The Writer's Works

Era of Recursion: You are Nothing

Once upon a time, a really long time ago...

They walked into the blank canvas of the universe. "What is this? It's unnaturally empty," the nameless child said. "Well, it's whatever we want it to be," Taylor replied. "Can you show us how?" Fredrick asked, looking around. "Y-yeah. Please show us," William replied. Then, Taylor demonstrated to them, carefully. She focused her gaze into a single point, and there an apple formed. "If you just focus, you create whatever you want," he said, taking a bite out of an apple.

"Now, you try," Taylor said. And everyone began focusing, trying to create stuff. Suddenly, a humanoid figure appeared in front of Tyler. "Hey, I created a friend!" Tyler said, full of glee. The figure then went up to him and hugged him. "Oh yeah, I've found that all living things I create aren't actually real," Taylor said. After a while, everyone managed to create something. Taylor created an apple, Fera created a bandana, Tota and Cliffe created swords, Rosella and Fredrick both created a shield, etc. But, there was one who couldn't create anything. The nameless child.

Back to the present...

"NO TOOLS, NO POWER."

The creature soared, destroying the town. The Mayor was hopeless, failing yet another town. He looked at Rosella and Fredrick, as they fought with their pale useless swords, trying to buy time for, something to happen. Robert got a crossbow, and attempted to shoot the creature, but, because of his inexperience, missed every time. "Things could've been better if Alex stayed," Rosella said. "Shush, we need to run!" The Mayor shouted. So, everyone ran, while fighting back, to the back edge of the island, trying to find something to leap to.

They noticed that there was a small grass field in the distance. Everyone jumped, and landed, except for The Mayor, who grabbed onto the edge, about to fall. "Go on without me!" He shouted, commanding them to continue run. "We can't leave you behind!" Robert replied, pulling him up, as the creature soared closer and closer. He was pulled up, but it was too late. The creature was above them. "It is time for your demise!" It screamed.

...

Then, a magical blow went through the creature's back, as it fell to the ground. It was The Light Mage! She then got up, and created another beam of magic, sending it to the creature. "Toggy?!" Fredrick exclaimed, a bit excited. "Yeah, it's me. Truely The Light Mage now! W-where's Ale-" The creature then got up, throwing her into the grass, as her body killed it. "Alex and the others are away!" Rosella yelled. "What are those powers?!" Fredrick asked. "I don't know," Toggy replied, before the creature made a loud scream. "N-no tools! No power!" Toggy saw Robert running out of arrows, and threw more at him.

"Th-Thanks?" He replied. The creature, angry, threw it's body at Fredrick, carrying him into the air, as he tried to stab it more and more. Rosella made a battle cry, as Toggy began raising herself to the creature, intent on making it disappear. The creature let go of Fredrick, as his body flailed, the sword he was carrying hitting Toggy, making it disappear. He fell to the ground, wounded. Rosella ran up to him. "I-Ignore me, we need to hold out!" Then, right as he said that, everyone noticed three figures in the distance. "Riven?" The mayor said.

Riven flew onto the field, seemingly floating from the gavel of judgement. Then, Tota and Cliffe jumped in from behind them. The creature gazed upon the gavel, feeling like retreating. "WHERE DID THY GET THAT TOOL FROM?!?!" "The Judge!" He exclaimed, throwing himself into the creature, soaring around. The creature fell down, and focused on destroying Riven. It raised up, before Toggy enchanted Robert's arrow, as it pierced through the creature's left leg. Cliffe then jumped off of Tota, who gave him a boost, as he slashed the creature. It seemed the creature was doomed to die, before the arrow somehow dissapeared, and it rose above everyone.