Antichrist

**Antichrist** characters have been the continuing subject of speculation and attraction, often explored in fiction and media, and the character has developed its own fictional mythology apart from biblical scripture. For example, the Book of Revelation does not say the Antichrist will be the son of Satan (it doesn't even mention him), but the idea was made popular in at least two movies, *The Omen*, and its sequels, with the evil child, Damien, who grows up with the destiny to rule and destroy the world, and *Rosemary's Baby* with her son, Adrian.

In fact, the five uses of the term "antichrist" or "antichrists" in the Johannine epistles do not clearly present a single latter-day individual Antichrist. The articles "the deceiver" or "the antichrist" are usually seen as marking out a certain category of persons, rather than an individual.

Consequently, attention for an individual Antichrist figure focuses on the second chapter of 2 Thessalonians. However, the term "antichrist" is never used in this passage:

Although the word "antichrist" (Greek *antikhristos*) is used only in the Epistles of John, the similar word "pseudochrist" (Greek *pseudokhristos*, meaning "false messiah") is used by Jesus in the Gospels:

## **Antichrists**

### **Nicolae Carpathia(*Left Behind*) 1984-2011(Divinely Killed, largely successful)**

Carpathia was born in Cluj County, Ruritania, the product of genetic engineering and artificial insemination. His mother, Marilena, was unwittingly convinced by a group of Luciferians, whose group she joins, to become the mother of a child who, they assured her, would change the face of the world. Marilena stayed with her husband, Sorin, until the baby was born, insisting that her son keep the strong Carpathia name ("Nicolae", when translated, means "victory of the people", although this is far from Carpathia's actual goals.)

Through his parents, Carpathia possessed a unique bloodline dating back to Ancient Rome, so he could actually claim to be a Roman descendant. This references both the early Christian belief that the Antichrist would come in the form of a Roman emperor, as well as the current Pre-Millennialist Christian view that the Antichrist will emerge from a "New Roman Empire".

As a young child, Carpathia showed remarkable intelligence and athletic ability, and also proved to be extraordinarily manipulative, able to bend others to his will with relative ease. His handlers arranged for his mother to be eliminated, and Nicolae himself eventually demanded the dispatch of his "father", a key to his rise to power. With his advisers and counselors, Carpathia formed a successful import-export business which quickly made him a millionaire. After he became a millionaire, he is then taken by a demon to a desert, probably the Judaean Desert, where he is forced to live without food and water for 40 days. In contrast to Jesus's temptation, Nicolae falls for all three temptations, thus fully confirming that he will soon be the Antichrist. After that, he is then returned to Ruritania. Next, he quickly grew bored with business and finance and, guided by the "kingmaker" Leon Fortunato, to set his sights on politics.

In 2008, at the age of 24, Carpathia stepped into the political scene as a member of the lower house of the Parliament of Ruritaia. Falling victim to Fortunato's blackmail, the President of Ruritania resigned, allowing Carpathia to assume power, with the unanimous support of the country's parliament. Carpathia would become a strong opponent for the establishment of Transylvania as a Vampire Homeland.

Shortly thereafter, in the chaos following the Rapture, Carpathia was appointed Federated Nations Secretary-General. From this office, he converted the U.N. into the Global Community, appointing himself as that government's Supreme Potentate.

After three and a half years in power, Carpathia was assassinated by Chaim Rosenzweig, an Israeli botanist and statesman. He was killed by a lethal head wound from a sword which Rosenzweig had concealed. His demise was short-lived, however, as after three days of lying dead, Carpathia's body was indwelt by Satan himself, thus making Carpathia appear to rise from the dead and further cement his power. He had 4,000,000 people at his funeral.

To complete his quest for world domination, Carpathia created the One World Unity Army, composed of all G.C. military presence on the planet. Their mission was to destroy the remnant stronghold of Petra and take over the city of Jerusalem as the world's new capital, following the supernatural destruction of New Babylon. He also gathered the armies of the world at the valley of Armageddon for the battle with Jesus Christ and His army.

