Gnostic Gospel
Seven Deadly Sins
Greed- color gold, god Avarita- takes a massive wolf form or can turn into a massive human, demons take on either a full wolf form or human form or a combination of both almost aggressive in getting what they want will the ends justify the means.
Envy- color green, goddess Invidia- beautiful women who is accompanied by the leviathan, demons are either full dogs or full humans they can never have the best traits of both and usually envious of the other or everything is envious of them.
Pride- color violet, god Superbia- is the father to all sins appears as a male with a horse head male torso and horse waist and down. Demons appear mostly all horse some come as human never both because Superbia takes pride in the fact that he is one of a kind.
Anger- color red, goddess Ira- she and the massive bear she rides are full of rage and hatred, her demons are bear riding warriors who act on very base emotions and are very direct and crude.
Lust- color blue, god Luxuria- a beautiful man with blue hair accompanied by a massive white bull, demons gorgeous lustful men with bull horns and women with a cow tail both have hooves instead of feet and both are bi are easily the prettiest of all demons and angels.
Gluttony- color orange, god Gula- is part pig he is ugly and fat the least popular god. The demos are equally revolting most have mastered a shape shifting spell to appear more appealing.
Sloth- color light blue- goddess Acedia- she is an uncaring impassionate goddess she sits on a throne in a solemn hall where her satyr attendants fulfill any whim she may or may not have. Her demons the satyr are part goat and are as uncaring sad and depressing and lazy as she is.
Seven Heavenly Virtues
Liberality- color dark blue green, goddess Liberalitas- being the exact opposite of greed means anything worth value that she attains she gives away. Her actions are always for the benefit of someone else. Her angels are part deer both have hooves and the males have antlers,
Kindness- color light green, god Humanitas- is the gorgeous knight in full body armor without a helmet. He was given the sword of joy to bring happiness to people and to strike down the leviathan. His angels are pure human in appearance the only difference is that they are faster and stronger than humans and have different weapons.
Humility- color white, goddess Humilitas- is the mother to all virtues is dressed in a plain white robe with a crown of silver set with diamonds. Her angels vary in appearance the have the best trait from an animal but all are garbed in white with a silver ring with a diamond.
Patience- color pink, god Patientia- he is a ten armed handsome man who is a patient opportunist like the spider who could wait all day for a meal to come. His angels appear as he does except not as pretty or handsome.
Chastity- color purple, goddess Castitas- a veiled winged women who scorns lust without love. The swan is the animal of chastity and her angels ride a massive elegant swan to get around
Abstinence- color orange red, goddess Frenum- a trim fit women who runs with the leopards. Popular among woman, displays the most restraint. angels are humanoid leopards fast and agile.
Zeal- color yellow, god Devotio- he is an energetic passionate god and has the ability to create more of himself to get more done he never sleeps and he is always moving he is popular for his advancement of medicine and theater. He is the only god with aquatic and land based angels. They are shark humanoids and are very capricious.
All angels and demons can be invisible they are stronger and bigger than humans they are smart and sly. They usually require that you help them before they help you. most demons reside on earth and exist with humans. Humans when they turn 18 are required to pick 3 sins and 3 virtues that are not the direct opposite of each other. They do this at the main town church. The person is required to speak there sins and virtues aloud saying a prayer chant afterward while kneeling before the alter those gods called will drop a ball of light to that person. The light is the color of that particular god. Inside the light is the corresponding demon or angel. The demons and angels though they advocate a sin or virtue they are effected by a full range of emotions or sins or virtues except the one that is the direct opposite of their main one
Ch.1
Kneeling before an alter and saying your sins and virtues aloud and then having to remember a damn prayer chant is the most nerve racking thing ever. My sins are greed, pride and lust and the virtues are kindness, patience and abstinence. Just finishing up prayer even though my eyes are closed I know that there are six balls of light around me now. I finish, an observer can see the light but not the demons that come forth. I look up and see my demon for lust come forth from a blue light. He is has a slender muscular build standing at 6’5” with short black hair and an impressive set of bull horns that are pure black and absorb all light that hits them. His face has piercing blue eyes and a perfectly straight nose that’s complemented by his array of straight white teeth in a perfect smile in an angular jaw. In fact I’m sure he has a perfectly symmetrical body from the set of his horns to the thickness of his hooves which were filed to a smooth and glossy finish.
