I'm Back!
Surprised you didn't I?
I don't have much to say, so let's just get right into it!
*? ? ?*
Floating in a pitch black darkness that seems to consume the world, is a light. It's a small insignificant thing that seems to be overshadowed by the sheer immensity of the emptiness it resides in. But somehow, the light seems to grow in size.
The darkness seems to warp and shift around the light. The light itself changes too. From a small bead of energy, it seems to change into a blue and white flame, burning without fuel. It changes shapes many times, into incredulous things.
It goes from a flame to a single drop of water. From water to steam. From steam to a tree. Then a tree to a cat, dog, wolf, tiger, flower, house, volcano, star, and just about anything else imaginable as it speeds up and in the blink of an eye it returns to a flame, all the while shining brighter and brighter while it glows with an indescribable incandescence.
The darkness is pushed back by the light as it gains power and grows larger. The darkness, however, is not idle as it retaliates against the overbearing light. The darkness encroaches upon the light with the intention of putting it out. The light is pulled away from the flame and consumed by the darkness as it gets closer and closer.
The flame is chipped away by the darkness as it recedes slowly. It was a slow, nearly still and unnoticeable event, but as time went on the process became clearer and clearer. The light was being oppressed and forced back. And that continued. As the light was slowly being corroded away by the darkness, the process became faster and faster. Within a matter of minutes, the flame that had once stood tall and proud in the face of darkness was suppressed to its original size.
This process repeated itself over and over countless times. Each time, the flame tried harder and harder to succeed, only to realize that what it had been trying to consume was a negligible portion of the entire darkness. What it knew of was not even 0.00001% of the entire expanse of darkness that it could comprehend.
Each time the blue flame continued to grow even bigger than it had the previous time, before being devoured by the darkness once again and reverted to its original space. This repeated itself so many times that it seemed as if eternity itself was manifested within this space. But eventually, over countless eons and wars waged between dark and light, they were equal. Eventually, the darkness could not blot out the light any longer.
And so they chased each other. Darkness and light coexisted while constantly chasing the other in a swirling vortex. They got closer and closer over years of chasing and being chased before they finally collided and burst apart into a blinding light that expanded and consumed everything…
*? ? ?*
I awake in a familiar dark void. I try to catch my breath and calm myself after seeing that event unfold in front of my eyes. I feel as if I just woke up from a nightmare…
I look at my body and see that it's been altered the way I specified before. I clutch my hands and hold myself to try and help calm me down.
But while I calm myself, a singular question pervades my mind…
'What was that!?'
*ding*
THE BEGINNING
'Of What?' I continue instinctively, seemingly not noticing the monotone and feminine voice that entered my head.
*ding*
EVERYTHING
Coming to, I start to slowly recall everything that's happened to me. I was playing dungeons and dragons… and then I died…
Thinking up to there I realize just what's going on.
I remember. I remember it all. It seems so silly that something like this would happen to me.
I also realize something.
This is not a dream.
I've had dreams much crazier than this, so it would make sense if this were a dream. In the dreams I have I also have an almost conscious sense of lucid reality where I think and feel how I would in that actual situation.
But this is different. I'm wide awake, but I'm feeling like I should have some sort of panic attack right now. At this point, I would wake up. Especially considering the fact that this dream has nothing left to keep my mind preoccupied.
But the thing is, I also know when I'm dreaming. My dreams are sort of self-induced because of my drive for a creative and inspiring story.
That's how I keep myself waking up every day, feeling like I just finished a great movie and want to watch more. It's quite strange.
My dreams have enough high-class content to create multiple movie franchises off of them and keep making spinoffs for another decade. It gets that crazy.
And then there's my precognition I get once a month. But that's normal.
Anyway, what was I doing again?
Oh, right! That universe thing!
"What was that?" I ask once more, this time aloud, seeking more information.
THE BEGINNING
'Okay… Gotta be more specific…'
"Okay. Yeah, I get that," I say in a slightly irritated tone that I didn't mean to do. "Then what were those two forms of… energy or power, or whatever the darkness and light were."
THEY HAVE GONE BY MANY NAMES
YIN AND YANG
'Yin and Yang? Aren't they usually connected with cold and hot, female and male? I'm pretty sure they're also mentioned a few times in the joining and or separation of heaven and earth.'
SPACE AND TIME
'Woah, that's a bit of a jump there. I expected something more subtle next.'
MATTER AND DARK ENERGY
'Based on my current and very limited understanding of quantum physics, that theory checks out. In a way, although slightly contradictory of the theory, it does lay some groundwork to work with.'
DIVINE AND DEMONIC
'I… I'm not sure what to think of that… '
BUT NO MATTER WHAT
ONE THING REMAINS
THAT WAS THE ORIGIN OF EVERYTHING
'Then was it actually any of the previous things you said?'
YES
'Which one?'
ALL OF THEM
At that revelation, I feel a slight chill go down my spine.
'… All of them? How …?'
I go completely mind-blown by that idea and sink into a mindless silence for a few minutes before that same monotone voice pulls me out of my stupor.
THE PREPARATIONS ARE COMPLETE
WOULD YOU LIKE TO START TRANSMIGRATION?
YES/NO
I pause for a moment, taking in the reality of it all.
Things can turn out so strange. One day, I'm a nobody in a small town. I can't keep a girlfriend for longer than 6 months and I'm not particularly athletic. My only saving grace is my good academics, which I was ceaselessly praised for.
But now, all of that will change. I won't be able to be who I was before without significant work. And even then… would it be worth it?
I stop myself from becoming overwhelmed by the realizations flooding into my mind like a river.
My mind is strangely easily manipulated by me. At times it's a raging river, threatening to flood everything in its path, at other times It's as calm and steady as the Great Plains.
I take a deep breath and get ready to answer.
"Ye-" *Ping*
But a notification interrupts me.
ERROR
SPACE-TIME ANOMALY DETECTED
ATTEMPTING TO AVOID IT
*PING*
ATTEMPT FAILED
TRYING TO ALTER REALITY TO PROTECT USER'S FRAIL BODY
*PING*
FAILED
*PING*
PREPARE FOR UNTIMELY DEMISE IN 5
'Wait WHAT!?'
I went through that whole tutorial just to be killed again!
4
'Am I meant to be that joke character at the beginning of the book who only serves to pass on their power to someone else!?'
3
'I don't want to die! I don't want to have gone through those two things just to be discarded like a used tissue paper!'
2
'Why does life always hate to play fair with me?! I can't accept an ending as pathetic as this!'
1
'NO! WHY! I WAS FINALLY GOING TO BE SOMETHING! I WAS GOING TO BE THE MAIN CHARACTER! I WAS FINALLY GOING TO CHANGE!'
0
'I DON'T WANT TO DIE!'
But sadly, all words are lost before the merciless void. I feel an indescribable pain shoot throughout my body as I was pulled apart at the molecular level. I'm unable to even shout from the pain before my brain is ripped apart and turned to mush.
My bones are crushed and my flesh is grinded before I promptly *poof* out of existence as if I never existed in the first place...
A Short Chapter
This is the last part before the strings behind the curtain are revealed.
I'm sorry for it being so short, but I felt it was a good place to end the chapter.