Ethereal plane

Well I geuss im a liar

But you probably knew that since this is chapter 2

I really did think I was going to die

But that inevitable

Splat

Never came

As I descended further into darkness I eventually opened my eyes again

Wind rushed past my ears

I fell faster

I was so far I couldn’t even see trias light anymore

I knew that eventually I’d hit something. I just didn’t get why I didn’t yet

I tried to look down

But it was hard with all the wind

Still I happened to get a glimpse of light coming from below

Then suddenly everything to my right opened up

It was only for a few seconds

With how fast I was going but it was a world of Lucius green life

There was a water fall in the distance and it was warm

But craziest thing of all was the dinosaurs that roamed around

Some big and some small

But the scene past quickly

I continued to fall down the endless hole

Until there was another opening to my right

This time it was a desolate land with dead plants that still seemed to flourish and cracks all through the earth

Strange looking humanoids wondered around the treacherous planes

But once again the scene past

This happened a few more times

Each opening would be something even more bizarre

One with bizarre beasts

Another with reptilian , and dragonooid type people eating another smaller race

And the deeper it for the scarier it got

The last 2 planes were the scariest

The 2nd was a plane of monsters ghouls and a scene monstrous land scape

But that couldn’t prepare me for the last one

It wa s a scene straight out of hell

Demons roamed the lands of jagged rocks and pulsating festers

Pools of different unknowns liquids were everywhere and there were demons of all types and sizes

I even saw a large black one standing in something that looked like a graveyard from this distance

It must have been fighting because it released a huge beam of energy that engulfed a distant area in destruction

But once again the scene came and went

That was the last one i saw

Seconds, hours , maybe days passed

I didn’t know anymore, I was thirsty and hungry

Was I even falling?

I couldnt feel my skin anymore due to the wind pressure and my ears popped along time ago so I couldn’t hear a thing

Was I already dead?

Maybe I died instantly on impact?

Maybe I’m hungry and thirsty because I’m in hell?

No this can’t be hell

not after I saw that place …

All of these thoughts went through my head I began to lose my mind slowly but then my eyes adjusted to the darkness

I actually had stopped falling

But into what exactly

It felt as if I was submerged In dark purple water like substance

Except the substance didn’t move like water

It was so restrictive you could barely move an inch but at the same time you floated effortlessly through it in whatever direction you were going endlessly.the tint of the water was so dark the purple almost looked black. There was clearly some light shining down from the surface of the water.

I wondered

“Where am I ? What is this? Why can’t I feel anything”

I tried speaking but no sound came out, i tried moving but I felt nothing .

I didn’t even feel my heartbeat .

I suddenly realized I didn’t even feel hungry or thirsty anymore.

And even more I couldn’t feel myself breathing. I was clearly underwater. I could see a light above the surface. But I never knew I was even under water til now and I was breathing normally. But now I I started to doubt I was even breathing at all. I sort of panicked thinking that mayb I would run out of breath but that eventually seems silly to me since I couldnt even tell if I was breathing in the first place plus it never happened. I didn’t suffocate or even feel the slightest bit of dizziness. I continued feeling nothing.

At this point I figured that mayb I did die

Or even worse

I figured that I would drift endlessly through this nothingness for eternity

I didn’t sink but I didn’t rise either.

I had now way to steer or direct myself to the surface so all I could do was lay here

So I did

Time passed by

Or maybe it didn’t

In a place like this time doesn’t even seem real

Nothing does

And with that I have caught you up to the present everything from here is just as new to you as it is to me

So here i am

I floated through the nothings at the bottom of the endless hole

I had nothing but time to think about my life

I contemplated all the mistakes i made

All the chance i should have took

But I knew that even if i could have it wouldn’t have worked out for me. Nothing ever does.

Except for in one place

I realized i might have been blessed with the best solution ever

Since i always had a rough life i loved when night time came because i could venture into the land of dreams where anything was possible . In my dreams I could be GOD. Where i got EVERYTHING i wanted.

So once again i closed my eyes and began to dream.

I lived in my dreams happily imagining anything I wanted. Reimagine my life the way it should have been. Even throwing in some useful abilites… well more like overpowered abikites. It was the best time. I felt truly alive for once. I was always a dreamer, and I prided myself in a “special ability” I called it.

Well it wasn’t so special I’m sure other could do it. But I could control my dreams. Even in deep sleep I would contain my consciousness and control the way I wanted my dreams to be . It’s what made dreaming so fun for me, but up in the real world I was limited , I would have to wake up at some point, but now my imagination can run wild .

