Love in the Time of Trepidation

Chapter 26: A Singularity

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Chapter 26

A Singularity

At the beginning, there was nothing.

Just a blank canvas of emptiness.

In that vast void, there was no life. No time. No space. No detritus. Nor emotion, willpower or knowledge. There was simply...existence, if that was what it could be called.

At some point, to which there was no relative measurement, an egg existed, and when it hatched, light was pooled across everything, giving shape and form. More than life, it was as if a sheer force of creation rippled about the universe. Lights appeared, as if little baubles, and throughout all of the expanse that spread to infinity, those lights created tunnels.

Still, there was no life.

Then, in a spontaneous moment, from the great light made of a thousand arms, three were crafted. One was made as if it was a diamond. The other was made to be a pearl. The remaining, leftover being was then crafted, whose only purpose was to be the equalizer between the two, that their great dimensions would not collide and cause disaster.

And from there the world, and life, began.

Akari gasped, her heart beating in her ears, and breath coming to her lungs as she found herself hurtling forth. Her mouth could hardly formulate speech, but her eyes could see, suspended in this strange place, unable to understand how she'd gotten here, or even where she'd come from. All she could remember was the blinding light of the thousand-armed being, as if she'd been there, watching the world be formed.

Where the great and mighty creatures were born, a mountain sprang up, twisting, spiraling into a great tower over all the world. Fields of green were created, the oceans were filled in. As if to master these elements, Akari watched as a great creature made of magma dragged the land in place, and one who belonged to the ocean filled the empty space with water.

Lightning flashed, and Akari gasped again, her memory rapidly catching up to her and how she had gotten here. At first, she thought it Giratina, but the image of that exiled one disappeared in the face of these other Legendary Pokémon, in control of the sea and land. They clashed, the thunder echoing, and Akari knew something was wrong. Had gone wrong.

"Someone..." she managed to croak out, her voice coming back into existence. "Someone lost something precious. A life?"

Speeding forward, snapping back, Akari wasn't sure which way to look, the world around her ever-changing. Shadow soon covered the land, and Akari could see the great Giratina screeching, roaring against the light that had created it until was cast into its own dimension. From there came the three red jewels, spinning and crackling until they locked around that dimension like a chain.

Mesprit. One of the lights shot off, and within Akari stirred emotion.

Azelf. Another went to a different direction, and she found her fist clasping, urging her body to move.

Uxie. The names were in her head, knowledge she shouldn't have known, but inexplicably did.

It was, in all essence, the birth of life in the world. The very creation of the universe where they stood. Akari wondered if, perhaps, she had been too late and Volo had succeeded in his mad ambition to create his own world. That felt off, but it was the only explanation she had for why she was seeing this now, little sense as it made.

And then the meteors came.

Like death from the sky, they fell. Perhaps they were always meant to, or perhaps they were simply the emptiness from a war in the sky. The answer may have been out there somewhere, but none of it mattered to those who landed on the surface.