《Paradox》 1. Paradox Chaos, a reality were laws, concepts and energies of all the spectrum were mixed in a pitch black view. And traveling through it at speeds faster than light itself was a white androgynous humanoid creature, six arms, no clothes and on their naked body no orifice or reproductive organs could be seen, except for pitch black eyes with golden pupils on each of their palms. This creature was the first of their kind and probably the last before a very long time, as they were born eons ago from chaos when the energies, law and concept in constant movement formed by accident a natural formation of birth. The creature then named itself paradox in its own language as they instinctively knew that the event that saw them come to life from the components of chaos they named the spectrum were not natural as the concept of formations, being the organisation of the spectrum was in direct contradiction with chaos, the pure mixe of it. Paradox travelled this realm from the moment of their birth but after all this time they could not find an end to this place, sometimes in this dark they felt as if they were standing still as if movement didn''t even exist, but suddenly, everything clicked for them as they realized that in chaos the concept of movement and stillness and the laws of time and space were one, meaning that even when they moved they weren''t and they were blocked at the moment and place of their birth from the start. Knowing this a solution came to their mind naturally as they started to move their arms in different patterns while making hand signs and making their pupils glow each in their own shade of gold. If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. Suddenly paradox started to move despite staying completely still. This was the solution that they found creating their own formation to manipulate chaos into moving them by separating the concepts of movement and stillness and the laws of time and space from the spectrum then from eachother and using the first one to push themselves further into chaos. But a new problem arose, why were they moving, their was clearly nothing else in here and the concept of infinity in the spectrum told them that they would never reach the end of chaos to see if their was something else beyond it. This revelation prompted them to stop they''re formation and return chaos to its original form while plunging paradox in a state of sadness, note their first emotion as it was curiosity that pushed them to move in the first place, but suddenly an other idea came, if they were trapped here why not create something from chaos to share their loneliness. But as they were about to create their niew friend, paradox spotted something faraway, a white line that formed a circle all around them. Without even touching it they knew what it was, a time line their timeline, but why was it they''re first time seeing it, was it because of their recent contact with the time law change their sensitivity or was that their experiment had changed chaos forever and touching chaos again might cause other changes. But despite the risks, the feeling of loneliness was to strong and paradox started to launch a new formation. This time paradox was copying the natural one that birth them. Being their second experience with formation paradox managed to create their own little tweaks on the original and even chose how the creature would look, but paradox felt that it would be more interesting if their creation show some surprise so they only only made modification for the newborn to possess a body capable of surviving chaos and naturally navigate it. With this modifications done paradox was ready to give birth to their first child. 2. Birth In front of paradox the formation started to form with billions of multicoloured symbols glowing in the black of chaos and taking an egg shape. While all of this was happening paradox was looking through the egg formation seeing the two little creatures that were taking shape in it. Unexpectedly two creatures were created in a single creature formation. They possessed four limbs, light brown skin and white hair, but the weird part was all the orifices and the three organs on the front of one of the creatures who didn''t seem to serve any purpose and two lumps on the other that seemed as useless. But this wasn''t all as a white circle appeared around both of them, their very own timeline. While all of this was happening paradox felt a change in the spectrum, new concepts, as the two creatures were molded in existence so were new concepts, all of them part of the same branch, reproduction. Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. Crack crack Suddenly the egg formation started to break from the inside, the creatures were ready. ******* [POV ???] It took us so long to be ready and almost as much to break free from the formation. Wait, how did i know what created us and even more, how did i know that we were created? All of this was strange? And even stranger i instinctively knew that my twin felt the same thing. "Welcome my children" a voice sounded in their head, but how? And did i just understand his language? What was even a language and where did all these questions come from? And what was even a question? "Calm down my children, everything will be revealed in time through chaos, so just focus on one question, you will know instinctively the right one" the voice somehow calmed us down and we did as told, we focused and instinctively knew what question to ask. Were we one being or two? "Good question my children, not the one i would''ve gone for but still a good one" the voice talked but didn''t respond, we felt ... annoyed. "The answer is both my children, both." The moment we heard this we didn''t know why but, it felt right, like everything clicked, we were organising all the informations we were born with and suddenly a word no a name came to us, our name, the thing that represents us the best. "WE ARE DUALITY" 3. Names It took a very long time for Duality to awaken and even more for them to understand how to make formations. The solution came from something they called cores, each body possing two, one in their left chest and