The audience has gone silent as the blue light disappeared realizing lust had made the first appearance. They knew that from previous ceremonies that if lust were to come first the person kneeling would be there for quite some time enraptured with the demon.
Finally after 10 minutes apparently satisfied with his affect on me he held out his hand for me to help me up and he introduced himself as Leireäm in the most seductive smooth voice I have ever heard. I grab his hand which is strangely warm considering all he has for clothes in the air conditioned church is a loincloth. I hadn’t noticed until now that it was all he had on and it had gold designs woven into it and was connected front and back with a solid gold belt. the distance between the cloths on both sides had an intricate gold sheet formed around his legs jointed at the knee and continued on to his feet despite this his every movement was graceful.
He lifted me easily to my feet then continued to pick me up altogether in his arms. There was small gasp in the congregation. As a general rule demons and angles don’t pick up the humans they are assigned to in public because the children ten and under have no idea of their existence parents really don’t want to have to explain too their kids what is going on because every situation between a humans’ demons and angels is unique, and no one wants to assume to much about it.
A gruff voice behind me suddenly goes “Now now Leireäm put the kid down, you are scaring him.” I flinch and tear my eyes away from the demon and look behind me as I do I’m lowered to my feet. The light green light had disappeared and a big burly man had appeared in its place he closed the ten feet between us in a fraction of a second his face inches from mine. Startled I gasp and fall against Leireäm who puts his arm around my chest which to calm me or protect me or hold me closer I don’t know. The angel has brown hair on tanned skin with 3 light scars across his jaw. He has a trimmed goatee and side burns with green eyes and a nose that looks like it has been broken. He has chiseled features and a muscled neck a chest plate covers his torso and gauntlets on his arms. He has broad shoulders. The chest plate doesn’t cover his abdomen and reveals his abs. he has full armor from the waist down which appears to be polished silver. He has two katannas strapped at his waist.
He removes Leiream’s arm and grabs my shoulder he isn’t as hot as Leireäm but he is warm. He chuckles which is calming when he stops he says “ Leireäm is more likely to hurt you than I am, my name is Karam.”
Leireäm says defensively “I’m not going to hurt him.”
He steps back pulling Leiream with him. “C’mon lets let the others introduce themselves.”
The violet light starts to fade and from it comes a tall regal looking woman with chocolate colored skin she was wearing a tall gold headdress set with violet stones. Her hair was in a floor length braid. Her makeup looked like it had been painstakingly matched to her dress a strapless bodice set with intricate patterns of violet gems. The gown was made of the most luxuriously soft fabric its general color was violet but it seemed to glow in two other colors that humans have no name for. Her every movement looks preplanned there is no wasted energy yet it still retains that supernatural gracefulness. In a deep yet still feminine voice she said “my name is Pearlent.”
Leireäm is getting annoyed with her absorbing my attention. “Hurry and move it, I want to talk to him.” and stares longingly at me.
She silences him with a look that could have killed. In that one look I learned exactly what I was dealing with in the demons. They are an atomic bomb in pretty packaging. Even though she smiled at me I was afraid and she knew it seeming satisfied with the result she went to stand with the others putting a good distance between them and herself.
I heard Leireäm mumble “Great now he is afraid of us.”
Karam says “No not us, just demons.” and chuckled a little under his breath as Leiream shuffled off to stand alone sulking.
The next light started to disappear and it was the orange light. Out of it comes a blur of leopard fur I gasp and jump back and hit something big and solid and covered in fur. Then I hear the low chuckle that sounds like a cross between a purr and laugh. It was just enough to make me blush. His hand grabs my arm which extends from my elbow to two thirds of the way up my arm the hand itself is covered in a really fine fur that gets longer as it gets to the arm it was short cat fur. His hand is even hotter than Leiream it left me with the warm fuzzy feeling like after you pet a really fluffy cat. As I turn my jaw drops he is gigantic his abs are level with my head. He walks up right like a man he has human legs arms and hands and a chest but he has a leopard head and paws for feet and a tail and his body is covered in the same leopard fur. He has a pair of shorts made like Pearlent’s gown but was orange and more elastic looking and resembled track shorts. His shirt is a darker shade of orange and made from the same material it looks like it allows for easy movement. It is unadorned and is rather plain after the first three but then that’s abstinence for you but his physical appearance more than made up for it. Muscle and sinew flexed even visible through the fur. But I was having a hard time with his sheer height it was intimidating and I lost any composure I had.
