Creation

                                                                                                                        Zack

Herald decided to create something with the extra planet, which was barren yet, perfect. He first placed a few trees and quickly decided that these few trees were not enough. His greed for the creativity of what we call Earth forced his thoughts to become true. Herald filled the land with trees and flooded the ground so that it became saturated with water. Earth rained for two rotations before all of the water had been soaked into the dirt. He even moved the sun closer so that it would be a little hotter and force the water to leave the ground. Randall was jealous of Herald’s work and became angered. Seeing Herald’s selfish acts he rippled the land so that extremely deep bodies of water formed along with shallow pools. The Earth tilted from the tremors and fell into a perpetual spin, which created the seasons. Randall gazed at what he had made. A tear fell from his eye, salting the deepest waters forever. He then filled the ripples by making Earth turn another two rotations under an intense rain. Half of Herald’s trees had been submerged, but it didn’t matter because Herald admired Randall’s work.

Randall then placed an entirety of scrap parts under the oceans’ surface to deter Herald’s appreciation. I refer to scrap parts as in bones and flesh. These two people have no affiliation; they’ve just always been there together.

Herald began to scribble upon his hand one day out of boredom. Whilst drawing he began to think about how lonely earth looked with just trees so he drew man. He decided that even though Randall had control over the oceans’ contents he would borrow some of the spare parts from the scraps and create what he had drawn.

Man stumbled onto shore from the depths of the ocean. Herald noticed that the being was dying out of the water, and realized that he needed to better adapt him to the life above and out of water. Herald thought to himself watching the human flounder about on the banks of the ocean how he could help. Then Herald inhaled deeply and closed his eyes. Exhaling he breathed two pouches inside of man. The man’s eyes grew large and he breathed in the briny sea breeze. Herald then left the man on the shore and drew the inner systems of the man onto the back of his hand and exhaled them into the motionless figure.

Man was finally at full functioning perfection. Randall had noticed his brother’s work and his missing property. He agreed with Herald that Earth had been lonely but thought that a man alone would look even lonelier. He then created a woman. Randall loved to irk Herald with his compliments, which were quite generous and copious. Herald was not annoyed. He welcomed Randall’s input upon Earth since he still felt sorry for creating Earth first.

Randall of course decided to take advantage of Herald’s humbleness and created every animal from aardvarks to zebras. There was no order, just action. Herald used all of the scrap parts from the ocean for the sake of man being able to prepare himself for what was to come.

Herald saw Randall’s work and was insulted. These creations to him were a mockery of his constructs, but he didn’t confront Randall, because he knew that the humans were happy with his work. So Herald avoided Randall, walked to the other side of the spinning world they had created together, and became the moon.

Randall grew lonely while watching the humans flourish. He made it to the turn of the century and decided to make his home inside of the sun. Occasionally Herald and Randall will pass by each other and speak for a brief moment before returning to their slumbers.