Domain of the last Human.

                Okay, forget the almost. I am screwed.

                The mortal was not thinking clearly in his rage. It is the only reason I was still alive. His shield spells are impenetrable, and can only be shattered  by brute force. At least a few million tons of brute force. I didn't even have that much power at that moment.

                An orb appeared above my head and slammed down on me . I could feel cracks appearing in my bone as the blasted shield kept trying to pulverize me into the ground. When it raised the next time, I grabbed a crystal shard and threw it at him. He dodged, but the shield stopped long enough for me to jump out from under it. He threw another spear at me. It barely missed and I retaliated with another lump of crystal, which glanced off his helmet as he twisted to avoid it. Both of us faced each other, and I was sure that he was trying to  stare me down. Too bad that my eyes were closed.

                Suddenly, I saw the humor of the situation. Here I was, one of the most powerful beings in the universe, being bashed into oblivion by a creature which was probably just out of his teens. Granted, I was injured, but still. How the mighty have fallen.

                Still, this was disconcerting. I was weakened, but I took out a goddess with one punch. How could this person stand against me? And how was he winning?

                As the questions hit me, I could not hold back my laughter. The creature I was facing was now probably very confused and really unsettled. Whether that was due my laughter or the fact that I was laughing out blood is another matter.

               'What's so funny?", he asked angrily.

                I decided to tell him the truth. "This battle has already been decided. I am fighting to avenge a petty insult. You are fighting for something bigger. As I am now, you will kill me. So my friend....... see ya!!!"

                With that, I crushed the amulet that Ed had given me. I smiled a last time at my opponent as my form melted into a shadow.

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26700 years ago.

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               "And thus it is time to leave." Ed said. Huh. Ed. A name. He never had a name before. Even after a hundred years in the black dimension, he still could not get over the novelty. He had been the God of Creation for 10 billion years. It had been his only identity. He would always have a place with the gods. He was nothing else. Even when he was defeated by a much younger god, he accepted it. It had meant a demotion, a little less meaning to his role, but that didn't matter. Such duels were the norm. Life would still continue as it had.

                He couldn't have been more wrong. The younger god had used a law, a law so unused that it was all but forgotten. But Ed had remembered it. How could he not? He was one of the council when it was written. To keep balance the elements had said. Out numbered 2 to 6, the resolution was passed,  the High God and the Devil's objection went unseen.

                The banishment bill. If ever a god or demon was displaced by his junior, the new god had the right to remove the displaced god from both the God and Demon civilizations.

                "Well, all good things come to an end." The human said,snapping Ed out of his thoughts. He was holding two pieces of the Void. Null Void, he called it. Ed couldn't figure them out. The spell was an unsettling one. Energy coming from nowhere at all. The Wrym had made good use of his time in the void period, but he still didn't understand why. The human called the Wrym a 'Disillusioned'. It was an intriguing term. When  Ed asked, the human only said "You don't want to know."

                "What are you going to do then?" the human suddenly asked." Will you embark on another project? Maybe build a new world?" He didn't like to do it, but he reopened a closed wound.

                 " I am not sure any more." Ed replied, depression hitting him hard. "My purpose in life was to be a God. Now, my existence is but meaningless."

                 The human opened his mouth to say something, but he shut it quickly, a thoughtful expression on his face. Then he smiled.

                  Over the hundred years that they were trapped together, Ed had come to understand human facial expressions, and really he didn't like this one.

                 "So you're free? Then why not become freelance ?", the human said, grinning wildly."You can build worlds, can't you? So build me my own. One just for someone like me. Here's the down payment."

                  The human pushed the both black globes towards the god. One into his hand, the other into his body. The one pushed into his body instantly released all its energy, instead of slowly and infinitely giving out energy as it should have. Enough energy to destroy a galaxy. The complex spell Ed had woven took effect, phasing him out of the back dimension, while the human sat down, smiling as he prepared to wait for another 50 years.................

                .......... Ed regained consciousness on a barren ice world, just floating in the reach between galaxies. Instantly, he screamed and cursed, sending bright flashes into the sky as he used choice words to describe exactly what he thought of the human.

                After a few minutes he calmed down. Okay, so the human sent him out. With an unclear objective. With no clarification of what he wanted, no future warning, no  ........ "Concentrate!" Ed scolded himself. How was it any different from what the devil had done that one time.

