Present time
Whenever we imagine it, it seems to be beyond reality as we know it. Wishful thinking makes us hope that we be extinct long before the day ever arrives. Some imagine the doomsday through a nuclear war, some through another ice age. The environmentalist talk of Greenhouse effect and resource depletion, the religious fanatics speak of God’s hand. But is the doomsday really such a hypothetical concept? What if the sun is extinguished in one swift hand of God or rather a creature of God. Every day we hear conspiracy theorists explaining in details how the governments of the world are actually planning the downfall of the millions of humans. Bio engineered warfare, fusion energy weapons, artificial intelligence replacing humans, so many ways are there to eliminate man or to bog down his significance on the face of the earth or in the eyes of God. What if God preordained the doomsday and wrote it down to one event or handed the responsibility to one creature? It sounds preposterous that one creature could bring about the downfall of an entire planet, an entire ecosystem but why not? If Man can destroy the habitat of other creatures to display his own power and accomplishments why does it feel that he would not be subject to the same when a more powerful creature decides to visit earth?
God is a myth or perhaps the all encompassing reality, but whatever be God, the concept, has made provisions for every situation. The Revelations talk of the Angels coming down to earth to destroy those who are not of God. What if the angels do not come from God but from somewhere far away?
It all started as a scientific expedition. A celestial artefact had been found at a meteor site. Scientists of the world joined hands to decipher engravings on the artefacts. That artefact was in reality a beacon and an inter-dimensional teleporter that brought doomsday closer than it was ever before. The Angel of death and darkness had come down on earth and his passage through the earthly realms had been assisted by mortals. With the dark angel came fumes of darkness that engulfed space and light. Everywhere there was mayhem as people ran for their lives with nowhere to run to. The darkness had by then submerged the horizon into perpetual gloom. The sun rarely managed to peep onto the mortals below through the thick cloud of smoke that remained due to Angel's prolonged stay on earth. Man killed man in an attempt to flee but failed. There was fear and hopelessness everywhere and that hopelessness fuelled the darkness that surrounded the earth. It spread like a toxic gas in tiny tendrils and fed on the negativity of the people. Soon sunlight was hard to come by. The darkness was suffocating. People started to die in their sleep as fear engulfed them. Mundane life came to a standstill. Most of the people lost their eyesight due to the absence of light and that absolute blindness brought on rage. Vandalism and riots became rampant throughout the world. Then the blizzards started, ice cold winds brought snow that seemed like frozen blood in all the darkness. The energy reserves of all the nations on earth were fast depleting just to keep the inhabitants warm and sane. Only a small group of people struggled on to find light. The scientists that had once summoned the doom now fought on to avert it. They had little to go by but they had their will which was a strong light to reckon with. With them they had the will to live on and the faith in redemption.
The battle was finally at hand when the mortals faced the immortal. Samael, the Dark Angel brought no army with him for he fancied that he needed none. He knew that the coward that man was would fall at his feet at the slightest sign of complete annihilation. He wasn't completely right. The battlefield that greeted the Dark angel was in reality an abandoned football field. All the lights in the field were full ablaze; the light intended to weaken the alien. However none of it was any match for the creature who controlled darkness. One by one all the stadium lights started going out. Chaos ensued among the ranks. The leader of the army tried to bring back order but he knew that fear was a weapon of the dark. He would very soon lose the men that succumbed to it. Suddenly the black smoke slithered along the now brown grass of the field and Samael appeared before them. As soon as the dark winged creature took shape from the smoke the cowards in the troops broke rank and fled for the exit. Away from the assembly of the mortal army the darkness caught up to them and suffocated them. The General saw his men suffocate in their own fears. His jaws twitched. Nothing was visible save for darkness.
Suddenly lights attached to their helmets lit up. Samael tried hard to extinguish it but failed. The General took a step towards the winged creature. Finally Samael recognized the mortal General. "But how?" he seemed baffled. This creature should have been lying in a thousand pieces in the middle of a desert if he had to have his way with it for this was the scientist that had assisted in his passage into this world. This was the man he had thrown from over a hundred thousand feet above ground and yet he stood in one piece in front of him.
"I brought you here Samael; it is time I sent you home"