Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-30781993-20161218154118

''Father, then eats me whole. I am crushed by his teeth,''

I feel all my bones breaking, disintegrating into nothing

more than a mash of tissue and bone fragments.

my body is no longer, but that doesn't matter.

I open my eyes, I am lost in a land, which is very foreign to me.

Not knowing how I came to be here.

The sky is rose-red, and all looks as if it was covered by a shadow.

As if this is how the world always was, but

we just couldn't see properly with our faulty vision.

Standing in front of a tunnel, I decide to traverse it,

only God knows where it will lead me.

I don't have a choice, feeling strong attraction to it.

The tunnel, seems infinitely long, and absolutely dark.

Are my eyes open or not?

I can't tell.

I reach the end after what seemed like days,

and walk into a room, where I meet 3 people.

The tunnel closes behind me, leaving only a solid wall.

I cannot go back.

I see two men and a woman.

The first man is quite in shape, and healthy looking, the other man is fat and repulsive.

The petite woman looks so gentle and scared, I feel that she shouldn't

be in this ugly space and time that we've all ended up in, for a reason unbeknownst to us.

I cannot stand the awkwardness and uneventfulness of not knowing what is going on.

I walk out of the building.

Following my inner voice, I begin exploring this strange reality

I've been woken up into.

The outside space looks, not much to my surprise, different.

Not similar to any landscape I have

ever seen on earth, or basically, anywhere.

It resembles Mars, red rocks everywhere I look,

the sky is dark red, without any pretty clouds to look at.

The pathway, leading from the first building,

continues downhill in a spiral, to the fountain.

I then notice small, abandoned

houses all around, which seem very sinister, and uninhabited. I

walk closer to the fountain. Instead of spewing out water,

like fountains do, this one, is leaking gas.

I don't think much of it, as everything seems to be backwards here anyways.

I light it up using a lighter I have with me.

The stream of gas is set alight, resembling a giant torch.

This satisfies me.

Up ahead, stands a giant Cathedral,

it doesn't look like any buildings from our world,

though, reminded me of old gothic churches, but ten-fold bigger.

Approaching it carefully, I walk trough the gates.

As I enter the Cathedral, I see an indescribably giant, colossal

being, with a human head, its body covered in a blood-red skirt.

I am stunned.

It then, reveals to me its true form,

it stands up, and its skirt disappears.

I see a huge entity of human form, jagged, old,

like a titan from Greek mythology,

with human hand sticking out of its true hands,

human legs sticking out of its giant legs, and the head

surrounded with many smaller heads. This is the

most unsettling of all the limbs, as the big, featureless, burned looking

head, is covered with many smaller ones, growing from its neck, all the way to the shoulders,

screaming in agony, which I can't hear, only see, and judge by the expressions.

The Entity speaks.

It reveals to me that it is

going to die soon, it will cease to exist.

The Being is ancient, and weak, it needs a replacement, a new God.

Then, I understand.

Reason behind us 4 being here. A simple competition-

victor, would become a new God, acquire immortality, but,

most importantly, the ability to give life, and to change time and space,

The Being explained.

Entity, which I will from now on call He, is satisfied,

that I started the journey to find him as the first one, the others are nowhere

to be found, most likely still being in the first building. Too scared

and confused, to even have the desire to find their reason behind

their presence in this realm. He then gives me an ability, which the others don't deserve.

I am given a partial power to give life, but not to people. That

is His and only His power, no one other than Him can use.

I am only able to breath life into the unliving, harvesting its

nature, which I can shape and use however I want. He then stops

talking, and I know there is nothing else to be said. And so I leave the cathedral.

I wasn't told how to win, or what to do, the whole process of the competition is unknown

to me. I decide to look around, as time is irrelevant here, I have plenty

of time for anything I want to do, feeling no hunger, thirst,

or tiredness. I again, encounter the fountain, I think about breathing

life into the flame.

I approach the flaming structure, and put my hands to it. The flame does not

burn my hands at all, I form it into a ball of fire, which

I bring to life. It works, I can control and shape it,

which is always here for me to do whatever I want with it.

I have the power of fire.

Walking around the area surrounding me, I

notice a rock, immediately, it stands out from all the other red ones.

It is a stone, like we have on earth, dark grey, and very tough.

I cannot form it into a ball and make its properties

available to me.

Then it strikes me.

Even stone can be melted, with a high enough temperature.

I begin melting it, a rock the size of my fist,

it doesn't take long before I can safely pull the orange-hot melted

glob from the rest of the stone. Forming it into a ball is easy,

and as I bring it to life, it spins, and I know that it would be mine to use

from this point on.

