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Chapter 2 - THE CREATION

The First, After the creation. An and Theia found each other and hence forth their First born. Arthina.

Arthina was bestowed a gift, a gift to make life to live in the world they created. Not knowing what to make she stared at the sky, seeing how the stars shines in the sky and how the day swallows the night.

She created Jhaimandr, who was called a Dragon of Creation. With scales that shines in the darkness and eyes as blue as the sky in the morning day. And forth the first inhabitant of Antheia. He flew in the lands and the sky mapping the world for days and night. Then he lies under in the center of the land.

As he sleeps, one scale fell from his skin. It fell on the water and And illuminated the oceans. Seeing how lonely Jhaimandr is, Arthina tried to make another, but to no avail. She went to her mother and asked for help. Theia pointed on the sea and show how empty it is. Then Arthina saw the scale that fell and saw the emptiness it has. She picked the scale and gave it form there was born the maiden of the sea, Phortana.

Phortana as she was born, she has no will, no mind, no heart. An saw his daughter's creation, and gave it the mind and knowledge, while Theia gave it heart and will. Jhaimandr felt a new presence in his sleep so he stood up and searched. Then she spawn from underneath the ocean on to the surface. Jhaimandr saw the flashing light illuminating from her skin. He knew that she came from him. He approached her with haste and glee.

She touched his head and illuminates the land, The water went up and covered both of them and Jhaimandr start to open his mouth and spoke words. Phortana shared her gift of knowledge to Jhaimandr, while he gave his gift of the sea over her, and she became the Empress of the Sea.

Then she stoped her pursuit of creation and went to the land to be with her children. Baffled by her discission An asked her the reason. She picked a flower and saith,

> *"The World is Vast and Wide, the land for existence has yet to come. But as the Seed has made to the center shall all the Faces will bear the Song of unspeakable Beauty."*

With her power she formed lands that touches other lands, seas that touches other seas. She separated the land and the water, as Jhaimandr guard the skies, and Phortana the sea.

Jhaimandr flew days and night. As he flew he shines bright, giving life to the plants and trees to thrive and live. Because of that he tend to just walk on his legs to observe the beauty of the yellow sky, making his skin shines in gold. As his eyes goes down his eyes turns deep and his body turns white, then he sleep in the deep dark sky. The time he wakes up as the sun shines his scales turns green ready to fly again. As his duty as a protector.

Phortana swam around and under seeing the sky was clear and the sea as deep. She lowered her hand as pushed the water. Lifting it up to the sky to water all of the land.

Jhaimandr took notice and went to Phortana, he picked up a seed on the way and gave it to her. She touched the seed and it went under the see. The floor starts to grow and glow with pants and trees. As gesture, she promised him to water the land before and after he sleeps.

With hands on his heart, Phortana reached her other hand to the sky and a drop of water starts to fell and waters the whole world.

After Millenniums of existence, flying over the lands and sea for seems like eternity. He knew that it's time to rest and be one with what he protected. Went to the center of the lands and burrowed a hole underneath. He took a one last fly, and flew again to the heavens. Shaking his gracious body making his scales fall to all corners of the world.

He then flew back to the hole he made. Then closed his eyes as he goes down, and the sky dims as he do so. Phortana took notice and goes above water. She know what he's doing closed the hole over him with the plants around the hole and surrounded him with rivers and lakes. And he slept.

Centuries has gone by and the world remained dim. Arthina took notice and she kept on watching. Her mother saw what happened and watched with her. Then as they are looking down, a tree started to grow out the hole faster than othe plants. It started as nothing but trunk and branches. Then the water from the rivers and lakes flows in the hole and covered with dirt and grass. Then the scales that were scattered started glowing and lit up the whole continent. As the light slowly approaches the tree it started growing as tall as the mountains that reached to the clouds. The tree started blooming it's leaves with all colors. It bloom 3 flowers.

Arthina asked Phortana to take one flower from the tree. She took one and as she swims through the ocean. It dissolves and forms creatures that breathes underwater. Knowing what they were. Phortana starts to be one with the sea and started to talk to the creatures that are with her side.

One of the flowers were carried by the wind and each petals separates from the other making creatures that flies to the skies like Jhaimandr they took the obligation to survey the world from above the sky.

The last flower fell to the ground and starts to move over the earth taking dirt with it and making the first land dwellers.

Animals of different shapes and sizes now roams the Ocean, Sky, and Land.