Inspired by Endless Legends. I just couldn’t stand not using such great idea’s such as the idea of Dust as well as the lore of Auriga XD. (NOTE : THIS IS MERELY USING SOME OF THE MOST BASIC IDEA’S AND TWISTING THEM TO MY TASTE. THERE WILL BE NO ENDLESS, AND THE RESEMBLANCE TO ENDLESS LEGENDS ENDS AT DUST BEING A NANO PARTICLE)
This is my third FF, the other two sorta died prematurely…(I was lazy tehe)
Anyways, constructive feedback on what you guys want would be helpful. I’m trying to go for the rags to riches theme, as well as the dark hero theme as well.
Enjoy!!
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Gaia is dying. The very skies tore apart, raining fire and ashes down, the seas boiling as the ground quaked. Strange creatures running away from brimstone and fire as they prolonged the inevitable. Yet, as all things do, Gaia will calm. And give birth to new things.
For I am Gaia itself. Mother of all beings who live and die on this world. Many cycles have passed, giving birth to bloodthirsty creatures, who in time were replaced by wise scholars. Yet I see another cataclysm coming, and this will end the cycle. All will perish, even I, myself will dry out and disappear. I look at my children and see nothing but rabbles of sheep, fighting each other as they struggle for survival. Foolish creatures who look at tomorrow as if they would live forever. They steal, plunder and rape as they indulge themselves in a never-ending haze of pleasure and greed.
I look at them sadly, as they are nonetheless my children, and I can only look at them as a mother would. I gaze outwards, asking myself, Will they persevere and survive the coming calamity? Or will they perish like all those before them.
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The Year is A.A 3204, August 13th.
It has been 3204 years since After the Ascension, or A.A. Humanity left the burning wreckage that was Earth, and landed and colonised a new planet, settling for it after they searched and barely found a habitable world. They named it ‘Gaia’, after the Greek primordial of earth, and settled down, content with a single planet. Out of the 4 billion that was Earth’s last population count, only 2 million survived, barely a sustainable gene pool.
Humanity breathed out in relief, relaxing as they began their new life on a fresh planet. They built a single city, a monument to Earth, naming it ‘New Earth’, a rather silly name, yet it held value to those who survived.
Yet, calamity struck, destroying the brief visage of peace. Not only did newfound diseases with ought cures brought up, they faced new problems.
Other sentient races.
Dumbfound, humanity suffered great losses as they struggled against beings that looked like creatures from their myths. Human like creatures with long ears, as well as Beasts that walked on two legs. Dragon like creatures with adamantine scales, moving corpses of even their own kind as micro creatures took their shape.
Yet humanities greatest enemy was the very air itself. To the shock of mankind, the very air was filled with millions of grains of Dust, a strange nano technology that obeyed the mental brainwaves of other sentient beings, giving them power similar to magic, also giving birth to unnatural phenomenons around the planet. It took mankind a century until they adapted, as Dust had been killing them slowly but surely. The new generation could aptly use Dust, and were bred for war.
Fiercely they fought, and over the course of 430 years, humans created a new Nation, bound under a single flag, the flag of the United People of Earth. They established trade with the natives, exchanging gifts, as well as technology.
Time passed, and gradually mankind forgot about their roots, leaving only artefacts and legends about a journey amongst the stars.
This is where my story comes to fruit. This is where I started. It started….in darkness.
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Where……am I?
I could feel myself floating, lulled by a rocking motion as I “felt” myself.
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I…How did I end up like this? All I remember was the playing poker with my mercenary friends on a day off…
Out of habit, I tried to reach for some cigars, Cuban ones, but to my dismay, I couldn’t move my arms. Panicking, I soon found out that I couldn’t move at all.
Calm down…LIKE HELL I CAN CALM DOWN!! WHERE THE FUCK AM I????? WHERE ARE MY CIGS AND WHY CANT I MOVE!!!!! AAAARRGHGGHGHGH!!!!
Out of nowhere, a low grave female voice spoke.
“Peace….My child….”
Huh?
“Uhh….. Who are you and where the fuck am I?” I asked quite rudely. The disembodied voice chuckled, shaking the air? as it did so.
“Ah…It has been long…Since I have heard…Human speech…All that is left….Now are the howls…of wind…and the damned..”
“Excuse me? Can I get some answers here or do I have to solve some sort of bullshit puzzle over here?”
“Ha…Child…I am…Earth…Or the embodiment…of it…”
“Wait, what.”
“You…For some reason…your soul…wouldn’t recycle…properly…So I brought you here…To my plane…of Existence.”
“Waiiiiiiiiiittttttt a second. Let me get this clear. You are the embodiment of Earth?”
“Yes”
“My ‘soul’ wouldn’t recycle?”
“Yes”
“Hmmmmm…My bullshit senses are tingling.” Amused, Earth? laughed, chuckling with mirth as she heard my snide comment.
“Humans…truly are…amusing….”
Is…Is she giggling? I felt something like a vein popping as she didn’t stop.
“AHEM!”
“Ah…? Oh…Yes….Hmmm…Anyways…as I was saying…you are somewhat of an anomaly.”
“What?”
“For some reason…Your very soul is tainted with Dust…Which is odd due to the fact that you lived and died on Earth…Where there is no Dust…also…it is your soul…which is tainted…”
“Uhhhh…”
“The Dust is stopping you from continuing the cycle that all follows…What to do with you…”
“Wait. So I’m dead right? And your saying my soul can’t be blanked out right?”
“Yes…”
I’m getting a headache from this woman’s slow voice.
“If that’s true then can’t you reincarnate me on Earth? Like send me back?”
“Child…” Earth spoke in a sad tone. “It has been nigh 4 millennia since you died…I…Am no longer inhabitable as well…”
“….”
“Fear not though…survivors of the crisis have found a new world…They named it Gaia…and they are living there…If you wish…I could send you there…but from then on…you would be under Gaia’s jurisdiction…”
“(*Sigh)..It’s better than nothing…But seriously what happened to you then?”
“My dear, dear child…you children have ruined me, exploited me, and destroyed me, as you always have. Yet I have always loved you, as only a mother can. I am desolate, empty, a mere shell of myself that is a wasteland. I hope you children will treat Gaia better than you have to me.”
“…..Ok. It was nice meeting you. Damn, this is a weird dream. So, wake up me! Let’s get back to my cigs” I ‘turned’ around and shut off all my senses, hoping to escape this joke of a situation. Yet, as soon as I said that, I heard a deadly growl of a feral monster.
“Do I look like I am joking, young one? If so, I wonder if I have to be…Serious.” Earth rumbled as she shook the entirety of the place we were in.
I shivered as I ‘turned’ back towards her, or at least her general direction as I couldn’t see.
“You pathetic excuses for children have ruined my life! Polluting, extorting, even driving off your own brothers and sisters to extinction….!!!”
Two large red eyes suddenly loomed in front of me, glaring at me as I listened to her accusations. Abruptly, the eyes closed, and a large sigh could be heard.
“Yet, who am I to blame you. I am your mother, and you are my children. Child, you are the only child I have left, the only one who remembers me. I hope you live a good life, as I am soon to die. Take care my child, and remember me.”
I lost conscience as Earth swept me away.