I,Am (6)
The morning was glorious and the unsuspecting visitors to the Lincoln Park Zoo would never forget it. At the station, Michael hung up the phone and placed his face in his hands, undoubtedly depressed about the I,AM situation. Suddenly, a pounding sound came from the glass windows that looked out on to the outer office. "Detective, Detective, I,AM has been spotted at the Lincoln Park Zoo," yelled another officer. "No, there are innocent people out there," shouted Michael. Michael ran out of the door, pausing for a minute to give a short speech to the officers. "I know what we are dealing with is not from this earth and we can get killed. But if we don't stop this thing, your families, and your children will all fall to this evil," spoke Michael. The other detectives looked at each other and simultaneously said, "what the hell, we are with you Mike." This speech was just for his detectives, other law enforcement personnel were all ready on there way to the scene. Meanwhile, I,AM had entered the zoo on the west side, where there was parking and fishing. At this particular entrance, there were concession stands, novelty shops, and picture booths. On the outlining area of this oval gathering were the lion cages, elephants exhibit, and the gorilla exhibit. There were people everywhere, mother's with their children, father's with their sons, and brothers with their sister. It was a fun filled day for these unsuspecting Chicagoans. As I,AM ventured forth into the zoo, not only did the lions, elephants, and gorillas start exhibiting uncontrollable behavior, but the entire animal kingdom in the zoo followed suit. The people looked around because of this behavior from the animals and because of the rising noise levels. Finally, a man in the crowd of unstable people said, "Look, what is that?" It was I,AM standing in the middle of everyone and they began to panic. Mother's grabbed their children, father's grabbed their sons, and brothers grabbed their sisters. The place was going ballistic, while I,AM stood motionless, his eyes glowing green, and he had a smirk of destruction on his face. Suddenly, out of his mouth came the words, I,AM like a big explosion shattering glass everywhere. The sound was so eminence that even the eyeglasses of most of the people had shattered also, creating fallen civilians with glass in their eyes laying on the ground all around the zoo. The crowd began to vanish with good Samaritans helping with the wounded. The Chicago police arrived with aerial units hovering above in helicopters. "Seal off all exits," shouted Detective Zeiss. "S.W.A.T, you take your men, two unit teams in, one on the left and one on the right. Everyone else stay on your toes, and if you get an open shot, take it," ordered Michael. "We will not be taking this one end alive," spoke Michael. S.W.A.T. went in first, then Michael and his detectives, followed by the other officers. The helicopter unit had a bead on I,AM. "Detective Zeiss, the suspect is standing in the middle with no movement at all," radioed the helicopter. The S.W.A.T. team confirmed the aerial units last transmission and this would be the last transmission that would come from them. Suddenly, I,AM raised his head toward the helicopters, stared for a moment and shots rang out from the helicopter. "Who's firing, who's firing," asked Michael. "It came from the helicopter," the S.W.A.T team commander answered. Michael grabbed his radio and yelled, "helicopter unit please respond." "Something is wrong, something is wrong, we are killing ourselves, I repeat we are shooting each other," shouted the pilot. The gun fire and the excruciating pain emanating from the pilot's radio transmission could be heard through all of the radios. The helicopter fell out of control and went down over the lion cages along with the crew. When the helicopter hit the lion's cage I,AM spoke out and said, "you will not defeat me, I am I,AM." Michael through down the radio and ordered with a loud voice every one go end and take this thing out. I,AM felt it would not be defeated as he stood in the same place and never moved. The police surrounded I,AM in a half moon as he stood there. I,AM never turned his head or even gave any gestures of any kind. Michael stood in front of the entity and shouted, "Fire". The assault began, bullets hitting I,AM from all directions and a green discharge of blood descended from his body. After about five minutes of firing, I,AM fell to his knees with both hands in front of him. However, the officers could not see this due to the smoke, but once the smoke cleared they could see I,AM on his knees. The officers were amazed, but still kept their guns aimed at this entity. Suddenly, I,AM raised his head and the ground in front of them began to discharge green slim which slithered straight toward the officers. Michael, filled with fear proceeded to step back, but the discharge acted like it had feet, moving with great speed towards the officers as they stepped back. While the police stood in a circle, I,AM's