Of Superstition and Truth
Prologue
By: Adam Kiser
Angels and demons… an amusing idea, and potentially heartwarming, but completely backwards all the same.
The Bible states that in the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. The unwritten texts tell of the archangels and the fall of Lucifer and thus his mission to damn the peoples of Earth to hell. The story goes on to tell how the Virgin Mary bore the baby Jesus who sacrificed himself to save humanity and give all humans a chance for their eternal soul to spend eternity in paradise: Heaven. Hell in turn is the condemnation of those people who sinned continually and did not repent and ask for forgiveness. The lake of fire where burning and tearing agony await the damned for eternity. These stories soothe human's hearts and make an easy life for those who believe them and do not wish to spend eternity in purgatory.
The truth however would reduce you (the reader) to a blubbering fool. Madness would be a blessing compared to how essentially shattered your mind would be. Even if the truth was revealed and you didn't crumble you would still be subject to the worse confusion and fear imaginable. You have been told the same stories for as long as you have lived, and therefor know nothing else. To tell you a different truth would make you skeptical, and if you were convinced certain paranoia would settle into your heart. But… because I do not wish to see the human race damned to an eternity of lies and spitefully hidden truths, I will divulge a little of the truth, for no other reason so that you can see the light, no matter how dim, and so you can understand the story I am about to tell you.
Angels and demons; that isn't even their proper names. The true names of these beings are ascendants and descendants. Unfortunately, what you call an angel is what is really called a descendant; a "demon" is an ascendant.
The concept of an Angel: Winged beings that occupy heaven, pleasant in appearance, beautiful, radiant and winged with white feathered wings, standing for what is good and holy in the world.
The concept of a Demon: A fallen angel, the occupants of hell, evil beings that prey upon human fear and suffering in a world that is slowly spiraling out of control, winged with black leather like wings with a skin texture of stone, standing against everything good and holy in the world.
The concept of a Demon is what you call an angel. Where as the concept of an angel is truly what you call a demon. To make this simpler: what you call a demon is an ascendant (the good guy) and what you call an angel is a descendant (the bad guy).
The confusion between the two is as old as the religion of Christianity. The stories were rewritten by descendants before the birth of Jesus, and so the entire human race who believes that they are on the path to salvation and heaven, are truly spiraling towards hell and damnation.
The story begins right after God created Earth.
God created Earth and the universe, the animals and the seas, everything he is credited for in the Holy Bible is true with the exception of the race of man and the creation of heaven and hell. Heaven was already in existence, it was God's place of existence with the "angels".
Lucifer was bored with the animal existence on Earth so he created man. Man was more intelligent than any animal that God had created and God was not pleased. He allowed the existence of man to continue though. Then there was murder by Cain and God decided to destroy man before he could witness the beings destroy themselves and cause him and Lucifer pain. When God attempted to eliminate man Lucifer tried to stop him. The two fought, in a manner of speaking, and God cast Lucifer out of heaven to what is called hell.
God had experienced anger and because he was such a higher being the experience of emotion drove him mad, and since anger was the emotion he felt, heaven became a wasteland. The "angels" started to mutate and become gruesome beings compared to their former selves, and thus the true Hell was born.
As the humans began to die their souls went to what was formerly heaven and suffered. Lucifer saw this and took his new realm and made it into a place of eternity for those humans who would defy God.
Lucifer had his own legion of angelic beings, which had not been subject to the gruesome change their brothers had been, and so were still beautiful beings. These were the ascendants because they felt they had ascended to a higher level than their brothers, the descendants.
A war broke out between the descendants and the ascendants on a realm parallel to our own. Due to the Christian influence on people, the descendants could manifest themselves as men in the material realm. Ascendants however could only interact with the material realm by using a human as a puppet or a host. Some humans fought the possession of the ascendants and thus the possessions were deemed harmful to human beings. This belief led to a series of breakthroughs in exorcisms, sometimes by descendants and other times by priests who were loyal to the God they believed was so righteous. The descendants realized that they could only influence humans to certain degree by interacting with them directly, so the war mainly took place on the parallel plane.
The realm that the descendants and ascendants fought on was so close to the human realm, all that that separated it was a very thin veil that could sometimes be seen through. The veil was penetrated by any occurrence however; meaning that if there was an explosion at a gas station due to a fight between an ascendant and a descendant, then something would happen in the material realm to make that explosion occur at the same moment in the material realm.
Eventually rebel groups began to break out within the ranks of the ascendants and descendants. The war took on a very modern view, focusing more on technology, guns, bombs, and also remaining on more medieval styles of fighting, ranging from swords to bows. After some time, the only way the descendants and ascendants could tell each other apart was merely appearance, focusing on their wings and eyes.
A child was born from a descendant rebel and an ascendant Lieutenant. The child's name was Diminity. He had feathered wings like the ascendants, but they were jet black and appeared to be descendant's wings. His parents were discovered by the descendants when he was only seven years old. Fortunately for Diminity he was not discovered, but tragically, he had to witness his parents brutally murdered by the descendants. Moments after the descendants left, an ascendant captain who was a friend of Diminity's mother came and took Diminity to the Ascendant stronghold where he would be safe and receive military training. Diminity was the pivot point for the war though. Since he had seen his parents murdered by descendants, he aided the ascendants.
A day of rapture was foretold soon after Diminity's birth. December 21, 2012 was the date foretold when the descendants would finally shatter the veil between the two realms and reap the humans whose souls belonged to them.
Diminity became desperate, and now, a year before that day of rapture the ascendants have finally gained the upper hand. Diminity is currently in a major descendant encampment and is planting explosive charges at key points to destroy the camp. If he succeeds, the war will almost be guaranteed to tip in the ascendants favor. But if he fails, the ascendants may fail, and the day of rapture may indeed come as foretold.