In accordance with the biblical prophecy, Carpathia was overthrown with the return of Jesus, who cast him, along with his False Prophet Fortunato, into the Lake of Fire to suffer for all eternity. Before his eternal sentence is carried out, Satan was cast out of Carpathia, who then kneels before Christ and declares him as Lord. He also admits, at the feet of Jesus, that everything he ever did was for personal gain and that his entire life was a waste.

One thousand years later(3011), a brief glimpse of Carpathia and Leon Fortunato is seen as the Lake of Fire opens to swallow up Satan. Carpathia is still writhing in agony as he is tortured in fire and sulfur, repeating over and over that Jesus is Lord. The scene closes, and Carpathia's suffering—along with that of his master and his underling—is resumed for all eternity.

### ***Pepito(Squee!)1997-1998***

Pepito is a new classmate of Squee's who happens to be the Antichrist. Squee secretly agrees with Pepito's apocalyptic rantings, but isn't quite sure those who have taunted or hurt him in his life really deserve to be punished. After inviting Squee over for dinner one night, Pepito professes his boredom with the human world, and complains to his father, Satan, that he has no one to play with in this "infernal inferno". This prompts Satan to try and recruit Squee into his dark army by using a metaphor involving breadsticks and nachos, among other things, basically implying that Squee's life will be better overall if he would simply give up his soul. Squee politely declines Satan's offer and the subject is immediately and permanently dropped. Despite this, Pepito still considers Squee and himself friends.

### **Stone Alexander(*The Omega Code*)-Activated 1999-2000(Divinely Killed, Apocalypse Averted).**

Stone Alexander was a six-year-old boy whose mother has died giving birth to his younger brother, David. During a party at his influential father's home, Stone is left alone with David, who is in his crib. As Stone stares into the fireplace, a fiery force engulfs the boy, possessing him. Stone attempts to burn his baby brother, but David is saved by their nanny. Their father, Daniel, sends Stone away to a military academy in Italy for his education, under the guidance of General Francini.

Not long after arriving at the academy, he is drawn to a church where he meets his demonic Guardian, and participates in a black mass ceremony. Years pass, and although Stone is periodically abused by some of his classmates, he eventually earns their respect, becoming the top student in his class. After graduating, Stone meets his younger brother David, who is now a teenager. Soon after graduation, Stone marries his Italian girlfriend, Gabriella, the daughter of General Francini. The General was initially against their marriage, but Stone summons two smoke-like demons to intimidate the General into giving in.

Now an adult, Media mogul and European Union Chairman Stone Alexander received a humanitarian award in Rome for having all but eliminated world hunger through advances in nutritional technology. However, he also arranged for the death of the Rabbi Rostenburg and the stealing of his decoding software by his apprentice, Dominic. Alexander saw a prophecy (deciphered with Rostenberg's program) that lead him to ask Lane to become his Minister of Information. Using each prophecy Rostenburg's program deciphers to guide him, Alexander worked toward world domination by whatever means he deems necessary, including secretly arranging for the bombings of Muslim and Jewish holy sites in Israel. Alexander goes on to use the sites' rebuilding to help forge a groundbreaking Middle East peace treaty. Not long thereafter, most national governments agree to join a ten-state "World Union", of which Alexander is chairman. Dr.Gillen Lane became aware of the use of the Rostenburg code and broke into his facility. Alexander and Dominic went to confront him. A disillusioned Lane accuses Alexander of "following the code like a script," and being behind the Israeli bombings. Confessing to Lane's charges, Alexander asks him to be "my spokesman for this new world, my visionary, my prophet." Believing himself to be the only rightful aspirant to the position, Dominic pulls his gun on Lane, who flees. Firing repeatedly at Lane, Dominic inadvertently shoots Alexander in the head, mortally wounding him. Dominic immediately alerts security, claiming that Lane shot Alexander and fled. Lane escapes Alexander's compound, but becomes the target of a worldwide manhunt. Alexander is pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Satan enters Alexander's body in the hospital, causing his head wound to heal miraculously and the World Union chairman to rise from the dead. Seven of the ten World Union leaders agree that Alexander will be appointed "Chancellor of the United World" in a ceremony to be held at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, coincident with the reopening of Solomon's Temple.

