The Clensing Part 1

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The camera opened to a bright lens flare, not just a lens flare, but a flare so bright it blinded the very camera lens which was filming it. Once the camera adjusted it came to rest inside a small compound, but it wasn't the compound of the Children. This one was a compound made of a small circle of run down looking houses. now considering who the Children were facing this week one would have imagined it would have been trailers, but no it was houses this time. Small and shabby, but houses. houses which happened to be all be on fire, but houses none the less.

All around the blazing bonfires moved the new Children of Nephilim. They danced like crazed maniacs to music no one could hear and they all....happened to be naked as the day they were born. standing in the very center of this blaze was the still form of Joshua McBride, who stood naked from the waist up. The mural on his back now on full display. Faces of children, all in masks of agony and terror. It was a constant reminder of never again. Below the bare chest he wore a pair of black jeans and black boots.

Joshua stood in perfect stillness with his head downcast and his hair cover his face and the muscles of his shoulders tight. He watched every twinge of muscle of the dancing men and swell of breasts of the frolicing women. The scene was like something out of an old cult movie. Tike some kind of dark Pagan ritual, which as fates would have it, was exactly what this event was. It was simply a cleansing, to purge all that had come before it.

Joshua: "CHILDREN!"

Children: "FATHER!"

They all chanted in unison and beneath the wealth of hair Joshua smirked.

Joshua: "Sunday we face Cornbread. Sunday, we lay to rest all of these nasty rumors and the sins of our past......"

Children: "YES!"

The children's screams of agreement echoed through the crackling of the houses around them.

Joshua: "....but first we must atone for the sins we have committed. the failures which have been tested upon us by those who came before you! We must all be cleansed. We must ask the great divine for forgiveness and strength!"

Children: "YES!"

Joshua: "And we have the cleansing here with us now! We shall offer up to the great divine what it craves most...."

Joshua continued his speech as he was joined by the others. Maiko walked side by side with Sariel with Ramiel on Maiko's left and Ananiel on Sariel's right. The twins were bare chested as well, wearing only a robe that hung down much like a hilt. Their bodies covered in strange ritual drawings which covered their chests and faces. Maiko and Sariel standing meekly between them wore the same outfit. A see through sheer gaze gown.

Both women seemed to be flush with excitement and looked very sisterly standing nearly nude side by side. The large, for their frame, swells of flesh heaved with each deep breath. Joshua turned as they approached and looked to the twins and the two men bowed their painted heads in reverance.

Joshua: "Did you do as i asked?"

Ramiel: "Yes Father....."

Ananiel: "....We prepared them...."

Ramiel: "....As you instructed."

Joshua: "And the other instruction?"

Joshua's tone sounded harsh now, as if it was important.

Ramiel: ".....We did not....defile...."

Ananiel: "...the chosen sacrafice....."

Ramiel: "With our impurity....."

Ananiel: "....While we bathed them Lord Joshua."

Joshua then approached the two women as the children behind him took back up their dance. First he came to Maiko and placed his hands on her exposed hips through the robe and then leaned down and pressed his lips to the nap of her neck.

Joshua: "Are you ready M'dear?"

Maiko: "Yes Father."

Joshua then turned and slid his hands up Sariel's sides until he cupped the sides of those swells and then leaned in and gave her the most gentle peck on the lips.

Joshua: "Are you ready M'Dear?"

Sariel: "....yes Father."

Joshua: "Are you scared Sariel?"

Sariel: "....a little."

Joshua: "Good. it will enjoy that."

Joshua then held his hands up palms open.

Joshua: "Then go. go to your appointed offering locations and await his coming."

Sariel and Maiko stepped out from between the two and continued off into the distance. Maiko curved right and walked alone toward a cemetery and Sariel curved left and walked toward what once appeared to be a small playground, but it was now rusted and run down. Joshua watched them with his head bowed as usual when the twins approached him.

Ananiel: "Will they be....."

Ramiel: "....Okay father?"

It was clear their was no jealousy in their voices, simply worry. The Great Divine didn't act directly often and when it did....people died. That concerned them for both the mother, and sister. Joshua never took his eyes off the pair and nodded ever so gently.

Joshua: "It will not do them permanent damage....but they will never forget this night. One....or both of them are going to be our offering to satisfy the Great Divine."

Ananiel: "They pay...."

Ramiel: "For our failures."

Joshua: "Yes. They do. With their bodies and more. And they will enjoy it, one of them anyway. Perhaps both."

Ramiel: "....And what of...."

Ananiel: "....Us lord Father?"

Joshua: "We celebrate our rebirth. Let us go gentlemen. We celebrate....and then we destroy. Starting with the Cornbread Mafia."

The twins looked at their dark father and then grinned as the three of them moved to join the frolicking members of the Children and somewhere in the night....somewhere in the the distance the screaming started.....but was it one voice....or two? Time would tell.