text: Long before the dinosaurs roamed the earth, there was but the earth herself. And there were the gods and goddesses that used the universe as their playground. They would play with the little planets and shape them to their will. They fought with each other over them as though they were just toys at a preschool. The ones that fought the most with each other were the ones of opposites. Fire would fight with water, darkness with light, good with bad and so on for all the many gods and goddesses that we can not even comprehend. Fire had recently won a battle against water for a planet that now remains forever red. In his sulking he fled to the next one closer to the sun. It was only mud and rock, but once he stepped upon the surface he felt a pulse. There was a goddess within all the mud and rock. Water started his work to carve her out. First he called the moisture from the sky but it would not stay. He needed help and there was only one that he could trust. He sent word for the silver warrior that could help him control the atmosphere and she came to him in no time at all. She did as he bid and held the water from the sky. He used the water to cut away the stone and soon his goddess began to take shape. At first it was just her head. Her hair was rivers of mud that flowed endlessly down. Her eyes a brilliant warm topaz that could melt even the coldest heart. Her jaw was hard and her neck swooped like the sides of a mountain. Her skin was ruset like rich clay. The hills of her breast were perfectly round but water didn’t get much further in freeing her when fire started to rain down from the sky. The earth goddess screamed as she felt every impact. The silver warrior could deflect a few with her mighty sword but she was no match for fire. Water was his only match and so he would leave earth to go fight him. He left the silver warrior to do what she could and she did try until silver dripped off of her skin and was soaked into the land. The earth cheered her on and the more time that passed with it just being the two of them on the planet, the closer they grew until the silver warrior fell in love with the earth and she in return. Water was not able to hold fire off forever. Fire wanted to consume the planet like he had so many others, leaving nothing behind. Water was fighting more than he ever had because he too was in love with the earth. They tangled as they fell back towards the surface and splashed into the water that had accumulated there. They fell to the center of the world. This hurt the earth, to have such great powers fighting within her, so she separated them with stone. The stone closest to fire turned to magma and the stone closest to water turned solid. Fire was so mad that he started spinning circles trying to throw water from the planet. Water was so distracted by fire that he didn’t realize that the tidal wave that their impact had created was heading for the earth goddess herself. If it hit her she would surely drown and be lost, forever worn away. The silver warrior had also been thrown from the planet during the impact on a large piece of rock. She watched from so far away helpless to help her love. She howled with such might that the wave ebbed back before it could destroy the earth goddess. When she stopped it crept forward again. It was clear to her that she would be forever stuck away from her love to keep her alive. Controlling the ebb and flow of the water while water himself was distracted by the swirling fury of fire at the center of the world. She looked down at the earth goddess with longing and sorrow. Down on the surface the earth goddess looked up knowing that her love and protector was up there. She had no voice to howl back to the silver warrior. All she had left was the sweat the silver warrior had left behind. She pushed it from the ground and asked life to give it shape. It turned into all different kinds of creatures but the earth goddess’s favorite was the ones that looked up to the moon and howled for her. She could hear them call to her silver warrior every night with their howling song of love and loss. They said for her what she could not and the silver warrior brightened. She would stay forever there to protect her love.