He did his purring laugh apparently pleased with my shock and his impression. In my peripherals is saw Pearlent and Karam shake there heads Leireäm looked like he was going to burst into tears I almost ran to comfort him. The purring voice whispers in my ear “Hello, my name is Alaric hope we will be of some use to each other.”
His hand is around my arm and pulls me even closer to him his face is buy the side of my head he licks from my jaw to my temple with a smooth tongue I was expecting a rough cat one. The angels though they represent a virtue they experience a full range of emotions and sins. His was obviously lust; my life is about to suck. Alaric took his place with the others. The gold light was already gone when I look but in its place is another anthropomorphic wolf demon man who was getting ready to leap on me I couldn’t move in time and the demon took me to the ground and laid on me and crushed the air from my lungs. licking my face he said in fully articulated English that his name is Grihn. He is the same size as Alaric he has a wolf head and wolf legs and paws for all four limbs. He has a wolf tail and a mans torso. Almost everything is covered in hair except his torso and he walks on all fours and he is not wearing anything. He keeps licking my face and I’m gasping for air. I can hear my shirt rip and feel his claws gently grazing my body. I look back at the audience up till now I had forgotten them. They all had shocked looks on there faces watching my shirt get torn to shreds while I lie gasping on they floor. It start to laugh a little and say as loud as I can that greed got a little excited being mostly wolf. They sit back and let out a held breath but they still looked worried though. My shirt is gone now and Grihn is licking my body.
I hear him mumble “Wait until tonight.” all his animal instincts coming forth he may be able to speak English but he is still an animal.
I look for Leireäm who is shaking in a silent fury. Even if all he wants is my body at least its enough to protect me. I don’t have any air in my lungs and all I can do is mouth help me and hope some one does.
Then out of nowhere a hoof connects to Grihn’s torso. Grihn crashes into the alter snapping it in half. Leireäm is crouching on the ground and somehow I was in his arms while I watched Grihn rise to his feet.
Pearlent stepped in between us as Grihn went to leap at me again. She shook her head said a quiet imperious “No.” it sounded more like a command rather than an exclamation. Grihn barked in defiance but had stopped moving well his feet aren’t moving any more. His muscles straining against an invisible force his head trying to see me around her. She started to walk away and to my surprise Grihn floated in the air and followed behind her a couple feet barking all the while. When she returned to her place she stopped his barking as well; his mouth was moving with the intention of making as much sound as possible but no sound came out. “Now that that’s over with we can finish this damned ceremony.” glaring at Leireäm “put him down or I will make you put him down.”
He set me on my feet. I wobbled for a couple seconds then collected what was left of myself. I must look like a wreck scratches and slobber all over me my hair is a mess and Leireäm standing two feet behind me. Steadying myself I wait for the last light to fade and angel to step forth.
The light doesn’t fade but four different shades of pink ribbons shoot out about fifteen feet from it forming a rectangle were you to connect them. Then between two shot out another ribbon like a floating pink carpet this one started to undulate forming waves. Riding one of these waves to the end of the ribbon is the ten armed angle of patience. She was as tall as Alaric her torso was slightly longer to accommodate her arms. She has five sets of shoulders spaced evenly along her torso. She is extremely emaciated and rapped in pink ribbons. Her torso is wrapped in the original color and then her arms are wrapped in varying shades with the darkest on top to the lightest on the bottom. Her pants remind me of the pants jasmine wore in Aladdin except pink. She doesn’t have any shoes on and her feet have what looks like the beginnings of a tattoo that continues up her body that can be seen in the spaces the ribbons didn’t cover to the tips of her fingers. She isn’t overly tanned or pale she has a normal shade of skin tone. Her hair is a straight bubblegum pink curtain down to her waist. It frames her face and her pink eyes are wide staring at me then to the demons and angels behind me. Her voice seems much to high to sound like it should be coming from her. It isn’t unpleasantly shrill though it sounds like a crystal bell ringing crisp and clear “I am Portence.” then in blur of pink, ribbon shot from two of her arms and wrapped me up. The ribbons glowed briefly then released me. I look down and find the scratches are gone and I feel refreshed. On my right hand by my fingers I notice that there is a bubblegum pink streak forming twisting and curling into intricate patterns up my hand as it reaches my wrist it slows and fades to black forming an incredible tattoo. The crowd gasps as I turn to face them. This ceremony is full of surprises.
