《These Spaces in Time》


 A Glimpse in Time

    Blood splatter on the floor. Dried, dark blood. Just like stars having lost their brilliance and life. Just like the starry sky shining upon it but devoid of all that made that same sky the wonder of all intelligent species. Life slowly leeking out of my body, I lost my sight in the abyss of lights above me. Deep slumber was slowly creeping on my exhausted self, like it had so many times before, these last few years. I was yet again falling asleep somewhere inappropriate. Perhaps my cute devil of a sister wasn''t going to wake me up this time... Perhaps...If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    I cry as I watch the sombre procession of people, and my father, mother and sister march towards the ending ceremony. I cry for everything I had lost, everything I had sacrificed, and these acursed memories of a life I had now lost too... these so many people, all of which I had spent time with, all of wich I had forgotten, then remembered. I Reminisce over the times, the oh how good and simple times I had spent with just as many people, people that I had left. For nothing.

 Chapter one : A Pillar in Time

    One word : What the F...


    Okay, maybe more than one.


    That, pretty much described my train of thoughts accurately. In fact, it was exactly the words, and the only words going through my mind as my poor little brain cells tried to analyse the endless sea of... Messages? Signs? I didn''t quite know what to make of the small blue incorporeal squares with text in them.


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    You have successfully gained the Title [Creator of the System]


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    You have successfully gained the Title [Creator of Life and Death]


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    You have successfully gained the Title [Creator of Universes]


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    The Universe you have created is currently called [Thenia] by the majority of it''s population. Do you want to rename it [Bordom Land]?


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    WHAT? NO! Who would want to call it that? WHY?


    Slowly the rush of the weird screens faded, and I started recalling that I was somewhere unknown, sitting on a weird greenish moss that grew on the rocky soil. No, that was inaccurate, I was recalling that i didn''t remember ever being in known space, no matter how hard I tried. That frustrated me to no ends, I could feel that it was not spposed to feel so... empty, but could not get why.


    I looked around, grasping all of a sudden the precarious situation I was in, as my sitting spot was made clear. I was on a small hill, overlooking a giant sea of strange mangled trees that eerily resembled snakes weaving themselves together, slowly growing thinner as the mass grew taller. How had I even ended here? Nothing looked remotedly like a road or path around here.


    Shadows and streaks of light were playing in the dense woods around me, and I noticed that the clearing around the small hill was way too neat, almost... artificial. An omnious feeling was slowly starting to build up inside me, tendrils of fear and doubt taking root in my chest.Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions.


    *Squish*


    My heart leaped into a sprint when I heard a scruching sound coming from my right. I had jut enough time to see a flash of blueish light before a sword embedded itself ito my chest. I knew life was coming to an end, not even the tingle of the wind, or the scraping of my rough clothes could be felt anymore, as if it had been turned off with a switch. Why did this happen to me, i thought. Why did it have to be now? I had so many more questions. Why? a tear escaped my left eye and ran down my cheek, slowly falling... until it stopped and a multitude of those blue things apeared in front of me.


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    Before I could read them, I felt my body slipping, and shortly after, about a meter away from where I was initially sitting, sudently I felt tangible once again. My tear continued its course and I could feel it dropping where a sword should have been. Sweat pooled on my front when I lowered my gaze, to find that my only wound, if you could call it that, was a small, precise slit in my shirt. Looking once again to the place where I was sure my fate would have abandonned me, I found the origin ofmy demise, or at least my almost demise? But how did a sword come flying from that obsc...


    "Hey!"


    Once again my heart jumped in fright, and my head turned to find a surpisingly beautiful girl in some kind of leather uniform covered in blood, grapling a ...fiend, for lack of a better word, that vaguely ressembled a wolf, with her bare hands.


    "A bit of help would be apreciated" she said, rather nonchalantly, considering she was struglingwith a beast I would probably have nightmares about for years.


    I stood up,took the sword now lying on the ground, and briefly noted it''s dazzeling white blade with blue reflections to it before turning, walking the ten or so meters to the loving couple, and bashing rather crudely the creature''s head with the sord until it bore more resemblance to a squashed jelly fish than a head. I slowly looked on the ground around the scene and saw all of the little blood droplets I had spread. I chuckled, "just like stars without light". The last thing I saw was a shocked, then frightened look an the girl''s face. Than...


    I fell, I remembered, and I felt.


    I felt pain.