Arabella Maxwell's Story

The Great Smokey Mountains, a section of the Appalachians within the United States of America. It has been roughly 23 years since David Ephraim Gideon moved from there to the House of the Supernatural that was the place where he met his love and wife, Lanuya Delida Acelet, whom is now Lanuya Delida Acelet-Gideon. The stay at the House was brief and dangerous, resulting in a move to France, where, since the Nephilim Civil War, matters have relatively mellowed down for the couple. At least, it did for Lanuya. David, on the other hand, had plenty of duties to attend to as Arch-Nephilim, which meant he could never have a completely calm life. Thankfully, he has learned Samil Ravira's trick of storing memories in a special portion of the brain so to make them less capable of being read. That one ability reduced the risk of a mental implosion significantly.

The scars on David's face are constant reminders that his work would not be done until his death, a death that would not occur in his wife's lifetime. And yet, his face still retained the same charm everyone close to him knew of. That charm, however, David locked up when he meant business. He waited in a remote area of the forest-filled mountains for a supernatural being of great importance to his current mission, assigned by Tamar Hagar (his guardian angel), in this story. The mission was to track down the very clones of his lifelong nemesis since the Nephilim Civil War, Antony Pyro.



Were circumstances different, the Modern Nephilim Guardians would not require assistance from another realm. It did not help much that Joseph Isaiah's time was also divided between family and his duties as a Modern Nephilim Guardian. It was a mixed blessing, however. Joseph Isaiah and his wife, Kaliyah Carter-Isaiah, had a daughter whom turned out a fae, thus much of their time was spent in the Fae Realm so their daughter could learn to control her powers. The bad part was, because every Modern Nephilim Guardian was divided between Angelic life and their human life, plus the United Nations has created a hindrance by forming a peacekeeping force, the UN Supernatural Investigators, out to track down Modern Nephilim to obtain knowledge of the Supernatural world, even THORN could not provide enough of the needed assistance to enable the tracking down of the Rage Nephilim Remnant. It was time to request help from the Southern Kingdom of the Demon Realm.

The cabin David was staying at for the meeting used to belong to a former neighbor, a hangout spot during part of the summer each year. Since the Nephilim Civil War, it has been vacant, making it the perfect location for the Arch-Nephilim to meet up with a friend (sort of) he made back at the House of the Supernatural. She was a vampire named Arabella Maxwell. Of course, the same two days they were in the House of the Supernatural together were the only opportunities they had at conversing in person. They were off to a shaky start when David revealed her nature as a vampire out of excitement without thinking of the consequences to her. He apologized twice for it, each at a different time of the same day.

David did not expect Arabella to have forgiven him for that, even though more than enough time has passed. By now, it did not matter, because the meeting was an important one for both of them. The realm the Earth is in is a hub of supernatural activity where visitors from several supernatural realms meet for both diplomacy and secretive warfare. Most supernatural warfare on earth and its realm was monopolized by the Heavenly Alliance ruled by the Council of Three (Odin, Hades, and God (the Abrahamic one)) and the Infernal Confederacy ruled by the Rebellious Trio (Loki, Ares, and Satan), the rest of the realms waging wars relatively minor compared to the one waged since the beginning of mankind since they were much, much shorter and had an end in sight beyond prophecies. Because control for earth and the universe it is in rests firmly in the grip of the Heavenly Alliance and the Infernal Confederacy, whoever of the two would win (which the Heavenly Alliance is prophesied to) would ultimately decide the fate of eternity within Earth's realm.

It was important for the Elven Realm that the Heavenly Alliance win due to the simple fact the Council of Three is more orderly than the Rebellious trio, meaning less of a risk the Elven Realm be threatened by any Infernal forces. The Fae Realm requires a settlement to the dispute between the Heavenly and Infernal forces so that the Fae within said realm will have their own peace between the two courts ruling their race and to determine whether they coexist (the Heavenly Alliance's promise of mediation helping to that end) or a final showdown to determine who will rule over the other (a promise made by the Infernal Confederacy). The Demon Realm requires a victor over control of Earth's realm simply because it will determine what kind of visitors will come their way for eternity, if any. (The Realm Demons and Hell Demons have moments where they will not see eye to eye and will be in dispute because of it; Angels, Realm Demons often at least tolerate after the initial fear their younger ones and teenage-like people have upon first encountering one). Every Realm had a motive for seeing an end to the Heavenly-Infernal conflict.

David waited patiently by a window in the cabin as he admired nature's beauty, with two other Guardians accompanying him. He finally sensed the aura telling him a portal opened behind him. Instantly, he figured out the genetic makeup of the person he was expecting. Turning around, he took off his glasses, his demeanor calm and collected without a hint of emotion displayed.



"It has been roughly 23 years, has it, Arabella?" Pulling out a mobile data computer, he typed in a complicated password while stating, "I shall have the ray screen up in a moment."

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"Baptiste, where is Gamma? He needs his tune up, today."

"I got it, Amélie."

"Oh! You're working on that? Okay."

It was a typical enough day for the Acelet-Gideon twins in Baptiste's house, next to Amélie's. Baptiste was the one who made coffee and bread for the two of them. They always had something to do together. Being twins, it was to be expected. Sometimes, the floating probe named Gamma needed a tune-up.