I woke up sitting in an ornamental chair made from a black marble-like stone. First thing I noticed was that I couldn’t move my body. But wasn’t panicking because of a calming and warm aura around me. I scanned my surroundings with my eyes. I was in a room made from the same dark stone. Black pillars with brass and gold decorations were lined up around the walls. The room had no apparent windows or other light sources, but even though it had more than enough light to see everything as in daylight. In front of me was a table made from mahagone wood. In a chair opposite of mine was sitting a beautiful woman in black regal dresses, she had red eyes with a small sparkle of gold lightning. Her hair was of a ruby color. Skin of her was soft looking and had a pale complexion without any imperfections. She also had beautiful you looking face formed into a weird grin.
“Welcome, my dear Tia, my daughter. We need to talk.” said a woman with a soft and calming voice nonfitting her grin.
‘What is she talking about? How did I get here? And even that name is not mine. Even though this situation is weird I still feel calm, warm and motherly love from the woman in front of me. I feel from her that she is my mother, unlike from mother I knew until now.’
Before I got a chance to think more about this situation, she spoke again “You are progressing too slowly! But don’t worry my daughter, I will help you speed things up a little bit”.
I wanted to smile at this for some unknown reason comfortable situation, but I couldn’t. My muscles were paralyzed. I wanted to ask about what was going on, but I also couldn’t open up my mouth because of that stupid paralysis.
“As you probably noticed sometime during your life, you are quite different from other humans.” she said and then charmingly smiled before returning back to her disturbing grin and continuing “You were considered weird by humans and not fitting to their society. Maybe you even noticed some paranormal activity around you. But don’t worry because it is absolutely normal as you are Pentarch not some punny human”.
‘I would like to disagree with her but I can’t because I know that everything she said about my life is true. Also, my body is too perfect to be human! I have a small and cute figure with a bust of the most optimal size and shape for my figure. Even my hair was pure white which was definitely not a normal color for human hair. I can also stay in sunlight for hours and I will be still pale. Also, my body is looking like that of 15 years old girl even though I am almost 20 years old. To be honest my behavior was also not normal. I always spend more time with myself in my mind having long and useless internal monologues like this one rather than speaking with others. When other kids played with each other I was just thinking about stuff. And to be honest it was sometimes weird and scary stuff. I always had an unexplainable impulse to just start killing people around me. But it isn’t like I am some kind of psycho who wants to murder people for fun, they just make me hungry. I als...’
My monologue of thoughts was stopped when my supposed to be mother spoke again “Our race is called Pentarch’s. In our most default form we don’t have a physical form, but our children, while they are growing up, needs a physical form, like that of yours” than she put her had on the table a continued while fiddling with her fingers “But because we adults do not have a stable physical form we need to put our babies to wombs of humans to safely rise them, it is basically like a cuckoo“.
‘Hmm, that is just amazing, Now I am a stupid parasite.’
Almost like she could hear my thoughts my mother with her new even more disturbing, fanatical grin said “We are not parasites! We are a pentarchy! We are mightiest of all celestials. We are conquerors of everything. We are smartest and strongest!” then she for no obvious reason began to laugh before she calmly continued “Hmm, we are running out of time so I will shorten this. What you need to do is hatch out of your physical form...”.
If my muscles weren’t paralyzed I would be frowning now for getting such a weird and incomprehensible task.
“And to do that you need to absorb a huge amount of celestial energy. If you have questions ask quickly because as I told you before our time is shortening.”
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‘Argg, I hope she can read my mind, otherwise, this will be pretty awkward because I still can’t speak’ I grumbled in my mind.
“Ohh, sorry about that my daughter, I paralyzed you to avoid useless confused dialogues at the beginning. I will fix it now. And I will limit your questions to three at least for now.”
After this, my muscles finally relaxed and my expression weirdly changed not to that of confusion but to that of happiness.
‘Now that I think about this whole situation it is pretty weird that I am calm, happy, and not panicking in this whole situation. Argg, for now, I need to stop thinking about useless stuff and think about my questions.’
After few moments of thinking, I asked my first question “Who are you?”.
My self-proclaimed mother’s expression changed to that of displeasure as she said “I already told you. I am your mother and one of Pentarchs”
“This is not a proper answer I need to know more.”
