In distant darkness,
A vivid image plays…
A hellish landscape as fire consumes all
The fire turns all to ash as those who still breathe attempt to escape its wrath
The screams, the crying, and the pain of others are deafening
A lone man in the chaos is silent
He is gripping the charred corpses of a presumed female with her child
He is silent as tears slowly streaming down his eyes
As the scenes slowly fade to black…
Various question begins to stir as they form from the darkness:
What is the purpose of life?
What is the question to the existence that we live in?
Why do we kill?
What is our purpose in this god-awful life?
As the voices cut deep a hellish image of flames and fire appears as it burns bright…
The past bites the hardest
I have a glimpse of hell as the fire burns bright
My faith was shaken like the many before him
However, It wasn't due to him nay it was due to the people that he attracts
My hell was cast by their action therefore I shall not play their games no longer
I am called Omnissiah no longer…
I am only a man…
A foolish man…
From the darkness,
Two beings coexist in a never-ending war…
Prisoner to the machine that trapped them both…
From that moment on those beings were trapped together…
So they fought to decide who was the rightful owner of the mind.
As this empty sandbox of the mind acts as the battlefield…
They used their minds to clash with the might of titans and the wisdom of the gods.
They pursued the use of freedom from the minds to enforce them as they battle as "Gods"…
Powers that were unattainable from the bounds of reality were free to manipulate in this world…
Those powers were used to clash…
The true might of the dragon was being displayed as in this false world of the minds its true strength was achieved…
While Tempious used this false world as a way to recreate technologies that were no longer available to him as a way to battle using them as he saw fit…
One was a god while another was a mortal…
Many times they have clashed and learned from each other…
The man known as Tempious used his cunning as he displayed his true might by clashing against it using various gadgets and weapons…
While The Dragon regains its original strength begins using its overwhelming strength to overwhelm Tempious in powerful attacks…
The makeshift land was disseminated as it was destroyed countless times…
The grounds were broken and singe from the battles…
Once a battlefield of massive proportion it was devastated over two constant battles…
They fought with all their might…
The Dragon uses its powers to its fullest extent as it once did many millennia ago while Tempious uses his cunning to counteract the various parts of its powers and turn it against itself.
Over the next decade, They fought… Various methods, attempts, sometimes Tempious won other times The Dragon won overall it was mostly a draw…
They had clashed approximately 65,495 times
Eventually, they realized they were too evenly matched…
As they clashed they began to reshape their goals instead of defeating one another.
They began to use their memories to form armies from their memories to fight against them…
They plan to use their armies to decimate them to win…
From Tempious, Armies of men and AI working together. Machinery far and wide as devastating weaponry was recreated as it filled the various sky.
From The Dragon, Armies of Steel as they fought with nigh indestructibility as they formed armies that rival Tempious using machinery foreign and alien to his…
Armies of metal and steel began to march as they stormed the battlefields. Men of iron and flesh work together to fight against skeletons of steel as they clashed ruthlessly…
Machines of various types roamed the fields, some as small as a grain of microscopic sand while others the size of planets as they began to battle without remorse…
Tempious was leading them as he was in full control. He begins to reconstruct various technologies that were forbidden, others forgotten and lost to time and those who dare stand with him…
The Dragon used its might to displace and disburse their massive armies of theirs as a constant storm of emerald lightning rained down as they fought.
From the heavens above and the grounds below as the earth quacks and the sky splits as this terrible battle was fought…
Leaving In the aftermath of this epic battle…
On the ruined battlefield countless lies lay there wasted… Machine and human alike…
From the great machinery that once threatened the heavens and the massive weapon that threatened the earth lay in orbit in ruins…
Great machinery far and wide lay all around in complete ruins
Only a few beings remain…
On one side a being in all its true glory stands though looks exhausted…
Its body was ragged as various parts have been damaged with his left arm missing while his body is very rough… barely able to stand as critically damaged as it was…
On the other hand, Tempious is surrounded by gadgets, machinery, and all sorts of things lying in ruins as he lay there on the ground breathing heavily…
Tempious bleeding heavily from his eyes and nose as his entire lower portion is gone leaving only his vital organs still intact…
Tempious is heavily steaming as his various scattered blood and flesh begin to crawl as they reattach and rapidly rebuild the lower portion of his body.
While nearby machinery begins to dismantle as it slowly breaks down as the liquid metal begins to pour from the machine slowly beginning to crawl onto the dragon as it heals the dragon while reforming its arm…
Both of them begin to stare at one another with murderous intent…
Until…
Tempious stared into the dragon with spiteful eyes as his wounds healed…
Eventually, He falls back to the ground with all his arms spread out, "You win" said in an apathetic tone
The Dragon look at Tempious confused as Tempious speaks, "You win, I give up"
The Dragon grew frustrated at Tempious' answer, "What?! YOU JUST GIVE UP! NOW OF ALL THE TIMES!"
