"TRINITY"
The earth quakes violently and Stephen's car shakes, so he quickly grabs his camera bag and runs into the street! He watches as buildings begin to crack and topple and walls crumble! Luca trembles because everything he saw in the past is coming to pass...
Smoke seeps through the cracks in the pavement and the sun and air darken because of it. Ramah and Sean lift Annabelle above the smoke with their minds. Mourning Annabelle's death, Isabella crawls over covered in dirt and soot! Wilton's smoke-burned eyes frantically look back and forth between Mercy and Ramah; he doesn't know what they are about to attempt, but he tries to stop Sean and Ramah anyway!
"What if something goes wrong? Annabelle is dead, leave Isabella alone! Please! I don't want to lose her." Ramah pushes Wilton down with a mere gesture of his hand, because they don't have time to debate which plan is best! Annabelle's body descends as a prostrate shadow. Ramah violently chants in Latin and his eyes roll back. Sean's body feels like thunder and lightning, but he holds steady! Annabelle's body transforms into a looming vapor and Ramah hollers at Isabella, "Breathe in now! Breathe in now!"
Annabelle's silhoutte vehemently forces its way into Isabella! She cannot breathe and begins to choke! Ramah chants louder and louder and screams at Mercy to inhale! Wilton weeps and Sean falls to his knees! Isabella's body collapses and everything becomes silent...
Sirens wail from beneath the ground and out from the smoke appear locusts that have been given power; they have been commanded to not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, nor any tree!
...any man that does not have the seal of the kingdom, the locusts can torment for five months, but not kill. Their torture is like a scorpion when it strikes a man! Men will seek death and not find it and desire to die, but death will flee from them! Isabella wakes, weeping the same chant as Ramah.
Wilton staggers over to her and they hold each other tightly, because what they see is disturbingly frightening! Over ten-thousand locusts continue to crawl out of the earth! Rebekah screams incessantly because these creatures have faces like men and crowns of gold on their heads; they have hair like women, teeth like lions, and tails with stings like scorpions! Stephen tries to run away but falls down and loses his glasses! These locusts' wings sound like a stampede of chariots and horses! Water surges out of Ramah's mouth, but the flood doesn't stop them!
Vladimir and Gretchen hear someone unlocking the door and they don't even care about being caught; they are just happy someone has come for them, until they see it is the warlock family! The witches snatch Vlad and Gretchen up in a cloak of dust and disappear!
The ground where Pierre burned down the school, whistles and wails! The blood of the children cry out like sirens and everyone who hears it fears tornados are near! The warlocks land on these sacred grounds and ask Gretchen and Vladimir what happened! They do not know Pierre is dead and regret rebelling against him, because he was skilled at trickery. He could get out of any witches' snare! Gretchen and Vlada's fear of Pierre is still greater! They remain defiantly silent and the witches swoop them up again like soot!
Vlad and Gretchen find themselves falling out of the sky and wildly hit Irish soil. "We will ask you only one more time... What happened here?!" Thousands of voices cry out from the earth like banshees and Gretchen sorrowfully screams in torment, but Vlad doesn't flinch or break...
Luca warns Rebekah that they must leave quickly! Sean and Ramah feel their strength growing the more they are together, and an unspoken alliance is born! Wilton grabs Isabella and urgently gestures to the sisters, and they sheepishly join them. Everyone closely follows behind Luca! Abby and Audrey don't know if the warlocks really spared them and worry they will not be allowed back into the labyrinth, but they humbly follow.
Stephen fears the worst because he can't breathe or see, and the sound of the locusts makes him feel deaf! The smoke causes him to pass out, but he tightly clutches the camera bag. A silhouette glides out of the smoke's shadows and transports him to his yard. He wakes and that which felt like an hour was merely seconds! He weakly drags his body under the oak trees and realizes the camera bag is gone...
An existential dilemma wars inside of Rebekah as she runs beside Luca. He senses her trepidation and stays silent. He knows she feels several emotions at once. She doesn't have time to deal with anything, because every choice is urgent now!
Isabella slows down and Wilton tells the others to run ahead. "Wilton, I have an eerie feeling!" "Mercy Isabella we cannot slow down and we should not have stopped!" "I know but..." "Let's go Isabella!" "...but I never told you about..." "Come on! The locusts are getting closer!"
They quickly jog away, but Isabella deeply dreads a recurring dream she ignored because it was too appalling! She saw three powerful beings who could do unbelievable wonders, but she never quite understood it till now. Everything is blurry but Stephen sees something running towards him! He weeps and rubs his eyes in a state of panic!
TO BE CONTINUED!
Exerpt added to Marini Barika Facey's SIRENS is from REVELATION 9