The Layko's Book - the other werewolf story

It was the fourteenth day of the fifth month of the eight hundred and ninety-ninth year after Christ and I, Ibrahim Saqqaf, was among the exiles sentenced to be beheaded in the center of Hamadan, only for the sadistic delight of the extremists who, for religious reasons, did not accept that many of their own were converted to Christianity. They were beheaded, hanged, burned alive and those who lived had their hands mutilated so that they would not touch any Christian scriptures.

As I listened to the martyrs, I was waiting for the day when my time would come to receive the physical payment of my conversion in the middle of the city squares, always remaining in prayer and also in the back of my thoughts.

For me, whose days are counted like sand in an hourglass, I have only the important revelation about Heaven and Hell. This revelation that the human being builds in his own intimacy, when no one is looking, or when we think that God is not seeing us. This is because both Heaven and Hell, as much as we study them and fill ourselves with knowledge about them, both are mere states of soul that we ourselves, through our free will, choose to walk on their roads in our day. -to-day. At all times, we are invited to make decisions. These decisions will determine where Paradise begins or where Hell begin

It is as if we are all bearers of an invisible box, where there are first-aid tools and materials. Faced with an unexpected situation, we can open it and make use of any object inside. So when someone offends us, we can lift the hammer of anger or use the balm of tolerance. Visited by slander, we can use the ax of retaliation or the gauze of self-confidence.

The decision to choose between Heaven or Hell is always up to us. I was in carnal Paradise, but with my soul heading to Hell. It was only when I converted to Christianity that I began to experience Paradise with my soul, but my life became a carnal Hell, thanks to Christ and for my happiness. Because only through our will, whose free will was given to us by God, will our inner state depend. That's why I reveal here that creating Heavens or Hells within our soul is something that no one can do for us, if not ourselves.

On a hot, windless and cloudless night, as I lay chained in my cell, waiting for the hour of my martyrdom, which was approaching faster and faster, I began to hear the voices of God like a deafening whirlwind of several hammers beating at the same time. , telling me all the time for me to reveal this truth that came and that comes to the scribe Hari Laykos, whose scrolls about all the persecution suffered by Christians he already wrote in secret, so as not to also be a victim of the same cruel fate that had sentenced me . Laykos, who even though he was not a Christian, felt the hand of God touch his so that he could write without fear, he began to write down everything that my lips were pronounced, for they were truths that before the scribes, inspired by divine light, had never before revealed.

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And it came to pass in the nine hundredth year, in the ninth month, on the ninth day of the month, that when I was Hari Laykos, in the midst of the scribes of King Ahamd I, I saw a flash in the prison heavens, possible only to my eyes, where were the traitors of Allah who claimed to be converts to Christianity. I saw the heavens open, and I saw visions of the light of God, coming down to one of the prisoners named Ibraim.

I warned the other scribes about the light that opened in the sky above the prison and they all said that I was crazy from writing so much about the king. Curious about it all, I ran to the prison where the prisoners who betrayed Allah were and came across blind Ibraim, enlightened by God and speaking in strange tongues. In a strange way, as if something was speaking inside me, I felt that I should approach. As soon as I got close to the cell where he was being held and even without seeing me, Ibraim knew I was there, because his face was turned towards me.

Then, as I approached, the eyes of blind Ibraim were opened and a bright light came out of them. After that, Ibraim touched my left hand and I felt a powerful force throughout my body, as if I were an empty jug and out of nowhere a powerful water filled me. It was then that the word of the Lord came expressly to Ibraim, son of Samad, the chief of the guard of King Ahamnd in the land of the Persians, converted to Christianity after hearing the Gospel of Christ, blind and imprisoned by his own father as a sign of shame for not accept Allah as your only god. And Ibrahim said:

"Just as the world needs revealed truths as a man's knife needs a whetstone, if he wants to eat and stay alive, God, at that moment, gave him the power to write with both hands, for when you do not want to write with one, you will write with the other, the revelations that are heard and shown to them, without ever getting tired".

With quill and papyrus in hand, for I always carry them with me, the words revealed to him were written by me, Hari Laykos, as if upon my hands were the Lord's hands. I began to write about what Ibraim related, about mystical creatures that lived and still live among us, and they keep themselves hidden among men, in order not to be discovered, with some gorging themselves on flesh and blood. human. I came to visit him every day until the day of his death arrived, always writing down everything he related to me, telling the guards that they were silly reports from a man whose mind became disturbed because he was fighting inside. himself to know which of the gods should bend his knees. But behold, on the sixth day of the fifth month of the eightieth year after Christ, his sentence was given, and the blind Ibrahim Saqqaf was beheaded in the public square, so that all could see the fate that Christians would have in denying Allah, first in the lands of the East and then all over the world.

