Disclaimer: I do not own Hero: 108.
I AM THE PAST.
I was born with my other siblings. I had had a lonely childhood, with no other children from other families to play with. I played alone with my siblings. We were happy together. But that was all in the Past.
Now, I wander alone, cursed and blessed with the fact of being able to look and know their Pasts, regardless as to how painful it is, how scary. The past has always been an interest of mine. People call the past their own Past, when they were young children. When their ancestors ruled. When the dinosaurs still existed. When the Ice Age, the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Stone Age and all other ruled.
But what about before that? What was before all of that? In the Past, as people call it?
The Past isn't what people think it is: just a memory, a recording of their past life. The Past is so much more than that. More than just...memories. Memories of people that people would eventually forget. The Past was what defined us, what made us us today. It sounds cliché to many, but it is true. The Past is the first step to becoming what you are today.
Everyone's Past is a story, one that will link to another, and to another, and to another. Everyone's lives are delicately intricate, all linked to one another in a complicated web that even I cannot solve. The Past is what made the Earth. Formed the Earth, formed the planets. The Past is more complicated than Historians or Scientists believe.
It is hard to understand, but it is true.
No one can understand the Past. That is why, I suppose, no one understand me. The only ones who ever understood me were the Present and Future, my siblings - sister and brother, respectively. Our Past was one that no one knew, and one that no one will ever know.
It is interesting, isn't it? The Past? It is odd how people think, how Scientists think that the Past began with a big explosion. BANG! Big Bang! And then the world formed automatically. That is only partially true. Things, time and effort had to be put in order to arrange that. Before the Earth, before the many animals, before the time that the Scientists thought were the start, there was something.
This something was Chaos, also known as The Void.
Chaos was the first thing of the Universe. The world was chaotic, until someone was born. A few someones, in fact. Tartarus: Where monsters lay, dead. Dragon Queen, the Earth itself. Eros, Desire. Erebus, Darkness. Nyx, Erebus' wife/sister, and Night. Along with them, Moros, Doom; Oneiroi, Dreams; Nemesis, Retribution; Momus, Blame; Philotes, Affection; and Geras, Ageing.
Some people might want to know: How in Chaos' name did Chaos have children? And no, he did not create them. Instead, he is also known to some as having a double identity. No one after his children knew about this.
But that isn't what I'm going to drone on about.
I'm only focusing on one. When Tartarus and Dragon Queen had children. Three, in fact. Uranus: The Sky. Ourea, the Mountains. And Pontus, the Sea. Dragon Queen, generally, had a child with Uranus. And, from there, the Elephants, the Gorillas and Echidna were born.
Oh, and some more.
The Bears.
And that is where our story begins.