At the ceremony in Jerusalem, Chairman Alexander (now Chancellor Alexander) proclaims that he has become "both king and god!" The crowd is upset by this statement, with some devout Jewish and Muslim listeners denouncing him as a blasphemer. Out of the growing tumult, two prophets appear inside the temple, identifying Alexander as the Abomination of Desolation, quoting evangelistic biblical prophecies, and predicting that they would be resurrected three days after their deaths. Alexander has Dominic kill them both, and put them on display as an example of what happens to those who oppose him. He leaves for his compound in Rome, as Dominic relays word to him that "the Israelis and several others are seceding." Alexander plots a massive military action, including a nuclear strike.

Alexander meets his agent, talk show host Cassandra Barris, who gives him the final code; when he examines the writing, it evaporates from the page supernaturally. Alexander accuses her of conspiring with Lane (who is being detained on-site). The two of them go to Lane's holding cell, where Dominic violently interrogates him as to the whereabouts of the final code. Lane is truly ignorant of its whereabouts, causing the interrogation to reach an impasse. Lane is left alone in his cell. In his solitude, demons swirl around him, tormenting him; Lane prays, "God ... Jesus, save me." Immediately, the demons are scattered, Lane's cell door opens, and he exits. Meanwhile, the two prophets are resurrected.

Lane, trying to find Alexander, runs into Dominic instead. Dominic is about to kill him when the two prophets supernaturally appear. They strangle Dominic without touching him, and give Lane the journal page with the final code. Lane takes Dominic's gun and confronts Alexander, who, with Cassandra at his side, is about to commence the attack. Alexander uses this as a bargaining chip to get Lane to give him the final code; Lane agrees, typing it into Rostenburg's program for deciphering. Once he does, however, Alexander reveals that he never intended to call off the attack, and now, with the final code, will begin his massive Third World War. Just as Alexander is about to give the final authorization to attack, a blindingly brilliant and pure white light appears on the horizon, expanding like a shockwave through the entire surrounding area. As it reaches Alexander's war room, its appearance is accompanied by a strong wind. While Lane stands safely and peacefully within it, it blows through Alexander violently enough to cause Satan to fly behind him. Initially attempting to grasp onto Alexander's shoulders for stability, Satan is finally blown away, out of sight. At this point, Alexander reaches behind his ear and finds that his hand is bloodied: His head wound was restored after Satan was ejected from him, leaving him dead again.

The shockwave of light spreads to cover the entire Earth, then grows in brightness and intensity such that it causes the entire screen to remain white for a few seconds. This effect ends with a fade to the printer in Alexander's facility, the output tray of which bears a freshly-printed page with Rostenburg's final code, deciphered as follows: "0000 ... Dawn of New Millennium".

Megiddo: *The Omega Code 2* is non canon here as it contradicts the original film too much, making it an alternate Universe story that regardless ends the same way.

### **Angel Caine(*Holocaust 2000*) 2000(Assassinated, Apocalypse Averted)**

Despite doomsday warnings from throngs of locals, wealthy industrialist Robert Caine made the controversial decision to build a nuclear power plant near a sacred cave in the Middle East. But before Caine could reap the benefits of his latest bid for global domination, he discovered that his son, Angel, was an Antichrist(intended to carry out the Apocalypse in case Alexander Stone failed, which he did), who was planning to use his father's project to trigger the end of the world. As Caine digged deeper, a string of suspicious accidents occured that kill off prominent figures who criticized the project. He also noted similarities between the design of the plant and features of a biblically-prophesied beast that would herald the apocalypse. During a dream, Caine envisioned the plant rising from the sea, then saw its circle of towers take on the form of a multiheaded monster.

Robert Caine entered exile with his newborn child, and his adult son now successfully developing the plant intended to cause Armageddon. Robert Caine was able to organize his return to the company and entered a board meeting having explosives hidden on him. He exploded and successfully thwarted the apocalypse.

