//------------------------------// // 1 - Wish granting goddess // Story: Ah! Magical Intervention At It's Best // by rey1119 //------------------------------// On this particularly cloudy day, a person could hear voices coming from the parking lot of a nearby diner, even from across the street. This particular restaurant, there was a brouhaha in the midst of the parking lot, involving around three men, one of the men in particular was Rey. Rey was a pretty tall guy, around six feet, sported falling black hair, and a pair of blue sports shades, which were a memento from his father, today's events wouldn't be considered an oddity in Rey's life, though being mostly pacifistic he was looking for a way out of this without getting hurt, or arrested. "Think spilling food on me in front of my girl was funny do you freak?" Spat the first guy, Rey saw that with his physique he did not pose much of a threat, his punches wouldn't leave any long lasting bruises, but the other guy beside him was a different story. Though he wished he didn't have to do this, though he tried apologizing ( which only seemed to deepen his grave), he didn't see any other way out. He lunged forward, half attempting to punch the first guy, and half attempting to dodge any attempt the bigger guy made at him, but as he lunged thunder flashed and rain started to fall. "SHIT!" Exclaimed the second guy, clutching his leather jacket "Smalls we gotta go!" He yelled at the smaller fellow. The first guy looked hesitantly at Rey and then said "Lucky my windows are down!" and with that, he ran off to his car. Rey sort of felt sorry for the thugs, although it had been an accident that caused him to trip and spill their food, as they ran he started feeling a little guilty, so he ran to the car as it was about to pull off, and stopped them. "You sure as hell got some nerve dill weed!" Said one of the ladies in the back seat, as she spoke Rey had pulled out his wallet and grabbed a collection of dollars to hand the party for the trouble that happened today, he didn't bother counting, since their meal was replaced and they couldn't have spent more than $10 on the whole thing, but just so they didn't have any problem with them in the future he handed over what would later turn out to be $44 to the thugs, in turn they emptied a cup of old warm soda on his shirt, and the short guy who was sitting in the driver seat, leaned out and spat on his shoes, then they turned and drove away leaving him waving goodbye to their car in the rain. Indeed today had been just like any other day, Rey had been to work, donated to that charity box that sits outside the restaurant he works at, and came back to his apartment. Looking at his apartment from the street, he'd been surprised he never stopped to just, look at it. A rather tall and unimpressive building stood before him, he really rather had stayed far from the city but this choice, much like the rest of the choices in his life were not his own. He walked inside the building and signed in, and walked up to his room. On the way to his room, he couldn't help but to crack a smile, one more month of work and he'd be able to buy him a home, a place he picked far away from the city. As he walked into the room, the room he kept neat, Almost as perfect as if no one had lived their prior, He saw a girl on his bed. He was sure he hadn't taken any blows to the head today but as he opened his mouth to say something, she spoke. "Hello mister! I am Aura and I am a goddess here to grant you one single wish! If you wish for infinite riches I can make it so, or if you wish for this world to be destroyed I can arrange for that as well." He stood there, wondering how this insane girl got into his room. The door was locked, the windows were shut and bolted from the inside, and he was sure the hotel didn't allow visitors. "Please try to understand, I'm no more crazy than you are." she said. She looked upset that he didn't believe her, although she did not take into fact that most humans live their lives without knowing that goddesses like her exist at all. But going along with her duties, she pressed onward. "Did you read my mind?!" He asked, He almost shouted but in the off chance that he'd gone insane he didn't want to draw attention to himself. Not only was this strange girl on his bed, but she could read his mind as well, He obviously thought it was his mind playing tricks on him because of the stressful day at work. He decided to amuse himself by going on and communicating with her. He turned to face her. She simply nodded her head at him, "have you anything in mind?" She asked. She seemed so innocent, not to mention she was clad in a white flowing fabric from head to her shoe-less feet. Wearing a white dress with white hair, surprisingly blue eyes and what seemed to be an infinity shaped charm on her neck. She wasn't bad looking at all. But with the power to destroy the entire world a question came to mind. "Why me? You obviously don't grant these wishes to anyone." He inquired. If they randomly chose the wrong person, the entire world could be ended. There had to be some reason they chose him, even if it was a figment of his imagination it still made no sense whatsoever. "My organization grants a single wish to those who are extremely unfortunate due to no fault of their own. such as yourself, every day you are picked on, taunted and sometimes harmed, are you not? The choices in your life are seldom your own, it is quite disheartening, but you've stayed positive even in the darkest of hours. You deserve anything you want." As she finished her speech she smiled a smile that lit up the room. "But what about the really less fortunate?" Rey asked "The one's starving, and dying in other countries?" He Inquired. To this the goddess furrowed her brow and sighed. "It's simply not possible, we've tried giving those poor souls their own wishes, but their suffering has made their hearts grow dark, of the wishes we've granted for them, 97.6 of them involved the ending of all life on the planet a few have wished for incredible amounts of money, but all of them we had to negate in the end for the sake of this world. you see?" She asked. He simply nodded his head in understanding. But that still didn't make choosing a wish any easier. He sat on the bed with his back to her, and thought to himself She's really cute and nice, I wonder if I could wish for her to be my girlfriend, he was looking at her over his shoulder and noticed her blush and her eyes widen. Realizing that she could read his mind, his own eyes widened and he fell off the bed. "D-did you read my mind?" he asked nervously. She nodded slowly with her hand over her mouth and the other over her chest. "While you can wish for that if you wanted, I still wish to tell you that you aren't exactly my type, BUT according to my sources you'll be with your beloveds soon enough." He didn't catch the plurality of that statement over his disappointment. "Well I have something in mind, I wish to go to a place that I'll be truly happy! not all the time, but a good bit of it." He said. He'd hoped it would be another country or somewhere exotic, just away from the hustle and bustle of city life. A concerned look came across her face, and she said "I'd have to advise against that, according to my sources that kind of thing will happen already, I shouldn't be telling you, and I won't tell you when, but I don't want you to waste your wish" She finished with a wink. Even though he wasn't sure he was serious about this wishing business, he couldn't help feeling indecisive. He hummed softly to himself while he thought. "Can you come back at a later date?" He asked. "Of course" she replied. "Just call out to me when you're ready, and I'll come wherever you are." she said this quietly as she faded away, and when she was done, she had completely disappeared.