Before evil existed, long before the first human being inhabited the earth. In the heavens everything was perfect and infinite and unbending goodness reigned. Since ancient times in celestial mythology ''the creator'' is the father of everyone and everything. It is known that he shaped space, the angels and the heavens, where the most beautiful beings of existence dwell. Each of them radiated an enormous white light and had a deep respect for their father, the creator of all.
Among them all there was one distinct one, one that stood out above the rest. His greatest and most beautiful creation ''Lucifer'', this Cherub was the protector of the kingdom of god in the heavens, he was the chief of all the other creations and also the most intelligent, the greatest in natural capacity, the strongest in physical capacity, in intelligence and wisdom he was also the greatest and the purest in capacity to love, the brightest star of all for he was the firstborn of all the other creations. He was the first work that the creator formed with his perfect hands and he delighted in making him, the purest, most beautiful and greatest being... his masterpiece.
Lucifer was created with power that no other angel could have. He was the greatest intelligence second only to God. You can have no idea how beautiful and perfect he was after he came out of his hands, you can have no idea how pure and bright his light was. As great as the sun is, when you stand behind Lucifer, it is totally eclipsed, so perhaps you can understand how so many abandoned God to follow him, for when you stood next to him, he gave the impression that he was the center of everything. He was the brightest sun in a universe of suns. If you cannot understand this, you cannot understand how he seduced so many to betray god.
The morning star.
A perfect being revered by all his brothers, full of wisdom and finished in beauty. All the angels admired and respected him equally. With the passing of the centuries, eternity caused this perfect being to fall into sin. After the creation of the planets and mankind, he thought from the depths of his heart that he too could rule. These thoughts were taking their toll on his being, corrupting him. It was not a matter of years, but of millennia until Lucifer first felt envy towards his creator.
Such sentiments became deeply rooted, and with each passing century it became more and more difficult to endorse them as they became more and more entrenched. To such a point did his ailment reach, that Lucifer was sowing doubt and discord in the kingdom of the creator. His speeches did not fall on deaf ears and did not believe that the angels were easy to deceive, they were not children to be lied to with poor speeches. Where all was light and love, discord and separation now girded. A dispute between those who supported the greatest being of creation and those who maintained an unwavering faith in their father.
After the great war, those corrupted angels who were once beautiful creatures of light and now resembled demons, were defeated and cast out of the kingdom for all eternity. Lucifer and his hosts fell into the deepest abyss never to return and as he fell, in his eyes was seen the wrath of the one who had once been the greatest, the most beautiful and the purest being of all. He swore vengeance and assured that from now on his mission would be to corrupt all that divine creation, now transformed into Satan, the first tempter.
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The day my life changed.
My name is Yariel and more than two years ago I found a job as a security guard in an old family museum in Barcelona. I don't have a very active social life. What I mainly do is watch anime or play video games until it's time for work. A normal life, one that was far from what I imagined when I was a kid.
I had always dreamed of being part of the ''DAKUNAITO''. They are basically the elite forces of ''order'' in the country. While they may have enjoyed great fame decades ago, today they are people who are not held in high esteem. They are considered expenses in a peaceful society. They live on the outskirts of the city and deal with small events, but it costs several million euros a year to maintain a barracks, and there are several in our country.
The last large-scale intervention of a Dakunaito was about 13 years ago. They sent only one person as a mediator between two countries, a high-ranking officer, a captain of the headquarters called Kassian. I can still vividly remember the pictures that were shown on television. It looked like a film with special effects. Tensions between the two countries almost triggered a full-scale war, but this man descended from the skies with his huge white wings and settled it in the blink of an eye. The comments on youtube videos are full of references to the creator, as if he were a reincarnation of the angels of old.
Normally in school children begin to awaken the ''gift'' around the age of ten. Some are classed as prodigies, others have only a slight control over the natural elements such as fire and water, but the vast majority never awaken it. The point is that if you didn't have the gift once you got to high school, the best thing to do would be to continue studying or look for a normal job. Just like I did.
I got my licence as a watchman and after a few places I landed in a quiet place. The pay is not the best, but it gives me stability and I can both help my family and pay for my own hobbies.
We moved to my grandparents' house when I was just five years old, right after my father lost his life in an accident. My mother was born in Korea, which makes me half Korean myself. By tradition, she helps out a lot in my grandparents' house, while holding down a part-time job. But many years have passed since then and grandfather was taken away by an illness, so now it's just my mother, grandmother and me.
I spend more time in the virtual world than the real one and work is the only thing that keeps me tied here. That and winning the lottery one day.
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