Pram
I stand alongside my partner, my love, Ivist. We are gods. Ivist the god and Pram the goddess. Ivist is staring at me, wondering what I'm wondering about. I'm thinking not only of him, but other things as well. I'm thinking of land. Of life. I'm thinking of all this and more. Can Ivist and I make a world? Can we make a whole universe? Just him and me? Could we start a new world with humans? Humans to care for and help when help is needed? Could we? We could do it. I know we could.
"What's wrong?" he asks as he grabs my face. "You seem..down. What's bothering you?" His eyes of concern pull me in. I look straight at them. Breathtaking, really. His gray eyes are really something unique.
"I want-" I start. "I want to make a world with you." I don't look away from his eyes.
He chuckles. "A whole world? With me? I feel honored." His eyes keep locked onto mine. "Let's do it then." He holds my hand. "How do you do just that?"
"I think we both use our powers. Combine them, maybe. Just keep the idea in your head, and maybe it'll work." It's my best guess, anyway. I close my eyes and continue to hold his hand. I think of all the humans Ivist and I can make. I think of all the world, all the everything we can make. I feel a tingling sensation in my body. It's like nostalgia, but it can't can't be, can it? It hasn't happened before, so how can I feel nostalgic? My hand starts tingling. It's starting,I know it. My whole body is excited and delighted to welcome the world that we created.
I open my eyes when I hear Ivist gasp. "Pram," he calls. "It's beautiful." I look at the world. Ivist and I are actually standing on something. We stand on a rocky, dirty ground. We tower over everything. "Well, it's a start." He picks up a stone off the ground. He rubs it between his fingers. He smiles. "Awesome. Here." He hands me the rock. I take it. It feels a little rough. The more I rub, the smaller it gets, the dirtier my fingers get.
"Before we make the humans, we have to make it livable for them. So let's add environment!" I stretch my arms out in front of me, and a tall wood thing is formed. "Just like that! A tree!" I smile. Ivist smirks at me.
"Okay, you'll be in charge of "trees", and I'll be in charge of the sky!" He turns around and gets to work. I continue working on the trees. "Pram... Darling." I turn around. A puff of something that looks very soft welcomes my eyes. " I call it a cloud," he proclaims. " It's all yours." He smiles and his teeth are exposed.
Ivist is a very smiley, sarcastic man. He's always smiling and cracking jokes no matter what's happening. Is that why I love him? Maybe. Does he like me? He called me darling...
We finish making the human's environment more human for them. "Alright. Up next are the humans, I suppose," Ivist concludes.
"Uh, not quite." I say. "I want to make a new species." Ivist stares at me like I'm crazy. " I know it sounds weird, but it's not. Just, trust me." I shoot a beam of pink light out of my hands. It turns into a big pink ball. It dilutes and where nothing once stood float a bunch of orbs with two wings.
"Fairies," Ivist stares in awe. He starts to laugh in a supporting way, if those exist. "They'll be called fairies." He smiles. "Do we name them?"
"Oh, sure." I stare at them. There are fourteen of them. Seven male, seven female. Moon, Drip, Leaf, Flare, Shocker, Shadow, and Sting are the names I decide to call the seven male fairies. The females get called Shine, Droplet, Flower, Heat, Nuzzle, Pulse, and Toxic. "Okay. Time for the humans." I take a deep breath. This is it. We are becoming real gods. Gods that humans will look up to, pray to, love.
Ivist grabs my hand. "You ready?" I nod my head. "Just like last time. Think as hard as you can about the humans." I shut my eyes and think only about the humans. The tingling starts again and this time it's combined with nostalgia. The tingling reaches my hand. It's happening.
This time I open my eyes first. Two creatures are there. Two humans. "Hello," I call to them. They're tiny compared to us. They need names.
I look over to Ivist. "They need names." He stares at me, then looks at them.
"Ivist and Pram," he suggests. I look at him. His face makes me crack up. "What's so funny?" He continues to stare at me. I try to control my laughter.
"No," I manage to say. "New names." I look at the two humans, who are probably scared. "James." I point to the male human. "He's James." I call to Ivist. "That'll be James." I look over to the female human. "Spark," I decide. "James and Spark."
"I like it," Ivist agrees.
I kneel over to the humans. Their eyes go big, in fear I'm assuming. I point to myself. "My name is Pram." I point to Ivist. "That's Ivist." They continue to stare. "You," I point to the male, who steps back "You're James." I point to the girl. She steps behind the man. Behind James. "You're Spark."
It's getting dark out now. I'm looking at cloud Ivist made for me. James and Spark went walking, exploring the world we made for them. The world with no rules. I need to do something. I need to show the people, or couple, of this world that Ivist and I exist. For the future generations. Some won't believe in us, but that doesn't mean we didn't exist. I can try to prove our existence. But how? I've got to do something. I know that I'll protect the humans forever. I need to. I open my eyes wide. I know what I'll do. A symbol. A symbol that stands for what this world was created by. Strength, Wisdom, Magic, and Bravery. But what'll the symbol be? I start to think about it. A square with a cross inside it. The cross splits the square into four pieces. The four "creations". All I need is a name. Something the humans will always remember. The Light Square? No. The Square of Creation? Nope. I've got it!
The Right Light.
As soon as I picture all this, the tingling feeling returns. My soul feels light, as if I'm the nicest thing alive. I don't close my eyes this time. I watch as The Right Light is made. It's gold. Suddenly, right above my cloud stands The Right Light. The Right Light. On my cloud. The Right Light Cloud.
"What's that?" Ivist walks up behind me.
"The Right Light." He stares at me, puzzled.
"What's that mean?"
"It means that we'll always protect the humans. It means to believe and value the founding creations; Strength, Wisdom, Magic, and Bravery." I turn around to look at him. He returns the look. His mysterious gray eyes just...hypnotize me. I step closer to him. I grab his shoulders. He puts his hands on my waist. Nothing matters right now. Just Ivist. He leans his head towards me ,and now even I don't matter.
"Pram,darling. Oh how much I love you." He pulls me and kisses me. He leans back and smiles. And I can't help but smile too.
Some time passes. By some, I mean one thousand, seven hundred sixty-five years. James and Spark have died, but not before giving birth to children, causing a chain reaction. Currently, over three million humans live on the land, the land called Mace.
Today, Ivist and I are just staying put. Like everyday for the past thousand years.
"What can we do today?" Ivist asks. He's bored, and I don't blame him.
"Just watch over the humans," I reply. No human has seen us since over one thousand years. Ivist sighs. All we have is each other,again.
"Today," Ivist says. "Let's return today." He stand up. I look at him. Today. We could return today. After not being present for a thousand years. The idea gets me pumped up.
"Today." I say. "Today we return." Ivist cracks a smile.
"Now we're talking. When are we going?"
"Right now." I stand up. I look over to my fairies. "See ya soon!" And with that, Ivist and I exit the room.
The Right Light Cloud waits outside the door. The Right Light hovers over the cloud. Ivist hops off the cloud and onto Mace. I follow.All of everything stops and looks at us. The six million human eyes all look at us. Just two gods standing in front of them.
"We should shrink down,"Ivist tells me. He closes his eyes and starts to shrink. I close my eyes and do the same. Now, I'm the size of a human. The size of James and Spark. Together, Ivist and I walk towards the humans. Towards a new peaceful life. Forever.
Keep on Sparking!
-Ivan Murillo
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