Author Notes

Hello! :D

i'll try to keep this as short as possible.

 - This is my very first attempt at writing anything beyond essays.

 - English is not my first language.

 - I will probably update extremely erratically and infrequently. 

 - I would love any advice!

 - Criticism is very much appreciated. Destroy everything you can find. I'm here to learn! :D

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Death.

Something unreachable, yet inevitable, feared by all, but accepted by many.

Have you ever wondered what feeling's you would have when you have just taken your last breath?

Would you feel anger? Hatred? Regret? Acceptance? Confusion? Or maybe even happiness?

You may be wondering 'Why in Gods name would you ever be thinking of this?'

Well there is a very simple reason.

I'm Dead.

Well I haven't been dead for very long. But here's my story, pretty embarrassing to be honest.

I am Aurora Payton, age 17, female. I would be what you call, someone with no interest in life. Since the day I could remember till now, I have never felt any interest towards anything, my life has been anything but exciting. My parents are middle class, so I ended up going to an average school, where I made absolutely no friends at all.

Due to my extremely anti-social personality, I ended up diving into fantasy novels and it has been a major part of my life ever since. Fantasy allows me to escape my boring life. The only interesting thing about would be that I'm gay, I noticed around high school when no boys caught my attention. I was always looking at girls (Probably another reason people avoided me).

Alright I think that's more than enough backstory, onto the interesting one.

It was a normal day, just like every other day. When BAM something interesting happened.

I'm just kidding.

I was walking when I heard screaming, so I did what every sane person would do in a time of crisis.

I ran.

I ran as fast as my little legs could carry me.

And I made it all the way home, completely safe.

I sighed in relief, knowing that I was going to be okay.

That's when it happened, my incredible luck found an opurtunity to shine and I stubbed my toe which made me lose balance and slam my head into a table. I always hated that table.

And that was it.

Everything just seemed to stop for a moment and all I felt was a strange urge to kill the person who put the table there.

A moment later I realized what had happened and all I felt was bitter, although life was bad and completely uninteresting, I was still human.

That was my death.

The end.

Back to the present situation.

After I died from the table, I woke up in this strange black area, I couldn't see anything. All around me was just darkness, a weird void.

I look around and slowly realize that I do not have a body, but these an incorporeal shape that can be seen around me that would seem to be in the shape of a human.

So this must be the soul that's always talked about in novels, well that is the best explanation to what information I do have. So, I'm just going to stick with that.

I don't know how much time has passed, but this endless amount of time in the void has allowed me to go over my life and all I feel is a calm acceptance towards what is happening. I was content with my life for the most part and I was feeling a small amount of excitement towards what would happen (Because I have read so many fantasy books).

Again, a long amount time passes and I'm getting really bored, I would rather die than have to be stuck here in this never-ending state with nothing to do, but overtime my thoughts become calmer and my interest towards what was happening increases.

You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.

And like this I spend large amount of time thinking and hoping something would happen. Until something finally did happened.

'FWOOSH'

Hundreds of black lights came out of god knows where and slammed onto my soul. Due to my calm personality I could stay calm until a sharp pain seamed to seep into every part of mind. It felt like every part of my existence was shattered and ripped apart

Whilst this pain was coursing through my mind, I started to slowly comprehend what was happening. My soul was completed shattered into millions of pieces that seemed like stars.

My very being was utterly destroyed whilst I was screaming in my head. Until something unbelievable happened.

The million shattered pieces of my soul slowly floated back towards the black lights which were still floating where my soul used to be.

Piece by piece my soul started to be absorbed by the black lights, and I could feel my memories being stolen. This slowly continued until there was one piece left, I could feel nothing anymore, all I knew was a word that seemed to be my name. 

'Aurora'

My mind chanted that word until the final piece was absorbed into black light which had gotten slowly larger because it had absorbed my soul. The moment my last piece of existence was sucked into the light, something seamed to explode inside my empty mind.

It was a cool sensation that resounded within my soul. 

At that moment I remembered everything. I could feel myself forming thoughts faster than usual. Understanding things that I never could.

I had thoroughly merged with the black lights.

Everything stayed like this for a while, until my soul started to compress, inch by inch my soul became smaller and more compressed.

When my soul finally reached the size of a marble it started to shake and become unstable.

Then it collapsed.

It seemed to convulse and a burning sensation filled my very being.

My soul turned into something like a black hole as it started to suck in everything around it. To my surprise the darkness that seemed infinite and timeless started to slowly get absorbed into my black hole of a soul. 

As it did, information seemed to be imparted to me. I started to slowly understand natural laws of how the universe worked. Then I learned what those black lights were. They were pure devouring element particles, they had attempted to absorb my soul, but for some unknown reason I assimilated them and my soul merged and adjusted itself to its new devouring form.

