《Infarite》


 Prologue : The End of The World as We Know It

    Have you ever wonder, what would an apocalypse looks like?


    Would it be peaceful? Or chaotic?


    Would it local? Or global?


    Would it be natural occurrence? Supernatural? A timed event set by the god?


    What would it be like?


    Those question are answered in humanity mind, with their two eyes. The world has fell into a situation like that.


    An apocalypse, literally.


    Scorched ground, yet also a field of ice scattered on earth. Mountains and hills get shaken, rolled, and destroyed, as it only made from flour.


    Sky changed into a color that made eyes hurt from just seeing it. Air and water has been polluted to not just cause death, but the birth of monstrous being.


    Earth core peek from deep crevice, lava replaced rivers and lakes.


    Civilization fell, and almost so with life.


    Has the time come? Thought by the survivor, who is near dead themselves. Has finally the judgment day come? Our time is up?


    The survivors can only await their demise, as they wondered the cause of the event. However, unlike what was imagined and hypothesized, it was not by god, nor the natural word itself.The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.


    It was by two persons, although it is not quite right to categorize them as the same as other human.


    These two human, seek to destroy each other, fought with a scale that is beyond human.


    One one side stood a male and the other side a female, their feature are hidden with mask, perhaps they use to hide their disfigured face from their ''war''. They fought with all-sort of combat available, from nuclear wars to hand-to-hand combat.


    If someone heard that the apocalypse is caused by two person, they will laugh and say ''it''s impossible''.


    But it happened, through the will to destroy each other, and to survive, they manage to destroy the world with just two pair of hands, and a couple of nuclear, perhaps time-space rifts ripping-one.


    It the moment that human would be able to proud for themselves, although in agony.


    The two ''human'', started clashing again. Their fought with intensity that matched the end of the world. Two forces that seek to destroy each other. Many kind of weapon clashed, destroyed, and replaced. Explosives thrown, but neither of them yield.


    But as they are human themselves, they have something called ''limit''. The male roar and the female screech, they no longer could speak, for their vocal cord has been modified to weapon. After a while, with the earth and the universe has almost reach its peak point of destruction, the sign of the final clash begin.


    The couple fought with their bare hands, martial arts, random fighting, it was all used. They put each other in deadlock, unyielding even to limit itself.


    Shortly, they prepared their truly final attack, readying in the same time, same stance, same distance.


    Same power, that shook the world.


    The fists however, did not lay in their opponent body. But instead, in a body of a young frail girl, standing between the two of them. At the same time, the girl already have pierced a needle to each of them.


    The needle itself is frail, but with all the fight and energy they used, it was enough.


    From the girl, a voice came "Sorry..."


    With two needles, the world ended.

 Chapter 1: Not Your Usual Heros Journey

    In a space full of nothingness, where there are no black or white. The only thing besides the nothingness is a two ''thing'' that are laying down in there. Because there is no point of reference, it was hard to say whether they were laying down or standing, or even flying.


    The first ''thing'', the soul of the male.


    The second ''thing'', the soul of the female.


    The souls of the destroyers of the world.


    They only look at each other, as there are nothing else to gaze at.


    They stare did not contain hatred anymore, they seemed like the tamest creature in the world, it would be hard to imagine them to even hurt each other.


    "It ended, right?" The male said, while still remembering all of his life from the start.


    "Yes, it is." Answer the female.


    "Do you remember?"


    "I do. But it strange."


    "Why?"


    "Why do we fight?"


    "That''s a good question."


    Silence again, as they pondered again. Why would they fight? Why would they destroy the world? What reason possibly made them, a normal human, able to do that? Both of them remember all the years they spend with learning martial arts, upgrading themselves with new weaponry and machines they made. They also study a lot of things that would make others wonder whether they are human or not.


    "Do you remember her?" Said the female this time.


    "I do, she is our dear sister."


    "We owe her." She concluded. The girl is their sister, the cause of their fight, although, they did not know why.


    "Fifth grade, that''s when we first met right?" The male said some random question.


    "Yeah, I remember I was cleaning the class, alone. My ''friend'' went to karaoke and did not invite me. You came to replace the flower and the Blackboard''s eraser."


    "It was actually an assignment for the basketball club, but they left me with the task and threaten me if I tell the teacher about it."


    "Remember in the sixth grade when we were beaten up by the new teacher."


    "Yeah, he almost raped you, and he broke two of our bones. It was close to the time we met her."


    The two talked about their life, each and every sceneuntil they fought each other and destroy the world. They talked as if they were old friends, not an eternal enemy. They started to tell the story of their own achievement, their mastery over various art. They were proud because they achieve the impossible, surpassing human.


