Shattering Humanity-Chapter 301: "...The Possible Permutations To Humanity’s Evolution."
"Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. -Hebrews 12:1-2
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Persephone’s Voice: "And wherever she walked, the other animals watched in hiding. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
Unsure of who she was, or where she came from.
The only thing those prehistoric animals knew, was to stay away from that incredibly dangerous little girl."
[Tomodachi Town]
SeiõrSnow continues falling all over the Takamagahara territory as well as the rest of the world.
Wearing her all black cloak, with no tree pattern, Persephone is walking down a street sidewalk, on a hill.
Like usual, she is writing in her notepad, but not on the electronic tablet given to her by her foster sister, Eden.
Persephone(thinking): *She killed and destroyed everything, and anything.
Wherever this mysterious little blonde girl walked, she caused chaos.
For the smaller mammals, they would try to escape or hide, but for most of them, they failed.
The larger hunters who thought she was easy food, became food themselves.
What must have been going through those well hidden creatures minds as she strides passed them, essentially giving them freedom to live?
Was this blonde haired, blue eyed 10 year old, the birth of the fearful instinct in all mammals?
No, impossible.
For that very instinct had already existed long before her.*
A squirrel hops by and the tree rodent notices the single human female writing as she approaches the base of the hilly street.
Persephone stops, looks around, and also notices the curious little guy looking back at her.
The physically and spiritually beautiful young woman smiles and squats down, reaching in her cloak, she pulls out a small piece of bread.
The squirrel cautiously, but eventually makes it’s way over, sniffs the treat and takes the food.
It scurries away and a happy Persephone gets back to her writing.
Persephone(thinking): *But why was this little girl, in the prehistoric era in the first place?
Did she know why she was there?
Why was she killing all these prehistoric animals and moving entire continents on her own, but most importantly, how was this all happening?
How did she get there?
Was it with her unique abilities?
Was she destined to become the person who puts the world together?
Or the saddest theory of all, was this all because she angry?*
Persephone sees a destroyed high school while continuing her walk and heads for that direction.
Unknown to Persephone, there is someone watching, and following her from the shadows.
The abandoned school, with a giant hole in the side from an Iceman meteor, allows the curious author to enter.
She carefully hops up and over, landing on her feet.
Just from looking around the front office of the teenage learning institution she gets an idea and starts to jot it down.
Persephone(thinking): *Was this little girl trying to assert authority over those beings she (appropriately) saw weaker than herself?
Since she was capable of such things as tectonic plate manipulation, could she have possibly been trying to establish a monarch system amongst these creatures still evolving?
How strong in fact, could this human child be?*
The beautiful pink eyes look up and finds the door. As she makes her way out into the hallway, right in front of her, there are well drawn high schooler art projects still held up to a corkboard with thumbtacks.
Without taking one step out of the room that had given her one idea, Persephone perks up and writes down something else.
Persephone(thinking): *What was she striving to achieve?
Or was she striving for anything at all?
If she really was a human child, was she attempting to make a statement, or leave her mark on the world, like all of us with ambition?
Could she die, and leave these works of this world behind?*
After finishing her note she looks left and then right, but decides to go left.
The black silhouettes creep peeks through the hole she entered through and he too uses it to stalk Persephone.
After a short walk down the long hallway, Persephone sees the gymnasium and pushes one of the double doors open with a *clack!*
From inside the quiet gym, the *clack!* echoes and Persephone looks around.
Because of the tall ceiling is made of glass, there is plenty of light to see all the hoops, and 3 years unused polished hardwood.
Once again, Persephone starts to write a note down.
Persephone(thinking): *Was this fun for her?
Just as humans hunt animals now for game and population control.
Could the Himalayan Mountains, the evolution leading up to today’s organisms, and our global climate, could it all have been a result from this superhuman child’s own amusement?*
Stopping Persephone from continuing, there is a faint growl heard and the weaponless young 2nd Generation DæMon quickly turns to see a smaller Iceman within the school.
She gasps and the incredibly violent alien begins to chase after her.
As she attempts to get back to the hole she entered from, the young woman trips over her own cloak and falls.
Dropping her pen, and it comes to a sliding stop.
With tears in her eyes, Persephone looks back and sees the creature slowly walking up on it’s prey.
