The First 8
The 8 Siblings In the beginning there was One Mother and One Farther. The two grew lonely as they had no children to care for. They were unsure of just how many children they should have, or what kind of children for there was nothing but them and the scaled one. The scaled one was always far away though, and did not bother them.
Mother had an idea first for a child. “Farther, I know how we should make the first child. Let him bring us light and warmth. This way the next children will be able to see and stay warm.”
Farther nodded his head and agreed.
So the two went at the task and created their first son, Eternal First Flame. He was a reckless youth, who ran about the void they lived in. After awhile Mother and Farther decided it was time to make Eternal First Flame a sister. Farther spoke on his idea for this.
“Mother, Flame is a good son, but he is hard to control and tends to run amok easily. Let us make his sister, the 2nd child, able to help keep him in line. As Flame makes everything here hot, his sister shall help keep him and we cool.”
Mother agreed and they went at the task of creating the 2nd child, Flame’s sister. Thus Beautiful Sea was created. Flame ran over to Sea right away upon her creation. He was excited to have a sister. The two ran off to play. At first it seemed they got along well, but soon it become apparent that Sea controlled Flame too much, and his Fire couldn’t reach as far or wide as it use to.
“Mother, Farther!” Flame came to the Parents yelling. “I am glad you gave me Beautiful Sea, but she never lets me have any fun! Every time I try to fill the void with warmth and light, she puts me out with her water!”
“This is concerning.” Replied the Parents. They also noticed that small white puffs of clouds had been created by the two siblings playing. For awhile they thought what to do. Perhaps another child was needed. Farther motioned towards the small puffs of clouds. “These have given me an idea Mother. Let us make another son. He will provide us with a motion that will push these clouds away and help keep Flame and Sea under control.” Mother agreed and so the two set to making the 3rd child, and named him Roaring Wind.
Thus Wind spun into existinance and started to play with his brother and sister. For a time, things were good. All the while, the scaled one watched.
The void was now filled with Light, warmth, water, wind, clouds, steam, sky, air. However, it all floated around with no sense of order. Mother and Farther came to their children one day.
“Children.” Mother and Farther said. “Look at this mess. Although we are proud of you and you have filled the void with your playing, it has no order. This is a mess, please clean it up so that we might have some sense of order, this shall make your parents happy and not have to worry.”
The children, not wanting to anger their parents and prove they were all good children set about the task of cleaning up. This was no easy task. Flame tended to burn away the clouds, while Sea tended to put out anything Flame did, meanwhile Wind kept blowing everything away that Sea did.
“This is not working brothers! We have to think of something else.” Said Sea.
“I agree big sister, but what… there is no place for us to store anything, shall we go ask Mother and Farther?” Replied Wind.
“No! We must show them that we are clever and resourceful! Let us think of a plan or find one and bring it to them. That way we shall earn their respect!” Cried Flame.
The 3 agreed this was a good idea. So they sat and thought. Suddenly Wind clapped his hands together, which blew everyone away a little.
“I know, why don’t we ask the scaled one!”
“Him?” replied Sea, “He is kind of scary though… he just sits so far away from us and watches. Plus he is so large, almost as big as Mother and Farther.”
“I’m not afraid of him! Let us go, I shall protect my little brother and sister from harm!”
So the 3 children went up to the scaled one. He was large indeed. His two large yellow eyes watched the 3 children coming towards him, a mass of fire, water and wind. Although he rarely moved, he now did so. His coils starts to unravel and he stood up, his 5 pairs of massive wings stretching out to full length. He had been watching and listening and was hoping they would come to him.
“The Three Original Children, why have you come to me? What could I possible have for you?” The Scaled One bellowed out.
Sea, being the most polite of the three stepped forward and bowed. Water poured across the void and spilled over the Scaled One’s feet.
“Please excuse us Scaled One, but as you can see we have made a mess of the void. Mother and Farther are mad at us and we want to impress them with a plan. However we can not think of any as we are still young. You seem very old and wise though so we came to you for help.”
The Scaled One’s eyes focus on the young Sea, sending shivers down her body. Even Flame was shaking a little, with Wind behind him shaking even more.
The Scaled One laughed.
“Ah, is that all? You can ask help from me anytime. After all, I have known your parents for a long time, helping out their children would be an honor. As for your problem I may have an idea.”
The children’s’ eyes lit up at this and started jumping up and down.
“Now listen carefully. You need a place to store everything, here in the void that is very hard. Because of your nature children, you will always move things everywhere without control. So you should ask your parents to create a place to store things, this way you will be able to sort everything. Please remember that I helped you in the future, for I might ask for a favor in return.”
The children thanked the Scaled One, and started to run off. They told their parents about the idea. Mother and Farther nodded and agreed.
“We shall create a new child then.” Mother and Farther said.
“This time, let us create a daughter who will help our children store everything they have created. Also this child will have to be strong for she will support everything.” Mother suggested.
Farther agreed and so the two went to the task of creating the 4th child, who would be there 2nd daughter. She was one of the more difficult creations and finally after a bit of time their 4th child formed into the void, she was Gaia the Keeper.
Gaia quickly set about her task and created a sphere out of all the materials the others had. She formed the fire with water, wind with fire, water with wind, and in this she threw into the mixture, stone. The other children looked on in fascination. Even though Gaia was so young, she was clearly very smart and claver. Gaia turned to them when done.
“Here I have created a planet; here we can store our things. We can play here, Sea you shall be in the sky, on the stone, and fill the planet with oceans. Fire, you shall be deep in the planet to keep it warm, and I have created a planet just for you as well. It is your planet and you can do with it what you will. It shall give light to the planet I have created for all of us. Wind, you shall pass over the entire planet, moving the clouds, stirring the seas, and brining air to everything. In this way we shall have some order for our things and our parents will not be cross with us.” The other 3 children tackled their youngest sister in joy and all four went to play. The parents knew the children had asked the Scaled One, and they looked to him. He watched, and then grinned. “Children.” Said the Parents. “Isn’t there something you’re forgetting to tell us?”
The children looked shy and then admitted to their parents that they had help from the Scaled One in their plan.