discharge had trapped them in. The heat that emanated from the discharge touched the officers and melted them as if it was lava. It was a massacre at the zoo, the police were melting left and right. Finally, the discharge was upon Michael and he thought it was his time to go also. But as the discharge got two inches from his feet , his chest began to get warm and he could almost see a bluish glow coming from his shirt. As the discharge got to Michael's feet it went around him, leaving him untouched. Michael took a deep breathe trying to regain his composure, seeing the guns, the flack jackets, and the badges of his men laying across the ground. I,AM stood unharmed in front of Michael with multiple bullet holes in him. Suddenly, I,AM raised his hand and the discharge withdrew slithering back into his body through the open holes. These bullet holes that severely damaged I,AM's body had closed, leaving no kind of inclination that he was even fired upon. As they both stood face to face, Michael could not retreat and could not understand why he had survived this ordeal. I,AM stared at Michael for a moment and shouted out, "you have the Lance of Transgression but that will not be enough to stop me. I get stronger as the days get longer." Michael thought to himself the Lance of Transgression. As Michael thought, with his head down I,AM turned, walking away just as quietly as he came. When Michael looked up I,AM was gone and more cops and the news people were on there way into the zoo. Glancing down at his shirt, Michael with great force ripped his shirt open and there it was the amulet glowing. "The Lance of Transgression," mumbled Michael. "Detective, what happened here," asked a news reporter? This time Michael walked off the grounds of the zoo without a word to the reporters. As he exited the zoo two men with suits from the Bewitched episodes confronted him. "Detective Zeiss, we are from the Federal Government," stated one of the agents. "And," replied Michael. This is your peoples responsibility, you know this right," stated Michael. "Detective, has the entity been detained," asked the agents. "No, we tried to kill it but as you can see, this is what happened," replied Michael. That's all Michael had to say so he got in his car and drove off. In actuality, the two men were the scientific liaisons between the United States and the Egyptian government who found I,AM and wanted it back to analyze it, despite, the fatalities and devastation it left behind. Nevertheless, Detective Zeiss wanted to destroy it for the pain it caused society and his brother wanted it dead for what it could do to the future of all man kind and earth. The sofa at the precinct was looking good at that time, Michael could not go home yet, he had to think things through and he did not want to scare his wife. As the late afternoon moved on into the part of the evening clock. Michael had to turn on his head lights as he pulled off from the precinct. While, Michael picked up his cell phone at the light which was laying on the passenger seat, I,AM appeared in the back seat. Michael was frozen and could not move his feet off the brake pedal. I,AM raised his hand and stopped time around Michael's car. I,AM spoke and said, "the world will come to an end despite your feeble tries to destroy me. Have you seen your sun lately? On my resurrection day your sun began to die. There's a black spot in the middle of the sun and as minutes roll into hours this spot will become larger and larger. When the sun brightness is engulfed in a total black coat of evil it will die." "What will happen then," asked Michael? I,AM spoke and said, "this world will be totally mind and your human souls will be mine." ����� Suddenly, I,AM disappeared and time resumed around his car. Instantaneously, police officer banged on his car door window and Michael, being startled by the noise turned quickly. "Detective Zeiss are you all right," screamed the officer on the outside. Michael reached over and rolled the window down. "Sure, Officer Brown," replied Michael as he caught glimpse of the badge on his chest. Michael told the officer thank you and sped to the precinct station and collapsed, falling asleep on his office couch. CHAPTER TEN EVIL'S PLAYGROUND The next morning Michael awoke to a high pitched sound, it was a commotion on the outside of his office. He stumbled off the couch and walked to the door, first pulling his blinds up on the window. The surprise almost popped his eyes out of his head, people were running around everywhere. Even Doctor Wells, the psychiatrist was checking her gun as she raced down the stairs. Finally, Michael opened the door and yelled out, "what the hell is going on out here?" One of the officers replied, "yeah you are right about hell, your friend is standing downtown in the middle of an intersection." "Why didn't anyone wake me," asked Michael? "Well sir, we all agreed that since you had such a rough day yesterday, you might be extremely worn down." The officer turned, zipped his flack jacket and ran down