Absolute Chaos

Azure-Alkun.

88,692 light years from Earth

7,842 BCE

He was accustomed to living in the shadows, never usually straying far from the borders of the half-light that merged with the eternal darkness. Enormous graphite and granite cliffs acted almost as a wall on these shady borders. This was where Arawn lived, in a small naturally formed cave, deep in the harsh rock on the primordial planet, Azure-Alkun.

Now that Arawn had been outcast, his fury towards Chaos brewed inside. It folded its way throughout his essence, feeding on his soul, etching its way slowly at his mind.

His crime was unforgivable in the eyes of his creator, his punishment could have been death, or worse an eternity in hell. However his life was spared and instead he was banished to the darkness for all time.

The bitter scorn had built in great torrents, the fury wound rapidly throughout Arawn’s essence, feeding him with pure hatred.

Inky clouds enveloped his putrid soul, smearing him with evil, squeezing his reality and smashing it into oblivion.

It had finally consumed him, pulling him further and deeper into dark sin. He had never known anguish so profound, his spirit had been obliterated, it had been smashed into a hellish turmoil, spinning uncontrollably inside a sickly madness and filled with loathsome disgust.

Arawn knew what he must do to quench his fury, he knew how to quell his ferocious insanity.

There were other Divine beings, Deities and Angels who had been cast from Azure-Alkun’s half-light. They had also broken the forbidden laws of Chaos, they too had been banished to the darkness away from the sweet cosmic twilight.

Arawn and two other outcast Gods, Am-heh and Shesmu, had come together with their fury and scorn, devising their ultimate plan.

Am-heh the ‘Devourer of Millions’ and Shesmu the ‘God of Destruction’, both Gods hatred towards Chaos and the Divine also ran deep, forcing sheer rage into their wicked blood.

***

The wind tasted of death, it swelled and whipped into the moonless night, stealing his soul, freezing his spirit.

Arawn walked out from the warmth of his cave into the cool darkness. The caves entrance was hidden high in the mountain where he dwelt. The enormous vipen trees grew here, their massive trunks soaring into the dark clouds above.

Arawn kept his head low, moving as fast as he dared and crept his way across the sheer rock face, ducking under the sharp stone, moving within the shadows.

It was a few hundred meters to the ground, it would have only taken him seconds to reach the bottom of the cliff if he were to use his enormous wings. He longed to let his wings smash through his shoulder blades and grace the world around him, nonetheless he kept them within, moving in his human-like form.

Arawn finally reached the ground. The borders between the half-light and the darkness had a strange eerie glow, its atmosphere heavy with swirling dark lilac and blue mists.

The gravity here was hectic, it pulled you down with extreme force in some parts and in others it was akin to floating in the dark space above. Arawn had walked this same path for many moons now, he knew where to step without been affected too much by the blue planets unbalanced gravity.

He moved across the jagged rocks with ease, the prodigious vipen trees looking down over him with their verdant accusing eyes.

The Necromancers appeared to float aimlessly above him, although he knew they were fully alert, guarding the boarders of the half-light and reporting anything unusual to the Divine. He made sure he wasn’t seen, silently moving within the shadows and the darkness.

Coming to a small opening concealed in the side of the mountain, deep in a canyon that had splintered the icy ground, Arawn quietly moved amid the opening and down into the chasm, making his way deeper in until he found the ledge he so desperately sought.

Carefully he inched around the icy stone, coming to a smaller aperture in its freezing depths. Here he sunk his body inside, squeezing between the dark ice, inching his way down the long tight gap and dropping into a cavern of the utmost magnificence.

It was as if time had stood still here, the finite time frozen for an eternity. He spied trickles of ice water frozen in thin streaks, the harsh ice had cut into the caves walls and tiny shards had broken off within their small streams.

Stalactites twinkled like stars from the caverns tall ceiling, whilst delicate icicles fell like frozen tears in the air below them.

Arawn did not care for the beauty that surrounded him, his attention abruptly shifting back to the task ahead.

Am-heh and Shesmu should be atop the forbidden mountain by now, they should have one of the ‘Ribs of Chaos’, they needed to steal this from one of the primordial Deities to enact their wicked plan.

He moved further into the dark icy caves, keeping low and quiet, creeping. All his senses on high alert, he needed to be entirely silent and completely fearless, any sound would instantly be heard by The Naga, any fear you held she would feed off and use the sheer pain against you.

Arawn paused before the icy tunnels, the home of the ancient monster.

The Naga was older than time, a furious ice serpent created by Chaos herself. The serpents life’s purpose, to guard Chaos’s most precious gift, this one half of the Alzphaeta diamond.

