Side Story: The Death of a Fallen God! By Aria, The Goddess of Creation
1869 Words
Seya was seated on a chair at his parent’s house the night before his first day of School, looking in the mirror and thinking about the events that would unfold the next day. He was alone because his father had some work to do and his mother was suddenly called because of an injured hunter. Suddenly, he heard a familiar sound, followed by a flashing light.
Flash! Buumm! Flash!
He turned around, knowing what he would see. There she was, the little Goddess Aria. But what Seya found strange was that the Goddess had a very serious and worried look on her face, and next to her was a very old man with a white beard that almost reached the floor. The old man was wearing a white robe, and he was looking at Seya while holding a big notebook in one hand and a pen in the other.
Seya took a deep breath, realising that it was something that would be troublesome. “Hello, my Goddess. Glad to see you again. What’s the matter?”
“Seya, I want to introduce to you the Examiner Araban from the Council of Gods. I thought it was time. You should have the opportunity to know some things that were kept from you up until now.”
Seya looked at the old man, and saw him writing something in his notebook. Seya waited for him to stop. He then introduced himself and the Examiner started to write again.
Seya waited again, asked what he was doing there, and the old man wrote again. “I am the Examiner assigned to your case by the Council of the Gods to report all your actions and interactions with all beings in this World.”
“I see. And that will serve for what?”
Scribble, scribble, scribble.
“I am imagining things, or are you writing everything I say?”
Scribble, scribble, scribble.
“You are not wrong. I also have access to all your thoughts, and I have been reporting everything about you since you were born in this World. I already have fifty books similar to this one, completely full.”
Seya looked surprised at the old man. “No way! Really? That’s not possible.”
Scribble, scribble, scribble.
“I have two of those books here if you want to confirm.”
“Sure.”
What Seya saw in those books was something impossible. There it was, all that he said and did, all that everyone said to him since he was born. Everything!
Seya searched and found that it was written in there that when he was still a baby, sometimes he had a bath together with his mother and sometimes with mother Cemil Denar’an. It seemed that at least the suspicious old man didn’t watch. Or maybe he did and just omitted those parts from the Report. Yeah, he watched. He was giving a very perverted look at Seya while l*****g his lips with his tongue when he noticed what part Seya was reading! Seya became furious when he noticed that in those parts of the Reports there was a very accurate description of his mother’s curves. Or mother Cemil.
“So, all these Reports will serve for what?”
Scribble, scribble, scribble.
“They will help the Council of the Gods decide what they should do with you by the end of your life in this World.”
Seya found that too strange. Worse, the little Goddess was listening to all of this while maintaining the same solemn and worried expression. Something was not right, and Seya asked, “My Goddess, who is this guy? Is he also a God?”
Scribble, scribble, scribble.
“No. Not for the last 10.000 years, at least. He is what we could call a Fallen God. He was the Old God that created this World.”
“The one that was so stupid to the point of creating the Demonoids that almost killed every living being 1.000 years ago?”
Scribble, scribble, scribble.
The old man answered with a curl on his lips, looking annoyed. “I wasn’t stupid. When I created this World, I was just ashamed and resentful of having done such a terrible job. Because the emotions of a God are too powerful, they created the beings that you call Demonoids. I abandoned this World after seeing those horrible monsters. As a God, I couldn’t just kill living beings, even something like those.”
Hearing that, the Goddess got angry, and she snapped! “Yeah, but you omitted those beings from the Council, saying that you abandoned this World just because you wanted! Because of that mistake and the lie that you told to the Council, they demoted you from a God, you lost your powers and became an Examiner until you repented yourself! And I had to deal with those monsters for the past 10.000 years, always without knowing when they would be able to escape and destroy my beautiful World and my beloved people!”
The carefree look of Examiner Araban puzzled Seya, even after the way Aria was accusing him. “Considering that he’s still an Examiner, he doesn’t seem to think that he was wrong. And what kind of Council is that? They didn’t exterminate the Demonoids? Or at least give them a new World, only for them?”
Aria shook her head with a sad face. “A God protects and creates lives. Only in extreme cases can a God exterminate an entire Race. They didn’t consider that case an extreme one.”
