《Heaven Vs. Hell: Curse Of The Water Prophet》 Prologue Hey, I''m Zachariah but everyone calls me Zach. I have Hydrokinesis Let me give you a little insight into this world.This takes place in the year 2018. In this universe, everyone is with an elemental power Their elemental power correlates with their hair color.Brown: Geokinesis,Blue: Hydrokinesis,Red: Pyrokinesis,Gray: Aerokinesis,Yellow: Electrokinesis,Purple: Telekinesis, and Pink: Pathokinesis. These are how often these people appear in the world.Brown, Grey, and Red: Common,Yellow: Slightly less common, Blue, Purple, and Pink: RareThis tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. There are also demons and angels in this world. If you were really good in your life, you become an angel.Angels have white hair and Ergokinesis,Photokinesis, and Vitakinesis.If you were really bad, you become a demon.Demons have black hair and Umbrakinesis and Nega-Ergokinesis.If you were average, you just become a ghost and sent to purgatory. If you die while being an angel or demon, you become a celestial ghost and you also get sent to purgatory. You lose all your elemental power if you become a ghost or a celestial ghost. I''m currently going to The Temple Of Potamoi, it''s like a summer camp to train my powers and my girlfriend who has electrokinesis is trying to talk to me. So, I gotta go. The Depature Erika: "Zach, I can''t believe we have to leave so soon. Like we just got to school." Me: "I mean, isn''t that how field trips work?" Erika: "But it''s a whole summer length field trip and we''re gonna be forced to learn stuff." I roll my eyes and laugh. Me: "Yeah, cool stuff." She can be like that sometimes. She complains about almost everything. Me: "Hey the bus is here, I gotta go." Erika: "Hey, give me a kiss." Me: "Alright" *kisses* Erika: "Bye, I love you." Me: "I love you too. See ya." As I get on the bus I notice it''s less full than the others. That''s expected considering how rare we are. Let me explain. So, the fake, not real, legend has it, about 2,000 years ago a group of demons, yes demons, how dumb does that sound. Anyway, a bunch of them attacked the main water village when the world was still segregated. I don¡¯t know why. If you ask me the person that made up that story is full of crap. There¡¯s a lot of errors in it too. Why wasn¡¯t it documented? Shouldn¡¯t the battleground still have marks of war? But no one knows where it is. So, it¡¯s not re-Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! ???: Hey, Hey, HEY My trance is broken by the bus driver Bus driver: ¡°Are you gonna sit down or not?¡± As I¡¯m finding a seat a girl is verbally pressuring me to sit with her. So, I sit next to her. Me: ¡°Hi.¡± Marina: ¡°Hey, my name¡¯s Marina.¡± Me: ¡°I¡¯m Zach.¡± Marina: ¡°Hey, Zach.¡± We sit there in awkward silence for the whole bus ride. 2 hours go by We pull up to a big sand circle and stop. There¡¯s water everywhere but no water temple. There¡¯s nothing. Me: ¡°Maybe it¡¯s underwater.¡± Marina: ¡°That would make sense.¡± Then a man rises from the water and behind him is this building the size of the empire state building. Everyone is in awe. Crowd: That¡¯s Aegir! Marina: ¡°Oh my god, What is Aegir doing here?¡± She seems the most excited Me: ¡°Am I supposed to know who that is?¡± Marina: ¡°Yes you are!¡± Me: ¡°Then who is he.¡± Marina: ¡°He¡¯s the strongest waterbender of our time. Some people even think he¡¯s a god.¡± Me: ¡°Well I don¡¯t.¡± Aegir: ¡°Hello everybody. My name is Aegir the Great. But you already knew that. As you can see the palace behind you is The temple of Potamoi. You will live and train here for the summer. Now, Walk across the water to get to it.¡± Oh boy, this I gonna be one long summer. Man Here Says He Has A Gun We''ve been at this for three hours. No one has figured out to even stand on water yet. Aegir has told us to let the water be one with our feet but that makes no sense. I''m currently on my 57th attempt. I raise my foot up and hover it over the water. I breathe. "Zach, you can do this become one with the water." I slowly descend my foot. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. "Maybe I''m looking at this wrong. Maybe Aegir gave us false advice" I think. I start to imagine the water is ground. I put my foot down. It doesn''t go through the water. I did it. I put my other foot down. It worked. I''m standing on the water. "Hey everyone, look at me," I shout. Everyone looks and they''re in awe. "Good job," Aegir told me. "He figured out that I lied to you." Everybody lost their shit and they''re startled that a celebrity would lie. With all the noise I start to lose my focus. I fell through the water. I try again. I started to walk. It seems very easy. I see other people doing it too. Then Aegir announced, "Whoever gets there first gets a room all to themselves." I like privacy so I started to book it. I concentrated on making large chunks able to stand on instead of just the part under my feet. I see kids fall into the water. WOOOOSH! I turn my head to my left and I see this kid riding a fucking tidal wave. His wave crashes on the shore. I''m still halfway there. I image something to push me to make me go faster. I make a tube of water. "Good," I say. I put it behind me and WHACK! I overthrew the water. I''m being propelled forward while my back feels a car hit it. I''m flying through the air and I land on the water. My body like a skipping stone. I swim the rest of the way. As I get up on the island the guy puts his arm out. "Hi, I''m Ashley. But you can call me Ash." I shook his hand. The other people arrive at the temple. "Alright, let''s eat," Aegir cheerfully said. "Finally," I say. "I''m starving." We go into the building. The dining hall is massive and really high in luxury. It''s about the size of 30 shitty apartments. They''re serving seafood. "May I take your order, sir?" A waiter asked. "Yes, I''ll have some fried calamari. Uh, please." I responded. Everyone at the tables looks so out of place. The waiters are dressed like they''re at a funeral or something. My peers are wearing casual street clothes. Then there''s me, a grey t-shirt, leather black vest and faded and ripped jeans. I get bullied because of my fashion sense sometimes but I don''t really care. I''m bored so I''m gonna strike up a conversation with Ash.The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. "Hey." "Hi." "How are you?" I''m good, you?" "I''m okay, I guess." "Oh," "Hey, what''s your deal man?" "What do you mean?" "That tidal wave, how''d you do it." "Well I just imagined a tidal wave and there it was. I saw you tried to use a different technique. Speaking of that, how''s your back?" "It hurts but I''m okay." We laugh. Aegir picks up a microphone and starts speaking. "Ok, it''s getting late. I want all you in your dorms. Go back to the foyer, boys on the right, girls on the left. I''ll be giving you your keys. We get our keys and go up. I have a key to room 153. I go to Ash. "What room did you get?" I ask. "Room 153," He replies. We notice we have the same room and we go up. We start to unpack. As I¡¯m making my bed when I see Ash has a guitar case. ¡°Hey, dude,¡± I start to ask. ¡°I didn¡¯t know you played guitar.¡± ¡°Oh, it¡¯s not a guitar,¡± He responds. I give him a puzzled look. He opens it. ¡°It¡¯s a gun,¡± Ash says. I start to back up. ¡°Dude, what the hell?¡± I cautiously say. ¡°Relax,¡± he responds. ¡°It can¡¯t hurt you, I think.¡± At this point, I¡¯m freaking out. I make a water ball in my hand just in case. The gun looks like a futuristic Ots-12 Tiss. ¡°Why do you have that?¡± I ask, my grip on the ball getting tighter. ¡°Dude, chill, I promise I¡¯m not going to hurt you. Just come outside with me, I want to show you that this isn¡¯t an ordinary gun,¡± he tells me. I nod my head but I made the ball a little bigger. I follow him outside. He points the gun at a tree and cocks it. These four rectangular lights on the side light up one after another. It has an eerie purple glow. He pulls the trigger and this beam of purple and black energy emits from it. It hits the tree and completely obliterates it. I jump back. I disable the ball and water drips from my hand. ¡°See?