After the death of Ibrahim, I was leaving King Ahamnd's palace, when I heard an incessant noise, like that of thousands of birds flying at the same time. I looked to the side, and behold, a stormy wind was coming from the north, bringing a great cloud of dust, which covered everyone's view, withdrawing me from the midst of the Persians. The cloud lifted me off the ground and hurled me far, up Mount Damavand, into a hidden cavern filled with blank scrolls and inked quills that didn't run out. The voice of God then said:

"Ibraim was cut down by the wickedness of men, because you doubted his mission. But you, whose writing power was passed from him to his body, are here protected. You will not be hungry or thirsty and your mission is to write. He writes! Write, Laykos: write the things the world needs to tell!"

And after hearing that screaming voice, a fire began to stir in the words, as if they were taking shape. Then there was a glow all around, and in the midst of the words there was a thing, as if of an extremely white color, which came out of the midst of the fire, but which was not only made of light, for it resembled something or someone.

And out of her midst came the likeness of a being formed of pure whiteness and enveloped in fire. And this was his appearance: he had the likeness of a man, but he was four meters tall. A natural grandeur exuded from his body, mainly due to the fact that he had seventy-two wings, distributed in twelve pairs of six. In his face it was possible to see a countless number of eyes, which he needs to carry out his enormous and vast task of watching over the whole world.

The being also had a man's hands under its wings on all sides; and so all four sides of being had their faces and their wings. And as he walked towards me, I heard the sound of his wings, like the sound of a great waterfall. And when he spoke to me again, the voice of the being was similar to the voice of the Almighty, but as if he possessed the authority of an army.

The figure of the being was too incomprehensible to my eyes, my ears and especially to my understanding, making me fall to the ground. Then the being diminished in size, reaching two and a half meters and began to resemble a man, but without losing its splendor, hiding its wings, its eyes and its arms, all in a single pair. And he said to me:

"Hari Laykos, son of Samir Ahmad, you were chosen as the continuator of the mission of Ibraim, because he doubted the God of Israel and weakened. Stand up, and I'll talk to you".

Then a power I had never felt before entered me, while the being was talking to me, and he raised me to my feet, so that I could look at him and hear what he was saying to me. And he said to me again:

"Son of Persia, I will leave you here for you to write about everything that the world needs to tell, especially the nations that rebelled against the Creator. You will write without fatigue, hunger or thirst, until you tell them the story of your last days. Listen, scribe who often wondered about your faith, listen to what I tell you, but don't be afraid as many before you were: stretch out your hands and wash them with the water I pour.

Then the being stretched out its hand, and behold, a man's hand, quite gleaming, was reaching out to me". And behold, in it was a huge scroll of a shining book, as if the papyrus were made of pure silver. And he spread it out before me, and it was written inside and out; and in it were written stories that were never told by anyone. Then the being said to me:

"Son of Persia washes his hands with this water; He stretches out his hands and only stops washing himself when the water runs out".

So I stretched out my hands, and the roll of book began to pour into my hands, like water. And the being told me:

"Son of Persia wash your hands in this water that I give you".

So I started to wash not only my hands, but also my face and head, with the water that poured from the book, which had a strong smell of herbs and flowers. And the being said to me:

"Son of Persia sits down, takes a parchment, a quill and begins to write my words. Because you will not write with letters of a strange speech, nor of a difficult language, but in a universal language. Thou also will not write to many peoples of strange speech, and of difficult language, whose words they cannot read; if I told you to write to such ones, they would not read these words. But many won't want to read you, because they don't want to listen to what the world needs to tell; for some nations are unbelieving and hard-hearted.

Behold, I make your body tireless against the days, and your forehead strong against the nights. I now make your body like a diamond, so that while it is here, it will be stronger than time. So don't be afraid of your mission, because, don't be astonished at the dawn and dusk inside that cave, because here it will never be a rebellious house".

So I started to wash not only my hands, but also my face and head, with the water that poured from the book, which had a strong smell of herbs and flowers. And the being said to me:

"Son of Persia sits down, takes a parchment, a quill and begins to write my words. Because you will not write with letters of a strange speech, nor of a difficult language, but in a universal language. Thou also will not write to many peoples of strange speech, and of difficult language, whose words they cannot read; if I told you to write to such ones, they would not read these words. But many won't want to read you, because they don't want to listen to what the world needs to tell; for some nations are unbelieving and hard-hearted.