### **Adrian and Cassius(*Little Nicky)*2000**

The story revolves around a struggle to determine which of Satan's three sons will succeed their father as ruler of Hell. Adrian is the most devious, Cassius is the cruelest, and Nicky is their father's favorite. Adrian and Cassius claim that Nicky's mother is a goat and torment him by controlling his body with their minds. Nicky has had a speech impediment and a disfigured jaw since Cassius hit him in the face with a shovel.

Having been the Prince of Darkness for ten thousand years, the Devil assembles his sons to decide which of them will succeed him; he tells them that they are not ready yet, having decided to keep his throne. Angered by this decision, Adrian and Cassius go to Earth to create a new Hell by possessing religious and political leaders in New York City. As they leave, they freeze the entrance to Hell, preventing more souls from entering and causing Satan's body to begin decomposing. To stop Adrian and Cassius, Satan sends Nicky to Earth with a silver flask that traps whoever drinks from it inside.

At first, Nicky has trouble staying alive on Earth. He is killed several times, landing in Hell and returning to New York each time. While learning how to eat and sleep, he meets a talking bulldog named Mr. Beefy, rents an apartment with an actor named Todd, and falls in love with a design student named Valerie.

Nicky's first encounter with his brothers occurs when Adrian sees him with Valerie, takes mental control of his body, and makes him scare her away. Then Nicky sees Cassius on television, possessing the referee of a Globetrotters game. When he goes to the court and tricks Cassius into the flask, Satanist metalheads John and Peter are so thrilled with his performance that they become his devoted fans. That evening, Nicky tries to apologize to Valerie. The meeting goes badly at first, but she accepts him after he explains who he is and why he is on Earth.

The next day, Adrian possesses the Chief of the NYPD and accuses Nicky of mass murder. Not knowing what to do, Nicky has Todd kill him so he can go back to Hell and ask his father for advice, but his father has trouble hearing because his ears have fallen off, and his assistants are in a panic because the midnight deadline to capture Adrian and Cassius is only hours away. Back on Earth again, Nicky and his friends devise a plan to capture Adrian in a subway station, but Adrian discovers their trick. In the ensuing fight, Adrian grabs Valerie and dives onto the track as a train approaches, but Nicky throws her out of the way, leaving himself and Adrian to be killed by the train.

Arriving in Hell just minutes before midnight, Adrian begins the process of taking over Hell by pushing what remains of his father aside and sitting on the throne, rising to Central Park, and starting a riotous party. Meanwhile, Nicky wakes up in Heaven as a reward for sacrificing himself and meets his mother Holly, an angel who tells him that he can defeat Adrian with the Inner Light that he inherited from her. After she gives him a mysterious orb, he goes to Central Park. Adrian appears to win a battle by locking Nicky in the flask and turning himself into a bat, but Nicky escapes from the flask. When he shatters the orb, Ozzy Osbourne appears, bites Adrian's head off, and spits it into the flask.

With his brothers captured, Nicky is ready to save his father. After he sins to make sure he goes to Hell, he and Valerie express their love for each other and she kills him. In Hell, Satan regains his body and recommends that Nicky go back to Earth. A year later, Nicky and Valerie lived in New York with their infant son.

### **Jake Gray(*Devour*) Activated 2005**

A child was born to Ivan Reisz and Anne Kilton. Anne Kilton was in actuality Satan. Anne gave birth. The child was stolen by mortals, and raised as a human. The child was named Jake Grey. A live action reoleplaying game called *The Pathway,* was created to find Grey, finding him in 2005. He would awaken to find his parents murdered, a crime in which he was arrested for.

### **Jesse Turner(*Supernatural)-*Born 1998. Nearly Activated 2009(Aborted, Rejected Destiny)**

Born on March 29, 1998. Jesse Turner was conceived when a virginal human woman named Julia Wright becomes possessed by a demon. She manages to regain control of her body long enough to exorcise the demon from her body during labor. She contemplates killing the newborn Jesse, for fear that he would be evil, but instead gives him up for adoption.

