A/N: I apologize greatly for the delay in updating. Real life has been atrocious for my imagination, and the month of August sucked. It's quite hard to pull this shit out of my ass when reality is crashing into me from every direction. I am so incredibly happy August is over!

I have been faced with some very harsh realities with my family. Watching loved ones fight addictions is so incredibly hard. I feel I love too much, and being pushed away when trying to support them wrecked havoc on my self worth. I don't know who needs to hear this, but you are worth more than any drug you can buy that will give you temporary relief. Reality sucks, but someday when you're old like me, it won't fucking matter. I hope you find peace and know there is help for you.

Anywho…Happy Hogwarts Express Day! September 1st seems like the perfect day to post this little cliff hanger. (Sorry, not sorry!)

Since I am now in a better place, updates should resume on a weeklyish basis.

Your likes, follows, kudos and comments truly inspire me. I thank each and everyone of you for the support in my literary experiment. I have never written anything before, and though there are plenty mistakes, and I've been quite the windbag throughout this process. I have really had fun with writing this. Thank you so much again! Much love to you!

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Chapter 44 – The Insignificance of Humanity

22 April, 2010

Gringott's Wizarding Bank

Vault 3

Diagon Alley, London, England

Hermione Granger

"You have to be fucking with me!"

Nope. In the back of Vault 3, stands a stone structure with a black curtain gently fluttering and swaying all ethereal and illuminating, a fucking Veil. Why is there a fucking Veil in one of my vaults? Fuck if I know!

This vault originally belonged to the Deities. They transferred valuables from ancient civilizations before they destroyed them. My Grandfather gained this vault as reparations in 1947 along with Vault 8. Vault 8 is the Vault with the gold and jeweled models of every animal and plant.

I spent the entire night reading the history of the Deities. I can't express how absolutely livid I am right now. The Deities are truly awful beings. Not all of them, because there are only about 20,000 Deities left who are allowed on Earth. The rest of them have been banned or chose to leave Earth. However the crimes they committed against humanity, are astronomical.

After reading the extensive history on The Deities I came to Vault 3 first thing in the morning. This vault is piled to the brim in ancient coins. It hasn't been opened in 1000 years, but was gifted to the Morrigan from The Deities in 1947 after charges were brought up against The Deities by my Grandfather for crimes against humanity including anti-semitism that lead to the Holocaust and perpetuating prejudices that lead to slavery and the mass murders of indigenous people in North and South America. The Deities are responsible for all of humanity's strife. All of our bigotry and prejudice throughout history was perpetuated by The Deities. They created disease and caused famine throughout the lands. The Deities have the ability to influence humans. They influenced humans to commit atrocities against each other for ten of thousands of years.

Gaia created five million Deities from her hair. They were perfect beings with almost equal powers to her. Their auras were in hues of the rainbow. (Dina had a pink glow, and Gaia was a light golden glow.) She created a female and a male counterpart. Every female was given a perfect partner to live all of eternity with. The females were the decision makers and creators of our world. They created art, language, and culture of their cities. They ruled the multiple cities they created throughout the land. Males were created as protectors of the females. The males defended the cities from predators such as Tyrannosauruas-Rexes, Sabor-Tooth Tigers, and Twenty Foot Otters. They created commerce, trade, and industry. They farmed the lands and sold goods to the various cities throughout Pangea. Males also served to satisfy the females. Gaia gifted the art of sex to her Deities. The female Deities drew power from the act of sexual intercourse. Males were designed to give their mates satisfaction. Sex was sacred between the couples. It served as a exchange of power when the female Deities had an orgasm it would pull the Male into his orgasm. It was beautiful and allowed the mates to form unbreakable bonds.

For millions of years The Deities lived in harmony and peace. They lived in small cities throughout the land. Cities with names such as Arcadia, Asgard, Avalon, Svarga, Sahalee Tyee, Hanan Pacha, Shanghai-La, Valhalla, Nirvana, Heaven, Zion, El Dorado, and Olympus. There were 1000 cities spread throughout the lands. Arcadia was the capital and is located where the Sahara Desert is today.

The cities were created out of gold. Deities are able to create gold on a whim, and because they love the aesthetic the cities were created from gold. Pyramids represented their society. Gaia being the Guardian of Deities, was the tip of the pyramid. Pyramids were built all over Pangea as a symbolic homage to their ruler, Gaia.

Everything was harmonic and beautiful in those times. However, Gaia realized she was lonely and decided to make a partner. She used the elements of the Earth to create her perfect partner. She used the earth to create his body, the sky to create his eyes, water to create the blood the flowed through is veins, and fire for his spirit.

