The Third Key (GUARDING THE LIGHT) (17 page)

“I need it, now!” The cold, metallic
tones of his voice
scared his followers
, though his thin lips
hardly moved
.

“
Bring
the molecular scann
er – that is why we have it with us…
t
racking data is already
loaded. We have no time
to waste
.”

They nodded while looking down
at
his feet
. Two metal
sticks
of the
size of
a
folded
umbrella were
suddenly in their hands
,
and
screens
of
about 20 inches wide
materialized
in
front
of both me
n
.
These
techie
giz
mo
s
were
much more
sophisticated
than
anything on Earth.
In
less
than
a
minute,
the
ba
ld
assistant
in
a
green Armani suit raised his hand
. Moving towards
Quabil
, he
humbly presented the object he found hidden
in a double layer bottom of an altar basement.
Seeming
p
leased
,
Quabil
silently
moved towards the
side table
. Carefully
taking out
the
remaining two
Keys
from
his pocket
,
he
laid them
on the
table
.

Because of the protective nature and
importance of
the
Diamond Gates
for the balance a
nd security of
the
universe
, the
joining
procedure
for the Three Keys
w
as shown only to the Guardians.
Even
Quabil
did not know how to join
those three parts
together, and no technology could tell him
.
The procedure
was very tricky and risky
because there was no ‘reset button’. Once
someone began
to connect them he
had to
continue until the
end,
as shown to
the
Guardians of
the
Light.
With one wrong move,
they
would simply disintegrate
. That was the ultimate security system applied by
the
Council of Light.

Quabil
felt uneasy despite
the
emptiness in his heart.
One
mistake
could
destroy
all chances for achieving his ultimate goal.
First
of all he had to open the Diamond Gate,
the
doors of a universe. The Gate existed in this dimension
in
order to assist Angels, Demigods and other forces of
Light
.
Unfortunately, powerful
demonic
forces
like those behind
Quabil
,
when
in possession of
the
three
parts of
the Key
,
could
open the Doors and use the Diamond G
ate
for their
own
demonic
goals
.

The dark forces of life-
sucking demons - monsters, demonic warriors and twisted fiends -
were
all
lined up
on the Planet
Rahu
, waiting for
the gate to open to the
lower regions of this universe.
Sounding like a continuous rock fall, they
ground
their
sharp
teeth in expectation of
the upcoming event. A f
east of blood,
a
feast rich with
life energy and
human soul
s was
just moments away. They grew impatient…
the
sounds
they
created there
and
how they looked
would have been
enough to make anyone faint out of shock and fear!
Just waiting there, clinging
to
their weapons, breathing heavily
while
waiting to invade Planet Earth ….
even
horror film
screenwriters
could not begin to imagine it
.
But this
was
not a movie –
it was about to become Earth’s reality
.

They all waited for
Quabil
’s
next move,
but
he
waited for images to appear on his device’s screen. Even with all his powers, he
alone couldn’t move a step
nearer
towards the
goal
.
D
emonic
technology could be of great help and he could
follow the
simulat
ion on the
screen in front of him.
But he alone could make the
right
moves
.

He had obtained the simulation of how the Keys fit together by destruction. After he killed all three Guardians of the Light, he had
sucked out
memories
from
their
brains
,
then
fed those memories into
his
demonic
device.
Together, the memories
formed the
necessary
patterns
,
and that
‘manual’
came to life
on the device’s
screen.

Quabil
took a
ll 3 Keys
and placed them in front of him.
Each piece was
made of
metal
resembling
iridium
,
but the
metal’s structure
was mixed with
a
diamond dust
.
Each part
had
different shape
s,
with
jewels of
differe
nt colors, and
was
about the size of a human palm. By themselves, the
objects
looked attractive but rather
undefined.
The
Guardians of
the
Light
wore
Keys around the
ir
neck
s
and so
received
the
power and protection of Higher Spheres.

Quabil
studied the
combinations
of possible ways to connect the Keys
helped by the si
mulations presented on the
screen, and he began
to work.
His failure would spell the end of
him and his
demonic
allies
.
His success would open the Earth to the power of demonic forces, and
everything on it
.
So
h
e took his time.
He started
to move
slowly
,
the
movements of
his
hands
resembling the light, precise touches of an artist on its sculpture
.
The f
irst two parts clicked
together
with
a metal sound. He paused ..
.
everything
seemed all right for now
. He filled in the last
Key
sideways and turned it 180 degrees. That allowed him to rotate the first and second parts
in a complicated set of motions
. A
s soon the
Third
Key clicked
into
place
,
a
soundless exp
losion of bright light lit
up
the church
and everything
around it
.

Then the illumination took on a
spherical shape
and
began
floating 10 feet above the ground
,
right above the altar. In
side the
sphere
of light
,
energies formed
in
a
mixture of colors …
starting
to form
a picture
. The image
shown
be
came clear and
took on an elliptical form with edges of orange
…
it emanated
a
light blue
glow
as if burning
at
an
extremely high temperature
. Inside
that elliptical opening, there was undefined matter -
space and time was mixing there and the feeling of looking
at
its
image was overwhelming
– this
was the
Diamond Gate.
Quabil
was excited!

“It is
all coming together”, he thought, nearly faint from
blo
od thirst. He was excited,
but
he sensed
that something wa
s
not fully according to his plan
.

The d
emons
could only wait. Three
demonic
figures
stared at
the
image and
waited, willing
the
Diamond Gate to open
. Seconds passed
, then
minutes.
Nothing
changed … nothing
was happening
.

Quabil
had
expected
that
the doors of the
Diamond
Gate would manifest on the spot, as s
oon he connected
all three K
eys
correctly
.
His own ego almost trapped him.
That is how demons influence this world so st
rongly – their ego
s are
focused
completely
on their
twisted
goals.
The core of a
Demonic
inner
dialogue
is:

“I am
the controller
and I am meant to enjoy anything
and everyone around me
, bowing to my will. Hurt and pain are merely roads to my pleasure.
”

But those of the
D
emon
race
possess advanced intelligence
, not egos alone
.
That’s why
he could understand
the ‘naked truth’. A fact
that
he accepted
, though it made him grind his teeth in rage,
was
that he
couldn’t
do anything to influence the
appearance of
the
Diamond Gate.
The G
ate
was of a higher power –
and therefore
untouchable for him.
He
could
only use it
once it became accessible
.
T
hat disturbed him
, but his trained
demonic
mind
remained
calm (
unlike a human mind, unless
trained in real martial or spiritual
arts
).