Chapter 50 Brahma Reaches His Destination
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Brahma stood outside Rangda’s eternal dark and gloomy prison, and he was relieved that his long 50,000-kilometre walk had finally ended. It had taken longer than he had planned, as the searing thirst and hunger within had forced him to have many extended meditations breaks to regain his mental clarity and keeping him going. Yet despite the delays, less than a year had gone past in the outside universe away from this wretched timeless place.
Brahma had been without food and drink for thousands of years, and yet he was immortal in this despicable place, forcing him to live day to day suffering from endless thirst and hunger. He had passed most of his time, the last few millennia, in deep meditation, to avoid the torment, but walking all the way to Rangda’s prison had amplified the pain and suffering he was in.
He came up to the prison and saw that there was a tunnel made through the impenetrable wall of the building, to the centre of the prison, where they had kept Rangda. Had Rangda manage to get out of the jail, and how had she done it? He looked at the ground where the tunnel exited and realised the solution. There was a ring on the ground.
Rangda’s prison had been built using the second hardest material in the known universe, but the ring on the ground held a minuscule amount of the hardest substance in the world. Brahma had a flashback of when they sealed Rangda in. The last thing he had done to her was to throw a ring at her, a ring she previously had given to him, to distance himself from her. This was the ring she had used throughout the millennia to incredibly slowly but determinedly, dig herself out. Brahma suddenly felt the chills. He had struggled immensely with thirst and hunger to walk here. Rangda must have struggled a lot more digging herself out of the eternal prison. She had shown an incredible determination when all she needed to do was to enter deep meditation and live out the eternity that way, while being captive in prison. What had driven her? The question filled Brahma with terror and confusion.
His terror increased when he turned around and saw Rangda for the first time in many thousand years. Her spirit was the same, but her body was disfigured, and instead of being beautiful she now looked like a terribly hideous and ugly monster. Brahma had seen those features before, she looked like a Xeno.
Brahma:
- Rangda? Is that you? What happened?
Rangda:
- Yes, multi-faced traitor! It is me.
- What you see is my true form. I am half Zetan and half Xeno, the only one of my kind. The ultimate species in the universe.
- For millennia, I used Zetan technology to look like one of you to blend in. You were blind, and I was never exposed
- Now I don’t need to blend in anymore. This is the real me.
Brahma:
- The wrong choice, you looked better before.
Rangda:
- Says the man who cannot keep the same face for more than a couple of minutes!
Brahma, like most of the Zetans who came to Earth to pose as deities, had adapted his appearance to that which was expected by his human followers. The background of Brahma being the multi-faced deity, was that his Zetan outer layer external DNA modifier malfunctioned, which led to his face consistently changing every few minutes. At first, Brahma was terrified by this, but after a while, he had come to appreciate this unique trait in himself.
Brahma:
- At least I don’t look like a Xeno monster.
- So, your heritage, is that why you betrayed us and wiped out the majority of all the life in the galaxy, while you were at it?
Rangda:
- Wiped out most of all life? Bah. Twelve inhabited planets were annihilated when I caused that supernova explosion. Disastrous for the Zetans, but for the total biomass in the Milky Way, negligible.
Brahma:
- Disastrous for the Xenos as well. What was left of us then annihilated the Xeno species scum, before the unfortunate loss of the Zeto crystals destroyed the foundation of our civilisation.
Rangda
- That’s of no consequence. The Xenos will rise again, and I will rule them as their God-Queen!
Brahma:
- Neither of us are real gods, and to be a queen, you need subjects. The Xenos are extinct.
Rangda:
- Hmm, really, is that so? I suggest you look around.
Brahma looked around and what he saw shocked him. A Xeno warrior with sharp claws stared him in the eyes and before he had time to react, the beast had pierced straight through Brahma’s body, with the claws sticking out through his back. Responding instinctively, Brahma managed to focus all his strength to his right fist and crushed the Xeno’s head with a well-aimed blow. Brahma pulled the dead Xeno’s claws out of his body and while standing on his knees, he coughed blood, but still he was able to look at Rangda decisively and unaffected.
Brahma:
- Is that all you can muster?! Your friend is dead, and you’ll be next.
Rangda:
- I don’t think so. He might be dead, but he served his purpose.
Brahma:
- And that was?
Rangda:
- To weaken you enough for this!
Rangda pulled out a corrupted Zeto crystal. Instead of pure clarity, it was coloured of blood and fire, and it emitted energy of terror and fear, unlike the uncorrupted Zeto crystal that emitted peace and unity.
Brahma:
- A Zeto crystal? They still exist. What did you do to this one??
Rangda:
- Yes, it would be a waste to let these precious crystals be destroyed, when your home planet Zetani was annihilated.
- I have merely turned the crystals useful to my benefit. You’ll see its real power for the first time!
Rangda lifted the dark-red and fiery corrupted Zeto crystals to the sky and suddenly Brahma felt an extreme pain, Brahma could feel how his head was about to explode, but that wasn’t the worst part, he could also feel how his essence and soul was sucked out and absorbed by the darkness of the evil crystal. A few seconds later Brahma’s head exploded, shattered into million pieces and his headless body dropped to the ground, vibrating, and jerking violently before it finally stopped moving.
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