At the start of creation on the planet of Gamma the five high gods was in a disagreement over how things should be run. Many cracked eggs doesn't often give a good omelet, one needs to add something more.

Therefore the gods were fighting another and when gods fight it is like anything ever seen. mountains being split, seas and continents being destroyed and reformed.

Many disputes lead to the planets life to die out over and over again until the gods finally came to an agreement, or to say a sort of compromise. Anyone who broke it will feel the wrath of the others gods combined.

The main point in the agreement was that they will not get directly involved in the planets life.

Before that was set in motion they agreed to create a life form of their own liking that they could watch over as time passed. A pet race they could watch run around on the surface of the earth and bemuse them.

The beast-men, fierce and nimble.

The elvish race, wise and beautiful.

The dwarven race, short and sturdy like rocks. With their stable and nimble hands good at crafting.

The weak but adaptable human race. Not gifted in either way, they were the weakest of all the races.

The last was not one but several different weaker subspecies that would evolve to the so called fauna and wildlife.

What was not planned and a side effect of the many fights between the gods was that a form of godly essence had been shattered all over. The planet itself become covered with this godly essence.

The essence itself was harmless and become a thing that seeps into the earth and even into the air itself.

Lesser life forms like animals got changed over the time they lived and died. They become a bit more clever and a lot stronger and faster.

The strongest and fastest was the beast race.

The other races also got changed but to a lesser degree because their bodies where more complex then the animals and plants.

While some animals and plants even evolved to other species the main races stayed mostly the same. Soon to be threaten to extinction.

While the races did fight among themselves before, they were never close to be wiped out.

But now when they become the weakest species on the planet they had to use other means to survive.

The first race to use the godly essence were the elves.

They seems to have a higher affinity for it and by using the essence and bending it to do their will they manage to do extraordinary things. Soon the could fight off the animals and plant life that threatened them.

The dwarfs didn't have a high affinity with the essence but was very swift with their hands.

Well traveled over the ground as well as below they have evolved their craftsmanship to a higher degree then the other races.

They could not use the essence like the elves did, they didn't have affinity for it. But the crafty dwarfs soon learned another way to use it and that was to infused their creations with the essence to enhance them.

The beast race was not gifted in using the godly essence external like the elves and neither to use it on tools like the dwarfs.

Instead they took the essence inside their own bodies and refine it to evolve their raw strength and speed even more. Soon they became feared for their beast-like strength thanks to their affinity in internal use of the essence.

While everything seems to develop around them the humans could not use magic as well as elves, they were not as good at crafting as the dwarfs and neither did they have the strength like the beast race did.

Being the lowest gifted race they had to work harder then the other. Their will to live and adapt after their environment made them prosper even thought the humans weren't as gifted in magic, craftsmanship and didn't have a strong body

While not gifted they could still use external, internal and embodiment techniques(imbue equipment), but to a lower degree then their gifted counterparts.

Even thought each attribute is weak, by combining them they overcome their weakness and became strong enough to survive. Humans soon spread and even triumph over the other races to some degree with their advantage in number and perseverance.

The dwarfs, beast-men and elves had a longer life then the humans and therefore also a much less productive rate.

While the humans spread their settlements the other races stayed put and didn't grown in numbers by a lot.

.......

The only one that was an outcast, the Trickster god that created the human race was looked down on with spitefulness after what played out on the planet.

The gods couldn't help their races or involve themselves on the planet. Nearly helplessly they could only watch as the outcome before them played out.

Gods don't act on feelings like some mortal, yet they acted against the Trickster because they couldn't understand why their creations, who was in their own eyes perfect was even less powerful then his creation.

On the day the human god/the Trickster was assaulted by the other gods.

They was conferring among themselves if they should split him up and cast his being around the empty space or lock him into a prison.

The trickster was much weaker them so he had no saying in the matter, but they couldn't kill him. Just hinder him.

Time has no real meaning to a god and so he waited in a prison of a kind, bored and grinding down the walls of time with his powers.

Powers so much weaker in comparison to the other gods that he might as well be using a rusty spoon to dig a hole in a concrete wall.

But he had time, then finally...

......

-Damn... Life wasted. If only I could do it all over..

The ordinary looking man was sitting on a park bench watching some people walk by. Normal built, neither strong nor weak. Nor was he overly fat or skinny. Well, not to overly fat anyhow, just chubby and lazy.

At this moment he regretted everything in his life.

Squandering his life he was currently unemployed and 29. No girlfriend and soon no apartment.

Sam was his name.

-I was born in the wrong age and place.. [Sigh]

At an early age he was bored with most things and swept through it with his ignorance.

Now older and a bit wiser he was regretting it to his very core, but he was still lazy and he felt that it was too late to change himself.

Earlier in life he was naive and thrusting, which lead to some suffering under his childhood.

He was smart but did only average at best in school because of disinterest and laziness. He blamed it on the other things but deep inside he know that it was his own fault.

Kindness, righteousness and laziness is not a good mix.

And life did go on.

He dreamed away and wished for something to happen to him but nothing ever did. So he squandered his life away day by day.

It all lead up to this moment, one could call it a life changing event. While pondering about his life and bad luck he felt a prickling feeling and looked up.

It was then he noticed a man at the other side off the street waving slightly at Sam.

With a coy smile he pointed to Sam's side where a little girl was standing with her mother, she was cute with golden hair holding a pink small rubber ball she got today at a store.

The mother was so busy talking with an acquaintance that she failed to notice when her child dropped her ball.

[Roll, roll, roll]

It rolled out to the side and off to the street.

-My ball! (little girl)

It all happened in a flash and without thinking Sam rushed off after the girl to push her back up to the pavement. Unlucky as he was, the momentum and angle made him fell out backwards and was hit by a passing truck.

-Crap... (Sam)

The last thought he had was that he didn't want to die and that he would work harder than ever if given a second chance.

Thinking on his little sister, brother and mother.

They would cry if he died, even if he was a worthless human being he didn't want to see them in tears.

Sam felt a slight happiness at seeing the girl laying on the pavement side unhurt. With tear-filled eyes looking his way.

'She is going to be okay. But damn she is going to have nightmares! But with some shrinks and medicines she will probably be okay...'

Just before everything went black Sam noticed something strange.

The same man that stood at the opposite side of the street and waved at him before it all happened was now standing one meter from the girls mother, on his side.

'How did he get here?'(Sam)

With that coy smile on his lips as if finding this moment entertaining. A split second later he was gone, he vanished into thin air.

No one seems to have noticed, but then again it wasn't that strange because most were busy looking at the girl, or Sam being run over by a big dooms-truck....

'Bloody hell?!' Some even tried to take up their mobiles to take a pick.

Perhaps unknowingly moving their super addicted blog-fingers. Knowing that it's an event not often seen, worth capturing on a picture and blog about.

When everything ended a voice rang out inside of Sam.

-Welcome Sam, to your new chance at life.