The Fate of the Phoenix

        Somewhere up there a powerful entity just reached her final stage of sleep. Just a tiny bit of her essence in the embodiment of a woman fell on Earth with a curiosity for the planet. It was, after all, the only one of her offsprings that had given birth to lifeforms.

        There the sun woman saw many beautiful things. Beautiful as of the creatures and life she helped nurture. All of those plants and animals were the beings of Earth, her offspring.

        During her time there, the sun woman interacted with all of them and helped Earth grow and become a prosperous, advanced planet where others like her in form walked its lands.

        Those peculiar creatures, more advanced than the others in mind, were her favorites. They were, to her, the future of Earth, what would make it an empire in the universe. Oh how proud she was!

That was...

        Until humans got out of control. What had the sun woman done wrong? Why did they desire so much power to the point of killing their brothers and sisters?

        The sun woman sought guidance with the Creator, wondering if she should use her power to stop one of her best nourishments. His response was to not interfere in the matters of the planets as they must let everything run its course, no matter how much they wanted to help. Their power, afterall, was not made to harm or destroy but to create.

        Drowned in her sadness at abandoning her predilect planet Earth, the sun woman retiredto her former power source as a star; she went back to sleep.

        The advanced beings went on, advancing everyday even more. However in all that, they began to kill, not only the other habitants but also their home. Earth was reduced to dust.

        Humans left with all their "knowledge" and higher technology traveling planets, galaxiesand even other dimensions. All of it was reduced to dust, humans killing the universe everywhere they went. When they were done, even beyond the observable universe was nothingness. Even they disappeared by the hands of their own technology.

A couple of million years later...

        Somewhere, in all of the ridiculous enormity of the universe in a supercluster, in a group of galaxies, in one of its arms, in a neighborhood of stars, in a star's orbit, in a planet, in a small patch of dryland there was something sprouting. What is it? Is that a leaf?

Of course it is, God's creation was never made to give up.