Title: Shattered Reality :Imbalance of the elements:
Written by: ChaosMagicianGirl
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! I do own the plotline, characters and anything else in this story! So no stealing anything, or you'll regret it! I'll make sure of that. :grins in her sadistic way:
"..." talking
'...' thoughts
Summary: ( can't make one for this story just yet, sorry!)
A/N:
This new story is a product of my twisted mind and fantasyThis story is set in an alternate universe. It definetely fits into the catergories of fantasy and magic. I really loved writing the first chapter, and I liked how it turned out. I hope you guys will like the story too!
The earth, the galaxy, life itself was created by the live giving elements.
The elements were a power manifested in the six gods.
They were the ones that created the world, existence we live in.
All six gods possessed an element that suited their personality, thoughts and reflected their believes and outlook on life.
No one knows were these gods came from. Nobody has ever seen them. Since we did not exist before they came.
No one knows what they actually look like.
No one knows why they came to our world and with what purpose or motives they created our world.
It does not matter though. Since we wouldn't even know about it, if they hadn't used their capable and loving hands to shape our world to their image.
Each god or goddess used his or her own unique powers to give our world form. Their elements played a vital role in creating balance in this world and maintaining it.
Light wages a never ending battle for dominance with the dark.
There has always been a balance between these two elements.
Should the balance be tipped one way, this would have dangerous consequences for our world.
The element earth works in harmony with element water. The both of them being dependent on each other for survival.
The element air and fire. They are different, yet they correspond with each other. They also work together in harmony.
Fire and darkness. Both dominant elements. Total opposites of each other, yet they have traits that resemble each other. Like the light and the dark they too fight a never ending war for dominance. But yet, they need each other to survive. They complement each other, fuel each others strengths, and make amends for the others weak points.
Water and fire. Total opposites. The other like a calm, steady flowing river, submissive, yet still strong, the other wild, untamed, and turbulent, dominant and passionate. These two elements clash, often do not mix with each other, because the differences are just too great.
The elements combined the personality traits that the gods possessed.
There were six of them. Three gods and three goddesses.
Dove; the goddess of air
Fern; the goddess of fire and spirit
Seth; the god of darkness
Flora; the goddess of earth and nature
Nayru; the god of light
Farore; the god of water
When they were done shaping our world, the gods decided to return to Gully; the name we have given to the place they originated from.
One of the six gods however; Fern, decided to stay to keep a vigilant watch on our world.
She watched the two humanoid races she and her siblings had given the chance to exist and be alive evolve.
The two races were given the names: Elves or fairies and the other group were called humans.
The elves were alike, yet different to the humans. They were graced with the gift of immortality and the power of magick. They were given powers based on nature. Every fairy possessed this power since birth. They came natural to them. The gods gave them this power to protect Mother Nature from harm and care for her, correct any damage done to her.
Humans were mortal, they didn't live internally. They didn't receive the gift of magic, only a few humans did, but they were exceptions. They were however graced with the power of high intelligence, to use for a good purpose, not for evil. They also possessed the power of the spirit, a special gift given to them by the goddess Fern, to make up for the absence of magick running in their veins. This power was alike to magick, perhaps even more powerful. There is nothing stronger then mental power, the power of someone's spirit is the strongest power there is. Ultimately the strength you posses lies deep within you. If you look deep enough, you can draw upon that power and do great things with it.
The humans started of good. The relation between the humans and the elves was extremely well for a long time. But as time went by. Both the species evolved, got smarter, more and more differences surfaced. The two races began to grow apart.
Envy, greed, and other sins infested the human hearts. Their once pure morals changed, became twisted versions of what they had once been. They shrugged of their old morals, began to ignore their origins and their appointed goal by the gods. Over time they forgot their roots, their past. Fact became fiction, fiction became myths, and myths became legends and ultimately everything was forgotten, left in the sands of time, never to be found again.
