Astronomers have often wondered at its existence. Or lack there-of, as the case may be.
An area of space where there was... nothing at all. With the rather unflattering name of The Great Dark Spot. Oh, the theories abound about how it's made of some kind of matter we just can't detect yet - so-called 'Dark Matter' - but that's just scientists trying to explain away something they don't want to believe exists.
Nothingness.
Not a void... because a void would have drawn matter from around it in. Nothingness. No matter. No energy. Such an oppressive Nothingness, that the laws of nature themselves try to avoid it.
But... this Nothingness... it had... not a Mind per se, but a Will. And that Will was simple: to spread and consume. To render everything that was to... Nothingness.
It was contained, in its Great Dark Spot. The result of a battle waged so long ago. Gods, Demons, Mortals... Good and Evil were concepts set aside before the power of the Nothingness. It was a time of great beings; Galaxia, before she was corrupted. Chaos, before it was divided. The First Serenity, using the artifact she forged, the Silver Crystal. The living sun Pyron, at a level of power he would never again manage to hold. All the Kings of the Makai, following the lead of the Aensland clan. And more, from across the entire universe and beyond the came, and successfully sealed the Nothingness.
But that was long ago. And while the Seal still held... it had become thin at points. The Nothingness was still trapped, and would continue to be trapped until long after all the stars of the Milky Way had died out, but it could... influence things.
And so it did. Was Usagi's awakening what triggered it, or was it simply a huge coincidence that the Will of Nothingness acted then? It is unknown, and probably doesn't matter. But act it did. And through a weak point in the seal, the Will sent a part of itself. Once beyond the Nothingness, this piece of the Will was forced to assume a form, (although a cloud of energy is hardly a true form,) to exist. But that didn't change the Will, or its goal. And it started heading right for Earth, traveling faster than light.
The Senshi don't know it yet, but their greatest challenge is coming.
Entropy is on its way.
(Posted Thu, 06 Feb 2003 04:46)
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