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Dance of Madness

Dance of Madness

"Why is Crowley so different from these apparent evil demons, apparently he has done no evil so why is he a demon in the first place?" Wonders Casper. As if reading his thoughts Crowley winks and gives a mischief look his sparkling eyes telling Casper a magician never reveals it's secrets. Casper yearns to know more about Crowley so later that night when they are alone under the midnight blue sky with just the waxing moon shinning upon them he asks. Crowley looks deeply into his abysmal eyes touches his tangled vine hand one vine trying to wrap around his hand but seeps into the black smoke. Crowley retracts his hand and his beautiful ruby eyes dart away, his averted gaze urges Casper to reach out and pat Crowley's soft shadowy back. His muscles tense, hardening under his cool bones scraping softly against the skin, his vines retracting and expanding with every caress against Crowley's back, soothing him. He relaxes allowing Casper's calm touch. his chest starts to heave and then he breathes in for four then out for four calming down.

"sorry, it just hurts is all. I swear it wasn't me that did it. I didn't kill him. It was the fruit." Crowley starts to cry. Casper holds him tight.

"it's not your fault everything is ok."

"you don't understand though. Of course you don't you haven't lived my life, you haven't been banished from the sky realm to the demon realm. all because of picking the wrong stupid fruit to help cure my depressed friend who's been using Acksedufer to escape. The fruit was meant to help lift him up out of the darkness. It was supposed to help him find purpose, the fruit was rotten to it's core. For that I was condemned to be a demon for all eternity. Just for a simple deadly mistake!" Crowley shouts angry at everything, mostly himself.

That cursed Acksedufer the universal word for the mad dance. the only way to stop addiction is by eating the fruit of the whispering pear of tranquillity. How does one die from such a fruit it was not because the fruit was rotten it's the dosage, only one drop stops the addiction Crowley gave Isaack a whole berry. This put Isaak into a deep coma where he could not wake up, an endless sleep. Who is Isaack?

Let's start at the begging. The sky realm is a divine place where all good belongs. Twins were born by a angelic being on a fateful night with a bright promise for the future. What the angles did not know was that these twins are the spawn of mischief causing a riot in the peaceful heavens. as they grew older they learnt that there are consequences so they calmed down and stopped causing trouble. They explored the Sky Realm.

Their favourite spot was the sky Island of Tranquillity. Isaack and Crowley would bathe in the holy water produced by the waterfall of peace into the calm deep pond. The water was at just the right temperature with the view of clouds that stretch across the sky, tendrils of clouds clawed up the edges of the island. The divine bird's would sing a delightful song just for the two as they chillout. They would rest next to the pond under the shade of golden elm trees, casting a golden green hue onto them from the glorious light of a star. There are many stars in the sky realm creating a brilliant light onto the glorious floating islands. The sky realm has six stars, and one hundred and seventy eight islands. You would only find Crowley and his twin brother Isaack on the Island of Tranquillity.

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A decade passes and Crowley starts getting bored. They head out looking for something to do and stumble across a bizarre tree with a blue tubular flower with two petals joined atop and bottom petals free at the end of the 1 inch tube, pink dots splattered the inside. the flower resembles a inside out umbrella, with a sweet fruity aroma. When the flower and leaves are cooked they secrete a creamy white oil with blue specks. They tried some of the white oil on their tongue. It took a few minutes then everything changed. They created Acksedufer, a hallucinogenic.

The trip was very bizarre and ended them in dancing together, with bullets of sweat dropping down. The first changes was the colours around them became more vibrant. All colour seemed to evaporate except for where they were standing, even the eternal daylight was bleak and grey. All except for where they stand. Smoke appears as a door nearby, they push the door open gently and peer into the endless night. Falling, no floating down. Enchanting music plays from the strange creatures. A ghostly figure starts dancing around them with a deer for a head, octopus arms and hawk legs, dragonfly wings appear on its back and the creature starts flying in circles above them. Terrified they run and fall into a bottomless pit where they fall and fall and till they unsubmerged from a bubble of water. confused they are in moss ridden cave with six giant beating hearts in the centre. In a blink of an eye they find themselves in a void of nothing, just a blank canvas. They walk until they find a gallery featuring different beings dancing, with a bang the paintings are no more, they chase to the sound and find another door. They open the door and find all the creatures from the painting dancing together. Everyone danced for what seemed like eternity to enchanting music. Eventually they closed their eyes from exhaustion and opened to find it was morning. Isaack and Crowley never felt so full of life. It was overwhelming. The twins knew they had to have more, and more they did have. It became an addiction.

When Crowley noticed that there was one heart left in the visions, he started getting concerned about what they were taking and tried to take a brake from Acksedufer. It was hard, he started vomiting, shaking, and sweating till he couldn't help himself anymore. In a haste to hallucinate he grabbed the fruit of the tree which was close to a Blackberry fruit. He stopped squeezed a drop onto his finger then licked it. How long did he sleep for days, nights, weeks. His body felt so groggy as if wrapped in a warm heavy blanket, he didn't want to move. Eventually he got the energy to move. It took a few hours to realise he didn't feel the need to hallucinate, he still felt cold and shivered slightly. He felt better though, better than he felt since taking Ackserdufer. He figured to go find the berries, he was so out of it he forgot what and where the berries came from. An image of a blackberry or a similar berry flashes in Crowley mind. He found the berry after days of searching it was on a branch of the plant they made Acksedufer from. Excited he gave his brother the berry. It was to late when he realised that he should have only give just a drop, his brother ate the entire berry. Now his brother is under an endless trance like sleep unable to do anything.

"One of the supreme beings found out and banished us to the demon realm, that's how I became a demon. Hope your happy..." Crowley says sourly. This pains Casper seeing how hurt he is. He never wanted him to be upset. He Just wants to be a good supportive friend but instead he seems to have made Jake and Crowley upset with him.

"I'm sorry." Casper says then leaves. Hearing Crowley start crying.

"I'm sorry, please stay," says Crowley grabbing Casper's cold hand, his ruby eyes pleading, " I don't want to be alone at the moment."

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