“Why are you doing this?!”

I never thought before that one of the gifts I had given to my creations could go oh so horribly wrong. I had so much confidence in them and they disappointed me.

I added something to the races that thrived on the planet I had created. Soon it spread to the Forces and Elements, but as my gift spread and my creations began to exercise it, it was being abused. Wicked things began to come about because of my gift. War broke out constantly, morals became lax, people became selfish and hated one another, and destruction reigned. I was made to watch as anything having to do with me was desecrated. If it was not, it was painted in blood as people made unholy sacrifices composed of the entrails of their brethren. If I ate food I would have thrown up at the sight.

All this was because of my gift. All this, because I had given them Free Will. What was bad about Free Will was that with Free Will came Evil.

I had already given them a set of rules to live by, so I thought they would be able to abide by them without me making them. At first, it was fine, they all still lived in harmony even though the races were different from each other. It was all because they knew they were made by the same person, that I was caring for them and as long as they didn’t stray from the ways I had given them, they would continue to be happy.

But…………. This has been forgotten. They have forgotten all of the things I have done for them. I no longer receive their praises as I did when I first created them. Now all they do is curse me, and act as if they don’t know it hurts, what they’re doing to each other, and what they’re doing to me.

Whenever I go to the planet in my physical form they try to attack me, mermaids, human, Faunis, and the other races alike. They never succeed, but sadly, there were a few times I had to take back the life I had given them before their allotted time.

I created Death.

I had created him because I knew the population would eventually be too much for the planet to handle. I sent him out and commanded him to number the days of every living thing and retrieve the life from things that had reached their appropriate time. This only increased the curses against me, but to be honest, I think it’s for the best.

Death wasn’t the only force I gave physical form. Electricity was quite hyperactive and was really fast in everything he did. Mother Nature came in the form of a woman who seemed constantly pregnant.

‘Pregnant……’ I touched my stomach area as I watched more of my forces and elements reshape themselves into an anthropomorphic form. This was how I was different from the beings I had created. Where they gave birth, laid eggs, or produced seeds to bring forth new life, I created it with just the motion of my hand.

Like when I first created her, I had always been especially fascinated with Love. There were four parts to her, Eros, Philia, Storge, and finally Agape. I used to find her so sweet. She used to say that when it came to Agape I was the best. I got along pretty well with the Elements and Forces until, like the Races, they rebelled against me.

They wanted to do whatever they wanted and didn’t care what happened to anyone else. When Love was supposed to spread love she began spreading hate and spite, causing more wars. With their combined powers the main four elements and the lesser elements caused natural disasters all over the world. Upon seeing this, I commanded that Death ensure the victims of the disasters’ souls stay in their bodies so that I could heal them. Instead, he didn’t listen and stole all the souls for himself.

The Forces and Elements did whatever they pleased. In the process of this, they indirectly destroyed other important elements such as Order and Time. Without order, the world I created fell into total and utter chaos. Insanity and Confusion took over as Evil ran rampant. I was so stunned at what was happening that for a while I could only watch. I wasn’t able to get a hold of myself until I heard the cries of outrage from everything I had created.

“We don’t need no Goddess!”

“Yeah, we don’t need Dótis Zoís!”

“What has she done for us?!”

Everything I had created on the planet was shouting their hatred for me, the animals, the plants, the races, all of them. They burned my temples and destroyed any images of me. As I turned away from the planet, I saw the remaining Forces and Elements doing the same. Tears bubbled up in my eyes.

“Why are you doing these things? I’ve only done what was been best for you! I put my trust and confidence in you! I created and cared for you! I love all of you, so why do you hate me?!” I shouted.

My words had reached everything in existence but they did not cease their taunts and blasphemies. I continued to stand there with tears running down my cheeks as I buried my face in my hands. I could hear every individual word of what they were saying and it broke my heart with each phrase. Pretty soon I couldn’t take it anymore. I wiped the tears from my face and as the creator of everything I used my power over Space to teleport myself away.

With a flick of my wrist, I was far from the planet and the majority of the elements. I was among the stars now. This was the furthest I had ever been from my planet.

It felt odd having them out of my sight, but I couldn’t stay there any longer, not with what my creations were saying to me.

“How could everything go so wrong?!” I exclaimed.

I looked at the constellations I had made. I had decided previously that the stars didn’t need to be sentient. I plucked one from the sky and held it in my hands, letting its light shine onto my face.

“What should I do? Should I let them do what they want?” I wondered.