Time dilates. Life is seeping away…

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Drifting quietly, a planet molded from a bountiful collection of orange dust and breezing winds falls gently apart. The elastic waves of space produced by a dark nebula in the distance drags the corroded skin of the planet far, far away into the haunting darkness.

Once... this crumbling planet was kept together by the power of an unparalleled civilization...they were known through the passages as the Merbid; a great society that discovered the machine powering their reality, before understanding the mysterious substance that fueled their aching bodies.

They were powerful enough to bring their own destruction and the death of whole universes. The Merbid as any other are long now gone, drifting in the infinity of space as evolving hiveminds. Somewhere.

Some...where.

Now after their long absence, their lonely planet starts to shiver, quaking and shaking. Slowly Its sickly yellow surface begins to turn into heavy sand as the green intoxicating winds forming around the colossal planet clash like frozen thunderbolts, they twist, shaping and forming, becoming mighty tornadoes that reach for miles, upon miles. Everything seems so catastrophic in this despicable world until something in the horizon flickers for an instant.

The pulsing flash of light is so momentary, instant...but powerful that the green winds are dispersed by a wave of matterless energy that lifts up huge rocks the size of mountains into the air.

Rivers of crimson blood start to emerge from the underground of the planet into the lonely sky; floating upwards as it takes the form of a crimson sticky steam that becomes solid and rubbery with heigh. The planet's temperature furiously rises like if the world was put on a cosmic oven, such an interesting analogy indeed...Scribble that down on my to-do list.

The sky roars.

Yet black thunder blooms from the sky,

Slowly the form of a red spiked monster increasingly grows on the horizon. A darkened eye opens and rolls down its hill shaped body. The gigantic crimson monster opens a mouth from its center and turns a mellow bright-green.

The color of the world began to drain from every grain, every microorganism, every single cloud filled with dark lightning and flow into the bumpy mouth of the colossal giant. A fire glitches into existence from who knows where in front of the mountain-shaped giant.

The giant knew and accepted his role, giving his life and letting go for the last time. The fire reaches up into the air and gasses up the world, never disappearing but coloring every single empty space with a red miasma, a frail mortality.

The world disappears into the nothingness...leaving an empty space; a reality in on its own.

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A distortion appears in the middle of a dark room that expands into a huge disk, as a crimson fire slips out of it, grossly gliding into form. The center of this bloody thing carries a crystallized yellow marble that is surrounded by glaciers of reddish color and red slivers. The monotonous slivers trace the inner surface of the planet like glistering maggots, trying to turn the planet into liquid while the baby red glaziers try to pierce towards the planet's core.

Furiously burning, the deep crimson flame sizzles, emanating a glistening heat. Shuffling around, wonders with refined graciousness on a glassy-black surface, the fire moves silently in circles, thinking, but as it anxiously searches for the meaning of its simple burning life, something ancient inside the fiery pits of its being starts growing with vigor. The frosted planet begins shining.

Slowly its reflection on the floor begins burning brighter.

BOOOOOOOOM!

The fire bursts, making the bits of its small flaming body splatter everywhere. Strangely enough, the fragments simply land on the walls and ceiling, still burning, as the material coating everything just wobbles it out.A few meters back, the epicenter was filled with a dispersing black cloud, until in the mist, a small white dot appeared, a dot that quickly devoured the cloud of smoke, as it gently fills the room with a strange sense of longing.

Groggily, the broken pieces of the fire come alive and gravitate towards the white dot. A mere 5 seconds pass before the fire finally reunites itself. With a dexterity so elegant, the fire dances with the distortion in the air produced by its young heat, as It silently moves under the swarming gaze of a blue light.

Suddenly, usurping threads of white vapor come out of the fire, creating small clouds of white mist that gently twist and envelope around it, finally creating a marble shaped nebula. But as the white marble shaped nebula inside started becoming denser and denser, and as the ball of fire enveloped in white clouds of growing mist begun moving from bigger to smaller loops, the size of its body started becoming greater, stronger.

