Apollyon's Saint The Unraveling

by Zachary Koukol

may not” Gabriel said. The woman sat down on Gabriel's bed next to him. “My name is Emma Blackworth and as you know I once lived here, well near here in the woods anyways” Emma said. “Well what is it you want Emma, I can't even help myself let alone a young woman who has been dead for years now” Gabriel said. “You know what I want, to feel love again, to be wanted. Really that is all any of us here want. I don't mean to frighten you I just want to be your friend” Emma said.

  “I have to many people wanting to be my friend, all I want is to find a way out of this mess” Gabriel said “I can help you with that, I know a way we both can get what it is we want. You must know though some of the other girls here have their own agenda and may look to harm you” Emma said in a caring soft voice.

  “How can anyone harm me, I have been electrocuted, on the brink of death in endless dark, shot in the head, fell to my death, and stabbed. What more could really be done to me?” Gabriel said. “Hehehe the girls here are capable of many evil things, your life here can be bliss or a endless nightmare but regardless we are always here. I just want to be loved again and I can help you, even protect you” Emma said with a laugh that was sweet to Gabriel's ears.

  “What do you mean always here?” Gabriel asked “We have been here long before you Gabriel, I watched you many nights in pain and agony. So many times I wanted to just wipe away your tears and kiss away your pain. But the other girls did not want me to and told me you would be gone from us soon. They know you wanted to die, but now you can be with me...Us” Emma said.

  “What of Daniel where is he?” Gabriel asked. “When he died he left us, maybe heaven or hell we don't really know but for some reason he has kept us trapped here on these grounds. At first I thought it would be a painful eternity. That is until I saw you Gabriel” Emma said.

  “So why the theatrics when we first met?” Gabriel said. “Apollyon demanded me to do it, he said he would remove me from roaming this earth if I refused. I did it to stay here, with you where we belong Gabriel” Emma said. “I think your reality is just a little twisted. I am not going to be with you, these girls, or anyone else” Gabriel said.

  Emma had a shocked look on her face as a tear rolled down from one of her eye's. “Why don't you want me, I have done so much to protect us and you are going to just throw it all away!” Emma said now distraught and full of tears. “You people are fucking crazy, I just want my little piece of solitude and instead I am stuck living in a house of estrogen filled dead women crying at my bedside?” Gabriel said.

  The door came open and another woman with dark hair and a poodle skirt with a pink shirt came in. Her shirt was tucked into the poodle skirt so tight that her boobs looked strangulated. “Oh Emma see I told you he wouldn't love you, all that heartache for nothing!” The woman said. “I hate you Christa!” Emma shouted as she ran crying from the room.

  “See what I have to deal with, that fucker leads me on, says he loves me and then what? stabs me to death so I have to deal with these dense women. Why did his taste in women have to be so frustrating!” Christa said. “So now I have to see you, why can't you go back to living invisible to me?” Gabriel said. “Well, you see we don't have a choice, it's not us deciding to appear to you. But your knowledge of the unknown revealing itself to you. I don't care either way really, but maybe we could have a little fun this way?” Christa said tilting her head to Gabriel like a bratty kid.

  “Could you please just leave the room and shut the door?” Gabriel said. “Sure I can, I can have my fun without you” Christa said as she turned around and closed the doors. Gabriel sighed and laid his head back down on the bed. Now he had no choice but to deal with the women Daniel murdered. He thought about moving, but where would he go and even if he did the madness would just follow him. After all a house full of dead women had to be better than a bunch of dead men.

  Gabriel fell back into his slumber but once again was awoken. This time there was a blonde in a black and white strapless dress straddling him. She had short puffy hair and a smile that lit up his room. The sun was just sending it's rays through the trees in the forest around the house. “Goooood morning!” The woman said in a high pitched perky voice. “You have to be kidding me!” Gabriel said. “Nope!... my name is Tina!” The woman said. “Okay Tina, can you get off me?” Gabriel said in an annoyed tired tone.

  “Well someone is not as perky as his little friend this morning!” Tina said as she reached down and grabbed Gabriel's crotch. She put her head down by his stomach and ran her tongue up to his lips and forced a kiss. Gabriel tried to fight it but her persistence and grinding went from annoying to enticing. Gabreil pulled down her strapless dress revealing her breasts.