Seya was boiling with anger. There he was, the Old God that created that beautiful World, thought it was a mistake, inadvertently created some monsters that almost destroyed everything and for the last fifteen years, was following and registering everything for a Council that had not intervened until now! While thinking all that, Seya was walking back and forth in his room, approaching the Old God with each turn.
Scribble, scribble, scribble.
Suddenly, Seya was face to face with that strange old man, and while touching his beard, it surprised Seya that it looked real, and that would mean the old man had a real body. “Strange… this beard looks real.”
Aria confirmed it while looking puzzled at the way Seya was acting. “That’s because it is. He lost his Godly powers, but to be able to work as an Examiner, they gave him a body.”
Hearing that, Seya formed a Gateway on the back of the Examiner and kicked him through it before immediately closing it. The surprised look on the face of the old p*****t was priceless! The Goddess couldn’t believe what had happened.
She was standing there, with her mouth and eyes wide open. “What have you done? Where did you send him?”
Seya shrugged his shoulders. “To the Demonoid Island. Let him deal with them. Since you said that he has lost his powers, I doubt he can get out of there.”
“He will die! Those monsters feed on Magic and flesh! He will cease to exist!”
“Good. I think it’s a fair punishment. Not a joke like demoting him and having him follow me everywhere like some old p*****t!”
“What have you done! The Council will punish you!”
“No, they won’t. They did nothing to that old p*****t, why they would punish me for doing their job?”
Flash! Buumm! Flash!
The same familiar sound again. And in the middle of the Light stood a woman with a very average face and a gentle smile. Seya was still in a terrible mood, even more after seeing a woman in the same place where only moments ago stood the old p*****t.
“Hello, Seya and Goddess Aria. I am the Examiner Tilia. The Council of the Gods sent me to evaluate young Seya here. “
Seya looked at the Goddess and he pointed with his thumb at that new arrival, as if it was just another nuisance. “See, little Goddess? I kill one, here comes another. Like cockroaches.”
The Goddess was speechless, looking at the new Examiner in front of her. But unlike her reaction with the old man, the Goddess was happy to see this woman. Seya asked the new Examiner while looking bored. “Tell me, Examiner Tilia, what did you do to get demoted to an Examiner?”
“I created a World some Millennia ago. I made a mistake in creating my Races and created a Race that quickly evolved to become a devourer of all the other Races. Before thousands of millions of my beloved people were eaten, I completely obliterated every single one of those devouring monsters. I was then sentenced to be an Examiner until I regretted what I did.”
“Have you regretted it until now?”
“For saving every living being in my World? Let’s just say that I am the first Examiner that was created. And I will always be one.”
Seya looked at the Goddess Aria while smiling a lot. “Oh, I like her! Tell me, you are also going to follow me around and register everything that I say, think or do?”
“I have done this kind of work for a very long time. I know that the environment and the reactions around a subject influence his actions. The last time I did this work was when Goddess Aria was born. I followed her until her ascendance. In your case, let’s see what you will do in the future. My Reports are always accurate and precise. Not like that stupid Old God that you so bravely got rid of. A very nice punishment, if I may say so myself!”
That was surprising, even for Seya. Again, some truths that he shouldn’t know were revealed, like it was just a minor situation. Now what? Will he continue his life being watched forever like some animal?
At least this new Examiner seemed more professional and understanding, so Seya spoke with a raised eyebrow. “I hope that at least you will have the decency to not watch me on some private matters. That old p*****t seemed to enjoy watching my mother.”
“Don’t worry. I always know when things need to go on my Report and which ones are not important for the Council.”
“It seems we are going to get along very well then."
“We will not see each other until the end of your life. Interacting with my Report subjects is not a part of my job. But I wish you to ‘live long and prosper‘. Goodbye, young Seya.”
Flash! Buumm! Flash!
And the examiner vanished, leaving Seya still surprised with all that she said. When Seya looked at the Goddess, she was smiling while mumbling some intriguing things.
“They assigned Examiner Tilia to my Seya! I really chose well, this guy! I am so good at this job!”
Seya couldn’t help but feel happy for being able to meet that cute little Goddess while watching her so happy.
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