¡± He says. ¡°This is awesome.¡± I build up the courage to ask him, ¡°Where did you get that?¡± He looks at it and says, ¡°I stole it from my dad. He¡¯s dead now.¡± ¡°Oh,¡± I managed to croak. ¡°I¡¯m sorry for your loss.¡± He looks down at the gun again. Then he looks up. ¡°That sunset is pretty, Don¡¯t you think?¡± Before I could answer we hear an explosion. We look to see where the blast came from and we see this giant cloud of smoke rise up from the sky. ¡°That¡¯s weird,¡± I say. ¡°It looks like it¡¯s coming right for us.¡± As it¡¯s getting closer I realized what I was looking at. These people with big black wings and black hair were coming right towards us. ¡°Demons.¡± Ash whispers. That¡¯s when the air raid sirens started to screech. Im Going To Rip Your Spine Out And Beat You With It ¡°Demons.¡± Ash whispers. I can¡¯t believe my ears. ¡°What?¡± I say in disbelief. Aegir comes outside and Ash hides the gun. ¡°What are you doing out here?¡± He yells. ¡°Get in the bunker, Now!¡± We run to the bunker but Ash takes a turn. He runs up to the stairs and puts the gun under his bed. He returns without Aegir noticing. ¡°Why are they here?¡± I ask. ¡°Because, that little myth of why we are so rare, It¡¯s not a myth. They''ve come back for round two.¡± We get to the bunker and go in. It¡¯s crowded as expected. They close the door and enter a password on the electric lock. ¡°Zach,¡± Marina screams. ¡°I thought you were dead. I¡¯m so glad you¡¯re okay.¡± She hugs me then starts crying. ¡°Hey, I¡¯m fine,¡± I say comforting her. That couldn¡¯t have been farther from the truth. I wasn¡¯t fine. Everything I¡¯ve ever believed, just thrown out the goddamn window. We hear more explosions from above. Suddenly a wave of courage washes over me ¡±I have to do something,¡± I thought. I don¡¯t know why I¡¯m feeling this way. I go up to Aegir and say ¡°let me out.¡± He responds with, ¡°No, are you trying to get yourself killed? Those are demons. Ya know, corrupted souls, soldiers of hell, all that?¡± I start to get irritated. ¡°After they¡¯re done with this place what do you think is going to happen? They¡¯re just gonna retreat? No. If they¡¯re really what you say they are then they¡¯re going to wreak havoc on Earth. Millions of innocent people are going to die. I can¡¯t just sit here and watch that happen. Aegir had a surprised expression on his face. ¡°You¡¯re the one¡± He whispered. He opened the door and I ran up the stairs. As I¡¯m running to the dorms I see demons flying in the sky with their bat looking wings and shooting at the building. With the same types of guns that Ash had. I arrive at the dorms and go into my room. I grab the gun. I¡¯m about to open the door but then I hear footsteps coming from down the hall. I put myself against the wall and wait for an opportunity to ambush them. I look and there are two demons. I try to steady my breathing. I cock the gun. The two come in front of my door and I start shooting. I kill them both with about 8 shots. My eyes start to tear up. ¡°Oh my god,¡± I say with one hand covering my mouth. ¡°I killed them.¡± I don¡¯t have time to feel bad about this. I walk into the hallway. Then a demon crashed through the window and pinned me up against the wall. He summons a double-sided dagger and tries to stab me with it. I grab his arm with one hand and shoot him in the stomach with another. ¡°You will burn.¡± The demon says. I point the weapon at his face and finish him off. I start walking down the hallway and go down the stairs. A demon waits for me there. He shoots at me but misses. I shoot at him and I hit the rail. ¡°Fuck,¡± I say. He takes another shot and the energy bullet barely grazes my shirt. I shoot him in the arm and then in the face. If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. I walk down the stairs and go into the foyer. I then open the door and I see it. At least a thousand trigger happy demons ruining the place. I see a beam of light and men with white wings start flying down. ¡°Angels.