another in their lower abdomen, four in total and two less than the six on Paradox hands. When Duality launched their first formation to see their surroundings, they could finally perceive their maker and what they saw shocked them to their cores as in the infinite of chaos floated a giant six armed creature thousands of times there size packing so much power that they felt weak for the first time, you could even say that they were the first to feel this. They had come to learn the name of their creator, "Paradox", and that for their kind, whatever they were, the names were representation of both their identities and their special abilities, they themselves and Paradox were already capable of using formations but their names granted them physical powers in correlation to the particular concepts attached to it and the more they understood and acted in accordance to them the stronger they were. All of this explanations to say that Paradox was light years ahead of duality not only in formations but also in the study of their name. And like this the two creatures started to love their lives studying formations and their names for what would seem like an eternity to us. Duality proved to be not as talented as Paradox in neather studies which was not a big problem for the study of formations as with enough time Paradox could teach them every one they had discovered, but as of the study of their name they were almost on their own as the two creatures had felt that delving to much in the study of different name would be detrimental to them. The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. Felling left behind Duality chose to abandon the research of formation to focus on themselves and in hope of catching up with Paradox. They started by focusing on their name, at first no change occurred but with persistence and by following their instinct like the moment they discoverd they''re name they felt that they were on the right track but not on self discovery but the concept of name itself as they remembered something, only when they named themselves did they gained real power, probably due their lack of natural talent, but the fact remained, names had powers and perhaps naming things could give them more powers. The moment of this realisation Duality shared their theory with Paradox seeing no reason no to. And like this the two friends decided to first name the concept behind the power of their names, many possibilities were discussed but the one they felt was the best was the "self" and the moment they agreed on it both of them felt their understanding of they''re freshly named self grow. The theory was a success, but a side effect started to manifest itself, Duality were receiving a way bigger reward, probably because they discoverd the concept of naming, and by realizing this both Duality and Paradox understood that now each time something would be named, Duality would grow stronger and that the talent of Paradox in formotions came from the fact that they were the first to be born of one and even more to launch one, same thing for the self as they were the first creature to name themselves. Understanding this the next thing they named was the concept that just rewarded them the "fair". The next thing they did was to name their race in hope that every time one would be born or accomplished something they would rip some of the benefits. And like this the "chaosborns", the first race was born. 4. Chaosborns The moment the chaosborns were named something in chaos changed, millions of new birth formations appeared shocking Paradox and Duality literally to their cores as they could feel their formation controlling organs shake. Instinctively they knew that soon many new members of they''re race be born, the difference being that the formations seemed to vary in power, with some as powerful as the one Paradox used to birth Duality and othe barely enough to birth something, but the newborns would still be able be able to move naturally through chaos and perhaps later train. It didn''t take long before many of the newborns in the lesser formations to be born in seemingly random forms, with a few looking like Duality, while it seemed that the more powerful ones would take longer. But something strange happened as many formations did not birth creatures but what chaos automatically classed in the concepts of plants, artifacts or both in some very rare cases Paradox decided to name the artifacts chaos shards as all of them took the forms of guess what? Shards. As for the plants Duality decided that they were part of the chaosborns. Another strang thing was that all of them naturally could move and perceived things through chaos, as if chaos had improved Paradox''s formation. Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original. ********** [POV???] It was difficult to get out of the birth formation and i knew i was among the last to get out of it, probably because i was among the superior ones, i knew i was, as even in my formation i could feel the others outside, many of them trying to break through my formation to eat me for power but to weak to break through it, pathetic. The other were busy fighting for what one of them named shards, many of them dying in the process, as great power resided within them, even more pathetic knowing that i was born with nine of them in my core, what i knew was the upper limit, i could only feel pity fo the weaklings. As i got out of my formation and flew through i watched what was supposed to be of the same race as me in all shapes and forms, i noticed many looking like me creatures with four limbs and different genitals depending of the sex, if felt... disgusting. I had to differentiate myself from this trash so i moved my shards out of my core then out of my body and shaped eight of them into wings in my back and the last one into a pure white halo. While i was moving, all of the puny ones could only get out of my way, reinforcing my greatness and proving my superiority. "Paradox look at this, an interesting one just appeared" suddenly a voice rang through chaos wich wasn''t supposed to be possible, and forcing me to turn around and witness something even more shocking, two