„A war that ends … begins a war.

Its flames are up, to the sky, and more,

Predicting Death, Predicting War:

A War that Ends … Begins a War!”

After Chaos’return from Paradise and after his conversation with Yggdrasil and with the voice of Life, he had decided that it was the time to take a break and he sat down on his stone throne, positioned in the middle of the Universe, and, watching the slow-motion of Aeon, he immersed himself in thoughts.

Around him, the stars continued their daily routine, as the days and the nights of the Cosmos, which were the same all the time while around them was everything sunken in darkness. But still, there was life pulsating there.

Then, one day, when Aeon started to shine brighter than usual, making Chaos’heart shine too, he had stretched his hand in front and, as if he was writing something, Chaos drew some symbols in the air.

Those symbols were closely related to the nowadays Yin and Yang symbols: a perfectly drawn circle, right from the first point that became the last one, eventually, as it was the color of the circle, whose inner part was of an abyssal dark. But even if that circle, illuminated by Aeon, was so loved by Chaos’s heart, he decided that something was missing, but he didn’t know what exactly.

However, the Cosmos was by Chaos’side and, as if reading the stone giant’s thoughts, who was looking for an idea, far away, in the distance, a thunder light pierced the dark body of the sky, and this made Chaos smile: he found what he was looking for. So, he delimited the surface of the circle into two. But the middle line wasn’t straight - this was an oval line, with two loops on both sides: one up, on the left part, and one on the bottom, on the right side.

But even so, Chaos seemed that there was still something missing. So, he asked Life to talk to him. „Did you call me, Chaos?” the woman’s voice said after Chaos had thought about her for a short time, but he didn’t know what to do to bring her there.

„Yes, Life. I called you here to ask for your wise advice to finish this small sphere of the Cosmos and even though I thought for a long time about what is missing in this sphere I can’t realize what it can be.”

Life kept silent for a while because she was confused too after she had heard Chaos’question. But suddenly a quick pulsation had been felt in the air, and Chaos understood that Life will give him an idea soon. And this was so: „do you remember what Yggdrasil told you when you had been in Paradise?”

„About the other tree, similar to him, called the Tree of Life?”

„Yes. If had ever existed a Tree of Life and another one of Death, why not to make then so that your sphere have them both inside it and I mean here both darkness and light?”

Chaos smiled because Life was once again right. So, he stretched his hand toward the sky and, touching the line from the middle, he made the left part be completely black, while the right part was washed by life-giving light, but both parts had smaller spheres of the opposite color, drawn on them on the upper-left, and right-bellow.

„Now it’s perfect,” Chaos said and he stood up, admiring his creation and being amazed that he did this. „I name this creation the Sphere of the World. The line from the middle of the sphere will be the Gate that divides the Galaxies and its name will be Alabar, while the smaller spheres will be the stars of life and death with one single name - Bayer, the Star of Hope.”

Washed by the bright light of Aeon, the Sphere of The World had started to slowly move, as if it was moving around its own axis, and this made Chaos smile again. But, each of his movements was closely lurked from the faraway Paradise and, being afraid that Chaos will bring life all around again after she had worked so hard to sink everything in darkness, Genea breathed a blow of magic air over him and Chaos’heart split in two, but the second heart was completely black as if it was a diamond washed in pitch.

Namely from that black heart, Eris has been born - the one who Chaos named at the beginning his sister, but who he soon made his wife, without even suspecting that she was so different from him, even if both of them were born from the same heart.

Time was passing, as the stars around changed, and Chaos felt that Eris was for him even more important than his life was. But Eris thought differently because she was born from the darker part of him and what she wanted was to step out of his shadow and rule the Universe in his place.

However, Eris understood that fighting against Chaos without having at least a partner was a sure defeat, even if she felt Genea's support so powerfully and she also had, flowing through her veins, part of Genea's venom while listening to her mother's words all the time resounding in her ears: that she was strong and that she had the power to dethrone Chaos and to rule over the surroundings. But Eris had decided that it wasn't yet the time and that she must wait, in silence while hammering out her devilish plan.

She joined at first Chaos'dance of creation and when he has been completely blinded by her presence, Eris threw the seeds of evil between them, and from this black energy have been born their children - Nyx and Striff. But, right from the first day of their existence, both children felt a total connection with their mother, but they never felt love for their father. And this was the power of darkness in fact.

And with the coming of her children into this world, Eris had decided to take the risk and, one day, when Chaos closed his eyes, trying to fill his heart with energy from Aeon, Eris attacked him, throwing over him a wave of black, devilish energy.

