Zelgadis read the same sentence, in the same passage, on the same page of his bible for what seemed like the 17th time. His mind was abuzz with the idea that heaven had a strange sense of humor.
On one hand, if God had sent Lina to help him become more priestly, which he doubted since he couldn't help but wish repeatedly that he was anything but, he was in trouble. On second hand if his path wasn't the way of the priest, which he preferred, he was troubled by the fact that one doesn't usually engage in a relationship with a REAL angel.
'I'm screwed.' Zel whined.
Lina stopped swinging her legs and finished browsing through her book. Closing it with a soft bang she pipped up, "So you finished yet? Can we go?"
Zel started and gaped at her confused. "Go? Where?"
Lina sweat dropped. "You mean you've not been told yet?" As Zel shook his head she sighed. "Guess it's my job to fill ya in then."
She waited until Zelgadis gave her his complete attention before starting. "Now Zel, you know all about the war between the angels correct?" He nodded. "Well, see when Gabriel fought his brother they were both banished from heaven. Gabby of course got time off for good behavior, and that only made his bro even angrier. So the 'All Mighty Evil One' decided to give humanity one hell of a kick in the pants and developed this prophecy. the prophecy states that his son, the prince of darkness, shall be reborn unto the human race to cause terror and destruction until Humanity is basically no more. And well The prince has been among humans for some time now." She griminced.
"WHAT!" Zel cried in disbelief, "And and nothing has been done!"
"Calm down Zel!" Lina continued, "It's not finished yet. Well You know that Gabby got time off for good behavior and was allowed back into heaven right? Well it turns out that he was down on earth long enough to fool around with an earth girl and well.. got her knocked up. Which in our case is going to be a very good thing. See the child of Gabriel will have the goodness and purity to defeat the prince of darkness! All WE have to do is.. find the Child Of Light, Gabriel's descendant."
Zel swallowed and digested the news. It was all rather shocking, and sudden. Imagine, Zelgadis Greywords, the not so holy priest, had to go out and help save the world. "So," he finally said after some time had passed, "Who is the child of light?"
"No clue."
Zel face faulted into the floor and groaned in agony. 'Why me?'
"Buuut! I do know the name of the city the child's family lives in PLUS the name of the child of light's guardian angel!" Lina said, helping the dejected priest to his feet. "So it's not soo bad. We get to go on a little adventure! How hard can that be?"
Zel managed a small smile. "I suppose."
"Great!" With that Lina grabbed his satchel and Zel's hand and the two raced out the door and down the hall. Before they exited the church, Zel spied his Great grandfather and Grandfather rezo, but at their present velocity he only managed to blurt out a quick, "Hi Rezo, Bye rezo" before they were long gone.
Rezo the Red Priest, on of the more outstanding and powerful cardinals of his profession raised an eyebrow and faced the general direction his young relative went. "Do I really want to know?" he pondered. "Probably not." And he entered the church.
-- the Emperor's Sister