Chapter 1: The endless mist

In this endless world, the possibility of things are infinite, hence it can never be stated with full certainty that anything is impossible, at all times.

As an ever changing world, there are countless unknown changes happening all the time, which can never be detected, predicted or assumed. There are many things, which no one ever thought about, have already become a reality somewhere in this unknown void.

Somewhere out there, in the void, there is a Massive world, with 2 moons. The size of the world cannot be predicted with common sense as there is constant change in space distorting around it, making it unpredictable. Looking from space, nothing can be observed, as a gray mist is constantly surrounding the planet, making it absolutely impossible to observe the land surface.

Somewhere on this unknown planet, within a certain mountain range, a black rock, at the size of a mountain can be seen. The black rock is also in the same mountain shape so calling it a mountain will be much better, as if formed due to natural accumulation of the rocks and soil without any cracks. But the most distinguishing feature is not that it is absolute black, compared to surrounding mountains, but that there are constant changes happening on the mountain surface, as if the whole mountain is sentient.

Surrounding this black mountain, there are countless other mountains, but looking around it can be seen that the other mountains are in a certain shape, as if forming a circle around the Black mountain, making it as a center. No creatures can be observed within the center near it, but as we go to the long distance outside the periphery of the range, only then some creatures can still be seen. These creatures are naturally the inhabitants of this world.

Suddenly, a big commotion happened at the center and many rocks started to fall off the Black mountain, as if some giant beast was waking up and slowly a face started to emerge on the mountain's original smooth surface. The surface of the black mountains started to vibrate and change and finally a face emerged on it. The face is huge, enveloping 1/ 3 of the mountain with 2 black eyes made of the same material and a mouth. It looks like someone has carved the face on the mountain, but it is definitely not so. Blinking his eyes, the mountains looked around, a little confused.

“How many years have I been sleeping this time?”. A loud screeching voice sounded, though it was just a whisper of it, as if many mountains were collapsing together. This voice alone caused some avalanches on the surrounding range of mountains, disturbing the many creatures around.

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Aron looked at the disturbance he has caused and sighed. He can't even talk normally without disturbing the creatures around him. Looking at the changes that have happened around, Aron can confirm that only some hundreds of years have passed, as most of the things looked the same, without major changes.

Aron is not from this world but when he came to his senses, he had already become a black stone. At the start his size was only that of a normal one foot high rock, but as time passed his body started to change becoming big and huge. He does not retain any memory of his previous life, nor does he want to but he knows his name as if instinctively.

Keeping these thoughts back of his mind, Aron looked at his body and can tell that he has grown again, by how much exactly, he cannot tell but it should roughly be around 75 meters now. He found this place a long time ago and when he traveled here he knocked down a few mountains and made this elevated high ground bed for his sleep.

Since the time he has been in this world, Aron has not seen much of it. A long time ago, Aron tried to find some intelligent creatures, but he couldn't find them even after a long time of searching and in this always mist-filled world, he has no sense of direction, so he stopped. One thing to note here is that Aron can walk. He has long found out that his body is a rock but this rock is like a lead, easily controlled by him, he can make many tentacles on his body surface and they can be controlled at will just like limbs.

With a sudden thought, a big snake-like long tentacle appeared on his body surface, controlling it Aron tried to fan it faster and faster, making the surrounding gray fog restless. As the wind started to generate, a small tornado started to form, removing the gray mist from the area.

“Well it should be fine for some time”. He thought so. As the mist has cleared Aron can see a little further in distance, but there is nothing much to see, as the same mountain range is there, though the forest has grown quite well. Well his purpose was not to observe, but just to get some comfort as constantly being surrounded by the mist makes him uncomfortable as if being trapped. Also as he cannot observe more than 500 meters in the surroundings, making him uneasy sometimes. Though he has not found anything out there yet which can make him uncomfortable and give him a sense of threat but being careful is always good.

So after confirming that nothing major has happened in his surroundings, Aron closed his eyes. Yes, as he has nothing else to do.

So as he continued to be in a daze like state, time continued to flow and some new creatures started to appear as the old one died or disappeared in this endless fog. Aron has long been accustomed to this endless silence, as there is nothing around him to talk to, occasionally he can hear some creatures roar, which gives him a sense of existence at the very least.

As Aron continued to sit in silence, a sudden strange thought came to his mind, if he has no one to talk to ‘why not make these native creatures intelligent’ then he can talk to them and also it will relieve his boredom, as only thing he is missing right now is time, which he have in endless amount.