The Story Needs a Beginning
I do not own anything by JK Rowling and also I don't own anything from the Mageverse series of books by Angela Knight which some of the background is based on.
My name is Katrine and I have a nickname which is 'G' which is…short for Goddess. That's right lovely ladies and gentleman, I am a goddess. A proper one I may add, not one of those imperfect hoodlums you read in Greek mythology…in fact one day I'll tell you a story of how I offed some of the Greek gods, its rather amusing but not today. I'll start from the start of how I got into this situation.
I was born a human in 1971 and my life was rather average and ordinary; my school results were ordinary; I was not a genius. And my face pretty much reflected that. Well that all changed when I got to 24. See the world we live in right now; well I thought it was the only one but it turns out there's more than one universe. Lots of parallel universes just waiting to be explored. Some are taken care by gods and goddesses and some are godless (my personal favourites). I was contacted by a race of fairy people; the Sidhe; in another parallel world, blabbering on about some prophecy and I was the only one who could help. I had to learn pretty quickly that the world was very different to what I supposed. In this world, vampires and werewolves existed and even existed in the world I was born to. It just depended on the universes you were in.
Now most living things have souls and souls are an important underpinning of this story so bear with me. All living things have souls or essences and they like me very much, I have a soul but its complicated. Sometimes souls like me so much that when someone dies they move to me but I shoo them away to beyond the veil where they're supposed to go. I've never been beyond the veil, some things should be kept a mystery I think. Well as I said, most living things have souls, except this nasty race of 'demons'. They are pure evil…worse than you could ever imagine, worse than ideas of the demons in hell because at least they started off good. No these ones are born this way and they're aliens…that can travel inter-dimensionally. Oooh what fun. Apparently the prophecy claimed I needed to sacrifice myself i.e. die to stop a particularly nasty and powerful demon. These demons, in addition to not having a soul…are also parasitic in the way they feed on magical energies and you can smell their feeding a mile away. So as you could imagine this demon had a lot of magical energy collected over the years. Now apparently, gods and goddesses can be made in a variety of ways. For instance, the dragon god Cachamwri became a god by killing a demon and absorbing its power but the dragon was already magical in the first place which is why it was such a surprise I became a goddess. Maybe not to Cachamwri…because he's a god…they seem to know lots of stuff. Hardy har.
Well at the time I was shocked at what they wanted me to do. It wasn't much of a choice; to give up my life to save others…complete strangers, not even human. But well, my life was so ordinary and lacking of much future I eventually agreed. I'm not sure what I was thinking, I think it was the children I saw playing. I didn't have a lot of live for. I'm not sure if you've ever felt that way but when your given a point to your life, to save an entire race, maybe you'll understand. I didn't understand why me and why there was a prophecy, I didn't even understand how they knew it was me. Well I do now, they were being guided by a dragon god named Cachamwri.
I was completely understanding that I was going to die on that fateful day but something extraordinary happened. The demon came through the inter-dimensional gate as prophesised and seeing me laying on the altar drew up a fiery blade and began to disembowel me. The pain was…well I don't really like to think about it. All I could think of that this would be over soon. The demon was chanting something that sounded horrific while the knife was cutting through my organs. I do remember a lot of blood and urine too, I was so afraid. At the start of the words something activated in me, almost like a switch and then a humming vibration in my abdomen started and I saw energies being drawn from the demon into me. It couldn't understand properly what was happening, I was almost gone. The energies rushed into me even more. My stomach started to heal but then I heard all these voices, I felt so full, my brain was melting, everything was on fire. I cannot explain the feelings. I screamed but my scream was shaking the walls and plaster was falling. My whole body was glowing with a blinding light. I lost my memory after that I fell into only what I could explain as a coma. I wandered in my dreams, floating amongst stars, exploring and locking away damaging memories that the demon had inadvertently given me. I didn't know what I was doing I just knew that's what I needed to do. I woke up eventually. A hundred years had passed. Yes I am…at the moment aged 144. That is not old in goddess or god terms. I am a proverbial baby. Young and…unattractive…I've kept my old human form for the most part. Losing ones identity is a bad idea although I do like being a sparkly cloud, snowy tiger, cat, dog and one of my favourites…a dragon. In certain forms, you deal with your power better, you can accommodate so much more. I think that being in human form is harder and emotions are to acute for us gods and goddesses. I think that's why the Greek gods are so…juvenile, imperfect…I haven't met one who measures up to some the gods and goddesses I've met.
So we've got that all sorted out. I am a resident interferer. I like to interfere in affairs of people. Everywhere. Well currently I found out that what goes on in some parallel universes sometimes bleeds into other universes in the form of films, books and comic books. Almost like a muse whispering in some writers ear. In this example…JK Rowling got these ideas because they were happening in another universe, not everything she wrote came true or was accurate but the main principle of the story was true. Ah but if the details are changed a little then you can have a better outcome, don't you think?
Now I can't explain much about timelines, only that beings go through time at different speeds. Which is why I can pop up at different times in the story timeline that you would all be familiar with (if you read Harry Potter). Actually I'm still getting to grips with my magic but my plan was simple. I'm was going to give Harry Potter a better ending. Why? Because I can.
Of course, there were complications but you'll have to find out in the story. And I do command you to read on. In fact I have enchanted this document to tell me whether people read on so I'll know. You wouldn't want to incur the wrath of a Goddess now would you? Sirius Black found out the hard way, the answer to that question.
This is just the introductory chapter, I'll write a new chapter tomorrow.