p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"From Angels to Demons/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"Chapter 4: The watchers/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"Angels and Demons who had a task in Eden had been given a new name after the apple tragedy, we were the watchers of planet earth now. God had made a deal with Satan, Satan had created hell himself and sheltered the fallen angels. As to keep control over it, God had given Satan a business deal. Adam and Eve would get their chance to be the roots of humanity, they had the knowledge now between good and evil. They and their relatives had to choose the right path, they had one chance. We, the watchers from Heaven had to guide them the right way, the watchers from hell had to try the opposite. If humanity failed again, they would be wiped away from earth and cast into hell. Where Satan could take charge and give the fitted punishments. We were advised to stay away from the demons, our supreme Archangel had told us not to get fooled by them, nor get tempted. /span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"I started as first watcher over Adam and Eve themselves, more angels came into view after some hundreds of years. More and more humans started to spread out of Eve's offspring, other places on the world started getting newer versions of Eden, like Pangu and his wife in China but I stayed with the original first human offspring. Crawley however was assigned somewhere different after our first encounter. I felt somehow relieved to not be involved with him, it's been 500 years now and I have no clue as for how he has evolved as a demon. If he became even a bit like this demon who's lurking about the young women in the camp, I certainly wanted nothing to do with him anymore./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"The Demon who's here, sneaking around the young women, isn't a nice type. He had tried to start conversations with me over the years but I couldn't look him into his eyes. Deep dark pits of nothing, no emotion, no soul was inside that creature. He tempted me, he wanted me to look at those naked young girls. So young and so untouched, he had told me. There were not enough males for them and indeed there weren't many, more girls had been born over a short period of time. They had no one to start a life with, that was why I advised the elderly to move and look for a more suitable place to life, were there were other humans. /span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"Suddenly some time after this conversation, some girls got pregnant. I wondered how it happened, but one night I saw another girl at the river with the demon having coitus. He had transformed himself into a nice looking human being. A blond god, he probably told them he was send by God as well. I went into the scene without thinking much and interrupting their moment, which made the demon really angry. He moved of the girl standing there with that,… thing between his legs. I had no clue demons even had genitals, they certainly didn't look human at all. My goodness... /span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"The girl ran off and of course I was in trouble. "What do you think you're doing?" I asked. "We are not made to interfere in God's creation!" I was pushed backwards, fell onto the cooling sand. That demon was strong and very upset. He was growling something at me, speaking through closed teeth. I was so scared, I could not understand him. Panic was rushing through me. He had grabbed me by my collar and moved my head closer to his pointing thing. It moved before my eyes, it started to look greenish and slimy. I closed my eyes and just wished so hard on a miracle to happen. /span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;""span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"Hastur, Lord Beelzebub needs you down there." I opened my eyes and indeed, a miracle had happened. Crawley was here, still looking the same as 500 years ago. Demon Hastur had pushed me back onto the ground with a loud groan. "Lord Crawley, Grand Duke of hell? What you doing here?"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;""span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"Like I said, Lord Beelzebub wants you to go down immediately. She has a more important assignment for you." Crawley stared in disgust at his fellow Demon friend, and pointed his finger slightly towards his genitals. "Please cover your wiggly thing, will you." Hastur spit at me, yellow bile burned my skin. "I got business to do here, with this, this… Angel!"/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"Crawley moved protectively before me. "He's my business now. Hastur, you'll go back down at this moment!" Hastur had vanished under the ground and I watched the Grand Duke of Hell before me. I felt my heartbeat go up faster, I had never in my existence felt so insecure. "Do you need a hand Aziraphale?" Crawley offered his hand to help me off the ground/spanspan lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;". He helped me up and brushed some desert sand off my back. "You alright Angel? You know this could have gone terribly wrong?" I couldn't find my voice and somehow I was still shacking badly. I felt a hand move over my arm and noticed the burning sensation had stopped. The demon had removed the burning spots from the bile. "Thank you." I whispered, still staring at the Duke of Hell. I was