At the beginning of time, the first act the Goddess of Terra Nexus took was to peek at cute girls. And so she saw her creation and found it fitting to her tastes.

The second act the Goddess of Terra Nexus took was to look at her Domain. Most of the nascent gods and goddesses took new planets, using former conquered planets as nourishment to make their new abode.

But she was not like most, she found the souls of the damned calling to her, from the beyond and even those that had come to life anew, all called for her. And so, she took pity on them.

She took pity on their broken self, their broken souls and their even more broken world. So she beckoned them to her bosom, she called upon their pitiful selves and told them.

"Everything will be all right," So she declared, and so it would be, "This time you all will be safe."

She embraced them all the same, the fire kin, who trashed and wanted to be loved more than anything. The rambunctious thunder kin, who wanted to run rampant and prided themselves as better than everyone else. The time kin who slithered through the ages fighting against the space kin who jumped through space trying to ambush them back.

Even the lonely Grim Reaper, who usually stood alone, was brought into a hug.

Of course the love kin also got welcomed, even if they were somewhat more isolated from the rest, for their kin was... dangerous to be around, unless you had a loved one already.

And above them all, the original caretakers of this world. The shadow kin, the one closer to the Goddess and the one that started it all.

They welcomed them into their holy abode where they would weather the very creation and genesis of their world.

For the third act the Goddess bestowed upon them, she spoke.

"The world shall spin, so as to generate a new cycle of day and night," The Goddess spoke, "The day shall be two-thirds of the day and night will be the last and most sacred time. For it is the time for us to rest."

As her words settled upon the earth under our feet, the night sky started moving, not too fast nor too slow. Only few of our races noted it at first, but as the hours went by we noted it.

The holy haven always shrouded in darkness soon saw the sun for the first time, what was a somber haven soon turned to light for the first time. And we moved fast, for we feared for our host. Some tried to shield them, while others rushed to the shade under the buildings, but even so, we were outnumbered, and soon enough, some of the original inhabitants remained in the streets.

They had always been the more... slow of our kin.

But today?

Today was special. For under the blessing of the Goddess, the shadows that covered this haven were banished. And as the figure of the innumerable Shadow Kin...

The shadows disappeared.

"A... normal human?" No one knows who spoke first, but what we all saw that day was that.

Unlike most of our kin they were... normal. Unlike the thunderkin, they didn't have feathers or eyes that shone with lightning.

Unlike the fire kin, their hair didn't become fire midway through, nor was their body temperature high to the touch.

Unlike the Time kin, their body didn't advance in age nor return to a younger appearance. Nor did they blink in and out of space like the space kin.

They didn't disappear into nothingness like the death reaper kin.

Nor did they change form to match someone's species like the love kin.

Instead... they looked almost mundane, not all of them of course, what they shared in common was that they all had black hair and black eyes, some had shadow traces and a few of them could summon their more... dragonic parts back.

But for the first time, when they showed within our planet? They showed their true and barest of forms, and they were... Human.

Not all of them remained of course, some sank into the shadows and did not return unless the night came back. But a few remained.

We should have known of this, since the Lady Apparent, who ruled this place in the Goddess's place, was also Human, and stories were told of the inheritor of the Goddess. A noble heir daughter and inheritor to all the Goddess owned... Who was also of human form.

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So the fact that the lower kin of their species was also Human shouldn't have come as surprise. Most of our multiple kin of different races had taken humanoid form after all.

It made sense that the kin closest to the Goddess was also human in form.

As for what the Goddess thought of this? She didn't comment on it.

For her fourth act upon our world was at hand, "May the seas return to the bottom pits of the planet, may the continental mass remain devoid of flooding and may they grant peace of mind to Terra Nexus' Inhabitants."

The Goddess listened to our pleas and fixed the flooding that had almost destroyed our nascent world.

"WE DEMAND FREEDOM!" "DOWN WITH THE TIRANNY!" "YEAH, DOWN WITH TIFFANY!"

The thunderkin didn't take that well, as they had enjoyed swimming in the flying ocean.

"DOWN WITH TIFFANY!" "I DID NOTHING YOU STUPID BIRDS!"

And for some reason the thunder kin always ended up fighting against the fire kin matriarch.

"*Sigh* Fine, you get to have ONE SINGULAR flying lake you stupid annoying birds..."

And of course the Goddess didn't react angrily nor smite the infidel heathens back, for the Goddess loved us all equally.

"This is tiring..."

The fifth act she performed upon our nascent world was one that required the most effort from her, as she was obviously growing tired. Our Goddess, like our species and our world, was a nascent being.

There was a reason why most gods didn't take something like fixing a planet for their Domain, and instead nurtured a new one from scratch. It was easier on them, and required less effort.

But even so, the love our Goddess had for us was that much greater that she overworked herself.

"May the continental mass stabilize, the land mass will drift at the same speed, slow down the drift and stabilize it down, the oceans will help as a buffer and new undersea volcano will provide the extra energy and break as needed."