    "Remember when you give a speech about the connecting point between religion and science, and proving the presence of the absolute reference point?"


    "You still beat me with the advanced combat manual regarding teleportation."


    "Well, you even achieve world peace!"


    "It was because we were destroying it moron!"


    They laugh, as the world has already passed, so does their worry. Their feeling of regret, horror, or sadness regarding the destroyed world is absent as if it had gone away without atrace.


    "Hey, By the way, do you know where is this?" The obvious question is finally asked.


    "I don''t know, perhaps this is theafterlife?" She replied.


    The moment of silence grew again, as they ran out of topic. But because there is no actual way to know how much time has passed, the wait did not seem long.


    And finally, as if they had been waiting for it. A light came down to the nothingness, with it appeared another ''thing''. The figure greatly resembled a person the pair very familiar with.


    It was their sister.


    "Greetings, brother, sister." She said, staring at the two of themas if waiting for their reaction.


    "Oh, Hi shorty." Answered the male nonchalantly.


    "Hi, Cupcake!" The female also answered her sister.


    "Well, we finally reunited here. First of all, I''m sorry for deceiving you, to made you like this? Although you don''t have human feelings anymore, I''m still sorry." The girl with light bowed "But please forgive me, as I bounded by duty, as the harbinger of the apocalypse."


    The pair also stood up and bowed, which surprised the girl.Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original.


    "We are also sorry, for not realizing it."


    "And we thank you, for selecting us to bring the end of the world."


    After seeing the scene, the girl felt surprisedand amazement. It was the first time she saw somebody thanked her for being her pawn.


    "Hahaha, I knew you guys weren''t normal, from the moment I saw you write ''I want to end the world''"


    "Ah, so that''s why..." The pair finally has their final piece of apuzzle in their mind.


    "Yes, the moment you wrote that with faith, the two of you has entered the script of the world, with you as the ending." The girl explained.


    "So, we end it humanity with our hand, isn''t that kinda cool? Although I kinda feel horrible, but it as I want it myself." The male try to think around why he could destroy the world with his human conscience, but then, it was said that it was scripted.


    "So, we end it, with an epic battle that destroy the scenery, like an action movie." The female pondered again.


    "Yes! Don''t worry about not feeling conscience for killing your own kind. The reason we end the world is because it¡¯s the natural cause, and the soul of the human has been properly organized through the afterlife system."


    The pair still pondered much, they still have a lot of question, before they could speak the girl with light quickly said


    "The reason why I''m here beside to apologize, I also want to give you your pay."


    "Pay?" The pair asked in confusion.


    "Yep! Pay, for your role as the ending of the E-M-6789 semi-scripted world, you have been given the prize of reincarnation and the past memory. You should already savvy with this kind of thing by the kind of literature in your world." The girl explained as if it something casual, although it probably is according to the place.


    "Reincarnation?" As if it a dream come true, to retry a life with theknowledgeof the past.


    "Yes. The two of you are planned to reincarnate in a new world, Farantine, with their past memory, the ability to choose your appearance, but not talent. That about summed it up."


    The two of them just looked at the girl with confusion on their face. They are still new to the afterlife business, Although they got the basic idea, they are still some detail lacking.


    The female asked the girl. "What kind of world Farantine is?"


    "A world of magic and sword, the world where we focus on another kind of the law of theuniverse. Unlike your world, which is a numbered world, exist as an observation and similar to a scripted play, this world is one of the independent worlds with its own pantheon and end. The best way to summed this world is your world fantasy novel become reality." She snapped her finger and suddenly the nothingness around them change into a space they recognize. The outer space itself.


    "The world was actually constructed with thedesign taken from your world and other similar worlds, albeit with anaddition of another kind of energy." She pointed at the star and planet, space object that is familiar to earth. "Now, telling you more would spoil the fun right? Your memory regarding my explanation of this world and several others about afterlife will be erased, to continue preserving the mystery of the afterlife, and I hope you can keep the rest a secret." She then snapped her finger again, and a simple body of a human appeared, she then looked at the pair. "Who want to design their body first?"


    The pair, still in awe from the presentation, looked at the body. They thought about what kind of body they want? What body would give them advantage? But as the information regarding the world cultures and inhabitant were lacking, they could not decide.


    Then the female asked a question to the girl. "Is it possible, for a body to be occupied with two souls?"


    "It''s 100% possible, although it would be like controlling a plane with two pilots simultaneously, there are proof of living being in Farantine that even have 1000 souls in their body."


    "What do you think?" Ask the female to the male.


    "Why do you want to share that body with me? You couldn''t be thinking of something perverted are you?"