baffled, how did he became duke of hell and why was he here now? To safe me? /span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"A red tent appeared next to the well, and Crawley sauntered off while waving a hand. "Good night Angel." He said nonchalantly, like nothing had happened. I couldn't find peace that night. Thoughts kept stalking my mind, what will happen to those girls and what were Crawley's tasks? Was he to be trusted? Or was this all a set up? I can't believe that Hastur just obeyed and left the scene. I hoped to be able to talk about this all tomorrow, maybe I should observe this demon. Better safe then sorry. /span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"The next day:/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Finally the sun rose up and I had been up all night thinking about this situation. I sat before Crawley's tent, waiting for him to come out. I had questions and I wanted answers. The tent opened and the demon gave me a faint smile. "Been up all night?"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;""span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"I don't sleep, I have work to do you see." I gestured him to sit down and he did. "I found your friend with one of the girls yesterday." There was silence, he didn't look me in the eye. "He made some of the young girls pregnant! How could he do that Crawley?" The red haired demon turned his back to me and shrugged. "It was part of this assignment." I heard faintly./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;""span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"To what? Have coitus with humans?" I stood up and stepped closer towards him. "Is that why you were assigned elsewhere?" And as my answer I saw a faint nod. "You didn't want to do this?"/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;""span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Let's say, it's not my style…" He answered and turned his gaze back to me. His eyes had become less primal, more human like, except for the pupils. "I had a few successful assignments in hell and got promoted."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;""span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"But now you are here?" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Crawley shrugged again and sighed. "Promotions aren't my style either,… so I asked to get back to my old job." Aziraphale sat back down next to the demon. "You came back to safe me didn't you?" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"The demon laughed loudly. "Why would I do that for? It was just convenient, that's all and besides hell was way to boring for me. Nothing but paperwork." I didn't argue with him, but I knew deep down in my heart. He came back to safe me./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"Chapter 4: The watchers/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"Angels and Demons who had a task in Eden had been given a new name after the apple tragedy, we were the watchers of planet earth now. God had made a deal with Satan, Satan had created hell himself and sheltered the fallen angels. As to keep control over it, God had given Satan a business deal. Adam and Eve would get their chance to be the roots of humanity, they had the knowledge now between good and evil. They and their relatives had to choose the right path, they had one chance. We, the watchers from Heaven had to guide them the right way, the watchers from hell had to try the opposite. If humanity failed again, they would be wiped away from earth and cast into hell. Where Satan could take charge and give the fitted punishments. We were advised to stay away from the demons, our supreme Archangel had told us not to get fooled by them, nor get tempted. /span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"I started as first watcher over Adam and Eve themselves, more angels came into view after some hundreds of years. More and more humans started to spread out of Eve's offspring, other places on the world started getting newer versions of Eden, like Pangu and his wife in China but I stayed with the original first human offspring. Crawley however was assigned somewhere different after our first encounter. I felt somehow relieved to not be involved with him, it's been 500 years now and I have no clue as for how he has evolved as a demon. If he became even a bit like this demon who's lurking about the young women in the camp, I certainly wanted nothing to do with him anymore./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"The Demon who's here, sneaking around the young women, isn't a nice type. He had tried to start conversations with me over the years but I couldn't look him into his eyes. Deep dark pits of nothing, no emotion, no soul was inside that creature. He tempted me, he wanted me to look at those naked young girls. So young and so untouched, he had told me. There were not enough males for them and indeed there weren't many, more girls had been born over a short period of time. They had no one to start a life with, that was why I advised the elderly to move and look for a more suitable place to life, were there were other humans. /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"Suddenly some time after this conversation, some girls got pregnant. I wondered how it happened, but one night I saw another girl at the river with the demon having coitus. He had transformed himself into a nice looking human being. A blond