Demicore

Chapter 24 The Beginning

“You promised.” She said, almost in tears having such hope to start searching for some answer and having him dash them like that was just about more than she could handle right then.

“I have not forgotten that promise, Child, and I will fulfill it – when it is safe to do so. Which is to say, when I am done searching my mind and thoughts to put together what has happened and everything I am. At that point, I will be able to provide many if not all of the answers you seek.” He was so calm, almost emotionless. Grudgingly, she made sure the course was accurate for the house, instead of the lab.

They arrived to find things just as they had left them, as if nothing in the world had shifted and they could continue on with their every day lives. Then they watched a giant cat-bird-human duck and squish his wings to get through the front door. What a reality check! They watched in awe as he crammed himself into the house and down the stairs into the ‘basement’.

As soon as he had disappeared into the dojo, they emptied the craft, made lunch, and sat down over their meal with a holographic recording device to recount the events of the past couple weeks. Sonya pulled the devices she had tracking and recording their movements and downloaded that into the small imager on the table. Immediately, it accounted for discrepancies in motions and timelines in their memories.

Then something else came up. The lower grade imager Sonya had been using on the trip had picked up Andy’s presence. It wasn’t entirely sure how to report her – not quite a living being, but walking and talking just the same.

The three of them stared at each other. So that part hadn’t been a dream either. Andrea was there, sent from God to guide them and help them find Erik who was trying to find other pieces of …himself? that were also not pieces of any part of their father. He called himself Demicore. His personality was severely altered. It was almost enough to make a person come unhinged. Almost. Until they brought to the forefront of their minds that God Himself had wanted this to happen.

It all seemed so incredibly surreal. There they sat in a tiny kitchen in Erik’s grandmother’s house at the round oak table that Erik and Elizabeth bought shortly after they were married forever ago yesterday, discussing things that could not have happened but did. Suddenly, Elizabeth realized how tired she was. As she excused herself to go downstairs to her extravagant bedroom, she thought to herself, This is all some weird dream that I will wake up from shortly. Weird that I should think of that now… I never know I’m dreaming when I really am… and with her tired brain still struggling to wrap around that concept, she drifted off.

Erik made himself as small as he could to get into the dojo, then allowed his wings to unfurl in the open space while he sat on the floor, crossed his legs, and allowed his memories to begin to flow. At first, there were only images from his falcon and jaguar selves. Hunting, protecting, letting go prey that had young to care for. Then more odd for animals, fumbling poachers’ traps, guiding young children who wandered away back to their parents. His memories were going backwards in time, but his human memories were suspiciously absent.

Suddenly, without any warning at all, his memory went black. There was nothing. No time, no space. Just a voice. Deep, rich, all-encompassing. There were not words to describe this voice, only feeling. This voice was the one and only true God. The voice did not speak any language known to man. This was the living language. The one used for creation.

God spoke and creation came to pass, not fast like is portrayed in the bible. Slowly. God spoke with all the tenderness of a father to each thing He chose so very carefully to be in this creation.

Then He drew to Him His Demicore. They were all present. Erik, though that was not his name, and even Lucifer. The Great I Am, gave instructions to the Demicore. This creation was to be His most beautiful, meaningful project yet. It was important to Him, as He held it as close to His heart as he did the Demicore themselves, of whom even Michael and Gabriel were a part.

God imparted to them the knowledge of each plant, each animal down to the very molecules and atoms that they would be made of. How soft or course each strand of hair would be, how fragrant each flower. Then He entrusted them, these beings He had gathered to Him, with the most sacred gift of the Language of Life. Not before warning them that to speak in this language was to wield His power and speak this creation into existence. He would be with them the whole time, watching and partaking, and if they had but the slightest concern they had only to think it and He would give them the answers they sought.

Then another voice spoke, one that was almost more familiar than God. Kaya. “Abba, while we are about speaking Your language into Your creation, where will You be? It isn’t like you to not be along side us as well as within.”

“My child,” His voice was more full of love and adoration than any other ever could be, “I have kept the most precious part of this creation for Myself. While you are about My business, I will create man.”

Kaya smiled. Something about knowing that God was going to create man made them all overjoyed. Erik, Sar – his present consciousness took joy in remembering his Demicore self – looked at Kaya’s smile. It was just as beautiful as ever. If God had a favorite, it would have been Kaya. She was everything He asked of her and more. But God did not have favorites, He loved them all equally. Sar had a favorite. She was his sister.

Tears he could not feel ran down his face and landed on the floor of the dojo. If he could have, he would have stopped his memory there. Enjoyed just having her with him for a while, it had been so very long since he had spent time with her…

They broke the circle to go do God’s bidding with full hearts. Nothing could have made them happier than creation. They spoke and watched as the Language of Life did everything God told them it would. Each one knew they were part of something more than they had ever dreamed and each one was grateful God had chosen them to participate in this holy endeavor.

And when they were done with their assigned tasks, they stood back and gazed in awe at what God had done through them. Then they went looking for the one thing that their Lord had worked on alone. He drew them to him in the most beautiful garden on the whole of the planet.

“What is this place?” Kaya asked in reverence.

“This is My garden,” God told her, “The Garden of Eden. And this,” He gestured to a sleeping form on a bed of the softest, most beautiful moss, “is Adam.”

If they thought their hearts were full before the creation, they could not grasp how much fuller they felt now. They gathered and gazed at this ‘human’. He was so much smaller than the Demicore, standing just over six feet where the shortest of the Demicore was seven. He had no wings, no animal he was pared with. In these limitations, they could see weakness for Adam, but they were not afraid for him for God was with him. They left the human to sleep in the garden God had made just for him.

God told them to roam the earth and the heavens. Enjoy it. Make sure everything is right for his humans to walk the whole surface someday. And so they did. Sar, Kaya, and Lucifer stayed together almost always. Sar and Lucifer were the best of friends, when Kaya told Sar that she and Lucifer were contemplating going through the Binding Ceremony, Sar was happy for them.

Until that day. He tried to pull out of the memories when the day began, knowing what would happen, but he could not. He fought against every action his body took, but there is still no way to change the past. The small star-like entity came, unbidden as it had been the first time he lived it, and it struck out at Kaya. He screamed out. It shook the building around him, though he felt nothing of his present state, only the pain of watching his sister fall into his arms.

Lucifer did something. Fought back? Scared it? Called for God? Sar could not recall. There was only his sister, dying. With her last breathes she spoke the words that released her spirit not into heaven, but into him, as they had promised each other in the beginning when they believed they were immortal that they would do. He spoke the last phrase, accepting her consciousness into himself, to care for her and keep her for all time.

Lucifer caused a great chasm and called all of the Demicore to them, where they still held Kaya’s body. When the last had arrived, Kaya’s body vanished. They learned that they were not immortal after all.

Lucifer had always been a great speaker. His words could move the most staunch to action. He put those words to use, detailing how his love had been struck down without provocation, taken from him and her brother, and urging the whole of the group to join him on a hunt for these beings to the end of the universe for annihilation.