Rise Ethereal Essence - Chapter 5
The azure sun continuously blazed upon the world providing light.
As the sun reached its peak in the sky, the shadow of the enormous tree covered the land below. A beautiful spectacle of crystal light shone through the crown of the tree. When the sun was directly above the tree, it shone through the trunk making it appear lustrous.
The trunk of the enormous tree was like crystal timber.
This spectacle went on day after day.
Today was a special day. The enormous tree was like a light in the darkness. The sun above released azure light towards the tree. When it reached the highest point in the sky, it burned ferociously through the tree.
Where the tree hit the ground, massive roots spread through the land. At the foot of the tree, the trunk grew thicker. The crystal bark split revealing a large opening.
Below the opening was a naturally formed crystal-basin. The crystal basin was broad and held by a large root. Half of the basin was Twilight the other was Light.
The root holding the basin split into two. There, hundreds of creatures sat in observance. Within the roots appeared two troughs.
After a few seconds, the opening spilled a translucent golden sap.
The sap filled the large basin until it was overflowing. The abounding sap poured into the troughs continuously. Once the sap struck the end of the troughs, it stopped spilling from the tree.
Wisps of blue traveled through the sap within the troughs. They released strange pheromones of nature. The golden sap started to blaze an azure aura.
Around the crystal-basin floated two creatures surrounded by light. From their mouths spilled various tones, a prayer to the enormous tree. Along with their mouths, they performed strange maneuvers with their hands and feet.
Once the ritual was complete, the long branches that webbed within the sky parted. An azure sun was revealed to be shining overhead. The sun shone upon the basin with its fierce light. The light was mostly directed towards the ‘Light’ half of the basin with a small amount reaching the ‘Twilight’ half.
After a long time, the sun continued across the sky as the branches webbed together.
As the sun disappeared past the horizon, the sky became wondrous in the darkness.
The darkness came from the absence of light, but the darkness was not somber, it was dazzling. Upon the sky nine distant suns that appeared similar to small stars became visible.
Along with the suns appeared the infinite light of the innumerable worlds within the universe.
Each sun released a different light.
With the appearance of the nine suns, the branches of the tree parted revealing the distant stars that span from horizon to horizon. The light from the nine stars was directed at the ‘Twilight’ half of the basin with a little entering the ‘Light’ half.
Just as the azure sun remained stagnant in the sky, the nine suns were stagnant as well.
The light in the basin reached a pinnacle. The golden sap on the Light and Twilight half of the basin each shone Azure and Nine-colored light.
With the shining sap, the sky once again started changing. The nine suns slowly disappeared past the horizon, one by one. A brief moment of darkness was left. Half the sky was dark while the other half was bright.
At this moment, the similar creatures sitting around the troughs sunk their heads into the sap.
They drank the golden sap completely.
The instant the sap in the troughs was gone, a brightness poured out from the basin. A golden shimmer enveloped the surroundings.
From the halves of the basin walked out two figures. The two were azure and nine-colored.
They stepped out of their respective halves of the basin and waited around it.
After them, ninety-eight other figures appeared.
Fifty azure creatures appeared from the Light half of the basin.
Fifty nine-colored creatures appeared from the Twilight half.
Each creature was born from the golden sap and the ten suns lights.
What remained of the sap was a small amount. Enough for them to drink once.
The azure sap and nine-colored sap that remained began swirling and mixing. It was moving like a whirlpool similar to the system of stars.
The hundred azure and nine-colored creatures surrounding the basin drunk the remaining sap.
The sap passed through their bodies completing ten circulations changing and modifying, before accumulating in their heads.
The sap changed the azure and nine-colored creatures.
Respectively, the nine-colored creatures transformed into the blue greyish creatures, the azure creatures transformed into the fair pinkish creatures.
These two variants were the last and only of their kind, creatures of the Azure.
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The Dark Essence learned several things from observing these creatures.
The creatures communicated through a series of noises that came from their mouths and sometimes their hands. These creatures made sound through the use of energy.
The creatures all had a sort of link that connected them all. It was something unique that belonged to this world.
The energy that came out of their mouths when they spoke was filled with meaning through the use of the channels.
Once the Dark Essence understood that connection, it understood their form of speech.
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It learned that those lithe pointy-eared creatures were called Elves. Beautiful creatures that were tall and agile.
The enormous tree was called The Crystal Tree. A giver unto the world and the life source of Elves and Dryads.
And the blue wisps were called Dryads. Shapeshifting spirits of natures.
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The Dark Essence had observed them and grasped their history and culture. There were currently ten groups of elves. Each group consisted of a hundred elves. All these elves were called Sun Elves. The elves within every group were split into two categories. High Elves and Dark Elves.
The fair pinkish elves were High elves. They practiced their way of life under the light of the sun and trees.
The blue greyish elves were Dark Elves. Their way of life consisted of the night and cosmos.
The event that had just happened was a one of a kind occurrence. There were ten suns within this system of worlds. Each planet revolved and orbited a sun for a hundred years.
The planet of The Crystal Tree was a unique world like the others. The last day of every hundred years marked the birth of a hundred elves. Those elves were born from the respective sun during that hundred years.
In simpler terms, the recent birth of the hundred elves was correspondent to the azure sun. The fifty Dark Elves were, therefore, Azure Dark Elves and the fifty High Elves were Azure High Elves.
Although all the elves were similar they were unique to their own star. The distinction was made through the color of their eyes. Their eyes contained the essence of their sun.
The Azure Elves had Azure/blue eyes, The Alabaster Elves had White/pearly eyes, The Obsidian Elves had black/inky eyes, etc.
Within this unique nascency of the elves, the Azure Elves were the last of the Sun Elves.
The birth of each group of Sun Elves from beginning to end was as such, Silver, Alabaster, Crimson, Verdant, Amber, Rose, Apricot, Obsidian, Amythest, and Azure.
What came after the Sun Elves was still unknown to the Dark Essence, but soon enough, the truth would be revealed.
I might change or tamper with some of the information in the future if it is needed.