Teen Ink

Prologue

When the world was young the deity, Subete, grew tired and bored. With her power she gave birth to time and space that she named Jikan and Supēsu. The three of them lived together for over a millennium until Jikan and Supēsu grew bored of having no toys. So Subete created four children for her son and daughter to play with. The toys were named Chikyū, who ruled the forestry. Hia and Mizu who created fire and water. The last of the toys was named Kaze, a restless toy that created and lived in the winds. With the four toys in hand the two children slowly formed a perfect sphere, with each toy working side-by-side. Years past and the two children lived happily, however Subete was dying and she was aware of it. With her last breath she created a bright light and a dark shadow. She said that both must exist for the other to strive for life, and then perished from the world. Now the light and dark hated each other so much that they could not stand to see one another. The two children called the light Hikari and the dark Kurai, though the two never saw one another they communicated through the toys and Jikan and Supēsu. Kurai fell in love with Mizu, who gave birth to ice- Kōri. After awhile Hikari also fell in love, with Hia. The two gave birth to lightning and named him Inazuma. The ages past and the ten elements lived in the sphere and around the sphere. However one day Kurai grew jealous of never being allowed to go inside the sphere, so he attempted to enter. The affect caused a large scale war. Hikari and the other elements came together and sealed Kurai in a form, along with themselves. Now imprisoned within the sphere the deities waited, the only trace of their existence rests in a book with the words " Subete no harō wa sakerarenai wakare kara wazuka purorōgudearu" . Thousands of years past and man began to thrive, the women inferior to men. The deities sought pity on the women and gave them magic to harness. The royal bloodlines had male members capable of using magic as well as the women. Kurai still had a part of him which was jealous, which escaped into the world and lay dormant inside of a stone. This jealousy was named Jaakuna.