Author's Note

This is my first attempt at a story on this website, any feed back would be helpful.

Prologue

Smiles were plastered across the faces of a few of my more devoted followers, not from my intervention, but from the love that they share for each other. A few older individuals crowed around a single man laying down, slowly withering away on a medical bed, his eyes closed, the only sound the steady beeping of a monitor.

It has been many centuries since I've last interfered with the mortal realm taking a spectator approach when dealing with them, but moments like these, moments of peace and love remind me of why I created these beings. So with a gesture of my hand, I fed life into the man for one final time giving him peace, and a chance to say goodbye, even if only for a moment.

Standing back and observing the scene, I knew my interference would affect the world in some other way, maybe me doing this will cause a hurricane that will kill thousands, or make a man go insane from catching a glimpse of me, but I was prepared for the repercussions. I've lived long enough to know that certain actions have consequences and that I will have to face them when they appear.

After watching the friends say their farewells, I thought that it was high time to bring this poor soul, and have him join the wheel once more. So with a flick of my wrist, the man drew his last breath, with many tears shed, and many a prayer given. I began to judge the soul that was brought before me. Like reading from a menu I began to read.

I nodded my head slowly as I went through his life, judging him and determining what to do with his soul. I had several opinions I could choose from, I could simply return him to the wheel, and let fate decide what happened to him. Several things could happen to him in fact, some good, some bad. He could simply be reincarnated into a slug, or if he was really lucky he could be born to a rich family, given everything he ever wanted, and live a peaceful pampered life, but fate is a cruel mistress, and after seeing his achievements, and all he went through I started to grow a liking to this fellow. So I looked at his soul one last time, examining the blue orb as it swirled around in my grasp, and decided to ask his thoughts on the matter.

Within a moment the orb changed to an ethereal small child, then quickly to a teenager, then a grizzled-looking middle-aged man, then finally back to an old man. This man looked nothing special, he wasn't too tall, he wasn't too strong, and after closer inspection, he didn't look all that smart, overall he seemed about average.

After circling him several times I decided to awaken his spirit.

My eyes groggily fluttered open, opening to a vast empty void. I looked around cautiously, the last thing I remembered was being surrounded by a few of my old war buddies, the memory brings a slight smile to my face. Then as quickly as it came I started to feel a sense of dread come over me as I thought about my current predicament. Am I dead? Is this the afterlife? I contemplated this for a moment, then I heard a voice come from behind me.

"No, no, this isn't the afterlife my friend, more like something in-between."

I did a quick one-eighty, my gazing shifting and watching as a 'man' slowly approached me. Curiously, and warily I watched, I had a good idea who this was but I didn't know if I was dreaming or if I died. I watched on, and what caught my eye as he got closer was not a sense of divinity, but a sense of normality. This individual seemed almost to average, perfectly so. Average looks, average height, everything. I studied him for a few more moments noticing that his hair wasn't just one color, nor were his eyes, they seem to be a fix of all of them, mixed together perfectly. I opened my mouth to speak but he raised his hand, and there I was standing next to him. He shook his finger at me, and a sigh left him.

Sigh "Are you really not impressed?" I just looked at him my expression turning to one of confusion. "Your lord and savior stands in front of you, and all you can do is give him a weird look? Kinda a weird response." I was perplexed, I didn't know how to respond. I just stood there and decided the best thing to do was to stay silent.

He looked at me for a few more moments, his eyes felt as if they pierced my very soul. I tried to look away from him but when I did, he appeared instantly to reaffirm his gaze. So with nowhere else to look, I decided to just look straight down. As I looked down I saw that my body was a bluish transparent color that I could see through. This spooked me, making me jump just a bit. I could hear a chuckle come from behind me. "Yeah, that usually gets them."

I decided this was as good as a time as any to try and talk, with a slight cough to clear my throat I began, "So I'm dead am I?"

He smiled at that, "Technically your body on Earth died, but your soul is still here. So in a matter of speaking Yes and No." I nodded my head at that,

"Well I lived an interesting life, a few complaints but overall it was decent," I stated, as he nodded

"That's all I could hope for, all I ever strived for, all I ever wanted was for you all to live a life you found meaningful, to live happily, and to live free." I quirked a brow at this statement,

"There's not a lot of happiness down on Earth right now sir, millions are dying, millions more will follow, if you wanted happiness for us, you're not doing a good job, from all the books I've read about you, your all-powerful why not fix the world?"

For a split second, I saw a ping of sorrow in his eyes, "That's a question I get a lot, and the answer is always the same." He turned around and gestured to the empty expanse. "I will show you why I don't intervene, why I refuse to." As he finished his sentence the void went from being complete darkness to several million different scenes, scenes of different natural disasters, to deadly wars being raged, he looked at me sorrow clear in his voice, "No matter how small I intervene in the world, the consequences are always severe, me trying to push someone in the right direction to do better, might have the adverse effect." Pictures of different dictators flashed in front of me ranging from Queen Mary the First to Adolf Hitler.

I fell to my knees, I was flabbergasted, I had no idea how to respond to what I was being shown. I looked up to the God that I worshiped my whole life, and saw not God but a man trying to find purpose. He shook his head, and the scenes before me dispersed and darkness reigned once more. He looked over to me with a face that has seen so much sorrow that it lost the ability to cry, it broke my heart. I tried to speak, but something in my throat stopped me, as I tried to hold back tears. "Sad, I know, all this power and the good I could do, but the rules I put in place millions of years ago restrict me."