Jesse was adopted by the Turner family in Alliance, Nebraska. Jesse's adoptive parents spend a good deal of time outside their home, with him mostly taking care of himself. He was unaware of his birth history or even of the fact that he was adopted. Despite his heritage, he is a fairly normal boy: he attends school, likes soup and believes in many common child-age misconceptions and myths, like the Tooth Fairy

In 2009, After investigating Jesse's history and finding demonic involvement, hunters Dean and Sam Winchester call Castiel in for help. Castiel explains to them that the chaos Jesse has been causing is nothing compared to what it could be if he were to get angry. He then reveals that as the Antichrist, Jesse is destined to align with Lucifer and, "*with a word*", destroy the forces of Heaven (whether this is true or not is uncertain, as it's unknown if his power would be equal to or lesser than Lucifer's, as Michael is the only angel stronger than him). Refusing to allow such a risk, Castiel resolves to kill Jesse, with or without the brothers' consent or help. Before he could be killed, Jesse instinctively transforms the angel into an action-figure version of himself.

In the moments that follow, Dean and Sam arrive and tell Jesse that he is a superhero and they are going to train him in an X-Men-esque fashion. Julia interrupts while possessed by Jesse's demonic parent; she tells him the brothers are lying and that his whole life has been a lie, which angers him. She promises to show him a world without lies. Sam admits to lying to Jesse and promises to tell the truth - when Julia tries to stop him, Jesse intervenes by releasing Sam and immobilizing her so he can hear Sam out. Jesse is overwhelmed by the fact Julia is his real mother and he's half-demon but Sam reminds him that he is still half-human and thus can still be good. Jesse promptly exorcises the demon from Julia.

Later, Jesse asks the Winchesters what he should do and they tell him it's his choice. He asks to bring his parents with him and they tell him he can but it would put them in danger because both angels and demons will be trying to find him. He says he's going to say goodbye to his parents but instead he goes to his room and writes them a letter, repairs the damage he caused around town (except for the dead), and vanishes to another place. He has not been seen since.

### **Quinn Dexter(27 Century)(Night's Dawn Trilogy)**

A "waster kid" who rose in prominence in the Light Bringer sect (a Satanic Cult) in the Edmonton arcology. He served the sect second only to a mysterious woman only know to us as "Banneth". He was responsible for attending to Banneth's "cargo of weird persona-sequestrator nanonics". The sect brought out an unmatched arrogance in Quinn. He received two high-quality nanonic clusters from the sect with biolectric pattern-minicing features (illegal technology that could have condemned him to a penal planet if detected). He killed seventeen people over a five month period before being deported as an Ivet to Lalonde. His offense was not murder, but rather running from the authorities when they attempted to inspect Banneth's nanonics package. He vowed to return to Earth and used some command codes that he knew to harm Benneth with her own nanonics. Until then, he was to serve as forced labor for colonization Group Seven on Lalonde.

Quinn Dexter ultimately uses his powerful skills of persuasion to influence the local Aberdale officials into a policy of greater leniency towards them. This is strongly objected to by Powel Manani, but Aberdale officials see this as a threat to their authority and overrule him. The 18 Ivets (15 men, 3 women) begin to work only 13 at a time for the community, leaving five to constantly do something for the “betterment” of the Ivets in order to give themselves something of which to be “proud”. At first this is a superbly constructed A-frame, which becomes the envy of the citizens and actually has the positive effect of influencing others to improve their own quarters. After establishing this initial reputation, however, Quinn begins to form a cult within the A-frame while secretly and systematically acquiring various weapons through the use of his illegally attained fuseodollars from Jovian Bank credit disks. The other Ivets keep special note of who has such disks at Aberdale for future thievery and murder.

Quinn is aware that someone nearby is responsible for several families that have turned up missing recently in Schuster County. He keenly detects the presence and goes out of his way to declare that he is not afraid of it. In fact, he proclaims that he wants to talk to whoever or whatever it is.

The Aberdale Ivets, under Quinn’s leadership, systematically kill off many settlers who have Jovian Bank disks. All the while, Quinn uses his nanonic implant to increase his “treasury”. Some of this money is used by the group to acquire various items secretly that enhances their individual lives presently and will ultimately assist Quinn in escaping from Lalonde. The deaths are all suspicious, but no hard evidence is available. People die by drowning or they are killed by a laser fired in their eye sockets, then the bodies burned almost beyond recognition completely covering up the laser wounds. Overall, there are six deaths in five weeks. Ruth Hilton is on to them ,however. She tries to convince Father Horst, but the priest is too weak willed to allow such facts to complicate his fragile life.

