Final Moments
Prolouge: Folly of the Gods.
In the beginning, there was void. And the void was called Ginnungagap. Within the very core of everything, there exists the Law which dictates that the all things must be balanced. And so, Niflheim the land of fog and ice in the north and Muspelheim the land of fire in the south was created for there to be nothing, it must balance out with the existence of something. And so, the lands existed, seperated by the mighty gap of void known as the Ginnungagap.
In the lands of Niflheim, there existed the eleven rivers called the Svol, Gunnthra, Fiorm, Fimbulthul, Slidr, Hrid, Sylg, Ylg, Vid, Leiptr, and Gioll, collectively known as the Elivager flowing from a spring called Hvergelmir. The Elivager flowed downwards into the northern part of the gap and freezing, creating layers upon layers of ice, slowly filling the gap. Following the Law, sparks and molten materials from Muspelheim began filling the southern part of the gap.
When these two opposing elements finally met, the fire from Muspelheim caused a portion of the frozen Elivager to melt, forming the figures Ymir the primeval giant and the cow Audhumla. The cow's milk became Ymir's food. While Ymir slept, from the sweat of his arms came two giants, one male and one female, from his two legs came another male giant. And so, in this way were the giants created.
While this was occuring, Audhumla, the cow licked the salty ice for food. As the cow did so, the ice slowly melted away and from the ice came the figure of Buri who had a son named Bor who was the father of Odin, Vili, and Ve.
For reasons only known to the gods, the sons of Bor decided to kill Ymir. When they had done so, the blood from caused a flood which killed all of the giants except for two, Bergelmir and his wife who had escaped the deluge on their boat.
Odin, Vili, and Ve took the body of Ymir and placed in inside the Ginnungagap and from his body created the heaven and the earth. They then took the sparks coming out of Muspelheim and created the sun, the moon, and the stars. When this was done, they went to their newly created world and walked upon it. At the beach, the brothers happened upon two logs and with it, created the first two humans, Ask and Embla.
(The segment above was taken from http/www.ugcs. so the world began... or so the gods tells it.
Yet, during the creation of the world, there existed another god. Born from the spilt blood of Ymir and and the chaotic meeting between the ice of Niflheim and the fire of Muspelheim. He was created not by chance but by necessity for the Law must be met. For Odin, Vili, and Ve took what was not once there and created what now is. They took what was not theirs to mold and fashioned the world. To balance the creation, there must be destruction. To balance life, there must be death. To balance order, there must be chaos. And so the god of chaos was born. In his veins flowed the most ancient of bloods and his heart beat with fire and ice.
With his coming, the world that Odin, Vili, and Ve created knew no peace. The light of life seemed to snuff out as quickly as it had come. What was created a day ago ceased to exist the night after. The humans who began to grow soon had wars, killing each other by the hundreds, by the thousands. The new born god's power was great. All these occurred not through any actions of his own, but by his very essence. The God of Chaos however had very little care in the world of mortals. It was in his nature to be the unbinder of the tapestry that the gods created. In him was an almost childlike quality. An innocence.
And the gods hated him.
The gods grew to fear him. His power was too great and their powers, when compared to his, was too insignificant. They toiled day and night to create the world, and he wiped it all away without a thought.
And so, they plotted to destroy him.
However, not all gods hated him. There was one who stood out from the rest. Who's kindness knew no bounds. Baldur, the beloved of the gods. In many ways, Baldur was the same as him. Both had a sense of innocence around them which shone like a light. Baldur and he quickly became friends, a sense of brotherhood existed between them.
Yet, tragedy struck.
Baldur had a foreboding dream and told it to him. Upon hearing the dream, he advised Baldur to go to Odin and tell Odin the dream, for he knew that Odin would do anything for Baldur. Odin scryed the meaning behind the dream and found it to be a foretelling of Baldur's demise. And so, Frigg the Mother Goddess asked of all things to swear and not hurt Baldur. Except she did not ask of the mistletoe plant because it was young.
The gods wished to test out whether or not this was true and so had Baldur come to a gathering and threw various things at him. Baldur who was now protected took no damage from any of the things thrown at him. Loki, however, disguised himself and visited Frigg and found out that he was invulnerable to all things except for the mistletoe. Hearing this, Loki took some mistletoe plant and went to Hod who was blind and could not participate in the 'game' that was being played and offered to guide Hod so that Hod himself may join the festivities. Hod agreed and threw the mistletoe which pierced Baldur's heart and Baldur died.
Because Baldur had not been a warrior nor did he fall in battle, he was not taken to Valhalla but to Hel, the domain of the Keeper of the Dead. Odin visited Hel to ask for the return his beloved son back to him. After listening to Odin's pleas, Hel replies that she will only return him if everything in the world, alive and dead weeps for him, otherwise, Baldur will stay with her. The gods swiftly sends out a message to all nature, humanity, gods, and beasts to weep for Baldur and all does except for the giantess Thokk who was Loki in disguise.
