Therefore, she sent 6 of her scales to the surface. As they breached, the scales turned into humans who swam to the island. These humans took the form of Caribbean, but only had two differences. There were males as well as females, and unlike Caribbean, these humans could die. Humans learned to survive on the island and named it Vida, the word for life. Over many years, these humans reproduced to create a massive population. They learned to hunt, farm, and build small huts and villages along the coast from the materials grown with the help of …show more content…
Islara began to grow weak and holes formed in her body, creating freshwater springs which the humans thought were a gift from the mighty goddess Islara. Greed would be the human’s down fall, as they began to dig the spring wider and deeper to obtain more of the sweet freshwater, which made the children of Islara furious. Before this, nobody would dare to destroy their home island which was given to them as a blessing before their era of human existence. Like a dog digging for a bone, the people of Vida made the hole bigger and bigger until Islara could not hold herself at the surface any longer. At once, Islara smacked her mighty tail on the water making a wave bigger than anyone had ever seen. The wave swept overtop of Vida instantly killing everything in its path. While the destruction ensued, Islara submerged herself and swam to the center of the Great Water Drop to heal from thousands of years on the surface. The moon, Arot, saw the panic and dectruction that the humans destined upon themselves and dropped back into the water, fearful at what he