Hey, all readers! I know it's a little premature to be writing this, with 'The Existence Artifacts' not even reaching 10 chapters and all, but I got this idea a while back and I just couldn't wait to pen it down! Hope you guys enjoy the history!
Corruption of the Circle
Prologue Chapter: Aging Timeline
Zero Era: At the beginning, there was nothing that existed. Not even one cloud of the cosmos, not even one star. Then, one creature appeared out of the cracks of the void. It was nothing like our modern creatures; it wasn't even a pokemon or human. It was simply a flame, a bright yellow one, shining like the sun. Though most would laugh at it and accuse it of being an insignificant being, it was the dawn of all. It was the first sign, the first creature to exist in the void. But, it by itself couldn't bring light to this realm, and thus it turned to the only energy source it could find, the void itself. It absorbed the darkness, purifying every ounce of it and turning it from darkness to light. Growing in size and intensity, its light grew with it. Soon, having absorbed enough energy, it had grown to quite a size, much bigger than your average fireball, and that was the first sun. Spreading its warmth and light across the void, the void began to crack, being surprised by the sudden shining light. In one shot, the first sun burst its energy, chasing the void into a prison dimension, and creating the planets. One by one, each were crafted out of the basic elements: Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. Soon, many new planets were created, but the first sun then faced another problem. They were too close to each other, packed together and in danger of collision at any moment. And thus, the sun released its energy one more time, this time creating dimensional rifts, separating the planets into different planes so they wouldn't crash. And with its energy spent, the first sun shrank back to its original size, and went through a rift into its own dimension to recover its lost power.
First Age: Now, we focus on a certain planet, which, was not created by the first sun (I'll refer to it as Polaris, for now.) Polaris created some planets, as well as the dimensions, but this planet wasn't brought into existence by it. At first, in a certain galaxy later known as Alpha- Sector 36, there was a large amount of empty space; all that occupied it were the stars and the occasional meteor which happened to rush by. But, as fate would have it, two planets collided in that exact spot, large amounts of rock and water floated through empty space, until they melded together to form a new planet. This planet's name was Thysia, due to the fact that two planets had given their lives to form it. Its name came from the word 'sacrifice', and it was a planet for heroes. It could've been by the way it was formed, or it could've been just pure dumb coincidence, but through the atmosphere, piercing through the clouds and into the ground, resided a powerful force that flowed through the land called 'Soul'. Legends say that it was because at the exact moment when Thysia was formed, a portion of Polaris' power seeped through the rifts, and the crashing amount of elements trapped the energy, which soon fused with the planet. At first, the planet was nothing but a wasteland, though air gusted through the planet and the world was filled with land and water, there was no sign of life, not even a pinch of grass grew from the lands. That was how Thysia was like in its early ages.
Second Age: Finally, after the first age ended, Polaris had recovered its lost power, and seeing how a portion of his energy was already fused with the planet, it seemed to have a connection with it. Noticing that Thysia was devoid of life, it sacrificed some more energy, this time used to create life. But the first creatures on Thysia were nothing sophisticated; they were simply life energy fused with the four elements that already existed in Thysia. They were known as 'Elementals', and they populated Thysia during the second age. The fire elementals situated themselves near the volcanic areas, while the aqua elementals were found underneath the sea. The air elementals flew up to sky palaces, while the down-to-earth' elementals settled on land. There was, at first a couple of thousand years of peace and prosperity, and the elementals mingled occasionally, good times reigned during this period. Then that period ended, the elementals soon gained the advanced forms of emotions, some bad and some good. One of those particular bad emotions was greed, and soon they discovered the elemental powers that they wielded, going to war to fill the holes in their hearts. The four elementals fought fiercely in an all-out global battle royale, each form of elementals killing the other. This period was named 'Regelium', where the elementals slaughtered each other and many of the early life forms were eliminated. But it seemed fate had to bend the strings once again, and on the day Polaris came back to see how Thysia was coming along, it witnessed with its own eyes the chaos that it had wrought by bringing elementals to life. Overcome with guilt, Polaris decided to end this race once and for all, and spent the next week, gathering the void dimension's energy, compressing into a ball. And on that final day for the elementals, they were still fighting fiercely, the four elementals battling it out on the center continent. Then, just as the fire elementals seemed to be winning the fight, Polaris released the energy it had stored, and the blast shot straight into the center continent, using the void as a medium; Polaris had created a giant vortex to suck all of the elementals in. This spell was known as 'Erasure Circle', and easily erased all of the elementals. But since it was using the void as a medium, it didn't just suck in the elementals, but the base elements that made up Thysia were slowly heading to oblivion as well. And the energy it used to create the Erasure Circle had not been restored, so Polaris sealed it instead of destroying it, creating 4 sealing stones to hold up the sealing formation and finally went back to recover its lost energy once again.
