Fading

Ninety-Four:

Unknown Place

I look at him intently and I couldn't believe it. "No!"

I survey him from head to toe and I couldn't help myself not notice the similarity of him to the person I witnessed with my own eyes, was vanished inside the void.

He smirks as he tilted his head and looks at me with amazement. "You really are a smart one, Almos." He said. "Although, I am not the same person that you knew before I am now a God. A new born God!"

"This is… impossible." I answered in disbelief as I firmly look at him and then something caught my eyes.

"You noticed."

"No! Jeanne!" I called her out but to no avail as if she was in a deep sleep at the moment.

"It wasn't my doing by the way." He said. "I just wanted to summon her when suddenly something shielded her and protected her all the way here to my realm. So, I don't exactly know what happened to her."

Jeanne was in a baby's position, her hands clasped around her knees and her head nestled between them.

"You!" I was about to attack him to save Jeanne but to my surprise I'm suddenly pin down and I suddenly feels… empty.

"No emotions. An endless nothing… light and blank, simple as it is. Everything that you have are simply, nothing."

"Wh-what did you do to me?" I try to focus and be alert yet I can't, my entire senses and feelings begin to fade as if, it wasn't there from the very beginning not even in the end.

He smirks. "I am a God now, Almos. And these things are too simple for me to exploit since I am the creator of emptiness." I look at him disbelief from what I just heard. "Well, Fallen Angel Azazel was already dead. Now, I am God Khaliq. From the blood of the Origin, I am reborn for a much better self."

'No! That's impossible!' I speak through myself as I slowly fading into nothingness.

"It is very possible my dear one." He said then looks back at Jeanne as he tried to hold her but because of the crystal that protects her body, he couldn't reach her. "As her blood flows into the oblivion, it also flows unstoppable into its depths, through the void of emptiness. Where late Goddess Ilmatar send me to my end, from there I lived in total despair. I have nothing to hold on I just keep on crawling into the emptiness of darkness. Sending me through the ends of everything made me realize that death isn't really the end. Nor life isn't really the beginning. It was the infinity. And I was there, never ever died nor to live. I continue to be conscious and be unconscious, unknown where, what, who, why or how I manage to be reborn. Even though the truth, that was my very first plan but never expected to face such a hardship that will leave me in deep despair. I'm in pain and I'm at ease. My mind just gone as if I don't have it from the very beginning, even my emotions are all just vanished. Boom! I am blended into nothing, you know what I mean, right Almos?"

God Khaliq face was only an inch away from my face he was looking straight right in front of me. I don't know how he get here, I just look at him blankly because he draining everything in me. I am beginning to blend into the emptiness he creates right now.

'I'm…' I wanted to say a word even through telepathy however the words I wanted to convey begins to erase.

"Yes! That's it Almos! Experience what I already experienced, vanished from within the emptiness!"

"No!" I speak out loud before a dazzling light suddenly covered the whole place.

Unknown of what happened. Everything begins to shade in white. And I begin to feel lighter I float into the midst of plain white until I lost my consciousness.

…

Aylin Realm

"Have you found him?" Epiales hurriedly asked the guards who he ordered to find Almos after he vanished into the thin air. He just went without a trace.

"We're sorry God Epiales. We couldn't find him anywhere. As if he was never been here, no presence can be found from the places where he has been."

"That is impossible." His mind suddenly went back from the time Almos vanished in just a blink of an eye. He looks further to find any clue where he went but as long as he thinks of it, the more it gives him headache rather than an answer.

"God Epiales." Suddenly a guard came from the west side of the Aylin Realm and he was in hurry as if he already found the person he was looking for.

"Did you find him?"

"Yes, my Lord."

'Finally!' He exclaimed to himself. "Lead me the way." He decided to see Almos by himself and go to where he found out.

…

It took him long enough to finally realize that the man that he was looking was the real Almos. And was all because of one reason, Almos is change or most likely it was his aura changes as if there is something powerful force shielding him.

Epiales even try to check on it but to no avail as if no one can figure out what it was until that aura that was protecting Almos begins to vanish. Then, finally Almos eyes opens.

"Almos!"

"Wh-what… happened?" He asked as soon as he looks at him.

"You don't remember what happened to you?"

Almos silently looks at him and it took him longer before he answered. "No, I don't remember anything." Then he suddenly became pale.

"Almos!"

…

There is a faint memory suddenly pops up into my mind and as I try to recall it, the only thing that was left was those words from someone I don't know who.

"Wake up and be reborn…"

'What does that mean?'

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