authour's note: I found this one as well unfinished in my stache of stories and decided to finish it as well. I completely forgot I had it so I know it wasn't with my original idea when I finished it, but I think it is pretty decent. I always wondered what due truth must have thought about the human dilemma and I faintly remember being inspired to write this after watching my schools play about God trying to earn its Master of the Universe. Very good play.
The Universe
Everything looked down upon All with a contemplative stare. It was a simple idea It created, making a small marble of potential out of itself. There on the blue green planet, the molecules and dust grew and formed into miraculous variations of the Everything. The Truth smiled upon seeing it and saw that it was good. It was equivalent, which was what Its universe should be. The plants grew and shriveled, animals were born and died, everything was in equilibrium, except the humans.
All didn't understand the humans. Everything created them, the Truth was them, it should be able to comprehend them, but these humans ignored the laws that the Universe set out for them. They cheated, stole, and even insulted the World by searching for immortality. The life they got was the one they deserved, equal in every way, but they were oblivious. The Truth just didn't understand why they wanted more. And then they found the Gate. They were getting closer and closer to it every time. Truth pushed them back down for their insolence, and took off their wings, but they kept coming back. The humans were hungry, they craved power, but Truth didn't understand why they couldn't see that they already had it.
Then one particular human came to him. The Universe didn't know how to interpret him, but that boy was different than the rest. Still stubborn, still foolish, still greedy, yet different. The boy was crying as All already had its leg, but they weren't tears of his own pain. They were tears of his brother. That was the first time that the Universe saw someone trade itself for the equivalence. It was a miraculous change, it was a simple breath taking moment that froze Everything to the bone. The human understood equivalence.
Few humans that walk the earth know that there is an equivalence, fewer even know exactly what it means. But this boy, was the first to have willingly experienced it, giving himself for his brother. The Truth took its payment of course, for that was what the boy desired, and it gave the younger ignorant brother back in return. The Universe after all, was no trickster.
That was the last All thought it would see of human kind's true glory. They were balls of matter with potential wrapped in every bond and over the millions and billions of years that Universe was watching over the blue green planet, that was the first shimmer he had seen. For once, and only once, the Truth could admit that it had been wrong. Both the brothers returned, both at once to give what they needed to get what the other wanted. A life for an arm, a gate for a simple body, at this point Truth realized that they were giving too much to be equivalent. The boy gave up his access to the Universe just for one shriveled up boy. The Truth tried to offer him more, the boy deserved more, he needed to be given more, it was the law of the universe, but the human accepted none. The door of the gates were closed for a final time, leaving the Everything clueless. The one true law was simply a hypothesis, now proven wrong. Someone really could give more than they got back, but the question was why? The Truth waited and waited for an answer, but the boy never came back. No one like him ever came back to finish his question. The humans went about their business in much the usual ancient ways of stubborness and insolence, the potential, and glimmer gone. The All found its glory appear in the One, but now it was gone. How could the world be so unfair?