A tattoo from a demon or angel is not uncommon. Any demon or angel can do it. What is uncommon is getting one right off the bat. Only four people have ever gotten one so soon. Those people went on to become legendary in their own right.
I felt unremarkable and unworthy of such a gift so soon. Portence says “there how’s that for a present you are special you just didn’t know it did you.” she steps down and grabs my hand. “now this next part is a secrete. To activate the power of the tattoo you have to think about what you want most in life and you will be granted the power to achieve it. Do you understand?”
I gulped and nodded her hand is ice in mine and it is very distracting. She eventually let go. Then I asked “What do you mean I will be granted the power?”
“The tattoo decides what it is that would be most helpful to you in gaining your dream. For example say you wanted to be a super athlete it could give you the body and stamina for the game. Maybe you want to be a super hero and it could give you the power you wanted. Its kind of like a rule free wish. Aren’t you lucky.” her eyes seemed to get wider and pinker as she was explaining the possibilities. “Anyway you don’t have to use it now just be careful about what you are thinking you wouldn’t want it going off prematurely and waste it. Some people thought about how good their last meal was and wish they had more then the tattoo gives them the most amazing recipe for it so just be careful, okay.”
I gulped and just nodded my head.
“So long as you understand.” she says.
She goes to stand with the rest arms folded along her body.
Seven Deadly Sins
Greed- color gold, god Avarita- takes a massive wolf form or can turn into a massive human, demons take on either a full wolf form or human form or a combination of both almost aggressive in getting what they want will the ends justify the means.
Envy- color green, goddess Invidia- beautiful women who is accompanied by the leviathan, demons are either full dogs or full humans they can never have the best traits of both and usually envious of the other or everything is envious of them.
Pride- color violet, god Superbia- is the father to all sins appears as a male with a horse head male torso and horse waist and down. Demons appear mostly all horse some come as human never both because Superbia takes pride in the fact that he is one of a kind.
Anger- color red, goddess Ira- she and the massive bear she rides are full of rage and hatred, her demons are bear riding warriors who act on very base emotions and are very direct and crude.
Lust- color blue, god Luxuria- a beautiful man with blue hair accompanied by a massive white bull, demons gorgeous lustful men with bull horns and women with a cow tail both have hooves instead of feet and both are bi are easily the prettiest of all demons and angels.
Gluttony- color orange, god Gula- is part pig he is ugly and fat the least popular god. The demos are equally revolting most have mastered a shape shifting spell to appear more appealing.
Sloth- color light blue- goddess Acedia- she is an uncaring impassionate goddess she sits on a throne in a solemn hall where her satyr attendants fulfill any whim she may or may not have. Her demons the satyr are part goat and are as uncaring sad and depressing and lazy as she is.
Seven Heavenly Virtues
Liberality- color dark blue green, goddess Liberalitas- being the exact opposite of greed means anything worth value that she attains she gives away. Her actions are always for the benefit of someone else. Her angels are part deer both have hooves and the males have antlers,
Kindness- color light green, god Humanitas- is the gorgeous knight in full body armor without a helmet. He was given the sword of joy to bring happiness to people and to strike down the leviathan. His angels are pure human in appearance the only difference is that they are faster and stronger than humans and have different weapons.
Humility- color white, goddess Humilitas- is the mother to all virtues is dressed in a plain white robe with a crown of silver set with diamonds. Her angels vary in appearance the have the best trait from an animal but all are garbed in white with a silver ring with a diamond.
