Call me Eurostar, as you know, I’m your host trughout the whole war of Light and Darkness.

As I told you last time, the book have been opened, and the first four seals have been broken: Well, Michael (that from now on I will call Mike, not to mistake him for another Michael, that from now on will be a frequent apparition in our little tale.

Well, Mike has returned from a second trip to the Choir, with a news and with a gift.

“Edulcorael, friend, I have been asked to resume my duty at the Choir, up in the Silver City: From now, you are on your own. I’ve been with you for some month now, you had really only one occasion to show your ability and coolness, but you performed well. The war has arrived, every Wing has to return to his Flock. Only you Guardians can stay with your protegees. I’m sure you will be up to the task. Being the Guardian angel of your own son is a honour that only a few men and women had” he says.

“Somehow I was foreshadowing this” I say: “Well, Mike, I hope to be good enough for the task…”

“Edulcorael, the fifth seal have been broken, too. Take this” and he hand me a book, “it’s the Book of the Revelations.
The Courts of Light has appointed you to be the witness of the events. You have free access to every corner of creation, even the Courts and Circles. Nobody will see you, you will see everything. Now I have to go!”

I open the book.

Revelation, 4
6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal.
And in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

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Originally posted by Changeling
In the Empyrean, in the highest heaven, floats the Silver City, home to the Choir and the manifestation of the Word through Metatron. The City is centered about the heavenly parliament known as the Temple of Creation, where the archangels and their councils keep an eye on Creation. The Temple itself is ringed by twenty antechambers (named by Greek letters) and four towers (Alpha, Chi, Rho, and Omega), the second of which houses the Courts.

The pluralized name is a reflection of the extent to which the Courts deal directly with the multifaceted face of Creation, the infinite conceptions of the Firmament known to Man as the Hyperboards. While the eternal Host focus on the existence of the Multiverse as a whole against threats from within and [insert dramatic foreshadowing shudder] without, those beings granted power through connection to the nergies of the universe have formed a group of their own.

There are four cosmic beings, gathered in the Courts. Beings of infinite power, and with eyes opened over the whole creation. Nothing should be a mistery for them, but the time has come, and even Them cannot know their destiny.
They are Metatron, the mouthpiece of the Word; Michael, General of the Host; the Rhymer, incarnation of the energy of the mind, and Raphael, Head of the Choir.

They don’t speak, but watch three other seats, empty: three are missing from the Courts, Continuity, who watches over the Hyperboard; the Time Trust Infinity, keeper of the Timestream, and RyChard, the Watcher, one time guardian of the forces of Chaos and Order, that now are ripped back in the two original energy, the V and the X.

Metatron speaks: “Ormudz and Ahriman, the X and the V, that since the dawn of creation have been forever in battle, shaping reality from their own fight, have allied: the X is now a pawn in the hand of the V, and Ry-Chard is missing.

The gates of the Hyperboard are unguarded, since the time Continuity has been captured and caged in the Circles of Darkness:

Many forces will ford the Timestream, now that the Time Trust Infinity has been destroyed.

Micheal, reinforces the walls of the Silver City, for now Hell will find a way to knok at our door”.


Revelation,6
1
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see
2
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

In the Tiamat Buiding, The Colony sits on the desk that one time belonged to John GreyII, the Indestructible Man. At his feet, Pete McLebovich, the powerful kid which is his main arm in this war. A kid with the power to alter reality, to open the gates between the Hyperboards, the key for the victory of the Darkness.

Revelation,6
4
And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

The horrible, twisted pale face of Larry Lance, the dead, evil twin of King Aric LLance, smiles while he incites his black horse down the mountain range at the back of the city of Mandelovia. Thousands of back horses, mounted by twist horned demons, follows him, destroying the land at their passage.

Bibbo and LLance observes them, high from the sky, LLance flying on his own, Bibbo standing over a just-created-by-his-ring flying carpet.

“They must not reach the City!” whispers Bibbo.

Revelation,6
5
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

An armored Tirannosaurus rex marches trough the city of Thuner, Terranova. Danny the Dynosaurs, is his name. A mutated, intelligent dynosaur, created over 64 millions of years ago by the scientist of an evoluted reptilian species, and survived in suspended animation until the terraformation of the planet Mars, mere months ago, during an adventure of the Junior Adventureres of the Message Boards, has brought him back to life. He now commands a whole army of carnivorous dynosaurs, T- rexs, Carnosaurus, Velociraptors and such, which are destroying the city.

Ghaleon, Joker1 and Shock looks at the situation, completely unable to cope with the situation.

“I have never seen thousands of Dragon before” whispers Ghaleon.

Revelation,6
7
And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

From the deck of the fighter entering in the Mandelovian Harbor, the zombie of Adolf Hitler shouts order at his generals, then rise his binoculars to the eyes and smiles at the utterly destruction of the whole Mandelovian Fleet.

On the beach Captain Nemo and Mordecai watches the Nazi fleet entering the harbor.

Prometheus whispers: “I had to know…”

Revelation,6
9
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.

Gooz walks alone in the courtyard of the Citadel, in front of the main gate. Lined along the main path are the statues of the dead MBLeaguers, fallen on duty: Eurostar, Dan E. Boy, Hero1, That Orca Guy, Agent 57, Darknight 007, Mick Smiley, Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, LocoMotor, SmasherII, Albino Chameleon.
Gooz observes the statue, thinking of the time he was dead, too, and of the deaths this war will brings.

Revelation,6
2
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13
and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

And the darkness falls over Earth….

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