Fiery was his personality. He was commanding and quickly moved up the ranks as her high commander in her guard. He gained respect of the guard with his charisma and winning personality. People respected him, and Gaia loved him. He had a pure white aura, and she named him Lucifer, meaning Morning Star because he was the brightest of all her creations. Gaia was proud to have him by her side and proudly flaunted him for all to see for he was her most beautiful creation.

Gaia loved him and catered to his every need. However, Lucifer never loved Gaia. They could never be soulmates because Gaia could never make a equal to herself, unlike the other Deities, who each had their perfect counterparts. Lucifer invented the lie and pretended to love her all while gaining support from other men to overthrow Gaia as Guardian of Deities. He gained support in every city and when he presented his case to Gaia as to why he should become Guardian of the Deities she cast him out of Arcadia.

This didn't deter Lucifer at all. He moved to the most western part of Pangea and created a city called Paradise. Paradise was ruled by him and The Fallen joined him in building a city of decadence. Lucifer was able to convince one third of the Deities to join him (1,650,000 total population) Paradise was the largest city in all of Pangea. The city was made of gold and men built enormous houses to live in. Lucifer taught the men to gamble and fight each other in large arena events. He reveled in the chaos of the society he created.

Lucifer encouraged men to take back their power from women. Lucifer taught men to have sex with one another. They could have the sexual satisfaction without the exchange of power. The men enslaved the women who were their soulmates in order to live the life Lucifer promised them. They chained them and suppressed their magic. Women were either servants or sex slaves to the men in control.

One female escaped bondage and pleaded with Gaia to help the females who blindly followed their Fallen soulmates into Paradise. Gaia and fellow female Deities were resentful of these females who gave up their comfortable life to follow their men. After several years, Gaia agreed to destroy Paradise. She sent her most trusted Deities to the city to free females who wanted to be saved, but many chose to stay with their men believing they would come back to them eventually. This angered Gaia greatly. She transfigured herself and appeared over the city of Paradise and told them they had three days to evacuate and return to their home cities for Paradise was going to be destroyed.

Lucifer and The Fallen evacuated the city, but did not go back to their cities. They waited and prepared for war. After three days Gaia dropped an asteroid on Paradise and the gold buildings shattered for hundreds of miles and damaged the continental plate where Paradise stood. (Could this be why California has so many earthquakes? Was the American Gold Rush the remains of Paradise? Hmmm, I wonder)

Lucifer retaliated by opening large holes in the earth where molten lava destroyed many cities and killed one third of the Deities. Many Deities lost their soul mates.

The remaining Deities who sided with Gaia, were angered and prepared for war. The Great Deity war lasted for only days. Gaia formed a magical sword, The Cross of Light, for her trusted General, Michael. Michael took the Cross of Light and beheaded Lucifer and struck the earth with the sword creating a large hole (The Grand Canyon) in the earth and promptly ended the war.

In the end, Gaia lost half of the Deities whom fought with her. The remaining 800,000 Deities rounded up The Fallen and demanded justice. In the end, there were 800,000 of The Fallen remaining.

The war destroyed the land of Pangea. It was broken into several pieces. Before Gaia decided the fates of The Fallen, she created ley lines to fix the earth and separated the most destroyed land from the largest pieces. This created the continents. The new destroyed continents such as North and South America were fiery pits of destruction. Gaia then created The Guf. The Guf was given to her trusted Deity Lailah. Lailah had the ability to feel energy from the deceased Deities. She had the ability to manifest this energy into what they called a soul. A soul is only energy until it is placed into a vessel. Lailah was able to take this energy and multiply it and create similar energies to create new souls and harvest them until they were ready for a new vessel. Gaia asked Lailah to find Lucifer's energy and Gaia destroyed Lucifer forever.

Gaia and Lailah made a plan to make The Fallen mortal, and use the energies of the souls so The Fallen could reproduce like the animals. She created the birthing process to be painful as punishment for the females that gave up their life of abundance for a life of lies. They were forced to listen to The Deities. Gaia gave The Deities the ability to influence the all of The Fallen on a subconscious level. The Deities could talk to The Fallen and give them advise, inspire innate abilities, and influence their decisions.

The single Deities whom lost their soulmates demanded further punishments for The Fallen. They wanted The Fallen to be striped of their natural glow. They demanded The Fallen be colored in brown hues to represent the one made from mud, Lucifer. They demanded their skin account for their crimes against other Deities. Since color was a favored quality in Deity society and white represented the colour of Lucifer's aura, the lighter the shade of brown the skin was, the worse their crimes were because nothing was more evil than the pure white of Lucifer's aura.

Gaia then asked The Fallen if they were remorseful. Those who showed true remorse and asked for repentance were welcomed to joined Gaia in The Garden of Eden. The repentant were made mortal and she changed the languages of all The Fallen so they could not communicate with each other. Those who showed no remorse or didn't ask for repentance were cast to the Fiery Continent where they were punished by The Deities who wanted revenge for the partners they lost.

