"Soooo BORED! HELEL!! Entertain me..." said the man facing away from the light. "I don't really see why you'd be bored. It's fairly pleasant here. Don't you agree Posthumous?" said the girl facing towards the light. "Erebus, you complain too much. For being here the longest, I'd think you'd get used to the nothingness this place has to offer." said the man in between the light. All three sat together in a small round table. Erebus, the embodiment of human darkness and cruelty, Helel, the fallen angel still loyal to God, and Posthumous, the liberator from death signifying life after death. Erebus was an elegantly dressed man, fully shaved and quite tall, wearing a top hat, that went accordingly with his extravagant long smoky black hair. His small glasses barely covering his non-existant pupils were lightly tinted and adorned in gold. His personality, cruel and mischievous, was well suited for a 'man' of his status. Each sigh made it seem as if he was smoking. He sat in front, his back, facing towards the light, so his front was shadowy. Helel, a splendidly dressed youth, long horns extended from her forehead that curved upward, and her hair was snow white and wavy. She seemed to have an almost unnatural since of loyalty to Heaven. Three pairs of brilliant red wings all cluttered behind her. She faced the light head on. Now, Posthumous was possible the most normal of the two. He dressed in semi-formal manner, with a dress shirt that had the sleeves rolled up. In exception to the third eye on the back of his neck, he could pass as human. He sat in between the two, half of him in light, the other in darkness. "You guys aren't fun," Erebus sighed, "what happened to the good old days, when we gave teenagers magical powers and fucked with their minds!" "Erebus, if I remember correctly, you were the only one that did that, Helel and I just played chess." "Hey, Posthumous, shut the fuck up, yeah? See, this why no one likes you. I mean, seriously, how long have you been here? Two, three hundred years? You know how long I've been here? Since fucking ever. You know how long Helel has been here? For at least three fucking thousand years. That's ten times longer than you. So how about you shut up and let the big kids talk." "Erebus, I don't think you should be talking to the kid like that. You need to understand, we're all getting rather tired. The last time we interfered in human affairs was with that Samuel and Otto kid, and that nearly brought forth another Apocalypse. How long was that? That happened around the same time Posthumous showed up." "Well, maybe we should have some more fun!" exclaimed Erebus as he got up from his seat, "We need to start bringing in more magic! More sorcerers! I say we place a bet!" "Bet on what?" asked Posthumous. "Alright, so we get a bunch of teenagers and we give them superpowers!" "Erebus, I'm beginning to worry about you." said Helel, putting wrapping her arms around herself. "Yeah, that is a pretty stupid idea." "No, no, no! And then, with their new found powers, we get to see their true personalities! Only when we make them seem greater than everyone else, will their true colors show! It's something I've been thinking about. I've always wondered what humanity is! Is it like me, awesome and wanting more, like Helel, boring and 'caring', or like Posthumous, a bunch of babbling idiots?" "As much as I disagree with your choice if wording, I'm rather intrigued, alright, count me in on this bargain." "I don't like this, but if Helel is in, so am I." smiled Posthumous, "but what are we dealing?" "Butterflies." grinned Erebus. "Butterflies?" asked Posthumous and Helel. "Yes, butterflies. You see my son, Thanatos, is a really weird child, and he likes to experiment. So what he does is he gathers up human souls, and he turns them to butterflies. Now then, let me tell you something, these things are DELICIOUS!! So, I what I'm saying is that the winner earns the souls of each one of the test subjects, to do with as he or she, but mostly me, pleases. Deal?" "Well, that is quite a fine deal. Very well, I accept." nodded Helel. "I'm already in, so it's not like I'm gonna back down." smiled Posthumous. "Very well, it's agreed! Now then, to make things interesting, let's get some of your brother's demons involved, how about it Helel? Set some demon's loose on Earth." "Luci's demon's? Alright, I'll go talk to him. This ought to be fun." she giggled as she disappeared in a flurry of feathers. "Posthumous, make yourself useful and find some good test subjects. I'm gonna go talk to Great Old One. He still owes me for having me chase out the Olympians." said Erebus smiling at Posthumous as he disappeared in a black puff of smoke. "... Well, I guess this looks like a good place to start looking..." sighed Posthumous, looking down at the small table that now looked down at a small town.
"Joe." "What is it Sam?" "What the hell is up with people in this school?" "What do you mean?" "What do you mean what do I mean?! Look at them!" yelled Sam pointing to the entire campus. Now Sam wasn't a particularly interesting guy. In fact, he was the dullest person EVER! In exception to his random rants and awkward views on humanity, he had nothing. His grades were average, and he barely made it into his college of choice. But he wasn't always like this. Quite a while back, his father had died, and apparently so had his energy level. Joe, Sam's trusted friend, was often uncaring towards others, but was easily angered if told this. He was rather weird as well. "Okay, for example, look at him!" "Liam? I like Liam." "Yeah, but he acts like he's tough shit!" "Not really, he's pretty laid back really. I mean for a dude that benches his own weight, he's pretty lazy. Then again he is gay..." said Joe, looking up at the sky. "HOLY SHIT!! LIAM IS GAY!!" "Yeah, you didn't know? I mean, he is awfully good with girls, yet he never has had one girlfriend?" "I thought he went out with Ninz!" "The skinny wearing girl? No. She LIKED him, but they never went out. Poor girl. Too trusting." "Yeah... I don't like her hair..." "I swear Sam! If it's not one thing it's another! What don't you like about it?" "It's fake... I mean, I can see the roots! Does she she bleach it or is something? And she's kinda like that ditzy blonde kinda of p-" "WAZZUP GUYS!!" interrupted Ninz," Heard you guys talking about me. So what's been up?" "Nothing Ninzy," said Sam, seemingly disappointed in her presence, "Listen, I got Chemistry now, so, yeah... Catch you later!" said Sam, waving away as he sped forward. "Chem's that way. Remember, we have that class together. Sometimes you can be such an idiot." "Yeah, but, I... um... I wanted to... um...get a drink first! Yeah! A drink!" "I got some agave juice! You want some!" smiled Ninz cheerfully. "I'd rather get some water." "I have that too!" she smiled, basically shoving the water bottle into his arms "Now come on, we're walking together" she said, basically dragging Sam to class. "No! Wait! Joe! Save me!" yelled out Sam as Joe just smiled and waved "Don't just sit there like an idiot! Help me you son of a b-" "NO CURSING! Now! Onward to class!" laughed Ninz as she eagerly marched to class dragging Sam behind her.