the second in command left them to sort things out while he went back to the meeting area. Rya and Sara stepped inside the dome tent and Sara looked around to see two sleeping bags, a back pack with his lap top inside and a suitcase of clothes that was donated to them from the militia.
Sara smiled and nodded her head as she continued to walk inside to set her suit case of clothes on the floor. She lied down on her sleeping bag and smiled as she looked at Rya.
“I wasn’t going to leave you at your apartment.”
“I know,” she answered. “That was sweet of you.”

        Rya took Sara by her hand and they stepped out of the tent to the militia meeting that had just been called. Everyone was looking at Joe and his second in command to discuss the next plan of action.

        The angels glided down from the sky with their wings open and landed on the ground. The dogs started barking and the militia took notice by swinging around with their weapons. The angels looked at them and lowered their hands. The militia relaxed and turned around to listen to what Joe had to say. The angels walked past the humans and stood next to Rya.
“The city of Hustle has cleared up from the creatures, but there are still Ravens combing the city for stragglers. What I want to do is get every vehicle ready to leave. I want our guns prepped and I want a team to map out a path to our new destination in Marshfield. We got a couple of drones, we should use them to spot an ambush. I would like to avoid a confrontation so we don't lose our shit and caravan. We have two days people, let's move it!” commanded Joe.

        Everyone scattered once the meeting was finished Irina, Brenda and a few other girls walked up to Sara to make small talk. Rya look at his guardian angels and noticed how sad they were. After Sara finished talking to the women they move on to their daily duties of oiling guns, setting perimeter traps, watching the perimeter and cooking food. The couples that had children were either kept in their tent or were helping prepare food.

        Grant left to continue with training the less experienced militia members with weapons, martial arts and boxing. Sara looked at Rya and gestured him with her head to meet with her. He followed her back to his tent and wondered what was on her mind.
She looked at him sternly, “why didn’t you tell me you had guardian angels?”

“The names are Sarah and Sarrjel I’ve been visited by them since I was in college.”
“What are we doing here?” she asked.
“What are you talking about?”
“We don't know these people, I feel strange staying here.”
“These are honest, good, people that are putting their ass on the line.”
“Yeah, well the day before was a normal day and now we have crazy nut jobs in martial law outfits gathering people up like it's nineteen-forty two. Did you know I had to hide in the closet?”
“Well, how do you think I feel? I got chased down the street by a demon.”
“I just hope you don't think your going to make this into some kind of editorial,” said Sara
“What is that suppose to mean?” asked Rya.
“You know what I mean.”
“Hey, woman I saved your ass. Two days ago I thought you were cute and sexy and asked you out. If I knew you were this shallow I wouldn't have bothered.”
Then before Rya could say another word Sara kissed him. She smiled and zipped the tent up so no one could see them.

        It was late afternoon. Sara walked down to the lake to bathe and clean up. Rya opened his eyes after hearing something dreadful.
        He got dressed, walked outside the tent after hearing loud barking and guns being cocked. He couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw the eight foot demon gliding down with his bat like wings spread apart. He had red gargoyle eyes, with dark lavender skin, he only wore a gold tunic with strips of leather that extended to his thigh and his chest was bare. He had a giant sword in its sheath on his left side.

“Everyone desist!” commanded Joe as everyone pointed their guns at the intruder and Joe walked towards the demon. “What do you want?”
“I’m Angel Hunter Malicious and I’m looking for two female angels,” began the demon with a deep graveling voice. “There names are Sarah and Sarrjel. I wish to know their whereabouts and if you help me I will make sure the Ravens never come to this place.”
“I’m sorry, we don’t know any angels named Sarah and Sarrjel,” answered Joe. “Now please, leave us in peace.”
The demon let out a short growl and spread his leathery wings apart as he flew to the sky. After the demon disappeared from sight Joe took a deep breath and turned to his second in command who didn’t look happy.
“How the hell did that thing find us?”exclaimed Joe
“We need to move out now. I don't trust that thing,” said Grant.
“Where’s Rya?” asked Joe as he looked around. 

