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Tyra's point of view.
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Many years ago, there was a time when the world was in war. The people were beyond intelligent, they were genius. They created things that were beyond anyone's comprehension in our age. They made buildings tall as mountains. They made light without fire. They created ways to communicate to another, even if they were on the other side of the planet. They had stopped believing in their god, who they thought as only as shimmers in an empty sky. They referred to her as stars.
The god of nature, known as Iona, had once blessed humans with a good hunt, harvest, and prosperity. She made sure the cycle of nature would never end. It was rumoured that she created nature itself. But nature used to be far more complex than it is today. Back in the prime of her day, nature presented itself even in the heavens. The Night-Orb. Known to the people as the Moon, it shone bright as human's hope. By day, the Night-Orb was blind to the world, yet it moved the very oceans. By night it shone bright, guiding the way for the animals of the night.
However, as technology progressed, Iona was left behind in the thrones of time. People continued to destroy nature to make way for their own technological advancements. This weakened Iona. She was literally having her energy sucked out of her. Iona knew that if this continued, she would be destroyed, but she was too weak to do anything without there being a serious consequence. A mighty deity she was, and she was near killed by humanity alone.
Iona had been backed into a corner, she couldn't destroy without paying a grave price, but it was simply her only option. She ravaged the earth in a catastrophe of water. Using the moons lifeforce in place of her own, She created waves of water tall enough to drown the human's many creations. The humans were caught completely unaware, and their genius which had been poison to the very earth was destroyed overnight. This was known as the Night of the Drowned Souls. While the judgement she placed on humans may seem extreme, she had no other choice. If she were to die, nature would die with her. Humans had been a virus, and they had to be eradicated for the greater good.
Her plan worked, but it was at a far greater price than even the Night-Orb could endure. The Moon vanished entirely, yet it was still not enough. A portion of Iona's lifeforce still had to be taken. With the cleansing of the human's sins Iona had gained energy enough to continue to survive, but not enough to thrive. Nature would take time to be restored to what it once was, and until then she was helpless to stop the progression of time.
Iona became dormant; It was almost as if she was in hibernation. Her bright lights humans knew as the stars were dimmed down, taking the surviving people's hopes and dreams along with her. She still shined, but it was like the Night-Orb once was in the daytime. It was still there, but invisible to the average eye. However, it was rumoured that some people could still see her shimmer of life. It was extremely rare, they thought that not even one in one-thousand could still see Iona. Yet it was indisputable that some could. Perhaps these people were the only ones that still believed in the hope that seemingly vanished at the price of Iona's being. Maybe they had a strong bond with nature. Or they may have just been lucky. It is unknown, but to this day people still claim that the stars shine bright for them...
CRASH!
"AHH!" Me and Brother shrieked, grasping onto each other in terror. We looked at each other in horror for a second. Then we burst out laughing, collapsing onto his bed in fits of laughter.
"That was the funniest thing ever!" I said, gasping for breath in between words. Brother was laughing silently, unable to breathe. We laughed for minutes, until...
CRASH!
We jumped again but we had seen it coming that time. The storm that had been threatening the sky since afternoon had finally hit, and by the sun, did it make an entrance! "Let's go look outside!" I suggested.
"Sure, I wanna see if we can see any of the lightning before it disappears!" Brother agreed. I opened the curtains and hopped onto the windowsill as I had that morning, though I didn't quite have the nerve to open the window this time. I looked up at the sky. The sun had long since set, leaving the sky in a black, empty abyss. Nothing was visible, not even streetlights shone as the storm would undoubtedly have smashed the thin glass that protected the fire within.
I tried to imagine what it would be like to live in a world like the one in the myth. It was hard to believe that the world's skies had once been filled with glittering lights. All the same, I did not doubt that myth. It was a legend after all, it may have been exaggerated over the years but still, it had once been a reality. I imagined the remains of Iona and the Night-Orb illuminating the void of sky, casting some light on the night. What colour would the Night-Orb be? Green like nature? Or maybe white like they say stars are. Did it shine? Could it move? How big was it? All things I would never know. The myth hadn't talked much about the Night-Orb itself, I supposed that it had been forgotten over many generations.
