In The Beginning of The Beginning

Lia panted as she carefully travelled over the Chain of the Seven Palaces, energy being drained from her body by the minute. She had to keep going. She knew she did. She was out of breath; her lungs being burned dry. If she didn't make it, then it would be born. It would become a scour on the Chain of the Seven Palaces, breaking the chain and making the Palaces fall. Rumour had it that this creature was created with parts from every Palace, joined together to create a Creature of Mass Destruction.

Lia knew she was the one for the job. They tried to stop her, but she had to come. She made it, she came. And now she is travelling along the Chain, listening to the small cracks sound out behind her. The air in the chain is below freezing, and her breath fogs up the air. Even in all of the layers of Mammaerot skin, she is still cold.

She comes from the Fourth Palace, a place of horror and deaths, rules by none other than the Creator's great-great-great-something-greats-grandchildren. The Creator made the Chain of the Seven Palaces. Nobody knows his true identity, and he died before they could find out.

Lia arrives at the center of the Chain, the point where the Seven Palaces join together. A ball of light slowly forms in the middle, floating above the join. It expands, and Lia cannot believe her eyes. The creature is being born right in front of her.

She turns to run, but she ends up trapped, the Chain cracking and breaking down to a single thread. Lia closes her eyes and shields her face just in time, as the ball of light explodes, sending shards of light and darkness everywhere.

Lia struggles to fight the force, and falls off the chain, dead. But the creature survived. The creature, the thing Lia was sent here to stop, slowly floats towards the First Palace, the most modern one. It enters, and then all hope is lost...