O. R. I. G. I. N.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Story

O. R. I. G. I. N.

by Gallopingmoon 17 min read 1.0 (1,300 views)
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A union of a god and a goddess:

Annihilating all distances with our embrace.

As I take her in my arms one last time,

To feel her soft skin before everything erodes,

She shines through this tunnel we are in, a one way into oblivion.

Oh, her lips like two blossoming dolphins, in and out of the outer space we fly in.

I am not too keen on enjoying the moment and losing the track of time,

Time, time is calling out for me, time, time is ending me;

As I am finalising all of its existence with all of its preconceived notions:

Past and future, yesterday and tomorrow, now and never,

None of it will remain.

All clocks will vanish,

And we will rest.

She doesn't care, she doesn't take heed,

Time flows around her, twists and bends, runs like a river of beautiful purity.

She is here, with me, for me, as my last reward,

Before we root out from this universe, the concept of working hard and getting a reward.

I caress and take, move and kiss,

She climbs me like a vine, and I hold her like an oak.

My two arms are not enough, I grow two more,

Her legs calls out for support and she grows a tail,

We get into each other like a yarn ever expanding.

Our mouths never feeling enough to water every ground on our sacred skins,

We sprout new mouths all around us, on our chests, waists, elbows,

Tongue and teeth, coming and seeding flowers from everywhere.

New eyes flourish from the most unexpected places,

Because of our curiosity, passion, unsatisfiable urge to explore, enjoy.

And we see it all.

Nothing escapes our senses, we consume it all.

The moments where we are together, might as well be constricted to our sphere,

Cause nothing else there is, only bodies of love, crashing into each other.

As my light transfuse with wheel of rainbow, ecstasy taking over, body starts to take lead:

And from every pore on me, every orifice, I start to leak like a sculpture on an opulent fountain,

And she is at the receiving end like an infinite cup, holy chalice, one and only grail.

We dance,

We form,

We create,

We destroy.

She finds a way deep into my mind, connects into my thoughts,

Bring out, what was there,

What is about to come,

What is me.

Before depicting what is about to become of everything in the whole universe,

Let's turn the clocks, and look back on the fate of the of the Earth, as we have written.

This will sound like some Biblical End of Days shopping list, so forgive me if I may be so bold:

Arrival of a Messiah: We skipped it.

All the people of the world gathered together in peace and unison: Done, check.

Coming of a Rapture: Skipped it too.

A paradise built on Earth: Done that, been there, check.

Judgement Day upon us: Skipped.

A heavenly afterlife for all the hundred billions of people ever lived and breathed on Earth:

That is all done, check.

Torturous anguish could only be made possible by hell and damnation: Hell no, we skipped that too.

Eternal fulfilment for all that ever existed: Just about to come.

Being god, it is easy, was easy, wasn't it?

But becoming one, wasn't.

Building the heavens for all the people that deserves it:

That is the easiest decision and work of my life.

For that end, getting in the right mindset, gathering the right team, finding the right resources:

Not easy at all.

Ruling over all the universe, it can be easy,

But spreading our control to all the corners, requires dedication, and a good reason,

Those aims, require a good mind, healthy psychology, sound reasoning.

What kind of god would you become, if you were in my shoes?

For all my days with open eyes, I searched my soul, more than I searched for anything else.

Universe is treacherous not because of physical dangers, like cold space and radiation,

Not because of bad people that might betray you, lay traps and ambushes for you;

Treachery comes from within: All your possible bad intentions rising from your own heart.

I am not allowed to have destructive inclination:

No being ever, with the ability to rewrite the rules of physics and chemistry,

Should ever be empowered with propensity for destruction.

Still yet, no god can ever be without the power to take back their gifts, restricted and bound:

Don't ever be the god that focuses too much on their surroundings, going off on a power trip;

Be the god that focuses on themselves, to be a good one, benevolent one, servant one.

Yes, your turn is coming,

Yes, you will be the next one,

Yes, you will be the god you would like to be:

Just don't straight away erase everything that ever was written.

I am curious, truly, what will it really look like,

Everyone with godly imagination, would have wondered it about themselves:

Will you fulfil all your wishes as your first thing to do?