Sigh He gave another sigh, "But discussing my shortcomings is not why I brought you here." He helped me up off my knees and gestured to a table that he summoned up. "I have a proposition for you, the world you live in, is out of my control but there is another that I made long ago that I keep tabs on every so often, I can't interact with it as freely as I would like, but I can do enough." He slowly bent over and put a rather large box in the center of the table.

I gave him an inquisitive look, "What are you getting at?" He smiled, a deep smile that a child would give when excited.

"Well," He started, "I propose that instead of sending your soul to the wheel to be reincarnated back on Earth, I send it to a different planet, the one I stated earlier, with all your memories intact!." He finished excitedly. I slowly nodded my head,

"Ok, so let me get this straight, you want to send me to an unknown planet, why? For what purpose?"

He started to get a bit giddy, "Well first off it's not somewhere entirely unknown to you, you used to watch a tv show in your youth that was quite similar to this place." I looked at God, confusion clear on my face,

"I have no idea what you're talking about still." He rolled his eyes and started to hum in a familiar tone. Instantly memories started to flood back to me, and I looked at him confused for what felt like the millionth time. "Uuuh God, so you're telling me that you made another planet off in the vast expanse that is space, that is based on a TV show on Earth?" He shook his head,

"No, no, the TV show was inspired by the planet, see I took one of the inhabitant's soul and put it on Earth, remnants of her past life must have seeped through."

"Uh-huh." I mumbled, "I gotta admit sir that this is quite a shock, reminds me of a few fanfictions I read in my youth." He stood from his seat and pointed at me,

"That is exactly what I am getting at, it will be almost exactly like that." He walked over to the box that he put on the table a little while ago. "See I am having quite a problem on that planet, lots of baddies are planning some really scary stuff!" He started to take books, papers, and pencils out of the box. "While looking into your past I saw that you enjoyed a particular game." Looking him in the eyes I wasn't paying attention to what he brought out, "In most fanfictions that I have glossed, some powerful entity gives the hero special powers and makes them almost impossible to beat, in this case, I will just be making you unique to the world." That is when I turned my head to see what he was referring to, and in shock, surprise, and finally recognition I understood where he was going with this.

I started to laugh a little, but not because anything was funny, just from the sheer weirdness and how unbelievably ridiculous everything was at the moment. God stood there a smile plastered across his face as he held in his grasp an old dusty copy of the Fifth Edition Players Handbook for Dungeons & Dragons.

I stood there stoic with a smile across my face as the old man laughed at the absurdity that was being displayed. I know I was being a little bit over the top but I didn't want him to feel out of place or to be pressured too hard. I let him laugh for as long as he wanted, which lasted a few good minutes. When he finally calmed down, I looked at him and told him to scoot a little bit closer to me. He did as I asked and I started to explain some things to him,

"See the rules of your new home are much like those back on Earth, the exception is that I will be giving you a form of magic that doesn't exist there, and a few other boons so you don't die outright." I opened the book and turned to page 45. "You can choose any of these classes, stats don't mean anything on the sheet in this case, your strength, and all that will be for you to determine, and grow,"

The old man nodded, and a mischieve smile crept onto his face, "So I can choose any of these classes, and you won't object." I gave him an affirmative look, "Well, in that case, I want to be a Paladin, with you being my Diety." I looked at him, not expecting this, which made me crack a smile.

"Clever, clever boy!" I praised him, but I was also shaking my head. "I would love that, there is nothing in the world that would make me happier, but on that planet, and Earth I can't use the full extent of my power, the smaller deities there would be a much better choice." The old man shook his head,

"No can do God, I have no idea about any of the Gods on that planet, the only one that I have any idea about is you, so that is who I choose as my diety."

I looked at him, and patted him on the shoulder, "Well I guess this is going to be more hands-on than I expected."

I stood from my seat and gestured for the old man to stand up, as he did everything disappeared, I held out my hand for him to take, which he took causally. "These are the first of the several boons that I will be giving you, first I will allow you to sense being that are either Heavenly, Undead, or Devishish in Nature at will." A light golden glow started to form around the old man, "Second I will give you the ability to heal wounds and treat diseases of not only yourself but others." Soon the glow from the old man would seep farther into his Ethereal form. "Lastly as a personal gift from me I will bestow upon you two separate gifts, the first will be a mind that can neither be read, or controlled, and second the ability to negate the negative effects of both Fire & Ice, don't want you dying of heat, or freezing to death. " I joked.

As I finished, no longer did a blue Ethereal old man stand in front of me, but a golden Ethereal grizzled young man with a look of determination on his face, I eyed him impressed on how well, and how willing he is to just accept his fate. I watched him approvingly looking him up and down. After a few moments of me walking around him making sure everything was in order, the Golden Boy decided to speak up, "So, now that we got that out of the way I must ask what exactly do you want me to do down there?" It took me a second to respond,

"I think you will know when the time comes, can't give you all the answers that's cheating." He stared at me for a while giving me the stink eyes but soon gave in.

"So how will I be getting to the planet? Will I be taking a spaceship, teleported?"

I looked him dead in the eyes as I spoke, "There is only one way for you to get to that planet." I stated.

"And what would that be?"

I giggled, "The old fashion way of Course!" As I snapped my fingers and my Ethereal champion disappeared and sored through the void, returning to the wheel. The faint sound of a baby crying echoed, it filled my ears with the sweetest sound I have ever heard in the past millennium.