Time passed and I started to be able to control my soul, I could control how much I devoured and how pure it got by compressing it. My Soul which was initially about the size of a normal human had turned into something completely monstrous.

It was a black hole with the size of earths solar system, and if you looked inside the very deepest part of it, you would find such pure particles, that gods would salivate at the delicate but monstrous black pearl. My very being radiated power and devouring.

This continued until my soul became the size of around 100 times the solar system, I had the sudden urge to make myself as small as possible.

It took time but my black hole of a soul slowly shrunk until it hit the size of a marble. With every convulsion the very universe seamed to shake, every time I even moved the universe seemed to bow down in face of this magnificent pearl sized black hole. 

Again, time slowly continued and my boredom took over, I kept going over my previous life. When my soul started growing my mind became increasingly clearer until I remembered every aspect of my life perfectly. I even had the feeling I could alter my memories at will, which scared me quite a bit. My personality slowly closed itself off. I became cold and apathetic.

I eventually found a method that allowed my soul to automatically swallow its surroundings while compressing and purifying it. As I did this a strange urge to sleep fell over me, which was insane, I had never felt like this before. The think that finally calmed me down was the thought that every existence must run out of mental energy and needs time to recover.

So, I slowly drifted off.

Slowly I drifted off into a calm that I had not experienced for eons.

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(Narrator)

Unknown to Aurora, the moment she fell asleep, her soul continued to slowly consume everything around. Until one day a crack in space appeared. The moment the crack appeared, her soul stopped its automatic absorbing and waited for something to happen.

A hand, so large it could have very well grabbed a skyscraper in its grasp, slow emerged from the crack and grabbed her soul. A wave of power flowed out of the crack as the being seemed to analyse her soul.

The being look at her soul for a long time until it finally voiced its thoughts. The voice that come from the other space boomed throughout the void, it seamed ethereal whilst ancient at the same time, it sounded domineering like a sovereign, yet gentle like a spring breeze.

"What an interesting soul, it seems to have been attacked by some stray devouring Qi. It has also miraculously survived and perfectly assimilated the Qi into its soul."

The being pondered for a long before coming to a decision over sorts. It grabbed the space next to the soul and ripped it open. It grabbed Aurora's soul and threw it through whilst leaving words in the void that no one would ever hear.

"Your soul can now be considered one of the strongest souls in its infancy stage in existence. I will send you out into the multiverse. May fate create paths and destiny be your guide. I wish you luck wherever you end up" 

With that it seemed to think a while, before leaving through the hole it left.

The space slowly restored itself as if nothing had ever happened. Slowly waiting for its next arrival.

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(???) 

The multiverse was the term used to describe everything in existence, the infinite number of universes that floated in the large expanse of space.

In this infinite space a small pearl as black as the darkness slowly floated, looking for its next home. That pearl was so smooth and beautiful, it seemed to be carved by the heavens itself. The pearl although ethereal, seemed to be swallowing everything in its surroundings, slowly growing whilst also shrinking and become a purer shade of black.

The soul continued on like this for eons, it passed several universes, that from the outside looked like large bubbles that contained limitless space. Although the soul passed these universes, it never seemed to want to enter any of them, it seemed to shun them, thinking them unworthy of its glory.

Until one day a bubble so big it eclipsed its others by millions. In this bubble there was no never-ending space, only four monstrously large planets. There was one planet, the biggest of the four, that sat in the middle, like an elder brother looking after's its siblings, with the other three planets floating evenly around it. The three smaller planets all had their own unique characteristics. One planet emitted a savage brutal aura that seemed as if it wanted to massacre everything in existence. The second emitted a sagely aura, as if it’s the world itself had the knowledge to encompassed everything. The last planet was the most unique, it emitted an aura that could only be considered as animalistic, it seemed like a brutal place, but it was also refined and emitted an aura of sovereignty that contained the pride to rule anything.

Auroras soul slowly floated towards this universe. Her soul punctured the barrier easily, as if there was no barrier at all. Her soul slowly floated towards the third planet. It seemed to be following along some special path, as though it was going along a river towards a destination that had been predetermined.

Unbeknownst to anyone, Auroras soul had become so strong that it had transcended its ethereal state, and it had started to affect reality a long time ago. The godlike being who had thrown her into the space crack was extremely lucky. If he had used even an ounce of force to much on her soul, he would have been completely swallowed in milliseconds. Her soul had become the strongest in the whole multiverse.

Strongest in all of existence? Maybe. Maybe not.

This is the journey of a soul from one of the weakest universes, that had died and had gone through multiple miracles, only to end up in the strongest universe that has ever existed in the multiverse.

This is a journey of a soul whose curiosity and interest towards the unknown, were so strong it had performed miracles for itself.

This is her journey. Auroras Journey.