Authors' Note / Disclaimer
Written by two very crazy people, this story has ended up in the category "Kung Fu - The Legend Continues" mainly because those are the characters we've left closest to the canon - probably - maybe? - and because the site doesn't allow for a crossover of as many shows as you might recognise here. It started out as just a bit of fun with characters we love from all kinds of sources, with several original ones thrown in. As characters you're writing about are wont to do, they took on a life of their own over time, and now our heads are filled with tons of stories just waiting to be brought to paper. This one is kind of like a "pilot episode". Needless to say, it's set in a completely alternate universe, and what sprang from our imagination is ours, and what isn't... isn't.
We hope you'll enjoy our ramblings. We're certainly enjoying ourselves writing them.
So here goes...
EDEN
Prologue
It is. It experiences suffering and pleasure, it despairs and it hopes. For many years it has slumbered, but now it wakens. It seeks and it finds - those who give it life and receive life from it. The chosen ones. The ordinary and the special ones. The ones who believe and the ones who deny. It knows them, even when they do not know themselves. It calls them by name, and they come, even if they cannot hear it. It has no living essence, it is not flesh and blood, it does not breathe; yet it comprehends the essence of living. It knows the destination that is hidden from us all. Even from me.
Who am I? I am the one who guards it. Who sees what it sees, from the glowing nebulae in every distant universe down to the ant crawling over my toe, unaware that there is a world beyond this mountain. I do not guide it, I merely observe. Sometimes, if I am lucky, I may understand it. More often than not, I am as clueless as I was in the beginning. And yet I trust it. It brought me here. It will bring them. And then, at last... it will be fulfilled.