DIVINE SPARKS
Book 1
Christopher Hankins
Divine Sparks
PROLOGUE
Blood splattered the wall as the soldier groaned in agony his face twisted in disbelief.
An old unkempt man with long grey hair that looked like it hadn’t been washed in years. His red eyes with thin pupils almost similar to a snake. His mouth twisted in a malicious grin madness showing in his expression.
“Are you mad” another soldier screamed his face showed the despair in his heart. The old man grinned his eyes almost sparkled as he looked at carnage caused by his own hands almost like a child after scribbling on a paper thinking it art.
While still smiling he replied “Oh most definitely it wouldn’t be any fun otherwise.”
Another soldier lost his life in a pointless battle against a beast in human skin. Gazing at the Battlefield over 20,000 soldiers all after him. He smirked continuing to massacre anybody who was brainless enough to throw themselves in his direction.
His weapon a large halberd as taller than himself averaging around six feet. “ Prometheus.” A gentle voice called from behind him. “ Lash.” Prometheus replied. A frown marred her beautiful face. Lash was a Goddess a being capable of using Divine Energy.
Prometheus himself was an heir a descendant of demigod a son of a true God. At the beginning there was Chaos. Chaos took form and became order bringing about Divine Energy. Condensed Energy gave birth to Immortals such as Gods, Devils, and Celestials.
After the universe was formed from the dregs of Energy beings such as humans and animals formed. As a heir he expected to serve as soldier for the Gods following their every whim. Many of the Gods suppressed humans using them as playthings.
Prometheus took a liking to humans and their ability to adapt. Prometheus threw himself into research studying anything that caught his fancy.
Taking pity on humans he taught them to read and write as well as the uses of fire but most importantly he taught them magic. Naturally it wasn’t Divine Energy but the same Energy their body were created from.
Every living has a strand of Chaos. Gods at their core were a fist sized amount of Chaos strands forming Divine Cores. These cores took the forms of different things depending upon their souls and bodies. In Prometheus research he found what he called Divine Sparks. These sparks were the bases of life everything had one. If a heir was to be able to grow their spark they had a chance to become a true God by absorbing Chaos Energy and forming their own Divine Core.
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When the Gods found out he was treated as a heretic and traitor to his race. Lash the only woman Prometheus ever fell in love with. Eventually he managed to get her to accept his courting. Even thought about abandoning his research and settling down but she had betrayed him. He had found her secretly meeting Zeus.
Prometheus snarled that damn asshole. He swore over half the heirs in the world were probably his. She had tried to apologize be he had ignored her. Her excuse was that they had been in love before but separated temporarily.
What the fuck does that even mean. Why hadn’t she explained earlier when he’d asked her out ? Hell that asshole Zeus is married for God's sake.
After he’d been branded a traitor he used his Divine Spark to devour others. He might have been able to eventually form his own Divine Core but negative influence of the Divine Sparks of all of his conquest slowly started to drive him mad.
He was forcibly assimilating their Divine Sparks along with over a 900,000 years of memories he was still part mortal after all. Suddenly he felt a pain in his chest he looked down a sword pierced his heart.
“You bitch.” he said angrily to Lash. It was Zeus's dog Athena. While he’d been distracted by Lash that mutt stabbed him. He could feel his strength waning his eyes widened. Poison he quickly deduced.
Lash seemed shocked. “No I didn’t know!” she replied quickly. He didn’t believe how else could his location had been found so fast. As Athena removed her blade his body slumped to the ground. Athena scoffed. “A fitting death for a traitor.”
He immediately knew he was dying but refused to let his life’s work be in vain. He fused and ignited all of his Divine Sparks burning his own life force. The sky shattered as space broke the area in-between universes opened.
A storm that could tear apart Gods rage inside the hole. He cackled madly has both Goddesses quickly retreated far away. “If I survive I will return to take my revenge and kill that shithead Zeus !”. He jumped and gaping tear closed behind him.
He could immediately feel his body be annihilated his soul and the last fragment of his Divine Spark be thrown around like a lifeboat in a hurricane. Suddenly the world went black.
Far away dying was an extremely chubby boy. A car quickly streaked away from the scene. A gap appeared in the air a bright orb flew out towards the boy growing dimmer fast it immediately entered the boy.
The injured soul of Prometheus and the boy fought for dominance as they fused together. The eyes closed when they opened they were like the eyes of a snake only a crimson red.
He observed his surroundings confused. “I am Prometheus.” He declared. “Wait that’s not quite right.” He muttered. His face turned into a slight smirk. “We are Prometheus. I am Hadrian.” He chucked. “Looks like I had the last laugh after all.” He knew that if Zeus caught his soul he would be tortured for eternity.
“Seems like I ended up in the lower realms how delightful.” He once again muttered while smiling.