Third Age: The Erasure Circle was sealed, and Thysia enjoyed an era of peace, but there was no life on Thysia to enjoy it. And since Polaris had used up all of its energy to create and seal the Erasure Circle, it had none left to replenish the lost life. This time, fate meddled in Thysia's affairs again, this time cutting the strings that held together the dimensional walls, causing cracks to open between the planes. Rifts began to emerge, and vortexes were created as the walls between dimensions grew weaker and weaker. But, Thysia was Polaris' pride and joy, and though it was forced to destroy the elementals, he would not let Thysia perish. So, it created the human race, using the energy from one of the dimensions it had first created, and the idea from another. The humans, in worship of Polaris, searched for a way to close the rifts and repair the dimensional walls. Polaris, seeing that the humans couldn't do it alone, he helped in secret, granting the ability to utilize the ancient power of 'Soul' to one boy, whose life he felt had no meaning. His particular Soul manifested into a form called Rift Soul, which allowed him to create portals in space. Journeying through Thysia, he soon found a way to fix things once and for all. He activated the sealing stones in the four continents, re-opening the Erasure Circle, and at that point Polaris feared it had chosen the wrong successor. But its doubts were unwarranted. Though the Erasure Circle had been reopened, the hero soon found his way to the center of the circle's formation, and pierced the circle with his blade, thrusting the power of his Rift Soul into it and reversing its effects. The Erasure Circle, which had once been used for destruction, was now reversing the flow and closing up the gaps and rifts, soon fixing all of the walls. In addition, it gave Thysia life, grass and trees flooded the lands as the shining light of the reversed circle was released. Eventually, Polaris resealed the Erasure Circle, knowing that if it stayed open for too long it would execute its original purpose: destruction. Polaris left, leaving Thysia as it was since mankind had proved its worth to it.
Fourth Age: Mankind prospered, and a new concept called technology arose, giving mankind the ability to 'invent' new objects. The first technological items, such as the simple everyday watch and more dangerous items like guns were created to give mankind some protection against whatever unknown forces were still out there. The hero of the third age had long since perished, but his bloodlines still existed, hiding out from the rest of the world in a certain village as Soul users. Many new forms of Soul were discovered during this period, such as the elemental Souls. Peace, like the other ages, didn't last long. The rifts were opened once more, this time out of fate's control, by creature known as demons. Some were disgusting creatures that belonged to a species called 'Chaos Demons', while others were human-like, with wings or other features, that belonged to another species called 'Void Demons'. Regardless of their sub-species, the demons invaded Thysia together, having infinitely more greed burned in their hearts (wait, do demons have hearts?) than elementals, hoping to conquer another world for themselves. Due to their demonic origins and their dark protection abilities, Polaris was sealed in its dimension and unable to help out this time. Humans took up their new technological weapons, and fought valiantly against the demons. Even the Soul users, who normally wouldn't interfere with the world's problems, fought against the demons, upholding the legacy of the hero of the third age. Mankind fought bravely, but they were ultimately no match for the demons, who had a natural lust and ability for battle. Mankind fell, and the demons took over Thysia; Polaris was forced to stand back and watch as all of these horrible events took place, and the era of 'Aeon' came.