After this, her expression changed back to her creepy grin as she answered my question “Alright my daughter, I am Oriana Ae Gehen Morduine, Pentarch of highest order holding the post of High Owersear in Pentarch authority, archduchess of Pentarch empire, Queen of Nether and Archdemon in the authority of Nether or as most of the people on Earth are calling it a Hell. But for most, I am simply a mad queen”
‘Now I am pretty amazed. Even though I don’t know what is this High Owersear title, it sounds very important. And that second title sounds evil but I don’t really care. Because now I will be important at the top of society. I will no longer be just a slave of society. And now for the second question.’
“How can I absorb this Celestial Energy?”
“Lucky for you, you are a high-born Pentarch with an affinity for the whole spectrum of celestial energy my daughter. So to start they are four methods of absorbing celestial energy that you are currently capable of using. The first one is to absorb it from the environment around, but this method is only good as passive because it is too slow. The second method is to use celestial energy in you to generate more of celestial energy. This method is naturally ongoing in you so no need to think about this one. The third option is to feed on the surrounding energy of recently deceased in places where recently happened some big catastrophe. Also not a good method because it is pretty hard with your currently small range of absorption to be in right place at the right time. So now will come forth method and this is the one I am recommending to you as the fastest and most fun way of doing it. Just kill some things and suck the top layer of soul containing raw celestial energy. More powerful beings mean more celestial energy. But these beings are too strong for you as you are now and that is also the exact reason why are you starting on earth, basically an easy planet. When will you gain enough of this energy I will transport you to the different worlds.” she said and breathed, probably just for effect.
I looked shocked. But it was only a pretended shock after years of attempting not to look too weird back on the earth.
‘Now I am really scared. Not of this woman but of me for being internally okay with the concept of killing people. But I feel like it is natural. Same as wolves hunting down and killing their prey for power and to live. It is nothing evil. At least I think so. Now that I think about this, what even is this celestial energy ?’ so I asked my last question.
“My dear, celestial energy is existence in its most basic and most complex form at the same time. It is almost in everything that is part of existence. Especially us Pentarchy who are made of pure celestial energy. With this energy, you can manipulate any laws of existence from physical to the laws of celestial energy itself. You see celestial energy has laws as physics, but there is one big difference in that, that you can bypass any of these laws with enough energy. You can even bypass that law about needing energy, there are currently only two beings which managed to do this, these beings are known as Infinity.” Oriane was ready to stop talking but then she made an expression like she almost forgot something and continued “I will tell you about affinities. You see this energy has an eleven-dimensional spectrum of wavelengths. Different wavelengths that are good for different uses. But lucky for you you have all affinities, so I will stop now and I will just send you back to earth to start some hunting”
“Wait! It is not so simple. I can’t just start killing people because of police, they will arrest me and put me to jail, mental hospital, or even worse they will find out I am not a human and they will send me to some research lab” I said with a panicked face.
“Now that I think about it you are correct. But don’t worry you are Pentarch and you have much more celestial energy than any normal human and that gives you access to powers which humans know as magic. Just use it and no police will be able to stop you.” Oriana said without changing her expression.
“I don’t know how to use that!”
Oriana’s expression started to look a little irritated as she leaned back on her chair and spoke “In a normal situation, I would let you learn how to use your powers over time but now is not such a situation so I will basically install to your soul something like interface which will make it easier for you to use your powers. If I know correctly today you kids on earth are just playing on your phones, this will be almost the same. It will be only temporary until you learn how to use celestial energy yourself”
After she said this I felt a terrible pain in my soul. It was the worst pain I ever felt and it was part of me that I didn’t even know I had.
“Now one last thing, I will also improve your body.” she said and handed me a vial of red shining liquid with golden tendrils of lightning in it “Drink this it will change your body, you will look the same but your body will become much stronger”
‘I don't know if I should be happy or not about getting monster body to form nice pair with my monster soul. But whatever, if it will make me stronger.’
After this, I opened the vial and drank its content.
My face malformed in a surprised grimace as I thought ‘I feel nothing? Weird, I was expecting to feel pain or at least something.’
“Ohh my little daughter
“...”
“Time is up! Bye, my sweet little daughter.” she said still laughing.