Starlight
After Sirius unfortunate and untimely death he was left standing in complete darkness.
*this is the resting place of all souls? I thought it would be a place with a warmer feel and something or someone overseeing those who enter*he said while frowning and looking around him.
After some time thinking with a puzzled face, Sirius is suddenly blinded by a light heading to him in a slow manner, after it came as close to almost touch him, the light was absorbed by Lucius chest, and he began to feel a very strong pain in his body as if it was slowly changing, the pain was so inhumanly painful as being pierced by a thousand scorching needles inside his body and a freezing sensation in his skin.
As the pain began to stop, Sirius felt that he was somehow smaller in size but with a very strange feeling of strength going through his body, as he was beginning to feel accustomed to his new form his surroundings became lighter. He could see the figure of a very big white wolf looking at him, then he hears.
“greetings fallen star” in his head and tries to look around to see the person who just spoke.
But once again he hears a more clearer voice coming from the wolf.
“I am the greater dog, the Sirius star and I chose you to be the next greater being in this world and be rewarded for your past suffering”
Feeling breathless and looking at the great white wolf, Sirius began staring at the wolf not sure what he was seeing.
“what? Am I dead? You are a star? And you want me to be what?”
He says rapidly with no pause, an agitated tone and almost breathless then waits apprehensively for an answer.
“calm down I shall explain everything in due time, you indeed died but I brought you back for a deserved a reincarnation. For all your suffering and determination you had in your past life. I also decided you would still have your memory for this new plane of existence”
Said the wolf, with a calm and seemingly not bothered tone by the youth’s desperate manner.
“new plane? Is this another universe?” he said with a more calm expression in his face, as he understood that somehow everything was fine.
“yes, I watched you in your past life and decided you would be worthy of carrying my power in this plane. Where you will be the first of your race in this world, with my power over the substance of existence. Called dark matter in your past life and unknown in this one”
With a confused look Sirius asks.
“dark matter? The very thing that constitutes of almost 88% of matter in the universe? How is this possible? What is the normal core energy matter in this world?”
“you played many of those small simulations, called role playing games in your past life. The core energy there as it is here is called mana, and allows a person with enough capability to make magic by the use of various elements and other types of power and it exists in this world and is divided by ranks”
With a somewhat puzzled face Sirius waited some seconds pondering and asked.
“then how will I be able to use your power?”
The voice once again with no delay resounded in his head.
“dark matter is still existing in this world but only 2 beings are able to harness the power of the universe, you and me, the mana in this world will be automatically made into dark matter for your use, when your body enters in this new world’s universe, you will be able to create anything at your will, depending in the amount of power that you possess in your body and the amount of damage you endure”
“amount of power? Like in those martial arts like novels, with humans that train themselves and achieve to be godlike, and somehow progress in stages of power?”
“yes, its seems to be 1 to 10 ranks of physical and magical type of training, that slowly goes towards immeasurable amounts of power. You are not bound by this separation and will be able to train in both for mastery”
While nodding lightly, it suddenly hit me, that I was talking to a giant white wolf that has control over dark matter. I died not so long ago and forgot how I got into this situation.
“wait, how is that you brought me back from the dead? Are you some sort of god entity?”
“no, I am a simple overseer that has some sort of domain over some planes of existence, but not all of them. I have only a small control of omniscience and omnipotence, but I am not the sole being that can be called god”
He then did a small pause as if he knew I would need some time to absorb the new information and spoke.
“do not worry about it so much, you should worry about your own development in this new life and how you would proceed on it for the time being”
“how am I going to control this power?”
“some things you will discover with time, even with this world training methods you may find some sort of hint and be able to control it better as you live. When you have a breakthrough in the ranks of this worlds barriers or gain some insight of your power, you will unlock some innate memories of new techniques and useful skills that are related to this world to help you”
Nodding slightly as to signify I understood at least something of what he told me and remembered a personal question I had in mind.
“why before we met I felt that extreme pain?” shuddering slightly remembering the amount of pain I went through.
“because you are born anew, I gave you a new form and a personal gift you couldn’t have in your last life, real, raw and godly strength that will grow as you develop your body”
“amazing” I chuckled “where will I start my new life?”
“you already started it, you are currently falling of the skies at high speed, heading towards your new planet in a light coma for safety. When I see you in a safe place with someone I judge good and respectable you can wake up and begin your journey”
I could feel the arch of my smile from ear to ear.
“I simply don’t know what to think of this, it feels like a dream”
“careful, with these gifts you now possess you may be a someone with godly potential, but you are like an ant in the eyes of many beings in this world, especially in the state that you will discover you are now, never be arrogant but also be proud and train hard for your own sake, so that you may live a happy life in this world, it may sound wonderful but it is also hard and even crueler than your last one, as power exists for everyone and evil ways to use it for personal benefit too, you should be mindful to anyone that might try to use you as a tool or experiment to discover how you possess such an incredible new power”
I could feel the proudness as he spoke and little bit of what you could call healthy arrogance as he finished talking to me like a father talks to a son of something he did or of himself.
