ASMSG Scifi Fantasy Paranormal Emagazine May 2014 | Page 17

SFP Indie Issue 2

Lucifer turns man against God with
ease. God responds by sending his
prophets one after another to bring
man back to the path of
righteousness. It seems to be merely
delaying the inevitable and in one last
effort to thwart Lucifer, God sends
his son made man. In giving his life
on the Cross, Jesus wipes away man’s
sins. This leaves Lucifer back to
where he was at the beginning and
means he has to start again. The
Catholic Church is born on that
fateful day in Jerusalem as Christ’s
church on the earth. Lucifer then
believes if he can destroy this great
icon of God, he can turn man against
God once more. He searches for over
a millennium for the one who can
lead his assault on God. The
Crusades give him renewed hope, and
he is sure the conflict between
Christian and Moslem will provide
the one he seeks. When this does not
materialise, he turns his attention to
the Balkan region where this conflict
is renewed with Ottoman expansion
into eastern Europe. He finally
identifies the second son of Vlad
Dracul as the one he can manipulate
into achieving his ends. God has
prepared for this event, and in the
very moment that Vlad Dracula
draws his first breath, so does another
child sired by Dracul, though born to
a gypsy woman. This child, Andrei, is
blessed by the angels and bestowed
with great powers as a balance to the
evil about to be unleashed upon the
world.

BOOK #1
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS.
“A war rages on around us every day. The struggle to save all mankind. The ultimate
evil.”
All is well in Heaven until God creates man. Lucifer’s jealousy leads to the First Great
War of the Angels. Hundreds of thousands of years on, the feud simmers beneath the
surface. It plots the course of history as we know it today. Both sides manipulate the
major players through the centuries to seek an advantage over the other.
The battle for souls has raged since the truce that followed the First Great War. God
has struck the ultimate blow and sacrifice to gain the advantage, and defeat Lucifer.
As Lucifer stands at the foot of the Cross that drains the last ounce of life from
Christ and eradicates man’s sins, he realises that his work must begin anew.
In time, he comes to understand that his only chance to win this battle will be to destroy the institution of the Catholic Church to
turn man against God. He searches for more
than a millennium for the candidate to see his
plan through to an end, and finally discovers
the one that can cast that final blow.
On a cold night in December, 1431 in
Sighisoara, an old gypsy woman delivers a
prophecy to the great Vlad Dracul. She tells
him he is about to sire two sons, one an angel
and the other a devil.
He returns to his fortress just as his wife bears
him a son, whom he names Vlad. In the very
same moment across the country on the
border between Transylvania and Hungary, a
gypsy girl gives birth to another
Son, Andrei. The die is cast. The twin souls
are born. The young Vlad Dracula becomes
the instrument of the forces of Darkness. To balance this, the baby Andrei is
blessed by the angels and bestowed with awesome powers.
This is their story.

BOOK #2 – THE PATH
TO DECAY
“The path we walk, is the path to decay. The
only way to live, is to die.”
The great Vlad Dracul is dead, fallen in battle,
and his throne gone. His son, the young Vlad
Dracula, is consumed with grief and a need for
revenge. All alone in the world, he keeps his
promise and returns to Anatolia. There, he takes
a commission in the Ottoman army. On the
fields outside Kosovo Polje in Serbia, he is
handed his first opportunity to strike back
against the men who killed his father.

He has grown into the ultimate fighting
machine, and is feared by one and all. This
path to decay, as described by his father, is
the one he chooses to follow. Lucifer guides
and watches over Dracula, but also deepens
his hold over him. As time passes, though,
his enemies build in every quarter, and they
strive to bring him down.
With nowhere left to turn, how will Dracula
avenge his family? How can