Cast of Characters
Warlocks
Mark Glassner -- Mary Sullivan
Sex Slaves "The Sluts"
Alison -- Desiree Fitzsimmons -- Xiu -- Korina-- Violet -- Lillian -- Chastity (deceased) -- Karen (Sister Louise Afra) -- Jessica St. Pierre -- April
Servants
Samnag "Sam" (Holy Vizier) -- Candy (Sam's Girlfriend) -- Dr. Willow WolfTail -- 51 (Chief Bodyguard) -- Rachel -- Leah (Chauffeur) -- Jacob -- Monique -- Lize -- Lynda (Pilot) -- Joslyn (Pilot)
The Living Church
Daisy & Rose Cunningham (High Priestesses)
Demons
Lucifer -- Lilith -- Marduk -- Molech
The Cult of Lilith
Lana -- Chantelle -- Babylon -- Crystal -- Starlight -- Nurse Thamina -- Fiona -- Tir (monster) -- Lamia (Monster) -- Cora (monster) -- Ziki (monster) -- Di (monster) -- Emi (monster)
Sisters of Mary Magdalene
Mother Superior MaryΔm -- Archangel Gabriel -- Dominion Ramiel (Angel) -- Doug Allard -- Tina Allard -- Azrael (Angel)
Other
Antsy (Mark's Sister) -- Alice -- Sandy (Mark's Mother) -- Sean (Mary's Father) -- Tiffany (Mary's Mother, Sister Theodora Mariam) -- Shannon (Mary's Older Sister) -- Missy (Mary's Younger Sister) -- George (Shannon's Fiance)-- Damien (Missy's Boyfriend) -- Avialle (Antsy's Girlfriend) -- Agent Noel Heinrich, FBI (Former Slut) -- Craig Erikson (Mayor of Seattle)
Chapter One
On September 30th, 2013, amidst blood and fire, the Tyrants' reign began. In the name of Peace and Security, they put mankind beneath their Oppression. To fight the Darkness, the False Gods, Mark and Mary Glassner, shrouded the World in Night.
--excerpt from
The History of the Tyrants' Theocracy
, by Tina Allard
September 30th, 2013 - Mark Glassner - Tacoma, WA
I stood with my wife naked before the awed crowd of soldiers and reporters. Worship burned in their eyes. They knew what we were--Gods. Their Gods. We had battled the False God, Brandon Fitzsimmons, and defeated him, ending his tyranny which had run rampant for the last three days.
And now he was dead, executed at our orders.
We gave the order. 51 pulled the trigger. I didn't look at the corpse at our feet. He was a monster. I had no sympathy for the man. Not after he had me beaten the last three days. Tortured me. I had lived in agony. I would have died, but Mary came to my rescue.
The bastard had hurt her, too.
"The Living Gods," the soldiers breathed as they bowed before us. They were US Army soldiers from nearby Joint Base Lewis-McChord, previously under the domination of Brandon. Like us, he was a Warlock who wished for mind control powers.
And he did not hold back in using them.
I pulled my wife to me, unashamed at our nudity. Our bodies were perfect and youthful. The Gift of the Spirit, which we both now possessed, would keep me at my most physically fit and Mary at her most sexually beautiful. Awe filled me whenever I glanced at my wife. Something happened in France, something that transformed her feelings on how we should use our powers.
"We have to dominate the world, Mark," she had whispered in my ear ten minutes ago. "We've started something terrible. A darkness approaches. We have to take some responsibility and fight back."
Her words chilled my blood, a blast of arctic wind howling across my soul. I had opened my mouth to question her, but she pressed a finger to my lips and shook her head, emerald eyes flashing a warning. I trusted her. I loved her.
She must have her reasons for not speaking more about it.
Her next words transformed the arctic gale into a raging maelstrom when she said, "That's why we need to prepare. We need to lead mankind, guide them and protect them. Rule them. The Nuns are done. There is only you and me.
"We can make a better world, Mark. A utopia!"
"We were doing that. That's why I'm running for office."
She had shaken her head, her mane of auburn hair dancing about her shoulders. "We're already worshiped as gods. I thought about this on the flight back from France. We need to galvanize the world and unite it under us. The entire world will worship us. It'll be a...Theocracy."
My eyes grew wider and wider as she laid out her idea for the Theocracy. Mary had always been the cautious one, afraid of harming people, and now she wanted to enslave the entire world. We'd make them happy. We'd eliminate all the petty hatreds that had pointlessly divided mankind: sex, race, religion, creed, sexual orientation. We would be their Gods, loving and protecting them--ruling them gently.
Whatever scared my wife, whatever dark secret she had learned from the Mother Superior, had driven her to this decision. I knew it was merely an extension of the direction we were already heading, but it was still as shocking as grabbing a downed power line. Right now, we were going slow, not forcing people to worship us--guiding instead of commanding.
