Elements of Love

Chapter 7: a Vision of Fire

"Once there was a floating island larger than any planet you could see. On this island, there were 2700 strong deities, Gods and Goddesses, each looked over a part of life. There was, as in most societies, a hierarchy, the weakest, youngest, or newest deities at the bottom, and five at the top, the eldest and arguably the strongest of those five, was also the least interested in power, he was known as the element keeper.

The island itself had a core made of a gem, it was called the crystal of creation, as it held the eighteen things needed to create a universe and was the most valuable thing on the island. The element keeper had the ability to harness the crystal's power in his staff, which had a small shard of the crystal inside of it and was bound to him by the god of connections, a close friend of his.

The island was prosperous, and most of the deities were content with that life; but one was most certainly against it. Her name was Agonia, goddess of pain. She was one of the deities who felt as though their power was more so a curse than a blessing. She felt pain anytime any living being felt pain, it was agony.

Agonia, in a fit of rage, killed all the gods, knowing how each of them hurt the most. Manipulation, weak points, torture and threats, she used all of these tactics and more to destroy each and every god; and she was efficient. She went after gods of wisdom and tactics first, ones who could plan around her, then it was the gods with few connections, the isolated ones, but she knew that this couldn't be kept a secret, and there were gods that she would be unable to kill, like the five at the top, the deities of luck, emotion, matter, growth, and most problematic of them all, the element keeper.

It was difficult, but eventually, she managed to kill the god of emotion and the god of matter, along with the goddess of growth. The goddess of luck was away from the island, along with the deities of strength, speed, evasiveness, accuracy, wisdom, intelligence, defense, and magic. The other gods were dead aside from a handful. Two gods decided to side with Agonia, the god of hounds, and the god of cephalopods, who each gave her a gift. The god of hounds gave her a pack of seven hell hounds, who were the most ferocious and deadly hounds around the size of an actual wolf. The god of cephalopods gave her deus polypus, an octopus the size of mountains, and one that could regenerate and fly.

With these gifts, the handful of gods left knew that they had to come up with a plan. The god of connections, the element keeper, and the goddess of future outcomes made a plan. They couldn't survive, but they could stop Agonia from killing their creations, the many universes created by the deities of the island, they would go to one of their first planets, one with many flaws, and grant eighteen people the powers of the elements; they could stop her.

Agonia saw this and went to that planet killing the eighteen using her tactics she knew so well. They gave her the nickname of 'the witch' which Agonia very much enjoyed.

These eighteen had not enough time or effort, but the goddess of future outcomes saw a way, she told the god of connections to make and send nineteen weapons to that same planet, and send the small crystal's power from the element keepers staff into an infant, along with the eighteen elements, but before doing that, she told the element keeper to put the power of the crystal in an infant, five months earlier.

The element keeper agreed but told her that it may destroy that world, and all that energy could be too much for it to handle; but the god of connections stepped in, telling the two that he would not let the world break. He used most of his power doing that, and the last of it sending the weapons and powers to earth, he was too weak, so when the witch attacked them, the goddess of future outcomes, who had no offensive powers, the now overly weakened god of connections, and the staff less, crystal less, element less element keeper had nothing. The witch saved him for last. The element keeper talked with the witch, not begging for mercy, but apologizing for not being able to help her feel less pain, he then lowered his head, and it was removed. The gods of cephalopods and hounds saw this and decided to send an ancient script down to earth, to warn the next elementors of what would come, naturally, the witch saw this and killed the god of hounds; and now she is coming for me; she wants to kill all living beings, so she no longer feels pain.. I'm sorry I sided with her." Phaze read to me. Telling me the whole prophecy.