"WE FOUGHT FOR OVER 85,823 TIMES NEARING MY COMPLETE AND TOTAL VICTORY OVER YOU AND NOW YOU WANNA CALLED QUITS!?" The Dragon roared with frustration and rage.
Tempious replied to the Dragon Rage with a simple "YEP" in the most annoying and aggravating way.
The Dragon, growing ever more agitated, begins to attack Tempious before he suddenly runs away.
The Dragon begins to chase him with every growing contempt as he screams, "FIGHT ME"
Tempious laughs as he screams, "NO"
The Mad Man and The Dragon are beginning their journey...
Their imprisonment in the mind of Tempious
As we look at the present let's look at the past
As we know the current. It is important to know the past
You can never outrun the past but a foolish man once did
Tempious began to run as he did once before…
Distant memories begin to flash from his mind as they begin to play…
An image of a dark alleyway with a sketchy door with writing on it after opening shows a high-class bar…
Laughter filled the area as people drank their worries and sorrows away…
On one of the many tables that lay on the floors. A figure resembling Tempious is drinking his 12th bottle…
As he finished his alcohol, He ask for another and placed them on the ever-growing piles on his side.
Bitter memories begin to replay as he attempts to drink his sorrows away as he is reminded of his failures…
He failed to protect them, He failed to keep them alive… It was his duty to bring them home and he has failed…
Eventually, He pass out from drinking as he slept on the bar table…
…
"Tempious" awakened from his drunken slumber…
His head is splitting and his mood was sour from the start as he reach for another bottle
His body which is draped with a long blanket begins to move as the blanket slowly falls off, eventually grabbing a bottle with a note on the side that reads "Rest well friend… It isn't your fault"
"Tempious" throws the bottle into the trash as he slowly makes his way to the exit
In his blurry morning vision, He begins to see someone in the distant corner…
It is a lonesome figure working on something…
The figure was hooded with a long cloak with black cloth and golden trimming as it covered his entire body. Trying to look at the headpiece reveals nothing but darkness…
"Tempious" begins to approach the lonesome figure and ask for some water.
The figure said to leave him as he is currently trying to figure out how this object works.
"Tempious" takes a closer look at the paper as he recognizes them. They were his prototypes and theorems for sustainable energy sources, faster travel systems, and many theoretical theories on ways to improve technology…
"Tempious" was shocked at first but realized this man was someone who appreciated his work. As the figure begins to stare at "Tempious'', He casually replied they were all original projects made by him.
The figure was shocked before quickly calming down. He begins to apologize for his rude behaviors before and begins to ask politely to take a seat and how he made them.
"Tempious" casually replied in a sarcastic tone as he got a seat, "I'm no genius I can assure you. I've just been alive and I've been alive for a long time so I picked up on some old tricks. As you know this place is only known by perpetual so you must be one as well I presume correctly?"
The figure looks flustered before apologizing to him for such a silly question.
"Tempious" replied, "It's no big deal, But it is mighty inappropriate for someone to ask something when I don't even know his name?". "Tempious" sneakily grabs the figure glass of water before chugging it.
"That's for earlier though", "Tempious" said in a very sarcastic tone
The figure got up from his table and began to greet him. He said his name was…
Parts of the memory begin to distort the name why?
"So, your name is [] right? Huh, I heard of the boogeyman but I never heard of you?" "Tempious" said in a rather comical voice
The figure begins to smile as it states, "No matter what I'll never be revealed until the time is right and I hope that never comes"
"Tempious" appears silent before beginning to laugh as he states, "That is a funny joke. I like ya, My name is Tesla or more specifically Nikola Tesla well my current name anyways still looking for a fresh one after laying low all these years"
Tesla and the figure begin to chat before shaking hands.
He begins to help the man by telling him how each of them works… How they function… and What he envisioned for them as his intention, eventually explaining his theories on technologies as well as explaining his current project - AI and Mechanical constructs…
The figure and Tesla chatted before eventually asking him to lower his hooding as he cannot work with such a rude person with a hood in a very sarcastic tone.
As he lowers the hooding, Tempious takes a good look at him before realizing his voice doesn't match his face.
Tempious begins to rub his eyes as he, having a closer look at the figure, realizes that his supposed figure appears to be distorted as it seems he is shifting forms…
He appears as an old man, then a young adult in his 30s, an overweight man in his 50s, a younger woman in her 20s, and so on…
He feels a distorting nauseating feeling as his head begins to split the further he begins to look at him.
It feels like every part of his head is bleeding as he continues to stare at the man before finally his form stops revealing himself.
The current form that he sees looks like the Mediterranean man. His hair and eyes look like the darkest shade of black however his height is massive although he looks quite small. He can not make any accurate assessment of his form as his form feels blurry.
He couldn't stand it anymore before he began to literally bleed from his eyes as his nose gushed out blood before puking out more blood and passing out…
That was our first meeting.
When the hands of fate danced with time.
When I met HIM, My old friend…
What a foolish man I was but it was fun nonetheless
End of Chapter 4 ~ Bitter Memories