Then what, will you deign to fulfil the wishes of others?

Will your wishes conflict with wishes of others, then what will you do?

Will you come against me, challenge me, challenge the billions like I did?

If it was up to the people, we were already judged and damned to eternal chaos,

No unity, no harmony, no vision, no future:

Just everyone for themselves, do or die.

But it wasn't up to the people, I took it upon me,

Do you have what it takes to take it upon yourself, when your time comes?

There will be a period of acclimation, adaptation to handle the godly powers, that takes time.

Imagine the power to turn all the lights of the stars in the universe with a single finger snap,

Who wouldn't, who could resist such a temptation for show of power?

That is why, maturity is the key: That is why humanity took their sweet, sweet time, to make sure,

To effectively grow up in all the emotionally possible ways, to bring out a suitable specimen;

That kind of undertaking takes hundreds of billions of lives, spanned over thousands of years.

You represent the latest reach, the accumulation of all psychological progress,

You are the fruit of the labours in the ways of wisdom, of all your ancestors: You are, yes you are.

Did you take the right lessons from the worst catastrophes?

Did you understand the root causes for the worst conflicts between the worst people?

Have you digested the circumstances and results of all the systems put in place, inside our history?

Competition, oppression, inequality, insincerity, work and toil, bow and foil.

This is all too much, I know, I know.

As the first omnipotent god from among the mortals:

I was not all alone, I got help, for my pursuit of deciphering the interwoven lines,

Inside the ever growing fabric of human consciousness.

So if you ever fall victim to your own doubts about development of your own mind and soul,

Yes, definitely do that, doubt yourself, but with moderation, and if you ever lose your restraint;

If you start feeling that you are all by your lonesome,

Against the whole world you are a mere single person:

"How can someone ever catch up with all there is?

What is the next move, next step, what to do now? Please someone tell me!"

I am sorry but I won't be there for you, to console, to inspire, to guide, to lend a helping hand:

I already decided my fate, and it is far away from yours.

But what I can do for you is: I can reveal how I actually did overcame my own doubts,

Exactly, step by step, how did I become a god,

How did I manage to overcome the impossibility look-alikes.

I can show you, so you can copy my homework to your heart's desire,

Or more preferably, get a grip on what it is supposed to look like at least.

How did I do it? It wasn't easy.

Only after becoming God you realise: you are not just one single person but amalgam of many.

Getting inspired, idolising after, love and respect, all mixes up in something bigger than you...

And when you look back as God, you are not sure, who you have started this journey as:

Because you knew all the lives of others, instantaneously, the moment you became God,

As you were curious, as you could, and there was nothing to stop you...

And now, they are all closer to your heart, more than the self, so who are you anymore?

Let's start with one of the key figures that ignited the sparks of it all,

He might be my most tragic Avatar: Atlas...

I was born into poverty, the dirt and the mud.

All my potential cuteness was put to use in the streets as a beggars tool.

Till the age of seven that is, then I was sold to a drug dealer.

To be tied and raped continuosly for seven days,

Till he blew his brains out in front of me,

I watched him get cold and then smell worse than me,

As I shit my pants and piss myself to sleep.

Then, like I hadn't enough, some thugs bust through the door,

My rescuers, turning everything around me upside down first,

Before realising I was all that is left, with disappointment:

My rescue couldn't be more of a salt to my wound.

They were bunch of thugs as I said,

Then again, showing more humanity than expected of them:

The head of their little crew decided to take me in.

They cleaned me, and the head of the head liked me more, and took me in instead.

This continued for a month, me reaching higher and higher levels of bosses to be owned and serve.

Till, I have arrived at the top, as an orphan child taken in,

With all the shows and celebrations of goodness by the head boss, big boss himself.

So started my arduous and torturous next seven years,

As my room: The basement at the summer manor, next to shackles.

With all the books I could read no less.

This could even be considered my lucky break, if not for the man himself:

The big guy running everything, that they revered, who had showed the latest charity for my case,

Later I learned, he was so much more, so much more than a simple gangster:

He was a genius in his own way, his criminal influence reaching every corner of the earth.

