The Chessboard - The Challenge
The son, after receiving the gift from the Father, left for a while, and the caring of the chessboard was passed to Adam and Eve. It was also for them to enjoy it and on a condition not to challenge each other, but just play the game to preserve their happiness.
Both made a promise not to challenge each other and to take care of the gift while the son is away.
The two chessboard players were playing the game in fairness and honesty. Each one respecting each other.
Suddenly, the fallen chair was back to its place. It was the chair in front of the son's chair.
At a blink of their eyes, a boy in his black clothes appeared seated between them on the pulled up chair. He has a naughty smile on his lips and a hypnotic look from his eyes.
"Hello strangers. I am your best friend right here to show and teach you what you have never learned from the son nor anyone, but would be excited to find out as you deepen yourselves with me to my unknown."
Then his horrific, roaring laughter of malevolent effect and sound filled up the air and surroundings.
Adam did not realize him around. As always he was busy. Busy with what he considered his responsibilities before the son and the work to learn and do on the chessboard.
It was Eve who was less preoccupied about the chessboard that saw the intruder's sudden appearance.
"You mean, there is more than this? More exciting and worth knowing?"
Eve asked the intruder a question that made Adam lift up his look at her with a question on his face. But Eve was not looking at him. Yet he saw no one else in the room.
Then the boy in black, the intruder himself, leaned to reach Eve's ear. He licked her face and ear. He murmured to her.
"Of course, my queen. There is power and strength I can give you to beat any opponents that come your way. Don't you know you are more powerful than any man like Adam?"
Eve's eyes twinkled at the thought of her power.
"Really? How can that be?"
She whispered back to him. Turned her attention afterward to Adam as he asked her a question.
"With whom are you talking to?"
Eve did not respond as the intruder disappeared from her sight. Without her knowing, he stayed right at her back murmuring to her mind. The intruder was speaking and working through her.
Then she bursted out of what was prohibited by the son.
"I challenge you to play a game and whoever wins will own the chessboard."
Adam's eyes got rounded with surprise.
"What are you talking about? This board game is not even ours, neither you nor I. Besides, we are prohibited to challenge each other. Where did you get what you are saying?"
Eve started to make faces as if hurt by Adam's response. Her expressions and attitudes were new to Adam.
"What is that kind of face?"
She then started to play below the table. She reached for Adam's feet then went up playing through his leg until reaching Adam's middle.
Adam realized the movement of her feet below the table but did not feel nor understand anything, only strange new sensations coming from Eve's part. So he asked her.
"What are you doing?"
Still with eyes wide opened by the occurrences of the moment, Adam was wondering what Eve was up to. She giggled and responded to his question with a trick.
"I would tell you if you accept my challenge. We play fast so we will not be caught by the son. Anyway, he isn't even here. Come on! Don't be a bore! You are boring to me. I will play more with my feet till you realize the pleasure I can give you not just my feet. Promise."
Then she laughed out loud. Adam questioned her more.
"Pleasure?"
Eve responded with more excitement.
"Yes! Just say yes for us to play and take the challenge."
Adam was confused but finally gave in. Curiosity creeped in.
"Yes then. But we must hurry."
Then the horrific, malevolent laughter covered the air once more.
The players played with pleasures of lust, debauchery, lies and cheats between them to the point of losing everything they used to enjoy cleanly between them. They lost love.
The chessboard got dirty with everything: from their saliva out of cursing each other; from their hands out of grabbing and stabbing each other in physical assaults; from their minds came out every plans, strategies and cheats to win the other; and they lie, kill in any way they could to destroy an opponent. Each other. In all of these, the intruder was just enjoying their show.
Their kings, queens, thrones and pawns have risen and fallen. Some were still up, some were down, but one thing was clear, they were at war. Chaos on top of the chessboard. They kept playing and challenging each other to rule over the other.
Until "others" came in. They surrounded them and they had not even seen them enter and when.
"Who are you?"
Both Adam and Eve asked everyone, they could not count for they were so many.
One responded for all.
"We are sent to prepare the way for the Son. We are here to help. The Son is coming back soon to claim what is His."
Adam and Eve kept going on anyway with their fights. The newcomers do their annointed job between them working to clean up the chessboard the most they could.
They preached, they reached out to help, and some more just to do what they are meant to be doing to make a better world for everyone.
From far away, the intruder was making himself the reason for the conflicts and working hard to steal everything that belongs to the Son.
The writer stopped writing.
To end the short series of The Chessboard, the writer himself started to think about the ending of the series, hoping to wake up some idle minds as his imaginations made their ways to the paper through The Pen.
"Wake Up! The Son is coming soon!"
The Pen shook the writer up. Again. 😄
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