Persephone(thinking): *But...I wanted to finish my story first.*
The Iceman raises it’s sharp claws.
*WOOSH!*
The growling stops and scared Persephone looks up at a beheaded Iceman before the alien’s headless body drops to the tiled floor.
Persephone: "Wh-"
Charybdis: "You looked like you might’ve needed some help, lil lady..."
Her pink tear filled eyes grow wide and she turns around to see the confident, blue haired younger brother with the Iceman’s head in one hand and his only SunSword in the other as he sheathes it back inside.
His new sniper is strapped to his back.
Once the SunSword *clicks* in place, the heating mechanism inside can faintly be heard.
Persephone: "Ch-Charybdis?!
Wh-?
How-?"
Charybdis tosses the alien head to the side and holds the hand out for the fallen angel to grab.
Char: "Well it’s kind of embarrassing to say out loud, but I’ve sorta been following you since you fed that squirrel down the street."
Persephone smiles and takes the assistance to get back up.
Char: "I was planning on giving you a slight scare myself, but it seems that Iceman did it for me, haha!"
Persephone gives him a playful slap on the shoulder and she continues walking through the halls now with a protective escort.
Char: "So, you came to meet up early too?"
The young author nods with a blushing smile and looks at the ground in front of her.
Persephone: "Mhm.
I figured I had some time before you showed up, and I just added this really big plot twist to my series that I wanted some inspiration on how children grow.
I thought, ’no better place’, right" ahehe..."
Char: "No way, really?!
I don’t know how you do it, Persephone.
To come up with a whole world, a whole universe, with characters, and plots, I wouldn’t be able to keep up."
Persephone(chuckles): "Aheheh, sometimes even I have trouble."
They walk by the gymnasium and see a cafeteria sign with an arrow.
Persephone: "But, honestly Char, I wanted to thank you."
The lover boy blushes and is caught off guard by her gratitude.
Char: "F-For what?!"
Persephone: "If it wasn’t for our conversation yesterday, and some of the things you’ve said, I wouldn’t have thought of this new part in my story that I’m really excited for."
[FLASHBACK]
Persephone: "Heehe, sorry if I startled you, Charybdis. My... ’Aunt’...has been teaching me how to control Seiõr. I’m currently using a certain technique under this cloak that makes my footsteps silent."
Char: "Woooahh, cool! So you technically are a ninja then, taahaa!"
Persephone giggles behind her hand and makes her way to sit next to her friend. Both her beautiful pink eyes glisten in the fading sunlight.
Persephone: "This view truly is proof, isn’t it?"
Char looks confused but chuckles.
Char(chuckle): "Proof of what, exactly?"
Persephone: "With every source of light in this universe, whether metaphorically or literally, there will always be a darkness that follows."
Char: "...’Follows’?"
Persephone nods.
Char: "How can you be so sure the light comes first, Persephone?
Even the oldest of stories, scientific theories, and religious explanations say everything was dark and nothingness until a ’bang’, God, or mythical being created light."
Persephone quickly turns her head, so fast, her hood flies off.
Persephone: "I never really thought about it like that to be honest with you, Charby?"
She seems to be rummaging under her cloak and from her sleeves, her trusty notepad and pen pops out.
The young enthusiastic writer flips to an open page and jots down a quick note.
[END FLASHBACK]
Without noticing, the two walk by another corkboard. This one has a math friendly bulletin with only ’100, 010, 001’.
Persephone: "It made me wonder what the possible permutations to humanity’s evolution were.
Is it possible that all of life on Earth evolved to adapt, hide from and survive the changing world around them, or did we evolve from our ancestors attempting to imitate an apex predator who was also the one changing their world?"
Char: "Uhhh, I don’t really..."
Persephone: "Hehe!
There may be a lot of nuisance behind where I’m going with this, but as the author, I promise when it’s all said and done I know it will make you just as excited as I am!"
The two approach the cafeteria full of empty tables and Persephone pulls out a sandwich with a piece of bread torn off. She looks over at Char and holds it up.
Persephone: "Want some?"
Char: "Haha, no thanks.
Me and the gang just finished our lunch. We had a little bit of a mishap with our entrance wall so my Big Bro is handling that while the rest of them are off training for two days from now."
