AN: I know I'm getting into a bad habit, but I could not stop myself from starting this fic. Too many good ideas just blossomed onto paper.
The beginning will "mirror" another new story, my long-awaited HP/SM crossover called "Spellbound". Actually, it's more of an Alice in Wonderland "looking glass" effect- the same sheet of glass separating two very different realities. In other words, the event that occurs in the beginning of this fic has two possible endings: one, resulting with Cosmos being last and sending herself with the senshi's starseeds to the HP world, or two, beginning with Chaos conquering... this fic.
I own nothing but my own ideas. Inspiration is from Greek mythology and English class (Bryant and Emerson, etc). "..." is talking, '...' is thought, [...] is AN or definition, (...) is extra info but part of the fic, ... means trailed off, -- means interrupted. Enjoy.
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Nothingness. There was nothing left. No stars, No planets, No mountains, No oceans, No animals, No trees, No people, No molecules, No galaxies, No atoms.
Nothing.
Chaos cracked an ironic smile.
Kaos. The first, before Time began, when all was disorder and madness, long before that baka Balance was forged. And now the last. (1)
Chaos drew a shuddering breath from the empty air of the dead Universe. Around him lay the remains of the Battle. Her senshi--the annoying yet loyal women that he despised so much--were gone. Their bodies were completely obliterated. Only their starseeds remained, glimmering dully in the emptiness. These powerful crystals that he'd desired for ages, now finally his. He smiled painfully in irony. Funny the way those Fates work.
She was there, too. Her silver fuku was blood-stained, and her body hung limply in the empty space. Her eyes were blank, but she was still breathing... barely. She had only a few minutes left, if even. Then the agony would be over and Chaos would be free to die in peace.
Yes, die. After the millions of years of battles, wanderings, and skirmishes, Cosmos and Chaos had finally reached their Final Battle-- the Battle that would chose between the Darkness and the Light, Good and Evil, Order and Disorder, Cosmos and Chaos. (2)
Chaos doubted the Fates had intended this Battle to be the Universe's death wish. But after endless lonely years of pain and rebirth and suffering, after he destroyed all her senshi once again, she could take no more. With a mighty cry of pain, she recklessly lashed out everything at him. And in response, he defended himself with his own great power, exactly equal to that of Cosmos.
But the great power exerted, along with the extreme tippings of the Balance were too much for the Universe. With the final onslaught, the burst of power destroyed everything from the tiniest microorganism to the mightiest cluster of galaxies. And with nothing left, the Universe died.
But without a Universe, there can be no Cosmos or Chaos, the Keepers of the Balance. The Balance was toppled and all became nothing.
Cosmos drew a last shuddering breath, then her body went completely still. Slowly, her atoms dissolved and her being faded, leaving only her unprotected starseed.
Even with his end so near, Chaos' eyes lit up. Here was the jewel of all his struggles, his greatest desire. Had he not known better, he would have thought it truly a star, it shone so brightly. Its core was silver-white but the light emitted was of every color imaginable, simultaneously. Greedily, Chaos called all of the nine starseeds to his being.
'I hold the fruit of all my labors,' he thought ironically, 'as my life slips away.'
For he knew that without Cosmos, he could not exist. He knew that he needed her to counter his power, just as she needed him. For darkness is merely an absence of light; evil, an absence of goodness. [AN: And also, a bagel hole is merely an absence of bagel.] And Chaos was the absence of Cosmos.
"I will not let my sacrifices be in vain!" he declared desperately, as he felt his life ebbing. Hastily, he gathered all the power he could amass and directed it towards the starseeds. "Banish them!" he cried. "Send them to the Chaos of another world, that he might use them to their true potential. He will become great and mighty and accomplish all I had hoped with such power!" With that, he flung open the door to the nearest dimension and cast the crystals inside. They disappeared in a twinkling. Then, his being spent, Chaos-24613 died.
And Dimension-6732 was no more.
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(1) Mythology began with chaos, or Kaos in Greek. Disorder. Nothingness. And from this came order, Kosmos- the universe and all things. That's basically what I'm alluding to.
(2) For more of this 'Final Battle' between Dark and Light, read The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper.
AN: Hmm... did I put too much of my philosophical stuff in? Does it make sense? If you have any questions about it, please feel free to ask and I'll do my best to explain. There's just a lot of deep stuff I'm trying to allude to or bring out, but it's not always so obvious (and often doesn't make sense ^_^'). And I know it is not exactly like the actual anime with the starseeds, but oh well, this is author's privilege.
Why did Chaos not go to a new dimension himself? Well, for one thing he was dying and didn't have the strength to send an entire being. But the starseeds hold the powers and magics of the senshi (kinda, in my view, like their bodiless soul). He knows that there are millions of other Chaoses in the other worlds, so in a way he sent this gift of power (the starseeds) to another world for himself. This other Chaos will try to gather and control the crystals to become invincible.
Make sense? Please review and let me know what you think!!! I have so much planned for this, and I guarantee it will be far from your normal SM/LotR fic. Hennaid, mellonae. Namarie!
~Calli-chan
Suggest pairings if you would like. There are *certain* people who are taken because it really works best with the plot, but I am open to ideas. Thanks again! Ja!