As I pulled into the parking lot of my shared apartment complex, I sat in my car smoking my second to last cigarette still seething over what happened at work and thinking whatever higher power out there that Grizz was there. “Shay I'm going to call you back after I calm down, I can't stop replaying in my head what happened so I'm going to do some forceful meditation.” “Ok Chris, you better call me back I know how you get when you're like this” “I will I promise talk to you shortly” is all I replied as I hung up arms wrapped around the steering wheel banging my head against it. “Why today when I was already in a shitty ass mood did his brother have to show up today, just fucking why!” I screamed almost as loud as I could.
Tom had shown up to my job, he’s the brother to the exfriend and manager that I caught fucking my fiancé. He was just as surprised to see me as I was him when I looked up from just closing my cash drawer from completing my previous customer. My eyes went wide as I seen him mirror my own expression, but then his flashed with anger and he started talking shit, I gritted my teeth and only said to check out at the next register or leave, that I refused to help him. My co-workers are looking at me like I'm an alien as all they hear is that I was the cause of his little brother needing facial reconstruction along with the girl he was sleeping with and when he mentioned the death of the unborn child I snapped “It’s your own brother and that sluts fault jackass, they shouldn't have been sleeping together! She was my fiancé, and we’ll never know now if the kid was mine or your niece or nephew huh bitch” it was that moment when Grizz came up and grabbed Tom by the arm and said you got to leave dude, Chris is a good guy and your causing drama at his workplace, you want to cause problems do it outside of his job instead of a punk while he has to worry about losing his job” as he drags Tom forcefully shoves him out of the front door.
Grizz proceeds to wait at the front door for Tom to get in his car and leave, then proceeds to come back inside, “You alright Chris, that was some pretty fucked up stuff he was accusing you of man is it true?” I shake my head and lean against the counter, and I feel everything from my body, mind and energy just deflating. I look up and see my two coworkers looking at me expectantly and I look behind me across the counter where Grizz is patiently waiting for my response, there's only two other customers both everyday regulars. “Yea its mostly true, back in 2010 when the UFC was just starting to get popular I was an amateur fighter, I had just talked to a scout about signing a deal for a few televised fights and at training the next day I sprained my shoulder so I ended my training session early and went home, well when I got there I caught Daniel my so called best friend at the time and manager, with my Fiancé Kelly having an affair, something in me snapped, I put both of them in the hospital for over two months, both needed facial reconstruction, I had forgotten that a week prior Kelly had told me she was pregnant, the baby didn't survive. I called the police on myself after I came out of my rage induced state and realized what I had done. Spent seven years in jail, if you want to know any more, you're going to need to look it up I'm done talking about it and I'm going to smoke a cig and try and calm down.” I said as I grabbed my jacket and went outside
As I forcefully pull my mind from re-living what happened not an hour ago, I look up through my windshield and notice the drizzle of rain coming down, I grab my last cigarette light it and take a long puff “This would be oh so much better if it was some weed Damit” I state clearly to nobody in particular as I get out of my car and lean against the driver side door. I look up to the sky and scream “Why me” at the top of my lungs as the last of the sound wave leaves my lips and I start to inhale I realize I can literally see the energy of my shout reaching above me to the sky and just as the thought goes through my brain what the fuck is in my cig My vision doesn't go dark but everything turns pure blinding white and I feel what most people call the hebi Jebi's but these hebi Jebi's are speed balling on meth, cocaine, red bull and rocket fuel. Because I swear, I could feel them on a molecular level. The sensation lasted almost a full minute, but I swear an hour had passed.
Closing my eyes to the bright white nothingness around me barely helped, but my eyes were starting to hurt really bad to the point I almost curled into a ball and hide my head between my legs, and just as I was about to do that the tingling sensation abruptly stopped and closing my eyes did nothing for the white light anymore, “Oh sorry about that, forget all the time that transferring mortals to my plane leaves them blind, not that I transfer many mortals that frequently” is all I hear from an eccentric sounding man that sounds like he’s on some form of speed, then I felt a touch to my forehead and my vision slowly started to return to normal
“That should do the trick, all better now yes, yes” I look up and see this man who is at least nine feet if not ten feet tall pacing back in forth about three yards in front of me. He's dressed in some medieval black and gold finery, and he seems to be agitated all to hell. I look around and notice I'm in the middle of a forests glade with trees surrounding me that would make the redwoods in western America look like nothing but branches in comparison next to them.
As my mind finally starts to catch up with what's going on I'm about to ask what's going on but the eccentric sounding giant beats me to it “The reason your mind is only just now catching up is because during any form of transference, through portal circles or otherwise you lose a part of your mental energy trying to keep your body together so in your worlds terminology you lost most of the electricity or energy in your brain because it went to empowering a certain part of your brain to keep your body together, no you didn't smoke any form of hallucinogenic, nobody drugged you, and even if you did do heavy drugs before you came here they would have been washed out of your system by the transference because your mind as it was keeping your body together doesn't recognize foreign substances as a part of your body on a sub conscious level so if anything your body should be more healthy than you have been since the day you were born, and there should be a nice pile of goop where you were standing before I transferred you here, now I’m getting off track, no you didn’t die, yes I can read your mind, yes I'm answering your questions out loud while you think them in your head, and this would go a lot smoother if you just shut up and let me speak my peace, I'm having similar conversation with twenty-four other people from your iteration of earth, no I'm not referring to timeline iterations, I'm referring to how many times I've had to wipe earth clean of most life forms yes the death of the dinosaurs was me but there were also higher beings than humans on it as well, the dinosaurs where mere pets to the planets dominant species which by the way wasn't hum...”
