Ra grins, "You never asked me not to." He says, throwing a blue shell at the man and winning first.
"I DIDN'T THINK I HAD TO!" Shouted Victor, clearly exasperated, as Ra won the race.
"Well that one's on you." Stated Ra while looking back at his irritated friend.
A loud clap fills the room, bringing the attention of the 3 friends to the mystery man, "Alright, it's about time we put the comedic act to an end and get down to business, shall we?" He said, while standing.
"And what, pray tell, business do we have here? Also... Where is here?" asked Julius after raising his hand.
"Well, this is a separate pocket dimension that I created to talk to you and as for what business we have. You 3 get to reincarnate!" The mystery man said with a game show like air to him and a cheesy expression on his face as he motioned towards the 3. Curious about the man's motives, Victor asked, "Why?"
In response, all they got was a damned near insanely maniacal laugh. After a moment the mystery man calmed down enough to speak, and between laughs he managed to spit out, "W-why, why!?!" composing himself, he said, "Do you all remember how you died? It's because he got distracted while going down a winding mountain road." The mystery man stated while pointing to Julius.
Julius looked down with a downtrodden expression as his friends patted his back to console him.
"Anyway," the mystery man said before getting serious, "I am the God of Fantasy, Imagination, and Dreams: Fantasia. And you 3, Julius King, Victor Murdock, and Ra Estrama DiRaizel, have brought me a great deal of entertainment with your deaths, so I shall allow you to reincarnate in any Fantasy world you 3 decide on." Fantasia finished as his words echoed throughout the pocket dimension.
The trio would've been very impressed if his hair didn't look like a rat's nest and his eye bags were so deep it looked like a body could be buried in them, a definite indicator that he hadn't slept in a couple of days (or millennia).
"Okay then, sir Fantasia, ho-" started Victor before being interrupted by Fantasia, who said
"Call me Fanta."
In response, Victor looked at him like he had a screw loose. Ra spoke up, "Ight, Fanta what's the deal with this reincarnation scenario?" he questioned.
"What do you mean?" asked Fanta, clueless as to what his inquiry was about.
"We mean do we get to choose." Julius stated, "You know... What we look like, our species, do we get wishes? If so, how many. Does appearance and all that jazz take a wish? Also, what exactly is included in 'Fantasy'." he clarified, ending his questioning with air quotations.
"Oh that. Yes, you get to choose what you'll look like," Fanta replies "For free..." he adds. "As for wishes we'll see. And Fantasy includes... well, anything considered fictional, not only in your universe, but every universe."
Victor questions, "What do you mean by 'We'll see'?"
Fanta claps his palms loudly, a thunderous echo emitting "I'm glad you asked" he says with a grin.
He moved his hand and a roulette wheel appeared in a poof. The wheel was split into three tiers, 16 equal sections each, and stood horizontally. The outermost tier was blank except for two slots opposite to each other that read "Random world" and "Genesis". The middle tier said "1 wish" "3 wishes" and "5 wishes". Each repeated 3 times, the remaining 7 slots said "no wishes". The final tier, the innermost sections that said "bonus" and had 16 question marks.
"What's all this about?" asked Ra, looking for clarification.
At Ra's query, Fanta smiled and responded "It's to decide what you get. The outermost tier decides your world, the middle decides your wish amount, and the tiny wheel in the center, yeah that's the bonus wheel."
"I thought we get to choose our world." Victor queried.
Fanta shrugged, "I did say that … Mmmm but I changed my mind."
"WHAT?! You ca-" Before he could finish, Victor was interrupted by a deep chuckle, and a near unbearable pressure weighing down on the 3 of them. As they fought to continue standing, Fanta spoke "Watch who you're talking to mortal. Don't forget I am a God and it is merely on a whim that I am gifting you with reincarnation, so if I choose to wipe your souls from existence or change my mind about how you reincarnate then so be it!" He removes the pressure on the 3, immediately Victor and Julius fell to their knees and Ra bends down with his hands on his knees, all of them breathless. "Besides those blank ones are the same as you getting to choose your world." Fanta continued with a nonchalant tone.
"I-If what he said" Julius stutters out and exhales, "is true, then we still have an 87.5% chance of getting to choose." he says to his friends as they recovered.
"As your friend said, so lets get to it. Who's spinning the wheel?!" Fanta asked in excitement.
"Can each of us spin a seperate section?" Ra asked
"Sure, I don't care, do whatever" answered Fanta with a shrug.
Hearing his response the 3 friends looked at each other and nodded. As if they knew the plan without saying a word to each other, Victor walked up to spin the wheel for destination. He grabbed 2 rungs on the wheel and spun with all his strength then he stepped back to watch in angst for the next 30 seconds. The wheel began to lose momentum and finally stuttered to a stop on…