Espara part.02 (Lament of the Devil)

   A tiny blue planet, freckled with islands as its only landmasses. On a mountain of one of these islands is a great beast drenched and dying, a red giant muscular man of a beast with the hooves of a goat, the head of a boar, horns of a bull, and phallus of a horse. Once the great beast flowed from the eternal fire below, now it is merely red and broken. The flapping of wings can be heard above it in the sparkling light of the day. Great white wings of an enormous snowy white Owl which lands near the smaller body of the giant.

 

   “Brother…Garudan,” says the demon reaching up weakly.

 

  “What has happened brother,” says Garudan in a mighty majestic voice that could only belong to the king of kinds, the lord of lords, “what manner of force could lay low the great red goat that was sacrificed to the eternal flame of life.”

 

   “I…was…tricked,” says the demon Eckraik, “do you know brother, do you know the story of the seven alien heroes who defeated the alien witch and tossed her into the seas of our world?”

 

   “Yes,” says the great owl Garudan, “A mere footnote in the history of my grand faith and our father’s plan. A story only a few heathens know as it is of little importance brother; those that would follow the witch you and your servants removed from the grand plan, a mere silly pagan myth now that no one who even knows could take seriously.”

 

   “It was…very important,” coughs out the demon with puffs of smoke from his mouth, “they lied to us brother, it was no mere witch who so often had tempted witches to her, they sealed an alien goddess in our seas brother.”

 

   The demon stops and stares at the grand white plumage of Garudan, “Brother…she is free, somehow one witch, somehow she knew, she had them, the seven gems that sealed that alien goddess.”

 

   “The seven gems they told us were scattered across the world?” says Garudan

 

  “They were all in one place,” says Eckraick, “the witch performed the ritual, and tricked me, tricked me into using my power to awaken the gems and free her…her….her…”

 

  Garudan spreads his wings, a great white light envelops the demon Eckraick as servants of heaven emerge from the light.

 

  “Carry Eckraick to Mt. Rondale and return him to the eternal flame of the inner world.”

 

  “Master,” says one of the shining servants, “is this not the harbinger of all evil? Are we not bound to the eternal struggle to end his existence and bring true order to the world?”

 

  “Evil,” says the great white Owl Garudan, “would you my servants have it written that a foreign influence not of heaven or hell emerged from the sea and cast out the lord of evil from our world?”

 

  The servant bows as they all form a white sheet and ascend to the sky with the demon, who has these parting words, “Brother…she rose from the sea as a monster, consumed the flames of hell as easily as I myself, and took the name of the sea and commanded it to rise, a darkness from the abyss that commands the elements to obey her, held fast was I by her very will to suffer the wrath of the mighty wave that swallows land.”

 

   The demon passes out and is carried away to the smoking mountain Rondale whose innards boil with the flame of the inner world that creates the land which mankind needs and kills with equal impunity. The great white owl, the chosen form of Garudan the supreme god of this world’s people ascends to heaven once more with troubling thoughts, thoughts and feelings unfitting for a supreme being and master of all souls.