Destroying My Own World

The woman was standing right in front of them and they couldn't stop staring at the hourglass in her left hand. The hourglass had a tiny bit of sand left on the top half, and it was going down so slowly. They wondered what would happen if the last grain of sand fell to the bottom.

"Now now, don't waste your time by staring at it. You don't have much time left and if you're wasting it on observing that, you will notice how fast the time can pass," The woman said and suddenly the sand started to fall faster than before.

The moment that happened, all of them averted their gazes from the hourglass and focused on the woman. They couldn't see anything but the white cloth that covered her face, they wanted to see the face of the being that controlled fate and time.

"Now now, don't waste your time thinking about who I am, and what I look like. You're going to die before you can find the answer," The woman warned as she put the hourglass on the ground right in front of Mykel.

The woman sat on her legs and tilted her head as she looked at each of them. She had long and sharp fingers that looked like clock needles, and they were covered with white cloth as well. She then tapped on the hourglass and that was the same ticking sound that they heard earlier.

"Mykel Alester. How long are you planning to live your life?" The woman asked as she rested her chin on the back of her hands and her hands rested on top of the hourglass.

Mykel who couldn't speak or move his muscles suddenly could move and open his mouth.

"For as long as I want," Mykel answered without showing a single fear on his face.

"That's problematic," The woman hummed as she tapped on the hourglass. "Right now, the span of your life has reached the end, and this is how much time you have left," she pointed out as the grain of sand fell to the bottom, leaving two grains of sand on top.

Mykel who saw how much time he had left, felt like his body had become weak like an old man on his deathbed. Every beat of his heart, it felt so painful that it made him unable to breathe properly. He realized how unnerving it was when someone else could control over his life.

"Look, one grain of sand is falling down," The woman said.

Mykel held his chest as he felt like his heart was being squished so slowly. He couldn't hold his scream as he fell down to the ground and kept pressing his chest.

Elena and the others couldn't do anything and could only watch Mykel on the ground, suffering in pain. They wanted to move or speak, but they were so powerless.

Before the last grain of sand could fall, the woman put her index finger in between the hourglass and blocked the hole to prevent the sand from going down. That was when the pain inside Mykel's body disappeared and he came back to normal again.

"I'm giving you three choices," The woman said as she stood up. "First, you die as you have fulfilled your purpose. Second, you will live forever, but you will have to stay here and protect me as your predecessor did. Or the third one where you can live your life by going back in time to where you were created and lose all the memories you have and you will thread the same fate as you are right now," she offered and looked at Mykel. Your next read is at My Virtual Library Empire

None of the options were a good choice and even if he had to choose one, it was too hard for him. He didn't know if he could talk it out because he knew that the woman in front of her was different from the ones he had encountered before.

The woman was waiting for Mylel to answer, and even though her face was fully covered, Mykel could tell she was staring into his eyes. A woman who could easily kill him by just breathing, and that made him feel anxious, and didn't know what to do.

"You're smart for keeping your mouth shut," The woman said as she slowly put her long index finger under Mykel's chin. "I love an obedient servant," she continued as she slowly put her fingers on his cheeks from under his chin.

The woman's hand was gently caressing his face and staring at him for quite a while. She then glanced at Sasha, Amaryllis, and Elena who were standing still and staring at her furiously.

"I know they're special, so I'll offer you a better choice. If you choose to be my guardian, I'll spare their lives and send them away so they can live in their own reality," The woman said as her face was facing those three.

"I accept that offer," Mykel answered without hesitation.

The three of them were surprised when Mykel accepted that offer without even giving it a single thought. They wanted to say their piece, but they couldn't, and before they knew it, the same whirlpool appeared right behind them. They were sucked and sent back to the empty universe, their original universe.

Mykel didn't look back and kept his eyes on the woman's face and stared at the eyes beneath the white cloth. He then looked at the woman's hand under his chin and he was released from it as the woman stood up and turned the hourglass upside-down.

"I'm surprised that you agreed to that offer, Mykel Alester," The woman said as she looked at Mykel as if she was admiring his existence. "I can see that you also have no doubt that I would lie to you about them," she added.

"Do I have a choice?" Mykel asked and he had a doubt that the woman in front of him was actually hostile toward him. "I don't see a reason for you to lie. Also, I can see when someone is lying or not," he answered.

"Hold my hand," The woman said as she offered her left hand to Mykel.

Mykel held the woman's hand and she had weird manners, like a high-rank noble asking the partner to escort her. He then walked next to her as he kept holding her soft and cold hand, following her. His hand was like a baby hand holding an adult hand, but the woman's hand shrunk as she resized herself to be equal to his height.

"Shall we start over now?" The woman asked, but she seemed to be talking to herself as she waved her right hand.

A string-like white energy appeared from thin air and it created a massive circle with engraving in between the energy. The circle turned into a giant clock with thousands of needles of different lengths and shapes. Not only the needles, but the clock itself had more than a thousand engravings on each side.

"I know you have so many questions," The woman said as she kept putting her hand above Mykel's palm. "You can call me Aevia, the Clockweaver, the Keeper of the Clock," she continued as she operated the clock.

"Aevia," Mykel said as he looked at the woman next to her. "Are you the one who created everything? The one and only being?" he asked.

"Yes. I'm the only everlasting being, controlling the outcomes, the past, the future, and the present. Everything is created by my fingers," Aevia answered as she pointed to the needles in the top middle. "Just like your predecessor, your existence is to erase all existence. finding the right path where all lives can continue moving without any interference," she explained as she stared at the clock.

"What are you talking about? You're the one who controls the flow of time and fate and why do you need to find it where you can just create it?" Mykel asked with his eyebrows furrowed.

"Have you not heard what I just said about who I am? I'm a Clockweaver and that's who I am. I'm capable of manipulating everything, but that's not what I want," Aevia answered and looked at Mykel with the shape of a smile underneath the cloth on her face. "Just like this clock. I let it run without interfering with it, not even once, but in the end, everything must have come to an end. My main purpose is to create a happy accident, and that happy accident I'm talking about is you," she continued as she poked Mykel's nose.

Mykel had so many questions on his mind and wondered what Aevia meant by that.

Aevia glanced at Mykel and suddenly she pulled him away from the clock, startling him and almost losing his balance. She brought Mykel somewhere else even though there was nothing but whiteness, but suddenly a blue stream of energy surrounded them and turned into a water stream.

She pushed Mykel into the stream and he was being carried away by the stream. She was standing there and he could tell she was enjoying it, seeing him struggle to escape the stream.

"Enjoy the ride. I'll meet you on the other side," Aevia said as she waved her hand.