God.

For one reason or another, you found yourself deep in the forest tonight. It was summer, crickets sang and lightning bugs danced around the grass and trees. The stars shone bright in the sky, outlined by the softly swaying silhouettes of conifers, oaks and maples. One star shone brighter than the others, closer, as it began to move across the sky. It looked like a slow passing shooting star, but it became clear very quickly that it would strike earth head on, and very close to you. The ground and trees shook with a heavy impact that left your ears ringing, and you could see the neon flames flash where it hit the woods only about a mile away. Oddly enough, that fire didn’t seem to take, and the woods returned to darkness once it was over, but it did not return to silence. A sound pierced through the air, a scream with a thousand voices, none human or of any other creature you’ve ever known. Some voices sounded sad, some pained, but the clearest was screaming until its voice broke out of pure rage. You realized you had instinctively covered your ears and shut your eyes through the duration of it, and upon looking back once a haunting silence fell over the woods, that was when you saw fire. It looked as if an enormous bonfire amidst the woods were coated in gasoline and gunpowder before being lit, it was one massive ball of flame. It danced in the common orange and yellow, but it mixed with shades of blue, green, pink, and purple, and you could’ve sworn you saw eyes staring back at you from the flames. Then, again, it died down, and left the trees scorched without spreading further. So, you decided to investigate.

Sounds of destruction grew closer as you made the trek to the place of the strange event, trees snapping and falling, earth and nature being ripped apart by something massive and fast. By the time you got there, it had all died down quite a bit, but left a massive circle of barren, wrecked land where life once thrived. Trees burned and torn down, dirt, roots, and rocks ripped up from the ground and thrown about, huge claw marks mixed with scorch marks on everything the entity touched. The being in question sat hunched in the center of its own mess, its only movement the up and down of its heavy breathing. Six lavender wings like that of a magnificent bird covered its form, all but a long, furred dragon tail with a flame on its end that curled around itself. The soft glow of tiny stars and neon colors spilled out from between the feathers of its mighty wings, and one of the appendages shifted slightly to expose an array of enraged eyes staring at you from what might have been a body. “…You spoiled, worthless creature.” It spoke, voices loud and stern despite how soft the tone of some were. It slowly sat up, facing you, knowing you, but not seeing you. Then, for the first time since it was granted life, it moved its top set of wings away from its face, and it saw. On one half of its face was a line of pitch black eyes, and on the other side, was one eye with the light and colors of a galaxy, star front and center as a pupil.