For the first time since creation, the three would separate. Omega would stay on the green-blue planet with the child while Gamma would delve into the center of the universe to observe where they remember being created. Alpha would explore the farthest reaches of the universe, the very edge where the void touched their universe.
Omega decided to house the child upon the pillar top to keep it around where it was seemingly born. A small house of four rooms was formed of the molded Earth. Hearty enough to weather the storm for eons. The child readily explored its new area. All the sights, all the objects, even something as simple as a corner drew the child's attention. Omega would remark that the child was seemingly more curious than the three had ever been.
It took about three earthen decades before Omega felt as if the growth of the child was too slow. While this amount of time was less than a second to Omega, it still felt strange as the child should grow like a mortal as it was biological. For the first time, Omega would investigate what life truly did. While he wrote the laws for life, they did not truly understand life on the level needed to raise life. Omega would start feeding the child plant materials after pure biological matter was rejected. The child was most receptive to items that had high glucose percentages.
Another three decades passed as the child grew slowly. Though Omega was less concerned as the child had started to draw. While they started crude, over this period, the drawings and eventual painting far eclipsed any natural scenes the universe could produce. With these paintings, a small line of communication had been opened. Yet there was no progress towards the bet being concluded.
The child had only grown to about Omega's waist over the three decades, seemingly still in an infantile stage. Omega decided to try meat and the sort from creatures with thoughts. Through extensive testing, the child was very fond of those from the seas of its home world, especially those that would consume others to survive.
During the final growth period of the child, it appeared to create a tool. Like the orb, staff, and scroll, the child created a paintbrush of glass. As light touched the brush, it would give off different colors. As if the entire spectrum of light was housed within it. Yet, despite Omega's best guesses, nothing seemed to change in the universe from the tool's presence. Not realizing that the inherent idea of guessing was something new to Omega.
The final growth period lasted one earthen century. The house now had many rooms larger to accommodate the multitude of paintings. Paintings of galaxies, animals, the timeline, even of Omega covered every surface of the house. Some moved as if a soul had entered them and others spoke a language wholly unknown to either Omega or the child. Omega had become relatively infatuated with the child as shown by the unnecessary renovations.
The child now stood a full head above Omega, large in its true form. But for the sake of the house, it had figured out how to alter its shape much the same as Alpha and Gamma. It's shape still an amalgam of creatures but now toned down. Its arms more human like solely for painting, its lower spider half smaller with thin legs. But one part did not change in the slightest, its eyes still being that of an insect, able to see everything so naturally.