StoryShift: Something Alternate

The Tree of Mortality was the most important tree for the real importance of the lower-realm. The importance of life and death to thrive for the existence of mortals. A Heaven and Hell would need to be set in order for the balance of all higher sentience in the lower-realm. In this, two guardians would be born in order to set out the tree’s purpose. Ankou, the Guardian of Death, and Vida the Guardian of Life.  The realm from which these two guardians resided in had happened to be dominantly expressive for Vida; gardens, forests, small animals, larger animals, etc. Ankou found nothing in wanting to express the epitome of his own sorrow by covering the lands in charred ash. Nothing in this realm was immortal besides the two. Everyone there would be in their own heaven or hell and not brought into the same heaven/hell that Ankou and Vida had controlled in the lower realm. This world was an Eden like most of the other Concept Trees. Ankou protected the world and Vida nurtured it. In the midst of the time they had lived there, Vida and Ankou had grown closer and closer among the years. Ankou and Vida would later amongst this time have ten children together. Each one of these children were unique in their own aspect. They were also granted powers of their own that Ankou and Vida would help them control. These powers were extensions of Ankou and Vida’s own. Depending on the child’s divine soul, they’d be granted a power to replicate their parents. For example, a child who cared for the animals rather than attempting to fight them, would have an extension of Vida’s own power. One of these children growing up had been a unique boy named Abimelech. He didn’t pester himself to try and connect with the rest of the children as they never sought him out to go play with anyways. He was always alone in his own room or against a wall reading a book whenever he was brought out forcefully. As he continued to grow up, he knew that he had barely existed to anyone there. It was unfair that he had to live out a life that he had to choose for himself. He knew that even if he was gone, nothing would change for anybody. Though, despite this, he was the most docile of all the children. The one thing that would get him to leave was a crow that always seemed to come to his window sill. This crow, even though he knew it lacked real intelligence, was the only being besides his mother that would actively seek him out to just be around. It could be because he gave it his food sometimes he always thought, but he knew he shouldn’t be thinking about that thought for this crow. He would go outside every now and then and would follow the crow. He learned how simple life truly was and how fragile it could be. He learned that the crow struggled each day to keep itself up yet it still chose to be near him. As he grew older, he would be forced to learn how to fight for himself. Ankou began to assemble all the children together (mainly the boys unless the girls chose to participate), to begin to learn how to use their powers to defend others and themselves. Ankou was among one of the strongest if not THE strongest guardian there had been to exist due to his importance. No other guardian would ever de-test Ankou as they knew his strength. So, you could say that these kids were somewhat blessed to have such a formidable teacher. Abimelech was one of those children who knew that in order to achieve anything he needed, he needed the strength to do it. His problem was that he had no purpose in this strength as he had no sole reason for even being here besides the crow. The crow had taught him everything he knew just by guiding him outside the palace that all the children took their stay in. Ankou had noticed this for a while but never acted on it due to his growing curiosity for his own child.