the stairs and Michael was very much right behind him in, grabbing his other gun from under the desk. When Michael arrived on the scene the police had I,AM cornered. Detective Zeiss approached, there is no way out of this." "I,AM replied, your world is coming to an end. The sun will be covered with darkness soon and then I will summon Satan. His soldiers will come from hell to become my servants. "Why then, why not now," asked Michael? "When the sun's brightness is covered my powers will become matchable to God," answered I,AM. "I have all ready won," spoke I,AM. "Fire, fire," shouted Michael! The officers opened fire and bullets rang everywhere. I,AM took a deep breath sucking all the air from the area. Michael fell to his knees trying to catch his breath along with the other officers that were trying to breathe and still fire shots and the people working in the area behind that yellow tape could not breathe either. It seemed like the end of Michael and the world. Suddenly, Michael remembered the zoo and with every ounce of his strength Michael grabbed his amulet from under his shirt and the amulet began to glow blue causing Michael began breathe easily. But like outer-space there was no air, so gravity prevailed and the bullets just floated right past I,AM. As I,AM finished taking the air, he spoke and said, "I know of your brother, he is the one that found the Golden Scroll. God calls him the Golden Messenger of God. But I will destroy you both. "My brother is dead," screamed Michael. Always thinking that his brother was some how watching over him. "No, I feel his presence, nevertheless, I will kill you and your spiritual Golden Messenger. He will be no problem even with his powers from God," spoke I,AM. I,AM then raised his hands up on both sides and just fell backwards, hitting the ground breaking into little pieces of crystals and vanished. Michael in a state of bewilderment just walked away down the street. Finally, he made it to an area of downtown where people were walking, his eyes wondered out of control, fixating his vision on each and every person walking down the street. ����� Quickly, Michael spotted I,AM just casually walking down the other side of the street, parting the sea of citizens as he walked in the middle of the side walk. Slowly, I,AM turned to Michael and Michael's eyes grew larger by the ticks on a clock. Michael reached into his holster, pulled out his nine, and with a burst of energy Michael jumped into traffic trying to get over to I,AM. I,AM started to walk a little faster, bumping people as they moved slow to get out of his way. As Michael stepped up on the curve he yelled, "freeze". People panicked and started to disperse in all directions. As the people scattered Michael had an open shoot, but could not take it, because people were moving so fast that his shoot window only stayed open for a few seconds. It was not enough to get off a good shot. Lowering his nine millimeter, Michael began to chase I,AM. I,AM never ran, he continued walking at a fast pace. However, as Michael started to collide with citizens as he ran after I,AM. He started to turn his head, trying to apologize to people as he bumped them. ����Suddenly, something supernatural started to happen. As Michael faced forward to continue his chase after I,AM. Devilishly, the people Michael bumped started to look like I,AM. Michael stopped and as he looked around the entire downtown area of people looked and dressed like I,AM. Michael was exhausted, he bent over and grabbed his knees giving up the chase after I,AM. This persisted for about a minute or so and then Michael stood straight up and began to walk in the opposite direction of I,AM. As he moved further from the vicinity of this evil phenomenon the people began to convert to their original selves. While Michael was walking away into the crowd, I,AM was making his way to the under ground El, the red line getting on the train going South to ninety-fifth street. ����� Now, making his way to the door that connected the train with the other train, I,AM stood facing the passengers with his back against the doors. "Roosevelt, Chinatown, Thirty Fifth Street," yelled the conductor. The passengers on the train car were not aware of what kind of evil that occupied their train car. The conductor called out fifty ninth the doors opened and three young men entered. They were all street thugs, with nothing on their minds but to rob and steal. They entered on the other end of the train car trying to survey the car for potential victims. They eventually made it to the zone I,AM was standing in. The first young man who was the biggest ordered I,AM to give him his wallet. Then, the other two joined in on the conversation. Suddenly, without warning they all pulled out a knife, however, I,AM did not blink or even acknowledge their weapons. The first man became overcome with rage and plunged the knife in to I,AM's stomach and left the knife there. I,AM slowly reached down and pulled the knife from his stomach and dropping it on the