<div style="text-align: center"><b><u> The Beginnings</u></b>​</div><i>The gods looked unto the world and watched as chaos ripped the lands apart; watched as man tore their own world asunder with wars. Observed as they savagely ripped each other to pieces over hatred, greed, lust; the lust for sex, riches, and above all power.<br/>
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Certainly a world not worth saving nor even trying to help and some of the gods agreed to let them bring about their own demise. Yet some spoke out against the action, saying it was too harsh for there was good in that twisted world and it should be given a chance to flourish. They argued over what should be done for some time before a decision was made to create two beings, twins, who would be charged with keeping the balance, so to speak and with that decision and a snap of a finger the deal was done.<br/>
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Off somewhere in the night sky a giant blue star pulsed like a small heart-beat and a distant voice reached across the expanse of space "You two will bring prosperity and light to the chaos stricken world." the voice was soft and gentle almost echoing in nature. At the words the blue star pulsed again slightly stronger this time, growing brighter. "Breathe..." the voice urged on and the pulsing came quicker, more insistent, an almost inaudible "thump,thump,thumping" of a heart reverberating around the pulsing, a stronger glow emanated from within the star and the thumping grew louder, becoming the echo of two thumping hearts, and the star seemed to almost shake and break apart.<br/>
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It was beginning to die and collapse in on itself, dust particles circled around the dying star and with one final pulse it collapsed and exploded, the explosion spreading out like a wave crashing over land, and just like water it pulled back into the source and disappeared into a giant burst of darkness, the darkness darker than even the black emptiness of space.<br/>
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The shadows dissipated and where the star once was there was now two women identical in every possible way except for the gems that adorned their foreheads. They seemed almost in a sort of slumber curled next to each other forming an odd sort of circular shape resembling the yin and yang symbol.<br/>
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The women opened their eyes and blinked slowly, moving they reached out and grabbed each others hands "Now go and restore the world to it's true beauty." the voice said fading away and with that they were sent hurling to their destination. All the while they never let go of each others hands, as if that alone was what was keeping them from being destroyed out in space.<br/>
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The twins had landed on the planet in an explosion and had set about doing the work they had been created to do; or so they thought. As they traveled their personalities began to form and they began to question their original assumptions about their work as well as their own existence. As they traveled they gained friends that began to teach them about the world and through that they truly learned what their mission was. And from that point on they had done right by their duty bringing great joy and honor to the gods who had molded them from the dying star. <br/>
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However, tragedy befell them one day. A power hungry lord sought to use the twins immeasurable power to help himself and had kidnapped the light; Hikaru. That was when they learned that they not only balanced the world around them but they balanced each other as well. Without the one to balance the other they both fell into a trance like state. Tsukiko, the darkness was as a demon destroying any that fell into her path. Hikaru, the light on the other hand sought to purge the world of all impurities and since the world and all the creatures that inhabit the world are never truly pure she destroyed just as much as her dark counter-part.<br/>
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The world and it's people became fearful of such beings and sought a way to put an end to their reign. It was then that they were sealed away. The people still feared the power of the twins and so it was added that neither twin could exist in the world without a contractor to control them. However, the ones who sealed the twins and in essence cursed them to that existence knew that the lure of such power would bring a great many evil hearts intent on owning the twins, so they hid the location as well as the ritual that would unseal them. Millennium passed and the Twins fell into the oldest of myths, nearly forgotten by the passage of time.<br/>
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