"No," Geode denied, leaning into his very words, "I did not. I would have never considered creating something [i]that powerful.[/i] I would have never allowed power to exist without limits. It was my precious, innocent children. Pharie, Orobo, Kefaros, and Hyznea. The elementals I created to fill this world with life. The ones who created humanity over five thousand years ago." Geode's eyes narrowed and he straightened his posture. "It was their alternative to exterminating all life on this planet and starting anew. They created Gaia, a guardian who's purpose was to rectify any force that threatened [i]nature.[/i]" Geode turned his head to look at the golems around him. Memories came flooding back one after another.

	"The Gaians were born, created by Gaia as a force to cleanse the world of anything she deemed [i]ugly.[/i] At first, her efforts were wondrous. With a benevolent facade, she guided her people on a crusade, eliminating every last shred of evil in the world. She made humankind pure again. I was proud of my children. They had truly changed the world. But... It was not long before Gaia's Ki began to ebb for more purpose. She grew arrogant, and ordered her Gaians to attack the temple of the elementals. One after another, she ripped their Ki from their bodies, turning them into hateful, destructive creatures, bound to the mountain that I laid them on, making it impossible for them to escape. They were trapped, and thus, began the age of the Gaians, the most powerful creatures in this world." Geode turned back to Jenso, regaining his smug composure. "Of course, I couldn't let that nonsense carry on. Gaia became a threat to even... [b]Me.[/b] So, I had to get rid of her. Fortunately, it wasn't very hard to do. I simply used the same method she'd used to steal the Ki from my elementals, and sealed her within the people she'd created. In one moment, she was gone. But, to my own dismay, I had merely created a more powerful foe." Geode looked to his golems again and spun around slowly, walking across the smooth, reflective floor of his domain.

	"The Gaians took to Gaia's Ki, evolving immediately. Gaia's personality, her love and arrogance, survived somehow, taking shape in fragmented remnants. [i]Within the familiars that Gaian's possess.[/i] And of course, her teachings still rang true. Their race knew only one truth. To exterminate anything [i]ugly.[/i] To destroy anything that threatened the beauty of nature. Of course, mistranslated texts, generations of ignorant prophets, all that idiotic mortality- It made the Gaians into the very evil they were created to defend against. Ruthless, hypocritical savages. The Gaians were too powerful to simply wipe out, however. So, I needed a new ally to aid me." Geode spun around again and widened his stance, raising his hands high. 

	"The golems! I created them for the sole purpose of eradicating the Gaians. An endless, self-rebuilding army that fed on Ki, the source of Gaia's power, and obeyed my commands without any free will of their own. With the help of my 12 Gol-class generals, Ira, Ino, Imm, Ita, Iwu, Iei, Iha, Ike, Iqu, Iur, Ion, and IIV... I was able to banish the Gaians from the world they polluted, to an island out in the endless ocean. And with that, the world was ready to be cleansed." Geode's eyes hardened and began to vibrate. "Little did I know, Gol-Ino was affected by the Ki they had stolen from Gaia's people. It made him curious. It made him.. Free. When I announced my plan to use the power of the subdued Gaians to eradicate all of humanity, and restore my elemental children to their natural forms... Bah... I don't know why I fell for it..." Geode lowered his hands and bathed his body in dark energies. "They tricked me. They collaborated with humans who had evolved to tap into [i]the arcane.[/i] Humans that had discovered a new form of magic that I had never even acknowledged the possibility of existing. [i]Fate magic,[/i] and the dreaded [i]Ying Yang[/i] Katana. The sages of Calombo, as you know it now, were able to lure me to my own demise by using their knowledge of the future to push fate into [i]their favour.[/i] With the help of their [i]great prophet, wielder of the Katana,[/i] I was outsmarted. Me! Outsmarted! The thought of it now befuddles me so!" Geode wept, feigning tears before clearing his throat, or lack thereof, and continuing.

	"That very same prophet had managed to harness the [b]void that I escaped from.[/b] He had stripped himself of his Ki, and turned into a monster beyond my understanding. [i]Something twisted, and chaotic.[/i] He.. Ergh.. [b]It[/b] blathered on and on about the fates when we first met. It spoke of the [i]Gaians[/i]. It spoke of a [i]duty.[/i] It spoke as if it knew..." Geode paused and gazed into Jenso's eyes frightfully. "As if it knew all that would, and had already come to pass. Fate, time, history, life. And... Hah... Well..." He shrugged his hefty obsidian shoulders and sighed. "I was sliced into five pieces, and sealed away with [i]human[/i] magic. Hubris knows no ally, it would appear. But now, I'm back. And, well, it would appear that all of my plans are for naught!" Geode sighed and sat down in the center of the room. "If you are not Gaians, and they are truly extinct as my golems reported, I will never hear the voices of my children again. I cannot revive them. But that doesn't really matter right now, does it?"