With a solemn face I nod and bow without any shame with tears forming in my eyes.
“thank you very much for watching over me”
With a somewhat happy and gentle face he replies.
“do not cry, you are the only one I judged over the years to be worthy of my care, but it seems someone else watches over you as you also have a natural power that was not given by me, to transform in the form of the being of your name, the greater dog, to assist you in your journey, now all I have to say is be prepared and goodbye”
With tears rolling down my face. I give a final look at that great white wolf who gave me new life, and say in weak manner.
“goodbye greater dog star”
I feel my mind loosen in space, I start closing my eyes, feeling something drilling all my past knowledge and new to my new self and calmly enter in my coma state.
I wake up as baby feeling a strange sense of strength for my size, but I can’t move myself, I tilt my head trying to see what is restraining me, I see a green cloth folding me, as I lay in a giant white soft bed with some light green silk cover on both ends.
After some time struggling, I manage to free myself from what seems to be some sort of cloak, with various nature looking adornments especially leafs, going around a big white tree emitting light from a small heart placed inside the tree trunk.
I can see I am in some sort of natural and tree like house, with various rooms with little plants everywhere, as if it was grown from the house itself.
Then I sense someone looking at me, I direct my body towards the door, slightly startled I see man with light gold skin, tall, athletic and lean build with a handsome looking face with deep blue eyes, midsized trimmed beard, long smooth, gold like blonde hair and long and pointy ears going out of his head.
*really like rpg, he would be an elf or high elf if there is other variants*
I think while we stare at each other for some seconds, then he starts heading towards me with a questioning look while holding a plate with some soup which I suppose is for me.
I remind myself that I am in a baby like form without knowing how I look like, he then sits at my side and smiles warmly at me.
He then picks up some sort of small pearl from a satchel at his thigh and gestures me to eat it.
I look at him and rapidly refuse with my head.
He then proceeds to try and talk but it’s nothing like anything I’ve ever seen and he points at the pearl again.
*is it some translator for me understand what’s he saying?*
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Then I carefully open my small hands and gesture him to give it to me, which he looks at me with some amazement and places the pearl in my hand and I proceed to eat it.
After he hears the gulp sound of me by swallowing the pearl he tries to talk again.
“greetings little one”
He says with an not too aged, deep and calm voice.
“hello, could you tell where am I, who are you and get me a small mirror please”
I say while looking at him waiting to watch his response to my rapid speech as I am a baby.
He then with once more with an amazed look, responds with a more agitated tone.
“by the gods you are remarkable, yes indeed, you are at my secret abode, in my cabin located in the middle of a chasm, that is connected to a portal that leads out to the Vylulm Woods, my name is Erandrur the guardian of the forests, would you mind if I asked you what are you and why you need a mirror?”
He says with small grin.
“well, the answer is that with a mirror I will actually see what I am, but in regards to a more deep explanation it would take a while and I don’t want to say it to someone I don’t know for so long, with all due respect, if you don’t mind?”
I say in a serious manner with a childish and respectful tone as I am at his mercy.
“hahaha, I don’t mind, wait here and I will bring the mirror and we can talk for a long while if you can manage to trust me enough”
He said heading out of the room with a smile and after some time he enters the room holding a silver mirror and with a book under his arms.
“here is the mirror and this book is to help if we can find out what you are, I can personally say you are a one of a kind person with interesting characteristics that are not normal”
"thank you, that would be helpful for both of us" I say smiling and grip the mirror easily, he grins once again and says.
“impressive, this is a normal mirror but it would be seemingly hard for a child of your size to hold it with such ease”
“thank you again, I guess” I say with a side grin for the tenacious observation skills and his successful experiment idea.
Then I hold the mirror in front of me and with the most perplexed face a baby can make I think *wow, this is me? I have to say that the greater dog did not spare any resources*
I have slightly bigger proportions than a normal new born, with a healthy but not fat or meek body, a little pale white body color, black hair, a cute and somehow manly and tender face.
What surprises me the most are my pointy ears not like an elf but more beastly and my deep and fierce silver eyes, with an idea in my head I open my mouth slightly and I am teeth less but with a little bit bigger canine tooth space as if it would they would grow to be sharper and bigger than the rest.
“thank you” I say then hand the mirror back to Erandrur.
“now, it my turn to introduce myself, my name is Sirius but I cannot give a more in depth explanation as you would most likely not comprehend and ask even more questions I myself don’t know, sorry”
“no, it’s understandable, but I am glad you at least said something to me to suffice my curiosity for the time being” he then gives a small tap on the book in his hand, some dust comes out of it and he proceeds to open it, while at my side and with the book at my height level, for me to be able to see.
“this is the Infinium this book contains the knowledge of thousands of years of the history of the world…..”
We then proceeded to read the book for some hours, and after 8 hours straight of reading I began to feel hungry and tired and asked Erandrur.
“-yawn- could you please prepare something to eat and somewhere for me to sleep I suddenly began to feel hungry and sleepy” while rubbing my eyes to try and remain awake for the time being.