The elves horrified at the change in human nature, began to retreat into solitude. They cut the ties to the humans and disappeared from the face of the earth.
In time, the humans had forgotten about them too. Elves only existed in fairy tales later on. They were nonsense stories, not at all about what was considered to be true.
Fern; who watched these changes throughout the ages, was saddened by what she witnessed. Yet, she chose not to interfere. They made their own destiny; she would not shape it for them. If this was the road they wanted to tread, then so be it. The path the humans chose would ultimately become their downfall. She was proud of the elves that they continued their old way of life, but she was also saddened that they had cut the ties to their human siblings.
As more time went by, a sudden change would determine the faith of the gods.
In 3000 BC, in human time standards, it was the time arc of the Ancient Egyptian civilization.
This was one of the first advanced civilizations in the human world.
This was the highest and advanced state of a civilization the humans would ever reach.
In this time period an alarming change took place, which marked the end of the race of men, and life as we knew it.
Here in Egypt happened what the gods, what we elves feared would happen if the humans would continue to walk the path of corruption they had chosen to tread upon.
The balance between the elements light and dark was interrupted. The power was tipped one way; that of the dark. The origins lay in the power of the shadows the Egyptians wielded in this time arc. They caused the imbalance in the elements. If that imbalance would not be restored soon, the world would be destroyed. It would only be a matter of time.
Fern knew she could not allow that to happen. So, she called upon the help of her siblings, to restore the balance. The assistance of the god of light and especially that of the god of darkness was needed.
He played a key role in restoring the balance. Since his element was the cause of the imbalance. Although it was not caused by him, the origin of this darkness lay with the humans. But Seth had control over this element.
Fern, who was also a channeler of the elements, also played a key role. She would have the task to combine the power of all the gods in its purest form; spirit; Ka or energy.
To restore the imbalance in this world, the gods paid a high prise however. They had to sacrifice their immortality and that meant they would kill themselves if they gave their full power to Fern. They still did this however to ensure the survival of Ancient Earth.
Fern's siblings died in the process. She swallowed her grief and focused on the main task; restore balance in the world and the elements.
That is exactly what she did. It cost her all of her strength, almost all. She used her last bit of vital energy to create a wall between the world of men and the world of elves. She knew she was too late to save the world of men, but she could save the race of elves.
She created two separate dimensions. The one we live in now and the world of humans which no longer exists.
The humans died because of their misuse of the element dark, and creating imbalance in the world. The gods did not kill them, they did it themselves. They sealed their fate by having chosen the road of darkness and evil, instead of following the path of light.
They shaped the road to their own downfall. That is why today humans are extinct. They have been so for ages. At least, that is the story that has been passed on from generation to generation.
When the goddess Fern was done with this task, she returned to her basic form, pure energy. She spitted herself up in the six basic elements again. Within these elements she put her hope for a better world for the elves and perhaps a future for mankind again.
Three of the elements were given as a gift to the elves, and another three to mankind. She put the powers of the each of the six gods in the hands of the humans and us, the elves.
We were given the elements earth, fire, and air. The other three elements; dark, light and water were given to the humans. Never to return again, since the world of humans was no more.
If their would be another imbalance in the future the power of these elements would be bestowed upon six chosen individuals. Three of mankind and three of our race. They would be able to wield the power of the gods and be able to restore the balance in the world once more.
This was idle hope, based on nothing, since the world of men was no more. And therefore part of the powers of the gods was lost with them.
Should their come another imbalance in the elements, we will not able to restore it.
We couldn't do anything to stop it, we would be doomed, and Earth would be doomed……
Still to honour the sacrifice the gods made to ensure we survived, especially the goddess Fern, we called the new world she created for us after her, and the dimension she and the other gods originated from.
That's were the name Fern Gully comes from. And the person you were named after……
"Fern!"
A woman with white hair, and light-blue eyes, that held ages of wisdom collected in the orbs that were her eyes called out to her pupil who was sitting on the branch of a three next to her, her attention focussed on something else then her teacher.