ground. Seeing this, they tried to run, but there was nowhere to run, the train was not at its scheduled stop yet. So thinking wisely they ran to the door and pulled the emergency stop. But time was running out of them, I,AM had boxed them in with their backs against the exit doors so their only alternative was to fight. The first man took a swing at I,AM while the other two tried to maneuver around to his blind side. His punch hit I,AM dead in his eye, hurting his own hand. Then without warning I,AM through a punch back at him. When I,AM struck him, his flesh vanished leaving nothing but his bones, holding the remains of this body for a minute and then dropping it on to the train's floor. By this time the other two had reached his blind side. They didn't have a chance I,AM stared at them and his eyes propelled a cloudy beam of light that engulfed them, leaving nothing but bones. The passengers were hysterical so I,AM waved his hand and they fell victim to the vanishing of their flesh, their bones plunging to the floor with a crashing sound. I,AM pushed the doors open and before he jumped out of the train car, noticed one lone women, the only survivor of the whole ordeal grasping an ancestral cross that was around her neck. I,AM turned from her and vaulted out on to the energized rail of the train tracks. The women looked out of her window and the electricity off the rails shot up everywhere, busting out all of the windows of the train. She placed her head in her knees and when she raised her head, I,AM had disappeared. ������������������������������������������� CHAPTER ELEVEN T H E E N D I N G ������������������������������������������ That evening, Michael pulled into his driveway from a terrible day. On his car radio, he picked up the nine-one one call. I,AM was seen at the 59th street train platform and there were fatalities. As Michael sat there listening and staring at his radio, he took a moment to glance up at his bedroom window thinking about all the long nights away from his wife. So after careful deliberation Michael turned his car radio off, got out of the car, and went in to the house. Taking a shower and crawling into bed with his Sarah waking her as he positioned himself, grabbing two pillows placing them up on the head board to rest his head. He laid his nine millimeter on the night stand and Sarah laid her head on his chest,telling him she loved him, falling fast asleep. Michael stayed up for a while, staring at the ceiling and after about an half an hour, Michael joined his wife falling fast asleep. While Michael slept, Kumhuma was across town in his apartment praying. As Michael fell into a deep dream state, Kumhuma came to him in his dream. Michael's dream was void of illumination except their bodies glowing like fluorescent light bulbs. "Michael," Kumhuma yelled out. "Who are you," asked Michael? He could not see his face because Kumhuma's back was to him. Michael tried to maneuver around to see the face of this person who spoke to him. Nevertheless, every-time Michael would move, Kumhuma would move too. This is what Michael thought but actually, the void moved with Michael's every step. "Who am I is not your concern," spoke Kumhuma. "The creature known to you as I,AM is growing stronger and the world will come to an end in a few days. In the morning look up at the sun and you will see the blackness getting larger," stated Kumhuma. "What can I do, my bullets will not hurt it," asked Michael? "When the sun is engulfed with darkness nothing will be able to stop it........but," stated Kumhuma. "But what," replied Michael? "I will come to you soon and we both will battle this evil together. The Lance of Transgression which hangs around your neck," stated Kumhuma. "That's what its called, but what about it," replied Michael? "Take the Lance of Transgression into your hand and when it glows, cast your hands onto your bullets, then your bullets will hurt I,AM. However, this is only good until the sun has fully blackened, after that it will be no stopping it," spoke Kumhuma. �����Suddenly, Kumhuma faded away without Michael ever knowing that he was his brother. "Wait, wait," yelled Michael. Instantly, Michael awoke staring down at his wife who was still laying on his chest. Michael eased himself out of bed, trying not to wake Sarah, pulling his gun box from under his bed, grabbed his nine, and went down the stairs to the kitchen. He took out four boxes on nine millimeter rounds, opening each one of them, grabbed the Lance of Transgression, and held it tight until the amulet started to glow. He felt the Godly energy emanating from it, laying his hand upon each box making the bullets glow for a moment, and then the glow faded away being the blessed by the highest power known to man; God. Michael then loaded ten clips with his blessed ammo, not forgetting about the clip that was in his nine. After blessing his ammo he put everything away, went upstairs, crawled back in to bed with his wife, and went to sleep.
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