CHAPTER ONE
Jonathan staggered out from the deep crater, his shirt torn to pieces, and his trousers barely intact, he spat out blood from his mouth as he slowly climbed up the crater, which was filled with blood and bones of unknown creatures, he heaved out loudly and had a devilish smile on the corner of his lips.
"So that wasn't enough to kill me, immortality is a curse" he muttered to himself
Getting to the top, he looked around at the mess that had been made, collapsed buildings, burnt cars, everything in total disorder.
"Fortunately no life is lost" he said and pulled his shoulders backward.
He sighed and suddenly large black wings sprouted out from his back, and he flew off into the sky.
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NIGERIA POLICE FORCE
LAGOS.
Jade slumped into her chair, the pile of case file before her instantly increased her mental stress, unsure about where to start from. She powered on the white laptop before her and watched as it booted up. Her phone which was next to the laptop began to ring out, she saw the caller and hanged up the call.
After some few seconds a text message came in on her phone and she sluggishly picked up her phone and clicked on the message
"Hey Hon, let's meet at the usual place, dinner tonight. Love you" the message read.
She sighed again and focused back on her laptop and tapped the enter button, she opened the system browser and swiftly tapped some keys on the keyboard and instantly the page loaded.
Her countenance changed as she saw the news the flooded the headline of the news feed.
"ONCE AGAIN SAVED BY A HUMAN ANGEL" she read out the first headline she saw and scrolled down
"SAVED FROM MORE DEMON ATTACK, A WORLD WHERE DEMONS ROAM FREELY" she read the second.
She reached for her landline and tapped a button and placed the receiver on her ear.
"Dispatch men to the scene of incident, I will meet up with you guys immediately" she said and hanged up.
She stood up and adjusted her vest and sighed, moved her lips and grabbed her phone before moving out.
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Jonathan walked through the hallway of the building that housed his apartment, getting closer to the elevator, he walked in and pressed the tenth floor button and rested his back as the elevator began to move.
The elevator doors came open and a boy probably in his mid-twenties walked in with his dog. The dog moved closer to Jonathan and began to wag its tail at him.
"He seems to like you" the boy said and pulled his dog closer to himself.
"I see, what's his name?" Jonathan asked smiling back
"Petra" the boy replied and smiled
"I am Jonathan"
"Remi" the boy replied and received Jonathan's handshake
The elevator let out a ding sound and Jonathan heaved and walked closer to the exit.
"This is my stop, nice meeting you" he said and walked out.
"Nice meeting you to" Remi replied and smiled "Hope I see you again but fighting side by side" He said within himself and smiled.
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Jade watched as the Police Rescue team moved the shattered bones in the deep crater into body bags and threw them into the waiting vehicles, she bent down over the police tape and studied the environment, she raised her head into the sky and looked at the broken buildings and back to the crater
"You are one careless idiot, you could have successfully avoided those buildings, even when you chase after thieves, you always leave damages behind" She said and heaved.
"Do you know why he always have a knack for leaving damages?" A feminine voice asked behind Jade
"No, I guess that his is thing or he is helpless when it comes to fighting, I thing he goes all out" she replied without turning around. "So it's been months we've been trying to get to him and we can't, do you have any lead on him yet, Blessing"
Blessing walked closer, holding tight to her camera on her left hand, a vest strapped to her body.
"Not at all, but I got my hands on a tape from about fifteen years ago, I thought we should both be together hearing the tape, do you have any schedule for tonight?"
"Depends, how serious or important is this tape?" Jade asked as turned her face to the right to look at Blessing.
"We might be looking at someone who is more than 710 years of age, something immortality, the recording is something one of his girlfriend who is reporter did on him" she said and placed her camera on her face and took a shot of the crater.
"Let's see, I can still cancel all my schedule for tonight" she said and brought out her phone "A minute" she said again and walked off.
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Jonathan helped himself to a cup of tea and gulped down the content, he took a brief look on the winged tattoo on his chest and smiled, he placed his hands on it and looked out through the wide window in the living room and walked closer to it, getting a better view of the wide landscape.
"I see MaGhul the hell bastard paid you a visit" a calm voice said behind him.
Jonathan gritted his teeth and slowly turned around facing an older man, who had brown beards and a relaxed hair, plaited in three large rows.
Jonathan suddenly appeared before him, grabbing him by the collar of his shirt and growled at him
"And what were you doing? He somehow managed to pass your realm down here and I had to clean up your mess" Jonathan said with red flaming eyes
"Easy Jon, easy" the man replied and slowly took off Jonathan's tight grip "Do you know how many demons I have to fight off each day, if I let my guard down for even one minute, you will have the earth roaming with higher demons that has nothing doing but to wreck havoc, some who have never seen how the human realm looks like, the realm father cherished so much, he made them even more powerful than the highest angels" the man replied and smiled.
"You always come up with one sweet talk or another" Jonathan replied and walked towards his wine bar and grabbed a bottle
"Dan, You being here, doesn't it mean you're letting your guard down? You should probably return" Jonathan added.
"Hunhn hunhn, don't take this so serious, I came to apologies"
"Hope I wont be seeing any of them again, my immortality is enough pain for me to bear, fighting demon is another on its own" Jonathan asked and looked back at the man
"I am sorry I cant promise you that" the man said and disappeared.
"Bastard"