God Source

God Source is about a boy named Cato who lives on the Continent, Terra. Terra is home to six deities, Mountain, Nature, Fire, Ocean, Demon, and Beast. These deities grant their subjects powers through contracts, allowing their subjects to use a portion of the deity's true power. However, some deities are restless and expecting war. Will Cato have enough time to become a warrior to save his family and friends? Or will he walk a path of revenge, forever alone, never to experience true joy again? Read to find out. P.S. I recommend reading until 'The Ceremony' before dropping the story:) EXCERPT: As I touched the red gemstone, my body launched into a tunnel. It felt like one of the tunnels I would walk through every day to get to the town square, but something was off. The sconces on the wall were different colored flames, some red, some blue, some white, and some even green. I wasn't walking, yet I was gliding through the tunnel. I continued to speed up until the sconces turned into bright blurs in my vision. 'I wonder what that huge noise was outside? Nobody has attacked the Fire Tribe in years; it couldn't have been an attack, right?' My thoughts raced as I thought about where Blaze and Angelica might have been in the line. 'Well, let's hope that they already completed their ceremony. Hell, Blaze could be a True Power Wielder by now, and I wouldn't even know it,' I tried to calm myself with anything I could think of as I raced by the now solid line of changing colors. When I finally came to the end of the tunnel, it spat me out onto a never-ending expanse of the color red. The horizon glowed a brighter red while, what should have been the sky above me, was a dark maroon providing little light. The floor was the most interesting. It seemed as if it were stained the color it was—a dark, unsightly red. I tried to move around in this infinite box I had been transported to, and to my surprise, I could. I stretched my arms out above my head and realized I was still holding onto the crystal. 'Well, it couldn't hurt to have this, I guess.' I stuffed the gem in my pocket and continued to move forward. Whatever forward even meant in an endless abyss. It also did not help that the tunnel put me here and as quickly left me behind. I studied the floor more with nothing else to do. I pushed my index finger into it and was met with solid resistance. When I dragged my finger across the floor, it picked up a line of crusted red that had stained the floor. I brought it to my nose and came to one conclusion; Blood. This never-ending expanse, someone had coated it in blood. As if reading my thoughts, a commanding voice resounded behind me, "Yes, it's blood, any other questions?"