Second Darkness: Against The Heavens

by Torlek

Amara and Chuck made all their celestial changes. The former's intelligent creation, the most powerful created being in existence, has become aware of the growing celestial resistance against her, and responds accordingly. (Set after Second Darkness: Beyond Power-Hungry Designs, during Grand Council of Angels, during Prophet of the Eternal, and before From Darkness To Darkness)

30. Some Small Distraction

Some Small Distraction

The temptation was to be presented some time later, not in accordance with Sefira's design. The Lesser Darkness had to suffer the interruption of not just any angel, but the intelligence chief Naomi. The latter had the audacity to rush to the very midst of the grand council of the Commonwealth of Heaven, just like that.

"Councillors, while the situation with the Alpha Dragon remains under control, our intelligence agents have spotted extremely hostile movements on another front," the uninvited one alerted the audience.

"None other than the forces of the Lesser Darkness are on the move!" came the exclamation, "From the look of things, it appears they are searching for their own quarry."

The deceptive one in the presence of them all discerned three reactions: relief, disappointment, and frustration.

Relief was the reaction of Anna. The intelligence agents did not discover the survival of the hostile Nephilim, else they would have revealed their contribution to her conspiracy and rendered for naught her inconspicuous drive to become the uncontested leader of the angelic realm.

Disappointment was the reaction of the other leading angels. They preferred a new development in the efforts of the independent Republic of Heaven to find and seize the Alpha Dragon, irrespective of what Radueriel herself had done to foil them. They preferred some small distraction to the larger celestial resistance efforts.

Frustration was the reaction of the very object of that celestial resistance, for this was anything but some small distraction.

Before this personal quest of manipulation and deception of the highest degree, an entire host of celestial soldiers had indeed been dispatched to find invaluable quarry, in the form of great weapons that had been buried away from even the nigh-omnividence and nigh-omniaudience of the perfectly spherical device that had been created to operate deep within the Darkest Domain. The Darkness and God had actually worked together to fabricate and proliferate Arks of the Pact throughout the omniverse that was Creation itself. These inconveniences were bound to showcase, through audiovisual holographic recordings of particularly scandalous moments, the point that the self-proclaimed Active Divine Feminine was not truly divine.

At a minimum, the Lesser Darkness could not afford to make do without the renewable power being generated constantly from mass veneration on the part of her adorers throughout the omniverse.