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Dear members of cyberspace,

we've done it! It's official, this blog has 500 members! 

Ok....not members. Views. 

Har har. Got you all, didn't I?

Thanks again for the counter, Hikaru dear!

To spontaneously celebrate, I will be posting continously from now until forever, my long-term writings. My biggest project in high school was something known as "Gaia Guardians". It really was an amalgam of mythology and Japanese culture and all that blah blah. It was constantly being re-written until I finally published it in an online journal. Reviews were favorable, of course. :P (Why wouldn't they be?)

Though it was cool blah blah blah. 

And it's also our one-year anniversary! Woo hoo! 

There's another reason to celebrate! :D

Thanks to all who browsed, to all who commented and to all those who will comment, thanks for future notice!

And now, without further adieu, here is the Prologue chapter to the Gaia Guardians Series, unedited and un-betaed!

Hope you enjoy and as always, leave a detailed message of how you felt when you read about it!

"In the Beginning..."  (Circa 2007 version)

A Gaia Guardians prologue

Rating: T+

Genre: Fiction, World Myth crossover, action/adventure, romance, drama

Down on Earth, the end seemed near. Their surroundings engulfed in flames and blood, everywhere one would turn, they would find the place to be was chaotic and frantic. Each soldier hurled their last breath and lunged at each other’s enemy, only for both to be slain and fall to the ground. The cries of horror and grief could be heard from miles and eons away from where the true and final battle was being decided high above in the heavens…

As he plunged his grand sword within the stomach of the last hapless soldier’s middle, Kronos sneered at the sight and licked his lips. He was enjoying the last fall of the deity warrior’s blood running down his weapon and the limp and lifeless body falling on his knees and splashing on the ground.” I have finally obtained my right to rule over Gaea!” he proclaimed along with his cheering soldiers behind him as they slaughtered and raided over the terrors surrounding them.

That is, until a bright light came walking the bloodied pathway to meet him.” Alas not my dear husband,” replied Rhea, the princess of Gaea and the Omega matter. In her right hand as opposite of Kronos, she also held a large sword just like he. Her light golden aura gleamed around the room in contrast to his dark silver as she made her appearance. The smirking Titan walked over to her and raised his own weapon out challengingly at her.

“My beloved wife…”he said,” you wish to challenge me after all the greatest warriors and guards of the palace had fallen?” She looked unchanged by his threat and held out her own majestic weapon.

“I do…”she replied and gripped it with both hands and steadied herself in a fighting stance,” as in my hands I hold The Sword of unity…The sword with all the powers, hopes and dreams of our mother goddess and the gods of the world…the hopes and dreams of the humans of Earth and the hopes and dreams of the pure souls of Elysium and beyond. With that and much more Kronos, I fail to believe that you would stand a chance against this.”

Kronos, who still kept his confident smirk, charged for his wife and attacked her. She in turn dashed to him and light and dark quickly clashed. The power struggle was so immense that the grounds and walls of Gaea shook heavily at their collision and shattered everything to bits and pieces. The power struggle was so immense that the two fighters themselves were unable to hold their own as one tried to descend the other. Rhea closed her eyes shut and tried desperately to contact her fellow citizens in this dire time of need.

They, of course heard her plea, and willingly gave their last breath and what little they had in energy left to her; raising their hands up to the sky and giving out their remains of chi, chakra, mana…whatever had remained of their life essence. The Fates could not interfere but could only watch in silence…

For they knew this and what would follow here and after would all come to pass.

The two auras were equally matched, the Alpha matter versus the Omega matter, and neither one was willing to let down. Rhea smiled as she felt the oncoming flow of the world-wide energy. It felt…blissful. Kronos gasped at his wife’s growing light and was violently thrashed away and flown to the breaking walls of the palace behind him. Rhea gasped sharply as well and fell to her knees, clutching her chest hardly. The Titan king breathed heavily his last few breaths as he fell to the crackling ground, but not before in an act of sympathy, Rhea caught his fall and held him in her lap.

“It… It seems you still care, Dear Rhea…” he sputtered, his breath in dying whispers. The goddess nodded shortly.

“Why…All I ask is why, Kronos? What…what possessed you and altered your motives to such an extent?” she asked harshly.

“I…I want power…I still crave it, don’t you see? Blame if you may the primordial being of Chaos but also blame me my dear Rhea for I willingly gave into it…I wanted to feel the world at my feet, make each and every one of the higher deities in this plane to worship and grovel at my feet…”he chuckled and choked on his own words. He rose out his hand to touch Rhea’s cheek and continued, “We were opposites from the start…that is how we are…I will not give in my quest to see myself at the helm of this…disastrous but beautiful world and all that it stands for. And of course, you will try to stop me each time, won’t you?” He smiled at his last words and closed his eyes for the last time.

Rhea frowned in sadness and anger. He was right. They would meet again in another time; fight and clash again, fight and clash again until, until…

We would cancel each other out?

She closed her eyes as well and pressed her face to his chest and cried, as the setting around them collapsed in flames…

It was then decreed that Kronos the Titan king was slain and the world was in rebirth once more. For now the Chaos was no more; neither was war. The council of Gaea had then sent his fallen body and soul to Tartarus as punishment for his former crimes; they knew he would’ve had no remorse or regrets about his choices but he would still need to be trialed. On Earth, the human worshippers and followers of Kronos were either slain also, executed or incarcerated without remorse. So in the depths of the underworld the three judges Minos, Rhadamanthys and Aeacus sentenced him to eternal dormant incarceration.

And that was the end of Kronos…

Or so they thought. Gaia, mother goddess of all things and Queen of the gods, knew otherwise to not trust her son’s quick decision. She knew he would return; he had even confessed it to his own wife as his death approached! So why would he bluff now?