god, he probably told them he was send by God as well. I went into the scene without thinking much and interrupting their moment, which made the demon really angry. He moved of the girl standing there with that,… thing between his legs. I had no clue demons even had genitals, they certainly didn't look human at all. My goodness... /span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"The girl ran off and of course I was in trouble. "What do you think you're doing?" I asked. "We are not made to interfere in God's creation!" I was pushed backwards, fell onto the cooling sand. That demon was strong and very upset. He was growling something at me, speaking through closed teeth. I was so scared, I could not understand him. Panic was rushing through me. He had grabbed me by my collar and moved my head closer to his pointing thing. It moved before my eyes, it started to look greenish and slimy. I closed my eyes and just wished so hard on a miracle to happen. /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;""span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"Hastur, Lord Beelzebub needs you down there." I opened my eyes and indeed, a miracle had happened. Crawley was here, still looking the same as 500 years ago. Demon Hastur had pushed me back onto the ground with a loud groan. "Lord Crawley, Grand Duke of hell? What you doing here?"/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;""span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"Like I said, Lord Beelzebub wants you to go down immediately. She has a more important assignment for you." Crawley stared in disgust at his fellow Demon friend, and pointed his finger slightly towards his genitals. "Please cover your wiggly thing, will you." Hastur spit at me, yellow bile burned my skin. "I got business to do here, with this, this… Angel!"/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"Crawley moved protectively before me. "He's my business now. Hastur, you'll go back down at this moment!" Hastur had vanished under the ground and I watched the Grand Duke of Hell before me. I felt my heartbeat go up faster, I had never in my existence felt so insecure. "Do you need a hand Aziraphale?" Crawley offered his hand to help me off the ground/spanspan lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;". He helped me up and brushed some desert sand off my back. "You alright Angel? You know this could have gone terribly wrong?" I couldn't find my voice and somehow I was still shacking badly. I felt a hand move over my arm and noticed the burning sensation had stopped. The demon had removed the burning spots from the bile. "Thank you." I whispered, still staring at the Duke of Hell. I was baffled, how did he became duke of hell and why was he here now? To safe me? /span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"A red tent appeared next to the well, and Crawley sauntered off while waving a hand. "Good night Angel." He said nonchalantly, like nothing had happened. I couldn't find peace that night. Thoughts kept stalking my mind, what will happen to those girls and what were Crawley's tasks? Was he to be trusted? Or was this all a set up? I can't believe that Hastur just obeyed and left the scene. I hoped to be able to talk about this all tomorrow, maybe I should observe this demon. Better safe then sorry. /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"The next day:/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Finally the sun rose up and I had been up all night thinking about this situation. I sat before Crawley's tent, waiting for him to come out. I had questions and I wanted answers. The tent opened and the demon gave me a faint smile. "Been up all night?"/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;""span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"I don't sleep, I have work to do you see." I gestured him to sit down and he did. "I found your friend with one of the girls yesterday." There was silence, he didn't look me in the eye. "He made some of the young girls pregnant! How could he do that Crawley?" The red haired demon turned his back to me and shrugged. "It was part of this assignment." I heard faintly./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;""span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"To what? Have coitus with humans?" I stood up and stepped closer towards him. "Is that why you were assigned elsewhere?" And as my answer I saw a faint nod. "You didn't want to do this?"/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;""span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Let's say, it's not my style…" He answered and turned his gaze back to me. His eyes had become less primal, more human like, except for the pupils. "I had a few successful assignments in hell and got promoted."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;""span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"But now you are here?" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Crawley shrugged again and sighed. "Promotions aren't my style either,… so I asked to get back to my old job." Aziraphale sat back down next to the demon. "You came back to safe me didn't you?" /span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"The demon laughed loudly. "Why would I do that for? It was just convenient, that's all and besides hell was way to boring for me. Nothing but paperwork." I didn't argue with him, but I knew deep down in my heart. He came back to safe me./span/p