Not far from where I stand, I see an area, surrounded by a big stones fence, standing guard

over it. Curiosity takes over me, and I walk to it.

I think of what could be behind the blockage, and I

break it with ease- I have control of earth after all.

With a loud explosion, pieces of rock fly all around me, and I can

see what is so important, that it had to be guarded.

A huge pit, that is so deep, I can't see the bottom of it.

My curiosity is yet not satisfied. I take a step forward, setting my

weightless body into a state of pure bliss- falling faster and

aster every second into the endless void. I have no fear.

I cannot not be stopped.

Opening my eyes is useless. I don't know if they are open or not,

because everything is pitch black anyway.

The pit's bottom is covered in water.

Water.

Forming a ball of the liquid primal element, I again, breath life into it,

making the lifeless, lifeful, fluid, shapeable, controllable.

It is not a problem to get out of the pit now, there is enough water

Around to lift me all the way up from where I made the leap of faith.

The stream of water is so strong, I am up in seconds. Now, I realize,

that I would be the one to win, more than ever.

Only one of us can be the victor, I have to do what has to be done.

I set my way back to the first building.

The 3 are still there when I return.

What?!

One of them wields fire, the woman makes water flow all around her,

and the fat one uses his hands to play with the earth,

forming various structures from the red stone.

They already have what I do.

I don't understand.

They didn't even leave the building, and already have control over the elements.

Wait.

If they didn't leave the building yet, how could have they acquired the same abilities as I have?

They couldn't. This must mean we've been given control in the beginning, when we got here.

There are four elements.

Fire, water, earth, wind.

All are acquired, except for wind.

That is missing.

I am the one who was given wind in the beginning.

I start laughing, it is that simple.

They don't understand.

But I do.

I have everything,

while they don't even know why they are here.

I laugh hysterically.

I tell them about everything. About Him.

About the Cathedral, about the fountain,

about the off-looking rock, and I tell them of

the giant pit of water, and about the reason we're here.

They do not laugh. I see envy in their eyes.

They want what I have.

But they cannot have it, it is too late for them.

Knowing the truth, means that this competition ends for them.

They reached the final line, and there is nothing that can be done.

Telling them everything, there is no way, I can let them be free now.

They lost.

I want more.

I crave more.

I leave the building, and the 3, encaged in solid air none of them had control over

which was mine from the very beginning, without me even knowing.

The air around them is their prison, so light, yet impenetrable.

Reason behind this, are the strange and senseless rules that

are in place here, in the land where nothing works like on earth, where

physics is just a value-less word, and where the only one thing that makes sense-

is the desire to own all that is there to own. Absoluteness.

I set my way to the cathedral. I want to see His greatness.

To feel His eternal presence.

But it is not yet the time. I still don't have enough.

As I walk towards the Cathedral, I notice an area behind it.

Finding elevated platforms flowing in the air, forming a staircase,

to the sun, and the moon in the sky.

I do not know what this means,

but it surely has to mean something, as nothing in this realm is meaningless.

Father wants it to be like this

Then I realize. Light. Darkness. Two basic properties of existence.

Where there is one, the other's missing. If only I could have the power

over them. Over the primal duality of everything that ever was,

and that will ever be.

I come closer. I notice the warmth of the sun, and coldness and emptiness

of the moon, its twisted twin.

Accepting the power I acquired by making these two part of

my being, made me transcend from a mere mortal, to a higher being.

,,Am I still human? What does it mean, to be human?

To be fragile and weak, incapable to change the bad and the wrong

in one's life, to feel that there is nothing one can do

to escape, surrounded by endless misery and meaninglessness at all times?

I am not like this anymore.

Then, I am not human at all.''

It is now the time to visit Him, my Father.

Standing in front of the gates for the last time, I feel a sense of doubt.

Were my actions correct? Have I fulfilled his expectations,

was this what he wanted from me?

Then, I hear it.

The crackling of fire, the sound of ripples of water bumping into one

another, and the heavy thumps on the ground behind me.

Turning around, I am not surprised.

They escaped from their cages. He has one last test for me.

After all, He has to be sure I am the right one to lead the

course of time and existence across eons, that are to come.

They, merged into one.

Stone skeleton, blazing hot with a flame of red, steaming profoundly,

as the fluid water and red fire cancel one another, combining into one, becoming harsh water

vapor, which irritates even from distance.

It is here. It is now, without any ever,

it has to happen.

I feel bad for them.

They can't ever succeed, the

result will always be the same.

But it has to happen.

Intense light shines from the eye sockets of the stone being,

screaming in agony of being blinded by the heat and light

of the sun in his skull. He feels pain and dies, because he is still human.

But I am not.

