Gabriel's Battle

A Angel's Battle for the Souls of Earth
    It started a while back while practicing for the Last Battle.
Jesus was telling all us angels about the times he healed and cured and raised the dead.  I suddenly was picked up and brought before Him who would destroy the Earth and Satan. He said in a booming voice,' Gabriel, the Saint will you take this mission onto Earth and heralded my coming to the blind, deaf of Earth. I said" Yes, my Lord, I will take this mission and complete it in thy name."
So He picked me up ever so gently and placed  me in Har Megiddo or Armageddon.  The place On Earth where Jesus will fight the last battle against the serpent.
I walked toward the staircase leading down and looked at my body. It was no longer white but a pale orange. I knew God gave me a human body so the dammed I was supposed to convert were not afraid to see me.  I  then came to the old Jerusalem. This place I felt was overrun with evil demons who nudged and pushed at the will of the humans. God gave this mission to me, it was my duty to judge and banish these demons to the fiery pit of Hell.
I first needed to find the lower forms of the demons, so they could lead me to their Devil masters.  So I used my knowledge of the humans and found out where to go to find the demons.  I found what the humans call a "bar" and  I found out a bar is place where humans complete a perversion of communion from which humans eat bread and consume wine.
I went up to the bartender and asked for a drink, he gave me a nasty tasting liquid. He called it whiskey, I call it the spawn of Satan.
I had to find the demons, so I looked around and saw Deminal, a smaller, lesser demon, a pawn of Balthazar. He was whispering Hellspeak into a rather drunken man with a bottle in his hand. From what I understand from the Hellspeak, Deminal was telling the drunken man to hit the drunken man's card partner and kill him.
So I being the Angel of Death and the Messenger of God, stepped forward and swung my hand and performed the banishing rituals to send Deminal into the pit. In an instance, the demon was gone and the drunken man was on the ground, passed out in a  stupor.
One demon gone, I thought.  So I went back up to the bartender and asked for room and board, the bartender said he needed some money. So I put my hand into my pocket and pulled out several small coins and handed them to the bartender.  He then pointed me to a small, dingy, room. The room contained a small bed, a lamp, a television and a dresser.  The walls were made of some hard, grey stone.
I had a hard night trying to sleep and getting adjusted to the deformities of a human body.  By morning my back ached and my head hurt but I knew I had to struggle on. So as I was going to the temple for Sunday morning service I heard a earsplitting screech. Another demon ,this one I knew, his name is Stacvion, a higher level demon that was responsible for droughts and floods and others natural disasters.  I knew I had to pull out the heavy guns to fight this abomination. So I drew out my flaming sword, the same one that blocked the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve had bitten from the Forbidden Fruit and were banished for disobeying His orders.  Stacvion sensed me and went straight for me. Stacvion is smarter that most of the demons of his caliber and knew if I was killed in human form I could be judged like any other human being. I would lose my angelic status and my power. The battle that ensued was  horrendous. Every demon and angel in the whole of God's Kingdom and in Hell heard when I severed Stacvion's head from his gigantic shoulders.
Bloodied and tired I sheathed my sword and knelt down and prayed to God for the victory I had received.  After that I returned to my quarters and laid down to a well earned rest.  Then I woke up.
Sweat was pouring down my face, I was shaking.  I got up and went over to the sink and splashed water on my face and prayed to God that I would back up with my beloved  and be through with Earth for millenniums.
God blessed me the very next day, by giving me a chance to improve my lodging and wealth.  He provided me with a job.  Apparently the job was at the local church teaching His Word to the children.  I would only come to teach on Sundays.  That left me with six out of the seven days to destroy the demons in Jerusalem.
My job was simple; I was to read the Bible to the little children and instruct them in the way of His Holy Work.  I went into the church one day and sat at the desk that was assigned to me.  The pastor there had provided me with the essentials  I would need, papers that the children were to fill out and hand back to me, a Bible, pencils, a Hymnal, and a little booklet called "This We believe", which was a summary of the beliefs of the church.  I read through the pamphlet and found that there belief was directly aligned in God's Word.
