A Tale of Two Worlds
Two Bites
Act I of Part 4
Ivory's eye's gleamed,
she placed her hand on the fruit,
she picked it,
she brought it inches from her lips,
she opened her mouth
"Eat it!"
coaxed Belial through Serpent
And she bit it
Ivory had tasted the juice of the forbidden fruit…
…and it was sweet on her tongue.
Yet Ivory was disappointed, she didn't feel any change, she was no more knowledgeable, she still remained un-all-knowing and she certainly wasn't dead!
"Nothing has happened to me Serpent. I know nothing more than what I knew before!"
Serpent was confused as well, but he had to stay in control of the situation.
"Then you'll have to face the truth! The Great I Am has lied to you!"
"But He said He loved us," she said miserably.
"Would someone, who loves you, lie to you?"
"Well you lied?"
It was all beginning to feel likea yukky mess.
"Forget that now. Don't you see I've been fooled as well! The Almighty One has betrayed you! Us both, quick, you must tell Clay! Quick now, tell him, tell him!"
Nuan the swan followed by Featherwax the heron and all the animals were out hunting serpent.
"Quick!" hollered Featherwax. "We must stop the serpent from doing anything to harm Clay and Ivory!" he paused. "If our hunch is right, we must stop them both from eating the forbidden fruuuuuuit!"
Ivory had found Clay not far from the cave and she told him her story.
Clay held the bitten fruit in his hand and looked at his wife befuddled.
"He has lied to us, Clay. I can still taste its sweet juices on my lips."
All had fallen apart for Clay. He tilted his face toward the sky unbelieving.
"Why … why? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!"
And he plunged his teeth into the forbidden fruit.
"Nooooo, don't do it!"
But all the animals were too late; two bites had been taken from the fruit bearing the knowledge of good and evil.
As soon as the juice hit Clay's tongue it turned sour in his mouth, it was true of Ivory's mouth as well. The fruit fell from Clay's hand all purity in Clay and Ivory seemed to digest with the fruit's flesh and turn into waist.
Clay and Ivory tried to spit out the juice left on their tongues as if this would miraculously reverse all the two had done.
Clay and Ivory looked at each other and for the first time they realised … they were stark naked!
A great mourning filled the very heavens Utopia never thought such a sound existed,
It was a moan of incredible sadness,
The strain had finally become too much,
All had now fallen apart,
Everything was Broken … Broken Trust … Broken Fellowship … Broken Hearts
The All Mighty's eyes seem to drop tears of crystal. This time He could not simply wipe their minds of this … atrocity. His loved Ones had brought this … upon themselves. Slowly he descended from His throne … now instead of Father the Great I Am, this All Loving creator … had to now play judge and jury.
A Tale of Two Worlds
Two Bites
Act II of Part 4
All the animals stared at the partly eaten fruit in dust on the ground.
What would this mean for Pterra Pherma, for mankind?
Ivory and Clay were still staring at each other, suddenly something they had never felt before hit them like a slash of water. A strange warmth seem to swallow up their faces, their cheeks glowed red, their inside felt queasy. They found they were … embarrassed? Both tried to cover themselves as best as they could, breaking off the nearby ferns of plants. The plants screamed in pain. Clay and Ivory's eyes were wide with fear (something else they'd never felt before then).
Belial now stood out of the serpent, he began to laugh cruelly. He had done it! Something already was changing.
"Ha ha! What do you think about that animals?" he asked. He laughed again, then he stopped. Were the animals ignoring him, did they not notice him? He stood in front of one them and waved his scaly hands. "Heelloo," he lowered him arms, and whispered. "They can no longer see me or hear me?"
The atmosphere all around the garden began to transform, it felt weighted, humid and thick. The sun seemed to blaze all the hotter. The creatures looked down, around and up.
The friendly face of the boyant blue sky became heavy and dark colours began to cloud it complexion.
It was no longer joyful, yet grey and mysterious. It made no sense anymore.
The treetops began to wave as the gentle breeze began to pick up. The wind wasn't cool and refreshing, but the opposite. Wind whipped around Clay, Ivory and the animals, it lashed out at their bodies, tearing at fur or flesh, they could barley stay on their feet or paws.
The tempest caused havoc with shrubs and bushes, the storm bent back large trees. Only the Tree of Life stood unaffected. The power Belial thought he had could not compare with this. It was like all of creation was being jarred. Creation had never seen a spectacle like this before. It was far worse than Belial could ever have achieved, and the disaster didn't want to stop! The shadows on Pterra Pherma began to grow in length until there was no light left to keep them cast.
