Temper, by Shannon Green

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Chapter 1: Angels and Demons You, and whatever else is to be, have not yet become; you're formless, and void. You move like a spirit, and discover the same emptiness over, and over, but nothing more and nothing less. It's impossible to tell whether it's you who moves or the emptiness. From the depths of the emptiness comes a guilty spark, that shimmers, once, before it collapses and creates a super-massive explosion. A larger surge happens within the depth of the first, it looks like a Sun hidden behind a grey cloud, and it causes the boom to mutate into a disproportionate ring-shape. The boom expels through holes untold amounts of light, that bend; they form a crown over both holes, simultaneously and symmetrically. They breathe, and exhale colourful rays that echo into the emptiness; this continues until they are suffocated, which you tell from their dull light. You watch as they collapse and are sucked back into the boom. For a moment nothing happens... Suddenly, a special, calm-looking light ascends from out the apex; it twists, and creates hooped wings. For a moment, it looks like an angel. It twists, again, up into a bud, and then blooms into the grandest amount of electrical lights; they branch into different shaded buds of energy that sink into the apex, the rest of the electrical lights fall gracefully and cover the boom. “This is a beautiful phenomenon”, you can't help but say. The angel has reacts badly to your words and spins, chaotically; it's at a lopsided angle, whipping the boom and causing it to deform. The spinning causes some of the energy-buds to cut off, and dive into the emptiness, making small electrical impulses. It continues to spin, until it's spun to an even angle, and then slows down gracefully; some of the shaded energy-buds droop down to the side of the boom, and consequently heal the deformations. From the index, rather eerily, descends an excited-looking light. You expect this to be another angel, but it doesn't create wings, instead it slaloms like a snake, and looks like a demon. The demon turns, and rushes aggressively toward the angel, latching onto it's lights. Groups of electrical lights release a strange gas, and it pacifies the demon so it's light is no longer excited. It let's go of the angel's light, and starts to fall into the emptiness. A moment later the demon regains it's conscience, but not it's excitement, and resumes its attack on the angel. The angel's lights graciously make a pathway for the demon to follow, strangely. The lights part in the demons presence, and create a gap at the pinnacle of the bloom- it reveals a flower made of condensed energy. The demon ceases this chance, and charges toward the energy-flower. The angel had seemed to expect the demon, but when the demon reaches the angel's core, it becomes excited, again. The angel's lights try to close the gap, but it's too late, for the front of demon splits, and reveals a small red light; it uses it to speak words in a demonic language, and then latches onto the energy-flower. The angel reacts worse than when affected by your word. It's drained of all colour and power, and it's effect is reversed; the electrical lights retract and break off, and the energy-buds around the boom, drop, and explode near the index. You see a static black Sun behind the grey cloud of the boom, the boom that starts to deform. From the index of the deformed boom, countless demons descend into the emptiness... “No...” , you say, and sadness comes over you. Suddenly, a calm-looking light shoots out from the gap in the bloom, and moves at high speeds towards you; it's pursued by all of the demons, including the arch-demon who leaves the energy flower. Almost instantly, the angel flows through your spirit, and you feel a warmth in your heart. Shortly after, the arch-demon flows through you, and you feel a pain in your mind. The rest of the demons all flow through you, and you feel immense pain all over your body. You see through blurred vision, the dying energy-flower at the pinnacle... The scene fades to black...