More story: Naija is imprisoned in the crystal, and she hears a deep, old voice, like it's been around forever.
"Naija..."
"What?" she says. "Who are you?"
"I am the One Most Ancient. I have come to help you."
"How do you know my name?"
"The Creator told me."
"You know him?"
"I know him better than anyone else in the world. Even himself."
She pauses, slightly stunned at the idea. "How can you help me?"
"I and my brethren are the source of all Verse. We know things to do with it no one else does."
"Whoa..."
"I will tell my brother to pull you through."
She sees what looks like a tree limb, only ghostly, reach for her. She hesitates, and takes it in her hand. She is pulled...
...and she comes out through another crystal. The one in the Garden of Ancients. She finds herself holding onto what actually is a tree limb, and the tree is in front of her. She whispers, "Thank you." It does not answer.
She hears the voice, coming from the left. "Explore if you wish. Come here to me when you are done."
The player gets control then. When she gets to where the Ancient is, a new cutscene:
She swims in, and sees the Creator standing there, in child form, even more ghostly than usual, on the other side of a giant tree. The One Most Ancient.
It says, "I shall tell you a story..."
"Long, long ago, when the Creator had just made Aquaria and lost his home, he planted a tree. He tended it every day and night, as it helped him take his mind off of his sorrow. Eventually, it was quite large, and it spoke to him. 'I am lonely. Could you make more like me?' He did so, planting a great many more. Soon the area grew lush and life-filled, and he tended them all every day, but his favorite was his first. Eventually, when they had all grown, some sort of energy began to flow from them. The most came from the first tree, but the others made some too. This was the Verse, and the Creator found that, with its help, he could do more. Much more. The first tree, however, asked him, 'Could you make something else? Like... a crystal?' The Creator obliged, creating a red crystal out in the garden (the trees could all see through eachother's eyes, so they all could see it). Strangely, the Verse seemed attracted to it, entering it, energizing it... a strange sort of intelligence seemed to reside in it... The Creator realized, somehow, that he would need to leave this place, and make more places, more red crystals. So he said goodbye to the trees, and sealed the garden off, so that no one with evil intent could get to it. He created new places, and the Verse flowed from the first crystal, through the others, and into each place he made, allowing anyone with knowledge of the Verse to access all of Aquaria, transcending space and time, even teleporting through space and time, with the crystals' help. All crystals could do these things, not just red ones. And, by the way, that first tree was me, and the others are the ones in the Garden today."
After this long tale, Naija now knew so much more...
This is as far as I've gotten yet in the story. I have no idea how to post in the folder that the mod is in, so help me please!