Chaos hadn't felt at the beginning that black lava coming over him. But Life yelled at him from nothingness: „Watch out, Chaos, the darkness attacks you” and, opening his huge, stone eyes, Chaos threw a wave of light energy, and when the light and the darkness met everything around started to vibrate, as if the Universe was shuddering, and thus the First War that ever happened had started, and this meant betrayal for Chaos.

Namely, that bitter taste of betrayal made Chaos’heart harden, and the light from it faded off again. That’s why he had decided that it was the time to fight against the woman he loved the most, but who chose to betray him, and, even if he had to destroy his masterpiece, Chaos was convinced to defeat Eris, to beat her to her knees and, to make her feel remorse.

„If fate and my wife decided so, then I’ll fight too,” Chaos told Life and, springing at Eris, who was grinning with satisfaction in front of him, the two hugged each other, as if they were two amounts of stones, and their joined power made them appear and disappear here and there in a blink of an eye as if they were teleporting their bodies through worlds yet unknown.

A yell of the two was heard around, woven in a roar, but the nothingness was again embraced by silence. Then, the two appeared in front of the Sphere of the World, and, pushing with strength away one from another, they managed to split their forced hug.

Eris took that cunning step because she felt that she was lacking air. But when she was crawling back, trying to find a place to hide, Chaos caught her by the throat, with his enormous stone fingers, and, looking into her glance while his eyes were lit embers, he hissed through his teeth: „you made the worst decision ever, Eris. This world is mine and you’ll never take it from me.”

But Eris growled at him with pleasure, because she was sure about her success. She knew something Chaos wasn’t aware of, and, that thing that had to help her, appeared soon, not far from them, getting closer to them with a dizzying speed: not that far from them, into a carriage, pulled by 6 black horses, were Striff and Nyx, that were coming to help their mother.

„Fools!” Chaos yelled at them. „Are you trying to destroy this world?”

„No,” Eris grinned at him. „We’re just trying to destroy you only.”

„Then Eris, keep dreaming about the impossible,” Chaos told her, with a thundering voice, and, namely the thunder of his voice brought Elyzar there, the fire horse of Time, who showed up from nowhere next to Chaos. The horse’s neigh made Chaos wince and, stretching his hand, he grabbed the reins and, from one jump, he climbed on Elyzar’s back.

„You are playing dirty, Chaos,” Eris said, unpleasantly surprised by what she was seeing. „You think that you’ll defeat me, by using the time against me. But this is useless because I’m beyond this,” Eris yelled and her roar had been heard all over the Universe.

„War teaches one what courage means and also war gives him the right to choose the path onto which to step: the path of the mind or the one of the heart. And, even if you spent a lot of time next to me, you never knew my real nature, because having the Time by my side, I can control everything around me, including you.”

But Chaos was mistaken because Time wasn’t created to be subdued. Time was created to control itself and to control others at the same time. That’s why, when Chaos’words rolled throughout the Universe, somewhere behind Aeon, the Balance of Cosmos showed up in all glory.

Its splendor and its perfect balanced form amplified the light of Aeon and that light has been sent all over as if it was a signal.

At the moment the light touched the black skin of Elyzar, the horse neighed, and, lifting himself on his back legs, he forced Chaos to release the reins.

Seeing this, Nyx grabbed the axis of the Cosmos with both hands, while the magic of her own being helped her to do this, covering the axis with a black coat, and, throwing the axis toward Chaos, it caught on his girdle, as if it was a hook. „Now, Striff! Pull those reins!” Nyx yelled at her brother and he forced the six black horses gallop away on the sky's surface.

The farther they were moving from Chaos and Elyzar, the harder the axis was extended as if it was a thick chain, and the pressure with which the axis was pulling Chaos’body was so big that it was threatening him with destruction.

While desperately moving to release his body, Chaos started to stagger on Elyzar’s back… still feeling the burden on his back, Elyzar puffed loudly from his nostrils and, shaking his mane, he threw Chaos off his back.

Eris thought that it was her chance to climb on Elyzar and rule the world. But the horse knew who his master was, he knew who was born to rule this world and who didn’t have that right. So, at the moment Eris edged closer to him, intending to climb on his back, Elyzar bit from her flesh, forcing her, in the end, to give up on her plan.

„Elyzar, you don’t know who you are fighting against. You are denying my right as the Master of this world. You cannot defeat me, as you cannot confront me, because you don’t have such a right or power,” but Eris was also wrong, because who hadn't written in the stars to rule the world, hadn't also the chance to win against the king of the Galaxies, no matter how hard that person wasn't working on that.

Furious and mad, Eris started to burn. Imagine that an entire forest is in flames. Imagine the light and the heat made by this arson and now multiply it by a thousand times. Thus, you’ll imagine what Eris looked like at the height of her madness, when all her hatred was headed toward Elyzar, wanting to destroy him, to transform him into dust, or at least to kneel him down.