A great eclipse covered the sun.
Stones and rocks began to dance.
The Creator…was descending…from heaven.
The great tremors eased…
…the lashing wind slowed to a warm zephyr…
…the sun shone again.
A Tale of Two Worlds
Two Bites
Act III of Part 4
"Oh my creation, my creation why do you hide from me? Was there not a day when we could walk and talk together in the garden? You were never ashamed to run into My arms. Why do you not come forth man? Clay where are you?"
"Hiding,"
come the soft reply from behind a boulder.
"Why do you hide?"
"I'm afraid…I mean who wouldn't be! That was no walk in the garden."
"Is there more?"
There was silence
"…and I…don't have any clothing on."
"Who told you, you were naked?"
"No one! I-I just … know."
"Did you eat from the forbidden tree? The one I told you not to eat from?"
Clay's anger surfaced.
"All the fault lies with the woman! The woman You gave me!"
"Woman, what is this you have done?"
"Don't look at me!"
she cried.
"Look at the serpent, it deceived me. I didn't want to eat the fruit."
Serpent had nowhere to run.
"You have brought a curse upon you this day."
The creator only had to think a thought. The serpent's limbs vanished! It fell with a thud on its stomach. It flickered its tongue angrily.
"From this day forward you will move about on your belly, snake. Your kind willforever bite the dust."
Now leave this garden."
"Why have you done thissss to me (gollum). The devil made me do it!"
The Almighty raised his voice.
"And to you Apollyon, I say this; long will the conflict last between those who follow you, and those who follow Me. Now you and the serpent, part Satan and part animal, have had your shot. But there is one who will come, born of a virgin, who will be part God and part man. His heel you will bruise, but your head He will crush!"
Alphaomega looked at Ivory and though what He had to dish out was punishment, He spoke not without empathy.
"To you woman I say: when your time comes to bear children it will not be done without intense pain, your desire will be for your husband and he will lead you and your family."
"To you man I say: Pterra Pherma is now spoilt. To feed your family you will toil with the earth. It will be hard to grow food in it from now on, but it will be easy for it to yield thorns and thistles. The sun will be hot, as you work you will sweat. Do not again be swayed by bad advise, Clay."
"Hey what are You saying."
murmured Ivory.
"All these things will continue to go on until the day you will surely die. From the dust your taken and to the dust you will return."
And so Alphaomega being perfectly just had to cast Clay and Ivory from the garden of Paradise and to cover up their nakedness animals had to be killed so their skins could serve as man's clothing. This symbolised the covering up of their sin that day long ago. O what a shame it truly was for something always had to die for the covering of man's disobedience. O how had Pterra Pherma and all that lived thereon fallen.
"Now like Us," said Alphaomega to His Son, The Word and to His Spirit, Four-Wind, man knows what good and evil is, now they are left with a choice to make; which one of those two things will they allow lead their life. They have now taken from the Tree of Death and can no longer eat from the Tree of Life. And to reinforce His decree, the creator placed scary Cherubim east of Paradise Garden both armed with flaming swords that waved before them, every which way, soundly guarding the Tree of Life.
As Clay walked the earth he would stop everyday and longingly look onto the garden that he and his wife had spoiled. Many fond memories of that place got him through the hard days in which helived. He looked at where his family now lived…on a barren hard plain, there home little more than a shade. Clay wept he finally realised the full weight of his and Ivory's decision, they had chosen to eat of the Tree of Death and now the Tree of Life had been taken away from them! This surely was … death.
A Tale of Two Worlds
Epilogue
Michael and Gabriel approached their creator's throne.
They solemly enquired of the Lord.
"What happens now?"
they asked.
"All will happen as it happens."
"Will creation came right again?"
"In time."
"How will it happen?"
"Let us just say, that My son, here will have a great role in recovering what man-kind have done to themselves. And it is only because we love them so much."
The angels didn't look convinced.
"Come now Michael and Gabriel do not look so sour, you are in Utopia.
Apollyon has only won this battle – he will not…win…the…war!"
This is…not… the end.
A Tale of Two Worlds was loosely based on
John 1:1-2, Isaiah 14: 12-16, Ezekiel 28: 13-19 and Genesis 1 - 3
Glehnmarc-Hibburt (c) 2001
