1 Blooming
A magnificent trail of flowers exploded in the middle of a fragile space, each flower blew apart countless asteroids and blazed an endless trail. At the front of this spectacular sight lay a violet fragment of light, it flickered at a constant rate, just like a living human it expanded and retracted as if it were breathing.
It flew at unimaginable speeds through vast quantities of galaxies and black holes, the life that existed within these galaxies was wiped out as the fragmented light continued on its journey.
The more it destroyed, the greater the sight it produced. The more the illusory flowers grew in size the more ruin they caused, it seemed quite contradictory, that such a beautiful flower was causing the death and destruction of life. But the light didn't recognize the pain that it was causing, it remained on its course and flew further and further. The flowers behind it the size of the universe itself.
And then it reached the end.
It approached a sort of membrane, a membrane at the end of the world. Planets were being swallowed by this membrane and even black holes had the energy sucked out of them, murky dark energy spewed out of this membrane and encompassed all life and destroyed all life.
But even this light had to bow down before the flowers.
The light exploded in speed at the very last moment before impact and caused great ruin, a screeching noise echoed throughout the vacuum that was space. This noise didn't require any type of particle to vibrate through, for this noise came from the universe itself. It was the sound of the universe screaming for mercy, it was the sound of all the life screaming for mercy.
But the light didn't contain any mercy.
And then the light left, behind it, only a blooming rose remained in the place of the universe.
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Tap tap tap...
Soft footsteps trod upon a vast green plain, the owner of these footsteps a woman in a red traditional hanfu dress. The frill of the dress dragged behind her on the grass, her long black hair accentuating the beauty of the dress.
Within her pale arms lay a small baby, the baby's small arms grabbed hold of her hair for a moment and pulled at it lightly with a cute motion.
"Your too naughty...", her soft and silvery voice brought a smile onto the baby's face.
Her face was covered by a piece of cloth, even then it couldn't stop the beauty of her face from revealing itself.
"This should be far enough."
With that phrase, she tilted her head up and a light shone down from the heavens onto the baby.
"I can't stay with you now, henceforth, for your safety, you shall be named Ireya. Your original name was simply too powerful...", she pulled out a pendant seemingly from thin air and wrapped it around Ireya's head. With a peck on the forehead, she let go of the baby.
It floated in midair for a second, Ireya's frail arms stretched towards the woman but couldn't reach her no matter what.
"Bye, bye.", with a teary smile she took out a sword from her sleeve.
And slashed.
BOOM!
A violent array of lights broke out and the air was broken through, space ripped behind the baby transforming the beautiful landscape into an empty void.
She stretched out her hand and stroked the baby's head and with a cracked voice spoke out, "I'm sorry Ireya..."
And pushed the baby into the empty void.
Stretching out her hand, she once again stroked the void and repaired it with one smooth motion. The ruined fields returned to their original beauty, but not for long.
BANG!
With a brutal crash, a vast amount of lightning came flooding towards the woman, each tendril of lightning was like a dragon of ancient times.
Her sword swung out once again, this time with horrible force behind it. A fiery demon with long red horns and a bulky figure broke out behind the sword and ate each piece of lightning with one gulp, behind the storm of lightning remained a man.
"Hand it over bitch!", a soothing voice broke out with vulgar language.
The man dropped down onto the ground with a loud crash, breaking apart the ground with one step. Deep ravines formed all around and lava began spewing out of the ground, his step had pierced deep enough to damage the core of the planet.
His features aggressive yet soft at the same time, the perfect contradiction.
"Give it to me!"
She just stared back at him.
"I'll just take it forcefully then!"
The man grabbed towards the woman and a lightning arm kilometers wide stretched out and flew towards the woman, expecting some resistance he added extra power into the grab. But his efforts seem wasted as he easily grabbed a hold of her. He then began dragging her towards himself inch by inch.
"In the end, you're still too weak to defend yourself!"
She didn't say anything to defend her case, she merely looked down at the sword in her hand. She already knew that today would be her last, she never had a chance against him in the first place. She was only able to stop that lightning due to sacrificing nearly all of her life force, whether he killed her today or not she would end up dying in less than a year.
"Now hand it over!"
She merely smirked at him, "Never."
And then crushed her sword.
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Within an enclosed shack a silent ripple of energy pulled apart the fabrics of space revealing the void behind it, in the middle of this void a speck of dust could be seen slowly approaching.
In a few seconds, the speck of dust had grown much larger and it was clear that it was a baby floating within the endless void. The baby flew out of the void and landed onto the concrete ground with a soft thud, the baby's black eyes curiously checked out its surroundings but the missing figure of the woman brought about a round of crying.
The void behind the baby slowly healed itself back up, not causing the slightest fluctuation in energy. It disappeared silently just as it had appeared silently.
"Waaaa! Waaa!" The baby's voice pierced through the shack and into the surroundings attracting the attention of anything living around.
Steady footsteps could be heard approaching the doors, then with a creak, the door was swung open to reveal the outside.
A handsome young man stood at the door, his long blonde hair seemed more female than male and his skin just as supple as a woman's. His golden-white clothes seemed to come from some sort of noble family, and the air around him carried a sense of power and pride merged into one. You could call it arrogance yet it wasn't.
His brown eyes landed on the baby as a surprised expression took over him.
"This is...?", a soft and soothing voice came out as he spread his lips.
The light bent around him as he focused his energy on examining the baby, "Safe."
He bent over and gently picked up the baby, his hand stroked the pendant on the baby's neck. "Ireya... Your name is Ireya?"
"Aaaaa..." Ireya held his thumb with both of her tiny hands and sucked on it lightly.
"Cute.", his lips curved up as he watched the baby suck on his thumb. His hair fell over his back and lightly tickled Ireya's face, her laughing expression only improved his opinion of her even more.
"I'd love to take you with me, but first I have to make sure..."
His eyes then shone with a kaleidoscope of color, his beautiful eyes probed the baby.
"No future... No past... One with all yet one with none... A jade among all... Yet a future without..."
Confusing words continued pouring out as he probed into the baby further and further, after a minute of probing his eyes slowly returned to their normal state. This time, however, his eyes contained a gaze of sorrow and pain within them, as if he had seen the world end before his eyes.
"I'll take you with me then.", this sorrow ended moments after his gaze landed back on the baby.
He smiled softly, "Let's go then."
Turning around he headed out of the shack and into an endless wilderness.
That shack lay on top of a vast mountainous region covered with vegetation and dangerous forests teeming with powerful beasts.
"This may not be the best place to do this but from now on your my daughter, from now on your Ireya the daughter of I, Seven."
"Waaaaa....", a soft cry echoed from Ireya.
To Seven this seemed like a sign of approval, he stroked her head and imbedded a strand of his energy into her forehead. He smiled timidly at their newly established relationship.
