GABRIELLE

There she was standing, exhausted, rampaged.
Her body was sore, her armor were damaged.
But she knows that she couldn’t stop. Not here, not now.
Not after she finally reach the final chamber, her final battle, her final enemy.

She stood there, in front that gigantic door. She realizes, once she enters the room, there will be no turning back. Nevertheless, she doesn’t want to turn.
She could feel her heart beating wild, her body tremble, shaking.
No, not from fear, but from the courage that she carries within.

Just as her hand touch the door, it suddenly open. Cold breeze flow from the chamber, and there he is, sit on his throne, completely covered by shadow.

“Come in, Gabrielle! If been expecting you.” He said, as she enters the room and the door slammed behind.

“Gabrielle, Gabrielle. Look at you, you look terrible”, he said as small laughter skip out his mouth.
She gives her gaze to him.
“Shut up, Lucifer, I’m not here for a chat.” She said grimly while her hand holds her saber firmly.

“Hahaha! C’mon Gaby, don’t be so rude. It’s been a long time after our last fight ‘there’”, he said, pointing his finger up.

“Laugh at this, you devil!” shout Gabrielle. Her left hand raised, she held a small tablet of stone. “You’re in my….”
She couldn’t say a word. Her face shows a great surprise.

The tablet didn’t glow his name.
Why?
What happened?
It has to glow! It has to show his name!

Lucifer laughs hard, he stood in his throne, and he raised his arm and, the tablet of stone flown away.

Gabrielle’s face redden with anger, she couldn’t figure it out. But she knows that she has to end this fight.

She lunge herself forward to him, slash her saber with all her strength.
She hits an empty space; she turns and found her enemy. She attacked him madly, but she couldn’t even touch the tip of his shadowy cape. His laughter echoed through all the chamber and it hurt her ear so bad, that se become angry and attacked him more fiercely.

“Enough!” yelled Lucifer, he raise his arm, and throw Gabrielle to the wall across the chamber. At a blink of eye, he was standing in front of her and starts beating her real hard, until she finally passes out.

She wakes up, cold breeze on her body. She was at the middle of two posts, she tries to move, but her hands and legs were chained to each post, make an x position.

Lucifer laughs at her “look at you Gabrielle, you look pathetic.”
“How can you be such a fool like this? What makes you think that you can beat me? Arrest me?”

“That because you are evil”, hissed Gabrielle, “You deserve to vanquish from this world”

“And how did you managed to do that, huh? You even can’t put a scratch in me.”
“And what about vanquishing me from this world? What make you think that you have the right to judge me?”

“Judgment not coming from me. It directly comes from The Almighty Above.”

“And you believe that?”

“Yes!”

“Then prove it!”
“Can you? Of course you can’t. This thing didn’t glow my name isn’t it?” said Lucifer as he raise the tablet of stone in his palm.
“You really believe that God ask you to get me, don’t you, Gabrielle? Have you ever thought why this tablets not showing my name?”
A moment of silence.
“Nevertheless, do you believe that this order come from your God?”
He held the stone to Gabrielle’s face.
And it glows her name!

“Surprise, my dear? Do you still believe that this order come from your God? You stupid bitch!”

“You can’t deceive me you evil!” shout Gabrielle, “You can put your trick on other, but you can’t expect me to fall on that hocus pocus of you!”

“But why it doesn’t glow my name then? Isn’t it your job to vanquish me?”
“I tell you why, I am God. I am The Lord Almighty. I’m stronger than you, even your God!”

“Oh yeah, then why He can cast you from Heaven above, to this underworld?”

“He cheated on me. He knows that he could never beat me, so he drugs me and throw me to earth!”

“You lie!”

“It’s the truth. How do you think I have this power to shake this world if I’m not strong? I am the true king of this world. And later, Heaven.”

“In your dream, Luc.”

“And yet, that happened to be my ultimate power. People’s dreams including greed, lust, and anger.”

“But you fail because of your dreams, your wishes. You loose, Luc, you loose!”

“Wrong, Gaby, I win. I am up at the sky, I’m above the stars and whether you like it or not, I have my throne. I am the king!”

“So why you still wish to take the Heaven?”

“To show that I am the ultimate power, I take control of the universe. I am God!”

“Luc, you’ll never win. It has been written, so it shall be done”

Laughter

“Gaby, Gaby, don’t be so naive, how can you say that. It was written that you will beat me. Look at you. You’re completely at my mercy.”

“I don’t need your mercy, asshole”

“Why, Gabrielle? I can’t believe my ear. Did I sense anger?”
“Well done Gabrielle, I know that you share the same emotion as I am, share the same feeling”

“I’m never be like you”

“But you are angry.”

“I have the right to be angry to you”

“But isn’t you r act is based on love? So how can you be angry if you suppose to give your other cheek if I slap you on the other” said Lucifer as he slaps on Gabrielle’s face.

