1 The Beginning

As the nothing stared deep into the void, a single speck was floating past it. This speck soon became sentient, soon as in an infinite amount of time, yet none, time was absent.

The speck first thought was "What am I?", this question made time exist, and with time, the speck exploded.

The nothingness was no more as an infinite amount of particles filled the emptiness of the universe. The speck could feel itself in every particle, the speck was every particle, an omnipresent sentience.

Time flowed, and with time, every particle found others, they were attracted by each other, using "they" is erroneous, every particle was still one, "they" were still the sentience, it decided to call itself Zero.

The attraction between particles was something Zero decided to call it "gravity", the gravity pulled everything together, with time, the particles became gas.

Gravity also affected the gas, and with time, this gas started to contract, and after a long time, it exploded, the result was a huge ball, it wasn't a gas, solid and neither a liquid, it was too hot to be any of those, Zero named the ball "star" and this new kind of matter "plasma".

'Is this the meaning of my existence? To watch the birth of this universe?' no one could answer, this realization enraged Zero, how could nothing beside him exist?

What created him?

He remembered the place he was in before he became everything, there was nothing beside him, he was not created, he simply existed.

He was confused, this confusion made two stars collide, and with this, he realized he could control everything since he was everything.

'I am not here to spectate, I'm here to create! I'm no spectator, I'm the creator, there was nothing before me, and I'm everything.'

Zero observed what the collision created, from the debris of the two stars, a new star was formed, a star surrounded by gas.

Gravity made the gas become another ball, but Zero noticed that this ball was not burning, at least not in the way the stars were, this ball was not made with plasma, it was made entirely of liquids.

This ball was being attracted by the star, but Zero did not want to destroy that thing, he moved the ball to an area were gravity could keep it around the star, it was now orbiting the star.

Zero was satisfied with that, so he decided to just watch for a while.

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This planet was constantly being bombarded by meteors, some just created shockwaves and increased the mass of the planet.

It continued like this for a long time, until a huge meteor, a third of the size of the planet hit it, this meteor was mainly made of water, but it also contained enough iron to create a huge shockwave on the planet, the impact created debris, and soon the debris started to orbit the planet.

For a long time, the debris orbited the planet, but gravity was pulling everything together, a small planet formed from that, with just a tenth of the mass of the planet, Zero decided to call it "satellite".

The water started to cool the planet and the steam formed something to protect it from more meteors, Zero called it "atmosphere".

After this much time, Zero felt lonely, there was nothing in this universe besides him, so he began to create something, something similar to himself, something he decided to name "life", he first decided to create something small.

He started with a material that could carry information, DNA, and with it, he created chromosomes and step by step, he created a microscopic organism.

Zero finished the creature in time for the planet to cool down completely, the planet now had huge oceans and a little bit of land, the creature was formed down in the ocean, it had a lot of differences from Zero, he couldn't make an exact copy of himself.

He had studied its own structure, how he could connect with himself all over the universe to make the DNA, now this creature could use this DNA to pass information forward, but this required another creature to be created, a descendant, Zero named this process "reproduction".

He created countless creatures, and soon he noticed, they were evolving, the tiny creature he first created had already evolved into a complex organism, something he called "fish".

He then realized, even without his full attention, time still flowed, things still existed, the universe was still moving. Another time he decided to wait, but how long?

This planet was already formed, plants could be seen growing on the surface, the first creature walked, and species were already been extinct, how long until Zero was satisfied? Only he could decide.

With his full concentration he could focus on a single piece of itself, it felt like he wasn't omnipresent, so he focused on a fish, and it was like being it, he wanted to see what this fish could do to this world, he wasn't controlling it, just observing.

Time passed fast, in just a moment, the fish already walked on land, on another this fish grew insanely big compared to his environment, but something happened while Zero wasn't focused on everything.

A meteor, tiny compared to the one that created the satellite, but incredibly dense, made entirely of gold, hit the planet, and like that, almost all of the creatures had died, the shockwave was huge, and the damage irreversible.

The consciousness of Zero transferred to another creature, a survivor, different from the previous species, the babies were fully dependent on their mothers, Zero named them "mammals", he started to focus on everything again, he wished to defend this planet.

He would not allow himself to destroy life.