Judgement (The Twelve)

For this story to mean anything, you have to understand one basic fundamental fact. Heaven and Hell really exist. What they are in terms of our mortal understanding, is another thing altogether. Therefore I cannot describe or dwell upon God or the Devil. I deal instead with there representatives here on Earth.

So it came to pass, that over centuries when a few chosen humans died. The Creator picked them to be reborn as The Protectorate of the human Race. These special few became known as The Twelve, an odd assortment of humans, reborn with God given powers to help them defend the living against those spawned by the Devil.

But it also came to pass that Shades came into existence. Shades, grey slime covered humanoid shapes containing a trapped human soul within. It is this soul that gives the Shade a life force all of its own, driven to do evil and feed upon the living. Thank God you never get to see one, for if you do it would mean certain death.

Shades are the creation of The Dark, a few evil humans allowed back from death to do Hells bidding. They are the enemy of the Twelve. The Twelve are the enemies of The Dark.

So it is written that for every positive, there must be a negative, for every action a re-action, Ying and Yang. It is an undeniable fact that Life must be balanced in all things, including death, for the world to exist.

Except……The Twelve were only now ten and the ranks of The Dark, eleven. It was foretold that one called ‘Judgement’ and his opposing number who shall be named The Chosen One, will one day appear and when that time arrives. God shall win or loose Earth and its peoples forever.

Eight thousand years pass and still Judgement fails to appear. Until one rain drenched, freezing cold night, in some pitiful London back street, filled with a cardboard city of down and outs. Something happens…….