New Life

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Joel was just your average human, had a decent job which allowed him to live a relatively decent life. Had a close and loving family and was even expecting a child of his own, but that’s when things took a turn for the worst.

After being plotted against, causing him to lose his job he drowns his sorrows away at a local bar close to his house. Half-past midnight he was crossing the street during a bad thunderstorm when he was struck by a speeding car. He was flung towards a tree but he was still alive, somehow, no, what really killed him was when lightning struck the tree that cushioned his fall.

His body couldn’t handle the pain it was experiencing and shut down. He died before anyone could call for help. It reached local news but other than that people moved on with their lives and only those close to him mourning their loss.

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When he woke up he wasn’t on earth anymore, he was in space surrounded by a bunch of floating blue lights, he himself was one such light calmly floating towards an unknown destination.

’What the?’ Confused he retraced the events before his passing, him losing his job, drinking his sorrows away, crossing the street and getting hit by a speeding idiot ’no seriously, who speeds while the street is covered in water?’, and then his bad luck when the tree that he flew into got struck by lightning.

’Does this mean I’m in the afterlife?’ For some reason he wasn’t freaking out, he would have thought he’d be panicking nonstop after finding out he died.

As far as he could see he saw blue blobs everywhere, he moved close to one of them and saw that it was at least double his size.

’Why am I so small?’ Curious he started comparing his size to other souls and found that they were all at least double his size if not more.

’This is totally not fair, why do I gotta be the small one!’ Out of pure annoyance, he started ’attacking’ one of the souls that were only double his size. He crashed into it over and over again until he crashed right through it, confused he turned to see the soul bursting into a small cloud of blue mist.

’Wha-’ Like a moth drawn to a flame he flew into the mist only to be overwhelmed by sheer pleasure. The mist tasted like so many of his favorite things at one that it overloaded him, his favorite food, drink, candie, desert, all of it and much more. Everything that he loved all in one blue mist.

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After a couple of minutes he burped in satisfaction when the mist was completely gone, ’That... was... amazing! Ten out of ten’. Greatly pleased he moved towards another soul and froze.

’Did I just get bigger?!’

’Yep, I totally got bigger.’ He floated up to the soul that was double his size before only to see that he grew slightly. ’If I eat more of these things does that mean I can finally, be the bigger man?’ Pun aside he quickly starting attacking the soul right in front of him.

This time he had a much easier time breaking the soul and after twenty or so crashes it burst into a cloud of delicious mist. This time he quickly sucked up the mist before moving on to the next soul.

The more he did it the easier it got and after his fifth soul, he was starting to feel a difference. His speed dropped but his size-and his strength-increased. ’Does this mean if I get too big I’ll be like these things and won't be able to move anymore?’

Worried, he became much more hesitant to attack the souls even though the mist was so, delicious. ’Don’t focus on that right now! Focus on making sure that you’ll be able to move even after getting super big...’

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’Okay, maybe just a couple more times!’ Gleefully he continued his barrage of attackes on many more souls, when he reached twenty something felt very... wrong!

He felt like he had a very painful stomach ache. He was stuck frozen while he felt pain all over his soul, ’Okay, guess it’s time to fix my problem then.’

While he was still experiencing his stomach ache he tried his best to ignore it and focus on a way to solve his problem.

’If I slow down as I get bigger, then why not shrink down? That should work right?’ Without any other thought, he focused on trying to shrink down. It was a weird experience, it felt like he was trying to squeeze himself all at once and soon he started to get a headache somehow.

’Okay, so that doesn’t work, so do I just need to wait this out and let my soul process that mist or can I speed it up?’ He looked inside his soul and found that it was full of that delicious mist, it was getting to the point that it was pushing against the boundaries of his soul.

’Is this why I’m in pain?’ Experimenting he tried to squeeze the mist inside his soul... and it sort of worked. It shrunk slightly but the pain was still there, curious he looked at the center of his soul to find what looked like a small drop of something.

’I wonder...’ Without a care in the world he pushed the mist into the droplet with success, the droplet expanded slightly and the mist was gone. Instantly he felt better and the sluggishness he was experiencing was gone.

’Does this mean I was only slowing down because I was full?’ He shrunk slightly but overall his size was still bigger than when he first woke up.

’So that's how it works!’ Understanding what he had to do now he tested his theory. Bashing open the closet soul and sucking up the mist, instead of letting it sit inside his soul he forced it into the droplet.

He continued his feeding until he grew tired, he had another theory he wanted to try so before he fell asleep he bashed open a couple more souls and sucked up all the mist, instead of forcing it into the droplet he allowed it to gather around the droplet and that's it.

Tired he moved towards an empty spot and allowed himself to sleep.