Origin

By Yvette Araujo

Zane watched as Morningstars beauty transformed into The Red Beast. Eyes that once glowed with brilliance, turned black and hollow and devoid of the light.

Morningstar disappeared and was immediately delivered on his knees before Him. Morningstar tried to stand but could not rise. In a language only known to the angels, Morningstar was told that the name Morningstar would never be spoken again, and would be forgotten by all. Morningstar, once an angel of amazing beauty, became a stone figure that fell to ash.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 31, 2013
• ISBN: 9781493103300

Yvette Araujo

Yvette Araujo has always had a grand fondness for history and the arts. She writes and directs shorts. She has a background in psychology.

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Prologue

The Fall

1

Eating Crow

2

Faith

3

Back In Black

4

Old Haunts

5

The Beginning Of The End

6

Voices

7

The Purge

8

Civility

9

Allies

10

Unity

11

Sacrifice

12

Control

13

Regret

14

Changling

Epilogue

Tomee’s Torment

DEDICATION

To a Knight…

PROLOGUE

THE FALL

It began in the First World where He in His dominion created the Angels. These entities were very powerful; possessing supernatural energies and penetrating physical beauty.

Eight of these angels were a collective group that banded together and enjoyed their reign throughout His Kingdom. They wanted for nothing for they understood that they were His perfect creations. Being His creations, they possessed gifts of clairvoyance, telepathy, telekinesis and shapeshifting amongst others.

The band of eight angels were: Morningstar, Gotian, Celon, Kozin, Petra, Zane, Tomee and Pazul. They were creatures created without navels, without conscience, gender or free will. They were translucent in appearance with wing spans as great as the range of the mountains. These entities were strong and all was well within the Kingdom.

One day, as humans would understand to be a day measured in time, Morningstar approached Him and asked if he could be at His side in the dominion. After all, he, Morningstar, was the most beautiful of all the angels. Morningstar’s request was not looked upon favorably and greatly displeased Him. A thousand years passed and during these years the impatience, arrogance and anger within Morningstar grew with intensity.

Morningstar appealed to the others to band together before Him and protest the rejection of his request. The others were cautious and feared his power, vanity and plot to create an alternate dominion.

Morningstar again pleaded with Him and was denied the position to share in the rule of the great dominion. Morningstar was warned of plotting to go against this decision and command. This made Morningstar more determined to create his own kingdom.

The seven angels were in the shadows listening to the argument between Him and Morningstar. The seven later met with Morningstar to try to convince him that his ideas were fearful and would cause great disturbance if he continued his plight. Morningstar nodded as though in favor with the angels’ advice but he had plans of his own.

First Morningstar tried to enlist Gotian, an angel of higher station in the kingdom. He tried to appeal to Gotian’s strength and beauty, telling him that together they could rule this dominion and have all power. Gotian became enraged and began to battle with Morningstar. Dark thunder booms could be heard throughout the spheres.

Morningstar then went to Pazul, Kozin and Celon and asked them to join him in his defection from the Dominion. Tomee’ overheard Morningstar’s campaign and told Him, of Morningstar’s plans. A large rippling was heard throughout the universe as the ears of He burned with rage.

Morningstar and Zane were entwined physically and discussing Morningstar’s plans and how they could rule the spheres together. As they were discussing their plans, a hostile entity entered and Morningstar and Zane were torn apart. Zane watched as Morningstar’s beauty transformed into The Red Beast. Eyes that once glowed with brilliance, turned black and hollow and devoid of the light.

Morningstar disappeared and was immediately delivered on his knees before Him. Morningstar tried to stand but could not rise. In a language only known to the angels, Morningstar was told that the name Morningstar would never be spoken again, and would be forgotten by all. Morningstar, once an angel of amazing beauty, became a stone figure that fell to ash.

The ash was cast down from the spheres. The name given to Morningstar thereafter was Lucifer the Unclean. Twelve gates arose and each was made of precious elements. Six Guardians of the Twelve Gates were assigned to protect these gates, and the First World was destroyed.

