The Moon's Effect - Preface

The future is not as dim as it is put out to be. Though I do not know the immediate future. I know in the long run the future becomes the present, and the present becomes the past. Time is like a circle. It keeps going forever in the same cycle. I am from the part of the cycle called "The time of existence." It's a time where the deceased and extinct, are rapidly born back into the world. I know people who are the reincarnation of Greek gods and goddess's. My father was in fact a god himself. He was the first to be reincarnated and lived for a hundred years before he met my mother. They had me after the 10th year they were together. Then after I matured into a 15-year-old human body he got sick and died. Yes Time will always be continuous, but a single life can not make it through the entire cycle. My father died at one hundred and sixty years, and for a reincarnation of a god that is young. I know this because I myself will be turning 50 years old next month, but for a girl born from a god my age is merely 16 to a human.

My mother had been devastated. But soon the single mother widow attracted a dangerous man. He had ruled the water in a previous life. A conceited fool he was. He tried taking my mother by force, and by refusing him it led straight to her immediate death. That's right, I am an orphan. Because I knew the secret about my mother's, not so suicidal incident. He did something that only he of the water could do. He banished me to the sea by transforming me into a creature who could not walk on land. I'm adaptable, so I feel no different. My face still has its goddess glow. My eye's an unusual violet, and my hair black like the darkest night that hangs down my back. The new part of me that I have grown accustom to is my slick violet scaled tail that replaced my legs. I am a finned tailed being. But the humans that still exist call me a mermaid.

Right now I expect I'm somewhere off the coast of the pacific ocean. I can see land in the distance But even if I tried swimming I would get carried back to the ocean. Land makes me weak so trying would be worthless. Why I am in this situation? It's because being the seed of my father I was to be the next ruler in the god world. If something happened to me, the runner-up would be the one who killed my mother. He was the second to be reincarnated. The first however to have his ancestors blood awaken and give him a slight but strong power. The trait that separates us from the humans is our long life span and our ability to sense other gods. Being only the beginning of the god revival process, the reincarnating is only weak. We remember our pass lives and the powers we had controlled, yet nobody knows how to retrieve our unique abilities. I suspect that I am still being searched for even after 6 months of my disappearance. They won't stop until they find at least a body. I know they probably think I ran away, devastated from both my parents' deaths. But such a thing would also be pointless.