Rise of the Creators

by Paradox Theory

The Fade

"So, why didn't you wait for tomorrow?" I asked Odin, King of the Creators, as we walked towards the gazebo.

"Because my time on this plane is coming to a close." He answered, his voice carrying a sad tone.

"Why?"

"Because on the day I had become king, I foresaw a great and terrible war. One that would tear apart the multiverse." Odin turned toward me as he spoke, "One that I would not be present for."

"So what does this have to do with me?" I ask, my mind spinning with new questions as we entered the gazebo.

"Everything, but before you know what, I must first tell my tale at the beginning. 9,000 Years ago." Odin said as the gazebo faded, and the world with it.

Many Creators said that to meet Ra, king of the Creators, was like meeting life and death at the same time.

But for me, it was simply to meet an old friend. And thus I thought as I entered the gazebo.

"Odin." Ra spoke in my mind. For he had long since spoke aloud.

"Yes, old friend?" I answered, taking a seat across from him.

"My time on this plane is coming to an end." Came his reply.

"Ra, why tell only me this?" I ask, fear seizing up my chest.

"Because my death will start your destiny, young Odin." He answered, pausing to lift a hand, "And now I must show you something only the king knows of." With that he brought his hand straight down, and the gazebo was gone.

I looked around. . . the platform? Where ever we were, it was a platform, floating through space, a throne in the center.

"I now offer you what my predecessor offered me, perfect knowledge of things to come." Ra's voice sounded ten times as loud as it did before.

"What's the catch?" I asked quietly, still overwhelmed by the floating platform.

"You will lose your eye. It will be used to see the future. It will burn in the process."

I looked out across the universe we were viewing. "Thanks, but I don't see a need for that." I answered, not meeting Ra's eyes.

Ra said nothing, instead, he waved his hand and brought our home world into view. As I watched it, some sort of inky black force covered the planet, and spread outward. I watched as the universe I called home was consumed.

"What kind of joke is this?" I ask Ra, anger tainting my voice.

"'Tis no joke at all, it is merely the future." Ra's voice whispered in my head. I looked back at this, this Void. Although every part of me screamed against it, I turned to Ra.

"Show me everything."

And he did.

I watched as stars grew and died. I watched Humans, Angels, Centaurs, and Ponies alike rise and fall. I saw Creators of every shape and size.

I saw a beautiful woman, in her arms was a child, a young girl stood next to her. My family, something told me. I saw another girl the looked like the woman, a man with two forms stood next to her. One form was a mortal man, the other was an Alicorn.

I watched my home world fall, and at the center was the man. He seemed to cry as the Void spread from him. He didn't want this.
He had no choice.

I saw his parents, his twin sister, his friends in Equus. I saw everything about him in the flash of an eye. From the moment he was born, to the moment he became the King of Creators. I saw Jason Wright.

Then, I saw no more, for that was the end of the vision. I opened up my eyes' or tried at least. Only my right eye would open, the left had sealed shut. I had paid the price. But know I knew. And I understood.

I turned to thank Ra, but he was gone, in his throne was a scroll. In it was written:

Odin, you now know the secrets of the universe, and so I am no longer needed.
You have lived for a small 1000 years. But I know you will live for thousands more.

Do what I could not Odin, find the mortal you saw, and make sure he ascends. For it is through him all mortals may ascend to our station.

I will miss you, old friend. I am sad that you will never hear my voice.

I felt the first of my tears well up in my eyes as I set the scroll down.

I moved my hand up, and the platform, nay, the observatory disappeared. I stood alone in the gazebo.

And I would be alone for many more years.

I had no idea how long I had stood there, but one thing was certain. I was the Void's maker.

"Why me?" I said at last, "Why am I the one?"

"I believe you'll have your answer after our meeting is concluded." Odin replied, his skin now shining gold, "And, as Ra offered, so will I. Do you want the Sight? The perfect knowledge?"

I thought about it, and though hard. But no matter how I looked at it, the answer was the same.

"No, I do not want the Sight." I answered, "If I do not know the future, I can change it."

Odin nodded, "Then there is one more thing I must say." He showed me his hand, golden energy flowing from it, "Do you know what this is?"

"Is it what happened to Ra?" I asked as he reached for his sword.

"Yes. It is called The Fade. At 10,000 years, a Creator can choose to enter the Fade if he so wishes." Odin informed me as the Observatory focused on a planet all to familiar.

"What happens to the Creator after the Fade?" I ask as the picture zooms into a town that's all too familiar.

"He chooses what his power becomes. Some choose to be new planets, others choose to be forests. And a select few can choose a successor." Odin explained as he pointed to the scene in front of us.

I saw my mother in the hospital I was born in. My dad sat next to her bed as they waited for a doctor as they waited.

"What should we call them?" Mrs. Wright asked, placing a hand on her stomach.

"My boy will be called Jason. Always wanted a son with that name." Mr. Wright answered, clasping my mother's other hand.

"Jane. My grandmother was called Jane." Mrs. Wright sighed wistfully, "Jason and Jane."

"Together to the end." Mr. Wright whispered.

"Why are you showing me this?" I ask as I turn to Odin.

Before me stood a smaller man with short chopped brown hair and a small brown beard that hardly hung at all.

"Because this is were I send my power. To you, Jason."

Odin raised his sword, "Until my power is restored, neither will the Allsword be." Running a finger down the side of the sword, Odin split it in half.

"Clarent," He said, picking a half up in his left hand, "Sword of fire and destruction."

"Excalibur," Odin whispered, picking the other half up with his right, "Sword of Ice and Patience."

Turning to the planet earth Odin raised his hands, "I now scatter you through time and space, until your master claims you."

Odin turned toward me, "Jason, this world will soon fall. You must choose what it will fall to. I ask you to protect my granddaughter, and tell her I said 'hello'." Odin smiled as the gold light engulfed him.

I watched as the energy flowed from Odin to my mothers womb. I watched as his power divided in two. One for each child.

The Observatory went quiet. I now realized what I was to do. But I was afraid to do it.

The only question I had left was why.

Why do I create the Void?

I stood on a hilltop. Only two miles away was Canterlot.

Rose was there, I could tell. I knew she knew of me as well.

Tomorrow I would capture the two princesses, then I would make them watch as their city falls.

Right off the mountain.

Then my brother will return.

And I will become Queen.