For 100,000 years The Unrepentant were allowed to live, but they were not allowed to die. They were tortured endlessly. After 100,000 years Gaia allowed the Unrepentant to perish. Their souls were allowed to be nurtured in The Guf to be reborn again.

Meanwhile, the population of The Garden of Eden was becoming overwhelming. The Garden of Eden was filled with tribes of people. Each tribe had their own language and soon it became necessary for them to leave The Garden of Eden to explore the lands that had been repaired over the years. Gaia put whole tribes to sleep and transported them to new lands all over the healed continent. Gaia also told all The Deities it was time to stop torturing The Fallen. The Unrepentant were all now dead and it was time to make peace in the world. There were a group that consisted of 18,000 Deities that were angered by this decision. They felt 100,000 years was not enough time to exact the proper revenge to The Fallen. They reasoned that the souls of The Fallen were being reused therefore they should be able to continue torturing The Fallen for eternity. They called themselves the Primordials and convinced Gaia to allow them to look over The Fallen and help them rebuild their societies and govern The Fallen.

For the next 100,000 years they did this. They would help The Fallen create and build advanced societies, but every 10,000 years, give or take a couple thousand years, they would cause a catastrophic extinction level event that would kill millions of people. Events such as an Ice Age, a worldwide flood, an asteroid, eruption of all the supervolcanos, knocking the earth off it's axis.

The Garden of Eden was never effected. The high concentration of ley lines and magical wards prevented any harm from occurring to Gaia's lands. Until 12,000 years ago when the Earth was knocked out of orbit and headed towards the sun. Gaia righted the issue immediately and banned the Primordials to their own planet with no human contact and the inability to leave the planet forever.

Gaia transferred the Repentant Descendants to an alternate planet nearby. She then searched for a honest man of those that were left on the earth and found a man with three young married sons and chose him to build an ark. Gaia created a flood and cleansed the earth and erased histories. She obscured history so scientists could never pinpoint the realities of what the Deities did to humans. When the flood cleared and the Earth was renewed to her satisfaction, she slowly transferred the Repentant descendants back to Earth and erased their memories of the alternate planet. She made an agreement with the Magical Creatures Counsel to never allow an extinction event to occur again, and agreed to limit contact between humans and Deities.

There was a loophole. The agreement prevented Deities from having contact with humans, but by this time wizards already existed. Many wizards and some witches gained power roles in human society. The Deities who didn't like the changes and were still quite angry over the loss of their society influenced the wizards and witches in power roles in human society to commit crimes and atrocities against humans. They would transfigured themselves to angels, fairies, or tried to blend into society and seek out wizards in power to set unfair laws, enslaves groups of people, create genocide. They sought out people with the whitest skin because they emulated the sins and vileness of Lucifer. (Queue Tom Riddle and his pasty ass.)

They created stories for humans about the Primordials so humans would believe there were consequences to their actions. This is what caused the myth and the legends of gods to flourish and become part of their culture. The Deities wanted humans to fear the Gods and pay homage to them. They toyed with human perception to create religions world wide.

In 1947, the 150,000 Deities who were convicted of these atrocities were stripped of their Deity powers and made wizards and sent to another planet to live out their days. According to the history there are only 20,000 Deities still on Earth. Most Deities have moved to create new worlds across the universe.

I have been trying for hours to make sense of all of this information. That is how I ended up here in Vault 3 trying to make sense of why there is a mother fucking Veil in this Vault. The Veil still holds so many mysteries that we have been unable to explain. What if we are wrong about it ending your life? No one who has entered the Veil has ever come out. Is the Veil equal to death?

"No, my little homie."

I spin around and there is a male deity with the faintest lavender glow. He is dressed in a oversized white tee shirt and purple 90's track suit pants. He is wearing white Jordan's, and three giant gold chains with a "$" medallion hanging on the longest one. He has on sunnies and his red hair is in long dreds that stick out in all directions from his backwards baseball cap.

I shake my head and sigh, I'm not in the mood for any Deities. "Who are you?"

He smiles, "Gaia was right, you do think awfully loud." He chuckles, and then bows, "My lady, I am Sandalphon, at your service, but you may call me Sandy."

The Angel of Music, "Ah yes, the one who sang to me and influenced my perfect pitch and inability to process emotions without music, correct?"

He smiles, "The perfect pitch, yes. The emotional thing, is a brand of your own, I'm afraid. When you were born, a few of us acted as your guard including myself, Michael, Jeliel or Dina as she goes by now, and even Gaia. Gaia knew you would be special, and I believe she allowed Dina to influence your intellect. I took night duty and you hated being alone in the dark, so I would hum to you and sooth you to sleep. Any influence I caused was quite unintentional, but I believe it worked out nicely. Don't you?"

