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Cain and Lilith (standard:Suspense, 6102 words) | |||
Author: A. Santana | Added: Oct 21 2005 | Views/Reads: 4496/2734 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
Story conerning the undead. It starts with Cain and Abel His banishment from the grace of God. | |||
Click here to read the first 75 lines of the story Adam found her she would tell him nothing of what happened. Lilith did not think of her talk with the serpent. She spent her days running from Adam when his desire would overcome him and teaching the animals to talk and obey her. But one day the serpent found her with the animals and tempted her saying, You spend your days running from a husband with whom you don't love and you spend your time teaching the animals to talk when you could be a goddess. There is foresight to be given and the power of the moon and the air to be had but thou art content to be a fool. Lilith was angered by the serpent and tried to catch it and kill it but it flew into the air and with its master's power caused her to fall into the dust. Chastened, Lilith flattered the serpent. She asked, What doth need to be done by me to have the power you speak of? The serpent said, Leave this garden with the seeds thereof and grow a garden to the east and make an offering of the firstfruits to my master and you will have the poser he can grant you. Lilith gathered seeds from all of the trees and herbs and took the animals that would follow her out of the Garden of Eden. The land outside of Eden was barren, but the earth had not yet become hostile and her journey was easy. She travelled five days east of Eden. Lilith planted a garden around a steam and the garden grew easily since the curse had not yet fallen of the earth. The eagles and owls brought her fruit from the Garden of Eden daily as her garden grew. When the garden had grown one of the ravens spoke saying, A man at the river spoke to me and hath told me to say. The one you seek is now here. Lilith hurried to the river and saw a brigh light. The light came closer and she saw a figure within it. It was a man with long flowing white hair, a silver robe, and wings extended from his back, neck, and legs. He held a bow in his right hand and several flaming arrows in his left hand. He spoke with a booming musical voice, Lility, I know what thou seekest. You seek the posers of the spirit, the air, and the moon. My servant hath spoken well of thee, Thou are pure and worthy to receive the gifts I give. Lilith answered the man, and said unto him, What must I do to receive gifts such as you offer? The man answered her, Bring the first fruits to this place; and build here an altar of six large stones. Take the Pg 2 firstfruits and offer them on the altar of six stones with fire. After the fire hath consumed the offering, take a sharp stone and strike thine arm with the stone. Pour an offering of thy blood on the altar, and I will consume the offering with fire from heaven. I will visit you within a time if you do this small thing. Lilith bowed before the man and said, I will do this small thing and then you will bless me. The wings on the man covered him completely and he rose into the air and was lost in the clouds. Lilith gathered the firstfruits of the trees and herbs and piled them onto the bank of the river. Then she found six large stones by the river. The stones she piled together forming an altar. Lilith put the fruits and herbs on the altar and set her torch to the altar. Then she cut her arm with a rock and dripped the blood onto the altar. Lilith worshipped before the altar. The man came down and the flames licked up the blood from the altar. The man abode with Lility for a month and taught her to draw power from the moon, from the air, and from the realm of the spirit. Every year she would offer the firstfruits on the altar and then offer her blood. He returned many years to consume the blood offering and to instruct Lilith....” Of The curse(Genesis 2) “And the LORD God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help mate for him....And the LORD God cause a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;...And the rib which the LORD God had taken from man, made a woman, and brough her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man....(Genesis 3) Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden. And the woman said..., We may eat of of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst o9f the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:...For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil...And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, anda tree to be desired to make one wise, and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat...And the eyes of them bother were opened, and they knew that they were naked; And made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden...and...hid themselves...And the LORD God called unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said I heard thy voice in the garden and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself...And he (God) said,...Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman....gave me of the tree, and I did eat...And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat...And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed....Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply they sorrow and they conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee...And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hardened unto voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;...Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field...In the sweat of they face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground...And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.....The LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken...So he drove out the man; and he placed at the eat of the Garden of Eden Cherubins, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.” From the book of Cain: “After Cain was cursed by God, he left his mother's dwelling and travelled to the land of Nod, east of Eden. He went in search of the witch Lilith for he sought power, and to rule over men. He also sought to reverse the curse of death brought on by Adam and Eve into the world. He found Lilith in her home in the midst of the garden she had planted. When Cain and Lilith met they found each other pleasing and were content to dwell with each other. It came to pass that the time came to offer the firstfruits of the garden on the altar. Lilith instructed Cain in preparing the fruit and herbs and they offered them upon the altar. A man with wings, surrounded by light descended from the sky. Lilith said unto Cain, Light-bringer, will give you your heart'' desire. Speak and tell me what it is you seek Cain and Lilith worshipped before the man and Cain spake unto the man saying, Lightbringer, I Cain will answer you. I have lost the things I desire most. My parents have brought the curse of death upon themselves and all of their children. I desire immortality. Also my curse hath turned me into a fugitive and a vagabond. .As first born I desire my birthright of being lord over the children of Adam and Eve. Lightbringer replied to Cand and said, You shall have what you see. I will give you eternal life. The blood of others shall sustain you as your meat and drink. It shall fuel your immortality. The children of Seth shall fear you and they shall be in awe of you. You will be bonded to the powers of the air, the powers of the moon, and the powers of the spirit. You shall be bound to Lilith and reverence her as a goddess. Take the blood offering into your mouth and do not let a drop spill to the ground. With that Lilith took a sharp stone and cut her arm. Cain saw the blood and was hungered. He fastened his mouth upon the wound and drank until the blood stopped. Lightbringer raised his arm and fire fell upon Cain but the fire did not burn him. The fire changed Cain and made his strength increased, and his teeth were like daggers, and his soul was destroyed. Lightbringer said unto Cain, You have the power to control the air and to fly. You have the power of the moon to control shadow and create darkness. You have the power of the spirit to control and enthrall the minds of other men. You will pass your seed on to Lility and your sons shall be great blood drinkers and your daughters shall be great seers in the land. But God shall curse you and all your kind to dwell in darkness and hate the sun. And God appeared unto them and said unto Lightbringer, Satan, why dost thou trouble my creatures and the men and women I have made upon the earth? And he cursed Satan and said, I will bind you in a void for a season, and you shall be destitute for a season. And with that the ground opened up and the light that surrounded Satan became darkness. And Satan fell into the hole in the earth and the ground clised up. And to Cain God said, Because you have eaten blood as your meat and drink, and become one with the air, moon and spirit, and have given up your immortal soul, I will curse pg 3 you under the sun. You will sleep in the earth during the day, and the children of Seth shall seek you and your children out by day to destroy you with fire. And wasted shall be your days and a curse shall you be upon the earth. And unto Lilith God said, Because you have served Satan these years you shall not fail to have a cursed child one who is blind or halt or maimed or deaf or dumb or one who is a lunatic. And you shall be crippled upon the earth and your days shall be shortened. With that Lilith fell to the ground crippled in her feet and wept. The ground swallowed Cain and he slept in the earth. And God left. Cain and Lilith had children, and Cain builded the city Enoch after his firstborn son. And they warred against the children of Seth. And it came to pass that Lilith died. Lilith's daughters prophesied about the great flood, and cousin Noah built a great ship. The sons of Cain and Cain himself buried themselves deep within the earth and went into a deep sleep. The daughters of Lilith tried to build a great ship, but the rains came before the ship could be covered in pitch. The ship sank with the daughters of Lilith Aboard. Centuries after the flod the sons of Cain rose up from the earth. Satan appeared to them and blessed them as is children. Once again they troubled the children of Noah, and were a curse upon the earth. Cain did not