'Damn my head is heavy, it's feeling groggy. what was the sound? reincarned? damn my head! it hurts like hell' Well i really had no idea of what i was going through. i couldn't see anything nor could i feel anything around me, it was like i had no body. Only thing i could do was hear and hear. All ears, the ethreal humming made it into my ears, the humming that was as piercing as it was pleasing.
'ugh! i can't take it anymore, goddamn it!' Unable to speak anything, all i could do was scream in my mind and so i did. I screamed into the endless abyss of picth black darkness. Maybe in hope that somebody will come and help. That, somebody will end my suffering.
But nobody came and the suffering continued.
My suffering was constant and sharp. I was sure that it was endless and never changing. but for once perhaps Gods listened to me and that ethereal humming started to die down so did my pain. Soon i could think something at least."
'what is this place, all i see is darkness. it so deep and endless, i see no way out' With pain subsided these thoughts made thier way inside. So alone in that sea of darkness, i started to miss the mind piercing humming. Really it was as piercing as it was pleasing.
Thoughts of that ethereal humming didn't last as i saw a tiny fragmant of light roaming freely in that sea of darkness. I could see?
'A light source? A light source!… wait its getting bigger' That fragment of light was instead a way out, that was expanding, started slowly then expanded rapidly. I felt relieved as the white blanket of light vanquised all the darkness. Soon the dreaded darkness that seemed endless was no more, gone and replaced by pure white of light.
'A tree? … no it;s a pond?… what exactly is that thing. And where exactly i'm right not' Not very far away was a pond, a pond made out of the tree. It was difficult to describe it, atleast for me. It was more like a pond over the tree. A Tree-pond. it was so ethereal and heavenly I couldn't resist but go near it. Big enough, it could bath a bus.
Amazed by the sight of it, i neared my distance, not by walking as i had no legs. Instead i felt like, i had no body but only conciosness, that could travel at will, anywhere.
Reaching the Tree-pond i walked-moved- around it, captivated by the calmness of the stagnat water. No ripples, it was clear as crystal. It was easy to mistook it for pure white prestine crystal without the flow of liquid streams running over branches of tree, as if the branches were sucking it. Circulating throughout all branches those streams were definately reaching the root. It was kind of wonderful and scary at the same time. Adding up to that was never ending resevior of water.
'what exactly is this thing' tempted by the clarity and purity of water, a desire to feel it born in my mind. it was strong way stronger than my desire to seek knowledge about it. And perhaps gods again listened to me, i could see the faded body of mine. The presence of body to eyes was so fragile, it was barely visible. 'it's here! i have my body!.. but why it's so transparent… i wonder if my eye sight is working properly' Little did i know it has nothing to do with my sight.
All done checking my body i turned to it, the tree-pond. Desire to touch it was only ever growing strong with each moment. without waiting a moment, i closed my right hand-thanks to gods- to the surface. The index finger reaching slowly to touch the surface was trembling subtly. Soon my finger was over the pure water, only 1 cm away.
"curiosity kills the cat, they say" suddenly hearing this calm and soothing voice, coming from behind i took back my right hand. Startled, When i turned around my eyes showed me this… this being.
wrapped in stripes of flowing white clothing, his body was transparent and evaporating slowly. it has evaporated up to his waist. The face of this being was rather scary. Two black holes of endless darkness in the place of eyes balls, a pitch black mouth with the upper black teeth melted and fused with lower. A disgusting site indeed. The flowing strips were covering his face, barely enough to hide perhaps even horrible sight.
The sight definitely gave me a mini-heart-attack. But with that being silent and still, prolly waiting for my response in return, I had no choice but to converse. well how else could i get out of here? by asking Tree-pond?
'uh… if you can listen to me, would you like to enlighten with my current situation and a way out?' I definitely stutted there. i was scared of this being, like any normal human would be. But when he spoke, it felt like i was hearing that ethereal humming imparting only pleasure and pleasure. His soothing voice, felt calming and comforting.
"much i can hear, i can understand much more than that, …Zeal" He knew my name, well i was little to no surprise. With an entity of such stature, which seems godly and half devilish, Humm pleasures you, i had other things to get surprised about.
That being continued "where? you will know eventually. But why? that needs explanation" pausing for a moment he glanced at his evaporating body. He was not going to last long and with his expression he perhaps knew that very well.
"I have little to no time left for you, Zeal. But before bidding farewell i must tell you as your father that the living realm can't hold you anymore. As your anchor belongs to someone else now. In human speech, you have died. And from now on you take my place and rule the realm above the living. You will have authority over various concepts of living, but may you misuse this authority, you will perish like me one day"
As i was comprehending those statements he looked at me and smiled through his eyes. His eyes turned from full moon turned to crescent moon, only that the moon was dark.
At this point he evaporated up to his neck. A floating head, and that is scary, would be the only thing remaining if not for those white stripes of clothing flowing around him, creating an image of the body.
"Rest you will know, soon. Now the time has come for me to leave, And for you it's to rise and hold my authority."
He then closed his distance to me. I was scared a little but now at least had some trust, faith that he won't harm me. So i stood there still, looking into his deep dark eyes. well only his eyes were left now as the rest of him perished.
But before he could disappear completely and reduce to nothing i wanted to know, at least one thing about him if not everything. So i asked
'who are you?'
His eyes were smiling, as he looked into mine deeply. And before his final fragment could disappear his voice echoed in my ears, in my mind
"I'M YOU"
I had no idea what he meant by that, it rather sounded cool than being informative. But the next moment, my head felt heavy, my body lifted and my vision was gone. What followed was the painful episodes of cunvolusions. I screamed until my mind went blank and suddenly i could feel nothing. I was at absolute zero. there were no thoughts, there was nothing.
***
Soon the memory fragments of that being triggered and unfolded the mystery behind everything- not really. Those memories were broken and insufficient to know and be able to understand everything. A lot was there i didn't;t know and only a fragment of it was all i had.
But for now it was sufficient. I at least knew about this place and that being i met.
'Fate domain in the God realm' was my current location where he once ruled and
'THE GOD OF FATE' was his title in that domain, that realm. His actual name was forbidden from being used. No memory of it. hah Mysterious to the very end.
He was gone, no more. his legacy was all left behind. me? his legacy? yeah exactly and so what exactly i was? well it was easy to understand, giving me his legacy i was now
'THE CHILD OF FATE' .