As The Sun Sets, Erinny Rose [carter reed .txt] 📗

Preface
“Is everybody ready!” boomed Deus “Ready!” roared the crowd behind him. “The time has come where we have to make a stand against Diabolus and his children!” “We will not surrender!” And with Michael and Gabriel at his side the war began.

It was impossible to think that only one month ago that I was alone and unafraid, but now I know that the stories are true, all the stories that I thought were myths and legends and all the secrets that I had been hiding from were real. Even the thought of it sent shivers down my spine and made the little hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I am a target, a victim in a cruel meaningless game and the only choice I have is to play it. I have read all the books about heaven and hell wishing, only wishing that they were true because at the time I knew, well I thought I knew, that they were just stories, people’s crazy imaginations written down on paper and made in to a book, but I was so wrong, I was so very wrong. Now the only dilemma I have is how do I protect the people I love when they are the stories and the legends? How can I protect them when they don’t need protecting? It makes you ask the one question that always has no answer, are we really safe?


Chapter one

A young man, around the age of eighteen with bright blonde hair was walking along a very long corridor, he had been sent a message a little while ago that Deus wanted to see him about something, but he wasn’t too worried because he had a solution either way if it was what he thought it was, he sighed as he heard a voice behind him
“Hey!” yelled the voice behind him, the young man looked around to see another man a little bit older than him running to catch up with him “what did you do this time? You wouldn’t believe how angry he is!”
“I know Michael” he grumbled lengthening his stride
“He is even angrier than the time you accidently destroyed Pompeii! What did you do?” Michael asked again
The younger man thought for a while on how to tell his friend the truth in the end he figured that it would be best just to tell him straight “I fell in love.” He answered sighing.
“What is so wrong about that?” asked Michael confused.
He stopped walking and looked at Michael “I fell in love with a human ok” and started to walk again.
“Are you mad?” Michael shouted
“Evidently I am” he shouted back glaring out of the windows as he continued to walk, as always it was a perfect sunny day outside and the shouts and the laughter of the children always seemed to calm his temper, “Look Michael I know that it’s against the rules but you cant help who you fall in love with! He of all people should know that.” He said almost pleading with Michael to understand.
“But friend, the one rule that he always stressed about was not to fall in love with a human.”
“Well it’s a stupid rule” the young man said as he glared at the floor “you can’t tell yourself not to fall in love with someone”
“I know you can’t, but what you can do is walk away!”
“I am not walking away from this one” he mumbled angrily,
Michael sighed “you know he initiated the rule for their safety, not for your suffering. You could cause so much trouble.”
“I’m planning on it” He muttered, stopping as they reached the end of the corridor and a huge wooden door.
Michael raised his eyebrows “you could get banished, just like…” but the young friend butted in with
“I know I could and I wouldn’t care, now Michael please back off” seeing the offended look on Michaels face he added “I know you’re only looking out for me and I thank you for that but I know what im getting into”
Michael sighed “Ok old friend, I will see you later” then he walked away muttering under his breath about insolent teenagers.
The young man watched his friend walk away and then took a deep breath then opened the door and walked in to a high ceilinged room, with three stained glass windows on each side of the room and one single stained glass window on the wall at the back of the room, each as magnificent as the last, the room looked like a well kept church, will fantastically old oak pews in rows facing towards a geniously constructed golden lectern in the shape of two hands spread out as if to embrace someone in a hug, the lectern stood on a small wooden parapet just big enough to hold one person. On the ceiling there were patterns brilliantly drawn, perfect in every detail, who ever had spent time on this room must have felt such affection to do such a brilliant job.
The stained glass windows seemed to picture time, it seemed to be seven days as there were seven windows. the first window, opposite the door was split up into two sections the first was black, there were no pictures, just black, emptiness, nothing to show, but along the side were the words ‘there was nothing’ in silver elegantly scripted Edwardian style writing, on the second section was the same darkness but it was split diagonally through the middle and the other side of the line was very brightly white, with the words ‘and there was morning’ and on the black side was ‘and there was night’ written in gold written in the same Edwardian script. The second window was blue with a shimmer of white, the kind of ripple you would expect to see on water, there was no writing on this window.