    "Why would I! Imagine if one person has two people in it. If we did it right, we could have a person who will be able to multitask easily! Look, assume the world is based on fantasynovels, if we were born there as regular humans, what chance we would have to thrive, let alone survive? This is gonna be the world where preparing strength from birth is important."


    "I see your point, but would we really have theadvantage? Aren''t the mind ability is governed by the brain, not souls?"


    "Don''t worry" The girl suddenly spoke "Creature in this world are having a direct relationship between their spiritual organ and material organ. Somebody soul really affected their strength."


    "See?"


    "Well, then it''s fine. What do you think of the appearance of the body, should it be male or female?"


    The female thought deeply, she did not certain about it. After thinking for a while, she asked the male "Hey, what do you think of an Androgynous human, a little bit more to the feminine side, but the reproductive organ is the male ones."


    "You want to trick people into believing that we are female right?"


    "Exactly."


    "To be honest, that is really a good plan."


    Then they started shaping the body, giving instruction to shape the body from baby to adulthood. The girl reminded them, though, that appearance can be changed because of the world nature.


    They made the body slim and had feminine figure, but not really weird for a man to have naturally. The hair is silvery white. The body feature really looked feminine, where 8/10 people would say that it''s a girl. The eyes are heterochromatic, red on the right, blue on the left, giving the body an exotic feeling. The skin is white as snow, and the face is giving a cute but not to be underestimated charm. After some detail finishing. Their body is done.


    "We finally finish it, how long has it been?"


    "How about we make it a little bit more feminine?"


    "This is already the limit, more than this will really be a girl."


    The pair looked at their future body, proud of their hard work.


    "Then we ready to go!" Shout the female.


    "You really enjoyed this do you?" Answered the male.


    "Then are you ready?" Said the girl with the light.


    "Yes, let''s hurry!" The female said, with an enthusiastic expression.


    "Yeah, I also can''t wait." The male said, with a relaxed voice.


    "I warned you again, although this is a prize, reincarnation is not something to be trifled with. You can die anytime, and I don''t even know where you will be born, especially with a body like this" she looked again at the exotic appearance of the pair''s future body "And you will not be assisted by anything outside of the world."


    "We understand." The pair replied with their own style.


    "And also..." The girl became hesitant.


    "What''s wrong?" The female worried.


    The girl suddenly launched herself to the female and hugged her. The female was a bit surprised at first, but then she understood and hugged the girl.


    "It was so lonely here, you two were a friend of mine." Said the girl. "Please always remember me."


    The male walked to the girl and gave her a hug "Of course, we never forget our little angel."


    The female patted the head of the girl, she then looked at the male who are holding back his tear"You are really giving a brotherly feel."


    "Then you are giving a sisterly feel, both of you..."


    The three of them hugged and cried. Then finally the girl let them go, and prepare to sent them off.


    "Before you go, I have one more prize for you." While saying that, the girl opened a portal and put the body and the pair of souls there ''I''m giving you your first name, Fira."


    With a flash of light, they were reborn.

 Chapter 2: Firstborn

    Calm, almost tranquil atmosphere. That is Vinere, a village on the south of Mure forest. A normal village you can see as a good place for vacation, not counting the possibility of local fauna attacks and some bandits visit. In the place where youngling was rare, a baby was born.


    A baby, with blue and red eyes.


    "Misha, quick! The water!" Said one of the nurses. The house is filled with the baby''s cries. It was quite cramped in there because almost half of the village attend the birth. Children were rare in Venere, and the birth of one is the sign of hopes.


    "Here Dea" Misha handed a bucket of warm water and cleaned the baby.


    "Look Ven, it''s our baby." The mother, who has white long hair and green eyes, said to his husband with a small and weak voice.


    "Yes Mira, it''s a boy! He will be a good-looking one, like me." Ven said jokingly.


    "I hope he won''t be like you, who is scared of his own shadow."


    "H-h-hey! Don''t bring that up here!" Ven became embarrassed due to Mira teasing. Dea gives the baby to Mira, who is noticing the baby red and blue eyes.


    "Hmm? His eyes are strange, it''s different." Said Mira.


    "Oh! Could he be anErea child?" Answered Ven "Erea child usually have different eyes color right?"


    "But Erea children are born with black and white eyes." Mira pondered for a little, before deciding that the matter is not too important, as the baby is healthy and the eye color matched with her and Ven''s. She prayed for the wellness of her child.


    It was soon night, and the village is in a festive mood, because of the children. There are many people dancing, the men are drinking, the women are singing and dancing. The whole village is celebrating the festival of birth.


    It soon reached the climax of the event. The naming of the baby. The parents, together with their baby, stood in front of the chief. The parents wore their ceremonial outfit, a black and white apparel, same with everybody.


