Of Heaven and Hell
Ryo Angel
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I'm floating. Floating among the skies and the heavens above. My feet touched earth and I opened my eyes. I'm on the moon. I followed the path that lead to the moon garden. The path that I grew up on. The path that lead to all the events that occurred in my life. They say that dreams follow you until the ends of the world and no matter how much you tried to dodge it, the tapestry of Fate grows more intricate each day. Your life is your own. Yet not. I came to the end of the path and a woman wearing white stands near the lake. I know her. "Mother."
She turned around and smiled at me, "My Serenity..." She said, walking gracefully to me. But I backed away, shaking my head. Her smile dropped and she stopped advancing. "Serenity?" She asked uncertainly.
"Why?" I asked her. It had just clicked, all my dreams. All my visions. There were my past life. Just as I found my love, we were separated. Just as we were together, we were ripped apart.
Realization dawned on her, "It was written..." She tried to explain. "Destiny proclaimed it.... I..."
"No." I told her. I knew. I knew she didn't speak the truth. "The Fates rule over all. Why must you lie?"
"I..." She couldn't lie to me. I could see through her and she knew it. "It was a test." She finally admitted, "Everything was a test."
"A test?" I questioned. "What kind of test?"
Mother sighed and she fiddled with her hands, trying to decide the best way to tell me, "True, we control the lives of all, but we merely spin your thread. The tapestry is woven by itself. Even we, the Fates, cannot control our own."
"What about Destiny?" I asked her. "If the tapestry weaves itself, and you do not control our lives, where does Destiny comes in?"
"She is the daughter of my eldest sister. We do not know whose orders she follows, but in her book, she records the lines of the tapestry. She never creates the path you follow. In a way, you can say she is merely a historian."
"A historian?" I echoed. "I don't understand." I looked her in the eyes, "Explain."
"I don't know how to explain, my darling Serenity. We, the Fates, only take orders."
"From who?" Strangely, my feelings toward my mother was indifference.
"I cannot say." She turned away from me. "If you want the answers to questions that I cannot answer, go talk to the one who created us all."
Created us all? "Who?"
"A being now known as Lucifer."
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A ripple akin to electricity snapped through me and I awoke with a gasp. Around me burned the eternal fire of Hell. As I sat there gasping for breath, a dark figure came into view. "Hello, Bunny." He greeted me kindly.
"Who are you?" I asked, swinging my leg around and stood.
"I am myself." He told me.
"Stop with the riddles. I can't stand this anymore." I told him. "Either tell me the truth, or don't tell me at all!" The stress is starting to get to me. Right now I want to kill. Kill everyone. Slowly. Painfully. Make them suffer like I had. Fuck them! Fuck them all!
"I am Alpha Omega. I am the first. I am the last."
I stared at him. "You are Creation?" Jehovah? This was Jehovah?
"Yes," He nodded, "You want to know why everything is happening to you. Why the Fates refuse to give you a way out of this hell hole that you were thrown into."
I laughed, "Great deductive skills, Sherlock." Laughter overwhelmed me and my head shook side to side.
"Because you are my daughter."
I continued to look at him, shaking my head in disbelief. Something deep inside me snapped and I burst out, "Fucking ass-hole! Just because you think you're the great Alpha Omega! The one that created everything. You are Creation. Creator of the universe! Fuck you! Fuck your damn rules and your damn lies." I didn't know what I was rambling on about, all I knew was that I was angry. So angry that I lost control of my body. My fists clenched so tightly my knuckles grew white. Throwing them into the air, I called out, "By the power of Eve. By the power of Heaven Hell combined, I call to you my angels!"
A crash of thunder and lightning and Hell faded from view. Creation and I were standing in a garden.
"The Garden of Eden." I whispered as calmness stole through me and I stood there, flashes of painful memories ripping me apart.
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She awoke next to the man and smiled. Standing up, she looked around the Garden of Eden and when she came back, he was already awake. "Good Morning, Adam. I am to be your wife. My name is Eve."
