A Holy Game; Prologue

This is the story I was talking about in the last blog! This here is just the prologue, something to get you all started off with. The title of the story might change but for now it is called The Holy Game. However, I am open to suggestions. :)

Prologue

A breeze swam through the cool night air, minding its own business. It trickled in between the trees, messing up the grass and even brushing over the pebbles and stone rocks that lay in its path. It rustled through the crunchy fall leaves, blowing them from their home on the branches of the big oak tree, to a place with all of their fallen brethren, leaving the tree bare, with nothing to protect it from the cold front that would soon be coming in. There was nothing wrong with this; it was just nature taking its course. Nothing funny about it and, yet, a chuckle broke the silence that overtook the land.

 Perched on a stone big enough to be a picnic table, was the source of the laugh. A dark figure, the figure of a man, sat crossed-legged, leaning back on his hands for support. His hair stood in spikes at the top of his head like the mountains of which he sat on. He was cloaked in nothing but a charcoal colored robe. It looked as though it had been burnt. It only covered his private areas and his left shoulder. His skin was a creamy coffee color. It seemed to have a radiant glow about it, at least in the moonlight it did. His bare chest showed how perfectly chiseled his muscles were, as if a master sculptor had made sure to take extreme care in sculpting that specific piece of his body.

A smug look took over the man’s face as he stared at the tree. It was the perfect example of what was to come. He was one of the fallen leaves and the tree was His kingdom. The other leaves that had fallen were the others who had come with him. The ones who came to realization and had come with him were enlightened by his work against Him. Now His kingdom was bare and a new fight would begin. It was all thanks to him and his pet, a serpent that did his evil doing for him and had now joined him upon the rock. He was long and black, with a red scaled belly. He slithered up the man’s body, draping himself over him as if he were a jacket being set up on a chair. His tongue flickered eerily at the man, who patted his head and thought back to his impacting act.

The evil deed that was performed had completely changed the course of life forever. It was funny how such a simple thing could make the biggest difference there was. It all started with a man and a woman. The man was made in the image of Him, from dust, and the woman was made from the bone of the man. The names that were given to them were Adam and Eve. They were placed, as the first two humans to walk the earth, in a paradise. A garden of magnificent proportions where they could live together, happy as could be. They had but one rule from Him. They weren’t allowed to eat the fruit from a specific tree; the Tree of Knowledge. It was a simple enough rule to remember and to follow.

So for a few days and nights they picked their food from all the trees and bushes except for the one they knew they weren’t supposed to eat. And for those few days and nights, he watched them eat the fruit of all the plants that they were allowed, obediently remembering their one rule. They obeyed Him just like he did. He needed to change that and so he took his pet, taking over its body and slithered up to the woman, Eve. She would be easiest to make fall. He told her how it wasn’t fair that He had kept all the good fruit to himself and how she deserved a taste of it. He told her that taking one fruit wouldn’t do her any harm. She was persistent at first but then she gave in and took the fruit. With her next action, she had completely changed what was and would be. She took a bite.

With that one bite came the first victory in the battle that would last an eternity.