Power and Pride

Claire O'Brien

9/22/14

Power and Pride

Malian, the god of all knowledge, was very a lonely god. He sat up in his kingdom of vast emptiness and realized he was very unsatisfied with what he had. He decided he wanted to create something much bigger than what he had. For 40 days straight Malian concentrated and meditated until he created the beautiful goddess, Alia. Alia became the goddess of love. Malian created this beautiful goddess to be his queen in his empty kingdom.

Soon Alia was heavy with their first baby daughter. When the daughter was born, clouds started to form around them until they had an entire sky kingdom. This signifyed that their daughter was to be the goddess of the sky and air. They decided to name her Cielo.

Malian and Alia were eager to have more children and so not much later Alia was ready to give birth again. First Alia gave birth to a handsome baby boy and much to their surprise a girl came right after. As the twins were born, the land below them grew bigger and bigger below and waves of water came crashing in to create the earth we live on today. They named the boy, Adam, the god of the strong earth. They then named the girl Aqua, the goddess of the free flowing water.

Still unsatisfied, Malaian and Alia still wanted build a bigger empire so yet again Alia was pregnant. She soon gave birth to a stunningly gorgeous baby girl, and when she was born, slowly all life forms began to form on the green earth below them, first grass and flowers of all Variety sprouted up from the ground, next was trees and shrubbery that grew and grew. Once the earth was covered in all imaginable plant life, small animals appeared. It started with ants and other insects, bob cats and foxes and soon enough there was everything from rats to horses roaming the new earth. Then, right before they're very eyes, two humans arrived on the bountiful earth. Malian and Alia were shocked with the amount of power their small daughter was destined to have so they named her Natura, Mother Nature, mother of all life.

Malian and Alia happily ruled over all 4 of their powerful children but both of them were becoming more and more greedy with how much power they wanted so not surprisingly, Alia was yet again pregnant with twins. She gave birth to two baby boys and when they were born it was light and dark all at once, but soon the darkness over powered and put a dark cloud over their kingdom. Malian and Alia didn't think much of it because the cloud vanished in a matter of seconds, they were mostly happy to had gained more power over more of their children. One of the handsome boys was to be the god of light, the god of the heavens, named Luce. The other baby boy wasn't quite like any other child they had had because this boy was the god of darkness, the god of the underworld, named Sombra. Sombra was the first of all their children to not have pure intentions and who was genuinely evil.

Milan and Alia carefully watched over their powerful children and they decided that it would be a good idea to see which of their children could reach their full potential first. Of course Milian and Alia weren't ever going to be ready to give up their crown so they made the prize to the have reward be crowning them as the most powerful of the all the children and one day that child would be heir to the throne.. When they told their children about this competition, everyone of the young gods and Goddesses wanted this title so they got to work immediately.

Cielo trained in her beloved sky kingdom, practicing creating storms and changing the sky all day long. Adam practiced day and night making mountains and cutting out canyons while his twin, Aqua worked hard asking the rivers flow and changing the tides. Natura worked day and night on creating new animals and life forms on earth. Luce spent his time putting light on all the kingdoms. All of these children worked extremely hard, but no one worked quite as hard as sombra, the the evil sibling. Sombra worked on creating darkness and distress as he worked on his evil plans. As all of children got older they also earned more power and they got closer and closer to what they were destined to be.

Soon enough the day came where Milian and Alia were ready to crown the deserving child. First they looked at Cielo and the sky kingdom she had created. Next they looked at Adam and the earth that he had made. After they looked at Aqua and all of the free flowing waters she had worked very hard on. Milian and Alia were very impressed with Natura and all of the life forms that she had made with her own two hands. They were amazed at Luce when they saw all of the light he had created. The last person that Alia and Malian looked at was the youngest of all the children, Sombra.

Sombra had nothing but impure intentions, quite unlike the rest of the children. Sombra had been working by far the hardest of all of the children, but he wasn't doing the same type of work as his other siblings. Sombra had been studying ways that he could overpower the kingdom and finally take his reign as king.

Malian and Alia soon visited Sombra to see what he had been working on but once they got there, instead of sombra showing something to do with his element he immediately put a spell over Milian and Alia. As soon as he put the spell on them they immediately left to crown the best child.

All the children stood around their mother and father anxiously waiting to see who was going to be crowned as the superior god. When Alia and Milian Called up sombra the rest of the children had a confused and jealous look on their face and that was exactly what Sombra was going for.

The next day when Alia and Milan finally woke out of their spell they were confused, but once they realized what had happened, it was too late. Sombra had already came and took them as prisoners in the dark, terrifying underworld. When Sombra returned to the kingdom he put a dark cloud over the entire kingdom. When his siblings came to see what was going on they immediately knew that Sombra had taken over the kingdom. Ciello immediately tried to stop him by taking away his dark cloud with her powers of wind,  but she was no concern to Sombra so he took her as a prisoner in the underworld to join Milian and Alia.

Next, Aqua and Adam joined forces and used their powers of water and earth  to try and overpower their evil brother and save their family, but they were no match for Sombra's far superior powers. Sombra simply overpowered the twins and sent them down to be prisoners in the underworld like the rest of their family.

Natura knew that she had to do something to save her family and she knew she had a better shot than most of her siblings because she was so powerful but as hard as she tried, she was still not strong enough to overpower Sombra and his evil empire. So she was also sent to be a prisoner in the underworld.

Luce, Sombra's twin, knew that he was the only one left and he knew that he had strong powers but he knew he wouldn't be able to overpower his twin, so he had to earn Sombras trust. Instead of fighting with Sombra Luce went and told Sombra that he was on his side that he was here to help him take over the kingdom. Slowly Luce earned Sombras trust and when he knew he had it, Luce knew that it was time to save his family and his kingdom.

One day when Sombra was sitting lazily on his throne barking orders at everyone around the kingdom,  Luce knew this was it. Luce walked in casually and walked up to sombra, using his powers, luce threw his twin brother against the wall. Sombra was simply shocked and before he could scramble to his feet, Luce had already had him pinned to the wall again and with one more powerful push Sombra smashed through the glass wall, falling far, far below where Luce could see. With this, Luce Sombra to the underworld.

Luce rushed down to the dungeon that Sombra had kept his family in and let them free. Luce was welcomed by hugs and surprised, yet relieved familiar faces of his family. they all returned to the kingdom and begun to rebuild what Sombra had so easily destroyed.

A few days later and after a lot of discussing Milian and Alia brought all of their children
together. Mailian announced that he and his queen Alia were still going to crown one of the children as the most powerful and the heir of the throne to  the genuinely deserving child. So without hesitation they placed a shiny gold crown on Luce's head.