He looked at her with amazement. "I love you."
Eve smiled, "I know."
**
Adam held out an apple towards her, "It's delicious." He told her. "The sweetest apple I've ever tasted."
She hesitated, "Where did you get it?" She asked.
He was suddenly angry, "Don't you trust me? Your own husband?" He snarled.
Taken aback, she took the apple and bit slowly into it, hissing out in pain as snatches of knowledge ripped through her. Hunger, pain, weakness, power, envy, greed, "You stole from the Tree of Life." She managed, clutching her head in agony.
"I merely took what was rightfully mine!"
She shook her head, fearful of what is yet to come.
**
"Where are you my daughter?" Jehovah walked through the garden, seeing no one in sight.
Adam stood out wearing a suit made of leaves. "She is away." He said firmly.
Jehovah raised his eyebrows at what Adam was wearing and was instantly alert when he heard the sound of a crying babe. "What was that?"
"Merely the wind." Adam tried to cover up the ever increasing sound by coughing loudly.
Eve appeared then, a baby in her arms. When she saw Jehovah, she knelt before him, "Father, forgive me for I have sinned."
Anger rooted him in the spot, "You have eaten from the Tree of Life!" He boomed.
"Yes Father."
Jehovah turned his glare on Adam, "You!" He cried, "I should have never created you!"
"Nay Father!" Eve cried out, "It was I who was tempted and in turn tempted him!"
The Supreme Father of the Universe could barely keep his anger in check. He knew his daughter would protect this mortal man until the day they both die. "I put a curse on you." He said, anger rendering his voice soft, "You will yearn for her love for all eternity, but you will never," He said vehemently, "NEVER know it." He turned his eyes away from them as the gates of Eden opened, "Now go! Leave this paradise and live your life of mortality!"
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I whimpered, falling down to my knees. "I remember." I whispered, tears streaming down my cheeks. "Father..." I turned to look at him, whose own eyes swam with tears, "Forgive me, for I have sinned."
He raised me up and I clung to him, crying out at this reunion. When I had composed myself, I asked him what had happened. How did he came to be known as Lucifer. It just didn't make any sense.
"Lucifer had decided to be reborn into the mortal's realm, so he tempted Adam, who in turn tempted you. Lucifer was your first son." At my gasp, he continued, "When Adam had died, his soul was so full of evil that he descended into Hell, taking over Lucifer's position. Centuries past and humankind continued to be tempted, so I created the Fates to watch over the mortal men, but even they were tempted. The eldest Fate, Tranquility, fell in love with a mortal man, Icarus. That boy tempted fate all right. When Destiny was born, I appointed her as a historian. She was to report to me the instant men became vile and cruel. And I would restart Creation once again."
"But what about the tapestry of life? How does that play a role in all of this?" I asked.
"My sweet girl, the Fates merely spin your thread, you take control of Destiny. You weave your own thread. You walk your own road."
I nodded slowly, "But how... how did I come back into being? What about Endymion? Adam?"
"You mother, Serenity, the youngest of the Fates, fell in love with one of my angels."
"Chronos."
"Yes, I didn't stop them, because they were the purest of my creation. Together they created a child out of love. And I had placed your soul in this child to be reborn."
"And Adam?" I asked, "He became Lucifer... but how did he go from being Lucifer to being Endymion?" Everything was so confusing. But I had to know.
"When Lucifer saw Destiny, he fell in lust with her, and though the act of love was consensual, there was no true love in it. When Destiny's child was about to be born, there were no souls that wish to be reborn and Destiny is too pure a soul to lose the only child she would ever have, so I forced Lucifer to be reborn. He created himself and in doing so, he regained some of his innocence."
"And you? How did you come to be Lucifer?"
Father turned away from me and pondered this question. "Hell had no commanding presence after Lucifer's rebirth, so I took over the position. Turns out I have quite a knack for it." He winked at me and I laughed, but sobered up when he spoke again, "When Endymion was born, I wanted him to feel the pain of being in love but never having it, so I bathed him in my immortal blood."