¡± I suspected. They summon their own version of these guns and start firing white energy beams into the crowd. I walk out completely mesmerized and then I¡¯m being pinned up against the wall again but this time the demon has a bigger wingspan, the wings have feathers and he¡¯s beefier. His wrists have broken handcuffs on them. He¡¯s with another one that looks like him he¡¯s shorter and his wings are smaller. I shot him but nothing happened. ¡°So, you were the one that was killing all my minions. I¡¯m going to rip your spine out and beat you with it you disgusting, vile, fragile, human.¡± The way he said human made me shake even more. ¡°Prince Asmodeus,¡± The little one said, ¡°Lord Erebus told you not to bring him any harm.¡± That really set Asmodeus off. ¡°You don¡¯t think I know that General Forneus!¡± He yelled. ¡°I¡¯m one of the seven princes of hell, you¡¯re not!¡± He throws me on the ground. Just then another angel descended from the sky. This one had a full body of medieval armor with huge wings sticking out. ¡°Michael.¡± Asmodeus groned. I get to my feet. ¡°Michael, like the archangel Michael.¡± I thought. Then he spoke, ¡°Don¡¯t touch the prophet.¡± Then Asmodeus retaliated with, ¡°I told you, brother. I will return. And what did I do? I returned. You should''ve known this was coming.¡± My mind was racing. ¡°Brother, what the fuck? How is an archangel your brother.¡± As soon as I think that Michael says ¡°I am not your brother, not anymore.¡± Asmodeus scoffed. ¡°Whatever.¡± He summoned I staff with a head of a lion forged on the top. Michael responds with taking out a flaming sword and kicking Asmodeus, sending him flying. Michael then sprouts his wings and goes after his prey. Then ? of the demons on the ground and half the angels in the sky aim their hands at each other and release beams of energy at each other. They look like the ones from the guns but more powerful. The shockwave of it was so strong that I was knocked over and knocked out. The Ice Of The Knife ¡°Kill your enemies, my brothers dead around me, wounds are hurting, death is creeping for me, smoke is blinding, hearts are pounding, chaos soon ignites, the call is made, It''s one for all, will, I meet thy maker¡± -Bullet For My Valentine I woke up about five minutes later. I was on the roof. I¡¯m guessing one of the angels put me here. I look to where the blast happened and there is a giant crater. All the angels and demons took different sides of it. I look over and I still have my gun. From the looks of the battle, the angels are severely outnumbered. ¡°I need to help,¡± I said to no one in particular. I summon a wall of water and I make my way to the ground. I run over to the angel''s side and slide into the hole. I land on a platform with a barrier. ¡°That¡¯s convenient,¡± I thought. ¡°Yeah no shit, I¡¯m the one that put it there. I saw you coming.¡± Said a voice on my right. I look over and it¡¯s an angel. I was speechless. You¡¯d think after seeing an archangel I¡¯d be used to an angel but no. ¡°Hi,¡± The angel said. ¡°I¡¯m William, but you can call me Will.¡± I was in shock. I had so many questions. Too bad I picked the stupidest one first. ¡°Why does an angel have the name, Will.¡± Will looked like he was contemplating something. ¡°Well,¡± Will stated, ¡°I¡¯m technically not an angel. I¡¯m a soul angel. As you know when a soul dies, depending on what it did, it goes to heaven. What you don¡¯t know is that souls who go to heaven became angels. I don¡¯t know why that¡¯s not in the bible though. Anyway, that¡¯s what happened to me.¡± He peeked from the barrier a little and shot a couple of rounds of his gun. Then he crouched again. ¡°Wait,¡± I started to say. ¡°Isn¡¯t heaven a paradise? Why are you fighting a battle?.¡± ¡°Because in my final hours I was fighting demons. The actual angels wouldn¡¯t let me go but I begged and pleaded and now I¡¯m here. You will too. ¡±I had to ask him a question. ¡°You can see the future?