From the eyes of a dragon

Creation

In the beginning, it was nothing. There was no space. An eternity passed in this state. The nothingness lasted, yet the nothing desired to be something, but there was nothing for it to turn into. This lasted for an eternity, but there was no time or space for anything to occur. Finally, when an eternity and an instant had passed, something came to nothing. With the coming of the first thing, came the coming of time. Thus, came space and all its occupants. At the start of time, space was cramped, and nothing was there to witness the ushering of creation. During this time, there was still a lot of nothing that made a void filled with microscopic specks of things. But nothing willed itself to be something, after which the first observer of things came about, and their name was Pyro. The void was small—so small that Pyro was wrapped around themselves, and the universe was their egg. For the first time in their existence, Pyro pushed against the barricade of nothing and ripped it open. This is the way the universe expanded. But Pyro overextended themselves and expanded with it. They felt their bodies stretch and elongate with it. Being the sole overseer for the first time, whatever Pyro thought and learned that they observed was what was happening. Thus, Pyro told the new force: Your name shall be gravity, and you shall rule over all matter. Then they saw the chaos of the unstable specks and knew their potential. Pyro knew that their potential should not be ruled by one force but by two. Thus, Pyro told the new forces, "Your name shall be known to those who find my specks, but I give you these names: strong and weak." As the specks became stable, energy encircled them. This too heralded a new force; thus, Pyro told it: "Your name shall be of two names: one magnetic and one found by those who seek it." This is how the second time came about, as Pyro oversaw the creation of the stable specks. This took one hundred times the time that the unstable specks took to be created out of nothing. Pyro then saw them truly and told them, "Your name shall be Pyro, and you shall rule over all things until they are nothing." Then came the third time. Pyro saw that the stable specks were attracted to each other. They were bound in two ways: one with one speck and one energy encompassing it, and two with two specks and two energies encompassing it. The third time was one of waiting, for it took a million times longer than the second. Then, when the time was right, Pyro spoke to the specks: "Alone, you are powerless, but together, you will form something a billion times greater." It was thus that the first star was made, and all subsequent stars were made. For the longest time, stars ruled over all matter, ruled over by Pyro. After some time, Pyro was stretched to such a size that their consciousness teetered on the edge of dissipating. So, Pyro sought after the first star and harnessed its power to stop themselves from expanding further. But this caused it to implode. Pyro was impressed by the majesty of the death of the star, so Pyro allowed all other stars to die like this. This also had aftereffects; the implosion allowed the specks to join themselves in ninety stable ways. Thus came the fourth age, the coming of three states. Every world was made, and every world died. All things came and went, all under the guiding claws and watchful eyes of Pyro. All things must become nothing, and that will be the fifth age, the age yet to come.

After some time had passed since the start of the fourth age, Pyro was watching a planet travel through the darkness, and they thought to themself, why should I be the only observer of all things? So, they started a search for a place to bring the second observer. This took one hundred times the length of the third age, but after a monumental search, they found the correct one, a planet with seven siblings and a sun. It was incomplete at that time, so Pyro shaped it until it was ready. This too took time, but such a fleeting time compared to the searching. Finally, Pyro took part of themselves and moulded into the form of the second observer. At the size that they were, Pyro had difficulty creating the second observer, as it was like a speck to them. But it was done, and it was placed on the chosen planet.

It was different to everything else in the universe. It was not alive nor was it dead. It was not like Pyro. It was what imperfect, yet it was the most beautiful thing in all the universe, but it knew it not as it knew nothing. It knew not what it was. It knew not Pyro, nor the loving eyes that followed it.