His talents and power was only exacerbating his sadistic nature,

He would find new ways to torture, for every single person, every single time:

Would make me take piano lessons from one pm to two,

It was cane time from two pm to three.

Once from a phone call of his I overheard, he was juggling almost trillion dollars,

He had the criminal empire world spanning on his fingertips:

Yet, I was somehow special for him, he could always make time to punish me.

Even after putting all that time on me with a tiresome violence from his own hands:

He still made me call him nothing special, as only a "Father",

Just like all the millions of other people were already calling him, worldwide.

To think back, I never was lucky with parental figures in my life:

Maybe, is that it, is that a main ingredient for this recipe to work,

To become the greatest parental figure of all time, to become a God,

You need to suffer through the worst in first hand experience?

Could be, note this down somewhere if you care.

Next, I was sent abroad for high school, I still don't know what was I getting educated for:

Was I, and always will be, a toy to be played in Father's hands?

Even at the manor I wasn't this lonely, the butler was always there for me:

Considering I was homeschooled by him,

And how good his cookies would taste, flavoured by our combined tear drops.

This school was breeding pit of devils, born to bully me.

I would try to read through my favourite history books, and forget it all,

If the devils hadn't burn them all, alongside my maps and notebooks.

Then through the smoke and ashes, I glimpsed an angel for the first time:

As a fellow student, she asked me: "Why put up, why not stand up, why not take revenge?"

The revelation felt euphoric: There were actual good guys in the world,

And their whole gimmick was to nudge you to take action for yourself, unbelievable!

Where were they till now, where was she, when... forget it.

So I told her, I told her of my dream one day when we were cloud watching:

"I want to be a king one day!"

She didn't laugh, like two other people I told before,

Instead, she narrowed her eyes and made a silent nod:

"So how do we do it?"

"Easy" I answered: "We show power and promise to protect their freedom,

By taking their freedom away."

"Cruel" she responded and added: "But nonetheless necessary, I concur."

" 'Nonetheless', 'Concur'? Have you somehow got hold of one of my books?"

"It was supposed to be a gift after the exams, but I couldn't resist reading some.

Wasn't easy getting one, had to 'take care' of, one of the bullies."

"Did you enjoy it?"

"Yeah! You mean the book right?"

We graduated with flying colours, had a bright future ahead of us, maybe?

But by the second year of our college all my patience has ran out:

What was I doing in these classes and desks?

No one was saying something new, no one was educating me on how to rule the world,

I could have learned this all and even more, at more efficient speeds, all on my own,

In a sense, what was the point of even more high school?

I said I am dropping out, but couldn't return to the manor, not without a diploma,

Not under any circumstances, the place was a monster with infinitely empty stomach,

To swallow me whole,

Just like everywhere I have been till now.

So my only friend successfully arranged me a marriage with one of her rich friends,

So that the princess I married could shelter me from the ugliness I left behind,

So that she could give us a new life in a remote and cosy place,

Forever far away from the prying eyes of the Father himself.

But the plan fell apart within two months,

My new bride was not moulded for any isolation,

All she wanted out of this marriage was:

To showcase another expensive thing she bought.

My pompous wife would never listen to me,

While I had to approve all of her morally bankrupt statements all day.

We would never argue, but she was just not letting me tend to my studies,

Especially after returning back to the city: It was time to carry the bags, carry the bags,

Carry the bags everyday.

At least we were not sent hitmen our way just yet,

Maybe my abusive adoptive parent was also too afraid of his new bride's daddy.

I was also afraid, because I had to leave her, but I just couldn't because I was afraid:

It was feeling like, the more I tried to escape my past,

I was entrenching myself in the same shit even more and more.

I had done the maths, I had even lesser time to myself now compared to college,

This marriage arrangement was a colossal failure.

So I call my old friend and told her: "Your friend is not letting me be, not even a little!"

She laughes: "Is that my fault now?

I serve you one of the greatest opportunities in a silver platter, remember who is her daddy?

And you are bitching about the bitch, who cares?