She was miles away in a another place, engrossed in her realm of thoughts and fantasies, absentmindly stroking the branch she was sitting on, the energy of her magic flowing through her fingers, touching the surface of the wood that was her sitting place. Her magical energy created small pink flowers.
She was snapped out of her stupor rudely, by the voice of her teacher.
Whipping her head around immediately when the voice of her teacher called out to her, the girl named Fern met the light-blue eyed gaze of her teacher.
"Were you even listening to a word I said?" her teacher continued, stating the obvious facts that fern hadn't been listening at all.
"Of course I was, Grenadine!" She interrupted her teacher's rant.
"Well, I haven't been listening. But she is just telling me stuff I heard a million times already! I know the story by heart." Thought Fern, her lavender gaze still locked with her teachers.
Her teacher, Grenadine sighed heavily.
"You haven't been listening."
"I…."
"No, you weren't!"
"Fine, I wasn't listening to a word you said." Fern admitted stubbornly.
Grenadine could see through her lies so easily, since she had known Fern all her life.
Now, it was Fern's tern to sigh.
"I'm sorry, Grenadine." She apologised "But, can you really blame me? You've told the story just about a million times already!"
"Well, of course, I did. "Replied Grenadine "Since you still can't seem to grasp the true meaning behind the words, the essence of them."
"What am I supposed to grasp?" retorted Fern in an off-hand manner "That the true essence of this story is that it's just some invented fairy tale?" Fern said in her usual cheeky manner.
"Fern!" Grenadine said sternly, angry at Fern's insulting comment about the ancient customs and stories of their people.
"In this so-called "fairytale story" lie the roots of our civilization, our very existence. To deny your heritage lying in these ancient texts, is denying the very foundations that make you who you are, we are today!"
"How are we supposed to know if there is any truth to these ancient texts at all?" said Fern.
She knew her cheeky attitude and smart-ass comments would get her in trouble as usual.
Yet, she couldn't help provoke her teacher, whose believes were firmly placed in the Ancient ways, customs, texts of their people.
She claims our heritage lies with the gods, but does she have any prove to back up those claims?
Fern was a realistic person. She only believed in proven facts. That's why she didn't believe in the teachings her teacher taught her.
She loved her teacher, truly she did. She just didn't understand her. She didn't understand why her teacher could place such a firm believe in some legends about the "supposed heritage" of their people.
If it weren't for the fact that magick running in the veins of the elves, her people was a proven fact, she wouldn't have believed that existed at all.
She loved learning how to use her powers. This was the part of the lessons of Grenadine that she appreciated very much. Grenadine taught her how to master the powers of nature. To learn to better protect nature, restore and create life.
Oh, yeah and how to use her magick to play pranks on people……….
Yup, Fern had always been an energetic, and a mischievous young child.
Even now, in her teens, she was still was.
It was just in her nature.
Just as it laid in her nature that she was extremely curious, too nosy for her own good sometimes.
And a true heart of an adventurer. She always jumped in at the deep end without thinking things through first. Now one would think she isn't the brightest cookie in the jar, but the truth was otherwise. She was actually very intelligent.
Now, as Grenadine had said many times.
If she would just put that intelligence of her to more use. Then she would actually learn something useful for a change. Instead of always joking around with her friends, being of day dreaming somewhere or wherever she disappeared to in her spare time.
And dream she did. She dreamed about a world beyond the walls of her dimension. She wanted to explore the world outside of Fern Gully. Her heart ached and yearned to know what exactly lay behind the walls of the "prison" of the elves.
To Fern, it was just that, a prison. No elf had ever left Fern Gully. No one went any further then the borders of the rainforest. It was considered dangerous. This dimension was created for her people so that they would be saved.
Save from what?
Who had decided they had the right to lock up her people in some other dimension to keep them from things they thought they couldn't handle.
