OK, this story is NOT finished. You can see that, because it has no title yet. It is only half done. I will write the next half tomorrow, probably.
Aeons ago, in the vast and empty void of nothingness, there was only One. There was no time, no space, no dimensions, nothing of our known, perceivable universe. There was only One.
But of course, the world was not meant for only One. Thus, One gave birth to the Three: Primus, the First One; Secundus, the Second One; and Tertius, the Third One. These three primordial beings are the founders and creators of everything in our world.
Primus, the First One, gave birth to Time, Aether, Gravity, and Entropy. Time, with its omnipresent and immutable forward flow, marked the beginnings and ends of all phenomena. Aether, with its immaterial threads, weaved the very fabrics of space. Gravity, the force of absolute order, extended its pull on everything in the space created by Aether, trying to unite all into One again. Entropy, the force of pure chaos, made space random and unpredictable in its most fundamental levels, preventing it from ever merging back to One again. The four children of Primus defined all laws that govern the world.
The stage created by the children of Primus was set. The four children of Secundus, Fire, Water, Air, and Earth, worked to give matter and substance to the still-empty space. They defined the four states of matter: the solid Earth, the liquid Water, the gaseous Air, and the plasmid Fire. Fire and Water, hot and cold, defined the property of temperature; Earth and Air, corporeal and intangible, defined the solidity of form. Combining and mixing with each other, the children of Secundus created matter, filling space with substance.
By the time the children of Secundus finished their work, the world already faintly resembles our own. But the children of Primus and Secundus soon realized that the world was still, in a sense, empty. There were no other beings of conscious thought. That was when the children of of Tertius the Third one began their work.
The children of Tertius were Life, Death, Light, and Darkness. Tearing out a sliver of essence from itself and putting that essence into a construct of matter, Life created the first living creature. But as stated by the sacred law of Time, everything must have a beginning and an end; to preventing the creature from growing infinitely and out of bound, Death planted a seed of itself into the creature, a seed of degeneration and decay. Thus, the creature crafted by Life could grow, reproduce, and multiply, but it would eventually die and revert back to lifeless matter.
As the creatures adapted and evolved, they grew more intelligent, and more aware of themselves. To help guide them, Light created the first star to illuminate the world. The creatures were now able to see each other's pain and happiness, so they learned to understand and help each other. However, the Light emitted by the star could not reach everywhere; where there was no Light, there was Darkness. In the dark, creatures could only perceive themselves, and so they had become selfish, and not care for the others. Growth and decay, good and evil, those became the forces that controlled the creatures, their lives, and their societies.
Time, Aether, Gravity, Entropy, Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Life, Death, Light, and Darkness. The twelve forces that crafted the world. The One and its three children had long since faded away, and the twelve were all that remained. They became known as the Elements.
But soon, the Elements, too, began to fade. But because they crafted the world, they became a part of their creation instead of disappearing completely. The Elements had dissipated, and turned into an unique type of energy known as quanta.
