This Hell

IN THE BEGINNING

God was birthed into the universe, and found it brimming with life, precious life. After much traveling across the universe's dimensions and planets they discovered a realm made of pure light. At their touch, they realized the energy of the realm shaped itself around them, and so they began to shape what they believed to be the perfect world. They named this realm Heaven, and created the Angels, beings of celestial cosmic power to live and prosper and spread their message of benevolence across the universe.

From Heaven the Angels scoured the universe searching for undeified sentient life bless with God's teachings, until they found a planet called Earth. The Angels informed God of this planet and showed him evidence of a species that would eventually be called Humans.

God traveled to Earth by creating gateways from Heaven, and confirmed the existence of these sentient untouched beings in the continent of Africa, and found the most evolved members of their species who were the most intelligent.

The two most evolved humans' names were Adam and Lilith. And they lived together in a desert in Central Africa, scouring the sands to find others like them. Little did they know, they were the only members of their species to get to this point in their development, and it would take a few eons before hundred years for the rest of their brethren to catch up.

As the two humans settled down in the desert for the night, God blessed the land with his touch, creating a vast oasis around their small encampment that the Angels nicknamed the Garden of Eden. God would henceforth refer to it as Paradise; the ultimate gateway between Heaven and Earth.

When the two humans awoke, they were immediately sent into a panic, but God revealed themself to the two humans and told them the truth about their existence, and convinced them to follow them in spreading good through the universe.

The Garden of Eden had almost anything they could ever want and had every non-sentient creature on Earth at the time to the heart's content. For the next few days the two humans that God commanded to join each other in marriage enjoyed the vast opulence of the oasis created for them. And all they had to do to enjoy it was not to give in to any corruption. For while God did create Paradise with the best intentions, a small portion of the Garden was plagued by the chaotic forces that had once graced the desert sands. From that chaotic energy sprouted a tree with apples that could easily corrupt the minds of the beings that ate it.

And to make it all worse, the Angels God sent to explore the rest of the planet, found something in the oceans: an ancient chaotic being that evolved during Earth's infancy and had now grown in the dark depths of the Mariana Trench. God followed his Angels to the entrance of the deep watery hole and called out to the being that they had aptly named Leviathan. God knew it was huge but was deeply surprised by the chaotic being's sheer almost infinite mass as God summoned it. God decided to bless the dark creature with their blessing, mixing their own sheer power with the celestial might of Heaven, causing Leviathan to shrink into the form of an Angel. And that's when God realized they could turn the creatures of other realms into their precious Angels.

Leviathan was then welcomed to Heaven by God's first Angel, Lucifer Morningstar, the Lightbringer and High Angel of Heaven. Leviathan shared his vast knowledge with his new celestial brethren, and Lucifer was surprised to learn that Leviathan had gained the ability of free will in the absence of a higher power's intervention. Leviathan could do whatever he wanted whereas all of the other beings on Earth simply just did what was necessary for the survival of their various species. That inspired Lucifer to take up a new hobby on Earth: figuring out how to grant the humans the free will that Leviathan had in order to save them from the prison of primal survival.

As soon as God learned of his plan, God forbid the first Angel from continuing his mission, warning their most beloved son that the pursuit of free will would allow humanity to commit atrocities in addition to freeing them from survival, but Lucifer didn't listen.

Joined by Leviathan and 4 other Angels in pursuit of free will for humanity—Asmodeus, the Angel of Pleasure; Mammon, the Angel of Wealth; Beelzebub, the Angel of Knowledge; and Satan, the High General of Heaven—Lucifer studied the Garden and realized that the corruption from the chaotic apple tree was the solution he needed.

Knowing that the humans living there wouldn't just disobey God, Lucifer tried to convince Adam to want the power of free will, but Adam rejected any messages from Heaven not directly given to him by God. Given no other option, Lucifer went to Lilith to convince her to have free will, but he ended up getting so much more: her love. The two fell in love after Lilith ate the apple, violating God's orders of Lilith serving the role as Adam's devoted wife. Adam discovered the pair in bed with each other, and quickly reported their violation to his lord.

God, absolutely furious by the 6 Angels' meddling with humanity, warned them of the issues that could occur had they fully corrupted the most evolved members of humanity, informing them that things could've ended up much worse had Adam been corrupted by free will. God banished Lilith from The Garden, and their attempt to banish the 6 Angels from Heaven, God accidentally opened a rift in the Earth in the cracks of the roots of the apple tree. God repaired it before anymore harm could be done, and the Angelic Civil War began.

Angels loyal to God fought on their creator's side, and those not loyal fought alongside Lucifer, pledging their loyalty to him. Only one Angel didn't choose a side, however. His name was Belphegor, the Angel of Leisure. God took note of Belphegor's reluctance to fight against the rebels and remain loyal to them, threatening to banish them along with their rebel brethren. Belphegor still, not being able to raise a blade against any of his Angel brethren, accepted this and allowed God to cast him out of Heaven and onto the chaotic wilds of Earth.

As war waged, God took Adam to a safe part of the Garden and ripped out one of his ribs, and blessed it with life, creating a new wife, one that was more pure than any other for Adam: Eve. She gleefully married Adam and the two promised to continue on the human race as well as follow God's orders. But Lucifer, who was losing the war against God's armies, had a new plan.

Lucifer, disguised as a serpent tricked Eve to eat an apple, slept with her in his serpent form, and convinced her to use her naked body to sexually convince Adam to eat the apple. And unfortunately for Adam, he couldn't resist his wife's heavenly body and ate an apple so that he could sleep with her for the first time, giving into his primal desires only to finally be given the free will that came with the corruption of the apple tree.

But Lucifer didn't know the danger in granting humanity's most sentient the power of free will.

The cracks in the roots of the apple tree had now grown out of control, and the spread of their chaotic energy to the two humans, caused a massive earthquake of darkness into the light of the Garden.

God, in an attempt to close the chasm, realized that they were left with no choice: they had to banish the rebellious Angels into the chasm in order to properly contain the dark energies threatening the planet they'd grown to love. Along with the Angel Belphegor, God's armies battled the rogue Angels and shoved them into the depths of what would eventually be called Hell.

But the damage was done. Humanity began to evolve with free will, and many of them allowed corruption to consume them. Those that weren't consumed by evil were given the gift of becoming Angels like Leviathan once became, and those corrupted were banished to the depths of Hell and became demons.

The 7 Deadly Princes—Lucifer, King of Hell and the Prince of Pride; Satan, General of Hell's Legions and the Prince of Wrath; Mammon, Hell's Head Businessman and the Prince of Greed; Leviathan, the Head Geneticist of Hell and the Prince of Envy; Beelzebub, the Lord of Flies, and the Prince of Gluttony; Asmodeus, the Liberator and the Prince of Lust; and Belphegor, Hell's Head Technocrat and the Prince of Sloth—alongside Queen Lilith, ruled over the new chasm of Hell and its increasing population of natural born demons as well as sinners from Earth, waiting for the day they could simply invade Earth and bring about the end of God's reign over humanity, shrouding the Earth in free will in the absence of God's message of benevolence; recreating it in their presence of sinful desires...