Onision Self Insert (Reaper's Creek)

Chapter 17: Playing God

She was dead. I stared at her as the lifeLeft her eyes. I didn't see a red glow, I saw a diverse explosion of light before me, her Essence, her energy, leaving her body. Julia had been shot through the neck, bled out & all I did was stare.

The man who shot her, he was wearing a funny costume, he must have thought very highly of himself. I should have known he was behind me, I should have known he was peering through the skylight above us, carefullyAiming his weapon to do what he no doubt thought would kill me. I knew why he was here. I could read everything about the situation I found myself into the smallest detail.

He was hired by a person who is hired by another person who was sent to employ an assassin, an assassin such as him. Those creatures that took me on their ship, the ones that tested on me, tried to defeat my black stone, they really thought that if they sent someone after me, who wasn't like them, I wouldn't retaliate.

Time for punishment.

The assassin was pinned against the wall, blood leaking from his ears to match his polka dots suit, red and black, ridiculous. Julia's soul moved in the slowest of motion, almost as if she was sticking around to look into her own eyes, to see her own dead body just like you hear in all those stories. We love looking at ourselves as we leave. Almost like one final goodbye.

There were creatures all over Earth just like the ones who took me. Only these ones hid in human skin, it was time for there to be a none.

My body collapses as I ejected out of it. Time froze again. I imagine the beam of energy coming out the back of my neck, my spine, my tailbone and feet. I forward thrust in through the wall, shooting crossed highways, through wooded areas and across the ocean I traveled to every green light I could see & feel free thousands of miles. The green light I programmed or otherwise designated in my mind to signify the visitors. All I would have to do is get close enough to see their face for them to die. I could have simply imagined them perish from across planet, but I wanted to see, I wanted to be close, I wanted to experience their death with my own presence.

There were creatures in the bodies of children, their adopted mother's screamed at the loss of them, some of them had fathers who cried, some of them had no fathers at all. Other creatures were business men, in fact most of them were. I pulled some of them out of buildings, I drown some in their own bathtubs, the rest are simply separated head from body.

if it occurred in real time, their deaths took me seventeen hours and forty seven minutes to accomplish, however this was in there other realm of existence, thus, I was back before the Assassin could let out his second scream of pain for my intentional tightening of pressure around his entire body.

I wanted my body up right by the time I got back, and there I was, standing lifeless next to Julia and our blood-soaked bed, waiting for my soul to return.

As I face through the wall, I walked into my body and lurched toward the man on the wall, holding his throat, feeling his pulse blink down my arm.

I spoke to him "I want you to see how pointless what you have done is." He Looked at me with a smile in his eyes showing his teeth and a half grin on his face as blood seeped out of his mouth, he gurgled "I don't fear you!" I replied "Julia?"The man looked at me trying to hold back his confusion, masking it with a fake confidence.

Julia set up in bed. The light her soul filled the room with was gone. Without much thought I had returned her to this world and had given her all the information she needed to know.

Julia blinked a few times and looked at me holding the man against the wall with blurry eyes. "You're naked" She said. I replied "And it's not just your blood that I'm drenched in darling."

"WHAT IS THIS!?"the assassin screamed. I replied "I just wanted you to see that you accomplished nothing, and your employers are dead." A look of desperation crossed his eyes as the walls melted behind him.

I didn't want to kill him, to be brutally honest, I only wanted to kill what I fear. The creatures from another world, they had the means to kill me, I knew I would have to commit further genocide against them to truly protect myself, but this human? All Humans? There's nothing for them to do but kneel.

At the man passed through the walls, soaring hundreds of miles from me at thousands of miles per hour, I made sure he stayed alive, and that he landed in the swamp near nothing familiar to him.

I spared this man, but left him broken. If he lived at this point, that would be up to him.

At the Wallace reformed, as the blood evaporated into nothing, as the floor cleaned itself and the furniture we broke reassembled, as the bullet hole in the glass above us closed, as the sheets on the bed made themselves, Julia spoke to me, "What can you not do?" I replied quickly "Lose you." She laughed "Smooth Daniel." I continued "There's no need for us to talk anymore, walk to me." I lifted my hand and Julia walked forward to press her forehead against it.

What's Julia breathing Softly As my skin warm hers, I found a new stone, it grew in the center of her mind and glowed up another color, blue. Tears poured from Julia's eyes as she whimpered "What is this?" I replied in her mind, silently. She looked up at me as I dropped my hand and listened to the words I spoke within the walls behind her eyes "Now I cannot lose you, ever."

As Julia realized I made her and vulnerable to harm, she smiled in a manner that seems scared, sad & hopeful all at once. I grabbed Julia's hand, gaze deeply into her, and guided her back to the bed, to finish what we had started.

The next morning we disappeared together, spending most of our days in the woods, talking to each other in Silence about everything we could. The majority of our conversation revolved around our love for each other. I above all realized love was the product of biology, a design to encourage us to reproduce, but it was something I treasured and chose not to remove from either of us.

Julia would have our child one day, she insisted to me and I felt her desire. But another desire existent. There were people around the world, just like her, people if I had met instead of her, I could have cared for in a similar way. There were innocent people, there were lost children & I was doing nothing for any of them despite being given all the power I could have.

Society was like a book full of images saturated with gore and chaos. I could stomach the cover, but the moment I tried to open a single page, I felt defeated, hopeless.

however I remained a teenager, while I can take the actions to preserve my own existence and that of those I love, I didn't know where to begin when it came to the order of society. I have no idea how to decide who lives and who dies when they are not an active threat to anyone.

And that was it, I decided to truly justify taking human life, they had to be an active threat to another human life. I had to allow the world to continue mostly unaltered, but save enough people to make a single significant difference overall.

We were sitting outside a cabin, looking on a massive private Lake. We didn't belong there, it was not ours, but there was not much to say anything belonged to anyone. The cabin was abandoned for years. My thoughts of my place in the world played me just like most any human. What was my purpose?

"So you're just going to play hero?"Julia spoke for the first time in weeks with her own voice. I replied "Why speak aloud?" She answered "It's fun sometimes, but... I donno, seems like no matter what you do, the world will just keep being this way. You have the ability to change it all, but you don't know if a world without darkness would really be living. So you have a choice to either end it all, let all the shadows fade, or..."I cut her off. "I... can reprogram it all." She responded "Lobotomize everyone?" I sat there silently.

"No more mental illness. I'm going to cure everyone." I said. She replied "So, no more therapy, no more medication or disorders for anyone?" I smiled and said "I don't know of anyone who wants to be damaged." She added "Is damaged what makes us, us?" I was at a loss.

I had a loaded gun without a trigger.