In the city of shadows, where nightmares live, “The Great Lords of the Damned”were summoned to Lucifer’s encampment, to give and receive counsel concerning heavens encroachment against the lower worlds, and to strategize on what method of counterattack they needed to employ against paradise, and the angelic forces aligned with Lucifina-GODS favored Child.
One by one the twelve great lords were received with great pomp and ceremony by Lucifer’s Herald and closest companion, The Lord Gabriel. After the amenities were done, he proclaimed:
Welcome Brothers, Let this assembly begin. Feel free to speak your concerns andoffer any advice or council that you think is warranted. The Morningstar is inmeditation and will grace Us with His presence when He sees fit; but for now- I amhis ears. The bell is rung; it’s now begun!
The Archlord Michael was the first to speak:
The tree of life is spreading its roots through the lower worlds, uncorrupting whatwe have corrupted. Soon it will beat our very gates; inflicting God’s fire on ouralready burnt and broken remains. We must cut the root before it cuts us, for ifwe do not, we will then be nothing more then lapdogs at Lucifina’s whim.
A roar of anguish spewed from their bellies upon hearing of this coming doom
And when the lords grew silent, the Dark Lord Uriel, rose from where he sat and in a guttural whisper said:
What is the purpose of these new things of GOD that were made out of Times cloth;Cut from Lucifer’s bones, but yet still possess spirit made from heavens weave. Arethey to be our new masters, making us beg and grovel for crumbs while they baskin the Glory of GOD. Are they to be our judges, handing out punishments for ourperceived sins against GOD. What do they know about suffering? Pain! Despair!Betrayal! What right have they to GOD’S ear while our own prayers remain unanswered.It is they who should bow down before us. It is they who should know hunger, fear,and desolation. I say we act now! We break through the walls of paradise and burnall with the black fire that burns within our rotted souls. And than they shall know what corruption is. And when we blacken the land, we shall than plunder their bodies with
our seed and make our own paradise.
The lords cheered at these inspired words, and salivated at the thought of remaking
paradise…
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The Archangel Gabriella stopped singing in mid-song. Images and fragments of a dark
melody played on her waking thoughts. She grew afraid:and yet she could not stop listoning. And a longing started to grow;
for her to be reunited with that voice that was once her own.
In the darkly gloaming shadows
the dying lay screaming
battered and bleeding-
there loved ones stand weeping
wailing and pleading
for something is coming-
needing and feeding
as death stalks its victims in merciless flight
Falling, falling, down, we go
Falling, falling, nothing to show
Falling, falling, forever the flow
Falling, falling, Not We, NO! NO! NO!
In the dawning twilight moonlight
the fallen lay beaten all bloodied and worn,
lost in the shadows no sleep for the damned.
Hunger is gnawing forever we’re falling
to hell we are going; a desolate wasteland
Our love is forgotten turned sour and rotten
into the mud we sink in our hate
Time is forever, forever and ever
No sleeping, just thinking, thinking and sinking
Hunger appalling, forever it’s gnawing
To GOD we are calling, never to answer, forever we’re falling
In the nightfall slowly closing
darkness recedes from the beckoning light
the fallen go crawling on shriveled sore bellies
seeking dark refuge from luminosity’s might
the dawn is approaching , the flowers are blooming
a skylark is singing , the sun wakes from slumber;
but deep down and under, in dimness and darkness,
the cry of the fallen will forever be heard.
(Gabriel’s Mating Song)
Gabriella wanted to hear more; which made her ashamed.