Destinies Intertwined (Lightning x Male Reader)

Chapter 02: Goddess Blessing

I opened my eyes, expecting to see the surface of Lake Bresha in crystal, but instead the place that greeted me was somewhere else entirely.

I was in the middle of a temple, with huge columns and grand arches. A bell tolled in a funeral dirge, and in the air floated pure white feathers. A skylight was opened in the ceiling, and from it light flooded onto a throne floating above a hole in the ground. The throne was made of brilliant blue crystal, and the light Miroired off it in way that showed it was no mortal creation. The Throne of the Goddess, here within the Unseen Realm.

Valhalla.

Despite everything that had happened so far, I was still blown away. I was here, within the realm of the goddess Etro and the place that existed beyond the rules of life and death. It was this place that all souls of the dead would travel, and it was here that so many events would unfold and eventually result in the timeline's destruction. " And now you have a role to fulfill as well." I heard a voice say.

I looked around; trying to see who it was that had spoken when a flash of light came from the throne. I covered my eyes to block the light, and when it faded I looked to see a figure sitting on the throne. The figure was in the shape of a human woman, but it was composed of an aurora of light. Her entire body shimmered and rippled, and was made of glows like the northern lights. I fell to one knee, unable to believe who it was that sat before. "Etro..." I whispered.

The goddess nodded. " It is indeed I, Etro, the Goddess of Death and Time. It was my blood spilt that gave birth to your race, and now you stand before me. " "It is truly an honor." I said. It was. I had never been a very religious person, and yet here I was, literally standing before divinity. Etro chuckled. " The pleasure is in actuality mine. You are from another world. I have never met any manner of being the world you lived in. "

I raised my head. "Do you know why it was I was summoned here? Is there a way for me to get back?" The goddess paused for a moment, and then sighed. " If you must know the truth, I do know who summoned you into this realm. It was me. " My eye widened, and my jaw dropped to the floor, figuratively speaking. "You?! You took me away from my world? Why?" I asked. " In your world, this entire dimension exists only as a game, a fantasy to be experienced as a source of entertainment. But as you can see, this world and its dimension are real. Very, very real. "

I paused and gulped, not liking where this was going. "And what does that have to do with me?" " The people in your realm, by means unknown, managed to capture a part of this realm's timeline and create a game, the details of its storyline similar possessing similarities to the timeline of frightening acSoin +cy. Such an act has never been heard of in all of existence, and in doing so the people of your world essentially 'captured' a timeline."

I frowned. "And what happens if a timeline is captured?" I asked. " The people of your world took the captured timeline and creating a game out of it. Whenever that game would be played, the actions done in that game would be mirrored in this world. If one game alone had ever existed, the disaster might have been contained. " I couldn't see Etro sigh, because she was made of light, but a heard a sad exhale. " But then your people sold copies of the game in mass distribution. "

I gasped, suddenly having a very good idea of what had happened. " Now, every time a human would play that game, their actions in it would Miroir on this world. Hundreds of times the timeline has been rewritten, and in dozens of different ways. The timeline has been changed, altered, twisted, bended over and backwards so many times that it was just about to break. " I gulped. I asked "And what happens if a timeline is broken?" " In essence, the reality it pertains to will break apart as well. History will become shattered, time rent asunder, until reality does not exist anymore, because there is no reality left to be. "