Silently Watching
I decide to stay back and leave well enough alone. Perhaps it would be best to just keep to myself and observe for the time being. There is much that might be learned here about the nature of the universe, and there is yet much that I don't know about how things actually happened in my own timeline. It would be foolhardy to just barge in and start changing things without regard to what might happen.
Vistri, the three-eyed mutant from Til'raine, saves a handful of other mutants from the destruction of Vel'kira. Among these are some of the first humans. Their leaders are Adam, and his mate, Lilith, but there are a number more of them than that.
They all climb aboard Vistri's ship and head out from Vel'kira. No sooner have they reached the Material Plane, however, than hostile machines appear out of nowhere and assault them. Vistri barely manages to take the ship into warp speed to escape, and the vessel is by this point badly damaged and very nearly falling apart.
The ship makes a crash-landing into Earth. Aside from Vistri, Adam and Lilith are the only survivors. Adam is wounded and has a bad concussion, and he may wind up suffering from amnesia. If it weren't for Vistri's stubbornness, humanity would have died before it even really got started.
As Vistri is working on getting his new mutant colony settled in, Gaia herself shows up, and she appears to be rather cranky. She's come to him in the form of a giant, shaggy brown wolf.
"I want you off my planet," Gaia says.
Vistri sputters. His confusion is understandable, I suppose. One doesn't normally expect a spirit of that power level to simply appear for tea. I'm sure that he never encountered the spirit of Til'raine, as old, tired, and diseased as she might have been.
Nakhash merely says innocently, "This is your planet?"
"I am this planet," Gaia says. "And you are not welcome here."
Vistri says, "I have attempted to bring as little disruption to the environment as possible..."
"I didn't awaken yesterday. I'm not stupid. Your children will bring the doom of my people."
"They don't need to be your enemies, my lady," Nakhash says smoothly.
"No," Gaia says. "They will never be my friends. And if you do not leave, I will bring forth my children to defend this world by any means necessary."
Vistri says, "Please. They are young yet, and there are few of them. You cannot judge them by what they may do in the future."
"Then I shall judge them by what they do," Gaia says. "And if I do not like what I see, expect retribution." Without a further word, she vanishes, as if she had never been there.
Not long thereafter, Vistri receives another unexpected visitor. A man by the name of Nakhash, another mutant originally from Til'raine. He bears strange serpentine features of a forked tongue, long fangs, and slitted yellow eyes. He greets Vistri like an old friend, and agrees to help him with this colony.
Adam has a falling out with Lilith, and Vistri decides to create a better mate for him by growing an opposite-gender clone called Eve. Lilith finds the whole matter insulting, and storms off into the wilderness.
The colony grows as the first generation of Earth-born children are begotten. The next generation of humans comes from Adam and Eve, and they bring forth two sons named Caine and Abel, as well as several daughters.
Gaia comes to walk among them regularly, perhaps as much to let them know that she's still there and very much watching them as anything else. She usually takes the form of various animals, especially wolves, although also cats, bears, birds, and other creatures. Whatever form she takes, there's always something strange about her that makes it immediately obvious even to the most casual observer that this is no ordinary animal.
Many of the people of the colony try to gain Gaia's favor, often by offering up sacrifices to her. This leads to an incident involving Caine and Abel each making an offering to her, of vegetables and meat respectively. But Gaia, usually taking the form of carnivores and currently being a giant wolf, turns up her nose at the plant matter and devours the meat instead.
Caine is angry about the matter, and murders Abel, leading Gaia to cursing him to require blood to sustain himself. In addition, Nakhash, who favored Abel, curses him with being unable to bear the light of day.
Vistri is distraught when he sees what has happened to his friend. Unlike Nakhash, he had always favored Caine instead. "Oh, my friend, look what they have done to you... If blood is what you need to be strong, then take mine. Take all of it. Be mighty and powerful and forever spit in the face of those who would curse you!"
Should I really just stand back and watch this? I could make a difference here. They're both being impulsive and foolish, understandably being influenced by tumultous emotions.