rise with his children and is said to sleep onto this very day at the time of this writing.” Of the Vampire Slayers “After the time of Christ, the saints did many miracles, and the holy faith of the pure believers was like the sunlight to the vampires or children of Cain. Armed with swords and sanctified to the purpose and holy oil which blistered the skin of the vampires, the vampire slayers tracked down many of the children of Cain and would cut their heads off, or drag them into the sunlight. Many vampires fled the lands of the vampire slaying saints to lands that believed in false gods. “The vampires were said to display the following traits”. Pale parchment like skin No reflection or shadow Sometimes surrounded by a cloud of darkness Known to be able to fly Spread vampirism by bite or by birth (vampirism is a spiritual disease) Can enthrall others and hypnotize others Powers grows with the age of the vampires Older vampires can cause Tornadoes Vampires can call animals to aid them Can be wounded by fire, the sun, decapitation, or sanctified anointing oil. (crucifix and a lot of faith) Older vampires have a more decomposed look, but they use glamour to make Them appear more normal. At first glance you may see them as they really are, a decomposing body. Hopefully these pages will help you in the holy war against vampires. Remember that your faith and purity Of heart are key in your battle against the undead. It may be the key to winning the battle against the Unholy vampires.” Timothy closed the book he was reading and gathered the scrolls and book into his backpack, and headed out of the church. “Contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” On the readerboard. Timothy slung the backpack onto both shoulders and zipped up his leather jacket. He jumped in his black corvette and headed for the west end of town. There were sightings of Satan's brood on the waterfront. It was dusk, and he was going to try to find any trace of the fledgelings. He could sense that they had been in the area lately. Images of the vampires killing and feeding flashed through his mind. He reached the waterfront and got out of his car. He walked to the boardwalk and smelled the foul stench of a rotting body. He climbed over the rail and stood n the rocks below the boardwalk and saw a dead body that the police had yet to find. He pulled out a flashlight and shone it on the dead body noticing the blackened nose and fingers. The body used to be a blond white male with blue eyes. He had a gouge in his neck and was broken. It was just a guess but it seemed that he was sucked dry. Timothy rubbed some anointing oil which was very sweet smelling under his nose and got a little closer to the body. He touched the forehead and searched through the images that came to him. He saw what happened to the man. There were four or five vampires on the boardwalk and they had confronted a man and his wife they were John Anderson and Melissa, “Missy”. Two female vampires grabbed Missy and started taking her away from the boardwalk toward downtown. John tried to follow her, but one of the male vampires pushed him back to the rail. One of the other vampires was holding the leashes to the choke collars around the necks of a Rottweiler and a pit bull who were snarling at the man. The third male vampire went to snatch John, but the first male vampire who seemed to be the alpha male pushed John away from the vampire and snarled at the vampire with his fangs showing. John tried to run away, but the leader turned around doing a roundhouse kick right in John's back. There was a loud snapping sound and John tumbled over the rails and into the water. He pulled John up onto the rocks beneath the boardwalk and bit a hole in the neck of his victim. The bite cut through the fatty tissue and the spasming neck muscle and ripped through the carotid artery spraying blood in great squirts into the mouth of the parasite. The vampire began to suck as the pressure lessened. John died on the rocks with the voice of the second vampire in his ears, “Chucky you selfish F...! ...” and saw and heard no more. Timothy climbed back onto the boardwalk, and pulled out his cell phone. He called the police anonymously, and told them about the body he had found. He climbed back into his corvette and concentrated Pg 4 On the vampire leader's name....Chucky....Charles....Charles... He began to feel a compass in his mind turn toward the south. He headed south on Broadway/Highway 101 and drove until he reached the mall. The vampire leader was across Broadway from the mall, to the east. He pulled out of the mall parking lot and made his way to the abandoned army parade grounds once occupied by Grant's men. He was sure the vampire was on the ancient base somewhere. He pulled out a large crucifix that doubled as a short sword. He could see the blade shine with a holy light, the vampire would see it too though anyone else wouldn't. He could hear laughing from up ahead. He also heard a dog bark once. He pulled out one of his pistols from a shoulder holster. He had the crucifix in his right hand and the pistol in his left. He crawled forward trying in vain not to make a sound. His footsteps sounded loud in his ears though the laughter went on without a