2 - Body creation

I tried tapping on the prompt hoping to get more information from it only to remember I lacked arms.

[SIMPLY USE YOUR MIND TO CONTROL YOUR CHOICES]

The voice announced in my head. At this point my attention went to it. It felt strange but also reliable, foreign but familiar.

"Who are you" I asked with a thought. The voice was quick to reply apparently having no qualms to introduce itself almost like it was excited to introduce itself infact.

[I AM YOU]

"Oh.Nice to...wait what?"

[I. AM. YOU. ]

It stretched each word out as if talking to a child learning pronunciations, a fact that should have irked me if I wasn't too busy figuring out more important things.

"You are me" I restated. Confusion was wreckimg havoc in my mind at the words, something the voice must have realized.

[I CAN EXPLAIN BUT FIRST YOU NEED TO CREATE YOUR BODY. SEEING THINGS NORMALLY WOULD HELP IN UNDERSTANDING A LOT]

Even after hearing this statement I still barely calmed my confusion down. I mean I want to blame the various events weren't normal.

'Wait. I actually died. I guess nothing should be normal. Just go with it.' I told myself.

With this decision I focused on the prompt in my mind and willed the yes. It wasn't that I was not confused anymore. I just pushed the thoughts to the back. Something I was good at. After all situations that you couldn't handle were not worth fretting over.

With the prompt activation everything around me spun. No not the space around me. More like my vision.

It felt like a virtual world formed with me at its center and everything arranging into place. First a table formed and then screen quite large appeared on the table floating over it.

Looking at it I watched as a depiction of a body was shown on the screen. Black hair, green eyes and a broad nose. Plump lower lips a slightly fat body with fatty lumps at some parts.

There was a measurement at the side showing the body at 5'6 in height. As I started the body over I came to the realization that this was me.

[???? CAN RECREATE A NEW BODY OR USE THE OLD. PREFERABLY TO CREATE AN NEW ONE.]

The voice spoke my thoughts while I scanned the image on the screen. Willing it I realized I could spin the body in whatever angle I desired so I could get a good view of all sides.

Looking away I finally noted two tabs at the side.

One showed the letter TF and the other had the letter A. Before I could ask almost like it could read my thoughts the voice spoke.

[WITH THE RESOURCES AT HAND???? CAN ONLY FORM TWO BODIES. ONE BEING THE TRUE FORM AND THE OTHER AN AVATAR. ]

"True form, avatar?. I'm not following". I was legitly growing confused with this.

[SHOULD WAIT TILL LATER BUT THE BODY CREATION IS IMPORTANT ESPECIALLY THE TRUE FORM SO LISTEN WELL.]

" okay?"

[???? DIED. WHILE???? SOUL WAS FLOWING INTO THE CYCLE OF LIFE AND DEATH A NEW MULTIVERSE OR SPACE WAS SIMULTANEOUSLY BORN. ???? WERE DRAGGED IN BY THE IMPLOSION AND FUSED WITH THE NEWLY BORN MULTIVERSE. NOW ???? ARE WHAT OTHERS WOULD CALL A GOD OR MORE]

Silence.

I just staged silent trying to make sense of all this. What was happening?. Was this some sort of camera prank? Was there some dudes recording all this trying to make fun of me.

"Wait I can't feel my body though so how is this possible? Some drug? But how are the reading my thoughts. I'm not even talking."

I'd expected a lot of things. I had actually gotten over the dying fact and expected that maybe reborn humans actually had the choice to build their bodies but now I regress. How was I, Drake Velcester a God?

It sounded more ridiculous than the time in highschool when a rumor went around that the school's most pretty girl had a crush on me.

I had literally scoffed and laughed my ass out. When asked my reply was simple. It wasn't that I had a low self esteem , maybe I did a little. But self esteem or not the chances of that actually being true had been -0.00000 to a thousand.

In other words ridiculous, as ridiculous as it felt right now to hear that I was now a God.

"Pfftt. Alright shows over, you had me with the whole death thing but a God. You ruined it there" I thought.

"Though I'd say this whole not feeling my body and seeing all this things is really impressive"

[????? DOUBT IS REASONABLE. BUT FOR THE MOMENT TRY TO IMAGINE THIS BEING REAL. OR A GAME. THINK OF IT LIKE A GAME. IN THIS GAME YOU HAVE TO MAKE A BODY THAT CAN SUIT YOUR NEEDS, STRONG ENOUGH TO FIGHT AND ALSO TAKE ATTACKS. JUST HUMOR YOURSELF.BUT TAKE OT EQUALLY AS SERIOUSLY AS LIFE AS DEATH]

The voice sounded again. After thinking for a while I shrugged. If it was a prank I had nothing to lose. Getting laughed at would offer some spice to my already boring life. If it wasn't a prank... Nah.

No way all this was real.

With that in mind I focused on the screen in front of me.

[TO MAKE THE BODIES DIVINE ENERGY IS NEEDED. CURRENTLY YOU HAVE ONLY SO MUCH ENERGY FOR A FEW IMPORTANT TASKS. I'VE ALLOWED SEVERAL UNITS TO THE DIFFERENT TASKS YOU NEED TO ACCOMPLISH. THIS IS THE FIRST]

"You guys really are going all out with this God thing. divine energy?" I would have laughed if I had the necessary organs and parts to make sound. Wait I did, but this pranksters somehow had me disabled.

'Was this actually a prank' I thought. 'If it isn't and I somehow create a bad body would I have to use it forever. Thinking about it. If I was actually dead and needed to create a new body, I'd make something awesome for myself. In that way other humans would do same too. '

'Meaning is unlikely that I died and I'm creating a body to return to earth. Which leaves being a god, highly unbelievable and a prank.'

Staring at tbe screen yet again I thought ' Yet it feels weird. Fine. I'll play along. Nothing to lose either way'

With that thought I began experimenting.