Demon Evolution by David Estes

Author:David Estes
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: evolution, gargoyles, demons, fantasy, angels, wings
Publisher: David Estes
Published: 2012-02-21T14:18:53+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Andrew paced across his brightly-lit room. Ever since he and the other Archangels had left Mount Olympus, a sense of foreboding had filled his every waking moment. Mount Olympus was the name given to the compound that Dionysus had constructed to protect the Archangel Council from the demons. As long as the Council and Dionysus as its Head were there, sufficiently removed from the front lines, Andrew had felt he was able to control the situation. Since they had moved to the mountain, just a stone’s throw from the battlefield, Dionysus had acted with reckless abandon—attacking in broad daylight within sight of humans, conducting a spy witch hunt, and executing prisoners. After the latest Council meeting, Andrew was convinced he had completely lost his mind.

It probably all started when Gabriel Knight—the golden son, he who delivered the one, the future of the angel cause—had betrayed Dionysus and helped the girl to escape. On that day Dionysus’s eyes were wild with anger, like Andrew had never seen before. The evil lurking behind those eyes must surely have been born from the Devil himself. That’s when Andrew’s fear began to rise.

For years he had known that the Head of the Archangel Council was evil, and thus, Andrew’s conscience led him to a secret meeting with Clifford Dempsey, the head of the demon Elders, where he pledged himself to the demon cause—the protection of humans. Over the last decade, Andrew had passed on information to the demons that was so valuable that he may have singlehandedly prevented Dionysus from taking control of the world on numerous occasions.

The most important piece of intel was The Plan, Dionysus’s ultimate goal, which was known only to the Council and to a handful of other key angels, and thanks to Andrew, of course, known to the demon Elders. Knowing that with the demons out of the way, Dionysus would kill off most of the human race and enslave the rest to use as a source of eternal life for the angels, had helped provide the demons with a significant amount of motivation to win the Great War.

When Dionysus began the angel spy witch hunt, Andrew became fearful that he, too, would be discovered. He was not fearful for his own life, for he would gladly give it for such a noble cause, rather, he was fearful for the lives of his family: his wife, Sera, a human, and their three angel children, aged seven, four, and two. Dionysus had surprisingly shown mercy, if you could call it that, to the families of the angel spies who were discovered, by not convicting them to the same fate as their loved ones. However, Andrew knew that Dionysus would not be so merciful if he discovered the level of his treachery. His life, and the lives of his family, would be forfeit. An example would surely be made of him: Traitors Will Be Punished!

Andrew had been too scared to try to pass a message on to the demons about the planned New Year’s Eve executions and related trap.

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