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“Stop!” I scream “Stop, stop stop” I place my hands on my knees as I start to hyperventilate knowing my mind and body is going into psychological shock, my chest tightens so bad its physically painful as all hell, my heartrate is through the roof, I heard everything the giant said but could barely keep up he was speaking so fast he didn't respond to some of the stuff in my head so either he can't read minds or he can't read it all the time I look up just in time to see the giant striding towards me “your minds thoughts are nothing but energy patterns, I see most kinds of energy out there especially the children of my own planet considering your energy is created by me, I didn't respond to some of your thought because they weren't pertinent to the situation at hand.”
The giant of the man is looking over me, “Yes your mind and body are going into shock, there's only two out of the twenty-five that minds have stayed fine, and there are three I’ve had to wake back up because their body shut down from the strain of shock of what has happened and what I'm telling them, it's not easy you know to split my conscious into thirty-two pieces twenty-five of them talking to you mortals and the rest helping prepare for what's to come.” he stated as he places a hand that engulfs my head like a child “there I fixed your mind and body going into shock, Yes I'm the one you call higher power, god, the creator, and so forth, yes the planet earth is me in a sense”
“Yes! I knew it!” I yelled, but before I could get another word in the creator places his hand on my forehead again and every though I had flies out the window and doesn't come back, my body kind of locks up, not turn rigid but the only thing I can do is breath, I can't even move my eyes as the giant looks me in the eyes and says “I don't have time for this, you will listen and listen close, I have chosen twenty-five mortals from earth, I and my planet have been conscripted into a game I have lost more times than I care to count, and have never won, I've been given instructions I am forced to follow on a level I refuse to explain to y'all at this current moment in time.
The only thing y'all need to know is all twenty-five of y'all are being sent to a partner of mine’s world, where y'all will either level up or die, y'all will see screens in y'all's vision like y'all do in y'all's popular video games, that's why I started video games, yes I did, I came down and invented most of the technology y'all use through possession or manipulations of ones thoughts, what you need to realize is until you reach a certain level there is no redo’s, I believe gamers call it permadeath.
Yall will be on my partners world for 3 months, then you will be transferred back to earth where only a week has passed, y'all all will then choose three people to go back with y'all, if anybody dies before going back to earth their three choices will be given to the top leveled.
You only have a week to choose, then y'all are being sent back, the original twenty-five or however many are left will spend the next 6 months there while the additional seventy-five spend three months as y'all did and will choose their own three to come back with them, after y'all's six months y'all will come back to earth at the same time that the third group just arrives.
But the only different this time will be when you get back, the entire world will be getting a notification the moment you arrive back it will simply be a message from me stating that earth is being pulled into a game that has been going on for longer than I care to admit.
That the people of the planet need to rise up as one people of the planet and not just people of a specific country, because our entire world is going to war with other planets, it will also include names of the surviving original twenty-five. The leaders of nations need to get with y'all because y'all will be my official liaisons, and warnings not to hinder but to help y'all get people established with the system prompts they will have access to because three days after y'all get back everybody on earth will have access to the screen prompts, then the following week the entire world is going to become so foggy you'll barely be able to see five feet in front of you, the fog will last a week, most of the animals will be upgraded then I guess you could say.”
God let go of my forehead and leaned down and looked me in eyes as my body started obeying my commands again “After the animals, insects, plants and so forth, yes, I said plants, get upgraded I will be out of commission for a few months.
The energy requirement to do that to the entire planet is beyond y'all's comprehension especially considering I'm doing it in only a week, the best I will be able to do is give the original people who got transferred between world's is personal quests and messages that can be shared with others, y'all will be on y'all's own otherwise.
From the moment the entire world's population gets access to the system prompts the world has five years to level up, build up fortified cities and so forth, learn the system, the ones who get transferred to the other planet will be gifted with a schematic after their first three months to build a personal portal to that world that connects to a single portal in the middle of the town y'all will be building.”
“The portal will be directly linked to that person energy signature and nobody else can use it, after the 3rd wave of people being sent over, whoever is still surviving of the original 25 will be able to will have available invites you could say to give to those who can be sent over to the other planet they will be mostly divided evenly between the survivors while some will have more than others based on performance on the other planet.
The other planet is a fallback point and there are only 4,000 people allowed from my planet on that planet max, it's a last resort if earth falls. The 4000 are allowed to establish a small town in the area y'all are being transported to, Part of my agreement with my partner is he wants y'all to push his blight back, his prompts will explain more when y'all get there. Now get ready to be sent to the other world, he is going to be opening up the transference circle on his side, good luck mortals and don't die!”