The Beginning (SF short story)
(This is a short story I wrote today. Itâs about the creation of the universe. Sorry for any bad grammar in it.)Â
It never remembered exactly when it woke up. It did however, remember music. Hauntingly beautiful melodies that had rang through its head, and gave It, for the first time, sight. Each song created new images. One song gave it visions of stars and nebulas, another of enormous floating rocks, with creatures and beautiful plants covering them. This was Its favorite song, The song of life. It loved watching the creatures, how they each moved and interacted with each other. It couldnât quite recall where it first heard these melodies, or what had even been the source of them, but It did know that before it had heard the music, there was nothing. It distinctly remembered the nothing. âit was quite boringâ, It thought. Â It had never had thoughts before the music. Just an endless sense of nothing. But somehow after hearing the music, It became aware of its self for the first time. After the music stopped, the visions faded with it. It became determined to find this music again.
It had been searching for the music for eons, of course It had only become aware of the passing of time after it heard music, and the music had left. It had become increasingly frustrated, searching an empty void, for something It wasnât even sure still existed. It was also becoming lonely, and a little bored. After being alive for so long, It had figured out how to ride the invisible waves that surrounded It. It could always feel them, pushing against It, slightly moving It. It enjoyed riding these waves, but It needed a second to think. For so long It had been searching for music, when maybe, that wasnât what it was supposed to be doing. Maybe It could create the music itself. It thought back to the first song It heard. The one that gave It visions of stars, and began to sing. As It sang, It realized that by waving its hand through the air, stars were being painted in the wake. It laughed gleefully. It had never seen anything so beautiful. It noticed the stars were faintly singing back to it, it was the most beautiful sound It had heard. Taking the stars in its hands, It carefully crafted nebulas, and star clusters, and even a little swirling galaxy. âthis is my missionâ It thought. âto paint the universe with my stars, and give color to this empty void.â It hoped back onto the waves, and as it rode them, painted stars as It went.
After a while It had grown a bit tired of painting the stars, and decided to try something else. It thought back to all the creatures it loved watching when It listened to the song of life, and began to sing. Nothing happened. It looked around, but there were no other living beings in sight. âof course, they need a rock to live on.â It began singing a song of creation, and molded the universe around it to form a giant rock. âthere we go, now they will have a place to live.â Once more It began to sing the song of life, but again, no life was born. It thought long and hard about the visions It had received and realized its mistake. It once more sang a song of creation, covering parts of the planet with water, and took a handful of stars, compressing them until they formed a hot, glowing orb of fire. Through many days of trial and error It finally found the correct place for the orb. It placed it not too far from the rock, because It did not want the water to freeze over, and not to close, otherwise the life would burn. For the final time It sang its song of life, and life bloomed on the rock. It was estatic. While It waited for life to evolve and become creatures it could watch, It decided to give the inhabitants beautiful things to look at. It went hard at work creating beautiful stars, suns, and whole solar systems, although It didnât bother creating new life, as that took too much of Itâs energy. When It was done with the galaxy It moved back and admired it. Â A swirling blue mass of energy, with a golden light glowing from the center. âbeautiful.â It thought. It traveled back to the rock it had created. It found many different life forms inhabited the rock now. Huge, almost terrifying beasts roamed the rock, and It spent thousands, maybe millions of years watching these creatures, but their constant fighting and eating each other started to bore It. It sighed and decided to start over. Grabbing a rock that flew by itâs head, it hurled it down, destroying most living things. This pained It to do, but It wanted to create something more peaceful. It understood that in order to survive, the creatures must fight, but the creatures it had first created were too violent. It decided to make something itself, instead of letting them evolve from the universe. It decided to make something that resembled Itself. After many failed attempts, it finally created the perfect creature. It decided to call them humans. It loved the humans, more than any star, galaxy, or other planet it had ever created. They were incredibly smart too, It happily watched as they learned how to control fire, and then slowly, start to build their own simple shelters. Slowly they started populating more of the rock. Â It knew it was time to move on. As much as it loved watching its humans, It knew it must finish Itâs mission of spreading stars, and eventually, other life across the universe. Sadly, It turned its back on its beloved creations, and went on Its way, traversing the waves, singing its songs of stars and galaxies, taking careful time to craft star clusters and nebulas until the entire universe was singing its song back to It.
It realized at one point, that no matter how far or fast It traveled, it always looped back around. There were no more empty voids to fill. It had completed Its mission. It also realized how truly tired It was. It decided that before it faded away, It wanted to visit its humans, and see how they had grown. As It grew nearer to the galaxy that hosted Its humans, it noticed another being, just like itself, watching the planet. The Other One looked up at It as It approached. âyour backâ The Other One said. âwho are you?â It asked The Other One. âI am the same as youâ The Other One replied. âI was following you for some time, hoping to learn your songs of creation, I got distracted watching your creatures and lost where you went.â It came Closer to the rock, but when It arrived, It was devasted. âWhat happened to my rock? The humans are gone, the rock looks as if it was dying!â the once green and blue rock that It loved so dearly was now mostly brown, and sickly looking.
âyour humans grew too intelligent to fastâ The Other One told It. âthe shelters they built grew taller and taller, and their inventions poisoned the rock. Once they had no more room on this Rock they had to leave.â âthey somehow were able to create a means of getting off their rock, and first created more shelters on the moon that orbits them. From there they left, and ive since lost track. I followed them a bit but decided to come and wait here for you. Iâm sorry I wish there was something I could have done.â
âit is okâ It replied. âI created them in my likeness, of course they grew to intelligent for their own good. I would love to teach you my songs, but I am afraid that I will not be able to continue my mission. I have already painted beautiful things all across the universe. Create life wherever you can, I want all living beings to marvel at sights I have created.â With Its last energy it could muster, It taught The Other One the song of life, then slowly faded away. Â