The Man with the Sword

Joel threw the knife at the man and headed towards his armory. The knife hit its mark and sunk in, but Joel's suprise the man vanished and reappeared in front of him hold the knife out for him to take.

"Most immortals like me would have taken that as a sign of disrespect. personally I think other wise because you recognized me as a threat."

Joel stood up and took his knife.

"Let me guess you are gonna go on a long rant about how I should bow down to you and you are going to enslave us all. Then you'll ask me to join you and betray my men. So ill tell you know kiss my ass freak."

The man snapped his fingers and Joel was flung against the wall and held there.

"Listen here boy if I wanted to enslave you I would. I am a GOD I will do as I please. I came here to assist you out of respect for your master. So you will show me some respect." The man snapped his fingers again and then disappeared leaving the sword he was carrying behind.The lights came on again.

'what a strange oldman. what is he talking about. Was that woman I saw a Goddess? why did he say I have a master?' Joel had so many Questions. he went and picked up the sword and found a note attached to it. The note read: My chosen champion don't let your gaurd down, the world will change tonight~ The Morrigan

Joel quickly ran to his government issued computer and started searching his old mission files.

"Found it" The year before last him and his team saved a group of cultists from an orc horde. The cult was worshiping a Goddess and they kept calling her The Morrigan and saying he was sent to save them and that he was the champion. At that time he shrugged it off as words from a bunch of idiots high on drugs but now he began to question. He began to dig a little deeper and started noticing patterns. Everywhere he had gone her named showed up and so did the champion thing. He decided he need to go speak with the historian in the library. He quickly dressed and armored up since he was on what he felt was official business. On his way out he picked up the sword, when he did it began to glow blue then flew out of his hand and attached itself to his back.

'That was strange' He checked his watch, it was 1932. 'I should have enough time to go see Tom and make the party as long as I dont tale to long.

He left his room and headed to the basement where the library was kept. Not everyone had access to the library but him being the platoon sergeant to a special unit platoon gave him almost a free pass to everywhere and everything. He arrived at the library secure door a few minutes later and used his card to gain access. as he entered he saw Tom deep into his studies mumbling to himself.

"You know they say talking to yourself is a sign of insanity" Tom jumped at the sound of his voice

"Damnit Johnson you know better than to sneak up on me."

Joel could see Toms hand on the pistol beside him.

"Easy there Tom just came for some info. You been into the H.P. Lovecraft again?"

"The things happening and t he things that are supposed to start happening make his stories look like a child's bedtime story." Joel looked a little closer at him and noticed he hadn't slept in days and was extremely worked about something.

"Get some rest Tom I will come back tomorrow " as Joel turned to leave Tom let out a gasp

"Where... where did you get that sword." he said as he pointed at Joel's sword. turned around and saw the concern on his face and decided to tell him everything that happened to him today. Tom just stared at him for a minute than ran and grabbed a book from a lock box.

"Rember those cultists you saved about 2 years ago?"

"yeah I looked that up before coming here."

"well their elder gave me 2 books and said I was now the keeper of you and would need to know how to help you. well the first book was a book of prophecies." Tom flipped through the book searching until he found what he was looking for.

"Read here Johnson."

*And on this day the champion will be officially chosen and the god of life and death will give the named champion the sword of Michael. On that same day The Morning Star will rise and unite the armies of undead, feinds, and evil to sieze control*

"Oh fuck, well what was the other book?

"well you can't tell now one but..." he flicked his hand and said something in a strange language. A ball of fire came to life in his hand. "It was a book of magic, I learned all the spells then destroyed it so no one else could get their hands on it."

"Holy shit Tom thats magic, like real deal magic." Joel just stared until Tom put it out. "ok back to the important stuff, should we expect an attack tonight."

"Well I figure if its as bad as the book say then yes. but I dont have the power to put the base on high alert."

"you may not Tom but I know someone who can." I pulled out my phone and called the man I needed.

"Goodevening Sergeant Major Cobb."

"I see this isn't a social booty call official business only got it."

"You are on speaker and I have Tom next to me Sergeant Major."

"Oh as you were Sergeant First Class, it was merely a joke then. What can I do for you?"

"Well this may sound crazy, but I have reason to believe that the base will fall under attack tonight."

"I will let the CG know, get your men ready and have them on standby."

She hung up the phone.

Tom looked at him raised an eyebrow

"Tom what i do on my personal time is my own business."

"I'm not blaming you. I'm just a little jealous. I let you do what you need to."

Joel quickly left and and started calling section Sergeants to put everyone on standby and once everyone was ready to have them trade off sleeping.

As Joel got to his room he felt the floor sake and then stop. A few seconds later the base alarms start going off.