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Period 5: Science!
Theme 7: Element
Words: 620
Author: Lillie Bell
The universe is made up of all kinds of elements.
Space has hydrogen and helium gas clouds tumbling through galaxies, weaving a love nest of creation and destruction.
The Earth has its core, rolling iron and metals, burning hotter than any hell. The pressure within threatening to unleash the magma upon the innocent.
Rocks have calcium and trace metals. Elements with charges, positives and negatives, fused together in solid formations.
But what the universe doesn't have is love. And so it made its own. A crystal of immeasurable power with the intent to kill, and a crystal of healing with the intent to sacrifice. These crystals were companions for years, balancing out their good and bad with each other. They sang and cried together as the comets and meteor fleshed out the galaxy. But they were always together.
They were united until the Earth shredded apart. A piece, a section, carried off the more destructive of the two. They grew too far apart to be connected anymore. They learned to control themselves as best they could, until the time when they would be carried back.
The new section rounded over time, its surface covered over in dust as the Earth's turn vibrant with life. The healing crystal chose wisely what life to save and what life to condemn. It learned that it could not save all, though it desperately wished to. The destruction crystal worked hard to nurture the little life its barren satellite had available. It fought against its natural need for destruction, leaving instead a barren wasteland outside of its small, intensely tended oasis.
Animals came, jaunty things that looked crooked and hard, that grew into things of beauty. Bugs and insects thrived in the climates. Plants grew lush and full with fruit. And then, finally, people came. The golden crystal, so named when the people grew tongues that could make syllables, nurtured its first offspring. They played and frolic under its adoring light. It did not chide the foolish ones. Murder and rampage occur all too frequently, and the people began to question the breadth of the crystal's power.
The destructive crystal, the ginzuishou, formed on the tongues of those who felt its power. It lashed at them for small sins and destroyed those who would not obey. The evil of its people was quickly gone, though the people had learned to fear its power.
And as generations passed on, the power of the crystals grew and waned. The ginzuishou allowed a select few benevolent souls channel its power. The golden crystal imbued its chosen with all its power, but its host was soon dead from trying to save too much of the already corrupt society. The people's belief fell and so did its power. Slowly, the golden crystal receded from existence, seeing that its presence was not capable of healing the sins of its people. It disappeared from people's minds and people's souls. The Golden Kingdom no longer remembered its origins and the golden crystal had forgotten that one day its companion would return.
Meanwhile, the ginzuishou thrived, building its kingdom through strict discipline and careful planning. It set up the dynasty of loving matriarchs. Women with the compassion to control its violent nature, with the strength of soul to deny its need for destruction. It built them, trained them, and molded them until finally the child Serenity was born.
Serenity, the human who would receive all of the ginzuishou's power. Whose innocence would overpower the crystal's cruelty. Whose purity would cleanse it. Whose love would bury its violence far far away from where it could be used.
And only then, when the ginzuishou's child stepped upon the Earth, did the Golden Crystal realize its mistake.