We all felt it under our feet, the subtle tremor that went around the planet as a new issue was fixed, one that we hadn't noticed. Historians and scientists later on discovered that this one was as important as the others, for some of our continents were on a collision course with others after the world started spinning.

"May the world be blessed with life, both new and old." The worlds of the Goddess sank within each of us, as a new seed of hope, "Love is all that matters, should you find your special one, neither sex nor species will be a matter for you. Love will always find a way."

We didn't quite understand at the moment what she meant by this, but we knew it was important to the Goddess, so we took it seriously.

It wasn't till we found a new race as we traversed space that we found what she meant.

For us, love was all that mattered for procreation, our bodies, our species and even our sex never mattered as the Goddess declared. But other species were different.

They needed the correct sex to procreate, and even when they used mana or prana to generate new life, that was limited to only being effective for a few generations.

Unlike us.

But that is a story for another time.

For after the Goddess declared her intent, the world was filled with life. The vast deserts and wastelands turned green with life. The oceans were filled with new species of fish and soon we found ourselves in a planet brimming with life and hope.

"You all have been blessed with a new world." The Goddess spoke after she was done with us, "Don't break it or I will be mad."

We all took her words to heart, of course. Even if they were done as an encouragement, we knew second chances didn't come often or well, some of us more than others.

The Shadow Kin took it with redoubled effort as they took upon themselves to spread far and wide, they never remained in a singular place for more than a few days and they became nomads.

Always exploring the world, seeking for problems and solving them. Their only nation or even city became the Holly City. The Shadow Haven were all life came from.

The rest of us?

We spread far and wide, at the start we made our own cities and decided to live among ourselves, it felt logical. It didn't last, while we had strong bodies and special abilities to help us deal with the day-to-day, soon we started mingling.

The thunderkin was the one to start it, as they traversed the world in the sky lake that the Goddess gifted them, some of them left it and remained with other kin, and soon we found the true boon of the Goddess.

Only love matters.

The first Daughter between a thunderkin and a fire salamander was the start of it.

What came was not a thunderkin nor a firekin, but something else. She could wield both fire and thunder, and her True Form was neither a round bird nor a lizard but a new entity.

It was a fire-looking bird who could strike thunder with each flap of her wings. She possessed the best abilities of both her parents.

We had thought she was the only one, a weird interaction that came from the very Goddess who ruled over us. Perhaps this was thanks to the inherited love from the Goddess with her consort.

It was not.

The second one was not from a thunderkin, but came from the least expected place.

A space kin and a time kin.

The Son of space and time.

The embarrassed faces of his parents made it to the news, as both had a hard time looking at their progenitors. It was commonly known that the Daughter of Space and the Magical Girl of Second Chances didn't have the best relationship.

"... I will blame it on Mistress," The Daughter of Space said, glaring at the Magical Girl of Second Chances.

"I blame your Mother," The Magical Girl of second chances said instead, earning a glare from the Daughter of space.

"The Mistress will laugh at both of you," Spoke the Son of Time and Space. "I saw it."

"..." "..."

Neither said anything about that and merely disappeared.

That was a skill that all of us envied, as we were tied down at that time to this planet. Even the Son of space and time couldn't do much with it, for (In his own words) he needed to wait it out to get out, then go to that moment in time where both had gone to snitch about his birth.

And then return back in time here to say that. In his own words, it had been worth it, even if he needed to wait a couple of thousand years to get out again.

He also confirmed it for us.

"We are not limited to species, we all are daughters and sons of the Mistress of Sin." The Son of space and time said, "Even if most of you are female..."

His words spread across the planet, and soon we all started living among each other, it wasn't easy at first, we had to change. Greatly.

The Thunder Kin were used to fast lives, while the Time Kin would rather have slow lives. The Space kin wanted to travel across the planet, while the Fire kin sought stability and security.

Some species matched better than others.

Except the love kin. Those would match whatever was needed; it took roughly half a millennium for them to stop matching other kin and start being themselves.

And even then, we never found out what other ability did the Goddess bestow to them. They never told anyone. What we knew for a fact was that the first kin to marry a love kin who hadn't transformed into anyone else had a silly smile for a month.

And they always seemed to be in a good mood. While the love kin always seemed to blush and cover their face. Whatever special power the Goddess bestowed to them, only those that married them with true love would find.

That was the last gift the Goddess left for us.

For she didn't show herself to us after that, the Lady Apparent told us that she would go to battle against their enemies, and that we needed to be ready, for the Goddess would count on us.

But that she would give us time to settle, to find peace, love and hope. And then after we found all of those, if we still wanted, we would be given the chance to fight with her.

So we would do so.

We would find peace and rest our weary soul.

We would find love and experience happiness.

We would find hope, for the greater future the Goddess gave us.

And when the time came, we would fight for our Goddess. For any enemy of hers would be wicked and deserving of Death.

-- The Genesis of Terra Nexus, by 7hund41 Æ0nic

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