The argument between the Goddess of Life and the God of Death had grown somewhat irritating for the Crystal Dragon. The dragon god couldn’t have the two other gods bicker about what to do next. He was their balancer, so the dragon god had to make up its mind.
“Enough, both of you!” shouted the Crystal Dragon. “The new life of the Second Generation is already growing, even slowly. However, there are several species already growing faster, bigger, and smarter than the humans and the other creatures: Centaurs, Dragons, Faeries, Griffins, Merpeople, Pegasi, Sea Serpents, and Unicorns. When the power of time in the Mortal Realm comes, the Second Generation will end when the humans and the creatures rise. As the Second Generation collapses, the Third Generation will rise. By then, Lusìvar will have returned, and we cannot interfere in the realm again.”
“What had been created must not be destroyed by us; they must die by the ravage of time and have their spirits to be transferred to the Realm of the Dead to be judged on their actions and choices. Even if they were enslaved by unnatural creatures like Lusìvar did when he was ruling. He was not a spirit we created, which means he was created in the Shadows of another world in the First Generation. Either a bodied animal or a spirit, he will rise again and will rule the lands again.”
Origenes stood in front of the dragon god, with a staff pointing upwards instead of downwards. “What do you propose then, Balancer of Light and Shadow? Do we stand by and let ancient beings rule the land? Or follow my plan and destroy all lifeforms and start over with new creations that we have complete control over?”
“I agree with Adelpha, we will not destroy what we created,” said the Crystal Dragon, “but we can’t them live such long lives. In the Mortal Realm, they will all die from the decay of time. We gods must not change what we have already done. There must be balance between life and death as well as a balance between Light and Shadow.”
The beautiful goddess Adelpha stood beside her rival god and faced the Crystal Dragon. “What must we do then? If we cannot destroy or interfere with the mortals, what are we to do? Do we stand by and let the Shadow User rule again? Or do we interfere and set life anew?”
“Or maybe some mortal with godly power could keep them in balance?” the Crystal Dragon wondered.
A thought struck the dragon god, “If one of us shared only a small fraction of our power with one mortal and taught that individual to balance the Light and Shadow in the Mortal Realm as I do in the Realm of the Gods, we would not have to do either.”
“What are you suggesting?” asked Origenes. “You go down there and rule the mortals yourself and let Adelpha and I take over the Realm of the Gods?”
The dragon god walked past the other two gods and toward the edge of the gods’ platform and looked down, only gazing at floating clouds. “No,” said the Crystal Dragon. “But someone with godly power, my power could stand against Lusìvar.”
“Giving a mortal your powers?” said Adelpha. The goddess strolled over to the dragon god, who was the size of her. “Is that a wise thing to consider?”
“Do you have any other suggestions, goddess?” asked Origenes. The god stood by the glass globe and stared at thousands of living beings showing positive and negative feelings. “It would be a wise thing to give a mortal a small fraction of our power, but will he or she be able to control it? If you look closely at them, their hearts are filled with happiness, love, and hope while their minds are filled with anger, rage, and jealousy.
“Their freewill will allow them to do whatever they want with it. Surely by passing godly power to a random individual is risky. So the question is: which lucky living being will get the godly power to keep the Mortal Realm in balance?”
“Not a creature that had been born yet,” said the Crystal Dragon. “If I give a small portion of my power to an already born individual, they will use it immediately. My power will have to go to an unborn child. So with the power of time and evolution, the godly power will grow in the child’s mind and heart, balancing both at the same time.
“When the child is born, the power will be kept asleep. It will awaken when the child comes of age, letting it grow as slowly or quickly as the child does. When the child is born with my power, that child will be known as a demigod: half god and half mortal. That child will be able to resist against Lusìvar’s dark power and fight against him and find a way to conceal the dark spirit in the right imprisonment.
“He can have companions to help keep the balance in the Mortal Realm. I know Lusìvar will have minions of his own and will try to bring back the banished spirit to rule over the Mortal Realm again, and I will not have it that way. A child of my choosing will become my child and the child of a mortal, thus making the child half mortal and half god. It will be a way for that child to be able to contact and talk with us and transport himself between both Realms. Death will seem irrelevant to the half-mortal, but the power to time will savage his body. And when he dies and if Lusìvar was not defeated, he will be reborn again and that cycle will keep going… until the dark spirit, the Shadow King, is defeated.”
The other two gods stood beside the Crystal Dragon, understanding its decision to find a fatherless child and store a part of the Crystal Dragon’s
