Side story 11

Side story 11: The full story of the banishment of Edimo, the god of ruin, from the heavens.
Edimo P.O.V
My name is Edimo, an appellation that the humans gave to me. I'm a god, an evil one. Though it hadn't always been like that because I used to be a god of kind nature.
Well, that was what it looked like.
Anyway, an unfortunate event pulled the trigger and made me become an odious divinity that everyone feared.
At the beginning of the universe was our God-father who created the sky, the earth, the abyss, the moon, the sun, the yin, the yang, the sand, the oceans, the forest, the vegetation, the planets Mars, Neptune, Jupiter, and Saturn.
Our God-father was pleased with his work but he felt like something was missing to bring more life into the elements of the universe.
So he thought about creating a species in his image who would enjoy all the beautiful things of the galaxy.
Our God-father hence aroused dust from the sand and formed a man, our supreme ancestor, Bula.
The latter was the most handsome creature of our God-father who loved him so much and gave him the power to command over the universe.
Our ancestor Bula was a tall and nicely bearded human being with an impressive physique who could uproot a tree with one hand.
He could walk on the ocean and climb to the summit of a mountain with just three steps, so giant he was.
He fed himself with the fruit of the trees but very quickly, he lost his appetite and asked our God-father for food that wasn't too sweet.
So our God-father extended the universe and created all sorts of animals: birds, insects, reptiles, fishes, mammals, frogs, bats, amphibians, vertebrates, invertebrates, carnivores, crocodiles, bears, crustaceans, and primates.
He then instructed our ancestor Bula to breed them, eat them and give each of them a name. Our ancestor was so thrilled with a primate that had unbelievable power and had a form very close to the human appearance.
So our forefather Bula named the animal 'Gorilla' and they became like two mates in the garden of Jouvence, the central point of the earth. They spent the whole time together and aroused the jealousy of other animals who felt abandoned by their Master.
There was one of them that had a tremendous love for his Master and decided it would do something wicked to the Gorilla so the latter would pass away and the Master would have no choice but to shift his focus to another animal, and hopefully its small entity.
The envious beast was a reptile named 'Snake'. It made a plan to deceive its Master and told him that our God-father had given the primates the ability to swim in the ocean and that the Gorilla could thus survive in the deep water of the ocean bordering the earth.
Our ancestor Bula was doubtful but the snake used very convincing words. It told its Master that if by bad luck the Gorilla drowned, it would resurrect after three days.
The curiosity of our forefather Bula was piqued and he wanted to broaden his knowledge and test the veracity of the snake's assertion.
He commanded the Gorilla to come with him to the ocean and the obedient primate followed him.
They arrived at the coast and the Gorilla was impressed, for it had never left the garden of Jouvence where there were only tall trees and greenery.
The ocean was so immense that the primate began to shake but its Master Bula repeated the words of the snake and assured the primate that it had acquired the gift of swimming like the fishes they could see in the water.
And our ancestor Bula calmed down the Gorilla when he said to it that if something terrible happened, he would anyway come back to life in the next three days.
Having heard the arguments of its Master, the primate walked with confidence to the water and dove. Without even a stroke, the Gorilla went straight to the depths of the ocean and was never seen again.
Our ancestor Bula panicked but remembered about the resurrection in three days. He recollected himself and went back to the garden of Jouvence.
On the third day, he returned to the coast and waited impatiently for his beloved Gorilla to come out of the ocean but till the fall of the night, nothing happened.
Suddenly, a big voice emerged from the heavens. It was that of our God-father. He asked our ancestor Bula what was the matter with him because tears were cascading down his jaws.
Our forefather Bula replied that the snake in the garden of Jouvence was to be blamed, for it lied that the God-father had bestowed primates the ability to swim and he went three days ago with the Gorilla to the ocean to test its new skills but the animal drowned.
Our ancestor Bula also explained that though the animal disappeared in the depths of the water, he had been assured by the deceitful reptile that the Gorilla would resurrect.
Our God-father was extremely pissed off with the snake and summoned it to show up immediately and the reptile obeyed, very fearful.
