Shadows
Year, 900,000,000 B.C.E. or before
In the beginning, when God-or whatever supernatural force you want to call it, lets call him G for stories sake,-popped into existence, he noticed that he was alone. Just as a toddler or small child might daydream and create their own world, "G" started to create. At first he could not create an entire planet, so he just made creatures to keep him company. Of course, predicable creatures-like fish-are so boring, so he made it and so this creatures were mischievous and secretive to point where no one, not even their creator knew what they were going to do. These creatures were the first true immortals.
Due to fact that oxygen didn't exist, these rather strange creatures didn't have to even breathe. No mouths they had. Nor did they have noses of snouts. They were telepathic, had the ability to "speak" with mind. None of them were same in any other way. G loved these things. Able to call things into existence, they were never unprepared.
However, nothing can last forever. Soon G got bored again and began to create, following his favorite Shadows, for that was what these creatures were called, Jessica's advice, G made the universes and galaxies. He found that he loved to create. He could not stop himself from creating and so he gave each of the 33 Shadows enough power to watch over, and protect his new creations. At this point, G and Jessica walk out of this tale, away into the distant blackness.
As the Shadows watched their creator "walk" away, they began to dispute who would get which world, universe and galaxy. Sheila wanted Gual-in this story it is the universe next to ours- Daniel wanted Quin- Milky Way- and so on. However G would only let his greatest creations, Shadows, into 24 galaxies. Figures… Only six of the 32 remaining Shadows were satisfied with being non-gods, not having a galaxy. Jonathan, Josh, Vancor, Vicky, Jane and Summer were those six, the great six warlords. The others let these six roam everywhere.
However, those of you that are math majors out there reading this may have noticed that 32-24=8 not 6. Silently most of the Shadows slunk away and plotted to force Stephan and Joanna, the least popular of the Shadows, to join the ranks of warlords. Stephan wasn't agreeable, but after a while of discussing he went to join Jonathan, Josh, Vancor, Vicky, Jane and Summer as warlords. Joanna, however, refused to have to anything with the warlords. A great war began over who would be warlords and who would be "gods."
How did it end? Humans may never know. But we do know that Stephan, Joanna, Jonathan, Josh, Vancor, Vicky, Jane and Summer all survived the war, it is rumored that at least seven others didn't, and, in the end became the great Warlords. What follows are the tales of these warlords and their wars. You might even recognize some of them.