There was barely a difference between me having my eyes open or closed it was just as dark so it was easy to submerge myself in my sub-consciousness and dream away.

so i did.

I dreamed An endless dream

That is until

I hit something …..

“Hey watch where your goin”

The voice was strange. It sounded as if a man and woman were speaking in unison .

I was deep in my dream so i assumed it was a mistake of his brain but the voice spoke again abruptly waking me up

‘Huh did I hit something , I thought this place was empty and I was having such a nice…. Wait what the hell’

I thought. But I opened my eyes

to see something i never imagined

A giant hooded figure sat with its legs crossed, elbow on its leg and its hand balled up propping his chin up like the thinker statue.

It’s hand was bony like a skeleton but the face was hidden behind the shadows of the hood

“And who might you be?” Said the giant figure

“I…uhhh….my name….umm….kai …..what ….I mean who are you?”

“Who me my a name is athius”

“And umm….no disrespect but what might you be.”

“I am a primordial”

“Huh a primordial what’s that?”

As he said this he realized the person was getting further away, he wondered why but than it occurred to him that he was still in the water. But now he was on the surface. He could tell be cause his sense had returned. He could feel the water on his back it was thick and heavy like he was on a water bed of some sorts.

The light from before was brighter nut still very dark . It was emanating from a dark purple sun high In the sky…or darkness I geuss you could say. The sky was pitch black, the sun seemed to only emanate light down onto the water but that was all. I looked around to see an endless ocean of this water. There was only me and the being.

I saw that the being wasn’t moving at all even though he was ontop of the same water

“Hey you mind helping me out I want to continue our converstion but I’ll keep floating away.”

I asked him

“Ahh Ofcourse you wouldn’t be able to control the ethereal plane.”

The being waved there free hand and Kai stopped immediately his body than began to slowly slide back to his position in front of the giant being. Once there he stopped and didn’t move

It felt as if he was locked in place but now he could move his body freely

He turned from laying down to sitting up like the being

It felt weird using water as a solid surface but I did it.

“So as you were saying what is a primordial and you called this place the ethereal plane”

“Yes I am a primordial being , you have heard of gods yes?”

“Yes I have”

“And you know that above gods are the ancients ?”

“Yes I have never seen them before but we have been taught about them”

“Well above those beings are celestials and finally above them is oldest and strongest of them all the primordials”

“So you are 3 ranks above the gods”

“Yes that should give you an in inkling of my ability and background

“I can I get what you are , a really old god basically , but what exactly is this place u said ethereal plane or something right”

“Correct this is the ethereal plane, an ever expanding dimension of primordial fluids known as aether and nether. But at the same time is my original form . The form you see now in front of you is a physical manifestation of this void a person”

“Ok your saying a lot of things I don’t know now what this aether and nether u speak of. And if this place is you does that means it is alive and has its own will.”

“Aether would be the primordial “lightside” to all of existence while nether would be the “dark side”.”

“Ah I see so they are like 2 sides to the same coin. Yin and Yang”

“Correct. And to answer your second question yes and no. While this essence does have a will its own it does not act as a mortal being would.”

“I don’t get how a space could have a will. But if this place is a mixture of light and dark why is there no light in here everything is dark and murky”

“Ahh great perceptiveness. That would be because everything that is comes from that which isn’t”

“What”

“Something has to come from nothing right?”

“I mean I geuss but I don’t really see how.”

“You humans have a saying that goes , what came first the chicken or the egg. But with either choice it doesn’t explain how the chicken or egg got there in the first place. If the chicken was first how was it born. If the egg was first where did the egg come from. The answer is Simple . It came from nothing.”

“That makes no sense at all how can something come from nothing.”

“Just think of it this way ,everything that is known was once unknown. With time everything changes, the past is full of ideas that the present will never get to see and the same can be said for the future . Things are learned and forgotten, new ways are learned and forgotten again. In the same way , Everything that is something was once nothing . And from that nothing, creation is inspired once again. That is why everything here is void of creation because this is the natural state of things until change occurs.”

“That’s a little easier to understand but I get it nonetheless. So that leaves me to my last question . Why are you here.”

“Ahhh. It is could ask you the same now couldn’t i”

“Well how about you go first then I’ll share” I said back to him noticing the hint of a personality although it said it doesn’t have act lik a human

“Sounds like a fitting deal to me . Hmmm where should I start. Well I’ll give a quick review since i have been alive since before the beginning of time. This may also may give you insight on why I say this place has a will of it’s own. My life story is of god who never got what he wanted.”

‘Hey this sounds familiar’ I thought

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