“Sometimes, Luc, the way to show passionate have to use the hard way. Some times, anger means that we care; we don’t want to see you go the wrong way. Sometimes it has to use anger.”

“No, Gaby. It shows your weakness, only those who have not enough passion will use anger as an excuse. It shows how easy they loose they temper”

“Like you, Luc?”

“Hey, that’s my core, my true identity. I don’t have to hide behind the name of love. I am what I am. But you, and this Jesus of you. Both of you claim to be holy, full of passion, full of love. Both of you are so full of crap”

“Set me free, Luc, and we’ll se, who is full of crap”

“You asked me to free you? Gabrielle, you are Jesus‘s Archangel, You’re suppose to be strong, untouchable, unbreakable. Or just ask Jesus to set you free.”

“Damn, you Lucifer!”

“Cursing on me won’t any good to you, bitch, curse on Jesus. He started all this from the very first beginning. He is a looser!”

“He is not!”

“But, He is, Gaby… He is. Why do you think people give up on Him nowadays? Because we cannot trust Him, that’s why”
“His so called ‘mysterious way’s’, ‘holiness’, ‘secrecy’, ‘His time’. No people buy that again this time. They want fact, reality, and real thing. I am”

“No one left Him, Luc, no one.”

“Really, I give you fact, baby. His disciples are decreasing; turn faith on him by what? Only few temptation, some best sellers….”

“You, so you give the idea for those books. Let me tell you something. Your book worth nothing, Luc, a lot of people aware of it.”
“we all know, that there were thirteen grail on the table. How can they use only one grail for the sermon? Jesus raises His Grail to unify. Get real, Luc! His grail is not Mary Magdalene, she doesn’t even at that place at that moment, and she was separated miles away from Him. Marriage? Dream on, Luc. For a Man whose protocol was only to serve The Almighty, marriage did never exist in His list. “
“See, Luc? You also make mistakes”

He laughs,
“That book wasn’t meant for you Gaby, it only for the weak and the skeptic, and they are a large number of them, larger than the believers.”
“And yet it was still a great shock, isn’t it? Now He is being questioned about His purity. And another shock yet to come from the lost gospel, now revealed.”

“It won’t work either, Luc. Who wrote the gospel? Judas? Who guides him? Is it from Holy Spirit on by himself as a defense for his act?”
“His secrecy ruins Himself, His power being questioned, which I doubt for myself, if He is really God.”

“He is God!”

“Bullshit. If He is God, He knows exactly what will happen to His creation. If He is God, He’ll know what lurks on His creations deepest heart.”

“Luc, you just don’t get it, do you? He does that to see his creations faith….”

“Wrong, it shows that He doesn’t deserve to be God. God won’t play with faith; God won’t let any test on faith.”

“Well thanks to you, Luc. It’s your entire fault, you tempt them to sin.”

“Just to show Him, how imperfect His most perfect creations were. And can anyone to be called God if He created fail creations? It’s only will show how imperfect He is. Thus He will never ever have the right to be called, God!”

“You mean like you, Luc?”

“Exactly, Gaby. I’m the perfect example. God don’t create fail creation, if He is, than He has no power. How can you be God if you can’t control your creations? He has failed. If He is God, than He must have prevent any of this shit to happen. He has the power to stop this from the very first beginning. But no. you know why, Gaby? Because he need recreation. No one can live alone, and so is your God. He feels lonely, than he tries to create, but then He can’t control it any more. Than to keep his ‘creations’, He gave stupid orders, rules, judgments.”
“But I realize these mistakes, and I know that I can make the difference, under my command, this world. No. this universe will be a better place to live, and your God… well He can switch place with me here at the underworld.”

“Stop mocking my God!”

“Why! Because I tell the truth? Because I opened your eyes, who Jesus, really is? Because I show you how great I am, and that I am the one who suppose to be God?”
“He cheated on me, so I destroy Him slowly, painfully.”

“Shut up! Shut up!”, yelled Gabrielle, tears on her eyes.

“Give it up Gabrielle, you know I’m right, and you’re wrong. Face it, join me, and I’ll give you anything higher than you can imagine”

“If you claim to be god, Luc, why did you still need me?” she sobbed.

“I’m god, as I am King, and a King needs his Queen.”

A long silence

“Well, Gabrielle? Will you join my side?”

Her face grows tighter.

“Over my dead body, Lucifer!”

“So it shall be done”

Lucifer raised his arm, and Gabrielle’s already damaged armor were torn out into pieces, leave her naked on the metal frame.

She never felt this much of embarrassment, humiliated, degraded. Her face redden, tears falling, she never drop a single tears before, and she doesn’t even know if she has tears.

But now she is hopeless, she confused. Why God left her, why God let this humiliation happened to her.

“God abandoned you, Gabrielle”, said Lucifer as if he can read her mind.
“True God will stand for His disciples, His Archangel.”
“True God will never ask twice.”

A portal opened behind Lucifer, portal to hell. And come along two ghouls, and they stand beside Lucifer.

