In the old times, when the world was still young, the world was governed by the two celestial brothers. By natural order, the world was split in half; one side was basking in endless daylight, the other, reveling in darkness. It was said that the older brother ruled over the light while the younger ruled over the dark. Everything was peaceful and thrived as both brothers co-existed and kept the peace for many aeons. 

When humans came forth, everything changed. The humans worshipped and favored the oldest brother because of his dominion of the daytime. They held celebrations and made their living in the older brother’s domain and would only come over to the younger’s domain to sleep. Overtime, the younger brother harbored hatred for the humans and jealousy for his older brother.

During an extremely rare celestial advent where all the planets perfectly align, a baby girl with flaming red hair was born. It was said that this baby possessed “God Eyes” the power to see the real form of celestial beings, which both brothers saw as a threat. To see the real form of a being would make it that easier to find the real name of that being. Real Names are very powerful you see, and seldom given to others for it will give the other power over you, that’s why gods hide theirs all the more. Not wanting to lose the trust and most importantly the favour from the humans by killing a defenseless child, they decided to wait for the baby to grow. As the baby grew, her powers started to grow as well as her beauty. . With big doe eyes, full kissable lips and skin so perfect and white, no man was immune to her beauty, not even the celestial brothers. It was said that her beauty and talents caused wars and discord amongst the humans. The girl having born with the gentlest and purest of heart was extremely saddened by the loss of lives that she caused, she decided to retreat in to the wilds cursing her beauty.

 It was an agreement between the brothers that one of them would wed her and make her immortal. She was courted by the two gods and was showered with presents in a vain attempt to woo her. The woman who never really liked gold and other riches denied their advances. The younger brother adamant that the way to the woman's heart was through valuable riches continued to send treasure after treasure one more valuable than the other. His brother, the wiser among the two gave out his most precious possession, his real name. Touched by the immense show of trust and devotion the woman accepted the older's advances.

 

I wasn't long before the woman fell in love with the older brother and agreed to be his wife. Upon hearing this, years of jealousy and hate finally filled the younger brother’s heart. During the night, he spirited her away and molested her in his domain. Once the older brother heard of this, he stormed his brother’s domain. Knowing that his older brother is stronger because of the humans worshipping him, he had no choice but to flee, taking the now pregnant woman with her. Wherever the brothers went, light and dark followed, no matter how fast the older brother chased, his younger brother would be leagues ahead. This cycle would soon be called night and day by the humans.  

The woman carried and bore children of darkness. Hideous creatures that are black as night and whose sole purpose in life was to cause human misery. Those that she bore were the first of the Agmas. The woman having been made as  an immortal through the forced cried endlessly and left trails of tears across the night sky hoping that someday her godly lover would be able to follow them to her rescue. Humans now call these tears as stars.

Seeing no apparent end to the endless chase, slowly and secretly she plotted her own plan. She created and formed constellations with her tears giving them shape and purpose. After the last of the twelve constellations were created, she gave and breathed her immortality among her creations. Not wanting her young creations to be found out before they were fully grown, she hid them behind gates. With each gate came a special key that would open it. She hid those keys by scattering them across the land as she was dragged by her godly jailor.

As she lied completely drained of her powers, she prophesized.

“Oh ye God of The Night, a time will come where a servant of the godess shall come forth. Hair burning bright with the vengeance of her patron, the servant will rid the lands of all evil. The twelve creations will be the instruments, as the servant opens the gate, the age of darkness will disappear.”

 

As she spoke her final words her body was lifted in to the heavens. Her soul departed from her body and reached out for her love to give him parting words.

“My love, a time will come when we will be truly together. But that time still has yet to come, as long as there are still evil hiding amongst the darkness I vow to reflect your light in the darkness. Goodbye my love.”

Her soul drifted back to her body as she curled up to become as we know now as the moon.

The Village Elder finished his lesson, his back still to his audience.

“How will this history lesson help me save my mother?” Hangeng added.

The village elder turned around to look at them. He then pointed over to the far wall and said

“Look”

Two pair of eyes followed his gesture. Painted on the wall was a huge, mural. Some of its parts were faded, others were cracked but all in all the entire mural was still well preserved.

The mural depicted a figure with red hair in the middle clutching 12 keys at its heart. Surrounding the red haired figure were 12 orbs of light each having a unique symbol. Each orb gave out its own glow which spread throughout most of the mural. Where the light shone, it depicted beautiful landscapes, lush vegetation and peaceful sceneries, while the dark areas depicted desolate, war torn and barren lands.

After a few minutes of examining the mural Hangeng spoke,

“Woah, that looks strangely like you Heechul” Hangeng looking exchangedly at Heechul and the figure in the mural.

“Ye-yeah it kinda does.” Heechul agreed.

“Who painted this, what does it mean?” Heechul asked the Village Elder.

“Do you remember the prophecy of the goddess?” The Village Elder asked.

“Yes” Heechul nodded and recited the prophecy word per word.

The Village Elder wore an ‘It’s obvious’ expression. Heechul then began to fit the puzzle.

“Wait. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE ING KIDDING ME!” Heechul took a step back.