I first read to the little children John 3:16 " For God So Loved the World that He gave His one and only Son and whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life".  This verse summarizes the belief that you would need to enter the kingdom of Heaven.
I finally got back to my place and was surprised to see a note carved into my wall in Hellspeak. It said" The gates to Hell have opened and all Hell will be unleashed to destroy heaven and the damned Earth.  When I read the note I felt scared, I guess that fear is a feeble human emotion.  I knew that God knew of this and He was planning something.  You can never guess what God is planning and what your part in His plan you will be.  Even being a angel I still do not know everything about our existence.
The next day I encountered two more lower level demons, I slaughtered them without mercy.  Before one of them died it begged for it's worthless life.  It tried to buy it's way into my good graces.  He told me of a secret communion of Devil Worshipers that were trying to call on the Devil and gain his guidance to support their cause.  I decided to check it out.
Later that night I went into the  slums of Jerusalem and found this communion of the damned and waited to go and strike them all down in a hail of fire and justice that He whom will judge the living and the dead had commanded  to do.  Around Midnight I struck; I kicked in the door and swung at the nearest dammed soul and heared the demon inside him scream and die.  I continued to do this until all  the demons had been banished or slaughtered.  May your soul rest and peace becalm your body, I said to the departing souls.  I looked around, I saw the human  bodies and the Hellash that the demons were made of.  Then I spied a bloodstained scroll.  I picked it and held it in my hand.  The evil of this scroll was immense and I knew it was written in Hellspeak and a very evil and powerful demon must have written it.  The demon must have been from the third or fourth circle of Hell to be this powerful, I thought.  I unfurled the scroll and read it, the scroll read, All of Earth shall be conquered, be ready and watchful be ready when the Anti-Christ comes. Sleep just, don't be caught unaware.  The Anti-Christ will rule and all of Earth shall be the Master's and you will be on the winning side.  Signed,
Balthazar.
So Balthazar was behind the mass slaughtering and perversion of Jerusalem and was going to take it over with the help of his little minions.
I could never let that happen, I knew I would have to go into Hell and fight Balthazar on his own land.  My mission was clear, after I cleared Jerusalem of demons I was to go back to Heaven, gear up with my squad and head to Nine Pits of Hell and fight Balthazar there.
So I asked God to bring me back. He obliged, so I was back at the pearly gates of Paradise.  I rushed to God and told him of my plight.  He gladly gave me what I needed.  I chose several of God's best generals.  I chose Bane, the highest archangel general, Bishop, his subordinate, this Bishop was the keeper of the Holy Relics.  John, second lieutent and guardian of the gates of Heaven.
We were sent before Him to get our gear.  My gear consisted of my flaming sword, my winged helmet,  blessed body armor, my list of banishing rituals and spells know only to the Order of the Flaming Spirit, the Order is a group of angels who train directly under the Holy Spirit.  Bane's gear differed only slightly, instead of book of rituals, he had a shield which could block any spell or ranged weapon the Devil and his minions could throw at it.  Bishop's gear was completely different, he had the Spear of Longinus, the Spear that the Roman solider stabbed into Jesus to check if had died and a piece of the True Cross, the only piece to enter Heaven, that is all Bishop had; no armor, just a regular robe, not blessed or anything.  Out of all of the angels in Heavens we were the most advance squad in the many legions of Heaven's army.  I also am a very accomplish choir member, I was chosen (among hundreds of thousands of angels) to deliver the message of Christ birth to the wise men.
We figured out that to clear Jerusalem from the demon infestation was to wage all out war on Hell. As soon as we cleared the Fifth gate of Hell we would create a distraction that would enable us to get to Balthazar's castle in the Ninth Gate.
A difficult situation faced me in my head and but I felt no fear because I had my friends and my faith.  All hope rested in the power of my squad and only God knew about it, we are the only ones who could do anything about the destruction of all of what He created.
We went to Dominion Cathedral, a Heaven Stronghold in Hell, this certain stronghold held by 250,000 of God's best angels.
We were met by Archangel James , brother of Simon Peter, the one disciple that Jesus loved.