  Right as Gabriel was reaching 2nd base just as the door burst open. It was Gabriel's long lost nemesis Apollyon. “Tina leave this room at once before I turn your death into an inferno!” Apollyon said. Tina looked horrified. She covered her breasts and ran from the bedroom. “Ha, look who shows up at the perfect time. King of lies, no it's the king of the cock block” Gabriel said laughing.

  “I guess I have to do everything.... Here I thought you were a man of morals. But noooo, you who decides the fate of murderers and sleeps with the victimized dead!” Apollyon said to Gabriel.

  “What are you afraid I put your name to shame?” Gabriel said. “You are such a fool, I don't know why it has to be you of all the billions of souls in this world. Now get your shit together we are going for a drive” Apollyon said as he left the room. Gabriel got up out of bed and left the room. On his stairwell was a line of eight women. On the top step was Emma still crying, then Christa looking off at the wall, then Tina pushing her hips out and smiling at Gabriel.

  The other women on the steps below Gabriel did not know but it looked like a whore house line up if he ever saw one. The last two women had red hair and were glaring at Gabriel. Those must be the two who hated Gabriel as he slid past them and out the door.

  In his truck was Apollyon impatiently waiting. Gabriel got in the truck and started it. “Where to miss daisy?” Gabriel asked. “Axal, beyond that just drive” Apollyon said. Then there was a silence, both wishing they did not have to speak to one another. Then finally Gabriel broke the silence with a question. “So why the women, why must I see them now and are they going to live with me?” Gabriel asked.

  “Yes, yes they will be living with you. Or have been and the reasoning is simple. All of this is a test, your test Gabriel” Apollyon said. “So my trail of faith, by who... You?” Gabriel said. “You all have a trail, although as you are about to see most failed before they were even born” Apollyon said. Gabriel just drove trying to understand what Apollyon's meaning was.

  Once in the town they drove by the bloody people of Axal. Old, young, with all their diversity one thing bound them all, blood. “Look at them, they are now a common and Glorious site Gabriel. Bound to their sins to the fourth generation. Some have no choice but damnation, born to sin as they say. It is true they all are lost souls, my souls. They have many excuses for what they are but as the centuries passed they all lost touch with their savior and joined me” Apollyon said.

  “Yes I notice that they all are of sin but where do I fit in to all of this?” Gabriel asked. “You have the most important role of all Gabriel. You are a extinct and rare breed of man, a direct descendent of Abraham himself. Your whole life has been planned, by me. Well you had free will of course but I changed the outcome of your will to insure you don't fall into my clutches on mankind” Apollyon said.

  “Why not, isn't that what you want our extinction?” Gabriel said. “We will get to that but first you must know the things I showed you about your wife are real. I had to do it, what if you found out what your lovely wife was doing with another man? Or if you found out that child was not yours? I know what you would have done. I have seen it so many times, the blood rage that leads to a vicious destruction of the ones you love. Killing is the ultimate sin, it's the direct path to me and damnation. So is suicide, all of which I
, the destroyer had to save you from!” Apollyon said.

  “So...You killed my wife, her child, and prevented me from killing myself all to save me?” Gabriel said. “Oh there was centuries of blood shed before you were even born. Those were just the last of them. Its because I need a saint Gabriel, the last saint.” Apollyon said.

  “Why on earth would you need the one thing you despise?” Gabriel asked. “Without you, a saint, my legion could not grow into a force greater than god himself! You Gabriel are the last man of god, you die, or commit the ultimate sin and our world goes up like Sodom and Gomorrah and so shall my legion!” Apollyon said.

  “So there is no hope for man, only hope for your legion? So why don't I just get it over with and go commit the ultimate sin?” Gabriel said. “Look at them Gabriel, they still have free will. They still can choose their path. Will you be their damnation, my saint, or their savior? As long as there is one, gods will still has hope” Apollyon said.

  “But it still all comes down to me? I knew nothing of god until I read the scripture, even then I still know nothing. What about the revelations, why can't the horsemen come running from heaven and decide. Instead of