Quinn solidifies his control over the Ivets with an official Satanic ceremony during one of the murders at a savanna homestead. He performs a dark mass during the crime. The powerful combination of group sexual intercourse, murder and blood ritual serves to bind the group to Quinn’s will.

Eventually, Quinn’s fearlessness and instinct bring him to a face to face encounter with Laton. Quinn wants to team up with Laton to assist in the lather’s escape from Lalonde. He offers to turn Aderdale completely over to Laton for “incorporation” as long as he let’s Quinn escape without any alarms being sounded to the authorities watching the suspicious happenings in Schuster County. Laton refuses because he doesn’t have a sufficient number of bitek regulators to sequester the entire settlement. He makes Quinn an offer to join him. Quinn is interested in Laton’s experiments and, without committing to anything, agrees with Laton that it would be an advantage to both of them to eliminate Powel Manani’s communicator block. Unbeknownst to Quinn, Laton plans to arrange to have the villagers eliminate the Ivets after Manani’s communication device is destroyed. This plan is foiled, however, when Quinn captures Manani and performs a demonic ritual on him. Quinn outsmarts Manani when the latter heads up an effort to kill all Ivets in Aberdale. He and six surviving Ivets sacrifice Manani in ritualistic fashion. As his victim dies, a huge flare of energy erupts out of the wounds in the body, light dancing over Quinn. In the center of this light, however, Quinn sees absolute darkness. He begins to hear a chorus of voices in his head. Quinn excitedly welcomes this experience, interpreting it as the coming of Satan himself. Then, lightning flashes out of Manani’s corpse, screams come from inside the bolts as they seek out the six Ivets and strike them, wrapping each of them in cloak of glowing light. The Ivets immediately seek out other humans in Aberdale in order to spread the dysfunctional process of possession. This happens, interestingly enough, in Chapter 13 of the first part of “The Reality Dysfunction.”

Following the emergence of the reality dysfunction, he emerges in Durringham where he accidentally runs in to Marie Skibbow. She helps him to get a berth on the Lady MacBeth as a passenger in route to Norfolk. Initially, Joshua offers him zero-tau, but Quinn rejects this. This, however, was only a tactic by Joshua to drive-up the price of the berth which is finally agreed upon at 55,000 fuseodollars. The Lady MacBeth then experiences a series of mysterious technical problems during its journey to Norfolk.

After he is possessed Quinn realizes that the force released by his sacrifice of Powel Manani is not Satan (the “Light Brother”). He is in a unique position from other possessed personalities in that he can still function as his former self to some degree in spite of being possessed by another being (Edmund Rigby). Hamilton writes that Quinn is furious with this realization and he feels betrayed. In reference to not being the Light Brother, the possessing force within him, slowly gaining control of his mind, replies to Quinn: “Of course not, Quinn. I’m worse than that, worse than any mythical devil. All of us are.” Quinn then hears laughter in his head as he struggles to understand as his mind begins to fade. A prolonged struggle ensues where Quinn attempts to, at first, understand what is possessing him, and, by using all of his vast trickery and psychic abilities, ultimately overcome possession itself.

He retakes his body from Edmund Rigby on Norfolk, more confident and treacherous than ever. He immediately destroys all of Rigby’s closest followers and proclaims that he is “truly blessed” by the Light Bringer. “My belief in Him brought me back, me alone out of all the millions who are possessed. I am the one God’s Brother has chosen as His messiah.”

Eventually, he lands on Norfolk at Boston and takes on the appearance of a priest. Following the possession of Boston he briefly sets up an outpost for his growing cult at Cricklade manor. Quinn soon becomes disenchanted with Norfolk and its backwards society. He makes plans to get off the planet and return to Earth where he hopes to organize the various cults in the arcologies into an organization under his command. "We can gnaw at the Confederation from within," he says.

