I know it has been more than a year since my last chapter. But I hope any readers still out there won't shoot me. I don't own Angel or Bones.
The whole group filed into Dr. Brennan's office, followed by Faith, Spike, and Booth. Booth spoke first, "Spike is going to tell the whole tale. All of you need to pay attention. Bones, you are going to hear some things you won't believe. Hold all your questions until the end. I know this will not make sense at first, but believe me, it is all true. So be quiet until he is done. Is that understood?" All either nodded or vocalized their agreement. Booth stared at Temperance until finally, and very slowly, she nodded. "Spike, let them have it."
The younger man straightened up and assumed a professional demeanor as he began his lecture.
"This world is far older than any of you know. Contrary to popular belief, it did not start out as a paradise. A being of immense power and unknown age and origin is the source of all existence. It was He who created all the planets and stars and atoms and the rules governing them. He created lesser beings to serve Him in maintaining His creation. He did not need the help, but He desired it, so these lesser beings came into existence. These beings were immensely powerful and beautiful. One, given the charge of a small star with several orbiting bodies in a smaller spiral galaxy, considered himself the greatest of all creation. Lucifer, as he called himself, became so infatuated with himself that he forgot that he was dependent on a greater being for his very life. He started encouraging others of his kind to likewise set themselves apart. Many did so. Soon an all out war occurred. Almost a third of the beings rebelled against the Creator. Some of the beings neither rebelled against nor fought for Him. The war raged for millennia.
Eventually, the Creator Himself stepped in and threw out those who opposed him as well as those who had not participated. Only those who had remained truly loyal to Him were allowed to remain in His presence. In fact, they were drawn even closer to Him in a separate dimension. A garden called Eden. The others were cast down to the third planet orbiting Lucifer's star. The Creator had already placed mortal creations on this planet: plants, animals and the like. However, the arrival of the Fallen seriously upset the balance of life on the planet. Billions of deaths occurred. Entire species disappeared. Using the natural processes implanted by the Creator, some species began to change, becoming larger and more powerful or smaller and stealthier. They had to be to survive against the immortal fallen who had begun to fight amongst themselves.
Saddened by the loss of so many followers, the Creator began to create a new, lesser species, intelligent enough to be a meaningful follower and to be able to be a steward of the creation, but lacking the power of Lucifer's kin. Whereas the first followers had been created directly from the Creator's power, this creation would be made up of common elements already created. The first of these was called man. The man was placed in Eden with many new animals and plants. He was given stewardship over them and gave them names. But man was coarse and hard, like the dirt he came from. The Creator therefore created a balance to man. Taking the basic genetic makeup of the man, he created a female, just like with all mortal . The man and woman, as the female was named, ruled over Eden; the woman's care balancing the man's harshness.
However, this was not to last. One of the fallen had found a doorway to Eden. He was able to possess one of the animals and give it speech. It created doubt in the woman's mind. Doubt about the Creator. This doubt led to disobedience and their expulsion from Eden, along with the animals and plants therein. They were sent to the original dimension, to the third planet, which had become nearly lifeless following one large conflict amongst the fallen. Earth, as the humans called their new home, was a hard place to life. The man had to plant crops in the earth for food or hunt the animals. For all were now mortal. Food was needed. The unity they had enjoyed with their Creator was also missing. Their unity with each other introduced another hardship to the woman: childbirth.
But through sheer force of will, the humans survived and prospered, as did many of the Eden creatures. The Fallen began to notice the humans. Some began to gather human followers. Some began to impregnate women or seduce men. The Creator saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, the influence the fallen had gained, and that every inclination of the thoughts of man's heart was evil all the time. The Creator was grieved that he had made man, and his heart was filled with pain. So the Creator decided to wipe mankind from the face of the earth along with the animals. But one man, Noah, was still pure in heart. Noah's faithfulness and righteousness convinced God that his creation was still worth saving. So he instructed Noah to build a huge boat to house from 4 to 14 of all kinds of animals and to take seedlings of all plants and prepare for a cleansing of the Earth. The cleansing took the form of a flood. The flood also masked another cleansing, the removal of the fallen from this dimension. A barrier was placed between the two dimesions of pure light, a thing which the fallen could not stand.
But even this cleansing could not remove the stain from the earth. One of the fallen-human halfbreeds, named Ishta, had seen Noah's preparations. She knew of Noah's devotion to God and suspected what was to come. She built an ark of her own and tricked others of her kind into boarding it. She locked them in it, saving them from destruction. Also, one of Noah's sons, Ham, was fed upon by a fallen right as they were being snatched from this dimension. Ham lay dying when the fallen, called Uurthu, allowed some of his power to pass into Ham before he was sealed away. Thus was created the first vampire."
I have more already hand written, just ironing it out now. I know this is long over due, but I will now be trying to update more solidly.