"And he suffered. One after another, he tried to love..." I trailed off, my heart breaking at all the broken hearts he endured.
"And one by one, they were seduced by minions of Hell." Father finished.
I shook my head, "That was cruel, Father." I told him. "You are Creation. You are suppose to make the world a better place for us all."
He only laughed slightly, "There is no good and evil, my sweet girl. There is only power."
"I don't understand. You created Heaven and Hell."
"Nay." He corrected, "Heaven is a place where souls rest until they have the energy to continue living the mortal's life. Hell is a place where incomplete souls drift on until they are complete. There is no good or evil. There only is."
"And the universe? What is the universe to you? Some kind of play thing?" I demanded.
He shrugged, "In some ways, yes. I created the universe because I was lonely. I was a being that drifted in empty void when there was no such thing as time. I created Time. Chronos was my first creation and my purest. Lucifer came next. In some ways, I had split my own spirit in two. A pure and a tainted."
"And now, countless millions suffered because of this." I couldn't help but feel pity for the man that created me. "And I?" I asked, "How was I created?"
He looked at me and spoke softly, "You were created from the first woman - Lillian. Who in turn was a being much like I was. But she rejected her immortality in order to have you." I crumbled onto the floor, this was too much. Too much. "I have told you more than you need to know, my daughter. It is time you return to the mortal's realm."
I opened my mouth to speak, but I felt myself growing weak and faint. I tried to shake it away, but it kept at me, pulling at me until finally, I gave up and submitted myself to the swirling abyss.
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Epilogue
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I opened my eyes to see Beryl in front of me, her laughter filling my ears. "Your little Endymion is now mine!" She told me as she threw a long stream of energy towards me.
My lips curved to a smile, "You have nothing Beryl." I channeled my powers together to counter her, but she was too strong. "Help me out, my angels." I called to their souls, and one by one, they lent me their strength, their power. "By the powers of Heaven combine!"
She increased her energy and I braced myself. A hand covered mine and when I looked, he was there. "Endymion..." I breathed.
He looked at me and smiled, "We're all counting on you, love."
My resolve to live returned as I increased my energy, "He never loved you!" I told her as the stream of energy from my crystal expanded, "Not Endymion. Not Lucifer." The power of my crystal enveloped us all and I felt myself falling.
A bright light covered me and when I opened my eyes, I was flying. "I'm..." I looked around my surroundings. My guardians were all here. We're in Heaven. "Endymion..." My eyes roved searchingly around me, "Endymi..." Two arms wrapped around me and I breathed a sigh of relief, "Endymion." I hugged him tightly.
"We're together now, my love." He told me, returning my embrace.
Although my heart was glad, I knew that we won't be able end this way. Jehovah, my father, had created Heaven only as a resting place. Sooner or later, we're going to have to back down to Earth and face the the fact that our memories of each other will once again be wiped out. But until then... a girl can enjoy some relaxation time with her honey, can't she? ^.~
* ^-^ * o.O * ^.~ * ^_^ * -.- * Author's Notes * -.- * ^_^ * ~.^ * O.o *^-^ *
I know, I know. Eve was the one that was tempted by the snake. But this is what you get when you let MEN write the Bible. I bet this was the way it REALLY happened ^^;; Don't hurt me. *cowers*
Anyways, my story needs to come to a close. Hopefully you guys understand what I have written. I originally wanted to post the epilogue as another chapter, but nah. Oh... this just makes me so sad... my baby's all done! *cries*
But there's always the sequel! ^_^ Now... if I only know where to go with it. I have a standard plot going through, but it's undoing all the mess of threads that's killing me. Anyhoo, the prologue to the sequel will be posted tomorrow. It's called Sins of an Angel. Remember that, because I'm expecting you all to review it!
