Tag: Eva Wilson

[WP] Reality is my playground… [Link to post.]

Eva opened her eyes and smiled at the golden sunlight. She sat up in her small bed and stared at the field of golden wheat illuminated by the morning sun. Her bed rested in the middle of the field; she loved sleeping under the open sky. 

“You’re awake!” Oren appeared at the side of Eva’s bed, waist deep in wheat. The pale boy with the widow’s peak smiled at Eva. “Let’s play!” Eva brought her wrist up to check the time. A stream of red dots ran from her shoulder, down her arm and up her wrist. The time glowed in red on her wrist by the time she completed the motion. 

“Sorry shortstuff, gotta start getting ready for work. Jake should be back soon.” Eva stretched her arms up to the bright blue sky, then slid herself out of bed. Oren kicked at the wheat.

“You guys don’t even need jobs… ” Oren whined. 

“We don’t, but it’s nice. It helps us feel normal. Besides, you should be happy Jake’s working. He gets loads of ideas for this place.” Eva spread her arms wide to indicate the field. “And unlike you, Jake and I have to eat food. So we need money to do shopping.”

“You guys don’t need money either!” Oren stomped his foot. He trampled the wheat, leaving golden stems broken and bent in the imprint of his shoe. Eva walked to Oren and flicked his forehead with her finger. 

“Like I said, we like to feel normal.” Eva grabbed her duffle bag and mussed Oren’s hair. “Alright, I’m gonna go home to get ready. See you after work.” 

“Yeah, yeah.” Oren kept wrapped his arms at his chest and looked annoyed. Eva held her hand in mid-air, she opened a shimmering dark purple portal. She began to step through and looked back at Oren.

“Oh yeah, clean up a bit will you? Jake said he was gonna bring some beta testers today.” Oren’s face lit up, his eyes sparkled red. 

“Really?!” Eva winked at him and stepped through the portal. It disappeared behind her. Hours later a dark black portal opened. Oren ran to the portal ready to greet Jake. Four men and two women stepped out of the dark hole in reality. Oren stepped toward the man in front wearing blue jeans and a black t-shirt. 

“Hey Jake! Who’re your friends?” Jake smiled at Oren and looked behind him. His guests looked around the wheat field in bewilderment. 

“Guys. Hey guys!” Jake snapped his fingers to get their attention. “Welcome to Jake’s World.”

“Oren’s World!” Oren shouted next to him. 

“We’re still working on a name, but either way…” Jake extended his arm and bowed at the waist to present the world. “Welcome.” One of the women, a coworker in her mid20s wearing glasses, raised her hand.

“You said you were gonna show us a video game you were working on, where are we?” Oren stepped forward and began talking before Jake could respond. Red light glowed in his hand, and he pointed it at the crowd of strangers.

“Welcome to a parallel world. Here, reality is my playground.” The light formed a shiny copper sword in Oren’s hand. The tip of the blade pointed toward the woman that asked the question.

“This whole world is like a real life MMO,” Jake added. 

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A dark purple hole appeared in the air above an overgrown wheat field. The portal floated vertically a couple of feet off the ground. A pale young child wearing all black clothes stepped out of it and fell on his face. When he looked up he revealed a widow’s peak on his forehead.

“OW!” The boy yelped and sat up on his knees to rub his face. He turned around and yelled into the purple abyss. “You’re still doing it super wrong, Eva.” His voice dripped with annoyance.  A blue jean clad leg stepped out of the portal followed by another. They belonged to a slender man wearing a black t-shirt and a rugged brown beard. His forearm showed a tattoo of a scythe with a golden number 14 on it. He reached a hand down to help the boy stand.

“Settle down, Oren, she’s still learning.” The man turned around to face the portal, and reached his hand out. “C’mon through,” he said. A young woman jumped out of the portal all at once and landed in the man’s arms. She kissed his cheek while they hugged.

“Thanks handsome,” she said. Oren stuck his finger in his mouth and made retching noises. Eva turned to face Oren and apologized.

“Sorry I made it so high. I’ll do better next time.” She nudged the man in the ribs with her elbow. “Tell ‘im, Jake.” Jake looked at Oren while he held Eva in his arms.

“She’ll do better next time,” he said with a smile.

“Whatever,” Oren said. He looked around at the empty field they stood in. His eyes widened and a smile grew on his face. “WOW! I forgot about this place!” The boy jumped up and down excitedly while clapping his hands. “This is great!” Oren ran to Eva and hugged her around the waist. “You’re forgiven.” Jake and Eva stared out across the plain, looking in all directions. A gentle breeze stirred the wheat, but they saw no sign of anyone else nearby.

“You know where we are?” Jake asked. Oren nodded.

“Yeah! I came here a long time ago when I was still super young, see?” Oren held up his index finger and a small red ball of light formed above the tip of his finger. “My nanos are still here.”

“How long ago were you here?” Eva asked. She knelt down in front of Oren and tried to touch the red light. It was solid and she pushed it forward. Oren shrugged.

“I dunno. Maybe 700 years?” His clear grey eyes showed a spark of realization. “Wow, that’s a long time, huh? The world is definitely covered by now.” Oren shut his eyes and red dots began to appear in the air throughout the field. They floated around like red fireflies.

“Yep, I can feel it. Neat! I own this world now.” Oren rubbed his hands together with excitement. “Let’s play something!” Jake put a hand up.

“Wait. You can’t own a world. What about the people that live here?”

[There’s no one here. – Oren] Jake jumped straight up in the air. He felt a sensation, like a feather touch on his arm. Somehow he knew Oren’s response, though the boy had not said anything.

“WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT???!!” Jake tried several times to brush his arm off, it felt like a spider crawling up his arm. Oren giggled.

“That was a Whisper.” He stopped talking, but Jake continued to receive responses. It tickled his arm.

[It’s something I can do. – Oren] Jake checked his arm and saw red text disappear. Then another message appeared on his arm in red letters. Somehow he knew the answer before he took the time to read his arm.

[When I have enough nanos. – Oren]

“Whoa. That’s kind of awesome. Can we do it?” Jake asked. He grabbed Eva’s hand and pulled her closer. Oren eyed them both, then he sighed.

“You guys are so lucky I have fun with you.” Oren held his palm out and formed two small red balls of light. “Take one each.” Jake touched a red ball of light, and it sank into his finger. Red lines  streamed up his arm to his shoulder, then up his neck to the back of his head. He turned and nodded to Eva who touched the other ball. It went into her brain also.

“This’ll give you the ability to do it, but I’m not going to teach you how. You guys figure it out. Oh! It’ll be like a game! I’ll give a bonus to the first one to figure it out,” Oren said.

{In the meantime. – Oren} Eva shuddered, and checked her arm. Jake looked at his own.

{I’ll use this. – Oren} The text appeared on both of their arms.

{It’s like a broadcast message. – Oren}

“What did you mean there’s no one here?” Jake asked.

“What?” A look of concerned flashed across Eva’s face. She did not receive that message.

{There’s no humans here. – Oren}
{They’re all dead. -Oren}
{I killed them.|/ -Oren}

“STOP!” Eva shouted. She grabbed Oren by the shoulder and knelt down in front of him. “What do you mean you killed them?” Jake placed a hand on Eva’s shoulder. Eva looked up and and Jake shook his head. Oren shrugged.

“I was basically a toddler, I hadn’t even turned 200 yet.” Oren said with a trace of sadness. He looked Eva in the eye, and a flash of red appeared behind his grey eyes. “I’m sorry I didn’t have anyone to teach me right from wrong.” Oren shoved Eva’s hands off his shoulders, then he turned and stormed away through the golden wheat.

“You’ve been traveling with us for a while. I should have made time to explain more about his history to you. I’m sorry.” Eva stood up with a puzzled look on her face. “You’ve heard Oren mention his mom from time to time, but she only meets up with him once a century. He loves her; what kid doesn’t love their mom, right? But she tossed him as soon as he was born. He’s a powerful Unique, so he survived. Even as an infant. He learned how to traverse universes before he even understood what he was doing. He didn’t know what he was doing to the people.”

“You knew about this?”  Eva asked. Her voice took a sharp tone. Jake shook his head.

“No, but you’ve seen how powerful he is. I’m not surprised, he’s probably done the same to other Earths. You heard him, he forgot about this one.” Jake grabbed Eva’s hand and looked into her eyes. “But we can guide him now. Make sure he doesn’t kill any other worlds.”

“Okay.” Eva said. She leaned forward and hugged Jake. She turned to look for Oren and saw him on one end of the field hunched over. “I’m going to go talk to him,” Eva said. Jake nodded.

“I’m gonna go to the other end and try to send you Whispers,” he said. He walked way in the other direction.

“Hey, sorry I freaked. You gotta understand how staggering it is to hear you killed a whole planet.”

[Just the humans. – Oren] Eva felt the now familiar tingle on her arm.

“Oh, so now you’re not talking to me?” Eva said. She added a playful shove on Oren’s shoulder to let him know she was kidding. He smiled slightly.

[It’s just easier. – Oren] [Plus I can do things. – Oren] [Like this: (@). – Oren] [And this: 10. – Oren] [9. – O] [8. – O] [7. – O] [654321. – O]

“Well, I guess that could be useful?” Eva said. She sat down next to Oren. She stared at the darkening blue sky.

[tsting. ~ JAKE] Eva felt a different sensation on her upper thigh.
[testing*. ~ Jake] She giggled.

“It looks like Jake got it figured out already,” Eva said to Oren.

“No way!” Oren smiled. “I guess it’s time to give him the bonus I promised.” Oren stood up and clapped the dust off of his black jeans.

[Can you do it? – Oren] On the other side of the field Jake received the Whisper on his arm.

{Easy as pie. – Jake} Jake broadcasted the reply to include Eva.

{Easy? Another game then. – Oren}

{No problem. – Jake}

{Keep up. – Oren}

[= – O] Jake felt the whisper on his left arm. He returned it to Orens Left arm. [= – J] [(+) – O] on the back of jake’s neck. He returned it. [(+) – J] [<^_^> – O] tickled Jake’s elbow. The breezed had died down by that point, and the stillness of the air allowed Eva and Oren to hear Jake laugh from across the field. Then Oren burst into laughter in front of Eva when Jake returned it.

“What are you guys doing?” Eva asked. Oren’s laugh made her smile.

“One second,” Oren said. He held a hand up to Eva.

[`#`$`%`& – Oren the Great and Powerful] Jake felt a hard slap on his back. The force was enough to move him forward a step.

“Oh, we can do that too?” Jake said to himself and smiled. He focused as much as he could and tried a forceful whisper on Oren’s chest. He knew Oren would be waiting for it on his back.

[ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ – J] Oren fell on his butt, then burst into laughter.

[You win. – Oren] [Come get your prize. – Oren]

Eva helped Oren off the ground while he kept giggling. Jake left a trail of trampled wheat behind him as he ran towards them. He reached them and saw Oren holding a glowing red ball of light, the size of a bowling ball.

“Whoa, what’s that?”

“This is the controller for all the nanos on this Earth. You own this Earth now.”