Chapter 86: Panic at Heaven

Unknown Location

February 14th, 1046

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"But then, how can it have generated an energy signature so similar to Father's?"

Gabriel asked no one in particular. Erik was thinking within his head if he should or not show her the journal. After some time thinking, Erik had made his decision.

Erik took from his waist a leather pouch and opened it. From inside it, he retrieved a tattered journal and attached the leather pouch back to his waist where it went back to be as inconspicuous as any accessory. Erik held the journal in his hands and then looked at Gabriel.

"Angel Gabriel, in my hands I have a journal of an old hermit that used to live near the village where I grew up."

Erik said to the Angel, who perked up and was giving him all of her attention.

"Unfortunately, the old hermit disappeared when I was seventeen and left this journal behind specifically for me to read and he has not been seen again since then."

Erik said to Gabriel, who was listening to his history attentively. Seeing that she was not going to interrupt him, Erik continued.

"The first time that I met the old hermit, he told me that his name was Jeo, and since then he was known to me as 'grandpa Jeo'. And all this happened more than forty-five years ago."

Erik said to Gabriel, whose face showed a shocked expression.

"But… But you don't look more than twenty-five years old."

Gabriel said. The man in front of her looked young.

"And you don't look more than twenty, Angel Gabriel."

Erik said to her while smiling. Gabriel had understood his point. How a person looked doesn't represent how old they really were.

"In this journal, I discovered the old hermit's complete name when I read his signature. Can you guess the name that he signed, Angel Gabriel?"

Erik asked the Angel with some enigmatic look on his face. The Angel in question's eyes went wide when she thought of the possibility.

"You don't mean…"

Gabriel said slowly.

"The name that the old hermit signed was 'Jehovah-Raah'."

Erik said and Gabriel started to breathe hard. It was her father's name! Ideas of ripping the journal from the man's hand started to pass by her head and her breathing became even more labored. Erik noticed that something was wrong with the angel. Her energy was getting more and more chaotic. And then, Erik realized what was happening, Gabriel was falling.

"GABRIEL!"

Erik yelled at the angel while putting some of his magic in it. That seemed to snap the Angel out of whatever was going on her head and, with that, stabilize her energy. Gabriel was panting. The experience that she passed by right now was not a nice one. She was falling and would have if not for the man in front of her snapping her out of her train of thoughts.

"Thank you… Sorry, but I don't know your name yet."

Gabriel asked Erik, who smiled at the angel.

"You are welcome. And my name is Erik."

Erik replied to Gabriel, who gave him a small smile.

"Well, Erik, can you give me the journal?"

Gabriel asked, having quickly recovered from her episode.

"I can, but not the original."

Erik said to the Angel, who was going to talk again but was interrupted by a hand-raising from Erik signaling for her to wait.

"There are some things here that were written to me specifically and I don't want to share with others. So I will make a magical copy of it for you without the part that was written to me."

Erik said to Gabriel, who nodded her head. Of course, Selena had read the entire journal, but she was his wife, a person that he was going to share the rest of his now very long life. Erik then started to prepare the copying spell for the journal while specifically letting out of it some parts like the ritual and the way of training his magic. He didn't want the ritual and the magic training to end in the wrong hands somehow. When Erik launched the spell, an exact copy of the journal started to appear in his other hand. After a little more concentration on his part to put an enchantment on it to prolong its existence if magic was injected into it, Erik tossed the copy to Gabriel, and it gently flew through the air, stopping right in front of the Angel. Gabriel looked at it with amazement and gently picked the journal in her hands and hugged it in her chest.

"Thank you, Erik."

Gabriel said with a peaceful smile on her face.

"You are welcome, Angel Gabriel."

Erik replied.

"Gabriel. Call me just Gabriel."

Gabriel said to Erik, who nodded his head in agreement.

"You will have to inject the journal with some of your magic if you want to keep the copy existing."

Erik said to Gabriel, who nodded back.

"And be careful of who you choose to show it to."

Erik said to Gabriel, who cocked her head to the side in confusion.

"You will understand after you read it."

Erik said, adding to his last comment. He then looked around them for an instant.

"I will be going now, I have to take care of my wife. And you should go too, Gabriel. Or you will have to entertain the next 'visitors'."

