Such things confused him…and amazed him. Looking from his perch high above most of the city, the child watched as the ‘normals’ went about their lives. Tending children, buying groceries, killing out of spite…

Or hatred.

A sudden sadness struck out at him, and he embraced it wholly.

“You…” He paused, catching his breath, and reigning in his emotions. “You won’t even feel it.”

The energy that built within him was not his own, and he knew it. Such force was beyond him. Dark, it was. Dark, and malevolent. He was no longer himself, no longer an angel sent to guard, but a ‘bringer’. An angel sent to watch the beginning and the end of the human race as a civilization.
A tear formed in the corner of his eye, and raced down the conforms of his face, sliding down his jaw to his chin. It hung there for a second, glistening like a liquid diamond.

Then it dropped.

Sunlight caught it as it fell, each bit of it being reflected and redirected into windows, eyes, and even into the souls of some. It shattered against the worn out concrete, pieces of priceless diamond being picked up and carried away by pant legs, and shoes, each as unaware as the last of the treasure they carried. A voice wafted up to him.

“Is it going to rain?”

Hah. That question, so simply worded, called a chuckle to him. The innocent tone of voice…The thought made him smile…then frown. After all, wasn’t the entirety of this going to be gone soon? He swept his eyes over the great city, letting them take in its impersonal grandeur. High buildings filled with ‘employees’, so many worker bees within a great iron and glass hive. Young mothers tending their children. It’s sad… He thought. That those moments will be their last. That those children will never get the chance to really live…

He turned, careful to keep his small, crouched form balanced on the precipice of the rooftop. A light yawn sounded behind him, and the boy tried…fought not to whirl around, to stare at that darkness and be lost within it. To just give in to the endless shadow that seemed to spawn from everything around him… From the wandering breezes, the voices that drifted up to him, the birds, and the air, from everything. The shadows whispered to him, called to the child inside of him, begging him to turn. To look upon it, and lose himself.

But he willed his body still, and watched helplessly as the world’s greatest treasures tore themselves apart. Cities fell, and within those falling cities, people were slaughtered for reasons that meant no less and no more than a few dollars. IF you could find one of those killers today, they would look at you and simply say, “Everybody has to eat.” Entire countries were wiped off the map, governments dismantled, and kings overthrown.

The boy climbed off the steep rooftop, and onto a low-lying cloud, his frown lessening only the slightest bit with the thrill of flight. Humanity, over a few short years, went from a massive and conjoined community of people to a few handfuls that had separated themselves to the point of paranoia…They fought and scavenged to survive, their competition being animals and other men alike. The child looked down upon the broken world, and saw another like him.

“Good luck,” he whispered. “The fate of the world depends on your generation…”


Chapter One Coming Incredibly soon!