It was long ago when the Rain had first met the Sea.
Both were newly born, tucked safely underneath the wings of Mother Nature. The hands of Father Time lifted their sorrows and pains, carried them when they could no longer walk, and gave them eternal life. Sea had been born before Rain and their births were only a few days apart, giving them a connection unlike any other.
The two were not related in any means, for Mother Nature had created Rain and Moon had created Sea. Rain was female. Light but harsh, with hair that was as blue as Sky's, her older brother's, hair; but her's was different. Much different. It fell past her knees, resting on her calfs and was nothing like hair at all. It was clear, transparent, and was usually seen as just one whole piece with usually no definition; but as she aged, strands came and rested around her forehead or shoulders giving her striking beauty a more adult figure and form.
Sea was male. Strong and powerful, with short hair with two strands falling down over his chest. It was a deep blue, darker than Rain's hair, but it had that same transparancy, that same glassy look to it as it moved with the push and pull of the tides he so easily controlled. As he aged, his hair took on a more defined shape, cropped in a more masculine way that made his godliness stand out, and his features just a bit more harsh. It wasn't until their third year that the two began to cooperate together, joining in play and carelessness more each day.
Mother Nature saw this as a blessing from the one who created her; her mother Earth and Father Time, just a bit scornful of these actions, saw it as leisure time away from the horrors of life's unexpected. Sea and Rain became friends eventually and stayed linked at the arm for many years to come.
In their adolescence, just at the human age of thirteen, the two were lying at the base of Sea's greatest creation as Rain's softest tears fell onto their pale skin which was illuminated by the workings of his Creator, Moon. Their hands intertwined between them, hair sprawling around their heads like crowns of those Higher than them.
Rain, with a sudden curiosity, turned on her side to face Sea and asked him with a sparkel in her Aquamariene eyes, "We shall stay together forever, yes?"
Sea, taken aback from the sudden statement, turned on his side to face her, his Sapphire eyes gleaming in the low light of his Creator, flashing breifly up to spare a soft look at the beautiful creature infront of him before darting down to their intertwined hands. He picked nervously at the blades of grass that surrounded them, resting ever so loosely in the soft sand, before responding, "I... pray with all of my strength that we shall never part, Rain."
Rain smiled as her eyes fell to a half lidded position, the edges crinkling slightly because of how happy she was to hear those words. She timidly brought her empty hand up, her silver bracelets sending a soft chime into the air before the back of her hand came and caressed the soft flesh of the one illuminated in front of her. It trailed back before her fingers slowly fell down the length of one of the two thick blue strands that fell in front of his partially clothed chest.
Sea looked at her, startled, heart racing, eyes wide and simply asked, "What are you doing?"
Rain's hand froze and she drew her hand from his hair, pulling it outwards before the solid peice fell into small strands as it descended back to its rightful position, "I am just... admiring your beauty, Sea." Sea merely shook his head and sat up rather cooly, never once letting their intertwined hand become loose.
With courage, he gave her hand a squeeze and looked down at her, his face partially shaded by the angle of his Creator's rays on this particualr evening. "It is not you who should be admiring my beauty, Rain," he said softly as she pushed herself up from the stringy blades and became eye to eye with the one speaking before her. "It is I who should be giving you these compliments, for you... simply make each day of mine breathable. Without you... I could not survive."
Rain raised her empty hand, stopping him before he could continue any further, "Ah, you are wrong, Sea. Without your water it is I who could not survive. You make my existance."
Sea smiled, his first one of the night and shook his head, "Then that has proved it. We would perish without the help of eachother." Rain nodded, her breath simply taken away by the shine in his eyes and the glint off of his plush lips. She turned her head away, embarassed to be thinking of his lips in a moment of such comfort as this.
Slightly tilting his head to the left, Sea lifted his hand to turn that beautiful blushing face back to his own a question escaping his lips, "Why do you turn from me? Have I offended you in any means?"
Rain simply shook her head, "oh, of course not, as I had said before I am admiring you..." Her cheeks lit scarlet, and Sea could not draw his eyes away. This sudden display of human emotion was driving him wild, he has yet to see this side of Rain and it was indeed perplexing and... enticing. He wanted to see more of it, more often. And he wished that he would be the only one to witness it. With resistance from him and from her, he pulled their intertwined fingers apart and cupped her face in his hands, slowly drawing her in close. Their noses were centimeters apart, Rain's eyes wide with shock and confusion, Sea's eyes soft with courage and need.
"There are so many reasons for me to admire you," he began with a soft breath. Rain's scarlet cheeks lit to a dull red as his breath flowed over her lips and into her lungs. "You're smile lights up my world, you're laugh sends sparks into my eyes, you're hair is the spitting image of the thing you create so easily, the thing I love so dearly. And most of all-" he pulled her a bit closer, their noses now barely brushing together as he gently tipped his head to the side, "- most of all... you give my heart a light by which Sun could never create on his own... for you make that light inside of me. You make me live, Rain... truely live."
And with that, he placed one of the first softest kisses upon her plush and parted lips, sealing their faits for years to come.
