Christmas Post: Fire and Ice
Merry merry Christmas to all the people all around the world!! 🎄🎄🎁💙💝💖
And here is also my promised story, although it has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas.
Title: Fire and Ice
Author: hard... Me of course
Rating: G
Genre: A bit philosophical maybe...
Type: Oneshot, maybe the prologue to a chaptered, but I still haven't decided wether I'm going to write it or not.
Fandom: none
Inspired by: KATTUN - fire and ice
Once upon a time, when the universe was still young and the earth didn´t exist yet, there, in the whole space of the universe, lived two dragons. One of them was big, orange and red, his wings were firestorms and his breath was pure flames. Those flames were a dazzlingly bright, white light, it was so hot that it could have melted stone into a sea in a matter of seconds. The dragon´s character was just like his outside: bright and quick-tempered, explosive and hot. Everything the dragon did he did with his heart, not hesitating once to think about his doings.
The other one was smaller, more delicate than the first dragon. His colors were blue and white, his wings seemed to be fragile like glass, made from frozen light and his breath froze even darkness and light. His character was just like his appearance, totally opposite of the fire dragon: cold and patient, calculating and rational. His heart was frozen from his own coldness, useless for the dragon who always only listened to his brain.
Those dragons were siblings, twins to be exact. They were born to create the universe, to fill it when there was nothing and to change it. Their parents were none other than fate and destiny, the most powerful phenomenons in the universe. The fire dragon, Kasai, and the ice dragon, Kouri, didn´t have to do so much with each other at first: Kasai took one side of the space as his, Kouri was okay with the other one. At first nothing happened: those two, young creatures stayed on their respective side, busy with themselves. They learned about themselves and each other, about their tasks and about the future. Or, they should have learned.
Kouri was a good student; he was learning easily and with fun and couldn´t get enough from it. But Kasai didn´t really care about all those theoretical things. He tried to be patient, knowing that he should know how to handle the powers inside him, but as soon as he knew the basics, he didn´t study anymore. Carelessly he began to play with his powers, filling the whole space with flames once his experiment failed. Kouri, knowing what his brother´s carelessness could cause, woke from learning and fought against the flames, freezing them into thousands of spheres of lights.
Not satisfied with only averting the pandemonium, Kouri went to Kasai, trying to explain and to make him realize his mistake. Kasai didn´t listen, but instead experimented with his powers again, accidently burning Kauri´s left wing in the process. Kouri then, to make his brother listen to him, froze the none-substance around Kasai, making him unable to move for a while. At that point, Kasai´s patience was gone.
With a loud roar he shattered his cage. Doing so, one of his claws broke and levitated through the nothingness, getting in between the two dragons that were eyeing each other with suspect.
“Why did you do that?” Kasai asked Kouri, holding his anger.
“To make you listen.” The latter answered calmly.
“I didn´t want to. Why should I listen to you?”
“Because I know better! You´ll ruin everything if you don´t listen.”
”I won´t!!! You are not better than me!!” Kasai roared, his anger breaking out of him, sending a deathly ray of flames towards Kouri, who, knowing what his brother would do, sent his freezing breath into the opposite direction.
Both of their powers met in the middle, where the piece of broken claw still floated through the nothingness. Fire and Ice encased it at exactly the same time, mixing the three different essences. In a matter of seconds, the whole thing exploded.
When the terrible bright light was gone again, the two dragons, now not fighting anymore, could see a strange little sphere levitating in the middle of something that looked like the melted essence of Kouri´s wings. The sphere itself was black and red, it seemed like the substance of Kasai´s claw encased in a ball of fire. Over and over again the fire tried to escape, but in the end, it surrendered. Then, in some craters, something slightly blue, liquid, began to gather, slowly growing and growing until it filled about 2/3 of the planet.
Then, on the still black surface of those parts that weren´t covered with that blue liquid, something green began to spread, and slowly those parts began to move.
“It´s great, ne… watching how something grows” a voice suddenly said.
There they were, fate and destiny. They were looking strange: they were small, just as big as the tip of the dragons´ claws, with only two legs, their body was strangely upright, their neck strangely short and the head round shaped, without any fur and scales on their bodies but much long silky fur on top of their heads. They also had front feet, or kind of something, but they were somehow next to the neck, a bit higher than where wings were supposed to be and their claws were soft and agile, somehow laced together.
“Inochi, Unmei.” The dragons said, bowing their heads.
“It´s okay, Kasai, Kouri” Unmei said and stroked the dragon´s heads lovingly.
“Did we disappoint you?” Kasai asked, still enjoying his mother’s touch.
“No.” Inochi answered. “This is what your task was. The two of you created, unknowingly, in this space of emptiness and nothingness a place where life will grow, where the future is not empty anymore. This is what the most powerful race will look like. See, their era will begin soon. It´s your task now to watch over them so that their future will last long. When this planet dies, it will take the future with it. Then, this universe will be a black hole forever and you are captured here for eternity. Watch it well.”
Listening to their father´s words, awe overcame them, and once again, they bowed.
“We will watch it carefully.” Kasai promised from the bottom of his heart.
Kouri nodded, then he asked one question that bothered him a bit: “What will happen to you? You always just spoke of us but not of you.”
It took them a few seconds and an exchanged look before Unmei answered: “We will vanish from our physical forms. We, too, will watch over the life on that planet, but in a different way than you will. We will watch what you can´t see, correct where you won´t find a fault and encourage where you can´t see demoralization. We will guide the earth to its´ final goal by guiding each and every life on this world.”
With those last words Unmei took away her hands from her sons´ heads taking Inochi´s in hers.
“Goodbye my dear sons. Might you reach your aim.”
Then their forms began to glow, glowing and getting brighter until the light collapsed into a blinding lightning.
The two dragons looked at each other. “Let´s fulfill our task.”
Then their whole attention lay upon the young world under their care.