1

Eating Crow

The huge, mutated, winged dragon flies above the rubble of the church and begins chasing after Aaron, Katherine, Galen, Luke, Roberto and Sydney. They look back and run down the street. Katherine is frantic.

She yells at Aaron, What are we going to do!

How the hell should I know?

Galen looks at Aaron and snorts, Some leader you are turning out to be!

Sydney, now enraged, addresses the group, Think of something! I feel like a sitting duck. We are all crazy if we think that we’re not up against something supernatural.

Luke, now visibly irritated, Something has to be done immediately. First things first; get your weapons and let’s kill this thing!

Their weapons appear. The dragon flaps his wings and the wind created, forces the five into the rubble. They tumble, almost weightlessly; smashing into cars, building and trees.

Sydney grasps at a tree as she is thrown by the wind and shapeshifts into a jaguar. The dragon swoops down toward Sydney as she digs claws into the earth for stability.

The wind comes rushing in and Galen, standing behind Sydney, raises his hands and concentrates; yet it has no effect on the dragon. Its power and strength are strong.

When the dragon almost reaches Sydney, she springs up and claws it, grabbing a wing in her mouth, tearing at it. The dragon attacks the jaguar with its other wing. The jaguar tumbles, falling, and Sydney shapeshifts back to human form. Luke shoots his arrows and hits the dragon. The dragon, wounded, becomes sluggish and unstable.

Aaron runs up onto a utility box and leaps into the air, attempting to jump onto the dragon’s back. Galen sees that Aaron will not make the jump and raises his hands to lift Aaron onto the dragon’s back. Aaron, riding the dragon, stabs it repeatedly with his sword.

What now?

The dragon flies up through a tree and Aaron is knocked off by a branch and crashes to the ground. The huge dragon swoops down to get its prey.

Roberto throws a stream of fire at the dragon and it catches on fire. Galen and Katherine run and stand in front of the dragon, waving their arms to distract it.

Galen, yelling brazenly, Hey Dragon ass! Did you see what we did to that church? We’re going to bury you and your ugly face ten feet in the ground.

The dragon turns and heads toward them.

Katherine says, "Ok, now!"

She and Galen take off running straight for a nearby building. Katherine holds out her hand. Galen grabs it. Katherine transports them. They disappear.

The giant dragon crashes into a wall. Huge sparks spray like fireworks, shooting up into the sky.

The six then see three crows appear and fly away.

Katherine and Galen appear by the tree and are soon joined by the others. All six are exhausted and breathing heavily.

So was that a damn crow, the Loathing, or what? Are we done here? Is this the battle for the so-called ‘End of Days’? This is ridiculous!

How the hell would we know Sydney? Perhaps Gotian should have told us a little more about what we are up against. Bloody Hell! Where are we? What is the purpose of this? Luke wonders bitterly.

Shut your mouth Luke! What are we supposed to do now?

They look at each other.

Let’s get something to drink and let’s do it now!

Following Galen at his suggestion, Aaron shows Katherine, Galen, Luke, Roberto and Sydney a Coke machine. Galen tells Aaron, Not exactly what I was going for… .

Aaron, waves his hands and says, Watch this. He concentrates and pushes the buttons of the soda machine. Nothing happens. Everyone is laughing and speaking at once.

Aaron tells them again, Shut up and just watch! He looks at them and outreached his fingers to try again. Nothing happens. Damn it!

Aaron is embarrassed and angered. He pounds and kicks the soda machine. He begins punching the buttons. I don’t understand, I watched Gotian do this a million times!

Luke chimes in, "You… are not Gotian!"

Sydney, tired and aggravated states, I want to go back to the warehouse. I have had my ass sufficiently kicked enough for one day. She walks away, demanding they all go back to the warehouse.

Roberto is reluctant to go. This angel shit is not exactly what I signed up for. In fact I didn’t sign up for any of this. Including this Touched by an Angel as the case may or may not be.

Aaron, Katherine, Galen, Luke, Roberto and Sydney walk down the sidewalk, limping and rubbing their