She doubted the facts about this so-called other dimension. But to prove once and for all that there was some evidence to back up the theory of her teacher, she would have to leave Fern Gully and found that out.
Now, her teacher wasn't an idiot. She knew Fern wanted to explore the world that lie beyond the borders of the realm of Fern Gully. That was the fact that scared her the most. That Fern would one day jump into the deep end, and do exactly that. Leave Fern Gully behind.
She knew her constant warnings about the danger that lurked out there, in the broken dimension that mankind once used to live in. would be no use. They would just fuel the passion and desire of Fern to leave this place and haunt after her dreams.
One day, the ever burning flame of curiosity burning in her would prove too much to handle…..
Her fascination about the humans only was another relevant factor that pushed her to leave Fern Gully.
She didn't believe the stories about the human race being totally extinct. There had to have been some survivors. Grenadine couldn't even tell what happened to the human race. Only another indication that her theory about the humans and their origins in particular were flawed based on lies.
And one day, she would set out to prove that point to her teacher once and for all.
And she would see the world beyond that of Fern Gully and hopefully see humans in the flesh.
"Every elf will know, if they seek in the most inner parts of their being, they will know it is true." Grenadine replied in a calm, levelled tone.
She knew that Fern would have nothing of her "lame excuse" as she would put it.
"Right….." Fern said disbelievingly. "So, according to you. We all just have to nod, say amen and just accept these stories?"
Grenadine said nothing.
"Sorry, Grenadine, but it just doesn't work that way and you know it."
"One day, perhaps sooner then you'll realise Fern, you'll find out the truth for yourself."
"Well until that "faithful" day arrives I will not "believe", as you so nicely put it." Was Fern's sarcastic reply.
"You are such a difficult young child……" was Grenadine's enigmatic reply, which only succeeded in ticking of Fern.
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Just what it says. You are difficult. Once you form on opinion, it will be hard to persuade you to see in another point of view. You are much too stubborn to accept the believes of our people, when it is passed onto you by someone else. That's why you'll have to experience the truth yourself, before you will alter your beliefs or ways."
"Right…" Fern replied back, unconvinced, arching a slender ebony eye-brow.
"I know I've never been "easy". I don't need a lecture about myself and my ways. I know my weaknesses and strength very well. Thank you very much."
"Are you so certain that you know yourself that well?"
"Forget it; I'm not going in that direction again!" She snapped back, losing her cool by now.
Grenadine always knew just how to push her buttons.
Getting up from her sitting position on the three branch, she dusted herself of.
Her transparent wings that had been down for a good period of time, she unfolded into their full width.
She let them carry her up in the air. A trail of fuchsia coloured magical energy of Magick emerged from them. Creating a fuchsia coloured hue around her wings. The fairy dust as it was called, or her own personal source of energy began to twirl around her form, the energy touching the cool surface of the wood beneath her. In the places it touched, small plants began to grow.
Her angry lavender gaze was focussed on her teacher.
"As you wish….." Grenadine answered.
"I'm sorry Grenadine, but I didn't come to see you today to listen to some fairytales about our origins that are most probably not true." Fern said, spitting out the words like they were a mere poison.
"And I don't need a character analysis, thank you very much!"
And with that Fern flew away, the only evidence of her being there her unique trail of magical energy that lingered behind, before disappearing.
Grenadine only let a last faint smile grace her aging face, which showed her wrinkles even more now that she was smiling.
'You will "believe" in the future, Fern. You will have no choice on the matter I'm afraid….."
For her visions of the future she had had, were enough indication to know that Fern had her own unique destiny awaiting her.
A/N:
Well, what do you think? Should I continue this story or not? I will continue, even if I don't get any reviews!
Anyways, I really have to update my other stories! ARGH! I will get to one of my other stories right away, when I'm out of school! I'm really in a writing mood lately...hmm, strange?
:smiles:
Read and review, won't you please?
CMG, signing out
