Let Me Begin
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The figure appeared before me and he was wearing a weird-looking coloured suit with a hat that looked like a court jester to me. He was also brandishing a walking cane on his right hand and was twirling it around as he walked forward.
"Long time no see...! Gosh...! It had been years, my friend, just to see you in person. Let me introduce myself once again. I am known to you as Max before Ceres existed, and I am your guidance system before and I am your guidance system now. Hahaha. A holographic one. Like the one you see through me like a piece of jellyfish, get it?"
I really can't make out what the person is trying to tell me since I myself am feeling very confused at the way things were right now.
All I know was that I was with my family in one moment and then the next I am dissipating like sands being blown by the wind and now I'm floating in a world of nothingness with a weird person before me that looked rather translucent...!
This crazed out holographic or translucent kind of person was leaning on his walking stick or a cane since I don't even see any kind of gait from him at all.
He was staring at me as if he had not seen another human being in his whole life and right now he was having a piece of something in his mouth and was fiddling with it as he sucked on it like a piece of candy...
"Why Sam? You hadn't had a smoke before for a very long time, yes? You better keep away from this, you know. It is one of the reasons why you had landed here in the first place...!"
"Frankly, it been such a long time since I've waited for this moment and the time had finally come. Do you remember Samuel the Seer whom I had spoken through him when the Romani Gypsies were holding a seance in your domain?"
"That's me speaking right through Samuel the Seer. I really had lost count of how many years had passed since you had been gone out of touch. So right now, since you are here, it seemed everything would have been rebooted or reset."
"Hey... Are you following me on this? Don't tell me I have been talking for the past 30 minutes and you are there staring at me as if I'm like a piece of jellyfish to you, innit?"
"Hahaha. Its been a long time, Sam. I still would like to call you Sam since it's the first name you had introduced yourself to me, you know... Buuuuutttt... If you want me to call you Audemars or Mars, it doesn't actually make a difference because its still a name I could refer to."
My goodness...! This fool before me is super long-winded and I hope anyone who is listening (reading) right now would not be too confused on the things that are happening to me right now.
First I can't even explain of how I ended up in this void and secondly this guy who claimed to be Max had once appeared by voice through Samuel the Seer during one of Felicity's seance back in our domain...!
"Alright... Alright... Even if you don't speak it out loud, I could still hear your thoughts inside your head, you know."
"Simple. I would appear as and when I need it you can summon me like how you summon Ceres. Since Ceres used to be embedded in your head, the case is different from me."
"I would appear before you and converse with you but no one else can see you. Maybe animals and small children but other than that, they might think that you're going bonkers or already a nutcase...!"
That's great...! Only I can see this kind of apparition and no one else could even see its existence. So how would I be communicating with this thing? Urgh... It hurts my head just to think about it and right now all I need to know as to how to get out of this mess and get back to the world that I'm most familiar with.
These thoughts raced through my mind and I can't help to think it aloud. And of course, this apparition that called himself as Max could hear every single word in my head as he chuckled to himself and leaned on his walking cane and puffing away like a dragon that's gone out of breath.
Wisps of smoke billowed in the air that came out from his mouth and nostrils as he puffed on the stubbed piece of thing that he held in his other hand.
"Alright, all the unimportant details aside right now. What I need to know is how are you going to restart your life... Would it still be in medieval England where you had been given birth to, or would you like to be somewhere else instead of in another era and place?"
"As you can see, if you happen to be in the time where you are most comfortable and familiar with, this would be the last conversation that we are going to have since Ceres would be taking over from then on."
"But if you wish to restart your life in another time and place, then you may have me around you but then it is just a speculation. On your state right now, I don't think you would be fitting to be in a modern world setting because it would cause you to have a culture shock...!"
"Sigh... Sam... Sam... I really can't think for you right now and what I would like was for you to be here for the time being instead. Once you are able to think straight, then you might be able to give a clearer picture of where you would like to restart your 'adventure'."
