Book IV: The Curse of Y’AH-Way
Chapter 1: The Children of Adam and Eve
With the Eye of Seraphiel now in my possession, it was time to get back to Adam and Eve. You’ll recall that Lucifer – before he was cast down to Hell by Michael – had abused Eve terribly. I should tell you that Lucifer’s treatment caused Eve great pains – both physically and mentally. Suffering immensely, Eve had wandered off alone and waited for death to find her.
It would have – if not for my intervention. Lucky for her, I had other plans for the woman and as a result, I secretly nursed Eve back to health — appearing to her in the form of her mate Adam and pretending to lovingly care for her.
It took me nearly a century to heal Eve, and I had to slow her aging process down to a crawl. But eventually, I not only wiped the woman’s memory clean of her ordeal with El but also rejuvenated her body. I’m rather proud to say that Eve was even stronger than when God and I first made her. Oh, it’s true that my genetic tampering with Eve would result in far-reaching consequences I didn’t foresee, but that’s a tale for another time.
In order to move my plans forward, I needed Eve to be a fully functioning vessel — one capable of conducting my next great experiment. Once I was satisfied she was ready, I moved the process forward. Now, what Eve didn’t know was that as a result of El’s abuse, she’d become pregnant — just as I planned. And while El was ambivalent to this consequence, what the Dark Prince also didn’t know was that I had, at the moment of conception, secretly forced two hand-picked souls from The Void into the zygotes — yes, plural — souls that I had been torturing beyond measure for some time, bending the spirits to my will, and getting them ready specifically for this occasion.
The combination of the soul and the zygote, along with a portion of El’s essence, would eventually cause Eve a nightmare of a pregnancy once I let it proceed. Yet she did not have to endure the process alone. With her body healed, her memory clean, and never knowing she’d been separated from her mate, she didn’t resist when I returned her to Adam prior to any physical changes in Eve’s body.
For his part, although Eve had been gone for over a century, Adam was all too grateful to have his sole companion back. Having lain with Eve before and after their separation, when Eve’s body finally began to change and it became apparent that the woman was with child, Adam harbored no suspicions about who the father was and thus happily cared for his pregnant wife. Adam played the midwife for Eve, and although it was a difficult childbirth, both mother and children came through just fine. Thus it was that about a year after her reunion with Adam, Eve gave birth to twins – the first to emerge was a boy — whom they named Kane — and the second was a girl — whom they named Debor.
Oh, you didn’t know Eve had twins? Sorry to once again contradict what you’ve been told in religion class, but remember I’m telling you a true story here, not the fairy tale you’ve been fed all these years. I needed Eve to produce twins for a variety of reasons – not the least of which was faster procreation of a species that was already forced to play catch-up in a world that was threatening to leave humans behind.
As for me, I rejoiced in the birth of Kane and Debor because it marked the culmination of a successful experiment that had taken me millions of years to complete — producing a human vessel capable of holding a soul inside. It seemed that the fruits of all my labor were finally about to pay off.
Meanwhile, never knowing the truth, Adam raised Kane and Debor as his children; he showered them with love and attention — for Kane and Debor were the first children that Adam truly could play the father figure for as he was able to nurture them from birth. Remember the man’s prior ‘children’ (The Amorosi) had all emerged from the goddess Alyssa’s womb full-grown and had quickly gone off on their own.
Adam doted over Kane and Debor, yet his efforts were for naught. In fact, the poor man never had a chance to be a successful father — remember these are the spawn of Satan we’re talking about — and try though he might to reign them in, nothing worked. Kane was particularly rebellious, even as a young child, and watching him talk back made me giddy with excitement for his future.
Yet Adam continued to lay with Eve and she quickly became pregnant again. Later that same year, Eve gave birth to triplets: first to emerge from the womb was a girl — they named her Aklima — then a second girl — whom they called Kala — and finally a boy — they named him Abel. I assume you didn’t know about Abel’s sisters either, right?
Although he was but a toddler himself, it was clear that Kane was not happy to have more children in the family, and particularly another male. Yet someone else was also upset about Abel and his sisters— for it so happened that, like Kane and Debor, Eve’s triplets were also born with souls, but unlike Kane and Debor, I was not able to force a soul of my choosing into Abel and his sisters.
I was horrified to discover that three of the stellarum that Zebub had taken from Illyria had already entered the triplets of their own will! Why? How? I raged at this unexpected nuisance, but even this setback didn’t make me lose hope.
Getting control of myself, I remembered that I had the Eye of Seraphiel and simply devised a new plan…
The Apocrypha of Azazel 