Death wandered over to the Gate and of all the surprises he could have had this was a biggie. Manning the Gate was an Elder. Himself must really be serious this time.
" Hello Death, I hope all is well with you. I havent been here in a long long time. I'm not sure you would even remember me. But I can see by your stunned appearance that you do."
" Hello Elder Dagda. I never thought to see you here on Himself's plane. I thought you had all retired, to, well wherever it is you retired to."
" Himself and We keep in touch. You know how it is with Gods and Goddess's, well perhaps you don't. I'm sorry, sometimes I forget. We never really had an angel of Death in our time. We had AAFea and Nemon but they werent really doing what you do. Then of course there was Morrigan, but he is a different sort. Anyway, Himself says go on in."
Death entered the Gate but could not help but look back at Dagda. "Wow, what a presence" he thought.
Now to find the right cloud. Looking around he found one cloud with the Goddess Aine standing in front of it. Another Elder!!! This was getting scarey now. If Himself and Herself called on the Goddess of Healing this was either going to be a long long meeting or some proverbial heads were going to roll.
" Death come on in, have a seat. You know most everyone here, but let me reintroduce you to a few Angels, Gods and Goddess's that will be staying with us for awhile. You remember Appoloin, who watched over the pits of hell for eons so that he can throw Satan down there and keep him there. This Goddess over here is Elder Dana, Herself's sister, with her is Angel Anahita, her daughter. Lets see, who else is there you might not recognize, oh yes, my good friend Elder Miach, and Elder Echne, both have helped me with Terra. Come come, have a seat now, we must get on with this." Himself waited until everyone had settled, this being difficult because of all the wings, staffs, and halos that had to be juggled.
" Angel Chamuel has stated that he will help preside over this meeting as his "job" has always been to inspire tolerence so that we may love each other and ourselves. Chamuel I turn this over to you for governance." Himself sat down on his Throne.
" Uhum, fellow Angels, Elders, and the government of this plane, I welcome you to a meeting of peace and honesty. We come together because Himself and Herself along with a few others here are having problems doing their jobs."
Himself jumped up, " now wait a minute, thats not what I...."
" Sit down Himself, please. You asked me to do this and I am going to do this as I feel it needs to be done. As honesty is the first step, I will be honest to a fault. Do you want me to lie? Hmmm? Himself, do you?"
" No, no, go ahead" Himself waved a hand at the Angel.
" Ok then, here we go again. As I look over this list, the participants have pointed out four, no five " persons" who have caused some havoc in this peaceful realm. I will call out to the name of the complaintant and you will all allow him or her to speak. No comments until all have been allowed to speak and then we will commence with trying to solve all this. Ok? Ok.
Now Orda shall we hear from you first? Are you ready?" All heads turned to the ugly demon.
Orda stood up and made his way to the front of the "room".
" Yeah, I'm ready, ready to quit. If I don't get answers today, that just whats gonna happen too, do you hear me Satan, I need some help. I want to know how come no matter how many horns I grow, or how ugly my skin becomes, you leave me outside the Gates of Hell checking off souls that all the other demons inside get to have fun with. How come I can't do it. There are demons in there that dont even have any horns yet, I have been here for eons, faithful, and waiting, but no, you just flit here and there, causing havoc and testing souls, while Im left to man a podium with a damned book, all the while listening to the fun your little demons are having inside. I want a raise!! Or a promotion, or some thing. " Orda had gone a glorious shade of purple red and smoke was comming out of two of his horns while the third newly grown horn was trying to sputter out some thin whisps. He sat down, and glared at Satan.
"Alright then. Orda you have stated your complaint. Satan have you anything you can say, or is there anything you want to add? Satan? Are you listening? Stop talking to Douma, we need you to answer to Orda."
"Answer to him!!! No way. I will not answer to an "employee". He will answer to me. When Orda who replaced Douma grows a thousand eyes, I will give him a flaming sword and he will be in charge of my thousand demons. But he has a lot to learn yet before I trust him to that many. Why Orda you can't even manage a conversation with Death without coming to me running and blubbering about how he doesn't do his job. A good administrator would have solved that problem, not come to me crying. how can i trust you to hand out punishments if you cant even handle one Angel? Thats all I have to say." Satan sat back down and resumed talking to Douma.
At this Ordas new horn began to grow and grow, spitting flames of fire everywhere. " trust!, blubbering!, why you two bit piece of shit Angel. If it werent for Himself, you wouldnt exist. I do quit! And I am leaving." And with that Orda winked out.
" Well, I would say we are off to a lively start, now arent we? Does anyone have anything more to add to this subject?" Chamuel looked over the group around him.
" Uh, yeah! Who do I hire now, big guy?"
Herself jumped up, " you never did have any respect, always wanting to be a God or have more powers. The least you could do is address Himself with more respect."
" Sure, why not, he only kicked me out and said I couldnt come back. Course I do like my job, but I still have to answer to Himself"< this said reluctantly>" and maybe I dont want my job any more either, so go to Hell yourselves if you want. I quit too!!" And out winked Satan.
This was getting nowhere fast.
"uhm Himself? Perhaps we might save this for another eon or two. I dont see anything really getting resolved here."
"Wait! Wait! I just want to say that I want to grow apendages like Satan, and be able to not scare people so badly and have an assistant to help me/ And why cant I talk to humans? I met a really nice one that I think I have ...."
" Dont say it Death! Dont say you have fallen in love. Its not allowed. I wont allow it."
"Himself with all due respect, you have no authority over my heart. I can and have fallen in love. With a human no less. So, as I see it, I can quit too, cant I?" Death felt very smug.
" If he can quit so can I", this from Peter," I am sick of just standing there at the Gates waiting for HIM over there to to his job in an orderly fashion, but no, he has to forget about me and bring me thousands at a time so he can get back to his human lover!!!" said very sarcastically this time.
"Your just jealous because you can't.
And I can."
" Who says I cant? You? Your nothing but Death, I am the person who passes souls into Heaven, you are nothing to me."
"Then prove it, find a human to love you." And with that last statement Death winked out.
" Does this mean he's quit too?" Himself asked Herself.
" No dear, I didnt hear him say that."
" Oh good."
"Himself should I address your problems now with Herself or Herself's problems with you?"
Each looked at each other in shock.
"You complained about me? In public? How dare you Himself. I have done nothing but wash your beard, wings, make your cloudy bed, and nurture your silly experiments."
" You complained about me? In public? How dare you Herself. I do nothing but listen to your constant complaints about mothering Terra, you never let me create any thing any more."
This being said at the same time, all other members in the meeting winked out.
amawitch/2007