"Brother?" I asked, realising that we had been sitting there in silence for minutes, simply thinking. I wondered if he had been thinking the same thing as me.
"That's my name. Well, actually it's Edward, but you get my point. What is it?" He said, making me giggle.
"What do you think the moon was like?"
"Hmmm... I think it would have been a bright purple colour. It would be the same size as the sun. It would shine like the sun did, but not as strongly. What about you.?"
"I don't know." I sighed. I had thought about it a lot, but it just seemed so surreal I didn't know what to think.
"It's been nearly six years since we came here. Time flies doesn't it?" Brother commented, interrupting my thoughts.
"Yeah." I agreed thoughtfully. "I'm so glad we were adopted by mum and dad, they are the best parents ever," I added.
"You got that right," Brother said wistfully. "I can't believe how much our lives have changed."
"Mmm..." I mumbled, too lost in thoughts to reply. Brother was right, out lives were completely different from what they once were. I was happier how I was now. Everything was perfect. I mean, I could do without being grounded, but still. It was hard to even imagine how our lives once were.
The storm continued outside, rain coming down in mad torrents of water. We saw lightning a few times, a brief strike of light illuminating the area around it for literally a fraction of a second. Me and brother gazed out of the window for minutes, saying nothing. I couldn't tell the time without the sun, but I knew it was easily eleven o'clock, maybe even midnight. A yawn escaped my lips before I could stop it.
"Well, I guess we should go to bed now," I chirped, coming down from the windowsill (quietly this time) and gracefully landing on the floor.
"Yeah, good idea." Brother agreed, following suit. I blew out the candle that brother had lit to be able to read the Legend of the Night-Orb and climbed up the ladder onto my bunk, submerging myself in my plain white sheets. I heard Brother doing the same below me.
It took a long time to get to sleep. The thunder combined with my frenzy of thinking kept me awake. That was typical of me. Whenever I went to bed I could never stop thinking about even the most trivial things. From school down to reminding myself to water the flowers tomorrow. Right then I was thinking about what we might do at school the next day. Maths, most likely. Followed by nature studies. I sighed. Nature studies was quite fun, but maths was truly detestable. Eventually, I finally slept, my last thought being what I would do when I woke up. I never expected it to turn out like it did...
CRASH!
I woke up with a start, sitting up in alarm. It's just thunder, I thought. Calm down. Go back to sleep. I tried to do just that.
"Did you hear that? Are any of you awake?" Someone whispered. Laurel.
"I'm awake Laurel. It's just thunder, go back to sleep." I whispered back to her.
"Mhm, 'kay then," Laurel replied.
CRASH!
"Okay, that was NOT thunder Tyra!" Laurel argued, not bothering to whisper anymore.
"You're right." I agreed. "What was that?"
"What's going on?" Brother asked from below me.
"I don't know," I replied, getting scared. What else could it be, other than thunder? I gulped.
"I have a bad feeling about thi-" Brother started.
CRASH!
"AHH!" Aza shouted, sitting up with a start. "What the heck was that?!"
"That came from downstairs!" Laurel pointed out.
"This can't be good." I murmured.
Aza started to talk. "Is someone going to tell me what's goi-"
CRASH!
"NO! PLEASE STOP THIS!" I heard mums voice, shouting in terror.
CRASH!
"STOP!"
CRASH!
"STOP IT!"
CRASH!
"GET OUT OF OUR HOUSE!" Dad bellowed, but to no avail.
CRASH!
I looked over at the silhouette of the others in alarm. "Um, okay. What was that?!" Aza asked, the terror evident in her voice.
"I don't know, what do we do?!" Laurel answered, trembling.
"Let's go and look." Brother suggested.
"But I'm scared!" Laurel said.
"And the fear of the unknown isn't helping. C'mon, let's go!" Brother retorted. Me and Aza climbed down from our bunks, meeting up with the other two at the bottom. We looked at each other with a mixture of cluelessness and terror.
CRASH!
"Alright, I can't stand this anymore," I admitted, gulping. "Let's go."
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Ohh, I left it at a cliffhanger! Sorry the chapter was a little shorter, but that was where I wanted to end it because I'm evil like that.
I didn't have the legend very planned out and it was really, REALLY difficult to write, I was literally doing that for an hour xD
Tyra's point of view.
