Chapter 4 - The birth of the ooccas

The gods heard a very loud and strange squawking sound coming from the crater where they were growing their experimental embryo. Nut and Helios went to the crater where the glass tank was stored, while they came closer to the crater, the sounds became louder. They saw a huge ray of light that shimmered with every step they took to get closer.

Once they arrived at the glass tank, they couldn't believe their eyes. They saw a completely golden creature with a humanoid face and a bird-like body. Helios immediately summoned the other gods to show them the creature they had created together. 

The ancient oocca is born!
The ancient oocca is born!

Now that Nanna and Geb had also arrived, the creature began to dim its bright light and the gods could admire the creature properly. They opened the glass tank to extract the creature. The creature began to make more noise. "Squ Squ Squawk" it sounded. 

Strangely enough the four gods directly understood that the creature was trying to express its gratitude. Nanna immediately shouted we did it, we managed to create a new being that can communicate with us in a way that humans cannot understand. Our goal has been achieved, she said convincingly.

"Not so fast Nanna," said the sun god Helios, "Hold your pride away for while, because we are not there yet! We have indeed succeeded and the first steps have been successfully taken. But to ensure that some of our tasks are taken off our hands we will have to create thousands more of these creatures." Geb nodded and his smile immediately disappeared from his face. "It took months to grow just one creature, let alone as we want to create thousands, it will take forever"

The creature instantly proved its intelligence and yelled Squawk Squ Squak Squ Squ.  Nanna started laughing hard and said "See I was right, we did it, the creature was just born and is already smarter than the 4 of us put together." All the gods began to laugh and cheer.  "What a great idea to clone the creature" helios exclaimed. "We have to come up with a name for the creatures first" Nanna immediately shouted;  OK!  

You want to call the creatures OK, responded Geb? We need to come up with something better! Nanna was irritated and shouted loudly "AAA you always disapprove of my ideas, you come up with a name yourself!." Geb;  OOCCA. Nanna responded "are you trying to play the joker now, by saying exactly the same as I did" No replied Geb smiling, I combine your name with your aggressive outburst. The other gods could hardly stop laughing, but Nanna kept looking at Geb in surprise, not understanding his joke.

Helios, Geb and Nut thought it was a great idea to call the creatures Oocca, the creature itself also started making happy squawking noises which means he agreed. Nanna was still irritated and agreed to get rid of it. Eventually all 4 gods agreed with each other that the creatures should be named Oocca. 

Now it was time to work on the plan to clone their newly born golden oocca into a group large enough to help the gods take much of their work off their hands. They came up with the idea, instead of mixing all the collected DNA and their own DNA, to clone the golden oocca in a unique way every time. Each time they added just 1 DNA orb from one of the gods and 1 DNA orb they found in one of the locations they had previously visited.This would ensure that each new cloned oocca would have a unique look.

In the meantime, Helios and Nanna had started making cloning pods. The golden oocca itself was placed in a special vault where DNA is automatically extracted, which was needed to fill the cloning pods.

A long time passed before the 4 gods collected enough DNA from the golden oocca. When the cloning phase started, they had extracted just enough DNA to clone another 4443 new oocca’s. During each process they mixed the DNA they had extracted from the golden oocca, with 2 DNA Orbs, one from the gods and one from the large collection of orbs they had collected during their travels through the universe.

To be continued…

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