consciousness he replaced the Book of Life into its hidden compartment, replaced the cover and then placed the Book of Creation back on top and lastly covered up the Throne. It was better that no one knew he had checked up on the Books.
Looking once more around the Throne Room to make sure no one had seen him, Jarahmael left the Throne Room and flew off, heading back down to the Sixth Heaven. Perhaps Cerebriel had returned to his home in the Sixth Heaven with Michael after the two of them were successful in finding Adam and Eve. Then the three of them could discuss what was going on, and how to combat it if need be.
A short time later Jarahmael entered the Sixth Heaven and flew to Cerebriel's mansion. Not seeing Cerebriel there, Jarahmael decided to seek out Zachiel who was next in command of the Cherubim Order of Angels. Jarahmael had a good relationship with most of the Cherubim in the Sixth Heaven, due in part to his close friendship with their leader Cerebriel. He flew to the Cherubim Cathedral where he found Zachiel, and landed near him.
“Greetings Zachiel!” Jarahmael said to him.
“Greetings Archangel Jarahmael!” Zachiel responded, giving him a slight bow with his eagle like face.
“I came looking for Cerebriel,” Jarahmael said.
“He has not yet returned from the Earth,” Zachiel responded, a look of concern passing over his face.
The concern grew more serious on Zachiel's face as he continued, “I thought that he was with you and the Archangel Michael today.”
“Yes, I was with him.” Thinking quickly, Jarahmael was unsure as to how much he should reveal to Zachiel about his recent discoveries and movements. “I received some news that I had to attend to back in the Seventh Heaven and was hoping that he had returned here by now.”
“Not to my knowledge. I am sure he is going to want to know about what I discovered though,” Zachiel responded, looking relieved that there was someone he could trust and share his news with.
“What did you discover?” Jarahmael asked.
“Someone has raided the armory here!” said Zachiel. “A good number of the weapons are gone. Swords, spears, harps, and trumpets are gone.”
“Are you sure?” asked Jarahmael.
“Yes, I am sure. Come, let me show you.” Zachiel tried to hide his impatience about being asked if he was sure about what he already knew.
They walked down and into the open dome of the Cathedral of the Cherubim and then into one of the side rooms. There were still a lot of weapons there, stacked in neat piles along the walls and in the hallway itself. But it was obvious that many of the weapons were missing, as there were totally empty racks along the wall.
“I noticed the weapons gone when I came here earlier today. I had seen Gomory and a large contingent of the Cherubim quartermasters fly out of here and head towards the Fifth Heaven. It struck me odd that he would do that; the only formation of Cherubim that regularly flew out of here were early in the morning and headed towards the Earth to work on the pyramids.
“When I came to the Cathedral myself, I didn't expect to see weaponry missing. That weaponry was lying dormant as we only used it for destroying the dinosaurs. No one thought to put a guard on the weapons. I am not positive that Gomory took them, but he was the one I saw flying with a large enough contingent to carry the weapons and he had no assignment to the pyramids today that any of the rest of us knew about.”
“Were the weapons here last night?” Jarahmael asked to confirm.
“Yes,” said Zachiel. “I had seen them when I was walking past the room. Every day I make sure everything is put away properly,” he said proudly.
“How many do you think are missing?” asked Jarahmael.
“About one-third to one half of the weaponry is now gone, from what I can tell. And going after the missing weaponry will be difficult. Remember during the day we are also short on Cherubim in the Sixth Heaven . T he majority of
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