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Many years ago, there was a time when the world was in war. The people were beyond intelligent, they were genius. They created things that were beyond anyone's comprehension in our age. They made buildings tall as mountains. They made light without fire. They created ways to communicate to another, even if they were on the other side of the planet. They had stopped believing in their god, who they thought as only as shimmers in an empty sky. They referred to her as stars.
The god of nature, known as Iona, had once blessed humans with a good hunt, harvest, and prosperity. She made sure the cycle of nature would never end. It was rumoured that she created nature itself. But nature used to be far more complex than it is today. Back in the prime of her day, nature presented itself even in the heavens. The Night-Orb. Known to the people as the Moon, it shone bright as human's hope. By day, the Night-Orb was blind to the world, yet it moved the very oceans. By night it shone bright, guiding the way for the animals of the night.
However, as technology progressed, Iona was left behind in the thrones of time. People continued to destroy nature to make way for their own technological advancements. This weakened Iona. She was literally having her energy sucked out of her. Iona knew that if this continued, she would be destroyed, but she was too weak to do anything without there being a serious consequence. A mighty deity she was, and she was near killed by humanity alone.
Iona had been backed into a corner, she couldn't destroy without paying a grave price, but it was simply her only option. She ravaged the earth in a catastrophe of water. Using the moons lifeforce in place of her own, She created waves of water tall enough to drown the human's many creations. The humans were caught completely unaware, and their genius which had been poison to the very earth was destroyed overnight. This was known as the Night of the Drowned Souls. While the judgement she placed on humans may seem extreme, she had no other choice. If she were to die, nature would die with her. Humans had been a virus, and they had to be eradicated for the greater good.
Her plan worked, but it was at a far greater price than even the Night-Orb could endure. The Moon vanished entirely, yet it was still not enough. A portion of Iona's lifeforce still had to be taken. With the cleansing of the human's sins Iona had gained energy enough to continue to survive, but not enough to thrive. Nature would take time to be restored to what it once was, and until then she was helpless to stop the progression of time.
Iona became dormant; It was almost as if she was in hibernation. Her bright lights humans knew as the stars were dimmed down, taking the surviving people's hopes and dreams along with her. She still shined, but it was like the Night-Orb once was in the daytime. It was still there, but invisible to the average eye. However, it was rumoured that some people could still see her shimmer of life. It was extremely rare, they thought that not even one in one-thousand could still see Iona. Yet it was indisputable that some could. Perhaps these people were the only ones that still believed in the hope that seemingly vanished at the price of Iona's being. Maybe they had a strong bond with nature. Or they may have just been lucky. It is unknown, but to this day people still claim that the stars shine bright for them...
CRASH!
"AHH!" Me and Brother shrieked, grasping onto each other in terror. We looked at each other in horror for a second. Then we burst out laughing, collapsing onto his bed in fits of laughter.
"That was the funniest thing ever!" I said, gasping for breath in between words. Brother was laughing silently, unable to breathe. We laughed for minutes, until...
CRASH!
We jumped again but we had seen it coming that time. The storm that had been threatening the sky since afternoon had finally hit, and by the sun, did it make an entrance! "Let's go look outside!" I suggested.
"Sure, I wanna see if we can see any of the lightning before it disappears!" Brother agreed. I opened the curtains and hopped onto the windowsill as I had that morning, though I didn't quite have the nerve to open the window this time. I looked up at the sky. The sun had long since set, leaving the sky in a black, empty abyss. Nothing was visible, not even streetlights shone as the storm would undoubtedly have smashed the thin glass that protected the fire within.
I tried to imagine what it would be like to live in a world like the one in the myth. It was hard to believe that the world's skies had once been filled with glittering lights. All the same, I did not doubt that myth. It was a legend after all, it may have been exaggerated over the years but still, it had once been a reality. I imagined the remains of Iona and the Night-Orb illuminating the void of sky, casting some light on the night. What colour would the Night-Orb be? Green like nature? Or maybe white like they say stars are. Did it shine? Could it move? How big was it? All things I would never know. The myth hadn't talked much about the Night-Orb itself, I supposed that it had been forgotten over many generations.