The choices that were presented to me was quite limited and its quite vague since I wished to get back to my family as well as my kids who are waiting for me back home.
"Max, is this preplanned or something? Tell me more in detail at least I could see a clearer picture of why I am here in the first place. This place is void of anything and it's in total blackness. The only thing I could see is only the apparition of you and my hands and feet."
"What is this place anyway?" I inquired as I tried to feel around me but I felt nothing was supporting me at the moment as I was in a sort of inclined position like in a dentist's chair, waiting to be gaped open by the dentist.
"Well, one thing for sure, this thing is not planned by me but of a higher power above is all. As you can see, Sam, you indeed came from the future and thus why you had transmigrated to so many bodies before settling to become Audemars Macleod since birth."
"You transmigrated into other people bodies, take over their outer shell while maintaining the soul and mind of yours. You changed the fate and destiny of others and once you had done so you 'leapt' into this dimension before being assigned by Ziggy, the one whom we refer as the higher power."
"So, once you had completed the task or even tasks, you would leap to yet another unknown territory and the human body. You may end up in the past, the present or even the near future. So far you had not gone into the future so we won't know what kind of future holds before then."
My goodness... This information that I am getting from Max is rather overloading my brain at the moment. I wished there would be someone who would be able to take minutes of this so I could refer back whenever I have the time.
"Max, did something really bad happened on Saturday, 14th May 1453 in medieval England? I mean, you should know what I am talking about is the future from where I come from. You know what I mean right? Thursday, 17th November 1442?"
Suddenly I felt like I'm talking to a 2-year-old kid and not a translucent form that looked like a man in a weird suit and puffing away like a dragon that was simply out of the fire. Hahaha. The way I expressed myself to Max was like as if he knew what had happened back then.
"Do you want to know about these two dates or what, Sam?" See what I had just told you? It's either the guidance system is dumb or maybe the way I explained it to him was simply too complex.
I simply shrugged my shoulders and tried my very best not to look exasperated by the way things had been going. I hope my so-called guidance system does not guide me to the wrong time and place where I wanted to be next...!
"Thursday, 17th November 1442. It was the date that you had been forcefully taken away to this place at this present day. Saturday, 14th May 1453. It is the date when the Hundred Years War ended in England. So what about these two dates then?"
Urgh...! Someone help me, pleeeaasseeee.....!!!
"Alright... Sigh... Let me give you a date. Sunday, 2nd of January 1453. Could you bring me back to that date? I would really like to start on that date if possible since it would give me ample time to avert some trouble in the 14th May 1453 later...!"
Max looked at me with his head slightly c****d. "You want to go back to that crummy old place, chappie? Why not go back to where you were before the accident... Oops... Incident."
The mention of the word accident took me by surprise and Max tried to hide it by calling it an incident instead. Doesn't that mean the same thing?
"What accident, Max? Come on... Spill it out." I exhorted him since he had made a slip of a tongue.
"Errmm... Its an accident that had brought you to be transmigrated about and around, occupying other people's body while retaining your mind and soul. I don't know how I shall put it to you, Sam but I, Errmm... You had passed away peacefully some hours back and that's the reason why you are here."
My eyes went wide as saucers this time and I can't help but gaped in surprise and shock when I heard that I had passed away peacefully...! When did it happen and how did it happen at all...??!!
"Wh... Wh..." I could only stammer out as the words refused to be formed in my head and thus only unintelligible words could come out from my mouth at this point of time.
"Don't you worry, my friend. Your body is in the morgue and your soul is right here with me now. Hmm, it does make me sound like the Reaper or maybe Azrael or something like that. Hahaha."
"But fear not my friend, you are now unkillable and could live like as if one is immortal. Something like that. Don't you go jumping off a cliff or getting yourself stabbed? I can't guarantee it because I'm not Ziggy, you dig?"
Here I am, trying to find out how the hell I ended up dead and here he was laughing his head off and joking like as if he had expected me to die a long time ago. Sheesh... Crazy old guardian system...!
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