The Princess Lost In The Rift (First)

One morning, intercoms and holographic televisions all across the galaxy relayed the same message: the young princess had been kidnapped. The precious 11-year-old Elven princess, Ciela, had been pulled through a mysterious rift in space by an unknown. Now, the search was on.

Naturally, Ciela's family were anxious to find her. But not just because she was their child; she was their only child, and therefore the sole heir to the Elven kingdom of Astrum. Without her, their reign could fall into chaos, and with it, the knowledge and culture of Elven society.

Not that this mattered to everyone. In fact, society was divided. Astrum was no longer wholly, or even mostly, an Elf planet; it had become a multicultural hub, and not everyone had sympathy for the plight of the Elves.

All, however, were intruiged by the rift itself, and the mysterious forces surrounding it.

The Deep Space Rift Appears
And on the other side: a mirror image of the world as we knew it.

A parallel universe. A door in space, a door that should have been locked, had opened. And lost somewhere in it was Ciela. But what dangers lurked on the other side? Should the rift be opened again?

Everyone had an opinion. Most of the scholars, led by their academic curiosity, wanted to explore it. The councilmen argued against it, warning that the risk wasn't worth one girl's life. The Interspace Legion wanted to harness the power of the rift and control it. Even the Pulsar Sorcerer's Guild was divided; those that wanted to open the rift stormed out and formed their own guild, the Quasar Sorcerer's Guild.

But what had caused that door to open in the first place?

The Beast In The Dark
What they didn't yet know was this: at the center of the rift was a black hole.

The biggest black hole. A black hole that was slowly tearing apart the fabric of reality -- making it possible for that locked door to open. And at the center of that black hole, crawling out of the nothingness itself, was a beast. According to urban legend, a large monster with hundreds or even thousands of arms. An impossible creature, who should not have been able to exist, did.

And the hole was growing. At the very edges of the universe, planets and stars were disappearing into it, feeding the beast, and allowing the alternate dimensions to flourish. Little black holes began to spring up at random, fueling the degeneration of reality.

The Questions
Will Ciela be rescued? How does the beast exist? Can it be destroyed? Will reality degenerate? Can the rift be controlled? How many times has it opened? How many people before the princess were lost on the other side? What will happen to the parallel world? What will happen to this world?