In haste, she reconverted all her council to a meeting and told them the possible perilous and disastrous return of her evil son.

“I believe that the fates have warned us already?” Deucalion, second maker of man, suggested. His wife Pyrrha sat next to him, ready to defend his cause.

“But why again? Rhea had stopped him once; he’s aware that she will fight him again!” Isis, deity of the south, replied. Gaia saddened at the answer and hesitated to answer her.

“I’m afraid that is not possible,” she finally said,” my daughter-in law does not wish to fight her sole enemy time and time again…and she knows of his threat as anyone else in this room.”

The council fell silent. If Rhea would no longer rise to the challenge, what would they resort to now?

Then among the many deities and gods in the room, one silver-haired and red-eyed youth rose up along with his hand in the air. With whispers and hushes aimed at him in awe and/or surprise, the council looked at him.

“Prometheus I believe?” Odin, rune god of the north asked. The boy nodded and bowed.

“As I have been the first Oracle and have been granted powers of foresight by the fates, I wish to suggest something.” The gods eyed each other and had him continue,” Could we not simply send our children to Earth? The mission will be much easier since it will be his main target before all.”

“And why should we? Kronos will easily defeat them as they would be weaker than he…and he is powerful.”

“As you all know, Rhea has, or will rather, give birth to a child in the following days…since that child has her blood and is to naturally inherit her abilities wouldn’t it be better to do so?”

The council stood silent again and conversed with each other in private to verify the decision. When they reached a verdict, they all returned their eyes and ears to Prometheus and the Queen of the gods replied,

“Prometheus, as first maker of man, the titan of fire-giving and our Oracle, we agree with your idea…though it is with great sadness though.”

“Ah, but I will be there as well to assist the child in question my queen…along with the chosen warriors of our descendance of course.”

Queen Gaia sighed and nodded. ”It seems our age of peace was too short to live by…”she said simply. As the hushes and murmurs resumed about the fate of the new generation and Rhea’s child, The Council was subsided and once more dissolved.

Days later, as predicted by all, Rhea did give birth…to a beautiful baby girl whom she named Galatea, after one of the 50 Nereaides sea nymphs who was also a close friend of hers. After the prestigious birth and celebration, the tension returned as it would be time to decide and assemble the set of seven that would protect the princess and help her in her fight against her father.

Since Galatea was the first before all, Prometheus, first maker of man and honorary kin of Kronos, who was deemed the Guardian of foresight, was the 2nd to be chosen by the council and Gaea.

Electryon, 3rd son of Zeus and Hera, was deemed the Guardian of thunder and lightning like his father had. He was also the 3rd fighter assigned to protect Galatea.

Nedeia, daughter of Poseidon and Amphytrite, was the 4th in line. Just like her parents, her main powers were water-based.

Eolios, 5th son of Aeolus and Eos, was the 5th to and third from last to be chosen. His main power was connected to the winds and the sky.

Nemesis, who was born out of a surprising union between Hephaestus the forger and Hestia the hearth-goddess, was the 6th and second from last to be chosen by the queen herself. Having inherited her father’s hair color and most of her mother’s abilities, Nemesis’s main power hails from the smallest spark of fire to the strongest blaze and her ability to manipulate it at will.

The last of the chosen ones, a most surprising vote for all who witnessed, was Aeamalthea, an ice sprite borne from the icy mountains of the north. Why the queen had chosen her is still a favoured topic of the gods.

Yet with all the chosen ones trained and prepared for, there was still one last problem they would have to face with their new children; the loss of current memories when in reincarnation. Living out their normal lives, wouldn’t they be unknowing of the secret dangers that would threaten them?

But the newly optimistic queen now had renewed hope. She told the ones who worried that there was no need to for the Gaia guardians would know when the danger arose and would be ready to stand up and fight against it.

When the day of departure approached, Rhea looked on from afar as Galatea’s soul and the souls of her future Guardians were all flying down to the human plane. They shone bright across the sky like colourful stars and she smiled as she wiped a mother’s tear from her eye. She had to watch over Galatea herself and make sure her human half lead on a good life until her time.

I myself will be her mother…once more. Her Human and her godmother all at once.

And so, that same night, Rhea also journeyed down to Earth, took herself in a human form and once more, gave birth to her future daughter who would someday save the world from utmost destruction…

But it wouldn’t quite work out as intended. Mykonos, a loyal follower of Kronos, had risen from his dormant prison and had gone to Earth. With his renewing army of Supernatural evils at his single disposal, he plans to finish what his master started and return the world in darkness.

Will he succeed?

Will the Gaia guardians, now just mere mortals, regain their memories in time to save Earth from this impending disaster?

And more importantly, will Kronos reawaken?

Catch it all in the GAIA GUARDIANS!

Thoughts? Comments? :) Excited for the real thing?!

Well...I've only managed to write about 5 chapters. XD But in my head, well, there's an entire universe in motion, so expect major comebacks from that!

So with that said, I will also tell you all that I have created ANOTHER blog. 

I thought there I was going to say baby.:P

But yes, this blog is my baby. My Twin. My Cassius. 

This blog won't be at all like this one, though. This will actually shift towards more "professional" projects, in order to further my academic career into journalism. It will mostly include a project with the local Arts, Media and Entertainment which include independent and innovative places to visit and will occasionally spotlight those who work in the industry as well. 

And also...this will also be featured in a magazine! 

Sea to Sky magazine is an online magazine which features articles of Vancouver's local arts and style, and so I've been recruited to report on such happenings!

So...the blog shall be created soon and there shall be PIE. :D

With all that having been said,

See you on the flipside.

Suzanne Helen James.

15/11/10.