Chapter 3 : Darkness Festers
Well outside Austin City limits, darkness festered. It waited. It steamed in it's own putrescent anger. Another minion was lost to the vampires. The Darkness was angry. Incompetence led to this disaster. The vampire team was in and out in under seven minutes, and suffered not a scratch. Fools! Do they not know what blessings the darkness gives unto them? Jonas could have sent the thralls into a feeding frenzy, devouring vampire flesh like candy, but no. Jonas used his powers to fuel his own pride. Fueling pride was not the problem. Pride of course being one of the prized "Deadly Sins" that the Darkness feeds off of, usually it is more then welcome in an evil plot. The issue was Jonas failing to complete his given tasks because he was blinded by his pride and rendered incompetent by that very same pride. There is after all a very thin line between useful, evil tendency and useless, psychotic insanity. And for Jonas his only reward for his misplaced pride was to die at the hands of that vampire whore Phyrestar. What a sin she could not be taken by the Darkness as an elite soldier of evil.
The Council of the Forbidden, five demon spawn from the most evil depths of Hell, answerable to Satan alone, were plotting in the dark they coveted so much. Leviathan – Water Elemental and keeper of the sins Envy and Lust, Belial – Earth Elemental and keeper of the sin Sloth, Lucifer – Air Elemental and keeper of the sin Pride, Flereous – Fire Elemental and keeper of the sins Greed and Gluttony, and Mephistopheles - The Destroyer and keeper of the sin Wrath. These five pulled the strings of darkness for their own amusement and humanity be damned. The balance that the Angels strove to maintain meant nothing to the Demon Council. Each demon could choose any appearance to please themselves, and right now it was simple, black auras. Undulating smoky wisps with dark eyes and gleaming, feral grins. Faces in the wind.
So they plotted, amidst the empty sands, way outside Austin. It was Lucifer's fault that Jonas failed. Each Demon bequeathed a bit of power to Jonas...Lucifer had given him a wee bit more then the others, so Jonas's extra pride got him killed. Even the Demons needed balance, they just didn't realize and understand it yet. This would prove to be their undoing eventually, unless they opened their eyes and saw the truth, and a proper way to exploit that truth. For Lucifer's mistake he was punished, he lived but one eternity of torture at the hands of Mephistopheles concentrated in a single moment in time. His form flickered and fluctuated wildly like the wind would blow him away an moment, and his howls rent the night like a clap of unearthly thunder. Lucifer paid dearly for his mistake.
Mephistopheles took a long time to speak after punishing Lucifer with the given wrath of their father, Satan himself. "What do we do about this situation? The Vampire Nation is proving to be a troublesome gnat in our grand scheme." The other demons muttered about themselves, looking at the ground as if it held the answers they sought, but none could answer Mephistopheles . Thinking was not a strong point for them, they were creatures of action only. "I believe it is time we paid a visit to Lilith. Perhaps Satan's favorite wife can shed light on this issue. We should seek her advice about her disruptive children." Mephistopheles finally said and the other demons smiled feral grins into the night and, in a moment of breath, we're gone into the wind.