The Ways of Leland

The truth behind the goddess

I stared at this wild girl. Her face looked serious. Her ember green eyes touched my hazel ones.

"That can't be true."I remarked almost instantly."My goddess helps saves lives."

Kiki looked very sad at this. "Everything you have seen has been staged. That man dying, the flashback, you seeing his soul. I bet you still don't know about Kits." I looked puzzled at her.

"What do you mean? Kits wouldn't hide anything from me, she is my best friend!" Kiki's sudden serious face dropped and was replaced by her smiling facade. "Regalias can do so many things! We can stop time, read minds and even teleport. Which one do you want to learn first?"

I was about to stop her and ask what she was talking about when I noticed. There was a tingle going down my spine. I recognized the burning sensation on my forehead come back. Someone was listening. " I am not sure. What about the teleportation thing first?" I said, trying to sound genuinely interested.

"Perfect!" Kiki said. Forced. Then quickly raised her hand. I felt a sort of bubbling feeling surround me. She was stopping time. When she lowered her hand, she started to talk again. "The Kits you know is dead. She died long ago."

"Lies!" My voice gradually growing louder and louder. I couldn't even look at her. I stomped over to the wooden couches and sat on the soft cushions. They felt awesome. The feeling of almost completely sinking into the furniture almost took my mind of of the info I am being told.

Kiki followed me and sat on a stool opposite to me. I looked away from her. I did not want to talk. To my distraught, she continued her lies.

" That man dying was all planned. I was the one who caused the wreck."

"You killed that man?" Now I am really angry. I stood up from the couch and shouted in her face" So say whatever you are saying is true. That Kits and the goddess are both lying about their identities. How could you have killed someone!? That man had a family, someone who was going to miss him. Also, he was about to help his family get out of debt. I can't just tell me you killed him!"

Kiki shook her head. "That man wasn't an unemployed man trying to find work. He was a rapist who raped his own daughter and killed not only his wife, but countless other girls as well. What our goddess showed you was a hallucination she made."

"But why would she want to go to such lengths to just make me her regalia?" If she simply explained the situation, I might have wanted to help her.

"Because of your soul waves." Kiki crossed her legs and placed her head in her lap. "Soul waves are very complicated, but think of it as the energy you put out onto the world. It is the job of the gods to keep the amount of energy stable. They do this by manipulating the people in certain ways. "

"For example, Aphrodite, helps people keep a positive image of themselves by manipulating their choices in dress and how they view the world. You see, the amount of positivity and goodness affects the amount of soul waves you give off. Sometimes, people give off too much waves that may tip the balance. Aphrodite helps this issue by making them think dark thoughts and have negative thoughts, which makes them have a less positive image of themselves, which solves the problem. Though, this is a double edged sword since negative thoughts can cause war and famine. But we would get involved if things get too drastic. This usually works. But then there are cases of people like us."

"Us?" I echo. I don't know rather to feel happy or sad for being 'us'.

"Yep, us. Both of us gave off too much energy, so aphrodite gave us dark thoughts. But instead of lowering our energy to safe levels, our bodies somehow learned to live with it and embrace the negativity. This nearly tripled our energy levels. This amount of soul waves gave us the power to hear the spirits and see souls."

Well that explains how I can see the things i see. But it still doesn't explain how my goddess ties in with this. Also, does that mean Kits is one of us too? I brushed that thought away.

"Ok I understand a lot now, but why does this matter? And how is my goddess controlling us?" I questioned at her.

"Have you noticed how you aren't saying the goddess but my or our goddess?" That comment felt like a shovel to the face. I didn't even think about it. I just said my goddess like it was supposed to be that way. Kiki took the look in my face as a yes.

"Her influence is getting on to you. Eventually, you'll be like me and feel the need to hug her and be like a slave to her. Worst part is, you like it."

"But, why is she manipulating us like this?" I said

"Because, my goddess-" Kiki bit her tongue at that word. She hates it as much as I do."The godess see us humans as parasites. We take land and fight against each other. We taint Gaia's-that is the name of the goddess who allows our very existence- body and weakens her. But the gods need the humans to help stabilize their own powers. Without humans, the gods would vanish and chaos would ensue. So they make regalias to help them keep themselves. But the goddess believes we shouldn't be treated like this, she believes people should be herded like cattle and be forced to filter soul waves by the gallon."

"To do this, she needs a lot of energy in the form of soul waves. You see she's not like any other god or goddess, she can't produce energy on her own, as she is the lowest rank being you can be and still qualify as a goddess. This is because she has fallen from grace."

"Fallen? How did she fall?"

"She did the one thing that you should never do, she-" Suddenly Kiki stopped. Her eyes dulled over, her open mouth filled with blood. She hunched over, revealing my goddess with a silver knife coated in blood.

"Goddess, why?" Kiki sputtered as her life force faded away.

The goddess licked the knife. Ever so slowly.The goddess revealed a horrifying smile, full with teeth and blood. Suddenly, she wasn't as beautiful and as flawless as i first thought she was. SHe was now a monster. "That's what happens to traitors"

She raised her hand above Kiki's bleeding body. A blue mist flowed out of her and into the goddess's hand. It was her soul. The mist engulfed the hand then was absorbed. "MMMM..yummy."

She looked back over to me."Now, my lovely darling. What to do with you?"

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Sorry for all of the dialogue. It was needed though.

-wonerfull