I died again?

‘Hey this sound familiar’ I thought but h me continued

“Since the day I was born I was lucky but at the same time unlucky. On the day of my birth when i popped into existence I was all alone. There was nothing. I had neither a physical or spiritual body . I was simply a consciousness that awakened amongst the nothingness. For a while a continued amongst the vast emptiness never knowing the possibilities of my potential. Then one day I had a thought. ‘Why am I alone if I had consciousness surely there could be others’ so I searched myself for anything anyone with consciousness. Ofcourse what would I find is nothing. Just as I gave up hope a light sparked amongst the infinite darkness. It shown brighter than anything I had ever seen although I’d seen nothing . It was beautiful. I was scared my darkness would suffocate it but it continued to shine . I tried to convey messages to this new thing, but it did not respond, after an unknown amount of time I finally heard it .

“Hello is anyone there, I’ve been alone forever I wish I had someone to speak to , this infinite nothin is unbearable”

I was a little hurt that it Called me unbearable even though I had been trying to communicate this entire time . No matter how much I wanted I could not speak . How this ball of light was able to achieve it I could not understand. So I sat and watched. Everntually the light shaped itself into a form more easier to move in then did something unexpected. Itbegan to vibrate violently and within seconds it split into 2 . With the splitting of the light one got brighter and changed colors from white to orangish white , while the other ball had a different color and took a dark black appearance with white spirals of energy sprinkled across its membrane. They then spoke

“Hello “ light energy

“Hello” responded the dark energy

“What is this”

“This is conciousness, I have split myself into 2 parts so that I was no longer alone.”

“Consciousness? So there is just me you and nothing.”

“Yes. So what shall we do.”

“I don’t know I was just born there is nothing to do is there.”

“Well I took the infinite space within me to create you so I could use more of my energy to create things to put into your domain.”

The dark energy agreed . And they began working. The light energy created planets , stars, moons, animals and lots of species to live within them. The dark energy held all of this within himself and watched over the endless creations of his partner in astonishment. The things light created were so beautiful . Even I could see that. But one day the dark energy changed . Or maybe it was within him from the beginning but one day he was watching over a planet. Which had risen in population ti the point where people could no longer live comfortably and they were beginning to look sickly .

At the time death was not a thing so these creatures would continue suffering for eternity . As a kindness the dark energy used his darkness to consume the souls of the creatures that were sickly as to end their suffering but in doing so it corrupted the dark energy. It took an immediate liking to the feeling of death . After that it began coming up with excuses to purge planets and life across his domain. Light energy was to busy creating so she didn’t see anything . I knew she needed to be warned before all of her creation went to waste but i couldn’t talk. As I was watching the light energy create a new star I said to myself “what a shame” and the light energy stopped what it was doing and turned around. It looked around for the source of the voice it heard.

Than I thought again “wait can it hear me”

The light energy looked around more frantically and then said

“That voice is unfamiliar you aren’t dark energy who are you and where are you.”

I was suprised I doesn’t know why but i could speak. I told her about how I was the infinite nothingesss and how i been watching and trying to contact it for the longest but couldn’t .

It responded with “that’s weird once I wanted to do something I could just do it I wonder why a being older than myself could not.”

“Maybe it was because I was older but ignoring that there is something you should know. Dark energy is spreading darkness throughout your creation destroying things and causing death.”

“Death? What is that.?”

“He is ending the lives of your creatures”

“What how dare he what has gotten in to him”

It immediately darted off to go to dark energy. When they met dark energy had corrupted half of the creations up until now. He was moving at tremendous speeds. Light was distraught at what she seen and enraged she lashed out at dark energy. They clashed in a battle of light and dark. Energy leaked out and flung from there battle effecting existence in multiple ways.

In the end they used up all of their energy fighting and both of them lost their physical form . The resulting damage existence was severe. The energy’s release from the battle gave birth to a multitude of new beings later called the primordials. These powerful beings immediately had sentience and were completely omnipotent. Their knowledge me of everything that happened before there brith was incredible. They were born and immediately started working on the universes like it was their purpose.

“Hey I thought u said you were going to shorten this.” I said realizing it was going to be a long story although I wasn’t in any rush

“Ahh yes let me skim ahead then. Well you see after millennia passed by there were now gods primordials celestials and ancients .And although they all achieves forms I still had not . As much as I wanted it I never got it.