    "It was now the time to name the baby of Mira and Ventus, who will succeed the will of this village. Before I declared the name, do the parents want to add a name of their own, or a part of it?" The chief said.


    "I want to give him the name Fira." Said Mira.


    "Then I give him the name Shay." Said Ventus.


    "Then we begin. In the night of the 7th Vila of year 735. I hereby declared, The first son of Mira Inque, and Ventus Niva, will be named Rifira Shay Venere, which mean The mirror of Venere. He will be the one to reflect the nature of our village, a hardworking, smart..." The chief continues his speech until midnight.


    After the festival, everyone went back to their house, drunk men were dragged by their wife and the only one still awake are the guards. Shay slept with his parent, at least they think so.If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.


    ''So this is our new body.'' Shay thought, or to be more accurate, a part of Shay thought.


    ''It feels very weird to have two souls like this, it''s like a Jaeger.'' Another part of Shay thoughtthis one seems more feminine than the other thought.


    ''What should we call each other now? I''m can''t call you Shay right? It''s like calling you me.''


    ''But I am you!'' The feminine thought giggled.


    ''Please don''t repeat that scene''


    ''How about Feminine and Masculine? Or Romeo and Juliet?''


    ''Rejected. How about I call you A and you call me B?''


    ''Okay.''


    ''Wait! I''m just kidding!''


    ''How about using our old name?''


    ''True, why I didn''t think of it earlier. So I will be Ren, and you will be Miwa.''


    ''Are you sure that you are Ren? Not the other way around?''


    ''Please don''t scare me.''


    The two are in a state they never felt before. It''s almost like floating inside of their body. They feel like they are separate yet one. Miwa tells Ren that they should try moving, so they try moving their left leg, but the result is not quite satisfactory.


    ''I feel like we are bound with rope and trying to move to opposite direction'' thought Ren. ''it can''t be helped, we are trying the unknown after all. Normal logic won''t work.''


    ''How about splitting up the task? Right left or up down?'' Miwa said.


    ''I think it will be less efficient...'' Then Ren realized something, in this whole time, they spoke with only their mind, it was so natural that he forgot about it. ''Hey, aren''t we currently talking with our minds? Then won''t the same work with our body?''


    ''What do you mean? You always explain with words I don''t understand.''


    ''It means we have to think as one, yet separate!''


    ''Aren''t we are like that now?''


    ''It''s not the same, we each think as we own the body, not sharing it. To put it simply, we have to train ourselves to know what the others thinking subconsciously. For example, if we want to walk, someone will move one of the legs, the other already prepared the next action, but it must match, so we must train ourselves in it.''


    ''I see...'' Miwa thought deeply, trying to summarize Ren explanations ''So it basically a computer with two processor, we share the workload, but we must in sync while doing so.''


    So they spent the night practicing, making simple movement with the new mindset, they begin to understand each other more. Their movement became more and more refined, but sometimes they still stumble and fall. Months passed, Shay who is still under one year old only spent his day like a usual baby, but not his souls. The village is a small one, according to Ren and Miwa observation. It only has a population of about 54 people, with him as the only children, the next younger would be Shirar the apprentice blacksmith, who is already 14.


    The people seem to speak English, surprisingly the modern one. Ren and Miwa sometimes hear unfamiliar words like Firams, Touriyam, and Piha.


    "Ooh, who''s my little boy? Who''s my little boy" Mira tickled Shay''s body, which caused him to laugh cheerfully?


    Mira and Ventus, Shay''s parents, are farmers. They are very dedicated to their jobs. Usually, Ventus go to the field in the morning, and Mira only helps sometimes, as she needs to take care of Shay. They are what people would call ideal parents, but sometimes...


    "Ah! Shay! I''m sorry I left you in the Barn!"


    "Shay! I forgot I left you in the bookshelves!"


    "Oh! How could I left Shay under the bed!"


    These happen. When this happens, usually Mira will shout looking for her baby while crying in the village, while Ventus try to calm her down.


    ''Ren.''


    ''Yes?''


    ''Mom is dangerous.''


    ''Agree.''


    Ventus is different in handling Shay. He usually carries him in the back with a basket while working. He usually he tells him stories about magic beings like Rinkee, a monkey with deer-like horns that like to hunt alone, or a Jumira, a Huge bear that live deep down in the earth, eating mushrooms. But Shay''s favorite story is about dragons, the king of creatures.


    "A dragon is any being that already receives strength beyond most creature in the world. A creature, once powerful enough, will evolve to a dragon. The shape of the dragon itself varies depend on what creature it was."


    Shay became excited because he wanted to hear more about the world.


    "Wow, do you think he understands my story?"


    "He is a smart child." Said Mira "At least smarter than you."


    "Hahaha, I think it''s true."