“Enjoy, Gabrielle. You’re about to experience the same excitement I put on Jesus, as I crush His bones. Before I nail Him to the cross.”

Gabrielle knew the ghouls; they were ghouls of roman soldiers who lash Jesus really bad as if they intended to rip His body into pieces.
The ghouls bring along lashes they used to inflict pain to Jesus. They gave her an evil grin, they standing in front and behind her.

And, lash, lash, lash…

Each lash asks for blood from her body, and as they were now ghouls, they didn’t have tired feeling as they used to when they were still alive.

She was damaged from head to toe, but her torment is far from finish. The ghouls change their lashes, to nail tipped lashes.

Again, her body was ripped, her flesh torn open. Her mouth couldn’t scream no more.

It almost like eternity to Gabrielle, her body went numb; she couldn’t even feel those lashes again. She just hung still, watching her blood streaming down from her body, it drains her power completely.

Lucifer rid the ghouls away, he stand next to her, whisper to her ear.
“Eli, Eli… Lamasabtani?”

Gabrielle looked up to the sky trough her tearful and broken right eyes.

“You loose, Gabrielle.”
“Where is Jesus? Why doesn’t He come and rescue you? He left you, didn’t he? What the heck, he can create more Archangels to replace you, can’t he?”
“You serve the wrong master. Now you have to pay for your mistakes with you life”

His voice on and off to her hearing, she feel dizzy.

Lucifer unchained her. Let her bump to the cold floor, than he kicks her so she now lay on her back.

He looks down to the rampaged body of her, circling her.

“It’s not over yet, Gaby. Now it’s my turn.”

Gabrielle only able to watch helplessly as Lucifer pull down his pants and start peeing on her face, onto her mouth, makes her choke on it.

He laughs as hell.
“I am the only one who ever pee on the face of an Archangel; you are such a looser Jesus. Big time Looser!”
“Where are you asshole? Show and bow before me Jesus. Fall on your knees, praise me. I’m your master, obey me.”
“Where is you power? Huh?”

Lucifer gave an evil gaze to Gabrielle, as he steps forward to her.

“Your God, didn’t give a shit at you at all, so I guess he wouldn’t mind if I put my seed in to your womb, bitch!”

As he is about to enter her. Blaze of fire run down through the top of the dark chamber, throw him away from Gabrielle.

Lucifer tries to put out the flame burning his cape, as he shows the fire covers Gabrielle’s body.

As the flame faded, he saw Gabrielle standing before him. Her body glows divine light, her body becomes more build, her armor were renewed and upgraded, and golden wings spread from her back.

She held her massive saber on her right hand and a brand new golden palm tablet on her left hand.

A deep voice comes from her throat. Divine voice.
“He never leaves me, Luc. Never was, never is, and never will be. He’ll never leave those who have faith in Him.”

And another fire comes down from Heaven above, strike the tablet of gold.

They both know.

It’s the Finger of God! The same fire! The same Finger God use to write on the tablet of stone when He gave Ten Commandments to Moses.
They both know as the Fire stroke the tablet, He wrote a name.

Lucifer’s!

Gabrielle smiles at him. Shows the tablet and said,
“Lucifer, you’re on my list!”

Lucifer lunge forward with great anger, slashing his saber. And Gabrielle easily dodges it

Between Lucifer strikes, Gabrielle said to him.
“You know what? I think that you’ve been down here at the underworld to long.”
“I’m an Archangel! I have no womb!”

As she said that, she slashes her saber.

Lucifer couldn’t believe his eyes. His sword broken in two, and how surprise he is to find her saber cut through his heart.

Gabrielle look at Lucifer shadowy dark spirit as it tries to free him. Gabrielle catches the orb of spirit, face it toward the light of Heaven, and shout.
“This soul is yours to judge, my Lord!”

And the orb sucked into the light to the place high above.

She stands there covered by Heavenly light, her armor were replace with white long coat, shirt and boot cut pants, and also a pair of cowboy’s boot on her feet.

“It’s over” she thought to herself.

But as she wishes to leave that cursed chamber, she feels a great evil spirit. An evil existence. She look through her shoulder.

Laughter.

“What a great joke, Gaby…. What a great joke! Do you think that you have defeated me, don’t you?”

Gabrielle held her saber thigh. She turns to face Lucifer on his shadowy corner.

“A, a, a. Not now Gabrielle. Not now”

As he faded away he shouts

“Until the final battle, bitch. Then shall I show you that I am god.”

The war is not offer yet. She bows her head. Feel useless. Feel sorrow, realizing all her effort, her misery was for nothing.

But as she felt the warmth of Heavenly light, she raises her head, towards the light, absorbing all the warmth.

She smiles. She knows that her misery means anything. She knows that Jesus is God. She knows that He cares. She knows that they will win.

So she left the chamber with glory in her. She is more ready than she ever was. Her duty waits.
“you’re on my list!”