Fallen: Gates of Madness

Chapter 6: Forgotten War

A/N: ok I kinda made this story to be full of mystery but too much more of mystery and I might lose my small group if readers so this chapter will explain a bit about What are the fallen, the angelus,
And why the Mad Hatter is important in this war......

Silence.
Emptiness.
Cold.
Darkness.

This was the universe back when time had yet to begin.

Then came a spark if life, it had no beginning, and it had no end. It was neither alive nor dead it, it simply existed. It had no definite form yet it felt it's own presence in this dark place. It felt something within itself. Energy, unimaginable amounts of energy.

With nothing but a mere thought it created an explosion of light, warmth flooded its surroundings.

For the first time it felt it's own emotion pleasure. It took great joy in the creation of light, and decided that it wanted to be like its creation, with that thought the being became one with the light.

The being of light ever since it had been reported aware of its own existence it had a question, What is my purpose?
it had pondered this question numerous times.

In its search for an answer the light created a multitude of life from the smallest single, celled organism, to the largest ever life form. To sustain this organisms he created many more planets, stars, moons and suns. Until the dark, desolate space that the light inhabited was teeming with life and light.

Still it found no answer to its question.

A sudden thought came to it: "what if I had no power?"

It decided to create life in his image, and likeness, but powerless, and weaker than its creator; he wanted to know what it would be like if he lived another life.

He created Humans, beings that are of his likeness, each human possessed a part of him, a soul, and left them on their own on a small planet that someday they would call Earth.

"Maybe they will be able to help me understand my purpose" it thought to itself.

The light took care of its creation, watching over them, lovingly observing how they would grow, and taking in great sorrow as they died. Taking back the part it had given, back into itself absorbing the experiences of the soul when it inhabited a living body and then returning it into a new body, it reincarnated the soul. The cycle of life gave the light what it had been searching for,it had given the light purpose. It was to be the guardian of the lives of its creation.

But it was not alone, ever since this being of light came to existence along with it a shadow came to be. It was the complete opposite if the light.

The shadow preferred the silence and the emptiness , that the darkness provided.
The light has disturbed the shadow's slumber and it grew restless it wanted to remove the light. It wanted to corrupt it.

Then the shadow felt the presence of life, human life, it was instantly drawn to it. It felt power upon coming in contact with it, it absorbed the small part of the light into itself it corrupted it, slowly it grew stronger on the souls of those it corrupted. And it hungered for more. It started to hunt the light.

The light sensed the intent of its dark brethren and it fought back, the battle between light and shadow stretched out for centuries.

The light was only able to capture and restrain the shadow and locked it away into to the center of the universe.

Peace reigned for a long time.

Even then the shadow had not been completely contained even if only its essence was the only thing that had been able to slowly escape its prison. It was enough to creep to earth and further corrupt man. The shadow released its darkest essence into the world.

It started to corrupt 7 Individuals, into them the shadow poured its pride, wrath, gluttony, lust, greed, sloth, and envy. The seven sins where born and unleashed unto man kind. Each person that the shadow corrupted lost there soul and started to corrupt others as to feed their master. The shadow believed that in doing so it would force the light to destroy what it had created, giving the shadow the triumph that it had been craving for.

It had succeeded in corrupting the Light's beloved humans. But it had not gone unnoticed.
Sensing what its brethren had done, and although it was true that the light could destroy its own creation and just start a new. It understood that the shadow would only need to corrupt the light's new world. It decided to spare its creation and to support them.

It knew of the corruption the shadow had on its people and that one's a person had been corrupted the soul it was difficult to get back unless the soul understood what it had done in life and willingly drive out the shadow, but that in itself was a miracle.

The light created 3 realms Regna Terrae (Earth Realm) wherein its creation the humans resided, Medium Regni (Middle Realm) an alternate universe where the light created beings known as the angelus, whose task was to look over the humans. Finally Hellion Regni (Hell Realm) where the light sent the souls tainted with shadow, to be imprisoned to avoid the reincarnation of the evil soul only would it be reincarnated if it willingly expel the shadow within it.

The light understood its own power and time soon came that it came into realization that such power should never be held by one entity, it feared that the power it possessed would one day control him.

The light decided to split itself into 7 parts in doing so he would dissipate the immense power within itself. Never to be the most powerful entity unless the shadow somehow escapes its prison. The light offered its 6 halves onto his children,The Angelus,if they accepted him then he would merge with their soul giving them a small portion of the lights power, this 6 Angelus always where together the most powerful of the Angelus they were considered as Gods both on earth and in their realm they watched over humans and their fellow angelus. His 7th soul the most powerful of the lights halves known to the angelus as the Filius Aurora ,offered unto a human, a beacon of hope for humans against the shadow. The 3 realms were once open to one another the leaving were able to go on the different realms.

However all that changed The Shadow sensed the Creation of the 3 realms, once again it let its corruption wonder it had found Medium Regni. It corrupted many of the Angelus, and a great war started. The 6 battled against their corrupted brethren with humans assisting the Angelus. It took untold centuries many of the Forces of each side fell. Finally the 6 Gods Along with the human that contained the light managed to defeat the corrupted Angelus and send them to Hellion Regni, they came to be known as The Fallen they where so corrupted by the shadow that they lost their connection to the light. They were led by the being known as Satrien, the humans came to know him as Satan.

The 6 Gods and the human decided that the 3 realms should be separated in order to avoid another full scale corruption. The Gates where created separating the worlds, the key to the 3 realms where separated the key of Medium Regni and Regna tarrea where given to the Angelus, while the Key into Hellion Regni was kept by the human In time the memory and the records pertaining the great war was lost or altered by human society, peace once again reigned, the human that contained the soul of light died after 200 years of life and resurrected as another human. The peace did not last

The shadow had taken control of Hellion Regni due to the massive concentration of fallen and darkened souls their. It made Satrien its Avatar the personification of darkness under him the seven sins served. They where the ones that had been able to escape they're masters faith and wonder Regna Terrae in search of souls to corrupt and the Human who holds the spirit of the light, They called it The Mad Hatter in order for there master the fallen and the shadow to be released to spread darkness on all the three realms once again.

The Fallen were what humans referred to as Demons, and the Angelus as the Angels.