Astral revelation

Dr. Fate looked at the pool of light that circled around him and the eight people in the center of the room. He had heard the story of vampire Dracula, and he was quite certain that he was looking at something similar. ...A kind of negative energy that was strongly tied to the people in the room? It was all very strange. He had expected to have to go against something evil that Salaria could not overcome. After all, he was the Champion of Good.

And yet it was he who was in the most danger here. Why? He could very easily sense the great danger he was in. The only way he could think to describe this feeling was that it was the same feeling one might get when something is about to go wrong with a diving platform or diving board, like they sense an error before it happens.

And this was more than just an error. It was the feeling of a whole civilization going off the rails, like the toppling of an entire dam or a thousand dams....a feeling of disaster. Salaria stood by the side, her eyes wide as she watched this unfold.

"Dr Fate, please! Don't hurt them!"

"There has been an accident. It is my fault," Salaria admitted. "I could tell you the technical details but I'll spare you."

"Sorry," Dr Fate apologized, as he turned to face the group. "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Dr Fate, the Champion of Good. The only one who can stand against an ancient evil. I'm doomed to destroy this plane myself, but luckily, the entire world will be saved. So now it is time to choose. Do you join me in my cause, and share in this sacrifice, or will you refuse?"

Letter of introduction:

for the past year, I've been working on this story. I wanted to get to the end with a story that had a conclusion but after numerous attempts at a story on this topic, i didn't get it. However, inspired by a couple of stories here at wordpress i decided to try another approach. A story that had no foreseeable ending. More than anything, i just wanted to have a record of the entire concept i had put out.

I wanted to create a world in which it was possible for the fate of the entire universe to rest in the hands of one man. This would have to be an extraordinary man. In later drafts of the story, i went from regular guy...to mystic....to superman....to super hero.... to alien.... to god.

Eventually i realized it was god. In just the last couple months, i refined the idea of what god needed to be. It had to be extraordinary. It had to be a divine being, and a god among gods.

So, here you go. A god creating itself....and controlling everything with a pool of light.

Fate....

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