He makes it to Norwich where he tries to board a spaceplane to get off Norfolk. He accidentally runs into the Kavanagh sisters and Fletcher Christian and tries to steal their transport contract for the Far Realm. He is driven by this mad desire not spread possession or to organize a cult under his leadership, but to get back to Earth and find Banneth. He wants revenge for the way she treated him. "Now, I'm the one who's gonna do things right back to her," Quinn babbles. "God's brother understands, understands the need in me. I'm gonna let my serpent beast devour her and spew out the bits."

Before he can steal the contract, however, he succumbs to several bolts of fire launched at him from an unknown figure at the opposite end of the hangar. In the confusion that follows, Fletcher and the sisters escape. Quinn turns to face the mysterious person, demanding to know their name. He never finds out for by now there is fire erupting everywhere in the hangar. Quickly, accompanied by Lawrence Dillion, he makes his way to the Tantu's spaceplane, kills the guard and boards the plane disguised as a priest. When in orbit on the Tantu, he makes an unauthorized ZTT jump out of the system.

It takes Lawrence Dillion and himself only a few minutes to possess the Tantu’s 19 member crew. After a few technical and disciplinary problems, he orders the vessel to leave Norfolk’s orbit. He experiences some problems with the possessors of the ship’s captain. He has to replace them three times before he finds someone suitable, someone who knew something of starflight in their previous life. After that, Quinn orders the Tantu to make several ZTT jumps toward Earth, arriving there a few days later.

Earth is heavily defended with an elaborate SD platform. When the Tantu is unable to comply with Earth’s request for the ship’s “ASA code” the planetary defenses are quickly locked onto it. No one aboard knows what an ASA code is. Quinn makes the hasty decision to jump one-light year while the Tantu’s various sensor antennae are extended. The jump severs the sensors, causing four breaches in the ship’s hull and six areas to be severely weakened.

Quinn is furious because, until repairs are made, the Tantu cannot make another jump. The immediate object of his wrath is the possessor of the captain. Stating that he “should have known” about the ASA (Armed Ship Authorization) code, he sends him back to the beyond. Quinn then tortures the real captain, whose name is Mauer. Finally, he turns Mauer over to Lawrence Dillion for further debauchery.

He takes the Tantu to Nyvan where he locates Twelve-T in the ethnic-nation of New Georgia. Quinn offers to trade the Tantu to Twelve-T simply in exchange for a docking bay permit to one of Nyvan’s asteroids. Thanks to his manipulation of Twelve-T, the Tantu is allowed to dock at Jesup, a New Georgian asteroid in Nyvan orbit. Quickly, he overcomes Twelve-T stating that all he wants is a simple cargo starship that can get him to Earth (since the Tantu is now suspect – being combat capable - and impossible to land there) and to “bring the Night to this planet” in the name of the Light Brother.

It takes Quinn two days to fully take control of Jesup. The asteroid’s population put up the usual futile resistance to possession. He also takes over New Georgia’s SD Platform system. From this foothold, Quinn plans to use inter-orbiting craft to send the possessed down to Nyvan to take over the planet as well as to three other orbiting asteroids. He has to choose carefully which possessed to send down, as many of the asteroid’s population, while possessed, remain “unbelievers” to Quinn’s teaching of God’s Brother, the Light Bringer, and to Quinn’s central mission to “bring down the Night” upon Nyvan.

Constantly as he walks through the unfinished biosphere cavities upon Jesup he is overtaken by the sensation that someone or something is watching him. A flicker of motion in the dark. A faint sound of laughter. Ultimately, he tracks them down, discovering that they are a large group of hesitant, cowering creatures. They say they “can’t return” from the beyond. They seem to be trapped somewhere in between. They are ghosts.

Once more, Quinn is terrorized by the mysterious figure from the beyond that keeps appearing in his life from time to time. While on Jesup a figure approaches him that is his exact likeness. A brief skirmish ensues where the figure commands Twelve-T to attack Quinn. Lawrence intervenes but is killed when Twelve-T’s broken wrist joint rams through Lawrence’s throat. His body detonates in energistic fire as Twelve-T’s brain drops out of its half skull. The figure withdraws back to the beyond in laughter much to Quinn’s helpless rage. Quinn kicks Twelve-T’s exposed brain in disgust splattering gore all over his terrified disciples.

