Ultimate Battle.
The other divine beings who’d already taken part of this ancient challenge were all on their feet. Watching their young ones getting ready to take ov’r & hopefully, also end up winning for their family realm’s.
This was the big day. I had been training for so long for it. But~ was I ready? From my station, I could see my Mother rooting for me, well, she had power of controlling trees. I had to hold it together. I couldn’t stop thinking about how that’d look—the roots clapping for me. What a spectacle to behold, even imagine!
The gong was struck and that brought my mind back to the Ultimate Challenge. I took in a deep breath. The portal master raised her hands to shush the crowd. All who were in the arena became silent. With all her three eyes, the portal master focused and opened a series of portals for us, the challengers, to go through. The second I was close to the portal, I heard a shrill. Hmm, just a way that my Papa was getting my attention. I turned around & waved at him. Then jumped through the time gate.
I spun around & felt as if my body was being stretched. My super breakfast of freshly baked grouselz seemed to be swaying to & fro in my tummy. That made me feel so sick.
When I landed at the end of the portal, I came to an enormous greyish dark place. Was this the realm of the Dead? I quickly scanned the area. Huh. I guess this was the challenge- what could I create in this empty space? I looked around and then shut my eyes. The moment I opened them I clapped my hands. A beam of light charged around and changed into a ball of fire, which later burst & changed into a silver dragon. I got on my first creation’s back and went around creating a new world.
My next creation was somekind of spherical thing, which I called an orb. The orb blinked at me and it began to transform into something new. I stared in shock. I should have been practicing more with magic and transformations in my studies. Not only combat. The orb stretched it’s newly formed hands and smiled at me. Ah, it had no place to go. So, I created for it an island—which started to spin. After a short while, there was a great mass of land..and I filled that with even more orb like things.
A clock appeared before me. It was the challenge timer, I had to speed things up. I cracked my fingers, neck and even my back...then snapped my fingers. My new creations were in a good place. I announced to them all to take care of the place I created for them. And if they had any questions, they should feel free to ask. Soon, I heard a piercing ringing sound. No! The gong had been struck. I panicked....had I completed the challenge? I wondered how the rest of the challengers had done.
I rushed to the portal that had opened the minute the gong’s chime was no longer heard. What would happen to my creations? Would they remember to make pleas to me for help? I guess only time would tell. I hoped that they’ll all learn to work together and not have to have me intervene, almost at all times. The only thing that I didn’t want to leave was my silver dragon. Now that I had to go show my parents. Then the next time they need help with creating something, I’d be there to help.
Since I discovered a new pow’r, I didn’t really mind if I had won the Ultimate Challenge, or not. And whenever I end up paying a visit to my first creations, I would make sure to take the ones who have no more time left. Take them away from their suffering & bring them to this one area where all divine beings dwell.