Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, war broke out among the immortal beings. The trickster Lucifer took one of his gags too far and killed Zeus' lover, Sota. Not that Zeus particularly liked Sota or was anymore faithful to her than any other vagina-possessing creature, but the point was that Lucifer killed her and Zeus was angry. So Zeus threw Lucifer out of the Heavens and labeled him a demon. Virtually all the gods took one side or the other in the skirmish. Djehuty, an Egyptian god who preferred Lucifer, created an alternate universe for him, Hell. Several followed Lucifer into Hell and declared themselves demons as well. Virtually all the Egyptian gods pledged their allegiance to him.
Lucifer liked his new throne, the new kingdom. In a way, being the penultimate god of Hell made him equal to Zeus, who thought he was so important because he was the toughest god on Mount Olympus. Nope, Lucifer would bow to no one. The first thing Lucifer needed to do was make his minions vow their undying allegiance to him. He performed a ritual, linked his followers to him through his heartbeat.
Second, he had to have at least as many lovers and twice as many children as Zeus.
Lucifer took a human woman to his bed, since he was bored and wanted to experiment. Instantly, the seed grew in her body and the nephilim Beelzebub was born. Beelzebub turned on the broken body of his mother, seized her by the head, started chomping on her neck, breast, then her intestines.
Beelzebub's thirst for mischief was equal to his father's. When nothing remained of his mother's body, he raped two goats and the shepherd.
Lucifer was amused. If a nephilim could do this, he wanted to see the results of a pure demon offspring. He bedded the demon Hela and created Satan.
Satan was much more physically sturdy than Beelzebub, but not as prolific. Hela couldn't be devoured as a human woman could be. Satan didn't dart off to find humans to plunder. He glommed onto Beelzebub, the pair instantly inseparable.
And then Lucifer bored with children, so the two were his only children. In fact, Lucifer became bored with everything and went back to his experiments. Which mostly included terrorizing human beings and other Earthly animals.
Although the immortals separated themselves between gods and demons, humans labeled them good and evil. Lucifer was evil. He enjoyed creating viruses and documenting the symptoms, and sometimes death, that came about. Beelzebub helped this along with his love of consuming and raping flesh. And Satan trailed wherever Beelzebub went. So all demons were labeled evil.
Likewise, all gods were labeled good, just and upright. Which any scholar of Zeus could dispute. Which was why the Chinese and many other Asian cultures integrated with the demons and their offspring, demon bloods. Beelzebub occasionally let a lover live if he were satisfactorily pleased with the coupling. And Satan would completely forget about a rape victim if Beelzebub wandered off without him.
Likewise, Ireland and Scotland both found benefits from embracing their celestial brethren.
And the thus the war between the gods spilled onto the Earth.
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The Lamb and the Gray Battle
FantasyEvie has spent the last 575 years on the North American continent, now called America, the Pure and Clean. She smiles, volunteers and makes cakes and pastries for her neighbors, hiding away her demon blood. She wants nothing to do with her estranged...