Sneaking noiselessly into the cold darkness, Arawn’s eyes glowed like polished obsidian as he now peered into the caves freezing cold depths.

He moved further into the maze of frozen tunnels, sliding noiselessly amongst the shadows, avoiding the sinister icy stalactites that hung from the caves ceiling, threatening to break free at any second and gorge into his cold flesh.

Water trickled up ahead, he could hear the faint fluid and followed its eerie echoes.

Now that he neared the streams, he came upon a deep crack in the caverns frozen ground. A gross fluid oozed between the split ice, the dark crimson tint giving off a sweet coppery odour, a smell of fury, hate and death. Deadly carbon dioxide seeped in misty puffs amid the crimson, daring him to tread further, whilst it danced at his bare feet.

The air stilled, his icy breath caught upon his foul lungs, The Naga came from nowhere, her ear splitting screech cracked like thunder in the air around him. Her monstrous serpentine body smashed through the ice, instantly slithering her cold coils around him, tightening her fearsome grip and squeezing his life to oblivion.

Arawn knew the huge serpent fed on fear, yet he was far from afraid now. His fury for his creator had consumed him, dementing and warping his vile mind.

Pushing his putrid soul to the surface, he tore into The Naga with hair raising speed. She could feel his evil and his sin, her freezing coils squirmed and writhed with disgust around him, causing the enormous snake to release her crushing grip, her screams resounding off the frozen caverns walls.

A raging tempest greedily engulfed her scaly flesh, she threw herself away from Arawn’s evil hold, spinning in a tornado of furious insanity. The Naga smashed with a sickening ‘thud’ into the sheer icy caves wall, she slithered down the harsh ice screeching and dissolved back into the black abyss below.

Arawn couldn’t breathe, his confusion sparked in crazy directions, darting his head from side to side, knowing the Alzphaeta Diamond was near. Its Divine power was beyond comprehension to any living creature, he could feel its insane energy rippling under the ice, calling to him.

Moving like lightning, the fetid God smashed his tremendous wings through his flesh, shattering his bones and shredding his huge muscles. He flew headlong into the abyss, The Naga roaring below him. His filthy hate had now touched her cold, yet pure heart, filling the great serpent with his deep, dark foulness.

This half of the Alzphaeta diamond lay in The Naga’s cave, deep beneath the cold mountain. The gem was calling to Arawn, he could feel its extreme power forcing him down, further and deeper towards it, oblivious to all else around him, every fibre of his vile being driving him closer to the most powerful treasure in the cosmos.

Dark blood pumped amid his essence faster than ever before, finally Arawn reached the magnificence, snatching his large palm around the small priceless gem. Immediately an icy liquid oozed under his skin, it was slowly filling him with fear and paranoia, this viscous substance penetrating his veins and mixing it with his cruel blood.

Arawn tried to move, nevertheless the fear was too great, it rippled in furious blasts amid his soul, the freezing fluid seeping frantically within. His scream tried to jump free, yet the strange diamond held his fresh terror deep inside.

The Naga again came from nowhere, it sliced through the ice, completely gripping his core and squeezed him with jolts of sheer agony, blasting him into near blackness.

Squeezing the diamond tighter in his palm, its razor sharp edges easily slicing his pale flesh, yet there was no way he was letting go of his great prize.

Gulping in the freezing air, his fear abated and his fury burned, welling up from a dark place deep inside and exploded to the surface, throwing The Naga into a coil of spinning madness.

Arawn had enraged her, The Naga’s huge scaly head swung to face him, her sapphire irises drilling holes into his, daring him to do his worst. Her tongue slithered in and out from between her deadly fangs, waiting to strike and crush his bones to mere dust.

The Alzphaeta diamond scalded his skin in great freezing pulses, feeding him an astounding surge of strength and tremendous power, it was swelling throughout his core, driving Arawn further into his own madness.

He hit the huge serpent headlong, embodying her in his fury, The Naga flung herself from him, writhing in pain and disgust, retching cold bile from her frozen lungs.

Screeches laced with raging anger and pain came from the oversized snake, the sound filling the vast cavern, reverberating throughout the ice and cracking the ground around them.

Thick crimson blood oozed from The Naga’s eyes and icy mouth, her dark scales peeling from her cold flesh and shattered like glass on the harsh ice, turning her core to ashes.

Watching the majestic being die filled Arawn with a calm power, he relished in the serpents pain and terror, feeding on her horror, craving more of the sick deprivation his black soul fed on.