“of course, you already stayed reading for so much time with much concentration and only began to tire now, I will go and prepare something for us, we both should get some sleep, after all the information needs some time to be absorbed”
He smiled with small bit of tiredness in his voice and went to the kitchen and prepared something for both of us to eat, after we both ate he said.
“I have not slept for so many weeks this will be liberation”
I mustered some strength left to give him a brief smile and collapsed in the bedside and began in my dreams pondering about all the information of the book and simply lost myself and slept soundly.
The book detailed a brief history of the creation of the world, of how a gigantic amount of mana and other unknown powers exploded. The gods surged and created the earth and it’s inhabitants.
The most well known and accepted gods were Abelon, the god of light; Lyane, goddess of life; Bellum, the war god; Sensa, the goddess of knowledge; Baal, the lord of darkness; and the titan of nature and its elements, Mundus, that was the planet itself.
There were other cultures and races with different gods, but they all seemed to exist in the same plane just minding each other’s business and watching their followers battle for religious supremacy, nonetheless they all had an evil creature as an ultimate enemy that was related to an elemental Hydra with eight heads trapped in some dimensional space, called Mallus that had control of all basic magic elements: light, fire, water, earth, wind, lightning, darkness and life.
In that time they began creating basic life beings such as:
Humans, that had the most potential for development but the lowest physical capability, they were greedy and waged many wars for land and supremacy but suffered great casualties and advised by the Celestials formed peace treaties with all other races to refrain from war to not disturb the balance of life and not to anger the gods but there was still some animosity and minor battles between all races.
Celestials, servants of the will of the gods, with human like form and white skin, feathery white wings and mainly light powers. They often were advisors and only had animosity against demons and entirely evil beings, peaceful for most time but incredible warriors once in battle mode.
Demons, humanoid beings like Celestials but with a deathly pale skin, jet black bat wings, horns of various sizes and shapes and mainly darkness related powers. They refrained from waging war, to be opposites of Celestials but still were not evil, at least the most part.
Dragons, great beings with variants of race related to all elements, could almost challenge the gods but could not leave the physical plane and did not wish to, they were very protective of their family and territory but never participated in any wars.
Elves, divided in three variants: high elf, dark elf and wood elf. They are great archers, tall, very agile and versatile fighters quick on their feet. They all were considered beautiful but the high elves held a more wise feel to them, the dark elves were more cold and secretive and the wood elves were carefree and happy. High elves had light gold like skin and normally blonde hair, the dark elves were light dark colored and had many dark like colors of hair and the wood elves were bronzed skinned with all types of hair color.
Fairies, pure beings of light and nature that resided where one could be mostly immersed in a natural and free like life. They look like little humans with light coming out of them and were great healers but like to do trickery and jokes.
Beastman, were human with animalistic physique and looks like farm and wild earthly animals that have great strength and could have tails, ears, fangs and claws related parts.
Dwarves, humanoid beings with low height but sturdy build with the normal strength of two fully grown human men at the least when they matured. They liked living in caves and mountains to dig their ores and gems to make equipment of all sorts for any being that was worthy and could pay for it.
The world was made of big continents like Telran where most of the races could be found, Alter where the Celestials lived, Cairn the home of the demons and an island named Pacem that was connected with portals, so all races made it a neutral territory that would have an academy that would care for all races and pass their knowledge of magical and martial arts to the children of all races that had the aptitude and talent to go and train.
Telran was the biggest mass of land, compared to the rest of the continents. With many forests, plains, mountains and various other biomes. In the north was the biggest forest and territory of the elven kingdom and fairies lands, on the west was the beastman territory although they were nomads they had a union on the west, on the east was the dwarves mountains with their mines and tunnels and a big fortress inside a mountain that served as passage and guard for intrusions, in the center of the land was the human kingdom with its political disputes and diplomacy. Cities could be found in all territories with the richest being the dwarves conglomerate, and the human kingdom and other considered capital cities for the elves and beastman to buy and sell any region related material.
In the south was the desolate land of the dragons, minor dragon could be found hidden anywhere in the world but there was the center of their domain. They form nests composed of their family and a certain amount of space to roam but sometimes would wander the world destroying anything opposing it.
In the northwest region very close to the end of beastman and elven lands, an island linked to the land was home of the Celestials. In the northeast was Cairn, land of the demons. But beyond these three continents were many other islands and big masses of land undiscovered and untamed.
They somehow had the same time scale, but a different calendar, and on their calendar in the future, there would be recorded the date. Tirdas of Starfall in 182 of the 6th era a big fallen star descended from the skies and disappeared upon contact to the land. that was me beginning my journey.
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Thank you very much decemdies for your tips and Harlequin for your posts
BUT YOU DECEM, i clicked on your links of discussions and writing tips, i am scrolling down and see AND I QUOTE
Never Tell a Reader, English isn't Your First Language
Morgan Freeman's voice came into my head and said:
> Quote:In that moment, he knew he fucked up
god dammit you.XD