Patience- color pink, god Patientia- he is a ten armed handsome man who is a patient opportunist like the spider who could wait all day for a meal to come. His angels appear as he does except not as pretty or handsome.
Chastity- color purple, goddess Castitas- a veiled winged women who scorns lust without love. The swan is the animal of chastity and her angels ride a massive elegant swan to get around
Abstinence- color orange red, goddess Frenum- a trim fit women who runs with the leopards. Popular among woman, displays the most restraint. angels are humanoid leopards fast and agile.
Zeal- color yellow, god Devotio- he is an energetic passionate god and has the ability to create more of himself to get more done he never sleeps and he is always moving he is popular for his advancement of medicine and theater. He is the only god with aquatic and land based angels. They are shark humanoids and are very capricious.
All angels and demons can be invisible they are stronger and bigger than humans they are smart and sly. They usually require that you help them before they help you. most demons reside on earth and exist with humans. Humans when they turn 18 are required to pick 3 sins and 3 virtues that are not the direct opposite of each other. They do this at the main town church. The person is required to speak there sins and virtues aloud saying a prayer chant afterward while kneeling before the alter those gods called will drop a ball of light to that person. The light is the color of that particular god. Inside the light is the corresponding demon or angel. The demons and angels though they advocate a sin or virtue they are effected by a full range of emotions or sins or virtues except the one that is the direct opposite of their main one
Ch.1
Kneeling before an alter and saying your sins and virtues aloud and then having to remember a damn prayer chant is the most nerve racking thing ever. My sins are greed, pride and lust and the virtues are kindness, patience and abstinence. Just finishing up prayer even though my eyes are closed I know that there are six balls of light around me now. I finish, an observer can see the light but not the demons that come forth. I look up and see my demon for lust come forth from a blue light. He is has a slender muscular build standing at 6’5” with short black hair and an impressive set of bull horns that are pure black and absorb all light that hits them. His face has piercing blue eyes and a perfectly straight nose that’s complemented by his array of straight white teeth in a perfect smile in an angular jaw. In fact I’m sure he has a perfectly symmetrical body from the set of his horns to the thickness of his hooves which were filed to a smooth and glossy finish.
The audience has gone silent as the blue light disappeared realizing lust had made the first appearance. They knew that from previous ceremonies that if lust were to come first the person kneeling would be there for quite some time enraptured with the demon.
Finally after 10 minutes apparently satisfied with his affect on me he held out his hand for me to help me up and he introduced himself as Leireäm in the most seductive smooth voice I have ever heard. I grab his hand which is strangely warm considering all he has for clothes in the air conditioned church is a loincloth. I hadn’t noticed until now that it was all he had on and it had gold designs woven into it and was connected front and back with a solid gold belt. the distance between the cloths on both sides had an intricate gold sheet formed around his legs jointed at the knee and continued on to his feet despite this his every movement was graceful.
He lifted me easily to my feet then continued to pick me up altogether in his arms. There was small gasp in the congregation. As a general rule demons and angles don’t pick up the humans they are assigned to in public because the children ten and under have no idea of their existence parents really don’t want to have to explain too their kids what is going on because every situation between a humans’ demons and angels is unique, and no one wants to assume to much about it.
A gruff voice behind me suddenly goes “Now now Leireäm put the kid down, you are scaring him.” I flinch and tear my eyes away from the demon and look behind me as I do I’m lowered to my feet. The light green light had disappeared and a big burly man had appeared in its place he closed the ten feet between us in a fraction of a second his face inches from mine. Startled I gasp and fall against Leireäm who puts his arm around my chest which to calm me or protect me or hold me closer I don’t know. The angel has brown hair on tanned skin with 3 light scars across his jaw. He has a trimmed goatee and side burns with green eyes and a nose that looks like it has been broken. He has chiseled features and a muscled neck a chest plate covers his torso and gauntlets on his arms. He has broad shoulders. The chest plate doesn’t cover his abdomen and reveals his abs. he has full armor from the waist down which appears to be polished silver. He has two katannas strapped at his waist.
