“I don’t get it, why are you even doing this?” I asked thinking if I could first understand why, then maybe I would discover a way of stopping it.
“Do you remember when I told you about the apple?” I frowned up at him at the same thinking that there went my hope in getting any sense from him.
“Ah but I know you do. Well let me tell you another story.” He said whispering this last part in my ear making me cringe away from him in disgust.
“So where are we in time…um, well why don’t we start from the very beginning of time, or mortal time at least. Back to a time when the skies rained with blood of dead immortals and therefore gave birth to their weaker offspring…you mere mortals.” I actually rolled my eyes at this point and couldn’t refrain from saying,
“Yeah, I already heard this story, dickhead!” His response to this was to push my cheek into the side of the tunnel we were walking down and I felt the dripping wet stone pressing painfully into my face. Then I felt him get really close behind me and his voice dipped to one that filled me with more fear. This was Alex’s other side coming out.
“Adam and Eve were the first pure bloodlines to the mighty Titans and therefore the key to their release. So a serpent found its way into the garden that was meant to protect them and keep them safe from the traitorous world all around them. Only someone discovered a way in…and do you know why?” He asked getting closer until he was pretty much speaking over the cheek that wasn’t being squashed into the stone.
“It wasn’t for eating the forbidden fruit at all…it was for becoming the forbidden fruit.”
“You make no sense, you crazy shit!” I snarled back at him only my voice was pained despite my bravery.
“The serpent wasn’t there to convince her to eat some fucking fruit! He was there to impregnate her with his seed, planting her with a truth. He came to her a creature of trust and then transformed into a man with the knowledge of sin. He couldn’t have her corrupted and the bloodline weakened. There were others out there that were being born to the Earth. Mortals that had already started to water down their precious blood. But in this garden they had remained safe as was Satan’s will…” He let go of my head and spun me around to face him as if he needed my eyes as audience.
“But powerful beings were getting restless. And one in particular wanted his key intact. So whilst innocently eating an apple she was taken against her will, forced to sin and destroyed the garden along with their safe sanctuary. Did you know if you cut an apple a certain way it forms a Pentagram? Did you know that Keira? Did you know that a Pentagram can be seen from two angles? Did you know that?!” He said getting louder with each time he asked me this.
“No.” I said looking away only to have my chin wrenched back.
“And did you know that one view is all the good and purity taken and the other is the devil from Heaven that took it away and fucked it!”
“Get off me!” I tried to move my head after he sickened me further by licking up the length of my face.
“It’s all about the seeds, that and what was born from those seeds. Oh how I did love my mother.” He said making me gasp at the impossible.
“It can’t be! No!”
“Oh I am not the original, but like him I did murder my brother.” He said laughing.
“Now come on, enough stop and chit chat…soon it will be time for the main event!” He yanked me away from the wall and started to once again pull me down another tunnel.
“But I don’t understand…you said.”
“Oh but I see I will get nothing done unless I explain to the stupid blonde.” He laughed at his own unfunny joke. We were just coming through the last door and I knew the light at the end was the Temple.
“My mother was Eveleen, and like many before her she was the last pureblood to be reincarnated into the same body. It’s the Titan’s blood you see, once it finds the same resurrected soul the body would relive again. So along comes the serpent to try and plant his next seed but it doesn’t work after the first time…that was until the last time. I like to think Eveleen was his favourite…she deserved that I think.”
“Oh God! That means…”
“I am the last in my bloodline after my mother was dispatched for good this time.” He said smiling but I could see the anger rooted under the surface and it wouldn’t let him go.
“You’re…”
“The last Cain and the only key to releasing Hell on Earth and you know, I really, really want to.” The way he said this I knew it wasn’t some frenzied uncontrolled plan, but one fuelled by hatred and crippling determination. This wasn’t just about me or even some quest for power. This was about changing the whole world because of revenge, because of…Oh God…I just figured it out.