Behold, I make your body tireless against the days, and your forehead strong against the nights. I now make your body like a diamond, so that while it is here, it will be stronger than time. So don't be afraid of your mission, because, don't be astonished at the dawn and dusk inside that cave, because here it will never be a rebellious house".

And the being said to me even more:

"Son of Persia, receive in your mind and in your heart, all my words that I will say to you, and write them on the parchments, with your own hand. Come, then, sit among the parchments, take a quill and, to the nations of the world, you will write to them everything that I tell you and that comes to your mind as inspiration.

And after these words, a flash followed again, and I heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures, which touched one another, and the noise of them, and the sound of a great roar of the rough sea. So I sat down, took a parchment, a quill, and began to write bitterly, in the indignation of my Spirit; but the urge to write and the energy that surrounded me was quite strong on me".

At first, I just tested the scrolls, writing things down on everything, and I noticed that what I wrote on the scrolls appeared as images in front of me. It was there that, writing, I went to Hamadan through the scrolls. I wrote about what life was like there and I stayed there for seven days watching the images that emerged while I was writing and I felt like I was in their midst, I touched them, they felt but they didn't see me. And it came to pass, at the end of seven days, that the shining being who had led me to that cave, returned to me, saying:

"Son of Persia: I gave you as a gift, the power to write about everything you order him to write and you, from my mouth, will hear the whole story about everything that the world still needs to tell".

When I say, write: you will surely write and you do not question, nor come out of the cave and reveal to the four corners about these words before they are complete, in order to glorify your life, for just as you were chosen for this purpose, I can do wicked, that you may die in your iniquity. If I do so, your gift, the same that I poured into your hand, I will demand back up to seventy times more.

But if you receive the words, and do not convert them into letters on the scrolls, you will be considered wicked and will die in your iniquity, even if the Creator delivers your soul from such a terrifying banishment. But receiving the words, so that you write, and you begin to write, you will certainly live every day until you finish everything and many more days; because the stories are sent to you, you will write them all down and in this way you will free your soul from such a horrible burden.

And the voice of the being echoed throughout the cave, and he said to me:

'Arise, and leave the cave, and there I will speak with you".

And I arose, and went out of the cave, and as the shadows were passing away, behold, the glory of the Lord was there all along the mountain Damavand; and that immeasurable force descended from heaven on my body, causing me to fall to the ground. Then a strong light appeared in the sky and the being that before spoke to me inside the cave and gave me gifts, stood me up, and spoke to me, and said to me:

"Enter Laykos, lock yourself inside the cave and take on your mission. And as for you, O son of Persia, behold, they will put ropes under your skin, and bind you with them; you will not, therefore, leave the cave until you finish writing everything that the world needs to reveal. And I will make thy tongue cling to thy palate, and thou shalt be mute until forty years, that I need not be thy reprover any more; because you are not here to be a rebel. But when I speak to you, I will open your mind, and you will write to them everything that I inspire you, for thus says the Creator: "You want to tell the shame that my children did in creating the mystical monsters, Metatron, so tell. But whoever wants to read, let him read; for men are free and many have become unbelievers and rebels."

And it happened that I stayed there inside the cave, two days and two nights, without feeling hungry, or thirsty, much less tired, waiting for the being, who now had a name and was called Metatron, to speak to me. I should no longer despair of waiting, nor worry about hunger or thirst, for that had all been supplied. But even so, in this new condition, there were still desires in me that I shouldn't have and I discovered that everything existed only in my mind and they were carnal worries that I shouldn't have anymore.

At the end of the third day, beginning of the third night of the beginning of my exile, I was sitting on a rock, among parchments and feathers, when my mind opened and Metatron, came over me, showing me the story where I should start. . In my mind, I looked and saw a figure like that of a man, but it wasn't a man at all. He walked up to me but started to transform. He looked like a wolf, but still retained the traits of a man, especially as he stood on two legs.

The being that was standing without saying anything, looked at me as if studying me. His gaze was terrifying and expressed pure terror. Then flames began to shoot out of his skin, taking over his fur and he began to transform into a creature of pure glowing fire. The heat and flames were so strong, they made the entire cavern burn like an oven. The being then moved away from me and walked towards the entrance of the cave, as if it were leaving. But instead, he turned around and came running quickly on all fours towards me.

Afraid, I tried to run, thinking the being was going to attack me. But he jumped up and instead entered my body and all my flesh started to burn, like I was being possessed by a demon. I saw the flames all over my body, I felt the heat, the burning, but my flesh didn't burn. But the pain caused by the heat was inevitable and at the same time, unbearable. I screamed as loud as I could, I thrashed on the floor, trying everything to lessen the pain, but nothing I did was of any use.