Special thanks to KuroTenshi (my beta reader), princess2000204, ~*RENA*~, kino amiko kun, Silver Mo,Star Child, Rose, Rei2, and everyone else who reviewed and stuck by me through all of this ^_^
Ryo Angel
R
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I'm floating. Floating among the skies and the heavens above. My feet touched earth and I opened my eyes. I'm on the moon. I followed the path that lead to the moon garden. The path that I grew up on. The path that lead to all the events that occurred in my life. They say that dreams follow you until the ends of the world and no matter how much you tried to dodge it, the tapestry of Fate grows more intricate each day. Your life is your own. Yet not. I came to the end of the path and a woman wearing white stands near the lake. I know her. "Mother."
She turned around and smiled at me, "My Serenity..." She said, walking gracefully to me. But I backed away, shaking my head. Her smile dropped and she stopped advancing. "Serenity?" She asked uncertainly.
"Why?" I asked her. It had just clicked, all my dreams. All my visions. There were my past life. Just as I found my love, we were separated. Just as we were together, we were ripped apart.
Realization dawned on her, "It was written..." She tried to explain. "Destiny proclaimed it.... I..."
"No." I told her. I knew. I knew she didn't speak the truth. "The Fates rule over all. Why must you lie?"
"I..." She couldn't lie to me. I could see through her and she knew it. "It was a test." She finally admitted, "Everything was a test."
"A test?" I questioned. "What kind of test?"
Mother sighed and she fiddled with her hands, trying to decide the best way to tell me, "True, we control the lives of all, but we merely spin your thread. The tapestry is woven by itself. Even we, the Fates, cannot control our own."
"What about Destiny?" I asked her. "If the tapestry weaves itself, and you do not control our lives, where does Destiny comes in?"
"She is the daughter of my eldest sister. We do not know whose orders she follows, but in her book, she records the lines of the tapestry. She never creates the path you follow. In a way, you can say she is merely a historian."
"A historian?" I echoed. "I don't understand." I looked her in the eyes, "Explain."
"I don't know how to explain, my darling Serenity. We, the Fates, only take orders."
"From who?" Strangely, my feelings toward my mother was indifference.
"I cannot say." She turned away from me. "If you want the answers to questions that I cannot answer, go talk to the one who created us all."
Created us all? "Who?"
"A being now known as Lucifer."
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A ripple akin to electricity snapped through me and I awoke with a gasp. Around me burned the eternal fire of Hell. As I sat there gasping for breath, a dark figure came into view. "Hello, Bunny." He greeted me kindly.
"Who are you?" I asked, swinging my leg around and stood.
"I am myself." He told me.
"Stop with the riddles. I can't stand this anymore." I told him. "Either tell me the truth, or don't tell me at all!" The stress is starting to get to me. Right now I want to kill. Kill everyone. Slowly. Painfully. Make them suffer like I had. Fuck them! Fuck them all!
"I am Alpha Omega. I am the first. I am the last."
I stared at him. "You are Creation?" Jehovah? This was Jehovah?
"Yes," He nodded, "You want to know why everything is happening to you. Why the Fates refuse to give you a way out of this hell hole that you were thrown into."
I laughed, "Great deductive skills, Sherlock." Laughter overwhelmed me and my head shook side to side.
"Because you are my daughter."
I continued to look at him, shaking my head in disbelief. Something deep inside me snapped and I burst out, "Fucking ass-hole! Just because you think you're the great Alpha Omega! The one that created everything. You are Creation. Creator of the universe! Fuck you! Fuck your damn rules and your damn lies." I didn't know what I was rambling on about, all I knew was that I was angry. So angry that I lost control of my body. My fists clenched so tightly my knuckles grew white. Throwing them into the air, I called out, "By the power of Eve. By the power of Heaven Hell combined, I call to you my angels!"
A crash of thunder and lightning and Hell faded from view. Creation and I were standing in a garden.
"The Garden of Eden." I whispered as calmness stole through me and I stood there, flashes of painful memories ripping me apart.
-------
She awoke next to the man and smiled. Standing up, she looked around the Garden of Eden and when she came back, he was already awake. "Good Morning, Adam. I am to be your wife. My name is Eve."
