Chapter 3: Teamwork

When they had completely floated through the cloud cover, they sat down on it and started to think about how they could develop the idea of God. God always brought good ideas, but the devil sawed them off with a laugh. With each idea the devil laughed even more than with the previous one and this went so far that with each idea of God he was rolling with laughter. But God did not find it funny at all how the devil reacted, because after all it was his idea and slowly he started to get annoyed by the devil's behaviour. Actually, God thought that he could control himself well, but he also had his limits and just now, when the devil didn't want to calm down again because of an idea that was a very good one from his point of view, the urge came up in him to put a fist directly into the devil's face, so that he flew so far that he wouldn't see him for a few weeks. He already clenched his fist when he came to his senses again and he noticed that he actually abhorred violence and so he left the devil and looked for a place to sleep further away. Quickly the devil stopped laughing when he noticed that God was sleeping and he lay down beside God to sleep.The next morning, when God woke up, the devil had laughed at himself and listened to God with interest. So they started to discuss about the ball that God baptized earth when he woke up. A suggestion from God, they both found reasonable. For they both felt that the earth needed a little warmth. God found this good, because he was already thinking ahead and he wanted to create beings that would live on earth. "A great ball of fire circling the earth. That would be fantastic," said the devil and his eyes began to shine. "That's not a bad idea," God replied "It would only have to be at a reasonable distance, so that the earth would not catch fire." You think my idea is good." the devil marveled, " it was actually a joke, but if you think it's good, then let's do it." " Well then I'll do the calculations and you can choose the fireball and baptize it," God replied. So the devil and God began to work separately on a light structure. While God devoted himself to mathematics and calculated how big the light object could be and in what distance it would stand, the devil started to find the right light object. Again and again something else popped up before him. Once a red cube, then a blue triangle and then a bright green ball. But he didn't choose any of the shapes, instead he chose a ball of fire, which gave off so much heat that the devil and God started to sweat. Then the devil waited for God's calculations and in the evening God was finished too. So when the devil and God sat down on one of the clouds to admire their work, a big red ball of fire floated around the earth and gave light to it. "Oh how beautiful," said the Devil to God, "especially the special effect of the sun circling the earth is super." God didn't go into this and asked instead if he already had a name for the fireball. "Yes, Sonnex 2089. Isn't that a cool name" the devil said "No it's not, we're not gonna use that name, just pick another one, like just Sun." The devil pretended not to hear this, went around in circles and looked very hard. "Sun", he said after a short pause for thought, "How about this name. It goes with that ball of fire." "That was my name." God whispered to himself, angry. The devil, who had heard this, asked what God had said and because God did not want the devil to choose another name for the fireball, he replied: "Nothing, nothing, I was just thinking what a good name sun is", "So it's called sun!" When they had settled this, it remained silent and they watched the fireball circle until the Devil yawned. "Let's go to bed, God, it's been a hard day and I'm tired from work," the devil said, and without waiting for an answer, he curled up and fell asleep. God could not go to sleep yet because he was still much too tense and far too many ideas were in his head to fall asleep. So he continued to sit there and look at the earth and the sun until he was overcome with tiredness. His eyes closed many times and his head sank down and shortly after that you could only hear a deep inhalation and exhalation from him.