I stayed on the ground and a force again pulled me to my feet. The flames were fading and, along with them, the pain. But they were entering my body through my skin, staying inside me like something scorching, starting to motivate me to write, because what I thought would be just revelations turned out to be something even bigger than I imagined. Then I was suspended between heaven and earth, arms and legs as if trapped, unable to move.

The scrolls and quills began to float around me and four of the quills pointed at me, coming towards me like arrows. Their beaks began to draw a circle on my chest, as if ripping through my flesh. I felt the pain of my skin opening with the pen and after I made the circle, it also made eight arrows around it. When the feathers finished the design on the flesh of my chest, it healed, leaving the mark, whose symbol I didn't know its meaning. After I made the design, the feathers repeated them on the back and back of my hands, leaving me with four matching symbols on my flesh.

I stared at those strange drawings burning in my flesh for a while, until they began to glow. Out of nowhere a flash took over my being and it was as if my senses and my mind began to expand, taking on unimaginable proportions. I saw my life as a scribe before I was converted and I saw how people hated me. Not because I am a scribe, but because I am a holder of knowledge. It was then that it was revealed to me that knowledge and ignorance are not opposites.

Ignorance is laziness that rejects the liberating action of knowledge. However, not everything that is freed by knowledge is free from ignorance. If that were so, there would be no recognition of the history of peoples before and after struggles and glories; and the palpable world would not exist, if it did not exist the world that we cannot see but know exists. Knowledge attracts knowledge and drives out ignorance, as an apostle of Christ drives a demon out of a person's body. Ignorance attracts what is not knowledge to forge a life full of futile desires and transforms the being that is ignorant into golden garbage. Ignorance has a deep contempt for everything that is ignorant. Every human being taken by the action of ignorance has deep disgust for himself, first, and for everything that cannot be, because his life is just to have.

And when my mind expanded so that knowledge of everything around me could reach me, the pain ceased. I then felt an urge to write, as if my fingers were burning, like the fire of the monster that now inhabits me. So I took a parchment, one of the quills, closed my eyes so I could better see the truths that were being told to me and I, Hari Laykos, son of Samir Ahmad, started to write and use the words in these terms:

Before the Son of the Creator became carnal like us, except for sin and walked the Earth, despite all the thirst for power that emanated from the hearts of the shahs and conquerors, the mystical beings, under the wings of Creation, lived in harmony with the rest of humanity. However, some creatures, having been deceived by the fallen children of God, rebelled against Him, giving rise to various pagan cults, self-proclaiming themselves as gods.

Cults to these new mystical gods were done in a variety of ways, because they were easier cults to perform and, because they had a quicker return of what humans asked for, many of these cults involved human sacrifices.

All this corruption began when Adam met Eve, his wife, no longer just a partner, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a boy, whom he was called Cain, saying:

"I got a man from the Creator".

And after a year of nursing Cain, Eve gave birth once more. And from that birth another boy came into the world, the brother of Cain named Abel. The boys grew up, learned trades from their parents and after they no longer had their parents, they became working men, with Abel being a shepherd and Cain a farmer.

And it so happened that at the end of seven months of hard work, Cain brought from the fruit of the ground an offering to the Creator. Abel also brought an offering, which was the firstborn of his sheep; and the Creator turned to Abel and to his offering. But for Cain and for his offering, the Creator did not pay so much attention. And Cain became very angry, his serene countenance falling, revealing to the world, the first feeling of envy and anger, of humanity.

And the Creator said to Cain:

"Why were you angry? And why did your countenance become angry? If you do well, is it not certain that you will be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin will knock at your door, and its desire will be heavy on you, but you must rule over it".

And having an opportunity to be alone, Cain spoke with his brother Abel. And it came to pass, while they were in the field without the presence of the Creator, that Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and with a blow of the sickle slew him, striking his neck and cutting off his jugular. Cain licked the sickle, tasting his brother's blood and after that he went away from Abel, who agonized to death, crying out for the Creator.

And the Creator said to Cain:

"Where is Abel, your brother?"

And he says:

"I do not know. Am I now my brother's keeper?"

And the Creator said:

"What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the earth".

And because of this cruel attitude, the Creator cursed Cain:

"And now cursed are you, upon the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood shed by your hand. From now on, when you till the earth, it will no longer give you its strength, and you will be a fugitive and a wanderer forever".

