The Peach Wasn't Enough

I did this as part of a game programming challenge to retell a fairy tale story. 

Faced with the prospect of doing probably the tenth Goldilocks or Red Riding Hood story for this event, I decided instead to stretch the limits of what was considered a "fairy tale", using the myth of the world's creation in Shinto lore. It isn't quite a once upon a time story since there are references to some racy topics, but I tried to keep it PG-rated.

This is the story of Izanagi (male) and Izanami (female). The story originally goes like this (from TvTropes):

In the beginning, there was darkness, stars, and an endless ocean. Amongst the first gods born were two siblings named Izanagi-no-Mikoto (male) and Izanami-no-Mikoto (female). They came down from heaven and created the first land by stirring the ocean with a spear, and after that, they built a house, got married, and made some babies. The first of these babies was the malformed fishing god. The next eight were the islands of Japan. They had many more children; however, Izanami died giving birth to the god of fire, Kagutsuchi and was sent to the underworld. Izanagi missed his wife and traveled there to retrieve her, to which she agreed on the condition that her husband was not to look at her until they reached the surface. Of course, he looked anyway and saw that she was now a ghastly, rotting corpse. Izanagi freaked out and ran away, rolling a boulder in front of the entrance in order to escape Izanami's wrath. Izanami promised that she would kill 1,000 people every day in revenge. Izanagi countered that he would create 1,500 people every day. And that was the end of their marriage.

The story, as you can see, already has some creepy aspects, but I decided to tweak the ending a bit. It has multiple endings, if I remember correctly.