He looked at her with amazement. "I love you."
Eve smiled, "I know."
**
Adam held out an apple towards her, "It's delicious." He told her. "The sweetest apple I've ever tasted."
She hesitated, "Where did you get it?" She asked.
He was suddenly angry, "Don't you trust me? Your own husband?" He snarled.
Taken aback, she took the apple and bit slowly into it, hissing out in pain as snatches of knowledge ripped through her. Hunger, pain, weakness, power, envy, greed, "You stole from the Tree of Life." She managed, clutching her head in agony.
"I merely took what was rightfully mine!"
She shook her head, fearful of what is yet to come.
**
"Where are you my daughter?" Jehovah walked through the garden, seeing no one in sight.
Adam stood out wearing a suit made of leaves. "She is away." He said firmly.
Jehovah raised his eyebrows at what Adam was wearing and was instantly alert when he heard the sound of a crying babe. "What was that?"
"Merely the wind." Adam tried to cover up the ever increasing sound by coughing loudly.
Eve appeared then, a baby in her arms. When she saw Jehovah, she knelt before him, "Father, forgive me for I have sinned."
Anger rooted him in the spot, "You have eaten from the Tree of Life!" He boomed.
"Yes Father."
Jehovah turned his glare on Adam, "You!" He cried, "I should have never created you!"
"Nay Father!" Eve cried out, "It was I who was tempted and in turn tempted him!"
The Supreme Father of the Universe could barely keep his anger in check. He knew his daughter would protect this mortal man until the day they both die. "I put a curse on you." He said, anger rendering his voice soft, "You will yearn for her love for all eternity, but you will never," He said vehemently, "NEVER know it." He turned his eyes away from them as the gates of Eden opened, "Now go! Leave this paradise and live your life of mortality!"
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I whimpered, falling down to my knees. "I remember." I whispered, tears streaming down my cheeks. "Father..." I turned to look at him, whose own eyes swam with tears, "Forgive me, for I have sinned."
He raised me up and I clung to him, crying out at this reunion. When I had composed myself, I asked him what had happened. How did he came to be known as Lucifer. It just didn't make any sense.
"Lucifer had decided to be reborn into the mortal's realm, so he tempted Adam, who in turn tempted you. Lucifer was your first son." At my gasp, he continued, "When Adam had died, his soul was so full of evil that he descended into Hell, taking over Lucifer's position. Centuries past and humankind continued to be tempted, so I created the Fates to watch over the mortal men, but even they were tempted. The eldest Fate, Tranquility, fell in love with a mortal man, Icarus. That boy tempted fate all right. When Destiny was born, I appointed her as a historian. She was to report to me the instant men became vile and cruel. And I would restart Creation once again."
"But what about the tapestry of life? How does that play a role in all of this?" I asked.
"My sweet girl, the Fates merely spin your thread, you take control of Destiny. You weave your own thread. You walk your own road."
I nodded slowly, "But how... how did I come back into being? What about Endymion? Adam?"
"You mother, Serenity, the youngest of the Fates, fell in love with one of my angels."
"Chronos."
"Yes, I didn't stop them, because they were the purest of my creation. Together they created a child out of love. And I had placed your soul in this child to be reborn."
"And Adam?" I asked, "He became Lucifer... but how did he go from being Lucifer to being Endymion?" Everything was so confusing. But I had to know.
"When Lucifer saw Destiny, he fell in lust with her, and though the act of love was consensual, there was no true love in it. When Destiny's child was about to be born, there were no souls that wish to be reborn and Destiny is too pure a soul to lose the only child she would ever have, so I forced Lucifer to be reborn. He created himself and in doing so, he regained some of his innocence."
"And you? How did you come to be Lucifer?"
Father turned away from me and pondered this question. "Hell had no commanding presence after Lucifer's rebirth, so I took over the position. Turns out I have quite a knack for it." He winked at me and I laughed, but sobered up when he spoke again, "When Endymion was born, I wanted him to feel the pain of being in love but never having it, so I bathed him in my immortal blood."
