Chapter 4 : Lilith
Adam's first wife, made from the same Earth as he, called Lilith by God, considered herself equal to Adam. The first feminist. She would not lay down under Adam, for she was made to be equal to him. After calling out God's name, and eating of the forbidden fruit, she left Eden to enter the Darkness. God gave Adam his second wife, Eve. After Adam and Eve ate of that same fruit they were kicked out of the Garden they begot many children, including Caine and Able. Caine killed his brother Able in order to appease their God. This plan backfired and Caine was banished to the darkness as well. It is here that he met with Lilith. Lilith was bitter and now wholly evil.
After she left Eden she was found by 3 angels that were sent to collect her. She refused. They told her they would have her children killed and she instead struck a deal with them. She would kill infants not protected by the names of Angels above their cribs, up to 8 days after birth for males and 20 days after birth for females. This would be her revenge for all of her children, 100 per day, that the Angels would slay in the name of the God that Lilith had turned her back on. And so Lilith lived until she came upon Caine. She saw she could fester his self pity into evil bitterness. She had eaten of the forbidden fruit and she shared that knowledge with Caine. Caine became greedy and coveted the power Lilith had. He caught her by surprise and found a way to drink of Lilith's blood to gain that power himself. Power now stolen, he then wandered off into the darkness again. Caine's stolen powers were invincibility against Adam's descendants (humankind), great speed and strength, ability to manipulate time, shadows, flesh and mind. Powers that would later evolve into the lifestyle and myth of the current Vampire Nation.
God sent the Arch Angels to speak to Caine and ask him to repent for the murder of Able, before he found out how to spread the power of Lilith into the world. Caine denied them. Lilith gave him something that God never did, and his bitterness won out that day. Not without penalty. The Arch Angels each cursed him and his every descendant. Michael cursed Caine to forever fear fire; Uriel cursed him to be unable to dwell in sunlight and to live forever in darkness; Gabriel cursed him to be neither living nor dead, undying and ever without hope. Only to feed upon blood alone, that hunger to be undeniable and unquenchable. Also that his offspring shall war with one another, that he may be their judge and know what it is for a father to condemn his children. When finally Raphael, came to him, he offered a path to redemption called Golconda, a state of Vampire Nirvana born of self control and inner strength to resist the call of the beast and the need to feed on as much blood as others of his kind. Here, in Golconda, Caine could find peace if he chose. These curses made Caine into the first vampire. But he would be nothing without the power he stole from Lilith.
The demons were upon Lilith's cave before their smoke in the desert had dissipated. Mephistopheles appeared as a darkly handsome man, dressed in a black three piece suit,carrying the Staff of Hell in his right hand and the red Book of Souls tucked under his left arm. Thin wire frame glasses covered beady black eyes and the skin on his face was lightly pocked with the weariness of age and war. The other demons flitted around Lilith's cave as rats. Lilith sat upon a throne of bone in her cave and gazed on at her husbands foolish Generals. She sipped blood from a carved diamond chalice. The blood slipped across her lips with a viscous ease and the excess rolled languidly back down the diamond surface. Lilith inclined her head, auburn hair falling to one side. These fools we're not worth the ground they walked on and they knew with one look that Lilith was not impressed. "what is it that you clowns seek in my presence?" She asked. Her voice was sultry, quiet and infinitely dangerous. Satan's generals as they were known, suffered as the angels with the lack of free will. Lilith was once human, contained that shred of free will and it made her dangerous in a way that the Demons could never compete with. They knew and tread carefully with the spiteful Lilith.
"Dear sweet Lilith..." Mephistopheles breathed as he knelt before her throne and took the back of her pale hand to his lips for a kiss. She snatched her hand away in an angry flush. Caine got her once with that trick, never again.
"What is it you want Demon?" Her voice now vibrating with her angry power. Mephistopheles twitched slightly. He abhorred catering to this...woman. But he had little choice.
"Lilith, we need the secret to dealing with your children." Mephistopheles said as he stood straight and tall, his power causing pressure on the air making his visage only a little threatening. It was important that he show reverence, but not weakness, in the presence of Lilith. She was a finicky sort. She laughed, deep and throaty, and after her laughter subsided she took another sip from her chalice.
"That idiot Adam and his subservient rib-bone wife, Eve, are the ones you seek. The vampires are spawn of their loins, not mine." She spat out, her face flickering slightly with her anger and distaste in the low cave light. She held her old form with ease, but the demons knew it was a facade, just like their own. Lilith was just as much a demon now as they were.
"But Adam and Eve have long since turned to dust. How then can we get our answer?" Mephistopheles asked, true defeat creeping into his rasping voice.
"You could ask Caine, if you could find that traitorous leech. But not even the Lord himself knows where he went to ground. When he realized the Vampires could be extinguished with his death alone, he went to ground, hiding somewhere like a rat." She glared at the other scurrying demons and suddenly they congregated around Mephistopheles turning into their black smoke auras. "Caine, drinking of my blood, absorbed power over many things including space and time. Caine could be anywhere. Believe me, you won't find him, I couldn't and owe that little bastard several life times of torture." She smiled a ravenous smile of several rows of sharp, blood stained teeth. Distinctly not human and bone chillingly terrifying, even to Satan's Generals. Lilith was a soul devourer, and of infants at that. Evil doesn't come an worse or heartless then that. "You could ask the direct children of Caine, but I don't believe that will help you either. They are a very tight knit group. Protecting each other and what not. No, Mephistopheles, I think you will have to use your own... intelligence," she said with a breathy laugh of mockery, "to find out how to dispose of the verminous children of Caine." Lilith allowed a glow of red to enter her eyes and power vibrated on the air before her as she glared down from her throne at the demons. "Now get ye gone from my sight, you petulant afterbirth of Satan's thoughtless lusts!" With that Lilith waved a pale hand at the demon's and swept them from her domain as if they were but bugs on the wind.