Fifth Age: Demons had ravaged Thysia, turning its beautiful landscape to that of a hellish environment. Their constant lust for battle had destroyed most of the continents to less than that of their basic elements. The demons' lust for power also led them to turn to the ancient force of Soul, but fortunately, the demons who attempted to utilize the power of Soul couldn't control the energy, and perished within a number of days. Since, the demons have feared the power of Soul, leaving it to sleep within the land as the raging battles continued. Thysia no longer looked like its old self, fires burning down the plant life and the air polluted to the maximum by toxic air. The demons could not be allowed to ravage Thysia any further, otherwise it would've been blown to bits and shattered, scattering the basic foundations of Thysia across the galaxy. Polaris, who was still sealed inside its dimension, watched each passing day with a deep sense of incompetence. There wasn't anything it could do, the bindings used to seal it were constantly keeping his energy to a minimum, just enough so it could watch the torturous events on Thysia. Then, idea struck. Out of all the scenes that it had witnessed, it was particularly interested in the scenes where the demons died upon being exposed to Soul. Thus, it used what remaining strength it had, and tapped into the void dimension's power, converting it into his power and overloading the binding chains, causing them to crack and shatter. With newfound rage, he manipulated the eternal force of the land, and erupted the force of Soul. The demons came into contact with the Soul, and soon were completely eliminated from Thysia.
Sixth Age: Life was all but naught in Thysia once more. This time, Polaris contemplated deeply about bringing life back to Thysia. Every time Polaris decided to restore life to Thysia, a dark event would take place and shatter all of it again. Thankfully, Polaris didn't have to make the decision. Fate butted in once more, this time shattering the walls completely, plunging Thysia into complete chaos. Overcome with worry, Polaris itself came down to Thysia, and began using his powers to close up the dimensional rifts, save one. He had overlooked one rift, and on the other side, was the pokemon world. It was thriving much better than Thysia, but it had one problem. The heat of the planet was dying, and the seas were all dried up, leaving nothing but wastelands behind. The air had become too toxic for both humans and another species of creatures called Pokemon. The rift remained, and fate played it so that Thysia would trade with the pokemon world. Thysia, though lifeless, was still able to support itself with strong foundations. Thysia traded over its basic elements, and healed the pokemon world's vitality. The airs became clear again, the seas, lakes and ponds were re-filled with water and the heat of the planet was restored. In exchange, and to keep the balance, pokemon were sent over from the other world, and they were the first pokemon on Thysia.
Seventh Age: Pokemon thrived on Thysia, with their natural abilities and peace-loving natures, brought prosperity to Thysia, something no elemental or human could do. Yes, occasionally there were squabbles among the pokemon, but nothing major enough for Polaris to sentence the pokemon race to oblivion. Pokemon populated Thysia, and rediscovered ancient abilities. The first was that of Technology, which was first created by humans. Pokemon brought Technology to new heights, creating new gadgets such as the PDA, and the holographic concept. Later, as Pokemon began to settle down into Thysia and life became normal, pokemon rediscovered the ancient art of Soul, and thankfully the Soul did not eliminate them. The Soul willingly fused with the bodies of pokemon, and they became the staple life forms of Thysia. But that was not to last. Driven by rage and hatred, the demons made a major comeback, this time aiming to eliminate and raze Thysia completely. However, they underestimated the extent of the pokemon's abilities. They utilized the Soul to 'Perfect Aura', which was the highest level of Soul usage one could achieve. With their powers, they fought hard against the demons, and soon declared the war over, with the pokemon on the victorious side. Polaris looked down on Thysia, and finally came to the conclusion that pokemon were the perfect life for Thysia after all.
Eighth Age: This is the current age, where pokemon thrive along with technology and Soul, and we focus the beginning of a great adventure, another struggle, for a young pokemon.
How was that? Not bad for a second fanfic prologue chapter, if I do say so myself. I loved writing down this historical timeline. Read & Review! Oh, and the OC form will probably placed in chapter 1, which hopefully isn't going to take long. My major exams are coming really soon, so it might not be so fast when the next chapter of this fanfic will be out. Then I still have 'The Existence Artifacts' to write, and… oh, what the heck, I'm getting too long-winded.