Timeless

Prologue

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and  empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God  was hovering over the waters. And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness." - Genesis 1:1-4

Life and Death, much like Light and Dark, are a delicate thing, as is the balance between them. The human body has a limited lifespan, an expiration date, if you wish. Humans are inferior in all aspects, the lesser to the almighty race of the angelic and the notorious race of the damned. They were created to serve, not be served. They were made humble and ignorant, like children. They were innocent and celestial in the flesh crafted from the dirt of the world.

In the beginning, God created a man, in his image, and a woman for this man. Each person, each human, was granted a soul, an immortal part inside of their mortal heart. Regrettably, this was a problem, a design flaw; people longed for more than what they were allowed. These immortal souls, these great beings of the sky, trapped in the bodies of humans, of flesh and bone, cursed to die and be reborn again, redoing the painful cycle for all of eternity.

Regardless of their frailty, the Creator loved them with all of his power. They were his children, his flawed, precious babies. The divine, the angels of the heavens, adored them too. What the Creator loved, they loved, like the dutiful followers they were. But as always, there were those who were opposed, those who hated the human race, loathing them for being loved despite their flaws.

One angel stood out the most with his bitter grumblings; Lucifer Morningstar, second only to the Creator himself loathed the human race, deeming them a plague upon the beautiful world the Creator had form. With the help of half a dozen angels, they rallied together and crafted a plan to overthrow their King of Kings. Together, they stormed the grounds of Heaven and the walls of the divine palace rattled. Together, they tried to overthrow the most powerful being in the universe, the Creator of all. Together, they were cast from the heavens, damned to wander the newly created world, stripped of their angelic wings and gifted wings of the night, wings as dark as their fallen souls.

A Gate was forged, and seven archangels placed at the entrance. It blocked the heavens from the world. It blocked the living from the divine, the angelic from the daemon. Sadly, this great gate was only celestial; it did not protect the living, the humans the Creator had so lovingly crafted, from the daemons He had just rained upon the world. He had unleashed a hellish creation upon his people. 

The Creator gifted Maxine, third in command, the keys to this gate; she was the only being with access, apart from the Creator. She was to patrol the gate, and oversee the archangels which stood guard. Without the keys she held, the gate could not be opened. Unfortunately, she too was affiliated in with the other six that were cast out, and Maxine became the first angel to willingly fall, taking the keys that separated the heavenly from the damned with her. She gladly traded her white wings for their pitch counterparts. Her loyalty lie only with Lucifer Morningstar. 

The seven that fell would later be known - loosely - as the Seven Deadly Sins, though the name is purely for show. Each of the seven was just as deadly as the next, Lucifer being their daemonic leader, and the most powerful of them all.

Rosier, Ariel, Azazel, Sytri, and Regulus were the five loyal to Lucifer, as well as Maxine, Keeper of the Gate. When the Seven fell to the Earth, they separated, hellbent on seeking vengeance against the Creator, on seeking vengeance for their wrongful fallout. Rosier and Ariel went to uncharted territory; they later fathered the Black Plague. Sytri and Regulus followed suit, later twisting and corrupting the mind of a young artist by the name of Adolf Hitler. Azazel trekked further west, dwelling in what would eventually become the United States of America, where he would fuel the enslavement of an entire race. Maxine, however, stayed at the Gate, taunting the cherubim on the other side of the celestial silver with a wicked grin, the key that separated them dangling around her neck. 

There was no way to pass between; the angels on earth were trapped, and those in heaven could do nothing about it.

Lucifer stayed in the garden of Eden, the small piece of heaven on earth, and fixed his pitch black eyes on the soul of Eve, the Creator's first daughter, and the mother of all the living to come. If he could ruin her soul, he could ruin souls for generations to come. So, he tempted her. He led the innocent girl to her demise, and the demise of generations to come. With a single bite, Lucifer watched as all the Creator had made crumbled.

He was very pleased.

It was not until the following years to come that Lucifer found himself undeniably attached to the woman, to Eve and the beautiful immortal soul within her. He watched as she and her mortal husband were cast from the Garden, damned to wander just like the Seven. He watched her suffer in childbirth, and mourn the death of her child when he was murdered by the other - that too an act of one of the Seven. He watched her for the entirety of her mortal life; he watched her grow, and he watched her die. 

It was not until he watched the light leave her eyes, when he watched her once bright and glimmering soul fade away to nothing, did he admit that there was a deep, celestial connection between them. He felt it at his very core, and watching her slip away into darkness pained him to no end.

The Creator had found his way to punish Lucifer for his wrongdoings for the rest of eternity.

In the years and years that followed, the Creator enacted the help of his divine legions to protect his children; those trapped on Earth had a purpose. Each soul was granted a Guardian. Each Guardian stayed with their assigned soul; they stayed with them through life, death, and each rebirth that followed.

As years went on, the six of the Seven wreaked havoc across the globe. Each causing pain and destruction wherever they went. The seventh, the leader, however, did not. Lucifer stayed close to the soul of Eve, the strong and defiant old soul whom he chased. He watched her time and time again grow from a young, carefree girl into a beautiful woman, and he watched her time and time again succumb to her mortal flesh.

Every time she died, every time the light left those bright eyes, it felt as if he died along with her.