hitch. He backed against an old house. He was sure they were on the other side. He made his way around and suddenly the laughter stopped and the dogs started barking. He ran around the side of the house and fired the guns. Two bullets each went into the heads of the dogs as the vampires recoiled from the holy light. He shot the leader two times just to piss him off and turned to one of the females and slashed downward burying the sword deep into the vampire's shoulder. He wrenched his sword free and decapitated the vampire holding the dead dogs leashes. His head, went flying, and the wounded vampire and the other female vampire fled. The leader and the remaining male vampire began to recover from the shock of the swords light. They both flanked the vampire hunter. Timothy dropped the gun, and is hands worked in his coat pockets. Timothy turned around so that the leader was on his right and the fledgling was on his left. The two vampires leapt at the man like lions. Timothy, with blurring speed unstoppered a vial with is teeth and threw it at the fledgling. At the same time he stabbed at the leader. The fledgling scratched through Timothy's coat but did not pierce the steel mesh shirt he wore beneath his clothes. The vampire recoiled as the anointing oil burned through his face and chest. The leader's arm was impaled on the man's sword and he tried to get closer to him. The vampire hunter kicked Charles in the chest, and spun around cutting through the fledgling's head at the jawline. The vampire hunter and the vampire circled each other. Timothy unstopped and hurled a vial of anointing oil at the leader. He was able to sidestep it. The vampire picked up a rock and threw it at Timothy. He batted it away. The vampire leapt high into the air and started coming down right above the man. The man said, “God of Adam, Seth, and Abel, assist me.” “Step into oblivion!” At the same time he leapt up to meet the vampire and struck directly upwards with his sword impaling the undead one through the chest. The sword flashed with a holy light and the vampire leader burst into flames screaming, “Nooo...F...Noo!” Timothy found where the vampires slept and poured anointing oil on their beds in the earth. He found a few rotting corpses in their house and managed to locate where the two females slept. He grabbed from their few meager possessions, and left the house. He left the deserted, old army camp and drove off for the church. He would pursue the females tomorrow. He was riding high on adrenaline. His corvette pulled into the church parking lot, his mind replaying scenes from the short battle over and over. They were young vampires and he was lucky to escape from the fight with only a ripped jacket. He went into the church and meditated for a while. Slowly the images of the battle ebbed from his mind and rested in memory. He went down to the caretaker's apartment. He chatted about nothing with him for a few minutes and left. When he got home he placed his gun and the large silver crucifix in a huge safe in his office. He put more anointing oil in the pockets of his jacket and hung the ragged garment in his closet. He lay in his bed and slept and dreamed. In his dream he was fighting the vampire Chucky. They circled each other like they had done earlier that night. This time the blood drinker didn't leap in the air. Instead he grabbed the sword by the blade and wrenched it out of Timothy's grasp. Then he seized Timothy and fastened on to his neck. He screamed and tried to push the vampire away. But he couldn't break free. His vision went dim and he could feel himself dying... He woke up gasping in his bed covered in sweat. He woke up and sat there trying to recall what really happened. The dream had seemed so real and the memory of the dream kept trying to superimpose itself over the memory of what really happened. He got up and went into the kitchen and fixed himself a sandwich and a glass of O.J. Tim then went into the living room and watched T.V. Nothing on. He put on a video. He found action movies relaxing so he threw in “Platoon”. He watched Charlie Sheen as he sat in the jungle watching for an ambush. It wasn't long before he curled up on the couch and fell deeply asleep. He woke up at 6;30 with the T.V. blaring. He turned it off and took a shower. Then took off for the gum. He went through his workout routine quietly, moving from one machine to the next. He took a second shower and left the gym. He went back home and picked up the items he found last night. A necklace and a bracelet. He changed clothes putting on the metal mesh shirt and trousers underneath his clothes. He also put on the double shoulder holster where he kept his two .357's. He put two quick loaders with six bullets each in a pocket of his jacket, a flimsier version of the ripped jacket he wore yesterday. He put anointing oil in other easily accessible pockets and grabbed the cross/sword and put it in a scabbard under his backpack. He took the vampire jewelry he had and went out to his car. He drove around the small town he lived in fingering the necklace and the bracelet. He started to see images of the vampire maidens asleep in the earth. He headed east away from downtown. They were in the part. He headed north on Harris