        Sara washed herself with a sponge and a bar of soap. Bathing in the shallow part of the lake wasn't her style. It was cold and dirty, but she had to do something. Once she stepped out, she grabbed her towel and dried herself but then heard a noise behind her and then she turned and saw something disturbing.

        Sara looked at the nine foot giant as he sneered at her with his yellow, crooked, teeth. He had a beard, was bald with earrings and tattoos on his arms and chest. He wore black clothes and leather hiking boots.

        Sara was only wearing a towel over her body and had just gotten out of the lake before the giant appeared from nowhere. She backed away slowly, realizing he was here to rape her. The giant growled like a dog and touched his crotch with his right hand. He made a gesture with his mouth sounding like sex and slapped his hands together. He began laughing before he charged after her but suddenly there was a gun shot as he stopped on top of her just as she screamed with his hands on her arms. Then another shot fired and another until finally the giant collapsed. Sara’s mouth dropped as she squirmed to get away from him being on top of her. She saw Rya holding a revolver directly behind the giant and lowered it as it laid dead.

        Rya watched her cry and quickly put the gun in his belt as he ran to hold her. He could feel her wet hair on his chin and felt her shivering from the cold. She stammered in her crying and felt her hands on his back.

“Is he dead?” she whispered.
“I think so.”

After Sara got dressed, Joe and about ten militia soldiers came to the lake and saw the giant laying on the ground. Joe looked at the huge corpse and then at Rya who nodded his head to him.

“What happened?” asked Joe.
“I prevented this monster from raping her,” replied Rya.
“I didn’t think those things existed,” said Sara.
“We would all like to think so,” began Joe. “But I think he was part of an experiment that the Ravens were putting together. Where did you get the gun?”
“I took the gun without your permission from out of your Jeep under the seat,” replied Rya as he handed it back to Joe. “You can have it back.”
“Keep it, you and Deputy go target practicing,” continued Joe.
Deputy looked at Joe a little uneasy, “ why me?”
“Because I said so,” said Joe as he watched Deputy roll his eyes.
Suddenly, there were footsteps nearby and Deputy muttered something that irritated Rya, “speak of the devil.”
The militia watched Sarah and Sarrjel walked through the grass towards them, that was ten meters from the woods where the camp was, to see what the commotion was all about. They were dressed the same way as before and they walked elegantly through the tall weeds. Their wings were folded back like a cape and their hair was down.
“What happened?” asked Sarah
“The young lady almost got raped by a giant,” said Joe
“Giants were created by angels having sex with the human girls of Eden,” said Sarrjel. “They hurt and killed many men and raped the women.”
“Where were you?” demanded Joe.
“We were protecting the women and children.” said Sarah.
“Why?” asked Grant. “They have guns.”
“Somebody named Malicious was here,” said Joe he watched Sarah turn her head from Grant to look at him and then at Sarrjel. “He’s looking for you and wants revenge for something you did.”
“We severely wounded his brethren, Brehem,” said Sarrjel. “We expect he’ll be back, but when he does we’ll be ready for him.”
“We can't stay here,” said Joe. “We need to leave now.”
“Why do you feel this?” asked Sarah. “We are here at this camp and will protect you from the Ravens and the demons that come.”
“You see that's the problem that I have!” yelled Joe. “You were here, you have fore-sight to protect us and yet Sara could have been raped and killed by that giant!”
Sarah looked at the giant and then at Rya, “but nothing did happen he saved her life just as she hoped.”
“You're missing the point. You were suppose to be here to protect us when that eight foot demon visited us minutes ago. How do we know you're not working for the Ravens and the demons?” said Joe.
“You would question our integrity?” asked Sarrjel.
“You would think of us as dishonest and full of lies?” asked Sarah. “That's very disturbing that you carry such distrust for your protectors and champions. You are full of ill thoughts.”
“I'm sorry Sarah, but they do have a point,” said Rya.
“How do we know you're with us?” asked Grant.
“We give you our word under Christ that we are not here to bring chaos,” said Sarrjel.
“We will prove ourselves in time,” said Sarah. 

“Rya, I want you to come with me,” said Joe as he looked at him and the angels.

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"An  Angel's Whisper" coming out in August 2019