Chapter: 15 Pain
Darkness, that's all Michael saw after opening his eyes. Shouting, that's all Michael heard.
After crossing the door Michael took a while to get accustomed to his surroundings. It didn't take him long to realize he had been reborn as a baby...a blind baby, and as for the Shouting, it was mostly due to the fact that Michael's parents were yelling and screaming at each other and it was all due to him.
A few days after being born, Michael's parents took him home from the hospital to a broken down apartment where they lived.
Michael's parents were in a financial crisis after going against their parents and eloping and in this case Michaels grandparents.
When they thought things couldn't get worse, Michael's mother got pregnant and their financial situation worsened. Things were bad and now a few weeks after Michael was born his parents found out Michael was born blind, His situation was bad but there was a way to cure his blindness, if only he could undergo surgery his eyes sight could be fixed but not only was he too young for surgery but the cost to perform it was outrageously high, and thus the argument continued.
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Days went by, then month's, then years. Michael ended up growing up humble and hardworking but due to his parents poor living conditions, Michael never ended up getting treated for his blindness. Michael continued living his life as best as he could but was never able to do much with his life, as he got older his parents forced him to get married to a women much older than him expecting him to grant them the chance at having grandchildren, but his wife detested him for being useless and refused to let him touch her. Years after the marriage she cheated on him with a co-worker when Michael was at work, she was caught by Michael's mother but decided to keep quiet for fear of hurting Michaels feelings until one day Michael caught them in the act. Although he couldn't see them he could hear them and smell the stench of sex that permeated the room and under the humiliation and rage Michael Killed his wife.
Michael was sent to prison and sentenced on death row, a year after the sentencing at the age of 40 Michael was put to death by injection.
Of course Michael didn't die but he sure wished he had.
The next time Michael opened his eyes he was reborn once again as a baby to a loving family that really loved him but his happy life didn't last long. His parents were killed in a home invasion, Michael was sold off and forced to become a soldier for a rogue army after a couple a years he made a name for himself as a mercenary only to be caught by his enemies and tortured to death, he died at the age of 35.
This continued on ... and on and... on Michael experienced life after life full of murders,death, and sadness, the saddest life was one were everything he ever wanted was granted to him only for it to be taken away from jim little by little, the police took his house and money away after being accused of fraud, after experiencing a couple of years in jail his wife asked for a divorce and left him, taking his kids with her years later his wife returned after being abused by her husband only for someone to break into there home one night and forcing Michael to watch as his ex-wife and his daughters were beaten and raped in front of him, and after the intruders got bored of them they shot them in front of him before torturing him with his family's corpses and only once he was completely broken so much that he couldn't even speak or feel pain anymore because of what they did to him only then did they end his life.
This chain of endless misery and pain was only broken after seven hundred years when Michael's next couple of reincarnations turned for the better. In a couple of his reincarnations his family was united and his parents reached old age, enough for them to see their grandchildren and their children after that.
Michael Married his childhood sweetheart and maintained a loving relationship until they died together in their sleep one day almost as if they knew to follow each other after death.
In another reincarnation Michael conquered his world and proclaimed himself king, he was adored and love by his people and sixteen wife's and was granted a boy and a girl from everyone of his wife's creating a very big and loving family he lived in riches and love until his peaceful death were he was sent off into the afterlife by his people and children.
And in his last reincarnation Michael was born into a normal family with loving parents and a normal life. He continued growing up with the love and care of his parents he met and married his wife after college and entered the workforce after a few years he opened a small business and retired early just in time for his expecting wife to give birth to his first son after going through the ups and downs of parenting he watched his sons move out get married and start families of their own years later, hugging his wife to sleep Michael died peacefully and his wife followed a few days later. He and his wife were buried next to each other by their children, in the funeral no one cried because they all understood he lived a good life, a happy life.
And the next time Michael opened his eyes he was back to where he started.
Same room, same pagoda, same red door.
And as his old memories came rushing back to him. Michael couldn't help but tear up and cry. It should be said that except for the times when Michael was a kid he never cried throughout all the pain and hardships.
Only now that he finally came back to reality did his emotions get to him and began to lose control of his pent up emotions, when he could finally relax, When he knew he was finally safe, back home.
And as Michael let himself cry his frustrations out. Ripples of Grey energy began leak out from his body, like waves one after another they began to extend outside of his body and as the process continued changes began occurring to Michael's body, his skin became even whiter than it was before, his hair became shinier and his body became stronger and when his body couldn't transform no more,his appearance resembled that of a being from out of this world, he looked as if he had descended from the heavens.
At that moment Michael resembled a god, an innocent and untouchable being.