But after Brandon's dramatic attack on us using an army, I didn't have a problem with her plan. We needed power. We had been too laid back, too lax, and the consequences had been almost catastrophic. We needed an army. Brandon had taught me what true power was.
"A utopia," I agreed. "We'll give it to them and command them to love it."
Now, wreathed in flames, the power stolen from Molech when I slew the demon, we faced the cameras of the world. It was time to begin.
"We have walked through blood and fire for you," I shouted, feeling the energy of the soldiers staring at us with worshipful eyes and all the cameras trained on us. They would be broadcasting live, with no delay--Brandon would have ensured that--so our powers would dominate any who heard our words and understood them. "We have suffered and been tested by the first agent of the coming darkness."
"We have triumphed," my wife said, her words ringing with steel. She had been so glorious today. "But it is only the first blow. Demons are real, and their agents seek our world's destruction. Lilith is free, and others of her ilk may walk the earth. And that is why we are here."
"To protect you."
"We are your Living Gods."
We hadn't practiced, but the words flowed from us.
"So bow," Mary said. "Bow and worship your Living Gods. You love us all. You serve us, and you obey us. The time of nations is over."
"The time of false religions poisoning us with their rigid morality, driving us to kill and hurt and maim each other is finished." Anger swelled in me. "We bring you a religion of love. We shall teach you to care for your neighbors."
"To love all mankind."
"Which is why every nation on earth, the rulers who have abused you, tricked you, oppressed you, must now bend a knee to our Theocracy. We are here to free you from the shackles of oppression. Everyone who hears my voice, know the truth: You are citizens of the Theocracy, you obey all its laws, and you will never hurt another human being. You will only love them as you love us."
"Because you
all
love us," Mary commanded. "You love us, and you find such joy in obeying our decrees and that of the Theocracy."
Across the United States and the world, everyone who watched us and understood our words fell under our power. I did not know what was coming, but I would ready the world. I would trust my wife and deliver a united mankind to face this growing darkness.
We would enslave the world for their own good. We would protect them.
I gazed at the soldiers who knelt before us in the square, the very men who had attacked us. Tears fell from their eyes. I could see the love on their faces. The awe at gazing at living gods. I had forgiven them already for the terrible crimes they had committed under Brandon's control. I could see the gratitude that my absolution had given them.
It was intoxicating. I could feel their love, their devotion, and I drank it in like water through the roots of a majestic oak tree.
"We need soldiers!" I proclaimed. "Loyal men and women who pledge their lives to protect mankind from the coming darkness."
"A great evil stirs in the world!" Mary declared passionately. "Lilith the Demoness walks the world, corrupting mankind, and other forces stir in the shadows! You have a choice, soldiers: serve us and fight the darkness, or be cowards and slink off to your loved ones and watch the world die, knowing deep in your hearts you could have done something to stop it!"
"Soldiers, you were falsely used by Brandon. So find glory in serving us!" I roared. "I ask that you swear fidelity and obedience to us, to fight the Darkness and save the World!"
The soldiers' cheers boomed. They thundered off the walls of the courthouse and jail, echoing around us. They rose, pumping fists. All these young men were so eager to fight and defend the world. They were all volunteers. They all wanted to serve and protect.
Mary's words scared me even more. What was coming was demonic. The angel Azrael, who trained me in my heavenly powers, had told me of a prayer that would gift soldiers protections from demonic powers, allowing their weapons to harm spiritual flesh. The angel wasn't sure how many I could bind. A normal monk could have at most a hundred, but I was different. I had access to far more power.
I felt it when I fought Molech, drawing on all the people bound to me, pooling our energies to fuel the dead I had summoned. When I killed Molech, his powers flowed into me and then into Mary. I don't know why the power passed into my wife. Maybe because our souls were bound so tightly with wishes and magics, or maybe because Molech's essence was too much for my soul alone to contain. Whatever the reason, we had a new source of energy to access.
"Then kneel and pledge to me," I said, breaking away from my wife and telling them their oaths of service, the words that would bind them to me with the
Ragily
prayer.
Their voices thundered as they spoke: "I pledge my rifle to the service of Mark and Mary Glassner. With obedience and fidelity, shall I follow his leadership. Until my Gods release me or death takes me."
As the assembled group of soldiers--easily more than two hundred of them--finished their oaths, power flowed out of me and into them. Their auras remained black, a Thrall's aura, but a halo of gold surrounded the darkness. According to Azrael, they would be loyal and incorruptible.
And there were far more soldiers occupying Tacoma and stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord that could swear to me and create an army--my army. Brandon had shown just how dangerous an army in the hands of a Warlock could be.
"My Lord," an older man with stars on his fatigues said as he stood before me, snapping a crisp salute. He, too, had sworn the oath, tears staining his face. "Lieutenant-General Arthur Brooks, commander I Corps and JBLM."