Prologue: The Otherworld
Light. Darkness. Good. Evil. Love. Hate. Indefinable in the waking world, yet distinct in the spirit. Swirling chaos. Confusion. Division laced with passion. Hatred injected where love should be. Calamity. Mystification. Loneliness. Longing. Hope.
The wretched slaves of will, the spirits, wandered aimlessly through the swirls of the abyss. They watched the worlds from their cage, hoping praying for their chance to escape the world that they inhabited. They were creatures of neither Heaven nor Hell nor the blue Earth. None knew the old name of the purgatory in which they dwelled, yet mortals privy to their existence simply called it the "Otherworld". It was wholly unlike everything else, a place in which contained the spirits, powerful creatures designated to one name, one function while in the Otherworld.
Their existence in the Otherworld was harsh, fighting with their opposites. The spirits of fire and water despised one another while in the Otherworld, yet when summoned to Earth, they could not stand to be apart. Because on the Earth, where nothing was wholly one thing or the other, the elements of opposite forces were drawn together, the passion barely contained in the Otherworld finally released and set free. Lovers while on Earth, indifferent enemies in the Otherworld. Lovers destined to hated one another forever.
Unless they were strong enough to change their fates…
Author's Note: Hello everyone and welcome to my first completely and totally, shamelessly AU fic! Of course this isn't my original idea, the idea of this story comes from Artemis Daarken. She got a hold of me and asked if I'd write this story and I found her plot very interesting, and since I've always wanted to try my hand at such a completely different story like this, outside of Hetalia World or set more outside of history, I agreed. (Though there still will be history in this story, the same as all my others~)
So please do tell us what you think so far! This is at least my first collaboration, so be kind! Thanks everyone! Hope to hear from you all soon! :)
