The Angry God

BY DANIEL LEON AVELAR

Since the beginning of time, there has been an evil, but almighty creature whose only aim is to rule over destruction and pain. This dark deity nourishes itself by devouring desperate and terrified souls and creates hopeless sorrow in its entire surrounding environment. Some call it the Blood Pourer; however, it calls itself the Angry God. Even though this Angry God has been asleep during centuries, giving human kind an era of peace and freedom, a group of people tried to awake it from its eternal rest by the 1600’s.

It was during the Puritan’s age, when a humble and hard-working woman named Martha Carrier got lost in the dense and gloomy forest while she was looking for some firewood. Sunset came too fast and darkness took control of the mysterious place. Martha was scared; she heard silent whispers coming from the bushes, trees, and shadows around her, but there was nothing. Martha was terribly frantic; her little children were alone at home. Then, she thought “I would give my soul to get out of here.” Immediately after that, Martha was home. She never told anybody what happened that night.

Since the event in the woods, Martha changed. She was no longer the same sweet, easygoing woman that she used to be. From that day on, she barely talked to anybody in town, but to some new friends of her during their weekly meetings at Martha’s house to read... the Bible... Indeed, they all suddenly changed; those women started to wear black all day long, to sweep their decks at night, and to cook strange recipes in huge metal pots while there was moonlight in the sky.

It is said that while Martha went to the woods, she ran into the Angry God and made a deal with it. In exchange for her soul, Martha could return home. At that point, Martha knew how powerful the Angry God was, and she wanted to share all that power with her people. For that reason, she started to recruit villagers to help her bring the Angry God back from the eternal rest it was in since thousands of years ago. In a matter of weeks, Martha was able not only to bless her neighbors with good weather or healthy crops, but also to curse at them even with death, if she wanted to.

Even though some villagers said that Martha was not the same person because of the way she got along with them, nothing changed with her family and the way she treated them. Martha wanted the best for her beloved ones. In fact, she started teaching her daughters how to use the powers she got from the Angry God. Her daughters were good at it. They could imitate the same spells that her mother without much difficulty. Martha was very excited about it because in order to bring the Angry God back she would need more people with these powers to help her.

As time passed by, Martha was indicted for bewitching villagers that did not get along with her. Martha knew her death was close and asked her followers to bring the Angry God back without her while she was trialed. Fortunately for known civilization, this group of people could not summon the Angry God because they were not powerful enough without Martha. In 1692, their leader passed away due to the trial process, and her group of devotees, unable at that moment to awake the Angry God, was segregated across all the country. Until today...