Three

A story by: Plastick Haruka

A/N: Hello. Well I'm sure most of you know me for my story, Bishounen Blues. This is pretty different from my previous work, but there are some elements you might be familiar with despite the change in genre and writing style. This story has been in my mind even before the idea of Bishie Blues appeared, but I've never been able to create a plot that satisfied me until now. So thank you and enjoy! --

Prelude

"What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts."

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters

So it all starts with some voice in your head, talking to you, telling you to do something. Usually it tells you to "spread the good news" or something similar. And of course you do what the voice tells you because everyone does what that little voice in their head tells them, right? ....ok, maybe not. Well anyway, in most cases it's just your voice talking to you. It's that Conscience thing you always hear about. And it's not in the form of a little grasshopper wearing a top hat....

Well, at least 0.25 of the time (time being Human History), it's a different voice talking to you inside your head. By different I mean coming from someone else...or at least something else. But it doesn't really matter because when someone hears a voice inside their head that's not theirs, they usually do what it tells them because it's a voice in their head that's not theirs. And that's the point. That's why people like Abraham and Mohammed and St. Paul are so famous. Those people heard that voice in their head and did something. Ok, so we understand the whole prophet thing now....hopefully.

But humans seem to have it too easy. Hear a voice of a god. Take orders. Become famous....or go to an insane asylum...or get killed - whichever one goes first. Insanity or death, it's still easy. At least they have a god they can suffer for. On the other hand, gods don't have that same luxury. They don't have that all-powerful voice to tell them what to do. After all, gods don't take orders, humans do. Of course, if you're a god and you don't know you're a god, it's a whole different story because everyone will take advantage of you. And not only are you just a god, you're the God - with a capital G.

You have power.

People want that power.

You're like a Big Mac in a room full of malnourished dogs. In this case, the malnourished dogs are both demons and angels.

Ok, you probably thought that last line didn't make sense. But I did say angels. It wasn't a typo or a mistake. So why angels? - your simple human mind might ask. Well, not all angels are those girly-looking winged prissys flying in the heavens strumming harps (1). Anyway, demons were once angels before Lucifer's ego inflated. Both sides - angel and demon -believe their side is the right side. Angels think demons are a bunch of disloyal, immoral heathens who should die. And demons think angels are a bunch of goody-goody, self-righteous hypocrites who should die. Both sides do seem right when their arguments are explained the right way. This can be quite troublesome for God who doesn't know he or she is God. Honestly, how can you choose? You're not only being pressured into choosing which side is the side to dictate the entire universe, but you're also experiencing new and strange powers at the same time. It doesn't help that you're forced into choosing between good and evil...or should I say, seemingly good and seemingly evil after you've accidentally blew up an entire city block because you sneezed....

Now multiply all of that crap by three. After all, God is made up of three divine beings - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And that, my friends, is how the whole thing starts....

(1) Actually, no angel in Heaven knows how to play the harp. They actually prefer singing, and especially during the beginning of the 21st century, B-Boxing. However, Archangel Michael tried to learn guitar during his Rolling Stones phase during the 1960s (key word in this instance being, tried)