All that matters is her family is connected to high places,

Look if you can't figure this out yourself, if you haven't already taken action,

Maybe you are not fit to be the king of your dreams after all.

Call me back when you are the king,

Till then it seems it is better if we don't talk through the phone.

I don't want to get myself into your mess."

What?! She hung up? This marriage was all her idea!

Before all this, did she, did she sold me off to her rich friend?

Was she the one to convince me to drop off, to convince me that I wasn't safe at all?

Am I getting paranoid? My wife barges into the room screaming:

"Write me one of your poems now, make it on my beauty, make it fast!"

I am losing my marbles, what is the truth, what is the reality?

Is she truly beautiful?

I look to see, through air, to her now; and through time, to her past and future selves:

And my verdict is, she isn't beautiful by any standards and I mean none.

Like her ugly vanity showing, seeping through even her most genetically perfect face,

Her black heart fading the most colourful dresses on her,

And her offensive old ways taking the shine out of the most bright jewellery:

But from a poet's eyes anything can be anything: So my poems flowed out every day,

Though it was still draining on my spirit, a lot...

I raise my pen's other end towards her: "Did you paid off my best friend from college?"

"Are you hung up on that? Of course I did, she sold you so well,

It was a bargain couldn't be missed: And what a correct purchase you proved to be!"

Am I in a dream, is this a nightmare, I feel sick, all the bad memories resurface.

"Did you just vomit on my new shoes?!"

"We are divorcing, I don't want to see your face ever again."

I went out, thinking I had nowhere to go.

Walked, walked, till everything lost all of its meaning.

What was I doing again, what does it matter, anything?

I sit exhausted on a street bench.

Look at the street, with eyes blank.

Did hours passed like this, days?

Someone sat next to me then, someone looking very inconspicuous.

I thought this was it, the hitman, and he uttered the words:

"I am with the bureau, corruption combat specifically,

We need your help, against your father in-law,

We heard you wanted divorce, in return we could help with that as well."

"I am sorry, what now, were you listening to us, were we bugged?"

"Yes. If you want to cooperate, you will have to get into the car, specified on this note."

"Now?"

"Ten minutes later, yes."

And this operation of his is only about my father in law,

Not also my adoptive father? That is a shame...

"What are you thinking?

If you got nothing else to say, you got less than seven minutes left, better hurry."

I stand up, start walking, read the note, know the place, be there in five.

I see, and get in the car, we start driving, no talk, nothing.

"Will you tell me where we are going?"

"Somewhere safe."

We watch the bright day take shape, as the sun takes place high in the sky.

It gets really hot in the car, I ask:

"Is there AC, you could turn on maybe?"

I get no answer, creepy.

After nearly an hour of drive,

Car parks under a bridge in the middle of nowhere.

Couple other man surrounds the car, driver turns to me with a gun in his hand,

"Get out now."

I get out, they put a sack over my head, tie my hands and sit me against the car.

"Did you really believe there would be something as ridiculous as corruption combat?

If such a thing could exist, then that would mean:

There is no corruption in the first place, corruption worth to combat at least."

They laugh a bit, I stay silent,

Should I be sad: That I was not expecting anything better,

And that I am not surprised in the slightest?

As I hear the gun click, I also hear a motorcycle getting closer at top speed.

Bystander, in the middle of nowhere? That doesn't sound right, and why the bike is not slowing down?

The bike is not slowing down!

I duck instinctively and the bullet runs past over my head.

I stand up in panic and start running in zigzags randomly:

Aaaah, I don't know what I am doing?!

They would run after me, I fall down and expect a "bang" on top of my head.

Instead, something crashes into them with a "bang!"

I stand up and start running again a lot of gunshots echo, screams and glass breaks.

When sounds feel further enough I sit and catch my breath, I am now frozen in fear.

Fifteen seconds later complete silence. Then I hear her calling off to me:

"Where did you run off to? Oh, there you are."

She approaches in frisk steps, is that voice, is she...

She lifts the sack and I can't believe my eyes!

"So before becoming a king, you decided to explore similar positions first?

Like a damsel in distress, a princess in a... under a bridge waiting for a rescue?"

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