And just as the earth received the blood of Abel, so did Cain receive the blood in his mouth. From that day on, the fruits, which were taken from the earth, those same ones that Cain offered to the Creator, would no longer feed him, for his hunger would be insatiable: only by drinking blood, whether from animals or men themselves, from that condemnation it was that he might survive, to the end of days, for even death had been denied him. Then Cain said to the Creator:

"Behold, today you cast me condemned on the earth, should I also hide from your presence?"

The Creator was silent, but from that day forward, Cain was persecuted in all four corners of the world, and inherited as an eternal fate, to hide so as not to be killed. But as the Creator's compassion was much greater than his wrath, Cain was marked, to drive away his enemies: his canine teeth elongated and his eyes took on a new color, turned yellow and frightening. And these characteristics, before him, were never seen in any mortal.

The creator's mark caused Cain to become a wanderer on Earth, making him wander around the world until he reached Node, land of Enoch, where he met Lilith, the "unsuitable": a mysterious woman who, upon knowing who that newly -arrived, taught him the powerful arts of blood and mastering this power, Cain transformed Node into a thriving city. In that time, he married a mortal and had children. But his descendants did not carry their father's curse, because Cain only fed on the blood of his animals.

Despite the new life, Cain was not happy, because everything was fleeting and both his wives that he loved so much, and his children died soon, because they were not immortal like their father. And it was because he could no longer bear this solitude that he decided to transform the people who lived there into beings like him, thus giving rise to the first vampires. And despite this new life surrounded by beings like him, she was not very calm: she always faced and defeated those who wanted her death. Many travelers who came to Nod, due to Caine's peculiar characteristics and habits, considered him an aberration. Which was still true. One of the leaders of Nod, in a secret meeting, spoke in these terms:

"That man, that Cain, always looks satisfied, even if he hasn't eaten. He never appears to be deprived. That's why he should be kicked out of Node as soon as possible! If we don't take care of expelling him or kill him ourselves, if he refuses to leave, that man's existence can interfere directly in our lives, making our own judgment, taking swift, energetic and unresolved measures. Therefore he must be banished from our presence!"

From that day forward, all the efforts of the residents of Node were to try to destroy Cain at all costs. In one of these attacks against Cain, the same, to defend himself, ended up biting one of his foreign tormentors. In the desperate fight for his life, having no more options on how to defend himself, Cain bit his opponent's arm so that he would drop the sword he was holding and at the same moment he was choking him with great force, it was taking his breath away, almost causing him to lose consciousness. His large canine teeth entered the unfortunate man's flesh with force, causing Cain to stop his attack for a moment, coming to realize that human blood is much more appreciable than animal blood. That moment of appreciation gave the enemy a chance to flee from his presence.

Cain, when he tasted the precious red liquid, soon remembered his brother's blood spilled on the ground and the pleasure he had felt when he saw Abel dying: the same pleasure he felt when he bit that man. However, this did not bring any joy in his heart, quite the contrary: Cain promised himself never to put human blood in his mouth again and so he lives, because until this day he expects to know death. The lot of Caine in Nod is, day after day, to prepare for death, all the while reflecting on whether it will come here or there, imagining the most honorable way to die, and focusing the mind on death with all your might, always fighting his vampiric instincts.

During the years he lived in Node, three would have been those turned by Caine and these turned many others, creating a great lineage of vampires. After the first inhabitants of Node became like Caine, their thirst for blood didn't stop them and they started attacking humans, not doing like Cain, who fed on animal blood as a way to curb his instincts. The Creator, seeing the ferocity of that people, gave immunity to the bitten animals, not allowing them to be touched by the curse, making their blood bitter, in the mouths of vampires. Already some human victims died from the attack, depending on the blood taken from their bodies, while others turned into vampires.

"We must try to overcome the great vampires of the past in this human corral and, day and night, defeat a powerful thoroughbred by day. Only in this way will our body be strengthened and we will become tireless and courageous, before the father of parents!"

Unlike Caine, these new vampires were undead, as they had to die so they could transform into vampires. The angel of death found them no more, for their hearts did not beat in their chests. Some, with time, acquired control of the transformation, being able to very well blend in with the crowd of humans during the night, whenever they felt it necessary, hiding the large canines and the color of their eyes. They then became as they were before the transformation, except that they could no longer admire the sun, becoming nightlife people, fleeing into pits, caves, and coffins as soon as the first rays of the sun touched the earth, because the rays were the worst of all deaths to them: death by total cremation.

When men began to multiply on earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of the Creator saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and chose for themselves those that pleased them. In those days, after the descent of the sons of the Creator into our midst and also later, when the sons of God possessed the daughters of men and they bore them children, the Nephilim began to spread across the earth. These Nephilim were the heroes of the past: men and women of great power, stature, and prowess.

