THE TRINITY AWAKENS
BY
LORD BENJAMIN
In the darkness, he stirred. A faint point of light flickered in the unending night. He grunted, turned, and tried to sleep once more. Time passed.
The flickering light played upon his motionless form, but was oppressed by the impenetrable darkness. He stirred again, the light annoying, foreign and disruptive.
Then . . . he awoke.
Eyes closed before time slowly opened, releasing the first true light the empty space had known since he closed them. He rose out of nothingness on which he lay, and stretched out with his senses.
It is time, he thought.
The light which had awakened him had begun to expand soundlessly. A minute passed. Half a billion years passed. It was the same thing.
"Wake my brothers." Thought spoken loudly, the sound was sucked into the emptiness, fading instantly to a mere whisper. Near him two others stirred.
"Awaken, my brothers," he repeated.
"Our time has come again. Once more we will walk the universe, and be witness to the passage of time. Awaken so that we may finally leave this wretched place of dreamless sleep and endless darkness. Rise, brothers, for we have a purpose once more!"
Slowly, two more shapes rose in the darkness to stand just behind the first, a riot of color and action compared to the persisting emptiness of moments before.
"Come, I will make a place," A gesture, an eye movement and a spoken word produced a small pavilion of solid ground, outside gas clouds revolved to the weak gravity. The three sat upon the floor in its center, appreciating the solidarity of the stone to the void.
Three minutes passed. Six billion years passed. It was the same thing. Expansion continued. Cooling congealing continued, even accelerated. Galaxies were forming, and inside those galaxies stars and even planets.
The second one spoke first, "What do you remember?"
"Little, almost nothing. A flood. A hill of skulls, a cry," the first replied.
The third spoke, "Where we came from?"
The first gave a small laugh, "None of us do. An eternal enigma, even to us. All that is known is our way. We find a sun that will sustain our needs, and a planet to shape to our whims."
The second one continued, "We toy with it, and the life upon it, until the universe itself collapses and we sleep once more."
"How much of our energy is left?" the second one asked.
"I know not. I do know that we used much to weather the collapse of the last universe. I fear what we have now may not be sufficient to shape the chaos into order," the first one replied.
"Let us discover. We shall perform an experiment. A simple being, I think we can manage that if we combine our strength." The third said.
"But at this level, the creation might contain flaws." The first stated.
"Still, we must wager that risk," the third replied, "With that being's aid, we will be brought light; abundant energy upon we will feed upon and use toward our purposes."
The three joined together into one being, which was the sum of all. This "Trinity" concentrated, focusing on the space before it. Instantly, a circular mass was brought forth. A crucible, from which the first being created would come into existence. The mass struggled in its birth pangs. Shapes formed in the mass and were reabsorbed, over and over until . . .
This new being which stood before them was regal and commanding, as if carved from molten metals. It was truly an "it" possessing no sexual organs of any kind to indicate gender, but instead retaining qualities of both. Massive wings extended from the newly created being's back, each feather defined. The being smiled, knowing from the very second its purpose in the order of things with the supernatural cunning only one of it's kind could possess.
The three-made-one spoke "Greetings, Lucifer, our light bringer."
The being smiled back and than bowed "Greetings, My Lord, I await your command."