Part One - Third Year - Chapter [008]

The character creator pinged - it had reached its limit. It was at full capacity.

No more human characters could fill this world

I stood up on both legs.

With some disgruntled noises.

But I was ready.

I was more than ready.

I was ecstatic. 

Ready to travel into another world, and leave this one behind. 

"So what now?" I asked Apollo. 

[Before we can submit for approval, we'll need civilization to start up itself] 

[You'll need to make an ATL]

"What's that?" I mused not knowing what he meant by ATL.

[An Artificial Tree of Life] 

Apollo suddenly turned into the symbol of all human creators. Also known as the Sephiroth, I knew of it because of a little game with a certain blonde spiky-haired protagonist. I had taken a particular interest in the villain and had researched a little bit about his name, then by accident came into contact with the mysticism behind it.

Also, you could say I had become obsessed with a film about robots who are angels. 

I had been introduced to it by Eddy, who made us watch it one particular Sunday after I had woken up in his house with a particularly nasty hangover, we ordered burgers and put the movie on. 

After that, you could say my obsession only grew. Besides it was but another excuse to stay away from home and stay with Eddy for a couple of days. It was spring break after all. 

Eddy lives alone in an apartment provided by his parents, sometimes his folks would stay over and I had to evade being alone with him. But other times we were mostly like dirt was to a nail. 

This had been going on since our second term. 

"Is that - you mean to say the Kabbalah is how humans are created?"

[Something like that - first I'll need to ask you about your understanding of black holes.] 

"Well not much really - they suck in all light and don't let it out, or something like that, right?" 

[Affirmative]

[In laymen's terms - inside a black hole, reality crashes in on itself into a 2D plane, because gravity becomes negative energy.]

[Infinitely] 

"It doesn't go up a dimension, but instead - down?" I muttered.

Not sure where any of this was going.

[That's right - The First Sphere, however, is exactly that but in reverse, thus spilling out reality into the hyper meta-verse]

[Some would even go as far as to call it a white hole] 

"Huh, interesting, so, with enough energy, one could - theoretically - jump to higher dimensions through The First Sphere," I noted, not sure I was fully understanding.

[Not theoretically - but reality - it's only through the digital space that we achieved this.]

Apollo quipped at me, not sure what that tone was about. 

[The Atavistic were once an ascendant race of 4D … let's just call them 'angels' for now] 

[They had access to the holy light of god, and would bask in its warm and safe embrace] 

"They lived in the light of god?" I raised an eyebrow, that concept was so far beyond my comprehension, that no single bible study could have prepared me for this. 

Not that I went to those, I never went to the ones my school tried to impose on me.

I would always find a way to get out of them.

I had to attend one or two but was quickly banned from them after my anti-Christian arguments.

They even went as far as to call them 'anti-semitic.'

I laughed in their faces when they said that.

Like they actually had any idea what that word meant.

I almost risked suspension.

I did apologize, but only because being suspended would cause unnecessary drama with my folks.

And well-moving schools in my last year of high school was not the way

I wanted to spend my winter break.

I already had tickets to go skiing with Maria and Amanda.

Also it would mean loosing Eddy.

Apollo changed from the Sephiroth into the Metatron.

[Affirmative]

[Hearing its name would make you go mad] 

"Right, I figured as much," I nodded.

This whole exposition was getting a little scary, my beliefs on life were being questioned right now.

My head was starting to hurt like the time Apollo had downloaded into it.

Was this the madness they spoke about?

I could feel the Frenzy starting. 

[Frenzy Detected]

[Initializing Parliament Scans] 

[Success] 

[Allocating memory usage] 

[Success]

The brain fog was almost lifted from the veil beyond my eyes.

And the thumping inside my head stopped at once. 

"What just happened?" I quizzed. 

[You're brain was running out of memory, like a hard drive running out of space] 

"I see -" I pondered for a minute.

"Okay here's a question." 

[I'm all ears] 

"So like let's say a human runs out of 'memory space' because - I don't know - they came in contact with a cosmic horror of unspeakable proportions,"

[Yes?]

"Frenzy happens, why?" 

[Ah!] 

[Well that's because a cosmic entity like that would only be able to communicate with telepathy, and that would require a synapse and white matter upgrade - something the human brain is not capable of handling.]

[At least - not without some help.] 

[Without an AI like 'Sybil' to handle the millions of reality-bending calculations that would require - humans simply go mad.]

There was a small pause in our conversation. 

"I guess that's fair - " I pointed out.