Only three of us remain now. They lost their skeleton, which held

them together, unifying them into one, now, the two are separated, and  weak.

Woman knows her fate.

She understands that however hard she tries, this is the end of her,

any tries and struggles to keep existing, are futile.

She understands.

Running towards the pit, she throws her body in the air, only the

void surrounds her now, there is no going back.

Falling into the emptiness,

dying while she is still alive, like humans do all the time.

She gave up before she even tried.

She will drown.

Because she's human.

But I am not.

The Man aflame remained.

He is strong.

In order for fire to burn, it needs air, a slight breeze keeps the

fire well fed, and it can continue to burn, as long as there is something

to burn. His fire burns red hot, the Man's dedication,

strength, and hope, are the fuel. He has what the others didn't,

he has a vision. Maybe he knows his fate like the woman did, but he

won't stop, as long as he doesn't reach his end.

But now, he has reached it.

Like breeze keeps the fire burning, a gale can get rid of it.

Two sides of the same coin, one can help, the other, can kill.

Kill the Man aflame.

And the Figure ablaze is no longer burning.

He is not the only one who has the power of flame.

The man stripped of his warm blanket, that kept him clothed,

now stands naked, powerless, and defeated.

Now, he understands.

There was no chance, doom was his destiny.

The outcome was set right at the beginning.

If the Man had listened, to the voice deep down, screaming

to him to go find his reason, left what he knew,

and tried to give this twisted realm a chance from the start,

maybe he would have been a rival to me.

What has happened can't be changed, only The Father can swap the course of time.

The man stands still, waiting for his end.

I walk towards him.

He knows.

I touch his chest with my arm,

and set his heart aflame.

He is grateful. A tear of happiness falls

down his cheek, I granted him, what he couldn't accomplish himself,

and now, he breaths for the last time, feeling the warmth of slowly

drifting to sleep, for eternity.

The fire hurt him, because he missed something major.

It is said that fire is a good slave, but a bad master.

He took what he had from the start as granted, making himself

the slave, I had acquired it myself, I was thus, the Master.

He died because he brought his humanity here with him, clinging to it,

not letting go. He died because he remained human, didn't do the

necessary to become free.

But I am not human.

And I am free.

The time has come, and Father is waiting for me.

He won't be there for long, his mission has ended. Seemingly

eternal, nothing lasts forever, and even He reached the borders of

His power, as the ruler of existence.

I walk trough the gates of the Cathedral one last time, before it

becomes my Cathedral.

Father tells me he knew how this would end from the very beginning. The initial

advantage he has given to me, made me predestined to win.

Only because I listened to my desire to go, to know, and understand.

He stands up.

His monstrously big body disgusts me, but amazes me at the same time.

He then tells me, that his existence as a God,

has always been limited. Each time he gave life to a human of earth,

he put a bit of himself into him, because he is the primal existence, the essence of life.

When a person dies, his form returns, but

his energy is gone, wasted throughout his life. This is why,

Father is overgrown with limbs of the dead, their empty shells have come back, to reunite with Father.

,,This is the destiny of every Master'' he tells me.

Because God would get bored, if it weren't for the people to entertain him with their stupidity.

He then pulls out his hand, and I lift myself into the air,

because I am, the air after all.

I stand on his palm, and wait for the beginning.

Before it happens, he tells me to never visit the living,

as this would destroy the balance between mortality, and the eternal.

Endlessness is a concept, humans cannot understand, he tells me.

The word has no value for them, because they will never experience it.

But if they do, even on someone else, it would proceed into chaos

and destruction, the end of human experience, leaving the Master,

essentially, useless.

''Father, then eats me whole. I am crushed by his teeth,''

I feel all my bones breaking, disintegrating into nothing

more but a mash tissue and bone fragments.

My body is no longer, but that doesn't matter.

Because I am not human anymore.

I become what I was predestined to become from the beginning of time.

''Why did I wake up in this twisted reality? Why was I chosen?''

''I will never know. I am not meant to.''

The only fact remaining, is that now,

I am all, I am eternal, and I am my own Father.

Because it doesn't matter how I got into this place and time,

it was me who granted myself divinity, I listened

to the bit of Him that was in me, and chose to pursue it, the essence of life, that

gave me the power over everything.

That, means freedom, power, and absoluteness.

-Will you just shut your mouth Greg, I'm trying to sleep here!

-I should have listened to Father. Shouldn't have come to your land, destroyed the balance, chaos, will surely ensue.

-Our land? What are you talking about? You are here and not in prison because you're mental,

do you think they would let someone who killed 4 people into jail?

-Should have listened to Father, I am not human, I am free.

I am not human.

I am free. 