From the tiniest celestial body to the most bigger one.From the the habitable planets to the most barren ones. From the most peaceful and filled with life to the most chaotic and devoid of life.
Whether small or big, peaceful or chaotic. Everything would make noise to tell that they exist, that whether a living being or an inanimate object they would all produce a sound or noise.
As if an eternity passed by and as if I had the power of all-seeing, in a dream like-state I witnessed the birth of celestial bodies, the growth of life within them and then the inevitable end of the celestial bodies. Nonetheless, from their birth to their end they would release noises to prove that they were born, that they breathed and that they died. Some with its death would cause the destruction of others while some would only cease to exist and do nothing more.
Everywhere was filled with noise to say that something was there.To say that they exist.
But.
But then slowly, the deafening and ear-piercing noises started to die out one by one.Absolute silence. From death, life should start to born. But that didn't happen, after death life started to not exist anymore. New universes didn't appear instead the existing universes devoid of everything started to disappear on their own until only white painted what was black.
In that infinite and boundless white, I was floating and observed a pair of eyeballs floating in front of me.
[My host.]
In a language that couldn't be spoken.No. A noise that couldn't be replicated was released by the eyeballs and were transmitted on me as words.
[What you witnessed was your 'End'.]
[You shall be the being that will 'gaze' as everything will start to fall.]
[Akin to a mortal reaching the end of it's lifespan. What you can refer as 'Everything' will inexorably slowly decay and die and pass away like a mortal.]
[Eternity is referred as one living till 'Everything' dies.]
[As countless years will take to reach that, one could say that eternity will last till the end of 'Everything']
[A child.No, you, compared to everything you are like a fetus.]
[And 'Everything' is still in its early stages of life.]
[Why would be there existences that can give power through systems, faith or love.]
[As more universes are born then 'Everything' is growing and as new universes start to slowly stop to appear then 'Everything' is starting to reach its late stage of life.]
Everytime the eyeball told a sentence that maybe was full of intrinsic meaning or was full of lies and deception, it would glow and would increase the volume of its voice everytime it would finish a sentence.
[But!]
[There are other 'Ends' that want 'Everything' to die early. Like a cancerous disease or an attempt of murder, they want its death as quick as possible and as painful as possible.]
[O!Host!]
[Your eternity is threatened by three 'Ends'!]
[One will devour everything and as it eats it will grow in power even now is still growing but it is not the most dangerous.To devour everything it will need half eternity!]
[Another one will make others under its control and make them rampage until everything that remain is under her control or there will be nothing more to control.To do so one will need the half of the first one!]
[The last is the most dangerous one!While seemingly harmless at first as time passes it will grow to the point of corrupting entire universes in an instant.]
[Listen well,O Host!Your End is different from them, like a mother you have to prevent these diseases to grow further and cut them off!]
[There are fools who also want the End to arrive!They want it as quick as possible!To taste the sweet release of death!]
[Eternal Daeva.I bestow you the power to gaze at the other Ends and with that hunt them.]
['Everything' will reward you!There are currently two Ends on your world.]
[Weakened and confused even but giving them too much time is not wise. They are more powerful than you, they will slowly regain their powers and that will cause the death of Intris.]
Slowly the pair started to approach me or rather my eyes. Eyes to eyes, they merged with mine.
[If given too much time.Your eternity will be severed forever.]
And with those last words they stopped to talk as they completely merged with my eyes and with that I slowly regained my senses in my throne, with my head leaned on Era's shoulder and Velena glaring at Era and me with venom threatening to melt us.
While Era was sleeping, I and Velena watched each other's eyes with silence and after several minutes, my mouth didn't open nor Velena's but Era did and said a word that caused almost my death.
"Mommy..."Era mumbled in her dreams as if that was the only word she could say.
Velena took a deep breath and smiled while I stiffened. That smile wasn't sweet not lovely it was a smile of a psychopath before killing someone.
"This is a-"
And before I could say more.
"I love you..."
Hell was unleashed and I had to bear my sins. A beast was enraged and pounced on me.
A war cry along with a pitiful scream was heard that day while in the night begs resounded to the nearests floors.
It didn't help that Velena transmitted all the noise made by me to all the inhabitants of my dungeon, it didn't reassure me that the next day Core reported that yesterday most were aroused and went on 'action'.
I don't have to say what happened in detail but the most important thing is that Velena was pacified but I cannot help but wonder that I have to bear the same thing three more times.
"Aw! I'm so sorry, I couldn't help but wanted to test the drugs I acquired in the dungeon while you were here relaxing with...our daughter."
You liar!You are not sorry at all! I saw one of your famous sinister grin while you were drugging me!
"You cannot say you disliked it, you came more than usual and faster than usual.heheh!"
"That isn't the point!That thing forcefully changed my entire persona to your likings!You should have atleast warned me or told me about it."
"There, there.I have forgiven you, so isn't that now alright?"
"What about Era?What do you think about her?"
As I asked that question, Velena remained in thought for some time.
I said everything what happened after they escaped so more than this I cannot do.
Slowly Velena opened her mouth.
"Well...You two didn't do anything that crossed the line since you were pretending."
"That's right!"
"She had her memories altered and cannot even be considered as Era anymore."
"Yup yup."
"She consider us as family now, not only she seems behaving like a child but seemingly have also the brain of a child."
"She still a goddess though, she may be even more powerful than us."
"I cannot say for the others,"Velena said."But I can try to atleast give her a possibility."
After some reasoning and a night full of tortuous 'punishments' I managed to convince Velena to atleast not be hostile with Era.
"By the way."
"Mh?"
"Your aura is a bit odd...Is it because of what Era did to you?"
"I had a dream you see and..."
Hiding to her and to the others will not help, and it was not entirely a dream since now I could somehow 'see' three beings that screamed the words dangerous and do not meet them.
It is a strange phenomenon where I can see them but not with my eyes. It seemed that grew a pair invisible eyes that are doing the job of watching the three beings.
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