Reflecting on Chaos

[Admin;; Aki]

We all knew it would happen. That one day she would find a vessel and destroy all that he had made right. All that we had protected for all this time.

Elysium...

Our dear world. So torn apart. Many many years ago, even before Lenoria and her siblings, there was nothing. Just the sea. In the sea, I found her. Chaos. Nothing but darkness swirled around her. It was frightening at first. But we ignored it. We built. trying to introduce some light onto this tiny planet. Ground was raised, flora and fauna was placed. Things that started to make everything beautiful. Sunlight and life.

But we had been wrong to ignore Her, and her Darkness. Storms wrought the lands we had made, floods and earthquakes tore apart the land, volcanoes erupted, and slowly everything we had built was devoured once more by the sea.

I was sent to investigate Her. I was terrified, something I had never felt before. I was only a small part of the Old Ones. The Creationists. This... Chaos... This was new to us. As I got closer. I could almost hear her laughter. Everything was cold, dark, and something ate away in the back of my mind, screaming at me to turn around. It wasn't long before her tendrils of Madness gripped me tight. I struggled, relentlessly I struggled. But just as I thought I was going to lose myself to it, I felt everything loosen. Her grip, the Darkness, the Chaos.

I awoke in the Realm, shivering, still dripping wet from my time in the sea. They had told me that I had been used as bait. That my Father, our Father, had made that decision, to trap the Chaos away. To lock her up in a tiny place, and bury her beneath the center of the planet. At the time I was relieved. It was over for me. For us. Chaos had been defeated.

We finished our job, Elysium had been built, in all the glory and perfection that we had wanted. And we left, leaving behind Lenoria, Ameius, and Kaemiri. We had hoped they would make such beautiful creations to go on our beautiful little planet. And we forgot about them. For centuries, millenia, we forgot about them. Then it hit our ears. Lenoria had sacrificed herself for her people. Ameius had created something called Murder, Greed, and Madness had returned. Kaemiri came to us with a most desperate plea. She had felt the ground shake, seen something erupt from the mountains. She was convinced it was no longer safe for them to be on Elysium. Our Father agreed, and pulled Kaemiri and Ameius back from the planet, leaving its inhabitants to survive on their own.

I had been told many times to give up on it. Elysium was lost to us. It would never be a place for us again. But I simply couldn't allow it. I pleaded and pleaded, until finally I was allowed to return, eons had passed to them. They had grown, and yet, were still as far apart as ever...



When I returned. I could feel it. I could feel...Her...

Chaos.

I ventured to the mountains, where Kaemiri had said something was released. And there, I saw it. Her cage. Inside, she was laughing. She told me that someday, history would repeat itself, and that when it did, she would finally be free. I wish I had known then what I know now...

She had been right....

And now... She is free...

TABLE BY CHI OF ADOXOGRAPHY!