ELEMENT

Chapter Fourteen: The Celestial and the Prophecy

Meadow Keynote and Cole Daley were not siblings by blood.

Both of them came to be a part of the Keynote family through necessity, two missing parts of the four-piece puzzle that was this ragtag bunch of a mixed Element family. Which, over 10,000 years ago, was extremely frowned upon.

Peter and Eileen Keynote were married. Peter was a Dark Element, and Eileen was a Light Element. Despite the drastic differences in magic, occupation and personality, they both loved each other dearly. The only thing that was the same between them was their looks.

At a young age, Eileen was told she'd never be able to have children. It was devastating news for her, and yet when Peter was told, he didn't mind. His love for his wife overpowered any discrepancies they may have in their experience with children.

But Peter and Eileen both still wanted someone to keep the family line going. So, one day, they adopted a newborn Dark Element. A little ginger boy with the brightest blue eyes. His name at birth, they were told, was Cole Daley. And because it was a very symphonic name, they kept it that way.

Peter, however, was never satisfied.

He worked as a self-sufficient scientist, specializing in Element alchemy. Yet another thing extremely frowned upon, despite how he was very gifted at it. And he knew just as much as Eileen did that the only thing they wanted was a child of their very own, as biological as the earth around them.

So, he experimented. He tested and tested and tested, and in one day, he was lucky enough to crack the code.

This test Peter called Experiment 1. And he swore off Element alchemy from that day forward.

When Cole was four years old, the news had come about that Eileen, through some miracle, was pregnant. With how excited she was, she kept everything about the child a mystery to herself.

And when the time came, Eileen had given birth to a beautiful baby girl, who looked nearly identical to her mother. The girl was called Meadow Rose, after two very good friends Eileen had at the time of her pregnancy.

But if Meadow wasn't a miracle enough, they got especially lucky with her Element. The very same day she was born, it was announced that Meadow Keynote was a Celestial.

The chances of having a Celestial child are so rare, that even at that time, it had been over thousands of years since any other Celestial had been born—so long ago that people thought they were fiction, the stuff of legend.

In the world of the Element Kingdom, supernatural deities and entities existed after death. Some would become angels or demons, some simply spirits that roamed and affected small things as they pleased. But they were always bound to the place that they died.

But some would become gods and demigods, rulers of the universe and hierarchs of all that existed. Celestials, though immortal to natural causes of death, became gods after death, and chose where each dying person would categorize in spirit.

A Celestial is born on Earth through pure luck and choice. A Light Element and a Dark Element must come together, and their Elements must mix exactly equally—50% Light and Dark on all sides.

And, through this extremely rare happenstance, there would be no dominant Element, and a god would examine this soul, see into its future, and determine where it would go. If it wasn't a good fit, the god would choose Light or Dark and leave it at that.

But if this soul, this child could do wonderful things, and be destined for something greater than their paved path, the god would grant it powers beyond wildest imagination, and declare it a Celestial, a god on Earth waiting to take its place as the next ruler of the universe.