"Brother?" I asked, realising that we had been sitting there in silence for minutes, simply thinking. I wondered if he had been thinking the same thing as me.
"That's my name. Well, actually it's Edward, but you get my point. What is it?" He said, making me giggle.
"What do you think the moon was like?"
"Hmmm... I think it would have been a bright purple colour. It would be the same size as the sun. It would shine like the sun did, but not as strongly. What about you.?"
"I don't know." I sighed. I had thought about it a lot, but it just seemed so surreal I didn't know what to think.
"It's been nearly six years since we came here. Time flies doesn't it?" Brother commented, interrupting my thoughts.
"Yeah." I agreed thoughtfully. "I'm so glad we were adopted by mum and dad, they are the best parents ever," I added.
"You got that right," Brother said wistfully. "I can't believe how much our lives have changed."
"Mmm..." I mumbled, too lost in thoughts to reply. Brother was right, out lives were completely different from what they once were. I was happier how I was now. Everything was perfect. I mean, I could do without being grounded, but still. It was hard to even imagine how our lives once were.
The storm continued outside, rain coming down in mad torrents of water. We saw lightning a few times, a brief strike of light illuminating the area around it for literally a fraction of a second. Me and brother gazed out of the window for minutes, saying nothing. I couldn't tell the time without the sun, but I knew it was easily eleven o'clock, maybe even midnight. A yawn escaped my lips before I could stop it.
"Well, I guess we should go to bed now," I chirped, coming down from the windowsill (quietly this time) and gracefully landing on the floor.
"Yeah, good idea." Brother agreed, following suit. I blew out the candle that brother had lit to be able to read the Legend of the Night-Orb and climbed up the ladder onto my bunk, submerging myself in my plain white sheets. I heard Brother doing the same below me.
It took a long time to get to sleep. The thunder combined with my frenzy of thinking kept me awake. That was typical of me. Whenever I went to bed I could never stop thinking about even the most trivial things. From school down to reminding myself to water the flowers tomorrow. Right then I was thinking about what we might do at school the next day. Maths, most likely. Followed by nature studies. I sighed. Nature studies was quite fun, but maths was truly detestable. Eventually, I finally slept, my last thought being what I would do when I woke up. I never expected it to turn out like it did...
CRASH!
I woke up with a start, sitting up in alarm. It's just thunder, I thought. Calm down. Go back to sleep. I tried to do just that.
"Did you hear that? Are any of you awake?" Someone whispered. Laurel.
"I'm awake Laurel. It's just thunder, go back to sleep." I whispered back to her.
"Mhm, 'kay then," Laurel replied.
CRASH!
"Okay, that was NOT thunder Tyra!" Laurel argued, not bothering to whisper anymore.
"You're right." I agreed. "What was that?"
"What's going on?" Brother asked from below me.
"I don't know," I replied, getting scared. What else could it be, other than thunder? I gulped.
"I have a bad feeling about thi-" Brother started.
CRASH!
"AHH!" Aza shouted, sitting up with a start. "What the heck was that?!"
"That came from downstairs!" Laurel pointed out.
"This can't be good." I murmured.
Aza started to talk. "Is someone going to tell me what's goi-"
CRASH!
"NO! PLEASE STOP THIS!" I heard mums voice, shouting in terror.
CRASH!
"STOP!"
CRASH!
"STOP IT!"
CRASH!
"GET OUT OF OUR HOUSE!" Dad bellowed, but to no avail.
CRASH!
I looked over at the silhouette of the others in alarm. "Um, okay. What was that?!" Aza asked, the terror evident in her voice.
"I don't know, what do we do?!" Laurel answered, trembling.
"Let's go and look." Brother suggested.
"But I'm scared!" Laurel said.
"And the fear of the unknown isn't helping. C'mon, let's go!" Brother retorted. Me and Aza climbed down from our bunks, meeting up with the other two at the bottom. We looked at each other with a mixture of cluelessness and terror.
CRASH!
"Alright, I can't stand this anymore," I admitted, gulping. "Let's go."
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Ohh, I left it at a cliffhanger! Sorry the chapter was a little shorter, but that was where I wanted to end it because I'm evil like that.
I didn't have the legend very planned out and it was really, REALLY difficult to write, I was literally doing that for an hour xD