Then one day when I least expected it happened I jus spawned in. I was suprised . Although I had been watching everything it was always from an omniscient perspective. First person was a new experience. My body was humanoid , the most common body type in this era. I spawned in on a planet that was green and lush with water and abundant life. I went up to the nearest ponds and looked at my reflection. I was quite a sight to behold . My face wasn’t distinct . I couldn’t tell if I was a man or woman . And my arms and body was made of bone . No flesh or organs. I could feels and taste nothing but I could see hear smell. Although ur wasn’t perfect it was a body .

I was happy enough for what u got no matter the reason . I began exploring, I didn’t need to eat or sleep , and eventually I learned how to control basic things like the environment and my own body, I learned to fly fairly easily too. Whenever the situation arose the ability would just show itself, I was able to move through the Universe with complete omnipotence. Soon I met other gods. They could tell I was a god but not how old due to the lack of energy I gave off. Plus they were young gods they wouldn’t know about the void only primordials would. Still they welcomed me. As I lived amongst the gods I could tell how twisted some could be and figured it was a result of the dark energy released during the fight .

No matter how old I was they all treated me like a new young god and I allowed it due to the fact I couldn’t do much otherwise they all had greater powers than i did atleast that’s what I thought . One day an anomalie appeared. A massive black hole opens up in the middle of the planet axis a planet of gods , the anomalie completely wiped out every god there except one . Me . Immediately my power reacted and completed revived every living thing in the planet. Even more suprising I was able to completely nullify and absorb the anomalie. I don’t know why my abilities activated . I didn’t have much attachment to the gods so I wasn’t particularly upset that they died. So I don’t get what the catalyst was to activate my abilities. Still I assumed the gods would be happy and finally give me my respect after saving them but it wasn’t the reaction I expected. They were afraid and frightened of my power. Up until that point they believed I was a minor god But my manipulation of the universe showed that i was a primordial which the gods feared. Not because primordials were violent towards god but simply because their egos wouldn’t let them submit willingly to being that was so much stronger. Although in most cases gods acted mannerful in front of ancient beings and above they resented them, feeling as if they should be the most perfect and powerful beings.

The fact that a primordial saved them all stuck at their core. They couldn’t accept it . Over the next year I had hundreds of attempts on my life. But everytime a god attempted to kill me my power would activate on its own and protect me in some way . After realizing I was to powerful to kill they all devised a plan.

One day I was exploring . I had gotten use to activating lower level abilities that most gods could use and I saw a minor god that was being attacked by a mystical beast so I decided to put my abilities to good use for a defenseless god. but when I did the magical beast turned into another god and they both jumped onto me and held me down. I tried to resist but all of a sudden I couldn’t use any abilities. Right now when I wanted to use them most I could not. Other gods popped out from the back ground and 2 had an item called godbox.

A godbox had enough energy to eliminate an entire universe . With the 2 god boxes the gods focused there energy into it amplifying it’s ability. with the energy from the godbox they expelled me from existence into this ever expanding nothingness. I was trapped. Or more like banished back to my original state. Although now It atleast has a seperate space. I can still watch the universe as I please but I can’t interact with it. I have been here for another millennia or 2 since then watching over the world waiting for you.”

“Huh wait what waiting for me .”

“Yes . My apologies for pretending to not know you before I figured it would be easier than me acting as if I have known u for years but I knew you were coming, I have been watching you , my savior “

“Savior what do u mean , I’m jus lt a human with horrible luck.”

“No as I have said I have been watching you . Your life is heavily connected to the ethereal plane even before you got here. Your existence alone is meant to bring balance.”

“ More like disaster. Everywhere go something bad always happens to someone else but good to me . And even though it’s good it’s never what i want”

“That is the will of ethereal plane. It always provides what is needed., not what is wanted. I figured that out after a millennia of waiting down here. How you may wonder ? Well I thought about it . my ability always acted in way that protected me providing any ability I needed in order to do so but not only that using the ability to react to whatever situation occurred .I thought that I could use these abilities at free will but to no luck .

Soon I realized though that the ability also naturally protected the world around us as well . After coming here my body began releasing ethereal aura. That is everything you see here the darkness that you float in , No world could withstand this aura emanating from me. Any more time there and I most likely would have killed everything around me even the universe I was in. I don’t believe it was any coincidence I was sealed here. In order for that to happen the gods had to realize I was a primordial and in order for that to happen I had to excercise a huge amount of power in front of them . I strongly believe the ethereal plane which at the time resides solely inside of me willed for the anomalie to occur and also willed for me to be helpless when I was attacked by gods. It knew what it meant for me to stay in the real world and decided it was time for me to leave. At any rate the ethereal plane decided my life and just as easy decided yours , no matter what the ethereal plane was leading you here , keeping you alive , for this very moment .”

