It's finally here! Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present:

Alain’s final moments. A fall. A rock. Bones breaking. In this haze, everything seems so distant in the past.. Some memories are gone, some foggy, some wildly vivid, but all of them eventually fade..

“Hello, our falling star.”

Alain reawakens, gasping for air. He is in a purple realm, with thick, purple fog surrounding him and shrouding two distant silhouettes. As the two figures approached him Alain remembered what happened to him. He had died. This was the afterlife. Or so he thought.

“We ask a favor of you.. A very large favor..” A voice echoes through the fog. “Take our place. In return, we will do anything of your choice, once.”

Alain is skeptical. “What exactly is ‘your place’? What are you talking about? Why am I here? I’m dead aren’t I? Why am I stuck in this.. this limbo?”

Laugh booms throughout the area, and is stopped shortly after. “Alain, nothing awaits you in the afterlife. Where you’ll go, nobody you know will be there. Not your parents. Not your friends. Not even your beloved girlfriend, who left you behind in this cruel world.. There’s nothing to live for after death.”

Alain scratched his head. “How do you.. know my name..? Who even are you?” He backs away from the dark figures approaching him.

“Well.. You are our next successor! Let us clue you in on our job: We are otherworldly beings that help make history. We help make sure the Nexus doesn’t devolve into a state of constant warfare. In other words, we are a sort of ‘God’, looking over, watching, and doing what is necessary to maintain the power balance in the Nexus.”

“...”

“And you can basically shape the world any way you want!”

“Um, no.”

“No? NO?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO??”

“I mean, I don’t care. I don’t want your god powers. So, no.”

“Well.. Your friends are going to need some help where they’re going.” one of the figures snidely remarks.

“My.. friends..?” Alain forgot them. They’d supported Alain, protected him, even if he’d only known a few of them for a short amount of time. They.. were the closest thing he’d ever had to a family.. Alain clenches his fist. “What do you mean, they’re going to need my help?” he demands.

The figures emerge from the fog. One of them is a boy with blonde, curly, styled hair, and a fancy blazer. The other is a dark-purple haired girl in a purple sweater and jeans. The boy had a face with a wide grin, the girl having a disappointed frown on hers. “Allow us to introduce ourselves, Alain,” the boy says, his mouth frozen in the same wide grin the entire time he speaks. “I’m Fate.”

“And I’m Destiny,” the girl adds. “At least, those are the names we remember.”

The boy tilts his head. “And you, boy, are our Fallen Star.”

Alain frowns. “The f**k does that mean?”

Destiny shakes her head. “I told you he wouldn’t understand your cryptic bullshit. He’s a f**king teenager! He’s not gonna try to understand metaphorical shit like that!”

A visible red symbol appears on Fate’s mask-like face. “I was trying to be cool, Destiny! Stop making me look stupid!”

“You did that yourself just fine, dipshit.” Destiny retorts. “Alain, I’ll be straight with you. We’ve been doing this for a long time, and we need your help. Things went smoothly at first, but recently we’ve run into.. a bit of a roadblock..”

Fate chimes in. “Somebody has taken over the Nexus and has been ruling the lands with an iron fist. They’ve taken down powerful leaders of smaller regions of the Nexus, and burned down hundreds of small communities, replacing them with military bases..”

Alain raises an eyebrow. “And you want me to help how..?”

Fate tilts his head. “By becoming our loyal servant and helping take down the tyrant once and for all! We’ll grant you special powers to make sure you don’t die out there,” he joyfully explains. ”And best of all, you’ll be able to continue living to keep those little friends of yours alive! It’s a win-win!”

Alain thinks. For a brief moment, he just stops worrying and thinks about this life changing decision, weighing the pros and cons. He could help his friends and be there for everyone. But he could just die and not have to suffer anymore. He wouldn’t be anyone’s burden, and he wouldn’t have to deal with pain and, ugh, people. But then he’d be abandoning his friends.. those closest to him.. Alain struggles for a minute, but then he comes to his decision. “I’ll do it.. I guess..”

Something about Fate’s plastered smile seems to widen, as if he were feeling an intense glee. “Okay then! You’ll be our faithful servant until you’ve fulfilled your duties! In exchange, we grant you great power, and the chance to continue living your life. However..” Fate’s mask seems to shift to a more sinister smile as his tone becomes more threatening than joyful. “You’ll do as we say, when we say, and any defiance will be punished.”

Alain shudders, but he’s already committed. Can’t back down now. “O-okay.. Got it!”

And the fog fades as Alain’s vision goes black.

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