Adventures of John: Into the Void

Introduction

My name is John the Adventurer. Not really. But in order to protect my identity, I usually refer to myself as such. Our world, our reality, is not the only one there is. There are an infinite number of planes of existence beyond our own, realms of myth and magic filled with all manner of beasts and creatures. There are those among us, ordinary people in all other aspects, that have a connection to one or more of these worlds. Their connection to these worlds can often give them abilities beyond those of other men, or even provide passage to these worlds. Many of these gifted individuals are unaware of their abilities.

I am one of these people, except I am aware of my gifts, and I am not merely connected to one realm, but to all of them. Because of this, I can see and speak with creatures from these realms, as well as separate my spirit from my body and use it to travel to these realms. When I am in these other worlds I can use the magic inherit in these worlds to do anything I can dream of. These are the tales of my journeys through the magical realms. These are the Adventures of John. Why am I posting my tales on a fan fiction site, you ask? Well, you wouldn't believe the people I've met.

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For years I have protected humanity from the forces of darkness. No one even realizes that I even exist, but that doesn't matter. Each time I save the world, I know that they would be grateful if they did realize all that I do for them. But recently my adventures have become more dangerous than any before. Before it was simply the world, or in some cases the universe that was in danger, but now it is so much more. All of reality, every universe, is in danger.

Some time ago I met a man named the Doctor, a time traveling alien from another universe. Together we defeated a man named the Technomancer, who sought to use an ancient spell with the ability to weaken the boundaries between universes to force every universe into one. We defeated him, but I chose to keep the spell for myself instead of destroy it.

I later used this spell in an attempt to enable me to use my magic in our magically dead world, but instead I created an unstable rift that pulled me into the Void, the endless nothingness between universes. I was nearly erased from reality, but through force of will I was able to jettison myself from the Void, into a completely different universe, where I met the love of my life, Queen Elsa of Arendelle. Together we fought off an old enemy of mine, a being known as the Shadow Trickster, and for a while we were happy together, but it was not to last. The rift I had created to get to this universe was growing, and would soon consume my entire universe. The only way to save it would be to return to Earth, and to leave Arendelle, and my beloved Elsa, forever. We promised to find each other again, and I left.

After searching the magical realms for a way to return, I discovered that the only way was with the same spell I had used to go there in the first place. With the help of Jack Frost I was able to craft a more stable version of the spell, and returned to Arendelle. After spending a long time in Arendelle I returned to our world with Elsa in tow, only to find that Jack Frost, in an attempt to make it so that everyone would be able to see him and his fellow Guardians, had unleashed all the horrors of the magical realms on the world. Unfortunately, one of these horrors was the Darkness, an evil from the beginning of the universe more powerful than any other. The three of us, with the help of my younger sister Annie and my old friend the Doctor, were able to awaken the Celestial beings, a trinity of beings just as old and powerful as the Darkness, who were able to destroy it an turn back time so that none of it had ever happened. In the process of awakening them, we discovered that the Darkness was once a Celestial being like them before being corrupted by the emptiness that existed before the creation of the universe. After all this I chose to destroy the spell so that it would never be able to endanger the universe again.

Time passed, and things happened. On Valentine's Day Elsa and I were accosted by Aphrodite, who tested our love for each other in brutal ways. Not long after that I proposed to Elsa, and we were married with various magical beings, including Santa Claus and Hermes, as well as several members of the Disney royalty such as Merida and Belle, in attendance. Married life was good, but once again, the happiness was not to last.

The spell surfaced again as Elsa and I attended the first birthday party of Anna and Kristoff's daughter Kara. The two of us were thrown into an alternate reality where we faced a fiery double of Elsa, who I was forced to kill in order to close the rift and save both universes. Several more times I was tossed through rifts, going back to the Doctor's universe, as well as being thrown into the universe of the television show Supernatural, and even a version of Metropolis where the Justice League and the Avengers were being mind-controlled to kill each other. I discovered that these disturbances in the multiverse were created by a powerful secret society, one that was spreading its influence across the magical realms and the various universes, and I decided to hunt the society down.

With the information I tortured out of a powerful demon, I found the location of one of the secret bases of the society, where I found several members attempting to create another rift, as well as the Greek god Ares. After stopping the formation of the portal and slicing and dicing Ares I went to the next base, where I was forced to fight a long-dead friend of mine who was being controlled by the society. I was only able to defeat him by tapping into a hidden reserve of pure creation energy that I was not even aware I possessed. After laying him to rest in his ancient home, I went to the third and final base, which was empty, except for a small group of men who claimed to work for a man named Shade. They opened a rift, and on the other side I faced an evil version of me from an alternate universe. After a long battle which revealed that we were evenly matched, I was able to turn one of his attacks against him and end him. I came back through the rift, only to find the men, who I had bound, now had no memory of anything.

Inside the base I found what appeared to be a permanent, stable rift. I went through and found myself surrounded by Void demons, powerful but mindless creatures made of pure emptiness. I also discovered the leader of the society in my reality, who informed me that they called themselves the "Brotherhood of the Void". The leader revealed that he was nothing more than a more refined variant of Void demon, and that the Brotherhood had been leading me along, letting me become more powerful so that they could drain my energies to power an ultimate version of the rift-creating spell, one that would destroy all of creation, leaving only the Void to remain. Tapping into my creation energy again I was able to defeat him, leaving me alone with the Void. Knowing that this was not the end, I created a Void ship for myself, and set sail into the Void.