He removes Leiream’s arm and grabs my shoulder he isn’t as hot as Leireäm but he is warm. He chuckles which is calming when he stops he says “ Leireäm is more likely to hurt you than I am, my name is Karam.”
Leireäm says defensively “I’m not going to hurt him.”
He steps back pulling Leiream with him. “C’mon lets let the others introduce themselves.”
The violet light starts to fade and from it comes a tall regal looking woman with chocolate colored skin she was wearing a tall gold headdress set with violet stones. Her hair was in a floor length braid. Her makeup looked like it had been painstakingly matched to her dress a strapless bodice set with intricate patterns of violet gems. The gown was made of the most luxuriously soft fabric its general color was violet but it seemed to glow in two other colors that humans have no name for. Her every movement looks preplanned there is no wasted energy yet it still retains that supernatural gracefulness. In a deep yet still feminine voice she said “my name is Pearlent.”
Leireäm is getting annoyed with her absorbing my attention. “Hurry and move it, I want to talk to him.” and stares longingly at me.
She silences him with a look that could have killed. In that one look I learned exactly what I was dealing with in the demons. They are an atomic bomb in pretty packaging. Even though she smiled at me I was afraid and she knew it seeming satisfied with the result she went to stand with the others putting a good distance between them and herself.
I heard Leireäm mumble “Great now he is afraid of us.”
Karam says “No not us, just demons.” and chuckled a little under his breath as Leiream shuffled off to stand alone sulking.
The next light started to disappear and it was the orange light. Out of it comes a blur of leopard fur I gasp and jump back and hit something big and solid and covered in fur. Then I hear the low chuckle that sounds like a cross between a purr and laugh. It was just enough to make me blush. His hand grabs my arm which extends from my elbow to two thirds of the way up my arm the hand itself is covered in a really fine fur that gets longer as it gets to the arm it was short cat fur. His hand is even hotter than Leiream it left me with the warm fuzzy feeling like after you pet a really fluffy cat. As I turn my jaw drops he is gigantic his abs are level with my head. He walks up right like a man he has human legs arms and hands and a chest but he has a leopard head and paws for feet and a tail and his body is covered in the same leopard fur. He has a pair of shorts made like Pearlent’s gown but was orange and more elastic looking and resembled track shorts. His shirt is a darker shade of orange and made from the same material it looks like it allows for easy movement. It is unadorned and is rather plain after the first three but then that’s abstinence for you but his physical appearance more than made up for it. Muscle and sinew flexed even visible through the fur. But I was having a hard time with his sheer height it was intimidating and I lost any composure I had.
He did his purring laugh apparently pleased with my shock and his impression. In my peripherals is saw Pearlent and Karam shake there heads Leireäm looked like he was going to burst into tears I almost ran to comfort him. The purring voice whispers in my ear “Hello, my name is Alaric hope we will be of some use to each other.”
His hand is around my arm and pulls me even closer to him his face is buy the side of my head he licks from my jaw to my temple with a smooth tongue I was expecting a rough cat one. The angels though they represent a virtue they experience a full range of emotions and sins. His was obviously lust; my life is about to suck. Alaric took his place with the others. The gold light was already gone when I look but in its place is another anthropomorphic wolf demon man who was getting ready to leap on me I couldn’t move in time and the demon took me to the ground and laid on me and crushed the air from my lungs. licking my face he said in fully articulated English that his name is Grihn. He is the same size as Alaric he has a wolf head and wolf legs and paws for all four limbs. He has a wolf tail and a mans torso. Almost everything is covered in hair except his torso and he walks on all fours and he is not wearing anything. He keeps licking my face and I’m gasping for air. I can hear my shirt rip and feel his claws gently grazing my body. I look back at the audience up till now I had forgotten them. They all had shocked looks on there faces watching my shirt get torn to shreds while I lie gasping on they floor. It start to laugh a little and say as loud as I can that greed got a little excited being mostly wolf. They sit back and let out a held breath but they still looked worried though. My shirt is gone now and Grihn is licking my body.
I hear him mumble “Wait until tonight.” all his animal instincts coming forth he may be able to speak English but he is still an animal.
