Na'So Legend Part 1

Hey folks, I have been toying with this in my head now for a bit. It's a lead of for a Epic I am writing. It's only part one and I leave a lot of hole in it but I didn't feel like writing out the second part right now. Maybe next freebie week I will put that up. So enjoy and as always pardon the grammar. lol

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Title: Na'So Legend Part 1
Theme: Freebie Week
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When the world was first birthed things were different, the air was clear, the earth was pure and the people who lived on the land communed with nature. Yes things were very different, in the beginning. The gods and goddesses looked down at what they had made and they smiled upon it. They had but one rule, no more than 12 of them may live on their land at a time and so it would be because the first people had no concept of sex or of child birth because the gods chose to keep this knowledge from them. So for the first several hundred years all was in balance with the world and the universe around it.

However the gods and goddesses knew about such things as sex and rearing of children and soon they grew bored with their life of luxury. The gods have few rules but their cardinal rule is that no god shall reproduce. None of the gods knew why, just that the elder gods of past ages had decreed it so and they were too scared, that the elders would return, to cross them. Well most of the gods were scared of the elders. The king of the gods, Na knew no fear for he was the knowledge of War and Fire and it was not within him to know such things. He saw the laws of the gods as below him because he was king. He had eyes on the goddess So who held the knowledge of love and fertility. However So was terrified of the elder’s vengeance and refused the advances of the king of the gods. Na was furious with this, he was not used to being ignored or refused and he soon took it within himself to force So to be with him. One night as the goddess of Fertility slept, the king of the gods slipped in to her bed and forced himself on her. The law had been broken.

At first none of the gods knew anything; no fire fell upon the gods, there was no retribution from the elder gods of old. Everything continued on as normal. Time passed and So began to swell with child as Na continued his late night ventures into her bedchambers. The other gods began to notice the change in attitude of So and the change of her stomach as a godling swelled within it. None of the other ten gods voiced objection to what was happening, in truth they were tired of being held back by the rules the elder gods had given them. If they could break the cardinal rule and face no consequences then they could do whatever they want.

Time passed and soon So’s stomach swelled to its fullest and the birthing process was on her. As the child passed through her legs all the gods, even Na the child’s father knew something was wrong. The child was covered with black scales and fur all over its body, its face a distorted mixture of reptile and ape like features. Everyone knew it was an abomination onto life however Na picked up the child and claimed him as his son.

The child grew extremely fast and within a month it was the age of a young child close to the age of eleven. The boy’s features had not improved and he was covered from head to toe with black dragon like scales with tuffs of black and white animal hair planted around his body. He had sprouted a tail as he had grown and had taken on a lizard like gait as he walked on reverse jointed legs around the palace of the gods. He was a monstrosity but no one was willing to tell his father that. They named this child Shadi the word for gift in the old tongue.

The child grew and his godly powers soon to develop within himself, the powers that appeared were disturbing to the other gods and some had never been conceived before. He had the power to control the shadows in the day and the darkness of the night with just a thought and he could summon the dead and fallen and make them follow his commands. He had become the knowledge of dark and evil, something that was unheard of before he was born. The other gods were scared of Shadi.

By the time Shadi was a year old he grew tired of his life on the palace of the gods. He decided to go down to the people of the lands who until know knew nothing of what had happened and were living out a peaceful life. When Na found out of Shadi plans he found that to be a step too far and moved to stop his son. However Shadi was in no mood to talk to his father and when the king of the gods stepped in front of his son to block his path, Shadi waved his hand as if to brush the obstacle away and a dark wave of darkness brushed the king of the gods away.

The rest is a bit hazy after that but from what the tales say; Na didn’t like that one bit. He brought forth all his might against his son in one giant attack but Shadi waved it away in a sheet of darkness as he let out a low pitched laugh. The other gods noticing the fight; came to the aid of Na hoping to put an end to abomination’s life. Each of the gods and goddesses brought forth their might against Shadi but each attack was knocked away with ease as the darkness wrapped around him, making him stronger. The gods were knocked aside one by one as Shadi moved through them, finally coming to the last two, Na and So his parents, his hatred. It is said that a wicked smile splayed the already deformed face of Shadi as he brought up his hand and drew in the darkness from all around him, the light draining from the palace of the gods and a strange mist creeping in along the floor. The two gods stared at the dark thing that they had brought into this world and they wept, they were about to die by their own creation. They knew now why the gods should never bare children, what they were about to experience was much worse than any vengeance from the elder gods. Shadi lifted his hand and pointed it at his parents, the tales never say if he said anything to them, I would like to think he said good bye but we all know a monster like him knows not of such things. What we do know though is that just before Shadi let loose his attack the gods began to sing.

The song of the gods it is called, when the gods gave up their knowledge to the people of the lands below so that we might survive without them. The song of Fire, the song of earth, the song of wind, the song of water, the song of metal, the song of healing, the song of history, the song of wealth, the song of dreams, the song of love and the song of song. As the gods gave up their knowledge they slowly began to pass away, disappearing as their songs slowly moved to the people of the land. All but Na and So, they stayed even after they sang their songs, they would face their son to the final moment. Shadi infuriated and howling in madness as the knowledge he one day hoped to gain moved even farther away from him. Then with a twisted laugh he pointed his fist at his parents and let loose the black void held within. The blast hit the two gods and sent them flying out of the palace of the gods.

As they fell to the land below they embraced each other once more and kissed, as the two fell into the great ocean Na used the last of his power to change themselves into a pair of statues that would burn from within eternally. As they sank into the waters, the waters began to boil and a mist rose up into the land. The mist crept slowly over the world, hiding it, protecting it. The mist covered the world except for the very tips; Shadi would not be able to destroy what the two had loved so dearly.

There was only one problem, the knowledge of the dark places was what Shadi held within himself and the mist is one of the darkest places you can be. When Shadi reached the land and found out what his parents had done he was jubilant, they had done what he could have never done. He had complete control over the world and he didn’t have to lift a finger to do it. He soon unleashed his dark hordes on the people of the land. The people of the land barely escape his monsters and moved to the highest tip of the world. They named the place Dark Watch and began to build a defense against the dark one there. The people of the land were few in number but they were armed with the knowledge of the gods and soon they would have to defend against the dark god himself.
To be Continued.