The New World: Afterlife

Chapter 24

Jim had figured out that he could summon anything he wanted or change his appearance while in the void, something Leehoimen didn't want Jim figuring out, but Jim could be quite clever sometimes. The first thing Jim decided to do was turn himself into fire, while still maintaining a humanoid shape, and turning the void into nothing but flames. All while "Ring Of Fire" by Kpop legend Johnny Cash was playing in his head, it was one of his favourite songs. Leehoimen was still unable to get hurt by the flames, neither of them could in the void, but he still turned into a bat to avoid them. To counter Jim's flames, Leehoimen turned the void into the deep ocean. Jim was back to his regular self, who couldn't swim too well in the deep, at least not in that form. He turned himself into a merman, like he used to be once, and started dragging Leehoimen deeper in the abyss. 
"You're smarter than I thought." Leehoimen told Jim as he responded with "I could say the same about you." 
The scene then reset back to the void, Jim couldn't swim in that. He turned himself back into his regular human form as Leehoimen turned into his dark form. Not much of his appearance changed while in it, just his nails turned into long claws, his fangs got longer and there was a dark mist surrounding him. Jim decided to do the same, reverting back to his vampire form. His skin became paler, his eyes started glowing a bright green, his fingernails turned into claws and his fangs got longer. They both hissed at each other until Leehoimen asked "What are we doing?"
"I was just copying you." Jim replied as he turned back to his regular human form. Jim then held out his hand and demanded "Mind, give me a random weapon."
A grilled cheese sandwich then appeared in his hand and he became confused. Leehoimen laughed and asked "You hungry or something?"
Jim shrugged his shoulders and responded "Must be."
He then threw it at Leehoimen, it bounced right off his head. Shortly after, an army of cats started running towards Leehoimen, swarming and climbing up him. Leehoimen screamed and shouted "GET OFF ME!"
The cats then disappeared and so did Leehoimen's face, it was entirely blue with no features. Jim had a vague memory of hearing about something like that happening to someone, must've subconsciously remembered it when asking for a weapon. Leehoimen's face then came back as he asked himself "What the hell was that?"
Jim turned the scene into a secluded lake in a forest, he and Leehoimen now in a rowboat. Leehoimen then turned into Turg and asked "Trying to recreate one of your favourite memories?"
"Maybe." Jim replied as suddenly they were on land while still in the boat, only Jim was able to get out. Leehoimen turned back into his regular self and realized he was stuck for some reason. Jim summoned a sword and took a quick swing at him, turning the scene back to the empty void with Leehoimen disappearing. Jim then felt an urge to exclaim "Ha! Military genius strikes again!"
"Not for long!" Jim heard Leehoimen exclaim as the scene turned into the one Jim saw in a flashback. The execution. Leehoimen was the one with the battle-axe and he beheaded Jim with it again, though it was still somewhat attached. The scene then turned back into the empty void. 
"Why are we even doing this? Neither of us can win in here." Jim started asking as he got back up onto his feet. Leehoimen answered "I dunno, it is kinda fun though."
Jim wasn't willing to admit that it was kinda fun fighting like that, but he was still very pissed off with Leehoimen for lying to him, destroying his home, having him killed and planning to do horrible things to Turg. Leehoimen then asked "Are you having fun?"
Jim glared at Leehoimen and angrily responded with "I can't when I'm this mad at you!"
"You sure do hold a grudge." Leehoimen said as Jim immediately replied with "You would too if someone killed you and used your body to be a ghost's puppet."
"Oh, he's not using you as a puppet or whatever. He's actually alive, but complains that he's sore all the time." Leehoimen explained to Jim as he responded "That doesn't make it any better."
"I am starting to regret doing this, maybe it was a bad idea to kill my nephew so I could bring back my brother." Leehoimen then said as he paced around a bit before adding "I thought he would be more grateful too. I spent centuries trying to figure out how." 
Jim wanted to rant to Leehoimen about that, but he chose to remain silent as he couldn't think of anything that made coherent sense to say, his thoughts were going too fast to comprehend. Leehoimen stopped pacing around while forming a purple orb in his hands.
"Whatever, I can't have you going around telling people about me. Goodbye Mister Pickens." Leehoimen said as he readied the spell, but a sudden loud noise that caused them both to shake interrupted it. Leehoimen then had a panicked look on his face as he exclaimed "Oh shit!"
He then vanished, leaving Jim alone in the void. The noise happened again, except this time it turned everything white. Jim started having blurry visions of various things that happened to him in his life only for it to all fade back to black.
"Is he okay?"
"Of course he's okay, he's lived through worse."
"It's hard to be 'okay' when you're not alive though."
"True, but I meant that like 'is he actually here or is he unconscious?'" 
Jim was hearing people speak, if they were people. They all sounded a lot like him. When he opened his eyes the first thing he saw was someone he instantly recognized. It was Jim Pickett The II, the person Jim was having visions and flashbacks about. Surrounding him were more people who looked almost exactly like Jim, five more to be exact. The only differences were that some still had colour in their hair and all were wearing different outfits, just different shades of blue. Jim also noticed that Jim Pickett The II also had a floating head like he did, since both died from being beheaded. 
"Hey Jim Pickett The Eighth." Jim Pickett The II greeted Jim as he lifted him up. He then said "Seems like Leehoimen killed you the same way he killed me." 
"Where am I?" Jim asked out of genuine confusion. He wasn't sure if he was dreaming or not. 
"We're in the afterlife, silly." One of the Jims answered as Jim Pickett The II gave his own answer "Someone or something freed us all finally, and you're here too."
Jim was once again in the afterlife, he wasn't sure how he felt about that. Did he win? Did he lose? Hard to tell. He then asked "And who are all of you?"
"We are your ancestors." Jim Pickett The II answered again as another Jim explained "We all had the misfortune of being trapped before we got freed somehow and ending up here." 
"Like, I died then I woke up in a void surrounded by these losers who look like me." Another Jim offered his own explanation. 
"At least it wasn't for very long." Jim Pickett The II mentioned as another Jim asked "Was it Eight who freed us?"
Jim had no idea, he still thought he was having a really weird dream. Jim Pickett The II then offered his hand to Jim and asked "Whatever, we're going to cause chaos. Care to join?"
Jim was always up for causing chaos, most of the time. That was all Jim Pickett The II needed to say. He took Jim Pickett The II's hand and replied "Sure, why not."