To succeed in her madness and in her revenge, Eris stretched her enormous hand in front, intending to hit the horse, but Elyzar vanished in a blink of an eye, feeling the danger approaching him, and, instead of the horse, Eris hit Chaos, transforming him into thousands and thousands of shining stars, scattered all over the Universe.

At the moment Chaos’body had been transformed into shining lights, the Balance of the Cosmos, that was behind Aeon, split into many other smaller Balances and, after a few pulsations of life, those small Balances vanished somewhere, as if they hid in the Universe.

Surprised by this turn of events, Eris started to laugh and her triumphant laughter was heard all around. She wasn’t seeing or hearing anything around at that moment, due to a wave of immense happiness that took over her, because she felt, with all her being, the power of her ruling. But still, she was wrong, because the one born to be the King of the World, after being himself created from the void, couldn’t be so easily kneeled.

„I curse you to be evil forever, Eris,” Chaos’voice was heard all over. „Soon you’ll feel, on your own skin, what means to have been kneeled, ruined, and defeated,” and, after he had said that, at Eris’wrists and ankles, cuffs appeared, and those cuffs were tied by thick chains, immobilizing her … while the chains were caught by Elyzar’s harness.

Puffing angrily and feeling the burden that fate put on his back, he let a hot heat exit through his mane, moving in circles around him, as if it was a hurricane, and inside of that hurricane, made from heat, two eyes of fire were seen watching the world, while around them was formed a Black Hole.

Those eyes were so scary… their powerful light burnt the stars around, feeding themselves with their energy and gathering power and they started soon to drag Eris toward them, like a magnet.

She fought to escape. She asked for her children’s help, but none of them was able to help her, because they felt their bodies hardened, because of fear of those two eyes that were staring at them.

And Eris had been completely swallowed by the Black Hole just in seconds… and only her name was still spinning around, as an echo throughout the Universe, reminding others that a stone soul, named Eris, had once existed.

„My greedy daughter and my ungrateful son,” Chaos told his children. „For your betrayal, I condemn you to split up and this will be your punishment: Nyx will lead only dark nights, where fear and despair float around, while you, Striff, for accepting be part of this shameful plan, I curse you to have never rest and to always live in someone’s shadow while being the cartman of the carriage of the Cosmos, which will always be in movement throughout the Universe.”

The light of Chaos’eyes faded off when the Black Hole had swallowed itself and vanished somewhere… then, next to Striff’s carriage a smaller one showed up, pulled by two black scorpions, and a mystical power dragged Nyx in the smaller one.

Nyx didn’t oppose it, because she was completely hardened by fear. For the first time, in her short life, she was afraid of something and, looking back, she saw a golden cart, pulled by two white horses, approaching hers at full speed while the silhouette of an imposing person was outlined in that cart: that person was Helyos, the first titan born from Chaos and whose main object in this world was to always chase Nyx’s carriage because this was her punishment - to always run away of Helyos, who was looking for her perdition. And, from the moment Helyos had been brought into this world, a New Era of the Cosmos started.

The two scorpions, feeling the arson of the sun, burning their pliers, pulled the carriage and ran away while Helyos’white horses were galloping behind them.

And, while passing next to Striff’s carriage, in the mad gallop of the horses, Helyos forced Striff to shudder because he felt how something strange was happening behind him. But he wasn’t able to look back, because his body and his neck were hardened and stuck in place, and only his fingers, which were holding the reins, and his eyes, which were seeing Bayer in front of them, were still looking alive.

The brightness of Bayer allowed the Miracle to happen - in Striff’s carriage, the silhouette of another titan was outlined: Atlas. The main purpose of this titan was to take care of a huge lifeless star, and when he has been completely brought to life, Atlas stretched his hand and, onto the carriage, nine Planets showed up, but only one of them was brighter and bigger than the others, and this one was Planet Earth, the one which Atlas put on his shoulder and named himself the eternal protector of it.

„Let’s go, Striff,” Atlas told the cartman when he was ready to go, and, saying nothing, Striff pulled the reins and the carriage moved from its place, slowly advancing on the sky surface, while behind them, another Black Hole showed up. But this one was different than the first one because it wasn’t swallowing anything inside, but it was formed from the stars of the sky … thousands and thousands of shining stars were forming its body, while two other titans showed up on both of its sides - Lodur, the Spirit of Justice, Fair Judgment and the only one who established the Laws of the Universe and Dike, his younger brother, the one with wolf blood flowing in his veins and the one known as the Father of Rophions.