I smile and nod, "I won a karaoke competition or two. Why are you appearing to me now?"

He laughs, "Well the cat's out of the bag, so to speak. You know of our existence, you are the Morrigan, and I was one duty to watch over you today."

"Why am I being watched?" It's quite concerning, I am being watched.

He laughs, "No need for concern. We keep you safe. Your quite accident prone, if trouble is around it usually finds you, it's our job to intervene."

Accident prone? I don't remember having any accidents.

He laughs, "Of course not my dear, we intervene. Did you know you have been almost mugged 41 times since you moved to New York? Michael influenced you to take Krav Maga classes just in case we messed up. You're an easy target, beautiful, petite, and dainty to the eye. Muggers always see you coming."

What the actual fuck?

He quirks his eyebrow, "There's no need for obscenities."

I raise my eyebrow, "So on top of all the other fun intrusive behavior, you can read my mind even with my shields up?"

He laughs, "Well, my dear, I'm quite a bit more powerful than what your used to conversing with. I'm afraid it's part of the power. It is why it took us so long to create communication and a decent written language. When everyone knows what one is thinking vocalization is hardly needed. It took us a good 500,000 years to realize we could communicate vocally. Deities maybe all powerful but it took a couple million years to become all knowing."

"Why do scientists seem to have so many contradictory results in information?"

He laughs, "Because we have a team of Deities that mess with their results. What would happen to humans if they discovered the real origins of Earth? What would they do if they knew beings existed on this very planet that were able to cure any disease, give you infinite wisdom, or give you a pile of spendable gold with a snap of their fingers? Humans were never meant to be at the top of the food chain. They are animals like all the other creatures. Every aspect of our universe, which is vast beyond human comprehension, was designed by Gaia. She pretends her actions were a mere accident of her existence, but she has grown fairly humble over that last 80,000 years. Humans were a punishment for Deities that betrayed everything we had for millions of years. Can your thirty year old mind comprehend one million years? What about fifty million years? The answer is, you can't. This most recent civilization has only been in existence for approximately twelve thousand, two hundred, and fifty three days. That may seem like a long time to your mind, but to a Deity it feels like last Tuesday. Gaia gave the Deities infinite powers and with those powers infinite free will. She made agreements her ass couldn't cash when she promised a counsel that Deities would not interfere with humans. It was our right to do with humans as we saw fit. You may disagree with this, but humans to us are no different than humans raising cattle for slaughter."

He pauses for a moment and walks closer to me, and takes my hand, "This doesn't mean a great many of Deities haven't grown to love humans. Your very souls were created from some very beloved friends we can never see again. I know you understand the devastation of loss. I've witnessed your losses firsthand. It's infinitely harder when you lost your soulmate and many of your close friends that you've had for millions of years. Two hundred and fifty thousand years seems so long to you, but it's like yesterday to us. I know you disagree with our actions, but we still have a great many Deities that are still hurting like it was yesterday."

I shut my eyes and try to comprehend this information. I have never felt so insignificant in my life, yet so blessed to be given this knowledge I'm struggling to understand. As a human, as a witch, it is hard to reconcile the belief that we are not the center of the universe and realize how insignificant we really are in the grand scheme of an infinite universe. As much as I want to be angry with The Deities, can I really blame them for their actions? What would I do to someone who killed someone I love? I would want burn the world to the ground, just as they did.

When I open my eyes I'm gazing into the most calming brown eyes, but they aren't just brown eyes. They are honey and gold and all the shades of brown, and it occurs to me, they are my eyes. I know because I know the origins of magic. I know on some level this stranger standing before me is connected to me on a genetic level. I take all of him in and see he no longer looks like a 90's rap star reject, he's now dressed like a red headed Elvis Presley impersonator. A fat Elvis complete with the overgrown styled hair, bejeweled white jumpsuit with flared legs and butterfly collar unbuttoned to his mid chest. It's his eyes I can't stop looking at.

Remembering the origins of magical beings, I ask, "Just how many of my guard am I genetically related to?"

He smiles, "All but Gaia, but since she created all of us from her hair, it's debatable."

I take a deep breath, "What am I supposed to do with the Veil in this vault?"

He smiles, "Come, I have something to show you."

He transfigures my jeans and hoodie into an intricate dress made from the softest silk. It's a iridescent lavender color that also appears to be another shade of rose pink when the light hits it. It bunches around my neck and has a pinched waist with side cutouts exposing my skin before it flows into a full billowy floor length skirt.

I look at him questioning, and he simply smiles and says, "You're going to like this. Trust me."

I take a deep breath and I realize, I do trust him. I'm not sure why, but if he's right he's made sure I have lived this long. I nod and he takes my hand and guides me to The Veil.