Thus Speak Prodigal
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Disclaimer : Any description of characters which resembles
real-life or cyber characters are merely coincidences.
Heaven and Hell (Part I)
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(a) In the Garden of Runoa
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Elsewhere, in a realm where there was no day and night, where good
and evil had become meaningless, where time and space were nothing
but constructs by matter of the elegant universe, where it is the
home of a group of powerful beings named the Endless. The Equinox
stood in the midst of day and night, where Runoa, the goddess of
love, was currently tending to her plants in her beautiful garden
which was filtered with lotus, roses, lilies and morning
glories.
Runoa was a graceful and beautiful angel in her own light. She was
dressed in a beautiful piece of white dress with a beautiful
translucent blue scarf, and had a pair of beautiful eyes. She was
the goddess of Love, the person who controlled the fate of many men
and women in the mortal world. Recently, to her own amusement, she
has her highpriest to construct a game in Canada called "Change of
Heart", where it was used to test couples. She was terribly amused
by the change of heart in human relationships. To her, love is
something sacred and being the goddess of Love, she have to be firm
in tying the knot between a man and a woman, and sometimes, for a
man and a man, and a woman and a woman. She has her tenets on Love
on her sigil, a small shiny diamond necklace which she wore on her
neck.
At that instant of eternity, she felt the presence of another
powerful being nearby. It was a man in dark grey robes. He was
hidden before the hood.
"Brother, why are you here?" Runoa asked.
"It concerns him," the man in robes spoke. "There is nothing which
I do not know of, for I am the beginning and the ending of our
Universe. For I begin and end the story of many people. Despite he
has abandoned us, but he has re-surfaced again in the mortal
world."
"U mean him," said Runoa. She was longing to see him again. The man
whom she was a close friend to, had finally appeared. "The last
thing I heard from him was an electronic mail which depicted the
situation in a world called Sgforumsia."
"Yes," the man in grey robes spoke,"You would be leaving this realm
soon to meet him."
"No way," said Runoa in an assertive manner,"he abandoned his
responsibility as an Endless. Besides, what makes you so sure that
I would meet him? I know that you know all that is past, present
and even the future. Tell me, brother, what has happened to
him?"
"You do not understand, but you will," said the man in grey
robes,"I shall take my leave." He disappeared into thin air.
"But brother...," Runoa did not have her questions answered.
Immediately, she raised her hands and concentrated. Suddenly, she
felt an anomaly in spacetime. She realized that the anomaly
actually came from Hell. Without any thought, she summoned her
flying steed and returned back to her castle. After her departure,
the man in grey robes re-materialized and said,"and so it
begins.."
(b)Hell is a place on Earth
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On the other end of the Universe, was a battle among the cosmic
powers of the cyberuniverse. The three friends were now trapped in
the depths of the Nine Hells. Bish, Torrants and Prodigal are now
to face their most powerful adversary of all time, the Devil aka
Lucifer S.A. Tan, with his newborn image. You know the one that
look like Leonardo Dicappucino. He was accompanied by his pretty
concubine, Dr Hallo Kathy, and Dear Donald, his right hand man who
had appeared with all the hell demons.
"This is not a good situation," Bish said, as he looked at the
Prodigal, who kept quiet. Suddenly, he felt that the Prodigal
looked more serious as before.
"Welcome to Hell," S.A. Tan spoke,"You have fallen into one of my
grand schemes to conquer the human race."
"Where is my bride, Mayar?" Torrants spoke with anger and he
demanded to know where his bride to be was.
"You don't deserve the Lord of Hell to answer your question," Hallo
Kathy refuted the God of Time.
"I do," Torrants said as he raised his harp and played a tune. The
tune took the form of a few streams of lightning and seared across
to the Devil. He did not care about his life anymore, because he
would not rest till he get the answer to find his bride. However,
the effort was futile. The Devil took the lightning into his hands
and made them vanished into nothingness.
"Don't waste your effort, Torrants," the Prodigal said,"You are now
in his realm. He is the controller of the game."
"May I know who you are then," the Devil said, as he stared right
into Prodigal's sunshades.
"My name is of no importance to you, S.A. Tan," the Prodigal
said.
"What do you want from us?" Bish was getting impatient, and drew
his battle axe and rushed towards the Devil.
"No, Bish," Prodigal tried to stop his friend. But Bish was too
fast for him. He charged towards the Devil. However, when he
slashed his axe into him, the axe just went pass him.