However, the Nephilim corrupted men, making them wicked, greedy, and totally sinful, corrupting good men, to the point of making them sin and die in sin, not to mention that the offspring of Cain spread throughout the world like a plague of evil. mice. Then sadly said the Lord:

"Because of man's wickedness, my Spirit will not contend with him forever: he will only live a hundred and twenty years".

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man had increased in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was always and only to evil. Then the Lord regretted having made man on the earth, and it broke his heart. Said the Lord:

"I will make the man I created disappear from the face of the earth, men and also animals, large and small, and the birds of the air. I regret making them".

To Noah, however, the Lord showed kindness and wanted to save not only him, but also his descendants. And this is the story of Noah's family:

Noah was a righteous man, upright among the people of his day. He always walked with the Creator and was grateful to him for everything. The Creator blessed him with fertility and Noah begat three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. Now the Creation was corrupt in the eyes of the Creator and full of violence on account of evil men and the Nephilim. Seeing how the earth had become corrupted, for all mankind had corrupted their conduct, the Creator said to Noah:

"I will put an end to all human beings, because the earth was filled with violence because of them. I will destroy them with the earth. But you will make an ark of cypress wood: divide it into compartments and coat it with pitch inside and out. Make it one hundred and thirty-five meters long, eighty-five meters wide, and thirty-five meters high. Make it a roof with a gap of forty-five centimeters between the roof and the body of the ark. Place a side door on the chest and make an upper, middle and lower floors".

Behold, I will bring waters upon the earth, the Flood, to destroy every creature under heaven that has the breath of life. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark with your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives. Bring into the ark a couple of each of the living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Of every species of bird, of every species of large animal, and of every species of small animal that moves along the ground, a pair will come to you to be kept alive. And store all kinds of food, so that you and they have food.

Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him. Then the Lord said to Noah:

"Enter the ark, you and all your family, because you are the only righteous one I have found in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, male and female, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, male and female, and also take seven pairs of birds of every kind, male and female, to preserve them. them across the land. In seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will make every living thing that I have made disappear from the face of the earth.

And Noah did everything as the Lord had commanded him. Noah was six hundred years old when the waters of the Flood came upon the earth. Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark because of the waters of the Flood. Couples of large animals, clean and unclean, of birds and of all the small animals that move along the ground came to Noah and entered the ark, as the Creator had commanded Noah".

And after the seven days, the waters of the Flood came upon the earth. On the day that Noah was six hundred years old, a month and seventeen days, on that same day all the fountains of the great depths gushed forth, and the floodgates of heaven were opened. And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

That same day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. With them came all the animals according to their kinds: all the wild animals, all the livestock, all the other living creatures that move along the ground and all the creatures that have wings: all the birds and all the other animals. that fly. Couples of all creatures that had the breath of life came to Noah and entered the ark. The animals that entered were a male and a female of each living thing, as the Creator had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door.

Forty days the Flood lasted, and the waters increased and lifted the ark above the earth. The waters prevailed, increasing greatly over the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. The waters dominated the land more and more, and all the high mountains under the sky were covered. The waters rose to nearly seven meters above the mountains. All living beings that move on the earth perished: birds, livestock, wild animals, all the little creatures that populate the earth and all of humanity.

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. All living beings were wiped out from the face of the earth; both men and large animals, small animals that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped out from the earth. Only Noah and those with him were left in the ark. And the waters prevailed over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

However, the Flood that occurred to destroy humanity did not affect the vampire caste. They survived the catastrophe engineered by the Creator to wipe out humanity. After the Lands dried up, Caine believed it was yet another act of the Creator to punish him for creating vampires. In this way he ordered everyone to stop treating humans like herd and he himself disappeared into the world, leaving a law for his "children", ordering that it was only allowed to consume animal blood: never human blood. Order his sons blindly obeyed.

But the grandchildren, tired of consuming animal blood for many, many years, got together and killed the "children" of Cain, as they did not want to follow the rules dictated by him, as human blood was too tasty for their lips. And after this rebellion that took place in Enode, vampires began to spread across the world, and each of the seven grandchildren, descended from the first vampires, created their own clans, each with their own characteristics and powers. For many years they fought each other against each other, each wanting power for themselves, but then they saw that by uniting in a society hidden in the shadows, they would be extremely powerful.

