by Verdana » Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:13 pm
[I hope I'm not too late, but I understand if I am]
The Goddess of Chaos was not impressed. She stared down at her servant, who was spread over the floor in a pathetic gesture of obeisance. The dark-haired figure, flickering with ominous light, screwed up her face to scowl.
Stand, she ordered.
Whimpering and shaking, the man got to his feet. Livid red weals were visible on his face. The Goddess of Chaos did not take mistakes lightly. The man was built well, muscular and tall. His armour, though dirty and battered, was of a fine make. He was every inch the hero. Perhaps, thought the Goddess, therein lay the problem. She had found herself a hero to do her terrible, destructive work. The hero before her was just that: A hero. All muscles and loyalty, and no brains.
While the man dithered and pleaded before her, Chaos was deep in thought. A servant of Chaos, she decided, needed to be many things. It needed to be cunning and swift of mind, as well as swift of body. It needed to be flexible and fluid. It needed, she thought with a cutting glare at the man before her (who fell to the floor again in response), to be very intelligent. It had to be impressive to look at, and powerful enough to be feared. Most of all, it needed to be downright nasty.
Silence, the Goddess purred. She did not raise her voice. She did not have to. The hero's sobs halted like a a baulking horse. He stared, apprehensive, at the Goddess. It was not like her to end her anger so abruptly. She was known to rage for weeks on end. The Goddess of Fate was no longer watching him. She stared at her hands. The hero peered, perplexed, between her empty digits.
The Goddess summoned her own most prized skills.
Cunning. A red light blossomed, and danced in her palm.
Swift. A yellowish glow joined the red.
Intelligent. A bright green dash of colour flickered amongst the red.
More words, more characteristics were delivered. The lights joined and separated, swelling and pulsing. A shape was forming in the Goddess's waiting hands. The shape was solid and smooth, but lit within. The colours started to fade into the shape, to calm their frenzied dance. But the Goddess of Chaos was not finished yet. She leaned forward, and pressed her lips to the mass, to deliver one final, firm command.
Evil.
There was a flash of darkness. The hero was thrown from his feet. He crumpled against the wall, unconscious and unheeded. The Goddess was examining her creation. She looked the egg over from all sides, all angles. It was beautiful, mottled and lit from with in with a cold, malicious-looking light. Satisfied, she nodded, and once more pressed her lips against the egg.
Go now, she whispered, Go now, and grow. Feed off the folly of mankind. Grow and thrive, and return to me on your third eve, to become a true vassal of Chaos.
And so the egg was sent upon the world, so spread misery and discord amongst mankind. Would it do what was asked of it? Who knows? TIts story has only just begun.