Lust for Power

There are three rules of time travel.

1 - Never use it for personal gain
2 - Never change major historical events
3 - Don't spread information about the present to the past.

Well you see, I fucked up. I broke rules 1 and 2.

It wasn't an accident, and I don't regret doing it, but I do wish that he had just accepted it. We could have ruled together, made Earth our kingdom. Yet he wanted to stop that. He turned away from me and my ambitions, and  I couldn't let him be in my way of my power.

So I killed him.

I held him close as his crimson blood seeped into my robe, I wore a small smile.

He couldn't destroy my plans now.

It was slightly jarring to see what had happened to the world after I had returned from my short adventure into 2986 bce. But it was all worth it for the power I had now obtained.

You're probably wondering why this all happened, well you see...

I always had craved adventure yet I knew no way to find it. Until one day I stumbled upon an intricate ring, encrusted with a gold lining and a royal purple base. I slipped it onto my finger and immediately felt this rush of adrenaline and power coarse through me. I noticed some small engravings on the side of it so I stroked them, hoping to feel some sort of recognition arise within me.

Instead, my world spiralled.

I ended up in an unfamiliar world with unfamiliar people. It was definitely Earth but not my time. I had felt so confused and admittedly slightly scared. But it had been a blessing in disguise. There I met Him. Shining in all his glory with a stunning smile, a time traveller as well.

We immediately hit it off and he taught me all I know now. It was then that I discovered the feeling of power I got through time travelling and the love I felt for him. We travelled together throughout time, hardly taking a break. But alas, slowly he tired. We spent more time in 2036 and built ourselves a life there together.

But I wanted more, more than the simple life that we now had. I wanted, no needed that same power that I had felt when I first obtained the ring. So one day, while Luke was sleeping I snuck out and travelled to 2986 bce. It was the furthest in time that I'd ever gone so that alone fueled my adrenaline for the task.

Once I had arrived I immediately set out on my mission.

To replace God and obtain all the power that he held in the world.

The plan was simple really, place multitudes of scriptures talking about a divine being who would come down in 2036 and lead the world. That divine being? Me. Certain scriptures gave a location that would later be where I met all my followers. It was a bleak place, so I didn"t stay too long. Already as I was heading home I could feel the power rushing through me and the eagerness to return grew stronger and stronger. The whirlpool of colours and images that appeared while you time travelled suddenly stopped, and I knew that I had arrived.

A crowd surrounded me when I appeared out of thin air. They cheered and praised me, and I grinned at all the power I now held. My smile faltered for just a second though as I took in the wasteland around me. The once fresh pavements and bright flowers were nowhere to be seen and only rubble was left in its wake. In the distance I noticed a lone figure among the crowd looking down in despair. He looked directly up to me and held my eye. The person's face was full of disappointment. I knew that face, it was Luke.

I pulled my eyes away from him and started greeting the thousands of people around me. There were also quite a few hundred shot dead, which I was told were people who had started to not believe I was coming. I was told of the wars that had happened over centuries between the believers and non believers. How in the past 226 years the believers had ruled and the non killed. I knew all about the bloodshed and hurt that I had caused, and while that may have discouraged most people I now felt more energised and powerful.

After a while I began to tire, so I sent my people away and with a smirk went to find Luke. I found him underneath a lone tree, the last that I could see.

"Are you proud?" I asked.

He turned away from me and muttered a weak "no". "I'm telling them what you did, the authorities will find out sooner or later".

That was probably my biggest fear, and I couldn't let him destroy all I had created. So that's how it happened.

I shoved his body away and pulled my now blood soaked robe off my body.

I was ready for this power, even if he wasn't.