"This is to teach you not to mess with me, boy," a voice came
behind Bish and it was a hand filled with an evil vortex which
would devour the God of War into nothingness. Just as Bish was to
have his fate sealed, a simple hand caught the Devil's hand and the
whole area exploded in a split second. Bish was thrown off apart
and Torrants rushed to hold him after the tremendous explosion. At
the next instant, the dust settled down and there was only 2 people
in the centre of the mountain : the prodigal and the Devil standing
face to face against each other, a man in white and the other in
black. The howling winds blew in Hell, and lifting their
trenchcoats in a beautiful manner. Hello Kathy and Dear Donald were
standing on the other side of the red bloody hills.
"Indeed, you are of no ordinary cosmic power. You are one of the
Endless," the Devil said,"This makes the plot even interesting. I
will make you a deal, if you could defeat me, I will let you all
go."
"That is not good enough," the prodigal said.
"You should never try to cut a deal with the devil," the evil one
spoke.
"Well, I doubt that you can even deal with me, since I am one of
the Endless. The Endless controls beyond the Creator and your
realms." the prodigal said in strong confidence.
"Alright, if I am defeated, and your friends are not killed by
Hallo Kathy and Dear Donald before the battle between us is over, I
will reveal the whereabouts of Mayar then."
"You mean, Mayar is not in hell," Torrants realized that it was a
ruse to lure him here.
"Alright then, start the battle then, S.A. Tan," the prodigal
spoke. At this instant, both entities flashed into oblivion to
begin their cosmic battle while Torrants and Bish had to face the
fury of the demoness and her consort.
The demoness and her consort began their summoning and each of them
had conjured a sword to their hand. Suddenly, they were transformed
into a woman in white which resembles that much of the ugly Fish
Wong, and the man resembles that much of Chris Dee. They were
transformed into the condor villains. Immediately, they unleashed
their swordsplay towards Bish and Torrants.
Torrants summoned his harp and fired streams fo lightning against
the demented duo. However, they were flying in such an agile manner
that his lightning bolts were of no match to them. Suddenly, two
blades seared right in front of him. The two blades were
intercepted by a strong battle axe. Bish was here to the
rescue.
"Nobody messes with my friend, not even you two, Yang Beng and Xiao
Lian Nu!" the God of War muttered as he slamed his axe towards them
but well parried by the combined effort of the Beng-Lian "Jian
Fa"(swordsplay). Torrants transformed his harp into a sword and
attacked the duo. However, both of them were too fast for him. Bish
and Torrants immediately took a back to back formation.
"They are too fast to be hit by us," Torrants said to his friend,
as he lifted his blade ready for the next assault.
"No one has ever defeated the Beng-Lian formation, face your doom,
Torrants and Bish," the duo spoke, as they were summoning a
terrible tornado which was ready to smash the two
manifestions.
(c)I quit
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The prodigal was seated still, as he was sitting in front of the
table in a seemingly Japanese setting with a cup of hot tea and a
old fashioned small and delicate chinese pot right in front of him.
On the other end of the table, was the Devil, who was seated with a
similar cup of hot tea and the same pot. On the centre of the
table, was a burning kettle with the water half-filled.
This is the way how a battle will work between very very powerful
cosmic beings. They no longer need weapons of extremly ultra high
magnitude which could cause cosmological damage, for example a
thermonuclear bomb which is a billions time more powerful than the
hydrogen bomb that could destroy a whole supercluster of galaxies.
There is no point because they would lose their playground. They
don't need to use any form of energy blasts on each other. All they
ever need are just nothing but exchange of words between each
other. The pen is mightier than the sword, and the suan is mightier
than a pun. It was a philosophical battle between the prodigal and
the Devil.
"S.A. Tan, before we will begin the battle, there is something I do
not understand. Why do you want the God of Time and War in your
realm?" the prodigal spoke, as he took the warm cup of tea with
poise and style.
"Well, Prodigal," the Devil said in a cunning grin,"My motives are
only that which I understood, and no mortals could. Even gods do
not understand me at times. Those mortal idiots think that the end
of the world would end in their so-called Millenium, but they were
all idiots. Consider the source where they quote their information
from. To think that they are indoctrinated by that stupid book
called the Bible. Besides why should I go and make love with a
woman to end the world? There are so many ways to end the world,
and only they can think of a major cataclysm, while they are
destroying themselves with their own technology and
inventions."