This made the angels see potential enemies in the war that was to come, as these vampires were already condemned by the curse, Sheol was already a certain destination for these creatures and Lucifer was already waiting for them, not knowing whether to punish them or ally. up to him. The power of vampires was becoming extremely strong and dangerous for the world of men, the powers and principalities of heaven. One of the leaders of this new race of grandsons of Caine, while drinking the blood of a beautiful young woman who had been captured in a caravan passing near Nod, along with the rest of his tribe, spoke up and said:

"Any human being fearing the God who sealed Cain, who truly believes that angelic beings have granted our race authority over the goals of their existence and the world, is still in the phase of being our best food. There is no other revelation than the ideas disseminated to confuse the wise and convince the ignorant. And those who begin to question our authority are liable to be cattle for our nourishment, as is the lot of all who have not been made one of us!"

Even though he was marked by God and faced humanity, avoiding at all costs to turn them into a vampire and even though he couldn't contain himself, Cain was a great man in Node, one of Lilith's best apprentices, a person who even though he wasn't an inspiration to anyone , spent and spends his time trying not to spread his curse, killing and burying his descendants forever. And even though he is not perfect, his rude way with humanity itself caused him great problems where he was marked by God, because of an evil that he himself created. And while he spends eternity running and hiding, Caine never ceased to create, learn and amaze the vampires he himself created, killing them forever, just as a great hunter should do.

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Shortly after the Flood and when they were already on dry land, Noah, full of the authority of the Creator, cursed his son Ham, for seeing him naked, after having been drunk with the first wine made from the grapes harvested in his first vineyard. Embarrassed, Dog left his father's presence. Inflicted and quite saddened by the curse given by his patriarch, the young man uttered several lamentations:

"I did what I shouldn't, that's why I suffer with regret, the remorse of not having done differently and having avoided being cursed! I just wish I had another chance and do it differently, making sure I had given my life a different direction! How I wish I could go back in time and not have seen my father naked. Making that decision cost me dearly. She cost me this emptiness of her absence! I did what I had to without the awareness that I had put my whole life at risk and didn't even ask my father's permission to do so. But I was wrong and today I can only ask for your forgiveness even if my father Noah is not here to forgive me. Guilt, remorse and regret are the feelings that make my heart ache and dry. And it hurts even more for not being able to go back and change what was done. I'm going to have to live with this curse, in the hope that it will ease with time and that, wherever my father is, he can forgive me for my mistake. Today, after being cursed for so long, I look back and see that everything could have been different. I was irresponsible and inconsequential, I didn't listen to my common sense, my conscience and today I can only regret finding myself in this difficult situation. Oh, from me! Now all is darkness!"

Fleeing from his father's presence, going to hide in the shadows so that no one would see the mark of shame on his face, Dog was sought out by a strange individual, who wore extremely white robes. This individual had promised him eternal rewards if Dog agreed to help him on a great mission. And Noah's youngest, already hopeless and depressed, accepted the pact and, with that, sealed his fate, saying:

"A great opportunity to be with my family today was lost and today I think that everything could be different. However, the arrogance of thinking that anything can be done, related to youth, led me to think that my freedom would never cease and that actions without consequences would always be at my disposal. But today, with this offer, I see that life presents us with some great opportunities and it is up to us to know how to identify them and not let them pass. If my burden is to be lessened with actions, I accept the offer to help, giving my life new meaning!"

The individual in question was the angel Metatron, who as he had not been able to eliminate Caine's grandchildren in the great flood, wanted to control the proliferation of vampires on Earth, so that the curse would not touch good men in the eyes of God. Metatron, having been permitted by God to act in secrecy, empowered Hound and his offspring as well, to hunt down and kill vampires. And while transforming Dog into the one who would, if not stop, control the spread of vampires, the angel spoke in these terms:

"Young Dog, you don't worry anymore, because it's only worthy of life, the one who doesn't fear to make mistakes and believes in the strength that emerges from within his being, risking everything, even in his worst moment, without fear of achieving happiness, satisfaction and self-assessment in search of improvements, conquering what you always wanted, including the world. Not believing in the destructive potential of the children of Cain is worse than accepting the end of the divine work, at the hands of humanity. Like my father, The Creator, I have always believed in man, in his potential and in his goodness, even for my brothers of light this is nothing more than naivety. This is because for me, it's more than that: it's faith! That is why nothing is created and nothing is destroyed before the Creator: everything is transformed. And that is why not only do I grant you powers, but also a profound transformation in your life, to redeem yourself not only with the offspring of your father Noah, but also to generate your own offspring. It is not something generated by the human mind, or by me, because I do nothing if it is not conceived by my father: it is all the result of the Creator's magnificent work, obeying, among others, the laws of relativism and universal balance. Receive now these gifts and these powers so that you may fight against the offspring of Cain. Kneel down, Dog, and when you rise again, you will be a new creature from now on!"

