The Dreamer's Game

Chapter 7: Made of Time

Jake since he was young had always been fascinated with alternate realities and split versions of yourself.

Jake was sitting at his couch in the old house. He just awoke from a strange dream where he was in an alternate reality. A movie child star in the foster care system with several others, staring in a Driftwood Academy like film with Jake as the lead. Jake met several other versions of himself briefly but was told he "wasn't needed at the moment". Flash to now and Jake is visiting a place that's been on his mind. The meeting room for these alternates that gather as a team. He saw several.

There he saw a young girl, a teenage boy and several mirrors of his personality back at him. This was in a daydream and Zag intervened. "Hey bro thought I'd interrupt the daydream! I'm here now!" Zag laughed. "And so is Felix!"

"Omg female you is hot. She's got big boobies!" Felix snorted laughing. "Right" Jake said. He was brought to a scifi looking building by another Jake and overheard "sir this is Jake. From universe 2.5 he needs to see you" but Jake quickly rejoined the others. "Wait...your! You shouldn't be here" a Jake said with apple pumpkin crisp hair faded shaved in a different style. "I don't get it? What?" Jake said. "You're the original! The one that all of us come from! That is how all of this is possible. The original Jake! You can't be here. You're not needed"

"Why is this even a thing?" Jake argued crossing his arms. Jake knew that sometimes alternate realities existed. Sometimes the same person met themselves. While this was totally out of left field for Jake he realized that this is what it was.

"Because all of reality is collapsing in on itself. So we're the council meant to save it. The council of you"

"Wait. Are all you..."

"Yeah most of us were born that way. Are you not?"

"No! I plan on rewriting time so I was always though"

"Wait dude I'm different. I fucking hate you for that!"

"Well I didn't like my bio so-"

"Bro who's the blushy one?" Zag referenced a female younger version of Jake.

"I don't know"

"It's just. In my Canon your my bf"

She said shy and insecure soft and whispery.

"Weird he's my brother" Jake said.

"Wait brother!" A Jake with a skateboard said.

"Yeah"

"Who's the dad?"

"Zues."

"Yeah with Hercules from the city-"

"Wait you all are from a universe where City of Hercules is real!?" Knowing this is not supposed to be known the kids and Jake covered their tracks.

"Uh-huh yep!" Zag smiled.

"Uh huh!" Felix said nasally.

"Y-yeah" Jake said.

"Right so. Well be in touch." A Jake said. "This will all make sense later"

"This is so into the spiderverse" Felix joked and Jake came too out of the daydream. Jake moved on with his week. The days faded away. But things kept getting worse and worse for him. Daren Black routinely kept cursing him. Voodoo. The spider and its lilac green butterflies and speaks of Azazel. Daren while a con man was an author with work under his belt.

Jake was enraged. Something had come over him. Daren Black was responsible as he had learned- for all of this. Ever since Jake was a fan on his forum Bal.org. he has been planting curse after curse on Jake, and sabotaging him. The rage consumed Jake as he demanded Samael kill his enemies or teach him too. Samawl refused and Jake swore on the river of Stix if Varian one of Black's goons didn't remove his spell he would kill himself. Eventually Jake had a breakdown in the car, his teeth rot, his weight now loosing his hair and crying asked the Greek Goddess of misery why she did this to him she told him she only brought misery upon bad people and it wasn't her. Jake eased in the day feeling numb and slept with one of his godly partners after breaking Apollo's heart knowing him involved with these curses and also holding the rape from the ritiual of the seven against him. Jake went to bed after sex and after curse upon curse, hours worth he caused upon Daren in a blank rage.