For all my life I have never believed in a god, i wish i had.
"Come down Jacob", my mother shouted in an aggressive tone. 5:30 am my alarm blinked, why was she calling me at the break of dawn. "Coming", I shouted back, a feeling of fear ran over me as I walked down the stairs, as i reached the bottom of the stairs my heart dropped, this wasn't my mother. My mother had always been a humble individual, she had eyes as blue as the ocean, silky blonde hair and a distinctive smile you could see from a mile away.
This lady however wasn't like that, I rubbed my eye thinking it was a dream,it wasn't, this woman had a sewed on facade it wasn't organic, it was like she took the face of a dead body and sewed it onto her own.
"You look startled Jacob,what's the matter". Still scrambling for words "I'm just tired as all" I said, still shaking, what had this woman done to my real mother? "Here I made your favorite, eggs and pancakes". She had known my favorite breakfast but how.?
I ran a quickly as I could to the bathroom but the moment I got there my blood ran cold. There on the cold tile of the bathroom floor stood the dead body of my mother, her face ripped off her body but still a faint smile remained. My heart skipped when I heard "You weren't supposed to see that Jacob". I spun around to see my fake mother standing in the doorway with a blood stained knife.
"Why!" I shouted at her, "why did you do it!, why did you kill her". I screamed "she didn't pay off her debt and now it's your time" she said, right before lunging at me, this was the first time I was truly afraid of death. As I awoke the only thing i could see is what looked like a temple uninhabited for centuries maybe millennials. As I stood up on my feet I saw a goddess? she looked like my mother, "Mom!" I said, she form a cold smile "I am not your mother, I just take the form of the person you love the most to make you more comfortable " she replied, still spooked by the whole situation, I asked "what am I doing here". "My name is Mei and I am the goddess of reincarnation" she said, "you are here to be reincarnated and sent to another world where u will live until I send you to hell".
"You get to chose one skill in your new magic filled universe"mei said, "absorption" I said, "alrighty there you go". As she threw me into a portal I could see a world beyond dreams a world with endless possibilities.