On Jesup, Quinn masters the ability to enter the “ghost realm”, a psychic capability that he perhaps picked up from the ghosts he encounters there. It is a highly useful skill, allowing him to make himself invisible for periods of time.

Quinn instigates full-scale warfare from Jesup when he orders its SD network to attack the networks of other nations on Nyvan and any wandering spaceplanes and starships. The battle quickly escalates as the possessed begin to take control of the surface of the planet and panic breaks out among the fragmented and suspicious nations. As the conflict begins to reach its height, Quinn leaves Jesup on the Mount’s Delta and travels to Earth.

He exits Jesup on the Mount’s Delta when he commands that the asteroid be blown to pieces by 97 fusion bombs. The resulting destruction sends the asteroid hurtling in pieces down to Nyvan’s surface, pulverizing the planet. Even though 70% of Jesup’s mass misses the planet, fragments continue to rain down on the surface for two days completely destroying the planet’s environment, technology and population. Quinn then heads toward Earth, confidant that he has done the Light Bringer’s bidding.

He returns to Earth on the Mount’s Delta with the intention of “corrupting” the planet from “within.” He hopes to accomplish this by organizing the planets numerous Satanic sects under his power as the Light Brother’s most favored disciple. Of course, Banneth is on Earth as well. His desire for revenge against her remains strong. As the ship docks at Supra-Brazil, Quinn destroys Dwyer, sending him back into the beyond.

Quinn bypasses the tight security at Supra-Brazil by entering the “ghost realm” temporarily and walking undetected, rematerializing in a nice leather chair of a life capsule’s royal class lounge. Authorities are mystified about the absence of passengers on the Mount’s Delta. DNA samples confirm that one body literally exploded on board but, though the flight computer records indicate there were two passengers, there is no sign of a second one. Given the Confederation-wide quarantine in effect, Earth’s news media quickly seizes upon “the ghost flight from Nyvan” as a major story.

## **Alternate Universes**

### **Shift(*The Chronicles of Narnia*)**

In Narnia, a clever and greedy ape named Shift persuaded a well-meaning but simple-minded donkey called Puzzle to dress in a lion's skin and pretend to be the Great Lion Aslan. Using Puzzle as his pawn, Shift deceived many of the Narnians into serving the Calormenes and cutting down Talking Trees for lumber. The money would be paid into "Aslan's" treasury, held by Shift, on the pretext that it will be used for the good of the Narnians. This sparked a war between those who rejected "Aslan" and those who still believed in him. The world(and Shift with it) would be destroyed by Aslan, who was Jesus in Lion form. While not human, but a Chimpanzee. Shift fits the Antichrist role for Narnia, utilizing a false prophet, causing an apocalyptic war and finally being destroyed by Jesus.

### **Woodland Critters(*South Park*)**

Originally part of a story written and told by Eric Cartman, the Woodland critters are outwardly adorable animals seeking to summon the Antichrist. Within their story they briefly succeed but are all murdered by Santa Claus. They later appeared in the otherworldly Imaginationland, where everything conceived by humanity resides. They are among the Evil forces imprisoned behind a large wall.

## **Non Anti-Christ Demon Children**

Here are several Children of Demons who are not destined to cause apocalyptic events, though in most cases their(non prophetic) destiny is to take over for their parents some day.

### **Joey Atkins(*Strange)*(first identified between 2002 and 2003)**

Joey Atkins was the son of Richard Atkins and Jude Atkins. After Richard's apparent Death, Jude discovered he had been a demon named Azal. Joey was destined to take his father's role. This brand of Demon had unique weaknesses. They included non-human and near human forms. Near human demons are distinguishable by their inhuman eye colouring which varies from blood red, silver or gold. These demons are capable of concealing their eye colour with a sort of nictitating membrane which makes the eyes appear human. They are capable of interbreeding with humans and many such demons have assimilated themselves into human society to cover their activities. Non-human demons live on the fringes of society or hibernate in isolated areas. They reputedly have long lifespans, and can only be killed through special methods. When a demon dies its body will explode in a ball of flame.