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What could have been
by BlueCenturion421
inspired by an art piece drawn by JRR5790

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
I’m sure you’ve all heard those words on more than one occasion.
You probably know how the rest of the story usually goes.
God creates paradise in a mere seven days, he then creates both man and woman in his own image, tells them not to eat the fruit from the tree in the center of the garden, the serpent tempts them into eating the fruit anyway, God banishes the pair of them from paradise and life pretty much sucks after that.
Well, it might surprise you to know that this version of the story has a bit of a twist.
Let us start our narrative on the 6’th day, the day when God decides to create man.
This is where things start to take a bit of a different turn.
As God looked down upon his creation, upon all of the birds of the air, the beasts of the land, and the fish in the sea, God decided that, rather than create a new creature, God decided to el...