¡± ¡°No.¡± ¡°Then how do you know?¡± ¡°It¡¯s in the prophecy.¡± ¡®There¡¯s a prophecy?¡± ¡°Yes, and you are a prophet.¡± Well that¡¯s just a big information drop ¡°How will this prophecy end.¡± ¡°With you fighting the devil.¡± ¡°You¡¯re fucking with me, right?¡± If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. ¡°Nope.¡± I couldn¡¯t believe it. This filled me with more confidence though. I got up from my platform too and started shooting. I hit one demon in the leg but that¡¯s it. ¡°Damn, my aim is shit,¡± I said. One of the demons flew into the sky and started to make it rain bullets. Will put a protective barrier made of light above me. Some bullets hit it but that¡¯s about it. I changed the subject. ¡°Does that mean there are soul demons too?¡± Will looked at me like I was that kid from Wonder. ¡°There are no soul demons. Only demons. ¡°Oh,¡± I said, feeling like a dumbass. I got up and I shot the demon down. He sounded like a chicken being attacked. Will put his two fingers on my forehead. ¡°This will enhance your performance. Then another demon flew and grabbed Will. He spun around sideways six times then he threw Will to the ground. I got upset. I thought he was dead. Suddenly I feel myself being lifted off the ground. I looked back. I had wings and they were made of water. I could also feel myself holding something. I was. The whole god damn ocean. I came to a stop when I realized I was above the whole crater. I could feel myself getting cold. Really cold. The ocean was frozen. My eyes turned light blue and my hair was raised slightly. I raised my arms and the ocean had turned into giant ice picks. I swung my arms down and ice picks when flying at the demons. I hit at least half of them. When the icicles hit the ground they sprouted upwards into ice statues. Asmodeus then crashed landed into the middle of the hole, making a min crater inside the crater. ¡°That¡¯s what I thought,¡± Michael said. ¡°Bitch.¡± Michael stood near the hold when Asmodeus flew out of it and landed right in front of him. ¡°Fucker,¡± Asmodeus said. He punched Michael in the face repeatedly and Michael took it like a champ. Michael then bitch slapped him and grabbed his neck and pulled him up. ¡°You listen to me, Asmodeus. One, We are not brothers, not after what you and your brothers did with Lucifer, I¡¯m sorry, what is it now? Erebus? Anyway, two, I banished you to hell¡¯s jail and I will do it again. Don¡¯t try anything.¡± He then stabbed the ground with his sword. Handcuffs began to reconstruct themselves around Asmodeus¡¯ wrists. ¡°You fucking dumbass, do you know what will happen if you send me down there again?¡± Asmodeus threatened. Michael laughed. ¡°Nothing,¡± He said. ¡°Absolutely nothing. You pathetic little thing. That¡¯s why dad cast you out with all the other throwaways. You might¡¯ve murdered a tiny portion of heaven in the war but you can do nothing to an archangel. I¡¯m surprised dad didn¡¯t send you down there himself as he did with Lucifer. He kneed Asmodeus in the stomach and said ¡°Ad quos eieci te de summo in profundis inferni proditor intimo gratus. Deus, miserere animae tuae.¡± After that, a hole opened up and like stuck in quicksand Asmodeus fell through it. The angels started flying into the sky and disappearing into heaven. Except for Will. ¡°Who do you think you are?¡± Michael said. Will looked terrified. ¡°I told you not to communicate with the prophet and what do you do? You tell him everything. I guess it¡¯s in the family to say things in a way that makes people scared because I was shaking. ¡°For your punishment, you will be banished to hell.¡± Will fell to his knees. ¡°Please St. Michael I beg for your forgiveness.¡± I can redeem myself, I promise.¡± Michael looked incredibly displeased. ¡°Plastic promises are a sin. Just the more reason to do it to you.¡± He raised his hand and placed it on Will¡¯s chest. Then Will fell to the ground and had a seizure. A biblical fucking seizure.