Street. The park was right next to the zoo. He saw the sign for the zoo and turned right heading east again. He passed a school on his left and heard children playing in the playground, He passed the zoo entrance and parked next to the park. The Sequoias dwarfed everything around them. He passed the playground where now school-age kids played and mommies watched. A hot dog vendor sold them hot dogs and sodas. Timothy headed farther into the park and walked on the road onto the needle covered ground. They were very close, both of them. He looked around for a while trying to find the loose soil that would indicate a recent burial. Here at the foot of a giant sequoia he saw two small mounds of dirt with a sprinkling of needles. He puled out a short handled army issue shovel and a couple of road flares. He stuck the flares inside an inside jacket pocket and began digging with the shovel. It took him forty-five minutes to dig down to the first body, and another thirty minutes to fully disclose the body. The female slept. The sun was partially blocked by the giant redwoods and by heavy cloud cover. Timothy quickly pulled out a large bottle of anointing oil and poured it on the woman. Her flesh began to sizzle and her eyes flew open, and she hissed at the vampire hunter. She began to climb out of the holt. Timothy lit one of the road flares and tossed it at the vampire. Her skirt and jeans went up in flames and for a moment her eyes and Pg 5 Mouth made large O's of surprise. He could see the wound that he gave her on her shoulder already partially healed. She grabbed him and pulled him close saying, “You die with me!” He managed to grab his sword out of its scabbard and chop down at her as the flames set his clothes alight. He hacked away at her, but she held him fast. His flesh began to burn from the heat and he struggled to get sway. Finally his jacket had burned through and ripped with the struggle. The flames were spreading over the vampire. Her hair caught and quickly as ablaze. She screamed an earpiercing scream and ran for him. He drew back and planted a round kick squarely on her jaw and her head rocked back. She staggered backward and he hacked at her. She raised an arm in protection. The sword cut cleanly through the forearm slicing through the bone. She flailed her arms as he struck the final neck vertebrae and her head went flying, a snarl still visible on the face. Timothy breathed heavily. He picked up the shovel and began working on the second mound of dirt. This grave was shallower. It didn't take very long to find the form under the dirt. He had just uncovered her top half when her eyes popped open, and she lunged upward at Timothy. The air around him became dark. He felt drugged. It occurred to him as from far away that she was a loit older that the other vampires. He felt his death coming nearer and waves of peace swept over him. It's okay...everything is okay....I underestimated this one...but everything's okay...I am going to die....okayyy.. She know she had him and she played with him like a cat with a mouse. “Did you think that you would kill me?” “mmm...yes...” “Should I share with you the gift... ...curse...of the blood drinkers?” “ no...” “Then I will kill you....slowly....” “You will be like an animal to me and I will feed on you until you lose the power to feed me.” She pulled him close and embraced him. She bit into his neck and felt the lifeblood squirt into her mouth. He felt his life draining away just like in his dream. He felt his spirit try to leave his body, but it was trapped. She would not let him die. He fell unconscious. He woke up in a house. He felt disoriented. He saw light coming in the window and by the light it was just about dusk. He was naked and his hands were handcuffed behind his back. He recognized where he was. He was in one of the houses in the old abandoned army base. There was a place in the floor where the floorboards were removed. This where the vampire would come up. He felt fear. He also felt lightheaded from blood loss. Despair had a hold on his heart. “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” The dirt where the vampire was buried shifted. The dirt began to give way and the vampire emerged emotionless from her grave. She bit into the veins of his two forearms and took a little blood. He swooned, and she left to stalk the night. This continued for three days. He sat in his own filth and excrement. On the third day he fell into a coma. His body was wracked with convulsions. On the morning of the fourth day he died. His spirit left his body and he hovered just below the ceiling for a while and stared at the pitiful body below. He felt sorry for that man. He felt a call to go up higher and he rose quickly above the house. He looked up ahead and saw a brilliant light that calmed him and allayed his fears. He headed towards it and saw the earth beneath him. From up here it looked so peaceful. He began to hear singing. His heart leapt at the sound and he began to sing along. His soul seemed to know the words and as tears of joy fell down his face, he cried the last tears he would ever cry. “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Genesis 21:4 Tweet
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