Dealings with the Devil

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Prologue:

'The ancient gods would hold a conference ever five months it was said. Egyptian gods would arrive first, since it was normally held near their border, next the Greek and Roman gods would arrive, fighting over who was stronger no doubt. And then the Celtic and Norse and any other gods would show up. They would all debate on what was going on. This would last for a little over 2 months, and in that 2 months, the humans were left to fend for themselves. During one of these conferences, the human population was changed, quickly and suddenly, as a portal between their dimension and another, more sinister one, opened.

'This was the first time that humans came in contact with the demon world, and one of the most bloody times that there would be in Human and Demon history. When the gods returned to their homelands, they were devastated by all the death that had taken place. They looked to all the underworld gods, who had control over parts of Demon world, and then, when they refused to help, they looked to Spirit World.

'This was a world, where the spirits of the world would go after they died and had left their bodies. Here they pleaded with the rulers to control Demon world. Spirit World then came up with the first barrier between the worlds. Humans were then safe from the demons, however, there were a few demons who had managed to save themselves from being thrown back into Demon world.

'These demons took the form of humans and split up, keeping in touch only through the occasional letter. Soon however, as they earned lives in the world, their letters stopped arriving as frequent. And soon, they stopped all together. The gods watched these demons as they worked their way up in the world, married, and then produced children, who were kept away from the world as much as possible. The demons structured the world so that females and males did not play together during their teens, but had balls and courted instead of just playing out their lives.

'Soon all forgot about the dark times when demons ruled. Even the demons left there had forgotten, having taken care of their families until they died. Soon all was left was a bunch of half demons who were kept away from the public as much as possible.

'This is where the gods stepped in to help Spirit world. They took the humans from the populations that they lived with and thrust them before Spirit's ruler, who threw them into demon world. The descendants of these half demons soon became more and more demon as they lived on, mating with full demons. Soon, to spite the gods who had ruined their worlds, they took on their names and passed them down through the ages…

'These demons soon became called the Gods of Shadows. And in this calling, they became a band of thieves that lived off what they could get when they could get it. They became as famous as some of the other demon thieves, such as Yoko the Fox demon and The Forbidden Child Hiei Jaganshi.

'And then, when they least expected it, they made it through to the human world. They quickly blended in and were lost by the gods that had immediately taken notice. It had been centuries since the demons had been in Human world and what they saw shocked them. Cars, not horses or carriages, rolled over the streets.

'They hurriedly tried to get use to their surroundings. Some died from shock, others fighting and found themselves rising in the world. Like before they split up, except three of the younger ones. They were named Loki (The Germanic god of Fire and Trickery), Ariadne (Greek goddess of the Labyrinth) , and Nepthys( Goddess of secrets, initiations, and the dead) . These three soon broke apart as well; Loki and Nepthys married and produced a young girl named Melpomere( The Muse of tragedy) .

'As the poor name of the child was given, the gods found them and wiped the family completely from existence, annoyed with their use of names. Slowly they hunted down Ariadne, and then the rest of the Gods of Shadow were destroyed, except one. On the day that Melpomere had been born so had another young child. Her name was Clio (Muse of history[Greek) Karm Hecate ( Goddess of Witchcraft, ghosts and dead [Greek).'

-From the book found in an old library by Clio named The History of the Gods of Shadow