Odin saw and knew everything and Loki was quickly found. As punishment Loki was to be bound onto a cliff with a snake hanging over him, dripping poisonous venom into his eyes till the end of time. Loki the trickster was bound by the entrails of his son, and his wife sits next to Loki's prone body, catching the poison in an earthen bowl.
The gods fury peaked and it would not be abated. Their anger naturally turned to the one they feared most... the god of chaos. The gods tricked him to coming to Midgard and captured him. And even though the power of a god may far exceed that of a human, in the mortal realm, they are bound by it's rules and only so much power can be called forth. In order to limit his power, for in Asgard not a god could match his power, they placed his prison on Midgard. Upon the land, they placed the strongest of spells which they knew to bind him for all eternity. They drove nails through his hand into the mountain's wall and shackled his wrists with chains that not even Thor could bend. The mountain was then covered by a forest, the very nature acting as his guard. The priests of the gods who bound him away were charged to keep the barrier which they have erected up.
When they returned to Asgard, a prophesy was told, that through their actions they have destroyed the age of the gods and when the god bound away broke free of his prison, in his hand would he hold the power to judge the gods and determine their life and death.
Yet the arrogance of the gods knows no bounds and they were confidant in the spells that they have wrought.
Present time-
He was running and running. He didn't know why, just that something was calling to him with an urgency that he could not ignore. Around him were trees reaching high above his head. The forest that he was in was filled with shadows and darkness, sounds and whispers echoing, distorting and perverting the natural beauty of the land. From his long travels abroad the land, he listens for a source of water. And almost on cue, he hears a dripping sound.
He came upon a clearing, an open area, and he ran towards it. As he finally reaches the clearing, a sense of wrongness floats heavily in the air, making it hard to breathe. In the middle of the clearing is a large rock. A jagged rock sticking out almost as if a large tooth of a dragon came up from the ground. Then he sees a sight that retch. A figure is strapped to the rock with nails driven into his hands. Thorny vines are wrapped around his legs, piercing his legs. And slowly he hears the sound of dripping. Blood from the nails and thorns slowly, almost lazily drips down into the impossibly large lake of blood below the figure. So much blood had come out that a small stream of blood flows down the forest. As he looks at himself, he sees blood splashed all over his pants and shirts, bloody mud cakes his shoes. Then slowly, unable to look away, his gaze is drawn to the figure.
The figure bound to the rock must be dead. He has to be dead because what he is seeing is just too horrible and for anyone to go through that, it wouldn't be right. But slowly to his horror, the figure raises his head and his face is unmarked. Yet, all the features of the figures head is gone from his mind as he meets the figure's eyes. The eyes are red, blood red one might say and they pierce through him holding him fast. The eyes are crazed with pain, anger, betrayal, and insanity. The figure's mouth slowly curves upward into a smile and he says, "The time has come. My imprisonment is finally over and my revenge has just begun. Tell them, warn them, let them fear, I'm coming for them. My other half has come at last."
Ranma drop to his knees, clutching his head, repeating a mantra of, "It's a dream..."
The figure laughs and says, "Yes... it's a dream. But it's the third dream."
Hearing those words, Ranma remembers the previous two dreams he's had before. Always of his running, called on by urgency. He always woke up before he reached his destination. But his second dream showed that he ran closer to the source. Now in his third, he reached the end. Then, before Ranma can begin to try and clear his head, the man before his let loose a scream a trail of gore and entrails burst out from his stomach. Before Ranma could react, the entrails rushed at him and ate him alive.
Belldandy, Urd, and Skuld hears screaming suddenly coming from Keiichi's room. As they rush into his room and turn on the light, his scream seems to intensify until it suddenly stops. Concerned, they crowd around him and shakes him in an attempt to wake him up.
"Keiichi, Keiichi wake up!" Belldandy shouts as she shakes him.
Suddenly Keiichi opens his eyes and in his eyes, he doesn't seem to recognize where he is. Then suddenly sitting up, he puts his arms around his legs and keeps on muttering. Belldandy, unable to hear what he's saying leans in close. She hears him keep on muttering to himself, "He's coming... he's coming... he's coming..."
"What's coming Keiichi? What?" Belldandy asks, herself close to tears as she sees the way he is acting.
In another part of Tokyo, another person is having a fitful sleep. However, he doesn't scream. Yet, what he does is almost equally as strange. He raises his hand, almost as if he's reaching for something or someone. Then, on his forehead appears a rune which quickly fades. Then his body becomes enveloped in a dark violet aura and he disappears.
Morning-
Akane opens the door to Ranma's room carrying a large bucket filled with water. Just as she is about to pour it, she finds something different and stops. She looks around confused and mutters, "Where did Ranma go off too?"
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Author's Words: Hey I'm back for those rare few who remembers me. Thought I might give this fic a try. It's been in the back of my head, bugging the hell out of me. I thought I would try and restart this fic.
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