Without our God-father saying a single word, the snake began to apologize but it was too late. Our God-father sent the liar to the abyss. He threw a powerful ball of fire on its body and with the momentum the reptile was deported beneath the earth.
Our ancestor Bula was very sad, for he had no more company. The other animals were nice too but they had no similar human shape like the primate, which was the cornerstone on which laid the strong bond between our forefather Bula and the Gorilla.
Our God-father was bothered to see his most loved creature in pain. Hence, while our ancestor Bula was sleeping, the Almighty took our forefather's right rib and made a creature that resembled him even more compared to the late primate.
At our ancestor's wake-up, there was a human being that was sleeping by his left side. He was in shock in front of the beauty with long hair and a sensual and provocative body. He named the pretty creature 'woman' and designated her by the pronoun 'she'.
Some hours later, the woman rose and bowed in front of our forefather Bula who thereupon offered her an apple that he had collected in the garden of Jouvence.
Since then, the two humans were close and began to reproduce themselves. They made four children.
The first child had the same appearance as our forefather Bula, so the latter named the toddler 'boy' and referred to the kid with the pronoun 'he'.
Then our ancestor Bula and the woman had a second infant who resembled the female company and our forefather called the newborn 'girl' that he designated by the same pronoun as her mother, 'she'.
The family lived happily and our God-father enlarged the garden of Jouvence which was prosperous like never before.
The snake that had been banished, witnessed from the abyss how joyful the family was and got angry. It swore to cause havoc in the garden of Jouvence.
Hence, it decided to go through the woman and instigate trouble in the house of our forefather Bula.
The snake waited when our ancestor Bula and his loved ones were sleeping. It bit the woman's ankle and injected in her the venom of wickedness.
One month later the woman found herself incomprehensibly pregnant whereas she hadn't recently copulated with our forefather Bula. He was surprised too but thought it was a deed from our God-father, so he regarded the pregnancy with a favorable eye.
But more strikingly, the next month, the woman's stomach was so big one would think she was nine months pregnant.
Ultimately she gave birth to another boy who looked as normal as his elder brother.
And that other boy was me. Our ancestor Bula, thus my father, and the woman, my mother, got another girl after me.
So now we were in total six in the garden of Jouvence. And when we the kids became young adults, our father Bula united each boy with a girl and we reproduced ourselves.
Our parents got very old and they died from a natural death like it was in our God-father's plan and they became gods themselves.
I got old too with my woman and we had four children, two boys, and two girls. My brother and his woman aged as well. And like my woman and I, they had four children too, two boys and two girls.
We the parents died from a natural death like it was in our God-father's scheme and like our ancestor Bula and his woman before us, we became gods.
Our children in the garden of Jouvence multiplied themselves. And like us, the old ones died and became gods.
The process continued to the extent that our God-father enlarged, even more, the garden of Jouvence, for the number of human beings, was so big that it formed a nation: the Bula land in memory of the first ancestor, my father.
We as the minor gods lived in the sixth heaven whereas our God-father dwelt in the seventh one. We had the freedom to decide on all matters that unfolded in the Bula land.
The snake saw this and undertook to make even greater its revenge against our God-father who had thrown it out from the garden of Jouvence.
The outcast animal sent a spirit of diseases upon the humans and they suffered terribly from tuberculosis, malaria, fever, leprosy, and bubonic plague.
I saw these sufferings upon our descendants and inexplicably I enjoyed it and even wanted the snake to increase the pain of our children, to test their faithfulness to us, the ancestors, and our God-father.
However, my behavior wasn't worthy of a god. So my peers rejected me and denounced me to our God-father who got vexed and expelled me from the heavens.
I was now wandering across the universe with no purpose until the snake came up to me. It revealed to my great surprise that it fabricated me by biting my mother's ankle while she was sleeping to inoculate her with the venom of wickedness.
She got pregnant and gave birth to me with the appearance of a normal human being but I wasn't one. The reptile told me that the goal was for me to accumulate the power of a god with that of an evil and take advantage of the benefits of the two forces to cause greater harm to humans.
I was angry when I heard the reptile's revelation and grabbed its neck with my right hand and pressed it so strongly that it suffocated and passed away.
Since then I was the only devilish force in the universe and also sought revenge against the heavens.