From that day forward, Hound lived up to his name and transformed into a mighty beast, half man, half wolf, with enormous claws and fangs, with enough strength, courage, and fury to hate and kill a vampire. Like Cain, Dog was also powerful enough to exterminate dozens of vampires at once and over time, Dog's descendants became natural enemies of vampires and that's how werewolves came about.

In the eyes of the Creator, whose omniscience already knew the result of his son Metatron's attitude, now and forevermore, this offspring of Dog gained a prominent mission here on Earth, which was to maintain order in this emerging underworld. . This is because both they and the vampires could infiltrate the midst of men and live with them without their being noticed. These new beings, in their original form, were similar to gigantic wolves that walked on two legs. But because they were inserted in societies as common people, they took the form of men, but they were not easy to be contaminated by political-socio-religious rules, causing many to become quite reserved and discreet people.

Cain in his exile, knowing this new species had arisen, still holds the title of being the first vampire, even though his bloodlust had spawned other vampires. These vampires, who throughout their history carry his mark, walking in the shadow of humanity, drinking the blood of animals and men, avoiding revealing themselves so as not to be hunted and killed. And when the Son of the Creator came into the world, still remaining among us, Churches, religious symbols and everything that makes reference to the Lord is avoided by vampires to this day.

The Creator then left all these creatures to his will and in time, cursed humans emerged who consumed human flesh and were prevented from enjoying death. These beings became the zombies we know today. Humans who sought to control vampires, zombies and even the demons of hell using magic became witches and wizards. The angel, seeing the proliferation of this new humanity that preferred darkness to Light, went to Dog and spoke in these terms:

"There is a reason for all this to come into being. And the presence of the Creator completely fills this reason. But this new humanity is not justified by our limited knowledge. We can deduce, then, that you, I and your descendants will have a lot to learn, because through the Creator we were given this grace".

The Creator, seeing this proliferation of cursed men, also entrusted the werewolves with the mission of hunting and eliminating these beings, as the maintainers of order, as it was impossible to hand this mission over to men, at this point in the evolution of humanity, because the same they had no weapons, much less the strength to do so. So it would be impossible for men at that moment to destroy a vampire or even a witch, for the last hero who tried to destroy a vampire died before the age of fourteen. And he had a name that no one remembers these days. Then the Creator, taking the floor, spoke in these terms:

"Evil has poisoned the souls of men, raising in the world that I created with my infinite love, walls of hate. And this has made good men stride forward into misery and slaughter. Men don't get better and kill each other as if they were squashing insects. The evil in their hearts dies and is reborn every day. The world I created is increasingly inhabited by men and women with hard and blackened hearts, becoming uninhabitable. And because my eyes have learned to cry, my tears will fall on them with such pain, that it will seem to them a deluge".

Metatron was worried by those words of his father, because that just showed that The Creator was fed up. He, who had created everything, that nothing happens without his approval, was fed up with humanity and all its generations thirsty for evil. But Metatron even understands, because, being the human being a rational animal with free will, one of his most common irrational instincts is selfishness. That's why he and all the heavenly powers can expect nothing more than an incessant war between human beings fighting among themselves for the maintenance of their egos, their struggle to be noticed in the world and for their stony path towards a supposed idea of happiness. .

The Creator was fed up with humanity, considering it a stain on His creation. But the angel who was called by all his brothers as "the voice of God", so intimate that he had with his father, he even understood. That's because he was also tired of seeing men kill other men and offering the dead bodies in sacrifice to gods fruits of his imagination that took shape through clay, writing or inks. Metatron was quite concerned to see all the evil that man adds to the world, as if the world as it was created and given to men was not enough, because the world is already evil by nature and each human being away from the Creator only makes it worse. .

Metatron is afraid that the fact that the Creator is fed up with men, makes Him also fed up with goals, fed up with time and space itself, because the human mind is full of emptiness, making them cling to gods and demons. The angel, through the light of his own reason, came to these bitter and sad conclusions: If the Creator gets fed up with humanity, he will soon get fed up with the Universe, the world and the Earth itself, until he gets fed up with being fed up. When that happens, he will exist again in the darkness of emptiness, just coherence and incoherence; consciousness and unconsciousness; what the Creator is and what He is not; what He was, what He will be, and what He should be. And Metatron hopes that The Creator will find something to rejoice with humanity again, so that life, death, existence and the Universe, do not go back to being the existence of nothing.