THE RETURN OF ANGELIC CRUSADERS

Written in response to: Write a story from the point of view of a witch, spirit, or corpse.... view prompt

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Christian Fiction East Asian

At a fishing village in the Island of Mindoro where the villagers are known to each other operating their fish market by a couple. This couple Kiko and Kikay are very kind to the fisherfolks that they are the benevolent human being to give a helping hand to the needy in the village. If someone get sick Kiko would lend his SUV and pay all expenses to bring the sick to the mainland of Batangas for immediate medical attention. Kikay attends to the sale of the fishes the fisherman catch with their fishing boat. Early in the morning at the seashore fishvendors will haggle the price of a whole big pan called bannera by whispering the price of the fish to Kikay. The highest bidder will get the whole bannera of fish. The fish vendors will go to the market to sell them. Kikay will assist the vendors at their stalls cleaning the fish for sale. In order to operate the fish market efficiently Kikay help the other merchants to buy their vehicles like delivering ice to the merchants and also the restaurants operating in her fish market. Even those who are selling fruits and vegetables she has to attend what ever they need. Kiko and Kikay has two children attending their high school at Mindoro Central High School and leading their classes in academics. Kiko and Kikay are very proud of their children. Their school bus arrives on time to bring them to school. It was raining that day when a big dump truck collided with their schoolbus and their are five student casualties in that accident. Kiko and Kikay are there to assist about the funeral cost of the deceased students. The whole village mourn for their departed loved ones. The tradition in that village about the dead is to wear black to show people that they are mourning for a period of one year. Cremation is not allowed to honor the dead. Why would a dead person be killed again when he is already dead? Is that a crime committed burning the dead? The village barangay council usually bury the dead with their existing fund if the family cannot afford the burial. The five students are buried properly. The fish vendors help together to buy flowers at their wake and brought them to the cemetery. The five families have their own daily prayers in their houses for nine days. They believe the dead will get their peaceful rest if they are prayed for. The school has raised the flag in honor of the dead for one month to honor them. After the flag ceremony at the day of the funeral the students prayed for the dead students too. The teachers felt the absence of their students with the thought they will not see them again. The principal assigned grief counsellors to assist students who are grieving. The families of the dead students have to go for grief counselling also. At the church the priests prayed for the dead that they will go to heaven to join those who have left this world and be with God the Father. How is it to live in heaven. Who are there living with God the Father? In heaven there are saints angels and cherubims and they could go back to Earth in spirit to visit human beings to protect them at night and they are called guardian angels. One of the dead students at Mindoro Central High School who ascended to heaven is Bimbo. Bimbo as a student is religious. He goes to church every Sunday and say his daily prayers at night, praying to his guardian angel to protect him against the Prince of the Darkness when it roams at night and visit homes and spread fear that dead spirits are coming to visit them and feed their minds with fear making noise and drawing horrible images in the mind of a child so he could not sleep. When the child goes to her parents they tell "Masamang spiritu yan" (that is a bad spirit). " Put on the lights in your room and he will go away" "Get the string of garlic, cup of peppers and wooden cross, put them beside you and the bad spirit will not bother you anymore' instructed the parent to her child. In heaven Gabriel the Archangel gathered the angels and instructed them to fight the bad fallen angel the Prince of Darkness. Lucifer. Having violated the God in heaven and wants that he is the total authority to rule the Earth he is deceiving them to live a life like him. During the day he is whispering gamblers inside the casinos that they will win so if a gambler is losing he will whisper to him that he can borrow money because there is a possibility that he will become a millionaire and instantly he becomes rich. He instructs his followers to go to the drug addicts to continue smoking to give them instant gratifying hallucinations to ease their pain. The human beings will believe their inducements but their victims begin to lost their minds and live in poverty and miserable lives. Being drug dependents there lives are being ruined. They are called the living dead When Gabriel the Archangel explained these scenarios to the guardian angels they are fully recharged made a promise to descend to Earth and protect the human beings the children of God. When God created the human being Lucifer deceived the first woman Eve to eat the forbidden fruit and that was the fall of humanity but God wanted to save humanity sending Jesus His Son who died on the Cross. While waiting Jesus Christ return, He is sending back the Guardian Angels to protect God's children against Lucifer who will be thrown to the Lake of fire and humanity will live forever. Bimbo became the leader of the guardian angels and every night they visit the home of those who believe God and watch over them. Bimbo met one of the followers of Lucifer and challenge him to have a fight to see who will win. The follower of Lucifer declines knowing his last days are coming. Bimbo and the guardian angels roaming at night with their angelic shiny armors are seen every night in peoples home so they can no longer visit homes as many as before. Before dawn Lucifer and his followers has to leave or else the rays of the sun will burn them and they all die instantly.

November 06, 2024 17:58

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