               So what if the human had told him of fantastical worlds where coloured four legged creatures frolick, or were bipedal creatures fight with special magic and unusual swords, or where creatures are dumb and stupid?? And so what if he had said  "One just for someone like me." without even telling him what someone like him would want?

                He would just build them all. Every single world.

                He pulled off the stone tied around one of his tentacles, and cast a spell on it, and left it there, so that when the human came out, he would find it there. Next to it, in the ice, Ed wrote

When you reach the world you seek,

                            Crush the stone,

                            And dig under the tree.

                 There. That should frustrate the hell out of his human friend. And now, Duty awaits. Ed would build the worlds, all in the name of ......of....aahhhh...

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                " I never asked for his name."

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      Present day,2 weeks after escape

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                 I woke up next to something powerful. Something radiating magic. The power of Order. I had never felt it like this. This power seemed...... old and .... it was the essence of Order. A small part of Order wrapped in an object. The only object that I had heard of that could radiate this type of power was the pillar of Order. But that was in the blackhole sandwiched between the God's and the Demon's plateau. Then again, I had left a 500 mile crack in the Demon's plateau the last time I had gone there. So perhaps entry was easier? Ed probably stole borrowed it from there.

                 I was fully healed, so it must have been atleast a week and a half. I tested the bonds. They were back in full force. All I needed then was a Void for backup and I'll be  good to go. I started the life detection spell(LDS), the soul detection spell(SDS) and the  mind detection spell(MDS), and let the sensations come in.

                Instantly, I was floored.

               There was so much life. All around me, in the soil, in the air, even inside my body. They had no mind, but .... they were so many. It reminded me of something........

Microbes.

'Huh?'

Woah man! Your're right! Microbes.

'But that's not possible.' I replied. 'Microbes are... there's.... all of them were destroyed. Not a single living being other than me survived the  Astra '

Internet.

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'Oh.That made sense. The internet had survived(Somewhat). When the first attack took place, most of the information on the internet actually survived. I have no idea how, nor did I particularly  care at the moment, because bloody aliens had just reduced the total number of humans from 9 billion to 3 billion, but I had come to appreciate the fact that so much information was saved. When I was forty, I became paranoid about the gods shutting down all our electronics with some old fashioned ionized radiation. Planet wide Radiation Hardening was impossible because of a lack of resources. So my first order of business was to get the IT department to link all information in the internet to 3 backup points. One of the devices was held by me, and it downloaded most of the internet while the milky way galaxy was being consumed by by an enormous ball of fire.

                I got up on my three legs, and stretched my wings. There was a slight draft running through the cave, but my coat was thick enough to shield me from the cold. I began to change the properties of the life detection spell, and as I did, a preloaded spell caused my horn to light up. I concentrated on the conditions of the spell, slightly changing the requirements so that the microbes would be......... would ......be....be..be...be ???

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'......'

Please, my colleagues, keep your peace, for........

'AAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

WHAT THA FUCK! WHATTHAFUCKAAAAAHHHHHHH!

You are 27000 years old. This is not the most unusual situation that we have faced.......

I AM A HORSE!!!!! NOOOOOO!!!!!!! ITIS THEEEENDDD!!!!!

'Damn you ED! How dare you !!!!!! Horse??????? What.....Why......AArrrrrrgh!!!!!'

SILENCE!!!!

               Thank God for that fellow. Without him, we would have panicked for atleast a few more years.

               Okay, perhaps that's a bit of exaggeration, but...it didn't matter.

'Bah. I can't do anything about this at the moment.' I told them, though I was still breathing a little heavily. But for some reason......for some tiny little reason....it felt ....familiar. Like, .... well, like I have heard of this happening.

Horse, horse, horse,horse....

'Well, he's been scarred for life. Soooo, what now?'

Let us just follow the directives the the God of Creation gave us.

'But that was just cryptic gibberish.'

Feel around.

