A weightlessness, a foggy awareness that usually comes when drifting off to sleep, or having woken up from sleeping in a bad position that ruins my sleep. I slowly open my eyes to find myself in a starry void. "This is new..." I had nobody to speak to but myself. "Maybe there's an afterlife after all." turning around, I'm facing a blackish green wall. "No, this is no wall, what the hell is this?" continuing to investigate the object in question, I can see the size of this object was astounding, like I'm was staring at the sun from only a mile away. Then, the object turned around and looked at me with its 9 eyes.
Now, I'll never let it be said Marcus isn't a rational man, something that came from being a man of science for his whole life, but this planet sized, nine eyed, betentacled... thing was a bit much for me to handle. So, Marcus Aurelius, being the articulate man I am quickly reasons the statement that I think fits the scenario quite well.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?!"
... Maybe we can drop the "articulate".
The thing seems surprised that I said something to it, and it quickly shrinks down to a level that's now only around the size of Mount Everest. I can't lie, I half expected to be pulled into a black hole. "Oh my," it says, in a voice that reverberates through my head, it must be telepathically communicating. "You're quite right, I must say I'm surprised you can see me and retain your sanity! You're certainly a unique one." I can only assume this is some kind of eldritch entity, by the appearance, size, and abilities I've seen thus far. "Ah well, I suppose eldritch is the closest thing you could equate me to. What great observational skills you have." The entity said that last bit with a dry tone. "Now, are you going to leave me with all the talking here?" Good point. "A fair question, I'm just not quite sure what to think about this situation, I did die after all, now I face a cosmic being. As far as I know, you want to do something really cliche, like consume my soul, or send me to eternal suffering for your amusement."
"HA HA HA HA HA HA!" Ow, that laugh was so loud it feels like my head is going to bust. "Oh, another time I might have, yet you are an exception. All but you have been simply reduced to insanity by my glorious presence. Consuming your soul isn't something I'm interested in, and eternal torture becomes quite boring. You, however, are an anomaly. I will give you a deal. I will grant most any request. Think it over, we have all the time in the multiverse here." Well this is an easy answer, it's not like I can do much here, after all. "I wish to be reincarnated to world with troubles of their own, so that I can help them. "Really?" The entity asked, I doubt it's truly out of the loop on what I'm thinking. "You don't wish to be reborn in your old world?" Another easy answer. "I may not have finished my work, but Jake is a smart man, with my work, and what I already accomplished, he should be able to cure the Plague, If he hasn't already."
The voice rises in power, every word spoken falls into my head like a hammer-blow from fate itself. "Very well, my Promise shall be kept. I will bestow upon you gifts to aid you in your journey, and a body that can handle the stresses of this new environment. Now go! Go forth with the knowledge that you have attained the favor Shub-Niggurath!"
A booming, cracking noise like the dimension we occupied was tearing asunder, indeed, a tear in the void appeared below me, and I am pulled through with a flash of light that blinds me.
In an elaborate tower, a well-dressed man takes a long draught from his coffee mug. He glances out of the window to his left, it's a beautiful day, and he couldn't see anything wrong with it. Then he sees it, an ever so slight disturbance in the forest a small distance from the tower in which he resides. A few dozen trees in a circle, all pushed back by a gust of wind, and a small green light that vanished as abruptly as it came. "Is something the matter, Headmaster Ozpin?" The man, who we now know as Ozpin, turns back to the professor in his office, and gives a warm smile. "Of course not Glynda, what could be wrong on such a fine day?" Ozpin stands, setting down his mug, and grabbing his cane. "So fine a day, I will go for a stroll through the Emerald Forest. Please, enjoy your time off." And with that, he steps into the elevator, and descends from the tower. Glynda sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose, used to the eccentricities of the headmaster. She turns away from the desk to leave as well, and wonders, (not for the first time) why there is only one elevator leading to and from the tower.
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FanfictionA man in a lab coat walks through a long, white hallway. He enters what seems to be a laboratory, one would assume he works there, were he to simply pretend he did. In actuality, he was there to collect the belongings of a deceased boy. Marcus Aurel...
