Fate!
Fate, it is a mere word, yet because of it countless innocent life was sacrificed!, countless great empire of the past have fallen!
Majority of people believe that fate is development of events outside of human control, regarded as predetermined by supernatural power.
Some of these people say that what will happen will happen, it no use for us to stop it, as we human are powerless against it.
While other refuse to surrender against it, with the help of the seer, fortune teller, feng shui master and prophet they look into the future and try to change the so called 'fate'.
Without they realize, the fate that they try to change happen because of themselves. They are the one who make it happen, the 'fate' that they was so against and hate was they creation, the fruit that come into being by hard labor that they commit.
Minority of people believe that fate is just a coincidence, it happen because some at right place and right time. Something amazing will happen because of someone or something was at right place and right time.
Both of these type of people always argue with one another about they idea, fate and coincidence.
Yet years passed, both of them fail to make other believe what they believe.
Be it fate or coincidence no one know which one is the truth.
Young child with short hair sitting on wooden stairs, in back of him was haiden(hall of worship), in this shabby shrine it just a big wooden box that worshiper use to throw coins, shimenawa(enclosing rope) and one pair of old bells.
He is Maeda Abe, today is 19-2-2003. It was his 3rd birthday.
Abe was sensible child, he did not make things difficult for his grandpa like crying whole night and make the old man staying up late with his tantrum.
Today, the old priest give him a present. It a old coin tie with red string, as whole it a necklace and charm.
Fiddle with the coin like any children will, Abe keep tossing the coin to guess which side it will landed on his palm.
On his shoulder there is young crow perch on it. The crow is small as the toddler hand, it have black feathers like night sky without moon nor star.
Most people can see that there is great intelligence in the bird eyes. Yet it just stand on the toodler shoulder quietly, as he enjoys watching the child having great time playing with the coin.
He remembers that this coin given to his master when his master reach 2 years old, the old priest say that this necklace was a great protective charm.
It was given to old priest by the old priest teacher, and the old priest teacher's got it from his teacher.
The history of the coin necklace was lost as even the old priest doesn't remember who was the first owner, what he know that the amulet was passing down from one generation to other as good luck charm.
ting~ The coin was flip again.
clap~ The coin was captured and landed on back of his hand.
"Please be tail... please be tail" Abe was hoping in his mind.
if it land on tail it will become 4 time in row that the coin landed on same side. He was trying to break 5 time streak.
"Yes! it was tail!" shouted Abe excitedly.
"One more, one more and it will be 5 in row!" excited Abe was ready to fling the coin into air and capture it again.
ting~ the coin was tossed and spinning in the air.
But this time there is no clapping sound as Abe miss the coin and it passed right through his finger.
"No! my 5 tail streak!"
Maybe it was fate, maybe it was coincidence that he missed the coin.
The coin landed on the ground. But it did not stop spinning and turning. When the coin about to landed on head, the young crow on his shoulder suddenly spread it wings it eyes was focused on the coin, it dark and shining feathers stood straight.
The crow can sense something very very dangerous, so much so it send shivers on his tiny spine.
In his live as chaos crow be it this life or countless life before, he never feel so threatened. He feel an aura so ancient that predate chaos, no he feel it more ancient than chaos and time itself.
The small crow feel that if the coin landed on head not only he will suffer fate worse than eternal damnation but his master will receive more horrible thing than him.
With all his might the crow jump into the sky, his body become big and bigger until it cover half of earth size.
He is no longer a small and cute crow but a massive crow that have 6 eyes on each side of his face, if we look carefully in his eye's there is galaxy spinning in it.
Albeit he just awaken from deep slumber and only possessed 50% of his original power, it enough to destroy whole solar system over and over again.
"Caw!"
Enrage the chaos crow shouted and use all his power to flip the coin into tail, all his power was use but the coin barely move into standing.
With no other options left the crow shouted anxiously.
"What are you waiting for!? are you..."
Before the chaos crow can finish his shouting, sound of sea wave and rocking ship can be heard to whole earth than angry shouted of sailor ringgin throughout earth.
" Raise the sail and save the captain!"
"Aye!"
"Aye!"
"Aye!"
"Aye!"
The sound of wave, ship and sailor all come from image behind the young boy.
With all its power the ship and the crew mate helping the chaos crow to turn the coin to it tail side. But they massive power only can be used to make the coin stand and not fall to neither tail nor head.
Ting!
Just right after the coin reach it standing position sound of small metal clashing into each other can be heard and time suddenly come into stop.
It not just time on earth and milky way but whole universe became freeze. Then from the old coin come a consciousness that so old that words ancient and pre-time is an insult to it.
It come out as gasius entity, it open it eye's and look at the young Maeda and turn to his back and look at sky.
If other being saw this scenery they maybe surprise, but he did not. It live long enough that nothing can surprise him anymore.
It was there when It friend created the cycle of chaos and order, It was there when It friend create Universe, When time but a nothing significant and just created by it species.
This gasius form is not even it true form, it just remaining speck of it consciousness. But if he wanted to be reborn and live again with all it power it can do it easily, it a being of eternal.
But this eternal thing is no blessing to it species, at first they excited after they created cycle of chaos and order.
After more than septilion cycle, they can't hold it anymore, it drive them crazy. All of them destroyed themselves with nothing can make them return.
All of them except it, but the thing it leave behind was this single coin. A coin that when it flip in certain time will bring a speck of his consciousness back from enternal nothingness, a coin that when at certain time landed on head It will granted unimaginable destruction to universe while if it landed on tail It will granted blessing to whom who spin it.
Its the last thing It do out of whim, a promise that It make to Itself, The last thing before It be gone for eternity.