Chapter 1:
The sun set on the ocean horizon. The golden light faded away as the night sky drifted downward. Faseen Odyssia knelt against her husband, watching the waves roll onto the beach. It was late summer, 1993. Faseen was very pregnant with a baby girl. It was due in three weeks. They were on the balcony of their summer-home beach-house. It was prestigious; made of marble and stretching to the size of a mansion.
"What will we name her?" she asked her husband, slowly drifting to sleep in his arms.
"What would you like to name her?" He asked.
"Something pretty, but strong." she paused to think. "Victoria. She'll be named Victoria." She smiled and drifted silently into sleep.
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Encala sat quietly at his usual perch, peering down on Rucala. There was a small part of the cloud haven, on which he lived, that curved upwards, allowing him to lay and watch the world below. Encala was the god of this world, and though the people were curious of the beginning of their world, he never showed himself to them.
"Cala," Oki called from the great tree in which they lived. The tree sat in the middle of the cloud, and took up the majority of it, "what is there to eat?" she asked in a rather whiney tone, as though she had not eaten for days.
"Grow something." Encala replied in a kind of bored, uninterested tone. He knew very well that she possessed the same power as he; that which allowed them to grow any plant of their liking in a matter of seconds.
"But I want something cooked, like the humans!" She sounded like a child longing for toys.
"Oki, we cannot cook the humans." Encala said in an intrigued, humorous tone.
"No, I didn't mean cook them. I meant cook like them." Encala now understood her request. Though their cloud haven possessed all things natural and pure, Oki was fascinated with the humans' creative inventions. "They bake their food. They mix different foods together to make different flavors."
"Oh. Very well." Though Encala did not completely understand why Oki was so taken with the humans' need to create new things, he loved her, and would do almost anything to make her happy. They gathered fruits from the cloud's gardens, and sparked a fire with only the snap of a finger, then cooked foods together, and ate.
Though Encala loved making Oki happy, and making these humans things with her, deep down he new humans were rotten. Their inventions lead to arguments, which lead to wars. They constantly fought for power and wealth. They were greedy creatures with no conscience or sense of justice. Some were less evil than others, trying to help out the less fortunate, but Encala had seen how hypocritical they were, and given up on them as well. The worst thing about the humans, was that they would follow any leader, as that leader acted like they cared of their well-being. Oki was the only thing keeping him from ridding the world of their presence.
Encala sparked an idea. "Oki, come here." She quickly ran to his side, eager to see what he wanted from her.
"Yes?" she asked.
"Watch, as I prove to you how foolish humans can be. He grinned, and lead her to the curved cloud edge. "I shall plant a demon seed in the Duchess Sumba. On the same day that the demon baby is born, the Duchess and her husband, along with the King and Queen, shall die."
"Will the demon be King?" Oki asked interested. Though she liked the humans, she did enjoy entertainment, and not much happened on their small cloud.
"Queen in fact. She will be named Hope, so that all see her as a figure of light." He spun his hands in a circle, and a ball of blackness formed between them. It steamed like fire, but never changed its spherical form. It then flew down from his hands, to the unsuspecting world below. "Such stupid Humans." He snickered.