And with that kiss... they became one.
Sea's creator, Moon, looked upon this scene with horror. This could not be happening, Sea was meant to be strong on his own, to battle against Soil, Sand, Dirt, Rock and Human when ever they decided to pollute his waters. He was meant to stand alone. He was not meant to fall in love with his only support. She cupped her face in her hands and thought devilishly dark thoughts, as the moon slowly started to disappear. Her brother, Sun, refused to give her light for she could taint his light with those dark thoughts. And with these first dark thoughts, Moon had created the first New Moon. She shielded herself from the warm, lovely light of her brother to be consumed by this darkness so her deepest desires of torture for this Rain and the one she Created could fester and grow inside of her.
Days turned into Months and Months turned into Years before Moon could figure something horrid enough out. In this time, Rain and Sea had become inseperable and when Moon was in her Darkness state she found this utterly repulsive. The rains were light and soft, becoming harsh only when commanded by Mother Nature and Father Time, the sea waves were joyus, leaping and lapping on the shorelines like a wolf cub ready to play. This was torture for Darkness Moon. And finally on the night of the new moon in the tenth year, Moon had come up with an idea. An idea worthy of Darkness himself. But this night was dwindling to a close too soon, and she was forced to wait until she could not take it anymore.
A few months had passed when finally, she angeled herself in front of her brother, creating the first ever Solar Eclipse. Rain and Sea had been on the beach that afternoon, reveling in their new found love and holding eachother close with courage and utter bliss when this had occured.
Sea was in shock as his Creator descended from her place amongst the stars, "Creator? Why have you blocked off Sun? What are you doing down here? On Earth?" Moon did not answer as she ripped Sea from Rain's ironclad grasp and hugged him from behind.
"Creator?" Sea asked, shocked and horrified as Rain stood up and gripped his outstrecthed hand tightly, pulling him slowly towards her. "What is going on?"
"You and she must not be," Moon said slowly her feet lifting off of the ground, her white hair sprawling around her like the finest cloak made of the finest silk.
"What?" Rain asked, her breath taken away in that single word. "No! You musn't seperate us! Mother will be angry!" Moon glared down upon Rain with her white and grey eyes, but Rain refused to cower under her intense glare. She meerely grabbed Sea's other hand and drew him closer to her. As close as Moon's hold would let her.
"My Son is coming with me," Moon said harshly, her hands snaking into claws as her arms clenched around Sea's muscular form. "NO!" Rain cried as storm clouds filled the air, her sister and two brothers sensing her displeasure. Thunder unleashed his wrath into the sky, Lightening struck his friction upon the earth around them and Cloud slowly darkened the clouds to an eerie blackness, darker than what was already present in the sky. Sea pulled Rain in close to him and pressed their lips together, passionatly, feverishly, longingly. This was his final goodbye, Rain could feel it and she gripped his head, responding in the exact same wanting and longing manner. Quickly, Sea pulled out his knife and sliced his necklace off and did the same to Rain's.
"This...," he said with a breath, keeping them as close as they could as his Creator ascended higher into the sky. "Is yours, inside of it I have placed my heart. Keep it safe and never let it go. We will meet again, I promise you, my Love."
Rain quickly placed her hands over both necklaces, over his hands, transferring her heart into her own necklace, "I have done the same. I ask for your love and care only... and I will pray every night that we will meet again." With a parting kiss, Moon had had enough, she ripped the two apart and quickly ascended into the sky.
Rain couldn't bear to see him taken away, "Sea! No! Mother you must do something! Please, I beg of you!" The rain poured around her, harsher and harder than it has ever done before, each cry from her throat striking up the wind, the lightening, the thunder. Sea, watching with horror at the immense power Rain was releasing, was pulled into the surface of the moon and was locked inside like a caged animal. He beat his fists against the rock, creating dents and craters with his immense power.
"I will not let her go another moment without seeing me," Sea thought harshly as he beat at the rock with his fists, his siblings looking up at his imprisonment with saddened expressions. "I will not let my siblings go another minute without knowing I am alright." He decided from those two thoughts that he would etch his likeness into the surface of his Creator. And so he did.
Each time the necklaces throbbed with want, with need, with sadness, with lonliness, wether it be at different times or simultaniously, Rain would cry. Cry and shatter her glass tears against the ground underneath her feet.
And each time Sea would hear her cries, he would scream from his imprisonment, his waves crashing harshly upon the shores of the beaches, torturing, weathering and eroding Sand, Dirt, Soil and Rock with his fury, with his rage.
During both these outrages, if Fire had taken siege of a forest and Mother Nature pleaded with her daughter for help, she could simply not get through to her. And when Moon had asked her son for help in stripping away pieces of land overdue, she couldn't be heard over his tortured cries.
And every night, and every day, Rain looked up at the etched face of her lover in the Moon's surface, Sea looked down upon Rain as she stared up with sadness etched into her beautiful features, and they would both clutch the necklaces laced tightly around their necks, knowing, hoping, praying that the day would come when they could meet face to face again...