The flame's bubbling edges started twinkling slightly, as its center became a concentrated pool of crisping Memviss fire. A fire so strong that left reality itself completely burned, leaving only an all-consuming darkness. The hypnotic scene kept repeating itself for hours, seemingly without an end. Until in one of its many circling, it dimmed a little; it's movements slowing down as the bubbling on its flames increased, desperately moving, trying to shape itself into something, anything.

The fire...inevitably failed for one last time.

Completely stopping its entrancing jog, it just rested on the glassy floor, contemplating for a moment: What was it and what was Its purpose in coming to life? The tail on its head moving from side to side, ever slightly slower. For a while, it stood like that, absorbing the energy beneath, waiting till something happened.

Suddenly a burbling noise filled the surroundings and the tempo of the fiery flame became faster and faster. With a surge of bloating energy the flame happily prepared itself for its favorite game... or only game; but it was only a matter of time until it discovered more fun 'games'.

For now, Jumping!

Time slows down to a standstill, and at the moment where its' energy reached the highest it could go, it exploded forward. As its flaming figure gloriously soared in the air, it left a slowly forming shockwave surrounded by enormous amounts of energy that blasted through everything on its pathway.

As those energies clashed together, they heated up space to an absolute limit, resulting in a shockwave of pure plasma. The sound released from the explosion was so powerful that it made an elastic echo. An echo that shook its very surroundings, as it left a frighteningly powerful booming tremor.

But that was just the beginning.

The explosive energy left in the shockwave imploded all of a sudden in itself, producing a burning light that completely illuminated every single corner of the room before darkness once again swallowed the room. As all of this was happening, the flame landed on a wall, smashing its lustrous shiny surface like a high-speed bullet, bending it inwards. As expectedly the hit did not make a sound, and the wall just returned to its original shape, wiggling the small flame out slowly.

On the other side of the room, a glowing mirror that seemed to invert darkness for light and a bloody ball of fire for a chilling ball of frost suddenly broke.When the power of the sonic boom reached it, it instantly made the falling fragments into dust, literally erasing the mirror from existence. And so for a time, the elastic ball of flame just jumped excitedly inside the big dark room, causing soundless ripples everywhere, but still not breaking its confines.

It sprang like a rabbit around the room’s smooth surface, leaving these golden rings behind, that slowly enlarged and disappeared into the nothingness. The fire lands with a little bounce in the middle of this glamorous room, looking around with its tail. Suddenly the little screech of fingernails touching decaying bark carries through the air.

Responding to the thrashing in an intelligent manner, the jumping fire made Its flaming tail become sharp like the point of a dagger, as it came to a complete stop. Everything from the biggest of objects to the finest of hairs is instantly smashed brutally into the ground. Within a second, the floor cracked dangerously and so did everything else on its surface. Suddenly the air in the vicinity grew in weight, as it was slowly coated in a faint, yet powerful dominance.

The glistering blue maggots waxing the surface of the marble slow down to a frightening halt. A pool floating far behind it dimmed its blue glow, as something dark was displayed on it, something truly bitter. And as time slowly passed, the dimming pool started swirling louder, swiftly and glossier near to the thunderous crackling of the bloody fire.

Everything seemed so serene until something or someone spoke in an alien tongue, forming a structure of sounds that is characterized as lowly or for lack of a better word as… mortal.

“There will come a moment in the threads of time... when the predetermined fails, after all not everything is perfect.” Two orange eyes calmly opened, shining in the back of the room not far from the light of the fire.

“There will come a time, when the cycle is transcended, but not completely...” below the orange eyes, the ends of a mouth curled insanely, as the unknown creature savored his next words carefully, “ascended...”

-“But,-”- he turned down his voice as he slowly spoke, “there will never come a time, where a true bond does not guide a soul beyond the manifestation we call reality.” Looking at a circular window displaying a standing shadow, the talking abomination silently yawned.

-Thunder booming!-