NOTE: this is my first fanfic, so feedback would be very much appreciated. :)
some of the things that are in the story did not happen; this isn't going to be completely according to mythology. I'm doing my own version.
Chapter 1: Nyx
I remember the beginning of time.
There was only myself in existence. The darkness around me was filled with many things; beauty, mystery, peacefulness, and even violence. Even today, I am still the only one who can comprehend all these things and more all coexisting in a world of nothing.
Wind blew past me. My body violently shuddered, harder and harder each time. Finally, something was forced out of me. I knew what it was; an egg, the golden egg. And I had to protect it.
I sat there, just waiting, for who knows how long. It was tiring, but I put every little bit of effort and strength into guarding that egg and keeping it warm, as the winds whipped around me, howling, the qualities of this vast void swirling and mixing.
Then, one day, the egg moved. It had an odd warmness to it; not the one of my body, but the one of its own. I knew it was ready. I flew away from it, and watched as each crack exposed more of the new being. Out of it rose an infant, armed with special kinds of bows and arrows. One half of the egg shell flew upward, becoming the great, blue sky, and the other stayed where it was, becoming the huge, majestic ball most of us live on today – Earth.
As I watched these things happening, I realized something. A fire lighted my soul, and I realized that my only purpose was to hatch this infant that would make these things happened. I was overwhelmed with anger and sadness, and I couldn't take it anymore. I spread my wings, and flew out into the vastness that was left, leaving myself to die.