I look for Leireäm who is shaking in a silent fury. Even if all he wants is my body at least its enough to protect me. I don’t have any air in my lungs and all I can do is mouth help me and hope some one does.
Then out of nowhere a hoof connects to Grihn’s torso. Grihn crashes into the alter snapping it in half. Leireäm is crouching on the ground and somehow I was in his arms while I watched Grihn rise to his feet.
Pearlent stepped in between us as Grihn went to leap at me again. She shook her head said a quiet imperious “No.” it sounded more like a command rather than an exclamation. Grihn barked in defiance but had stopped moving well his feet aren’t moving any more. His muscles straining against an invisible force his head trying to see me around her. She started to walk away and to my surprise Grihn floated in the air and followed behind her a couple feet barking all the while. When she returned to her place she stopped his barking as well; his mouth was moving with the intention of making as much sound as possible but no sound came out. “Now that that’s over with we can finish this damned ceremony.” glaring at Leireäm “put him down or I will make you put him down.”
He set me on my feet. I wobbled for a couple seconds then collected what was left of myself. I must look like a wreck scratches and slobber all over me my hair is a mess and Leireäm standing two feet behind me. Steadying myself I wait for the last light to fade and angel to step forth.
The light doesn’t fade but four different shades of pink ribbons shoot out about fifteen feet from it forming a rectangle were you to connect them. Then between two shot out another ribbon like a floating pink carpet this one started to undulate forming waves. Riding one of these waves to the end of the ribbon is the ten armed angle of patience. She was as tall as Alaric her torso was slightly longer to accommodate her arms. She has five sets of shoulders spaced evenly along her torso. She is extremely emaciated and rapped in pink ribbons. Her torso is wrapped in the original color and then her arms are wrapped in varying shades with the darkest on top to the lightest on the bottom. Her pants remind me of the pants jasmine wore in Aladdin except pink. She doesn’t have any shoes on and her feet have what looks like the beginnings of a tattoo that continues up her body that can be seen in the spaces the ribbons didn’t cover to the tips of her fingers. She isn’t overly tanned or pale she has a normal shade of skin tone. Her hair is a straight bubblegum pink curtain down to her waist. It frames her face and her pink eyes are wide staring at me then to the demons and angels behind me. Her voice seems much to high to sound like it should be coming from her. It isn’t unpleasantly shrill though it sounds like a crystal bell ringing crisp and clear “I am Portence.” then in blur of pink, ribbon shot from two of her arms and wrapped me up. The ribbons glowed briefly then released me. I look down and find the scratches are gone and I feel refreshed. On my right hand by my fingers I notice that there is a bubblegum pink streak forming twisting and curling into intricate patterns up my hand as it reaches my wrist it slows and fades to black forming an incredible tattoo. The crowd gasps as I turn to face them. This ceremony is full of surprises.
A tattoo from a demon or angel is not uncommon. Any demon or angel can do it. What is uncommon is getting one right off the bat. Only four people have ever gotten one so soon. Those people went on to become legendary in their own right.
I felt unremarkable and unworthy of such a gift so soon. Portence says “there how’s that for a present you are special you just didn’t know it did you.” she steps down and grabs my hand. “now this next part is a secrete. To activate the power of the tattoo you have to think about what you want most in life and you will be granted the power to achieve it. Do you understand?”
I gulped and nodded her hand is ice in mine and it is very distracting. She eventually let go. Then I asked “What do you mean I will be granted the power?”
“The tattoo decides what it is that would be most helpful to you in gaining your dream. For example say you wanted to be a super athlete it could give you the body and stamina for the game. Maybe you want to be a super hero and it could give you the power you wanted. Its kind of like a rule free wish. Aren’t you lucky.” her eyes seemed to get wider and pinker as she was explaining the possibilities. “Anyway you don’t have to use it now just be careful about what you are thinking you wouldn’t want it going off prematurely and waste it. Some people thought about how good their last meal was and wish they had more then the tattoo gives them the most amazing recipe for it so just be careful, okay.”
I gulped and just nodded my head.
“So long as you understand.” she says.
She goes to stand with the rest arms folded along her body.
