Balance

by BioQuillFiction


My Wish Was A Job

Balance. Evil acts that result in the deaths of millions, miracles in science and medicine that save millions. The world holds a balance and yet it always gets shifted south. Darkness and darkness and so little light, prayers unanswered and beauty ignored. At only nineteen I saw how unbalanced our world is. So much war, so much bloodshed, so few heroes.

Today was December twenty first, Twenty- twelve.

Today was a school day, but my mom unplugged my alarm the night before. To me this was mumbo-jumbo. If it did happen then not much would change, if nothing happened the slow death of humanity would continue. Even if nothing happened the global fighting and rioting would scar humanity for years… Mom and dad stockpiled on canned food, guns, water, you name it they probably had a year or two worth of it. I didn’t care much though, never have… it’s been like this for years.

You see, I have a hard time actually feeling anything since my… well since I found out how my family really was. I grew up with the Disney idea of a perfect family always getting along and working out problems in the end… boy did that get thrown in my face like a bullet. I began seeing that kind of hatred everywhere after that, only places I find some peace are in video games and t.v. One show in particular, MLP, was a decent stress reliever. A world the complete opposite of earth in every whay morally… not even in death could such peace exist.

I’ve been laying in my bed so long my eyes hurt when I remembered to blink. Noise outside from the neighbors leaving and packing their stuff echoed through my window. I sighed, turning over and trying to sleep. A better world could only exist in the imagination, not even God could create such a kind world.

* * *

I opened my eyes and saw a white void all around me, it was kinda peaceful, but plane. I wonder what kinda dream this is?

”Rise my son!” A booming voice echoed through the void.

I clamped my hands over my ears and got on my knees. “Fuck! Turn it down to a three or four! I just woke up!” I yelled at the voice before standing up completely.

”You have a mouth on you.”

“Name someone these days who doesn’t and I’ll consider a filter.” I snapped.

”... Fair enough.” The voice replied.

A large white orb appeared in front of me and quickly turned into an elderly man dressed in a tuxedo and tophat. “This better?” The elderly man asked.

“So what or who are you, God?”

“Hit the nail on the hammer.” He said, pretending to hold a hammer.

“... So, wait. You really are God?”

“Yes, want proof?” I nodded. “Fine. You’re name is Zeke, you’re a born blonde, but dye it brown. Your family, excluding your mother and father, planned to throw home made explosives and shoot up in the city with your brother Dillen leading the city riots. Psyco that one, and you are the only member of your criminal family to never have stolen, killed, or vandalize anything or anyone.”

“... Alright you’re God. So who killed me in my sleep and how long til you dump me in hell?”

“Child, you have issues.”

“What else is new?”

“I am here to tell you that, as one of the few hundred thousand humans to not take a violent rout this day and thus, have earned a wish, and the option to go to whatever world you wish.”

“... So this Mayan calendar crap was a test?”

“Yeah, that’s about right.”

“... Well damn. So what rules does the wish have?”

“Any power, physical item, and things of the like are an option. From anything you know of.”

“Huh. Well… There was this one game… Kingdom Hearts.”

“You aren’t the only one to ask for a keyblade.”

“Good to know, but there was one in particular I liked. The X-blade.”

God’s eyes widened a bit when I said that. “Kid, that’s the smartest wish I’ve ever heard.”

“How?”

“I know of that weapon. Ancient, powerful, and above all, a rule breaker.” God pulled two chairs and a table out and we both took a seat across one another.

“Really? I know it opens and was made to guard the heart of all worlds, but…”

“Exactly. Wielding a weapon like that, you’d let to go to whatever world you want, whenever you want. But it goes further than that, it is made from half pure darkness, and half pure light. It represents balance. If you really want to have this weapon, you will have to take on that responsibility.”

“And how would that work out?”

“If a world is being consumed by darkness, you must use the X-blade to choose heroes to save it, if the world has too much light… you must bring forth darkness.”

“What!? I know my family is bad, but I’m not like them!”

“It’s your choice son… but… do you know why I’m doing this?”

“Sick sense of humor?”

“That was in my youth and I can’t live that down, but besides the point. Kid… my abilities aren’t what they used to be… earth is in chaos cause I can’t control it anymore. Don’t get me wrong, life will continue, but the angels are spread thin and if you do this, it will give you the job of keeping worlds in balance.”

“Tempting, not gonna lie... How about this. I accept the gift, create heroes and… villains if the world needs it. I get to summon the three big ones from Kingdom Hearts, use of magic, I can give people keyblades, and I get a cool Keyblade Armor that looks like the final bosses in Dream Drop Distance.”

“The X-blade and armor I can give, as for summoning those three creatures… I can’t do all of them so pick one. As for magic... that will be too much. Sorry, but magic is a no go,”

“Awh... Meh, it will still be cool to have the X-blade.”

“To forge the X-blade, I will need a parts of your heart. One of light, and the other of darkness.”

“This is gonna hurt, huh?”

“Like heck.” God placed his hand into my chest, pain like getting struck by lightning. I managed to look down in time to see a dark pulsating orb and an orb of light getting pulled out of me.

“Yeup, that was a bitch! You ever do that before?” I asked, collapsing to my knees.

“Ever hear of Jesus?” He replied sarcastically. He took a light and dark part of my heart in each hand and smashed them together in a clap like motion, creating a bright blinding light.

It blinded me for a moment. My eyes quickly regained vision and I saw it, the X-blade, just laying on the ground… wow it’s as big as the game made it out to be. “Holy shit.”

“I invented that.” God joked. I gave him an unimpressed look as I took the X-blade in my hand. It was lighter than I expected. “Now your armor.” God placed a hand on my right arm and a black metal armor sleeve with a big button near my shoulder. “Did you choose what you wanted to use as an ‘ally’?”

“Gonna go classic. Heartless it is.” God snapped his fingers, and I felt… power… and fear. Won't use these guys unless needed… or to practice. “Sweet.”

“Now all that’s left is for you to choose a world, and conditionally, their respective parallels to balance out.”

“... You said there were some who asked for keyblades as well, right?” I asked, looking over the X-blade.

“Yes.”

“Any of them go to Equestria?”

“One actually. Didn’t want to choose so I sent him to a world where those ponies are human.”

I looked at God, and for the first time in years, smiled. “I think I’ll go see if his metal is up to a little challenge.” I pointed my X-blade at a blank space in the void and focused on MLP and keyblades, mainly since I didn’t know what I was doing. To my, and God’s, surprise, the X-blade reacted. A small burst of light shot out from the tip and struck a spot in the void space, creating the ever familiar portal only a keyblade can make appeared.

“Wow… you’re a natural.”

I slammed my hand against the button on my armor sleeve, my body engulfed by light for a second before I found myself looking through a black visor, fully armored. “I always wondered what this would look like!” I shouted, throwing the X-blade as high as I could up into the air. In a flash of light, it morphed into something like Ventus’s key glider with that hand grip from Aqua’s glider. I jumped on. “See you later God.”

“Now what makes you think that?”

“Clearly you don’t know me well enough!” With that, I pushed the hand grip forward and my key glider zoomed into the portal. This is never gonna get old!