Genesis [PiE]

>They said God did not exist.
>Yet here are His angels returning to guide our path in this world.
>Their beautiful feathered wings carry them gracefully through the vast expansive skies.
>They rest on the soft and puffy clouds as they watch over the land.
>They are holy beings pure of the sins of our world.
>Some called them harpies and feared them.

>There are many who claim that magic is not real.
>The magicians who have started appearing en masse around the same time as the angels will say otherwise.
>Many people didn't believe their tricks and miracles; even as they were performed before their very eyes.
>Just as many others accused them of being heretics.
>The magicians' close association to the angels threw most of the arguments and debate for a loop.
>The more radical humans just called both groups unholy demon spawn.
>Others just simply enjoyed the show.

>It took a short while, but mermaids were discovered soon after.
>They were like something straight out of myth.
>Underwater humans with a brilliantly scaled fish tail.
>To some, they were beauiful and magical.
>Some sailors deemed them sirens and did what they could to protect themselves against a threat that never existed.
>The discovery of living mermaids brought an immediate spark of interest and several expeditions were launched in search of the fabled lost city of Atlantis.

>Perhaps the most unnoticed, but still equally strange group were... humans.
>Ordinary humans but they act as if they're totally alien to this world.
>They can communicate with the other three groups as if they've know them all their lives.
>Their exceptional green thumb is something to be admired as well.
>It's safe to say that scientific and historical studies immediately kicked off with the four groups as the primary subjects.
>Others banded together to crusade against them.
>Many others just sat on the side and enjoyed their company.
>The world was turning on itself over these recently re-emerged creatures.

>The studies kicked off with support from religious and cultist groups, historians, scientists, and even literature experts banding together to find out where these beings came from.
>It took an unknown amount of time, but we were finally able to come up with some semblance of an answer.
>It happened when one of the magicians offered to take a human they've befriended "beyond the portal" .
>Apparently, this feat was indeed possible, but only during an extremely stressful ritual.
>One that may possibly take the wizard's life.
>Needless to say, they were able to take them back.
>The main reason that we were told was because the magician had felt this world was becoming too hostile to them.
>Seemingly proven so by the crusades against the various demi-humans and a few other mythological creatures as well.
>Minotaurs, griffons, dragons, and hydras.
>Humanity's battle against these beasts has forged heroes amongst themselves.
>Slowly but surely, their numbers began to wither away until there were but a few.
>They too were quickly hunted down for glory.

>The world returns to what it was when it began.
>Time marches on and the stories become legend.
>Legend turns to myth.
>The remaining humans pass these stories on over several millenia.
>And what of the humans and the creatures who returned to their own world?

>A bright flash of light and a swirling temporal rift sucks the magician and his human friend through time and space.
>Across dimensions.
>Setting down onto a cobblestone road, the human takes a look around.
>Colorful pegasi, unicorns, and little ponies all go through their daily routines in a white, majestic city.
>Several other species he had seen are also around; such as minotaurs and griffons.
>When he takes a step, he falls forward.
>Looking himself over, he sees that his body had become one of the lesser ponies with no wings or horns.
>His friend the magician has also turned to a unicorn and smiled at him as he offered a hoof to help him up.
>Seeing this all, what he's turned into; what the others have turned into.
>The angels are the pegasi.
>The magicians, unicorns.
>Over in a fountain in the square played a couple of seahorse-like ponies.
>The human only assumed them to be the mermaids he had known of.
>And the earth ponies?
>They became normal humans.
>A regular person like himself with no extraordinary features or powers.

>It all came rushing to him like a tidal wave.
>The man-turned-pony's eyes have opened.
>He understands all.
>The only problem is that he has no way to return to Earth to share his epiphany with the rest.
>The opportunity to cross worlds only comes around once every couple millenia.
>And so, our myths will remain myth.
>Our legends and heroes will remain tales for our children.
>Gods, creatures, magic.
>Until the day when their re-emergence again sparks interest and debate will we ever see them again and more humans who cross into their world will understand the truth of who we really are.

>The year is 2013.
>My name is Anonymous.
>And I think I just saw an angel carry a rainbow across the sky.