Demicore

Chapter 25

Then Sar stood, shorter and lighter than Lucifer, and spoke to the group, “We cannot hold the entire race accountable for the actions of one. We must find them and learn whether this one is a rouge or acting on behalf of the whole before we make judgment,” he went on to explain that this is the course Kaya would want. They argued greatly. Finally Sar suggested they take the matter to God, who knows all and would settle this. They could lay it at the feet of the Creator and allow Him to dole justice.

Lucifer refused, “God is too busy playing in His garden with Adam and Eve to pay attention to us here. We are on our own to fend for ourselves!”

With those words, a war was born between Lucifer and Sar and Lucifer and God. Lucifer swore he would break God’s heart the way his heart had been broken by God’s abandon. Michael and Gabriel returned to heaven with several of the others, wanting nothing to do with the rift and having confidence that God had not abandoned anyone. Sar stayed on earth, swearing that he would protect God’s creation from any harm he could manage to stop. Each of them persuaded some of the Demicore to follow them.

Thus the chasm was born between the Demicore. They were permanently divided. Tears flowed freely from Erik’s eyes. She would have been so saddened by this, having he and Lucifer pitted against each other and the group divided this way … over her.

Sar was so afraid that his sister’s memory would be tainted by the pain and loss he was going through from her death and the chasm in close nit group that was the Demicore that he carefully wrapped it in his mind. Everything that was her, he put away so he could deal with staying alive himself. He went to the garden to see God, but God was not walking with Adam and Eve. He cried out and God answered him. Sar could not understand why God said that He knew what was happening even when Kaya was being struck, but He would not interfere with the creature’s free will, but not to fear.

“Come to me and let me heal you,” God requested, “give your pain to me.”

“I cannot yet,” Sar replied. “I cannot return to heaven right now. She loved Your creation too much. I have to stay with it.”

God let him stay. Allowed Sar to remain on earth to protect what Kaya loved so very much from being destroyed. Sar did have one major question, though. He asked God why Lucifer hadn’t just used the Language of Life to destroy the earth the way they had created it with God.

“The Language of Life is a language of love. When Kaya was struck down, his heart filled up with so much bitterness and pain that he could not speak it.”

“Then why did you not strike him down when he tried to destroy this creation of Yours?” Sar asked.

“Because he, too, is Mine and I love him, as I love you. When his heart is healed enough, perhaps he will learn as you are learning that love is greater than pain or sorrow.”

They spoke for a while longer and God did not chastise him for taking his sister into himself. God even called him by his new name first, Krys Kaya-Sar, and told him he had done well by reminding the other Demicore that God had not abandoned them. Krys for the cross between the two entities and then the two names combined. Kaya-Sar promised to do everything he could to protect God’s creation from Lucifer’s destruction.

Lucifer became ever angrier with his former friend and began to hunt him. The other Demicore were afraid. Krys Kaya-Sar urged each of them to return to heaven or hide as best they could. He himself took his human form and began trying to lead a human life. Time and again he was lured into showing himself. Time and again he had to do something that would reveal him not entirely human in order to dismantle some trick or other that would cause great harm to humanity.

He fell in love and took a human wife. She knew who and what he was, but loved him anyway. She understood that he would not age with her and that he had to wander at least a little in order to fulfill his promise to God. Another of the Demicore lured him onto the battlefield… imitated his voice and called to her. Not knowing the foe his adversary had called into the battle, he turned and delivered a death blow.

Mim-Cri dropped her offences long enough to call out his wife’s name and say that the woman was dead. Immediately he stopped fighting. His instincts all but shut off in his great pain. The strike had been clean and swift, she had felt nothing. That was little consolation to him. He knew he was all instinct when he was fighting and that if he had had his head about him, he would have known Mim-Cri would use her talents against him. He would have know that she would call to his beloved wife in his voice and he would not have struck her down.

Mim knew it, too. She started speaking to him, telling him how sad it all was and, “If you had not fought me, I would not have been forced to call her out here as my only defense…” she went on. He heard her words but had trouble understanding them all through his pain, “…I know it won’t bring her back, but if you sign this contract never to fight me again we can prevent this tragedy from re-occurring…” she held out a document that had both their blood on it from the battle, splashed over the words as though the words had been etched and the blood now formed the letters.

He picked up the quill, dipped it in his own blood from one of his open wounds, and signed his name. Now numb with pain, still holding his dead wife’s body, he didn’t even know what he had done. She stood over him, her compassionate demeanor gone completely.

Her laugh was cruel. “You cannot ever fight me again!”

He went to reach for his weapons, realizing that she had tricked him into killing his love in order to get some sort of contract out of him. Mim-Cri held up the contract in front of her and laughed that horrible laugh again, “It’s a Blood-Oath, Kaya-Sar, you can’t touch me.” Just for fun, she taunted him.

He dropped his weapons and sank down. He had never understood Mim. She was the only one who had not chosen a side. She fought with him, she fought with Lucifer. Was she fighting just to fight? Was there something else going on? He had failed to protect his wife, the woman he loved. How could he protect anyone else? He sat there, holding her body for a indeterminate amount of time. His mind grew fuzzy. He was aware of walking the earth, doing good deeds trying to erase the guilt. It didn’t work.

Kaya-Sar grew weaker as he roamed. He forgot how to call on his God for help. Lucifer grew stronger. Lucifer’s bitterness and hatred fueled his need to destroy God and Sar. His attacks grew more frequent. He killed several of the Demicore closest to Sar. Gemini brought word from God that if Kaya-Sar could defeat Lucifer, they could negate the rest of Armageddon. Sar knew there was no way he could defeat Lucifer, he would need a great distraction and that would take time. He went to a remote corner of the earth, where he wouldn’t be seen doing it, and split himself.

He performed the one ritual that would break most Demicore altogether. With his parts in three separate pieces, he sent his human soul to wander the earth, inhabiting the bodies of children that would otherwise have been stillborn and retaining his essence. For a while, he knew who he was. Watching as the Egyptians started worshiping the Demicore and recognizing most of their “gods” as those who chose sides with Lucifer. The highest god, though, that was still the one and only True God. It broke Kaya-Sar’s heart to watch humans discredit their maker so greatly. And so he put away even the memories of who he was.