Crystal Shade Episodes 01

moment she looked upon them. Then, something happened. The souls split apart. They were angry. They didn’t want to see each other again.
    Since mother cared for them both, she created their own separate realms close to herself, one realm above, and one below. As she experienced previously, two different souls may not be able to live in harmony with each other for a long time. She created souls similar to both her first born, and the new souls filled the two realms. After eons, the two realms evolved in different ways; the upper realm embraced light while the lower realm was filled with darkness.
    Mother wanted to build a bridge between the two realms to make peace between her children, so she did. But in the end, her children fought against each other. Mother was sorrowful that her children were trying to annihilate each other, she didn’t understand the reason. She cut the bridge and separated the two realms from each other, but the war between her children didn’t stop.
    The lonely soul felt her mother’s sorrow as she remembered.
    When light and darkness weren’t able to wage war directly, they hurled magnificent arrows, but couldn’t harm each other. The souls were immortal as was the creator herself, but ignorant as babies, they didn’t know it. In their fury, the first souls of the two realms struck with powerful lightning bolt from the heavens above, and one from hell below. The moment they touched, mother revealed herself to stop her disobedient children. She connected their two realms for eternity. But this time, with her soul.
    Each word of the Crystal Mother’s voice slowly soothed the lonely soul while they shared this great sadness.
    The sacred crystal is the soul of the one, the beginning and the end, the creator and the destroyer. Her magnificent crystal soul’s top point reached heaven and its bottom point hell. The creator knew that her creations respected her. They both fought for her, but she never understood, why? She treated them the same. Now endless peaces reigned in - hope filled - heaven, while the hate, suffering, viciousness spread through hell and reflected back to them. Mother needed to understand why her disobedient children turned against each other before she could create justice between them.
    When her soul felt heaven, she was happy. It was easy to believe in hope and justice. When she felt the spreading darkness from hell, it ate at her, and she became furious, filled with endless hate. She didn’t understand these emotions in herself at all. Overwhelmed by their feelings, her soul released them all, which created the crystal garden spreading around her soul. Her tears of sadness filled the crystal brine garden with millions of crystal shards, stars that left her fragile and alone.
    The lonely little soul listened to the flow of thoughts and felt that her mother was helpless, afraid of her past and blaming herself for what she had done.
    Something else changed that frightened mother. For the first time, she saw her own soul’s shadow in the garden, her own dark manifestation. Like everything in the endless universe, her crystal clean soul had its darkness. A dark mirror image that she couldn’t banish was her shadow; to forever admit darkness wherever her shadow reached. Throughout history, many have fallen under the rule of darkness, yet many of her brave light souls chased it away to bring peace to her beautiful garden.
    The crystal voice embraced and touched the lonely soul. Her mother wanted to tell everything, even if it was so hard for her.
    Where our crystal worlds reside and where we, the souls of both places lived under her light and shadow, the crystal garden became the battlefield of the mortal souls to wage their endless war. Our souls are just drops of her crystal tears. But many small drops can build into a river that can soon flush light or darkness from our world. We, her children became the caretakers of her crystal garden. We became the souls who determine if light or darkness was going to feed our crystal tears.
    The soul felt the mix of endless love, joy, hate and anger. Her mother shared the feelings she experienced from the time she had connected the two realms.
    This was thousands of eons ago, but the endless war still rages between her children, between the light and dark. Each intended to prove their loyalty to mother; each determined to revive the garden and dress up her crystal tears to their vision. They fight for the soul of their Crystal