The Naga purged from her core one last scream of sheer blinding terror, splintering on the vast edge of her pain. It shattered the freezing air of the cave, echoed into a timeless whirl and filtered into the bottomless abyss below.

The Naga was dead, she crumbled to cold dust before Arawn’s very eyes, her soul rising high above him, before vanishing into nothing.

The Naga had guarded the Alzphaeta diamond for an eternity, since the birth of all creation and now not only had Arawn stolen half of Chaos’s most precious gem, he had murdered the ancient majestic beast.

Moving fast, Arawn knew The Naga’s soul would reach Chaos in a heartbeat, her fury would be absolute.

He did not walk out of the mountain of ice, he flew!. Smashing through the sharp stalactites, weaving through the tall stalagmites and back into the dark twilight. He made his way through the dense forests of vipen trees and up to the tallest of Azure-Alkun’s peaks, the Alzphaeta diamond giving him extra speed and power, exalting him to the core, pushing his wicked blood faster through his veins, taking him to heights he had never dreamt of before.

Landing amid the ‘Forbidden Fields’ of Chaos, Arawn spied hundreds of billions of black glasslike shards littering the entire mountaintops landscape, as far as the eye could see and beyond. He had only been on the outskirts of the bizarre peak before, he had always been too frightened to set foot on its grounds, it was forbidden to all, besides Chaos herself and her eight Divine.

Each glasslike splinter upon these fields was a portal to every galaxy and world that Chaos had ever created. She would add a portal to the endless planes on the completion of each new galaxy.

Rapidly scanning the eerie shadowless terrain, he could see Am-heh and Shesmu amidst the black glass, they had hold of one of the primordial Goddesses whom writhed beneath the two foul Gods hands. The Goddess had been blindfolded, she was bound at the wrists and ankles, desperately trying to flee them. Arawn could not see which of the Divine Am-heh and Shesmu had hold of and he did not care, his focus was only on the Alzphaeta diamond, desperately needing the other half of the gem.

Arawn walked amid the black shards towards Am-heh and Shesmu, he knew the exact portal he craved among the hundreds of billions, the diamond forever showing him the way.

Finding the galaxy and with trembling hands, he snatched at the sharp black mess. Am-heh and Shesmu right behind him, thrusting the Goddess towards the shadowless shard.

They only needed the Goddesses sleek curved ‘Rib of Chaos’ to activate the portal, however they had not been able to kill her and slice it from her flesh, the foul Gods had run out of time, bringing the Divine creature alive to the forbidden fields, they needed her to open the portal.

***

Ripples of fury parted the atmosphere, Chaos’s grief now absolute. The icy wind sliced amid these dark fields, Arawn’s creator was coming from nowhere and everywhere at once. Chaos had almost reached the three sinful Gods, the raw panic slapping him in the face, all thought vanished from his sick mind and he shoved the Divine Goddess towards the shard of oblivion, forcing her to touch it...

Her elegant fingertips sunk deep into the void, igniting the huge worlds beyond.

All four beings were instantly warped around the inky black sludge, engulfing them, pulling them into its darkness, ripping blindly at each one of their every fibres.

Hot blood poured from Arawn’s ears, the sound tearing at his eardrums, deafening him, sending him into a spiral of horrific pain. He twisted and spun head long into the madness, the wormhole tearing him and the others throughout space.

The black tarry substance embodied him, clawing him from the inside, trying desperately to burst its way out and shred each vital organ, it tore in a blind fury at his body, mind, and soul...

***

It felt like a life time before Arawn smashed into the harsh rock, an insane blue light showering around him. He crashed into the ground, skidding on his bare knees, cracking the hard stone beneath him.

The planet Earth loomed around him, this was where the other half of the Alzphaeta diamond had laid to rest after its long journey across the endless galaxies and Arawn knew it was the only place in the cosmos he could hide without Chaos finding him or her precious gem.

Earth was unbalanced, this was the world where Chaos had placed all the scorned many millenniums before. Humankind now ruled the Earth, penetrating evil beyond measure throughout her extraordinary lands, corrupting her to the core. This left Chaos in a dark fury, these humans were the offspring of the damned, she could not understand their nature and could not see through all their sin.

Earth was the only planet in the infinite cosmos that was veiled from Chaos’s all seeing eyes. This strange blue world was masked by all the evil that mankind had infected her with.

Yet beauty still rained within this maddening race, there was pure and true goodness amongst all humankind’s evils.

This had left Chaos spinning, she could not destroy the virtue of the people with morals, she could not rain terror on them yet again. Although she longed to obliterate the cruel wickedness from all the lands, she longed to wash Earths entire face clean from her sin.