(This is my first story to feature the Lantern corps, I hope you like it. Will add more chapters as I write them)
I am the Librarian.
I have existed since the Beginning, and will continue to exist until the End.
I am the one who was created to record every event ever in this universe.
And I am here to write this, so that the universe shall learn not to repeat mistakes it has already made. That is my purpose, to tell this story.
This is the story of the Equalizer, and his battle against the one called Kaos.
Kaos was born in the Big Bang. His desired one thing, above all else: power. He wanted control of all the cosmos, and he was perfectly capable of doing so. His power was thought to have no equal.
He spent a million years storming across countless worlds, destroying and creating the universe as he saw fit. He was only stopped when the Guardians, seeing no other option, sent him into a universe that was not ours, trapping him on another plane of existence.
This story intertwines with another that began eons ago, a millienia after the birth of Kaos. And in that time, nine power lanterns were created, each representing a different colour and emotional state.
Everyone knows this.
For a time, many believed in only the existence of seven.
Red Lanterns, who powered their rings with blind rage, a bloodlust that would turn them into something horrible and deadly.
Orange Lanterns, who were consumed by greed. They would often kill each other off just to get more of the rings.
Yellow Lanterns, eventually known as the Sinestro Corps, gave in to fear and became one with that fear, using it against the fearful.
Green Lanterns, whose willpower allowed their rings to function. Under guidance from the Gurdians, they became universal peacekeepers.
Blue Lanterns soldiered on using hope as their driving force. They, I believe, are the least corruptible of the seven.
Indigo Lanterns, who refused to fight, as compassion was their source of power.
And Violent Lanterns, eventually known to be Star Sapphire Lanterns, who tried to control the power of love. I am still unsure if they suceeded.
And for a time, these seven lived together in the universe, occasionally making war against one another, and making alliances with others.
But for a time, only the Gurdians knew of the final two.
The White Lanterns, who were powered by life, and the Black Lanterns, who were fueled by death.
The Black Lanterns attacked the universe in an event known as The Blackest Night, bringing long dead heroes and villians back to a state that was neither dead nor alive, but some twisted form inbetween.
They were defeated.
Then the White Lanterns came, and many of the ones taken control of by the Black Lanterns were revived. This was a time known as The Brightest Day.
And then, for a time, there was peace.
Thre have been a great many ring-bearers from all nine corps, but very rarely has anyone been able to wield more than one. And no one had ever been worthy to wield them all.
Until today.
Today, nine different ring-bearers were killed. And the nine rings each went off in search of a new ring-bearer that was worthy of the power. They found an ordinary man named James Anderson.