               I took his advice and looked around. With the new and improved LDS, I felt around, no longer being blinded by microbes floating around. There was a lot of life around me, little creatures roaming around, and lots of static creatures with energy flowing through them at an lethargic pace which I believed were trees. All of it was expected. After all, the Earth was an enormous ecosystem, a wheel which kept turning due to the enormous amount of energy provided by the sun. Ecosystems are an alien concept to literally every race other than the humans. We were, with all due respect, a coincidence, non-living, non-magical substances bonding to create life, to create a delicately balanced system that was formed entirely by coincidence. Even the Wryms, old as they were, had never seen something like us. No wonder the exploration crew had attacked us. We were literally freaks of nature.

             Wait. Trees. Did he mean literally dig under a tree. But what tree am I supposed to dig under? There are literally thousands outside this cave place.

             At that moment, I heard a voice. An old ancient voice.

             "Open your eyes."

             Ed. Or rather, a pre-recorded voice.

             It came from the pillar of order(which I had forgotten about, but hey, turning into a horse sort of messes with your mind). Of course. Ed was a good friend, and this was his way of showing concern.

By forcefully making us do something that we don't want to?

'Well, someone's up and about.' I told him.''And besides, he's right. The Regime was only for 1000 years. It's about time I opened my eyes once again.'

            Well, here was the moment of truth. It had been 26000 thousand years since I had opened my eyes. I am in a safe place, and the Gods probably think I'm dead. It is finally time to use all my senses again, so I can finally find this tree and dig under it.

'One, two, three..... GO!

           I snapped open my eyes for the first time in 26000 years.

                    It felt ...it felt... nauseous.

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           I finally stopped throwing up acid and half-digested crystals. I took a deep breath to steady myself and stood straight. The bout of nausea had finally passed.

          I guess I took the training regime too far, huh? Well, what's done is done. No point in crying over split milk.

'Okay, breathe'. Look at the world. Look at the way the sand flows. At how the rocks look. Narrow cracks, grey body, a thousand different details that I had been missing for so long.... 'Focus'

             I was in some sort of egg shaped cavern. Behind me there was a way out, but more importantly, in front of me, there was a tree. A beautiful, glowing tree that shimmered with magic and power.

It's body was carved from the center of the of the pillar of Order, and it was studded with gems that were unmistakably from the veins of the precious stones that run on the rims of the pillar. One, two, three, four, five...... 'Huh? Where's the representative of Order itself?'

                      I waited for a reply, but then I realised that the others didn't take to sight as well as I did. They were out for a few days or so, I guess.

                      Oh , well. I can worry about the magical Gizmo later, once I know my situation.

                     I looked at my new body. It was a three legged horse/pegasus/unicorn type deal. My right arm...foreleg was still missing, a smooth stump in its place. Most of the minor cuts had gone, leaving no scar except a long upside down V running from my chest to my waist. I could just make out the thin white lines under the pitch black fur. I looked at my reflection in the tree. My eyes were enormous, like, anime style big and the pupils were blood red. My face had turned into a muzzle, and hair was growing from my neck. A mane. My wings were big, but they were not big enough to actually fly. I had a ridiculously long horn growing out of my head, atleast 30 centimeters. In short, my body was that of a .... uuhhh.....horse? Horse. A black horse. Trust Ed to botch my skin colour. I have brown skin, not black skin, but whatever.

                     It was Three's work. I would recognize it anywhere. This level of detail, this understanding of what he was dealing with. There was no doubt. You don't need to be an artist to know when a painting is great.

                     The real question was... why? Why would he make me into a horse? Why would he spend so much...... Dig under the tree!

                     Of course. Dig under a literal tree. I began to dig furiously at the base of the tree. A bit difficult with only one hoof, but whatever.

                     As I brought my hoof down to pull away the earth a 4th time, something rocketed out of the ground under me and shattered on the underside of my muzzle. A little spell asked for permission to deposit information inside my head. I accepted and I suddenly began to hear a voice....

Greetings, Fire in the dark, the last human, master of the Light and Dark, Destroyer of Demons and slayer of the Gemini Rulers.......

               Jeez, was he going to repeat all my titles? That list is ,like, a mile long.

.............. And one of the Disillusioned. I am Ed, former God of creation. As I have promised, I have built worlds in exchange for the Voids you have supplied. This is first of those worlds, built on a documentary of one of the Worlds in your galaxy.

               What? Documentary of one of the worlds? But there was only one world....

The documentary was one you talked about a lot. It is labelled 'My Little Pony:Friendship is magic'