GENESIS III

(The Spawning of the Nether-World)

The Seed beseeched the Moon, and said, "What can I do? The World is destroyed, and my power cannot save it!"

And the Moon spoke unto the Seed, and said, "Heed the words I have said to you already."

The Seed thought upon what the Moon had spoken, and knew what must be done.

And so the Seed gathered all its power of Creation, and deep within the Bedrock the Seed spawned a new World, a world in which all of the abominations might be contained and hidden away from the Over-World.

The Bedrock split asunder, and both above and below the new World was the Bedrock, and thus was the new World held between the foundations, that the Seed might hide its shame. And the new World became the Nether-World, as it lay beneath the Over-World.

And the Serpent laughed, and said, "Your Nether-World is trapped in eternal darkness, for in your shame you do not dare to show it to the Sun or the Moon!"

But the Seed was not finished, and in the Nether-World the Seed spawned great racks of stone which would burn with fire, and melted the rock into bright lava, and spawned the brilliant Glowstones to light up the darkness.

The Serpent laughed again, and called the Seed a fool, because there was no passage from the Over-World to the Nether.

But the Seed was not finished, and it said, "I shall use a new Magic, and name it the Magic of the Craft, and thus form the Portal from the Over-World to the Nether."

In the Over-World the Seed turned fire upon the rock, and melted it into Lava; then, the Seed poured water upon the Lava, and it cooled into the very hardest and blackest of stones.

And with the Diamonds it had spawned within the deepest recesses of the Earth, the Seed cracked the hard and black Obsidian from the pits in which it had formed, and from the Obsidian, Crafted a great Portal.

The Serpent did not laugh, but rather grew afraid, for the Craft was a Magic beyond its knowing.

And with its power the Seed opened the Portal, and the Abominations which had been spawned in fury and despair were drawn to the fire and the heat of the Nether-World, and as one they turned from the Over-World and passed through the Portal.

And when the last of them had entered the Nether-World, the Seed closed the Portal; and tore it asunder, that it may be used no more.