Chapter 0
Gaia picked up her purple, satin dress and stepped over the puddle of mud. Her Jamaican accent was heavy as she spoke: "This is no good, Zarm." He stepped over it as well, looking softly at her. He reached his hand to grab her shoulder.
"Gaia... this planet has no chance. You and I have both seen it -- we cannot deter this; we are not strong enough." His accent resembled hers. Zarm stroked her long, brown hair and looked away from her, ahead. "I don't plan on staying." He walked forward. There was a toll of silence.
Her voice was shaky. "You cannot leave me. This is our planet. This is our planet, Zarm. We must save it together. I cannot do this alone, but both of us can!" Her voice cracked as she finished the sentence.
He continued walking, trying his hardest not to listen to Gaia's words.
"Zarm... I cannot -- you..." He interrupted.
"Gaia, Earth is doomed. I have already broken myself from this godforsaken planet. I am going to find another and I will make it what your planet could never be -- Earth will collapse, Gaia." He paused and turned in her direction -- faint tears ran down her cheeks. "You have two options: The first would be to follow me -- start a new planet of life and growth. The second, Gaia... You can stay here and feel the planet's destruction as the next millennium passes."
He took a few steps towards Gaia and held his hand out. "Which do you pick?"
The tears had long stopped and her eyes grew wider as she talked to him. "You are nothing but a coward, Zarm. You are not the man that once made the birds fly. You no longer care." She held her arm out, and threw it down. "I will save this planet, Zarm."
His arm faded downwards and a snarl was patched against his face. "Gaia, you will leave just as I did. You will come to the new world of life and will be nothing."
He raised both his hands up to his waist, palms upward. He began to rise and a long trail of red and pink began to sink into the ground as he did so. "The ties are being cut. You cannot save this planet by yourself. My heart no longer resides in this planet." The trail stopped, and Zarm rocket into the air. He gave not even a wave as Hope Island and Gaia left his sight.
Gaia fell to the ground on her knees, grabbing wet soil. Tears began to fall once more. "Perhaps I cannot. I have seen the routes to the future... and I know what must be done."
Her breathing became calm and slow as she closed her eyes. Her hands raised into the air past her head. She began speaking.
"Fire." Two beams of bright fire rose from the sweaty palms of Gaia's hands, meeting ten feet in the air. She clenched her fists, and above her, a ring with a red emblem of fire on it hovered. In seconds, it shot off far away to a far away continent, and her skin became slightly pale.
"Water." From the ground shot geysers of steaming water, the heat having no effect on her. Above her, another ring formed with the a blue water emblem, and was shot to a large continent somewhere.
"Wind." The air above her began to circle, hot colliding with cold. Her hair stood up and was swayed as the winds commanded control. In seconds, a ring blew off in an eastern direction.
"Earth." The earth around her rose, crashing with each other. A ring jet off to a place that needed it most.
"And lastly..." With her hands still up, she rose to her feet, taking a deep breath in. "Heart." Her body began to glow a light red, the color fading in and out. A swivel of pink rose from her, temporarily taking away all of the color in her body. In merely a split second, a ring formed and was sent directly to a destination.
She braced herself, trying her hardest not to fall to the ground. "Perhaps I cannot.... but... they... can." Her feet gave in and she collapsed to the ground, breathing heavily.