CHAPTER 1: BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL
In a time where mortals and gods lived amongst each other, the world was full of light. The goddess Palutena encouraged mortals to flourish and she bestowed the nurturing light down upon them.
However, after centuries of prosperity, came the darkness from the goddess Medusa. The two goddesses struggled for control of the mortal land of the over world.
Palutena ruled from her palace in the heavens while Medusa ruled from a dark fortress of the underworld. Both goddesses had their own beauty and served as a balance to one another. Palentina had a body made of flesh that most resembled a mortal being, while Medusa had a cold pale blue body that had never seen the light of day before.
Medusa's body was withered, slender and sickly, while Palutena's was ripe, healthy and as perky as the sun. That was their preferred chosen form, but they could take different forms to either fool or delight the mortals that inhabited the lands.
That is how Medusa could take the form of a storm cloud and brought darkness over much of the world. She forced the mortals to endure rains that drown their crops and fierce winds that blew houses from their foundations.
Our story starts with Medusa as a terrible storm that battered a small farm town for days. Medusa had the intent on flooding the land beyond recognition and destroying the town by wiping it clean.
A young couple that was once happy and thriving in the light of Palutena had endured for a short while. They could tell that the evil Medusa was amongst the black clouds that loomed overhead. They saw their doom coming when houses in their town were blown from the surface of the over world.
Houses either wilted or were completely obliterated depending on what material they were constructed of. There was only one hope for the young couple. The young husband ordered his wife to, "Put our baby in the fireplace. Zeus the king of gods has told me that he will be safe there."
The brown haired wife put her only child into the fireplace in a basket amongst the black suit and ashes. They then closed the darkened hatch on the fireplace as the baby cried.
The house that they had called home for five years was then blown away piece by piece by Medusa. Straw from the roof and stone from the foundation flew into the sky before ultimately the two young parents flew up into the darkness above.
Seeking retaliation for the obliteration of the town, Palutena challenged her rival Medusa to an epic battle. An epic battle that would last a number of years, but the important thing is that was the moment Palutena decided to fight back.
The goddesses did battle on the over world in many forms; Both in their mortal forms with swords, scepters and shields; then in a battle of the elements with Medusa as a thunderstorm and Palutena as a wind to blow the clouds away.
It was of course the mortals that suffered and perished during this time. Deserts formed where there were once luscious forests. Temples and fortresses fell under the might of the two goddesses that used them as battlegrounds.
Finally it was Palutena that was victorious. She had beaten and withered the powers of Medusa down to nothing. The beautiful pale goddess was so weakened that she could no longer defend herself against her counterpart.
Palutena commanded with her powerful yet femme voice, "As punishment for your chaos in the mortal over world, I will take your beauty from you my sister Medusa."
The pale goddess hissed and coiled her body in a dark corner of the fortress they had done battle in. She was weak and shivering, with her long green hair trembling over her long torn toga. The goddess put pressure with the palm of her left hand on her missing eye as she screamed to Palutena, "Let me go dear sister!"
Palutena boldly proclaimed, "Your green hair will be replaced by green scaled serpents." Instantly the thick strands of long hair became snakes that hissed and fought amongst one another.
The curse was not done at that point, Palutena continued, "Your once beautiful face will now ruin any mortal and turn them into solid stone if they look upon your gaze."
Medusa screeched in the agony of what she was being transformed into and she tried to crawl away from Palutena's might. The will of the goodly goddess was too much for the evil Medusa to suffer through.
The curse was finally over as Palutena used the last remaining power she had to curse Medusa, "You crawl away when you should slither! Let those long legs of yours become a single serpent's tail!"
With that proclaimed, Medusa's long legs merged as one and elongated into a thick green serpent's tail.
Palutena was too weak from using her powers to continue and Medusa was allowed to escape the dark fortress back into the under world where she had come from. There was no way that a goddess could be destroyed anyway. Palutena was forced to have this mercy on her sister.
Medusa went back to the under world humiliated and ashamed of her loss. She vowed revenge that she would one day have, "I will conquer your palace Palutena and destroy the mortals that you seek to protect under your charming light." With that she shook her fist back to the over world as she slithered deeper into the ground.
As for the baby boy that had been hidden amongst the ashes of his parent's home, he was found days later long before the defeat of Medusa. The only thing in the village that had survived Medusa's wrath had been the chimney and fireplace the boy was left in.
Centurions lead by a man named Collin heard the baby's screams. They followed the cries that beckoned them through the rubble that was his home.
Collin in his golden armor rushed onto the rubble and began to clear it away. He threw off his pristine helmet to reveal his curled hair and chiseled good looks. He cried out, "Over here men! I have found where the baby cries from!"
The rubble was cleared away after an hour of removing stone and wood. The hatch of the fireplace was then opened. Inside was an infant covered in the suite that resided before him.
Collin pulled his basket out of the fireplace and then removed the boy to cradle him in his arms. Collin commented, "The only shame that I can think of is that the fireplace was not big enough to hold this child's mother and father."
He then looked to the men that he commanded and asked, "Who will take this boy and raise him as his own?" He continued to look amongst his men, but through the bronze armor no one said a word.
After a moment, it was Collin himself that proclaimed, "Then I will take this boy and raise him; protect him as his parents protected him."
Collin looked down upon the crying and suite covered baby before he proclaimed, "And I will name him Pit so he can always remember where he came from and always strive to get out and reach for the sunlight above. Perhaps with the help of Zeus he can even stand up to Medusa and punish her for this."
Years passed by and Collin had raised Pit well from an infant to a boy just before his teens; a brown haired boy with a long lock of hair that draped over his left eye. His beautiful blue eyes could never catch anyone's eye contact without him shying away with a charming little smile.
In all of that time Pit was being raised, Medusa had been defeated by Palutena, but plotted her revenge on her. As a hideous creature of the under world, she made pacts with the demons and foul creatures to do her bidding as her unholy army that would destroy the mortals.
At the left side of Medusa was a strange wizard that had grown out of the ground from an egg plant. It was Medusa's magic that had brought him to life and she had taught him how to use quirky magic to aide her evil schemes. He had only been birthed a few years before, so while he was not the wisest wizard, he still did the bidding of Medusa.
On the right of Medusa's thrown was a sadistic reaper. He was the darkened and ghastly spirit that would drag souls from their mortal lives and drag them into the underworld where they were transformed by Medusa. Wearing a dark cloak, he would only show his skeletal face to those that he was about to cut their life strings.
