From a Different Angle

Everybody believes they are destined for something great, to what scale they believe that to be is simply up to each different person. We all believe we have some sort of grand destiny awaiting for us, and sometimes at the end of the line there is such a thing waiting for us but for most of us what we are met with is a sense of an unaccomplished life. That perhaps the way we lived our life was wrong, and the gift known as life was simply wasted away on us and we realize this in our dying breaths as we look around in an empty room filled with nothing but sorrow and a strong sense of regret aching at our souls. Me? Well to start off I am not dead so I haven't gotten the honor to see whether or not I regret what I have lived through so far, I was once a normal man that worked a 9-5 job at a bank in a quiet town. One moment I am trying to make a salad for myself the next I am standing in front of the body of God himself being crowned king of the realm by Angels whose appearance would make a mortal man quite literally melt away or turn to madness. I was thrown into a new world, where I realized how small and meager my life was. I was granted the powers that could rival that of the God that I killed, all this at the cost of never being able to live a normal life ever again, I was given immortality, infinite wealth, and everything I or anyone, anything in the world would have wanted. Yet... it didn't feel enough, I still came back to a lonely bed at night, it was as if I was working a 9-5 job, I became scared that I would live the same life I was already living back on earth, that nothing would ever change, I ended up running away in fear. Like a child scared of responsibilities I left heaven filled with fear of what I could have become if I stayed in that place any longer. Immortal, with powers beyond imagination, and with nowhere to go I took the first ship to another universe hoping that the angel's would not find me. I was able to stay in foreign planets, jumping onto the next ship from one to the other while clinging to nothing but my own curiosity of the brave new world I faced. It was a rather peaceful life for me, it even felt nice for a while. Then the angel's put out the bounties to bring me back. "The God Eater" is what they started calling me. "Capture Alive. Reward- Whatever you wish and more" At first if you saw such a thing even on an unknown planet, you would be skeptical about the whole "Whatever you wish" reward. How could anyone give you anything you wished for? Well the angels can do just that, and apparently there was a certain way people knew the bounty was made by the council of celestial beings themselves. Needless to say it didn't take an hour for the people all around me to suddenly turn into savages, every street I turned, every alleyway, even in hotels I was hunted down by creatures of all sorts of shapes and sizes. At first the thought escaped me but I realized that I was God, I had the power of a God and could easily wipe away a whole planet if I wanted to. Part of me wanted to tap into this power, to erase everything in my path without breaking a sweat but I felt as if doing that would be the same as letting Heaven win. I decided to learn to fight with the minimal amount of power I could use until I learned to properly harness it, to learn to use a new power that I found as I fought. I had several ass beatings, thrown around during a bar fight, and more stories I could tell while having a drink with a friend. You see although I knew everything it doesn't mean I could just bust out Kung Fu combos like I was in some sort of video game I had to properly practice before being able to do it all as I knew it should be done. After fighting for my life in several planets, and nearly dying several times I was able to learn how to fight good enough to keep my head above water as well as how to disguise myself properly from bounty hunters which surprisingly did not take too much effort. I finally got what I wished for, excitement, a daily thrill of something more, I was living the life I always sought after. However it didn't feel quite that way, they say becoming God is the loneliest achievement of all, and they are right. I never felt more alone in this universe, not until I finally realized I was alone with nobody to come back to or anything to do besides fight to survive endlessly. It was a way of living I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemies, it was like a cosmic joke in a way. I once yearned for excitement and wanted to live a life that was filled with all sorts of things and now that I was living that life, I could not help but feel as if I was alone once more. I believe that what I truly wanted in my life was a family to be with, or at least have some kind of friendship with someone to call my friend. Which much later on I did find a group of individuals to call my friends, but the very first I will never forget about as he remains by my side until this day. His name is Lucifer Helix, a man of his word that lived as an outlaw because he sought after forbidden knowledge and was punished by God for it. We met on the opposite sides of the barrel of our guns, he wanted the reward believing that he would get another chance at redemption by an angel or God himself. After some fighting and knocking sense into him I made him realize the angels were against us not with us, after hearing that he took a second to process. I stopped him from pulling the trigger on himself, then took him in to my own life. Before I knew it we were behaving like old friends, always sharing a life and helping each other. He was the true start of my new life.