"And he suffered. One after another, he tried to love..." I trailed off, my heart breaking at all the broken hearts he endured.
"And one by one, they were seduced by minions of Hell." Father finished.
I shook my head, "That was cruel, Father." I told him. "You are Creation. You are suppose to make the world a better place for us all."
He only laughed slightly, "There is no good and evil, my sweet girl. There is only power."
"I don't understand. You created Heaven and Hell."
"Nay." He corrected, "Heaven is a place where souls rest until they have the energy to continue living the mortal's life. Hell is a place where incomplete souls drift on until they are complete. There is no good or evil. There only is."
"And the universe? What is the universe to you? Some kind of play thing?" I demanded.
He shrugged, "In some ways, yes. I created the universe because I was lonely. I was a being that drifted in empty void when there was no such thing as time. I created Time. Chronos was my first creation and my purest. Lucifer came next. In some ways, I had split my own spirit in two. A pure and a tainted."
"And now, countless millions suffered because of this." I couldn't help but feel pity for the man that created me. "And I?" I asked, "How was I created?"
He looked at me and spoke softly, "You were created from the first woman - Lillian. Who in turn was a being much like I was. But she rejected her immortality in order to have you." I crumbled onto the floor, this was too much. Too much. "I have told you more than you need to know, my daughter. It is time you return to the mortal's realm."
I opened my mouth to speak, but I felt myself growing weak and faint. I tried to shake it away, but it kept at me, pulling at me until finally, I gave up and submitted myself to the swirling abyss.
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Epilogue
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I opened my eyes to see Beryl in front of me, her laughter filling my ears. "Your little Endymion is now mine!" She told me as she threw a long stream of energy towards me.
My lips curved to a smile, "You have nothing Beryl." I channeled my powers together to counter her, but she was too strong. "Help me out, my angels." I called to their souls, and one by one, they lent me their strength, their power. "By the powers of Heaven combine!"
She increased her energy and I braced myself. A hand covered mine and when I looked, he was there. "Endymion..." I breathed.
He looked at me and smiled, "We're all counting on you, love."
My resolve to live returned as I increased my energy, "He never loved you!" I told her as the stream of energy from my crystal expanded, "Not Endymion. Not Lucifer." The power of my crystal enveloped us all and I felt myself falling.
A bright light covered me and when I opened my eyes, I was flying. "I'm..." I looked around my surroundings. My guardians were all here. We're in Heaven. "Endymion..." My eyes roved searchingly around me, "Endymi..." Two arms wrapped around me and I breathed a sigh of relief, "Endymion." I hugged him tightly.
"We're together now, my love." He told me, returning my embrace.
Although my heart was glad, I knew that we won't be able end this way. Jehovah, my father, had created Heaven only as a resting place. Sooner or later, we're going to have to back down to Earth and face the the fact that our memories of each other will once again be wiped out. But until then... a girl can enjoy some relaxation time with her honey, can't she? ^.~
* ^-^ * o.O * ^.~ * ^_^ * -.- * Author's Notes * -.- * ^_^ * ~.^ * O.o *^-^ *
I know, I know. Eve was the one that was tempted by the snake. But this is what you get when you let MEN write the Bible. I bet this was the way it REALLY happened ^^;; Don't hurt me. *cowers*
Anyways, my story needs to come to a close. Hopefully you guys understand what I have written. I originally wanted to post the epilogue as another chapter, but nah. Oh... this just makes me so sad... my baby's all done! *cries*
But there's always the sequel! ^_^ Now... if I only know where to go with it. I have a standard plot going through, but it's undoing all the mess of threads that's killing me. Anyhoo, the prologue to the sequel will be posted tomorrow. It's called Sins of an Angel. Remember that, because I'm expecting you all to review it!
Special thanks to KuroTenshi (my beta reader), princess2000204, ~*RENA*~, kino amiko kun, Silver Mo,Star Child, Rose, Rei2, and everyone else who reviewed and stuck by me through all of this ^_^