“Marvelling at my handiwork are you son?” said a deep booming voice
“Deus! You did this!” Deus nodded. “What are they telling?” asked the boy
“The windows?” the boy nodded “They are telling the story of creation. How long did it take you, to finish all of this?” The young man waited for an answer but when it didn’t come he said “You wanted to see me Deus” a little too quickly and had to repeat him self to make the words distinguishable.
Deus looked at him thoughtfully “come” he said extending his arm “walk with me”. They walked through a door that lead into a beautiful garden, neither of them spoke for a while they were both just admiring the astonishing beauty that the garden had, Deus sighed “you know that I am not unreasonable don’t you, that I only set rules to keep peace between us and them”, the young man could see that the first ever banishment was still lying heavily on Deus’ mind, “This garden was created to be looked after by humans” sighed Deus as they watched some small children dance past. “I was so upset when I had to have them chased out.”
“Deus?” he said quietly “why did you create humans if you knew what they were going to do?”
“That’s a very good question, and one that I do intend to answer but not yet, there is always a right time for everything and at this moment in time you are not ready for the answer.” There was no point in arguing with Deus, he had a nasty temper. They stopped in front of a huge blossoming apple tree that stood in the middle of the garden, “you know, this was the first fruit tree that I ever planted.”
“I know Deus” said the young man heaving a sigh “you tell me every time we walk past it.”
Deus frowned, “I’m not happy with you son; I sent you down to earth to protect the girl not fall in love with her.”
“Deus im sorry it wasn’t intentional” he replied
“I set rules for a purpose son and you broke one of the most important ones”
He sighed then said “I know you do, you know that I am not a rule breaker, usually” Deus raised his eyes at the young man in front of him “I know” he apologized “I apologize at least ten times every day for my mistake with Pompeii”
“I still don’t like this, you could ruin everything for everybody, and you could put earth in danger” Deus stated looking at the man.
“I promise I will be careful” begged the young man “nobody can help who they fall in love with, you should know that.”
“I do know that, humans were made to be loved son, just think how empty they would feel if they weren’t loved at all, not even by me. There are still things you don’t know.” Deus started to walk again
“like what?” asked the man expectantly “I know her past, her present and her future, I know all of her thoughts, her feelings and I know her prayers” he sighed “She is a good girl, son and she deserves you”
The young man stopped walking “what?” he said amazed “you are letting this happen?”
“She is an extraordinary girl; she should be with some one just like her” Deus said finally
“Thanks Deus” he grinned “nothing but good will come of this, you should know.” Deus smiled at him then turned around walking back the way they came leaving the young man on his own. He walked on appreciating everything then eventually sat down on the grass watching the little children playing and dancing happily, “Life used to be so simple” he muttered
“Life is never simple Blondie” replied a voice next to him, he looked up to see a short, skinny, beautiful blonde haired girl also around the age of eighteen sit down next to him holding two children a little girl around the age of four and a boy around the age of three.
“Oh hey there song bird”
“I was just on my way to have a go at you after talking to Michael, but luckily I saw Deus on my way.”
“It wasn’t Michael’s business to tell you” said the young man annoyed
“Hey” frowned the beautiful girl “he is just concerned, you two have been friends for such a long time.”
“I suppose” replied the young man watching the two children snuggle closer to the girl when they saw him look at them, the man smiled “who are these two then?”
“Oh” said the woman in a perfect melodic voice “they just arrived; they err got separated from their parents” They exchanged an understanding look between them.
“What happened?” asked the man
“The whole family got caught in a house fire” answered the girl as the two little children who had been watching the other children dance got up to join them, “there we go” she grinned. They sat there in silence for a while watching the children dance
“It’s beautiful isn’t it” he said
“What is?” asked his friend now turning her eyes to him
“Everything” he answered “this garden is so much more beautiful than the others we have here.”
“Of course it is, it was the garden Deus created for humans.”
“Sure” grinned the young man “of course, Thanks for your company, but I’ve got to go and sort out a few things now.”