chaosborns but completely different from us as no shards could be felt from them but there power seemed limitless and making me understand something... I was weak. 5. Shardborns [POV Paradox] It didn''t take long before we started to see many new talented newborns, with the more specials being the first one of them, born with his shards who name himself Metatron, a giant tree floating in space named origin, who rule over plant chaosborns and those who fused plant shards named the ancestral. But despite their talent those two couldn''t compare to two chaosborns born weak, bahamut and the seeker, the first one a scaly gigantic creature ultra focused on his self, making him the strongest of this new generation and the second one looking like one of Duality''s bodies like many others but a formation genius like me not like many others. Their talent not the only special thing about them as like me and Duality they refused to absorb any shards, knowing it was not their path and proving their good instincts as many other chaosborns who absorbed them didn''t realise that the shards were not they''re forte and their mastery as difficult as the path of the self and the one of formations. But what i just said was not entirely true as despite note absorbing them the seeker seemed to be doing experiments with shards and it seemed that one of them was about to bear fruit... The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. .......... [POV the seeker] With my research i discoverd that the shards were as much alive as us chaosborns even though they lacked what that muscle head Bahamut called sentience, making them in fact our siblings. It was an incredible discovery as we learned instinctively that all living organism could reproduce even though it was next to impossible for us chaosborns and Paradox refused to give us his birth formation saying that it would be more entertaining to watch us found our own solution. So i decided to indulge myself in the research of natality, as the battle for the shards or leadership had decimated our race and birth rate out of chaos was way to slow after the first salve of individuals and the reproduction between chaos borns even slower. It had become my duty to save our people and i will use our sentientless siblings for this, as i had theorised that bye forcing the reproduction of two shards a new kind of chaosborn would appear in the vast infinity of chaos. Finally i decided test my theory as grabbed two shards started recite a formula, my own form of formation derived from Paradox style. In front of me in the dark of chaos an object started to appear but it was not a chaosborn, not even a living being but something completely new and i knew it would take the shape and attributes i would choose for it, so i decided to make it in a red veil that would cover my body. I knew that as the creator of this object and a new concept of chaos my duty was to name it, so i did. Prima red, the first of its kind, the prima artifacts was born and i knew that soon chaos would birth many new versions of it in many forms and giving many type of powers, creating a new war that would probably kill even more of my people than the one for the shards. I had sentenced my people to even more suffering. 6. Army With the seekers discovery prima artifacts of many forms and powers started to appear all over chaos, causing almost as much damage to the little chaos society that was forming than the conflicts for the shards. This turbulent times receive the names of first and second chaotic war. Surprisingly Metatron faction was the less touch as with his talent for shards he figured almost instinctively the way for him to do the same with his natural shards and even for more than two, his limit being a super artifacts created with the power of four shards. This achievement made him almost on par with the seeker who attained the same level, the difference being that Metatron could only do it with his own shards, making it a compatibility problem for everyone one except for himself and the descendants born from his harem. This cause Metatron to suffer a lot, as even though he had been humbled the first he met Paradox and Duality he still retained a massive ego. So he decided that he had to beat the seeker at his own game and accomplished what his his rival failed at, create life at of shards. This should be easier for him as he was the first born with shards and the other were all his descendants, all born with fewer than him and the capacity to grow them with training. This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. The truth was that despite their talent only three of his children managed to naturally grow nine shards which mad them almost on par with him talent wise. Two of sons called remiel and uriel specialised in prima artifacts creations and a daughter named Raphael in reinforcing herself with shards and even throwing what she called spells with them. Perhaps could he create creature on par with this three and finally beat origin and her army and finally prove himself the ultimate leader of the chaosborns. For this he asked the of his three more talented children, two of them supplying him with the power of two of their shards and the last one with one, making it nine shards, the theoretical limit to create prima artifacts as it was the limit to the number one could absorb shards or grow them through training. The process proved itself way more difficult than creating any artifacts but at the end, what seemed like a planet size white mountain appeared in front of Metatron and his children wich deeply disappointed him, before he sensed little creatures starting to appear all over the mountain, all of them resembling them, a form that many started to call chaos form. None of the as strong or talented as the three behind him but Metatron never felt happier as in his eyes all of them were brimming with potential. All the creatures were born with what Metatron called intrinsinc prima artifacts, which with training they could transform in something equal to natural shards and even grow more of them. This moment in chaos a new race was born named primordials, the second generation of chaos.