Erik said to Gabriel and started to prepare his departure. After the ritual one of the things that had evolved the most was his sense of magic, and he could feel the magic signature of a group that was approaching fast. Gabriel nodded her head in understanding and watched as Erik waved to her and disappeared in a blue magic transportation circle. Just as he disappeared, a white-hot fire started to burn in the place where he was before, and in seconds it snuffed itself out, erasing any magic signature that could be used to identify him.

"Ah! I forgot to ask him how to contact him."

Gabriel says out loud soon after, and then she starts to charge her own magic transportation circle. Soon, she too disappears in the middle of motes of yellow bright light. A minute later, a group arrives at the location riding some kind of winged horses. They were a group of armored women that had swords attached to their waists.

"Investigate the place."

The woman in the front barks the order to the rest of the ones behind her.

"Yes, captain!"

The rest replies and dismount to start their investigation while under the eyes of their captain, Valkyrie Gondul.

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Sixth Heaven, Realm of Heaven

February 14th, 1046

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Gabriel was back at her home in the Sixth Heaven. Right now she was sitting on a comfortable armchair while finishing reading the journal that Erik had given to her. In her face, was a small smile and on the table in front of her, was an untouched cup of tea with an equally untouched plate of biscuits.

As she finished reading the journal, Gabriel closed it and a tear escaped from the corner of her eye. The smile on her face was still present, but it was a sad one. She was happy to have something written by her Father that said that he missed her a lot, but was sad in knowing that her father was now truly gone. She then took the cup of tea and before drinking it, applied a little magic to get it back to the ideal temperature. Gabriel sipped it slowly while thinking about what she had read about in the journal. If she was not wrong, Erik and his wife had done the Ritual that her father had written about and was successful in evolving to High-Humans. That meant that they would, basically, live forever and be powerful people in the future. And now she understood better what he said about being careful with the journal.

Gabriel stood there, thinking about what would happen from now on, and then a thought passed by her head. She got up from her armchair, walked to her bedroom, and stored the journal under her pillow. Then, Gabriel walked out of her house and went out looking for her brothers. Soon, she found Michael talking something with Raphael and she smiled widely.

"Brother Michael, Brother Raphael, what can you tell me about bees?"

With that innocent question, while smiling innocently, Gabriel plunged the top Angels of Heaven in panic. How would they know that she wanted to start creating bees to feel closer to her Father?

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Hogwarts Castle, Somewhere in the Scottish Highlands

February, 17th, 1046

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It had taken three days for Selena to wake up from her state of unconsciousness. And just after waking up, Selena ran directly to the school's healer's office. After having the woman swear an oath to keep anything that she learned a secret, Selena asked for a full checkup. An hour later, the healer gave Selena the green light. She was in perfect health. Her body was in top condition. Softly, Selena asked the woman if she could get pregnant and was met with the reply of 'why would you not get pregnant?'. Selena was on the moon with that news. She thanked the healer profusely and went after her husband. After finding him, she immediately dragged him back to their chambers and had some rounds of wild mind-blowing love-making.

After the deed was done, high in the hours of the day, Selena explained to Erik that she was healthy again and the couple went again in another celebratory mood. Later, Erik told Selena about what he had heard from Michael and Azazel, and how his talk to Gabriel had gone. She agreed with his decision of handing the Angel a copy of the journal and commended him about 'restricting' some of the information that would be dangerous if the wrong sort of people had their hands on it.

The couple then had a serious conversation about what they would do from now on since they were, basically, living forever.

"I want to see the world!"

Selena said to Erik, who smiled at her enthusiasm.

"And so we will, love. We just have to let stuff in working order here at school so we can travel without worrying too much because I bet that you don't want to come back every week to put out some kind of fire here."

Erik replied to Selena, who nodded her head in agreement.

"It's time to train some people then."

Selena said to Erik.

"You do that, and I will work on the school chart."

Erik said back to Selena.

For the next five years, Erik and Selena Ravenclaw spent training school personnel and writing a rules book to be followed either by the students or by the staff. But their most genius idea was, maybe, the creation of the Ghostly Hogwarts Council, with Helena and Robert being the first members of it. They loved the idea of being useful again. It had nothing to do with the special room that only they could enter, not at all.

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