Oneshots!

The Story Of Life And Death

Life and Death have existed since the beginning of time. Life was born first. Spreading her light and care to create almost everything on earth. First bacteria, then plants, then animals, and eventually... humans.

Humans were her favorite creations. Even out of the gods created by her new power, humans were always the thing they fascinated her the most. However... after hundreds of years and millions of humans being created, things began getting unbalanced.

First the plants were not given enough time to grow, causing them to recede. Then animals began to starve and be hunted as they were continuously eaten alive until all their meat was gone with nothing to replenish it.

Soon followed by humans sharing a similar fate of starvation as their source of food couldn't keep up anymore and ran as far away from humans as possible.

Each organism was tortured for years as they all felt the pain and suffering of wounds, hunger, and cold, with no relief. Balance was thrown, things began to change and the world could no longer survive in such a state... and thus a new god was created.

The god of Death, Azreal.

Life had been oblivious to the pain her subjects had been going through, after all, she was life itself! Life was pure and kind, not something that would hurt others. However.. when Azreal came in and started taking away the creatures she had loved so much.... she felt intense agony.

She cried tears that went down to the world below for days, enough to flood most of the earth. She begged for him to stop but she never got a reply. He was cold, cruel, and was killing the things she spent so much time to create.

She saw each and every one of their lives, their hopes, their dreams. She knew exactly what they thought and felt. And yet here was someone who erased it all with only a touch. Their thoughts, their feelings, their lives... it would all go blank the second their connection to her was lost.

The sweet, kind, patient, and doting Goddess of life, hardened some that day. She still kept her sweet and loving aura as she treated most with love and kindness, but she despised Azreal. He was her enemy in her mind. He was the very incarnation of everything evil and bad in the world as that is what he was to her. And she made sure her people knew it as well.

Legends were made about the Stealer of Souls, the Grim Reaper, the Pale Horseman, and the Angel Of Dark. He was a villain, a scary story, a terrifying monster, and he was the thing responsible for every bit of pain humans felt when someone died. He was something she made sure humans feared instead of worshiped as he deserved no praise for his work.

And she didn't stop there.

She made sure the gods knew of his horrible deeds as well. She told them of how the humans would collapse when he was around. How they would go pale and become completely void of her light. He was a monster, something that made shivers run down the spines of all that saw him or even so much as heard his name. He was wrong, and he deserved no place with the other gods.

At first not all agreed with her, however once they saw the carnage of wars, the lifelessness in their eyes, their bodies that would turn blue from cold or lack of blood, once they saw the horrors that death brought... they all quickly discarded his place in any of the god's realms.

He was banished to a small place of his own that was falling apart and poorly built compared to the luxurious gold accented mansions the other gods had.
He was exiled, allowed to do his job but only as long as he made no contact with the others. After all, who would want to associate with such a creature?

But... what if said creature didn't want to be what he was? What if he hated his job as much as the others did? What if he hated life as much as she hated him? Not because of her treatment, no... not at all....

What if he hated her... because she's the one who created him in the first place when he didn't even want to exist?

And what if... he plans on killing her....so that he may die along with the souls of the fallen?

This is a story idea I've had for over a year. I'm sorry for posting it in oneshots but it was too long to put in Announcements. Let me know what you think of it. Also I'll be posting tomorrow- if I can -another chapter of TSoL or Oneshots. Thanks for your patience!

Oh, also I forgot to put that I might to a SDS version of this as well. So it might become a Melizabeth story.