"Well, at least they made a fool out of you in Arnie's new movie
'The End of Days'," the prodigal said in sheer sarcasm,"They made
you a moron by making you to have a sexual foreplay with your bride
to be only in 10 secs before you have to wait for a thousand years.
The most funniest part was the 666 twisted into a 999 thing. They
made you a senseless rapist who just sleep with whichever woman and
that includes your highpriest's wife and daughter. I was amused
that the Devil would take the form of a bloodsucking banker. That
is the only thing that resembles you."
"That is not the most moronic thing that they have done," the Devil
refuted,"The verdict to the end of the world is not fixed, and they
believed in that stupid book. The Bible is not written by God, but
by men. The rules and regulations set forth by the church were not
made by God, and it was men who made it, and broke it."
"Well, I am duly impressed by your efforts to tempt the mortals to
the evil path for at least 5 millenia, since the dawn of the human
race," the prodigal said, as he lifted his hand and manipulated the
kettle towards his pot to boil the tea leaves in his pot. The Devil
unleashed the hot tea from his drink and tried to stop him. It all
went so fast, and at the next instant, the kettle was placed back
on the stove, and the prodigal drank his tea.
"Those Christians and Catholics are a useless bunch of morons. They
warred against themselves all the time, in their own denominations.
They made their own stupid rules and regulations. The most stupid
thing is that they follow literally every statement in the bible
and interpret their own way. The most funny thing is that they
become intolerant to other religions in the world, and condemn
those who are not with them to hell. They did not realize that they
were committing a sin in the process by forcing people into their
religion and not practising the proper virtues of their religion.
The life of a Christian is very hard one, and for me, it is very
easy to corrupt these humans. I understand that old man better than
these mortal humans. All I ever did was to sow discord among these
factions with my agents and I never did anything to tempt them by
myself. You see, crusades were made and wars reigned otherwise Bish
would have nothing to do, and many people lost their lifes,
committed sins and in the end, they would still believe that the
old man would pardon them thru his son Jesus Christ."
"Well, at least there are the holy ones which you fail to corrupt,"
said the Prodigal. "Then again, there are mortals who managed to
see your plot, like C.S. Lewis with his book 'Screwtape
letters'."
"I do agree that he is the one of the cleverer people who saw
through my trick. Then, I don't corrupt most of the people these
days to my side. Times are changing, even hell needs to be
computerised and have internet connection because we are now packed
with billions of tormented souls. Instead I used a new form of
philosophy to corrupt mortals to secularism, making them believe
that God is uncaring to them, and so you see all the violence and
materialism flourished in the cities. Atheism, Agnosticism, Islam
and Buddhism are more the choice of common men but not Christianity
anymore. These people have no idea that they have already forgotten
what religion meant to them. Serial killers are more rampant, and
people started worshipping these killers, look at the movie
"Natural Born Killers", that was one of my good work," the Devil
retorted in a smile.
"Well, surely, you would understand that good and evil are just
plain labels between the Creator and you, both of you are just
playing the cosmic game to see how the humans are made to play your
games. The people who chose to disbelieve in both you and the
Creator namely these atheists and agnostics, had found their way
out of your cosmic game." the Prodigal said.
"Yes indeed, and the Endless too, who exist outside the realms of
us. Besides, there are the Manifestions and the other pantheons of
gods, like the Greeks, Egyptians, Vikings, and etc.." the devil
smiled as he gazed straight into the prodigal's eyes. That gaze was
filled with evil and attempted to induce fear into the
Endless.
"Yet till now, you have not told me why you lured Bish and Torrants
here." the prodigal said in a smile,"Stop beating about the bush,
S.A. Tan. Why did you ask them here?"
"Well, at the first sight, the reason of luring them here is for
the same reason why I am battling against you now. It just made my
plot much more interesting than I expected. Now that I have gotten
a much more powerful being to play my cosmic game, an Endless, what
more can I ask for?"
"So, why don't we just stop talking crap and start your game?" the
prodigal gestured with his hand, signalling to the Devil to begin
their battle now.
"The game is very simple," the Devil smiled as he took out a key
from his pocket and threw it. The key landed right in front of the
prodigal,"I have decided to quit my job in Hell and you can now
have it!"
"What?!!!!" the prodigal was caught in a state of surprise before
the Devil. He could not believe that the owner of Hell has decided
to quit.
[to be continued]
[This message has been edited by prodigal (edited 08 February
2000).]
[This message has been edited by prodigal (edited 08 February
2000).]