“But why I don’t get it you’re stuck here just as much as me so how am I a savior.”

“Ahh yes but you did come in here did you not ? So you must also be allowed to leave. As a matter of fact I have already seen it all”

“You’ve seen it ? Meaning you know the future?”

“Yes. This place is similar to a void there is no time or matter here all that resides here is nothing. The ethereal plane exists outside of space and time . Actually I can’t exactly say it exists because it’s literally the nothingness that surrounds all of existence. From here I have access to everything that has been or everything that will be meaning I also have access to everything that is. That is the true ability of ethereal plane.”

“So what I had no other choice but this path my fate was decided from the start.”

“Sorry to say but yes. Everyone and I mean everyone in this world has the ability to fight fate . Due to the fact that everyone has different paths, timelines you could say do to different decisions that they have or it could have made .”

Athius waved its hand again and different timelines of different beings showed all around the plane like flat screen tvs . Then it changed to show lines with names in them representing timelines. Each line branches off in differnt spots changing into millions of different lines representing the different possibilities of their lives.

“Anything is possible for anyone . Except us. We are directly tied to the thing that governs all of existence there fire our path was and always will be decided”

He swiped his hand again and showed my timeline.

It didn’t branch off into millions of different parts like the others. It was a straight line , that never changed its course once.

I was in disbelief I couldn’t believe what i was hearing or seeing .My life was already decided.

That’s when I saw my line began to branch . I was stunned I thought that nothing would ever change but then lines slowly but surely began to spread into its own tree of life.

“What what is that I thought you said…”

“Well that is up until now.”

It touched its finger at the point that begins the branching of the timeline.

A large flatscreen like hologram came up showing in real time everything that was happening at the moment . It showed me and ethiruis looking at ourselves at a flat screen hologram with the same scene on it, continuing an infinite amount of times like the illusionary mirror kai tings you see in museums.

“That’s us right now . Are you saying this moment is what changes everything.”

“Precisely. Up until now no matter what you were meant to only make it to this point . And after that your life becomes your own. I wonder what changes.”

“Me to I thought I would die but it looks like I won’t , why do I get to choose a path.”

“Not quite let me show you something else .”

Another timeline popped up that said Athius. I thought gods lines would be long and infinite . Unlike the human lines that eventually stopped on all of the branches. But for athius his line was the same as mine. It was long and straight , no branches, way longer than mine but the only dinference was that his eventually stopped .

“Wait how is that possible . I thought gods don’t die , especially primordials.”

“Hmm maybe you don’t se the comparison.”

He moved the two time lines next to each other and that’s when it hit me .

Athius’ timeline stops right where my timeline begins to branch off .

Does that mean he is going to die here becaus of me.

“You said I was your savior . What exactly did you mean .”

“It seems you’re catching on . It was very nice this time we spent here chatting but as you probably have already deduced this is where my life ends. And it’s fine with me . I’m tired of living this eternal life , devoid of outside contact. I would rather live one within another”

Athius said this with deep longing as eyes directed at me

“I still don’t get what im supposed to do . I’m just a mortal I can’t kill you and even then if you couldn’t leave what makes you think I will be able to.”

“No worries on any of that I will handle the first half and from the the ethereal plane shall handle the rest.”

“What does that meannn”

“I will sacrifice myself and merge our souls. This will imprint a primordial soul onto your human body. While normally this wouldn’t be possible , it should work due to your connection with the ethereal plane.”

“ Are these all theories or are you sure?”

“You have already seen your future and you doubt still.”

Heidi said sighing heavily

It’s right I already saw that I atleast make it past this point. I definitely saw some branches that came to a stop so it is entirely possible for me to still die . But ….atleast it isn’t yet. I also saw a branch that didn’t end at all so if I make the right choices I could……

“Ok I get it now. But are you sure this is what you want to do.”

“HA HA HA have you learned nothing during our time here. It isn’t about what we want …it never was .”

The towering figure reached down towards me . It pointed its bony index finger onto my chest on the opposite side of his heart. Then he touched his other finger to his own heart.

“This is farewell for now. I can’t wait to see the choices you make from here on . Let’s explore this vast existence…together.”

At that moment something shook my entire core . My heart began beating at an insane rate.

‘Shit my heart is going to fast I can feel in throughout my entire body’

Then he realized it wasn’t just inside his body , the entire realm was beating. At first the 2 beats were off . Then slowly they began to harmonize until finally ……

Athius voice echoed throughout the eternal darkness

“Attempt Succesful

Souls synchronized”

Then everything went silent

My heart stopped beating and so did the world.

Once again I died.

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