Chapter 1: Prologue

Green lightning hit the ground to my feet a mere centimetre away from my bare feet. Like a spider web, the green energy sprawled all around me for several seconds, even licking my toes in the process. Completely unhurt, I held down the hat on my head and leaned against the strong, unhospitable wind. Fine sand dust hit the uncomfortable scarf around my face and the old goggles on my face.

Cursing quietly about my fate, I leaned against the wind once more and continued to stomp back towards my home. Several metres later, a red lightning threatened to hit my head, but curved around me like a snake which promptly slithered into the ground. Looking upwards, I could see the pitch black clouds covering this planet the whole time and arcs of energy in different colours.

This planet was inhospitable. As inhospitable as it can get. There were only two seasons left. One was the stormy season which was my favourite by far. The other one was quite rainy, which would be alright if not for my irrational fear of water and the water being highly toxic.

The landscape didn’t do too well under these conditions either. Everything I had surveyed so far was pretty darn barren, with a few notable exceptions like some mountains and a few caves underground. So far, I wasn’t able to find any plant on this apocalyptic planet and I highly doubted there were some left.

There weren´t many organisms left either. With the exception of two intelligent beings, there were parasitic worms, cannibalistic monsters and of course goblins. Not even the goddamn apocalypse could rat them out.

But hey, none of these races were responsible for the bad weather which destroyed every hope of a holiday at a beach. And not even the humans with their undying thirst for progress had anything to do with the molten mountains.

No, no, that achievement went to me. Not too proud of that one to be honest. I would rank it right in the middle of sleeping with my subordinate and that beaver genocide … they deserved it though.

Scratching my head a little, I knelt down swiftly as a boulder three times the size of my head flew through the air, driven forwards by the wind and gravity itself. As it was right above me, I was pulled backwards a little and nearly lost my footing as the forces of nature went crazy around me.

“How much I hate this…” I mumbled through the scarf, rubbed my bleeding nose and watched how the stone crashed down into the sand behind me. Glaring at it angrily as the boulder rose into the air again, I walked backwards until it flew into the distance hopefully going on the nerves of a few goblins.

A few minutes later, the next obstacle presented itself to me. It was green – and surprisingly it wasn’t a goblin. It looked kind of like a t-rex with very sharp, unhygienic teeth, strong legs and tiny, cute arms. The monster ran up to me the moment it noticed me and certainly didn’t keep its voice down as it roared in happiness.

I knew that I was a beauty, but I seriously didn’t want to be hugged by monster with sharp claws again. Leaning against the entrance to my cosy cave, I stared at it as it charged up to me until it was ten metre and sixty five centimetres away … possibly a few more millimetres as well, and then took a nose dive into the ground.

“How am I supposed to clean that up now?” I mumbled as I nudged the unmoving creature with my toes. “… she won´t like that.” I concluded, but still did what I had in mind any way. Undoing my scarf around my head, I turned around and strolled into the cave while coughing up a little bit blood.

Well, at least the entrance was clean afterwards which made me quite happy as I descended the stone stairs. The walls were barren for around fifty metres, but in the end, glowing plants covered them near the big circular room I called my home. Besides the multitude of plants I grew in my free time, the cat that didn’t like me at all and the bit of clean water in a small pond, there was only one thing of value inside. My sunshine.

“Mum!” She said happily and waved in my direction happily. No matter how often I saw my darling, it would always warm my heart. She was my everything, the fulfilment to the wish I had since I was born. And surprisingly, I didn’t even have to sacrifice that much for her.

Just my best friend … two times. And the world itself.  

But let us not begin with that, shall we? Let´s begin at a time where this planet didn´t even exist.

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