Dreamscape

prologue 1

Creature after creature was added as The Beginning conducted its experiments and observed what it meant to socialize, to form a relationship, until eventually the villager was created.

The villagers built and farmed and crafted and they were beautiful to The Beginning, because they could reason. It was nowhere near the level of intelligence The Beginning had, but it was sufficient without being too much as to bring about an early End. It felt like the universe had only begun mere moments ago, even though the sun had risen and set trillions of times on this world alone.

The Beginning loved the villagers, but felt as though they were too strong. They could do anything, and their population was swiftly expanding as well. The Beginning decided they needed a predator, like it had created the wolf when the rabbits and the sheep got out of hand, or the cat when the fish began to nearly fill the entire ocean. A balance was always required, but what to do for the villagers?

Eventually, The Beginning created the Zombie. The zombie haunted the night and hunted down any villagers that stayed out after dark, burning in the daylight so as to not scare the beginning's favorite species into settling. Still, to ensure the predator never truly went away, they became able to infect the villagers until they were one and the same. Some zombies were smarter and stayed alive in caves, however their rotten flesh fell off of them and turned them into Skeletons. These smarter few hunted the fletchers of the village and stole their bows, becoming a menace from afar.

The Beginning thought everything would proceed as normal, the populations evening one another out, however there was a reason the villagers were its favorite. In defense they built a golem of iron to defend them against the undead of the night. The Beginning was deeply impressed by this, however their population was meant to be culled, so it created bombers instead, that could creep along and explode to always do fatal damage, even if it was caught by the Iron Golem. They were built with a hissing sound to alert the other creepers when to stay away so as to remain effective, however the Villagers discovered this and used the Cats who also hissed to warn one another of danger to keep the creepers away from their homes.

The Beginning was beginning to grow frustrated, but at the same time immensely fond. The population needed to slow down, but their inventions were just so genius! It loved them for that. Lastly, it attempted to create larger versions of the insect the Villagers always seemed to fear for no apparent reason- spiders. With the existence of spiders, the Villagers finally stayed inside their homes at night, but the Spiders were as much of a threat to the Villagers large as they were tiny, which is to say not at all. The spiders simply did not care for them.

The Beginning realized then, that no matter what, its villagers would always have an escape route, always think a way out. Even if the spiders weren't exactly fought off, it was more the fact that even after three attempts the Villagers were still going strong. So, it was with a heavy heart that The Beginning halved the Villagers intelligence. No longer were they smart enough to make anything new, no longer would they expand unreasonable amounts out of a desire to see what they could do.

This was the only way it could see to keep its reign, to fend off the end for as long as possible, however life seemed much more dull without its favorite creature.

Any race it created would always expand, because that was just how they worked, unless it only created one eternally long lived creature.

...

Actually...

That idea wasn't half bad. Create a creature with very high intelligence, but just not too many of them. Only one, even, just one that would not die so that the entertainment wouldn't end, one that when faced with danger would simply reawaken after death.