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**__“The Marriage”__**
 * __Book 9.5__**

**__Argument__** As we last saw God’s beloved first creation, Adam and Eve in the first part of book nine they were sleeping peacefully and safe in God’s created paradise. After his eight day fall from heaven Satan made his way form hell to the garden gates. He cleverly sneaks over the gates and past the guards. However upon entering this beautiful garden he is suddenly stricken with great grief and sent into a state of anguish. This is caused by his first glimpse at the extreme beauty of the garden (it being more beautiful than heaven itself) and his realization that he will never be a part of it. He then finds a slumbering snake and enters it body. Adam and Eve rise with the morning sun and set about their daily chores separately…which worked to Satan’s advantage. Our tale picks up here with the disguised Satan following behind Eve as she goes about her daily chores. * Satan watched Eve throughout most of the afternoon as she did her daily gardening, and maintaining of the land, her work eventually found her in the vicinity of the forbidden tree of knowledge. She stopped her work and looked thoughtfully at the forbidden fruit dangling so lushly from the strong branches. She approached the tree in a dream like state of curiosity and reached to pluck a fruit when she heard the most seductive and dreamy voice she could ever have imagined. “Looks divine does it not?” said the snake as he slithered down from the tree. Startled Eve gasped and jumped back from the tree. “Fear not my fair lady, I mean you no harm, in fact I am here to assist you.” The snake said in the most lullaby like tone. For in his long sleepless night Satan developed the most brilliant plan, a plan that would not only guarantee his existence in the garden but make him ruler of the most wondrous place that could ever exist. Satan realized that the trusting God was all to trusting and this would be his down fall. In his anguish Satan came to realize the one and only way to defeat God once and for all. Satan’s rationale went like this; God’s existence depends solely on mans faith in him. For without mans love for him he holds no power over him. If Satan could, without trickery, get God’s own creation to outright and knowingly turn their back on God it would be his ultimate failure. And with God in such a weak state, Satan could take rule of paradise. And as long as more people in paradise worshiped him he would maintain the power necessary to keep God at bay. He would take God’s own game and play it against him. He would create a son just like God had and send this son to paradise and bring with him not only word of Satan but would also bring hell itself. He would keep his promise to sin and death and let them also partake in the happenings of paradise. However as a final insult to God the humans who populated this new paradise would welcome sin for he would show them the enjoyment in it. Eve is startled to discover that the voice is coming from the snake and through short breaths manages to inquire how the snake could possibly be talking when she has not seen any other animals in paradise speak the language she does. “I do apologize for startling you.” Satan croons “would you be more comfortable if I took a form you are more familiar with?” as he said this he morphed into the most handsome male specimen she could ever have imagined. His form was much like that of Adams except with darker longer hair, taller, more muscular, and with extremely defined facial features. Eve was simply awestruck; she couldn’t tell if she was more fearful of the morphing or astonished by the physique of the man in front of her. Satan slowly approaches her and reaches for her hand, she hesitantly hands it to him and stutters “Who are you?” “That my dear, will be answered very shortly and with all the honesty that I am promising in what I will tell you next. As I stated before I mean you no harm, I am here to present to you a choice and the choice is yours to make. I will tell you of two possible futures and you will choose which one you wish to happen.” With a hint of curiosity as well as fear Eve urged Satan to go on. “You have been put in the garden by God and have been told you may eat from any tree except the one whose fruit most entices you, this fruit tastes no different from any other fruit in the garden, looks just like all other fruit of its kind in the garden and smells no riper than any other here in paradise. Yet, you are drawn to it more than any other fruit, I witnessed you not moments ago dreaming of plunging your teeth into the bright red of its skin. The truth is you are only drawn to it because you are a creature of temptation; you are less of a creature than God for God has no temptation and for that I truly pity him. You and I both are creatures of temptation and no matter what we are told it is our blessing that we will eventually give into these temptations. How much longer will you be able to hold out? Certainly not for eternity, and when you do give in what do you think your punishment will be?” Seemingly to have lost her ability to speak Eve merely shook her head in fear of the answer. “Yes my dear Eve, it will be banishment from the garden. This beautiful paradise will be lost to you as it was lost to me. However I can offer you a different path. A path that guarantees you a spot as the queen of all you can see. You will indulge in every temptation you desire. In your current state you must answer both to man and God, but it need not be, you can be higher than God if you choose. I am Satan and that as well as everything I have spoken to you about is the truth. I offer you my hand in marriage and you and I will rule paradise for eternity.” Satan reached for the sharpest branch from the tree of knowledge and sliced it across his palm; he then took Eves hand and did the same to her. Eve Then plucked a fruit from the tree and standing side by side, hand in hand, blood infusing in an eternal bond they lifted their heads to the heavens and each took a bite of the fruit. * God nor his son nor his angels ever stepped foot in paradise again for this conscious defying act was all it took to defeat God. There was nothing climactic about his cessation, no bolts of light from the heavens sent to earth, no rumbling of thunder, no great whirlwinds, He simply vanished, the only proof that he ever existed took the form the lonely man wandering the garden and Satan’s new bride. The intertwining of blood and consumption of fruit was the consummation of their marriage as well as the plantation of the seed of their first son, Malcolm the god of passion as well as their first daughter Vevila the goddess of vanity. Malcolm and Vevila were sent down to paradise to complete the most important tasks they ever will. While Satan and Eve will remain the grandparents of the human race Malcolm and Vevila will be the parents. In the garden they found Adam and explained to him the turn of events but tell him not to worry he may see Eve again and be offered the opportunity to be her loyal servant in the new paradise. They tell Adam that his God is gone and he has nothing to worry about by denouncing him, and if he does and cooperates with them he will earn his place next to Eve. All he has to do is eat from the tree and give Vevila two children; one male and one female so that Malcolm and Vevila may populate the earth with his offspring. Adam refuses to believe his God is dead and refuses to denounce him with such a hideous act as that. Malcolm and Vevila try and persuade him by saying the fact that they exist as the son and daughter of Satan and Eve proves their truth. They also warn that they will get the children they desire with or with out his cooperation. Adam still holds God to his heart as he drops to his knees in prayer. Malcolm proceeds to physically restrain Adams protests as he attempts to ward off Vevila but his struggles prove useless against the much stronger couple. Satisfied that she has conceived twins (one male and one female) she signals to Malcolm that their work here is done. Malcolm looks Adam in the eye with a tone of sorrow says “your future will thank you.” Adam then bursts into flames for a mere second leaving no remnants in this garden of paradise. While Satan and Eve watched from the highest mountain in paradise their two offspring populated the rest of paradise and with the help of Sin and Death Satan’s paradise took shape. The population lived their life in a state of lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, acedia, envy, pride, and vainglory. As ordered from Malcolm and Vevila the humans who lived in this state did so in respect of Adam, the human who never got the chance to live on paradise as humans should.