I looked out into the world we were creating, things seemed ready to go, and I was starting to get hype. 

"All right - so about this ATL - how would we go about building it?" 

[Simple we need to inject the planet with the 'seed of humanity.'] 

I raised my eyebrows and crossed my arms - not sure why, but I had a feeling what this was going to be. 

[You see The Atavistic - made a spear, but were only able to create it out of sacrifice and bloodshed - we call it the first human sin.]

[It's what divided The First Sphere from the Zero] 

[In today's age you would know them as The Five Holy Spheres of Dionysus.]

A beat.

I was left with a blank face. 

"Dionysus?!" I asked with a blank defeated face. I thought I knew what Apollo was going to say with the Spheres, but I was wrong.

Plus he meant five spheres, not just one or two?

[What - is something wrong?]

"No - No - Not at all, please continue," I said changing to a smile.

I just thought it was something else. 

[Okay - You'll need to call up the Five Holy Spheres.]

"What - but how?" I was left confused. 

[Just extend out your hand, and they'll come to you.] 

"Ah - I see," 

[We are creating an Artificial Tree of Life, therefore this will only be pseudo spheres - still just as powerful though. This can also serve as a tutorial for spell casting.]

[Now extend your hand and try] 

I did as he told me. But nothing happened. 

We stood there for a moment. 

"Um Apollo - I don't think it's working," I pestered. 

[Try saying it out loud] Apollo was calm about all of this. I looked at him through my left eye but quickly went back to concentrating. 

"What should I say?" I asked.

[Anything - the first thing that comes to mind] 

I sighed.

This was incredibly vague.

And I sort of felt silly.

But with anything magic, you just gotta believe.

"By the name of Apollo, I summon The Five Spheres Holy Spheres of Humanity! Dionysius come forth!" I shouted in the most unironically way I could.

Just like that Apollo changed once more, however, this time he got bigger.

He changed to a different version of the Metatron.

However this time only four circles around him, and one in the center.

He slowly changed directions to face the planet.

I walked over to the front to see what was happening. 

Four long red lance-like spheres came out of those circles.

Even though he wasn't complaining, the lances were slowly breaking through.

Multicolored rainbows came from Apollo.

Like they were breaking some kind of filament as they penetrated their way through. 

Then as they were half outside.

They shot out like bullets into the planet.

I docked as I heard it like a sonic boom.

A tiny explosion came out of the circles. 

Then the lances headed down towards the planet, as they were descending, they grew in size big enough to cover a whole country.

Each of them traveled through the cardinal points.

One landed in the far size north of the planet, one landed east, one landed west, and finally one landed south.

As they landed the sand tsunami across the planet, like some type of natural disaster.

Thankfully the planet was still empty.

However, the sands reached the atmosphere, until they crashed violently into one another.

Rumbling the planet, until finally, it settled down. 

The spheres could be seen from up here. 

Apollo took a sigh of relief. 

[Finally, the fifth lance is yours to keep] 

A fifth lance came forth same size as the rest of them, except it shrunk down rather quickly, just like before but with a much softer embrace.

A black cord came out of it and wrapped itself around my neck.

Gently sitting next to my heart. 

[Keep it safe - It's a key capable of destroying this world] he mentioned. 

[It's only a pseudo key though, you will only be able to delete this world] 

Apollo went back to his usual magic circle-like form. 

[With this done - time will be able to start - and we can submit for approval]

[Time will be able to start, and humanity will flourish] 

[Now all we need is a name] said Apollo turning towards me. 

"Don't worry I have a name already!" 

[I would very much like to hear it - if you please] 

"This is - The Kingdoma of Eldoren!" I said without missing a beat.

I could see Apollo get giddy about that name, he liked it. 

With that Apollo wrapped the planet up in a giant cosmic letter, and in a white flash of light sent it flying up into the air, teleporting it toward The First Sphere.

[Fingers crossed] 

With that, all we needed now to do was wait. 

The void went away, and I was back in my room.

Night had fallen, and I was kinda sleepy.

Tomorrow would be Monday - and that would mean I had to go to practice and school. 

"I'd like to sleep now," I said to Apollo.

He turned my room into glow-in-the-dark stars.

With a nice purple hue.

Just bright enough to serve as a night light. 

I tossed on my bed and threw on the covers. 

I fell asleep rather quickly.

Apollo went into sleep mode as well, but before I drifted off I heard him speak.

[Good night my sweet prince] 

I smiled at his words - they were almost warm.