Tournament of the Gods

Tale of three friends I

Dishra and Kredek kept looking at Sun Wukong, they were obviously amazed, Sun Wukong grinned to himself as he began to walk around the room, he was continuously shifting his gaze around the room as if looking for something, this went for a while, when Sun Wukong was sure that there was nothing to be found looking around, he moved over to the gourd of sake on the ground, kneeling down in a proper manner, he lifted the drink and began to pour the contents in the calabash before him.

"I don't understand," Kredek began.  "I thought Laozi wiped you out of existence," As Kredek said that, his eyes even opened wider.  "That's strange, all this events took place over 400 Septillion millenniums ago, how come I couldn't remember it but once I saw you, memories of it all are flooding in, all the times we spent together, when we discovered you at the statue, we first referred to you as the stone monkey."

Dishra too was frozen where he was, he too could remember it all now, for some reason, he had forgotten all about it in the past.

"Yeah, I was supposedly wiped out of existence, in order for the god of wisdom not to realize he was being played, I had to erase the memories of all those who knew me," Sun Wukong grinned as he emptied some sake in his mouth.

"If my memories about you serve as correctly as it shows and you aren't using this to manipulate us," Kredek began touching his head.  "Then tell us, why have you come to visit us, you were never the type to value friendship or bonds, you were always selfish and put yourself first."

"And y'all always had a knack for misinterpreting me," Sun Wukong smiled as he stood to his feet, raising his other arm, an orb appeared, it was radiating with a pinkish white colour.  "This is Change'e's essence, if you can remember vividly, we had supposedly destroyed the god of wisdom but for some reason, he resurrected, I had failed to calculate that and as a reason, I lost all of you," Sun Wukong said as he turned his back at them.  "That moment was when I realized that before I made any plans, I had to properly investigate the factors influencing my action such that no stone is left unturned, it's not enough to expect the unexpected, one has to ensure the concept of unexpected doesn't exist in the situation," Sun Wukong said as he turned back at his friends.  "Neglecting Xiwangmu and the Jade Emperor, we three are the oldest beings in all of creation, I had anticipated that, I had several unknowns about this one character(Sun Wukong was referring to Zhangshun Shan), in order to further my plans without that one character interfering, I had sent riders of dark to the fifth omniverse, I knew there was no way he'd survive without losing his godly essence and yet, I ignored a variable somewhere as even Xiwangmu was knocked out by some being obviously higher than her, the only two people who are capable of doing that in this creation is the Jade Emperor and his son, I kept tags on the Jade Emperor, he hasn't done any of the sort and regarding his son, he is yet to resurface," Sun Wukong said stroking his chin.  "I have a feeling I am much closer to finding the variable more than I know, that's why I have come to seek your help, is there any being in existence that I am not accounting for, I need you to tell me, it's why I returned your memories, knowing how meticulous you two are, you would manipulate some images and proceedings in your brain that making them seem like they are something else or you'd replace them with a certain code that only you would understand so even if a higher dimensional being had tried to read your memories, he would just have been confused and it would have proven useless to him, if that's what you did, for old times sake, I ask that you help me, it's my only hope."

Kredek and Dishra were looking at Sun Wukong, unsure of what to say, Kredek kept quite but his eyes were serious and they seemed to be doing a lot of peering through, Dishra on the other hand had a friendly smile on his face.

"Sun Wukong!!!! it really is you," Dishra said as he jumped up and towards Sun Wukong, he hugged the monkey king falling him to the ground.  "Though, you have changed a bit, in the past, you were all about mocking and making fun, for you to be this way, you must be really uptight."

"Damn right, I am," Sun Wukong said as he pushed Dishra off his body while he thought.  "I might have taken the calculations a little too lightly, I don't know what happened in the preliminaries, I read the memories of everyone who was there including Xiwangmu, it was the same, Zhangshun Shan had destroyed most of them and he had rendered Xiwangmu unconscious but what's wrong about it is that when I encountered Zhangshun Shan, his life force was resonating with that of a 3D plane."

"Based on the memories you gave us and the way you sound," Kredek began, he wore a serious disposition and there was this ancient seriousness in his eyes.  "The memories are true, you only ever acted uptight and agitated in situations you felt you were losing control over, it's as they say, in battle, anger is as a result of fear of losing control," Kredek said as he got to his feet.  "The answer is very basic and right in front of you, you gave us memories that you didn't tamper with, since you are of a higher existential origin, you could have decided to tamper with it."

As Sun Wukong heard it, his eyes opened but the gleam in them instantly vanished.

"I already considered that but the only two people who are capable of doing that don't exist."

"Let me rephrase what you meant to say," Kredek continued.  "The only two people capable of doing that in this creation."

"What do you mean this creation?" Sun Wukong asked.

"Wow," Dishra finally joined in.  "You gave us our memories and yet you don't know."

"What are these two talking about?" Sun Wukong thought to himself.  "I viewed both their memories an Infinite amount of times searching for clues, decoding the encrypted part of it as much as I could and yet, how are they even more enlightened than I, it's just like back when we three were together, despite how wise I was, I always seemed like the dumbest amongst them, at first, I was fine with it for a while as they had existed centuries even before I was born but right now, how they are still more intuitive than I just seems unfair."

"Remember the time when we decided to inhale some of the dust of the Lopcui crystals, the ones of 58D origin," Dishra asked in further.

"What's the significance of that memory, it just got us intoxicated and we began to hallucinate, the same thing m*******a does to 3D beings," Sun Wukong said, disappointment clearly written on his face.

"You write that as off as a mere hallucination but I think it's something more," Kredek began.  "There are no definite truths or lies, our perception is the only determinant to calling a fact true or false, didn't you find it coincidental that all three of us were hallucinating the same thing at once."

"That was because of our state of mind, we were close friends, we shared and did a lot of things in common, as a result, we began to think and reason on the same wavelength, the crystals are directly dependent on the state of mind of the user, that was the reason for how we felt how we felt," Sun Wukong began defensively.  "There's nothing more, nothing less."

"That's one way of looking at it but that doesn't make it any more true than me saying that hallucination might actually be an insight," Kredek said as he walked towards Sun Wukong.  "We feel this is reality as we believe this is the state of things how it are rather than what we want, once we concieve a reality that's exactly how we want and it feels to good to be true, we immediately began to feel it's an illusion or dream simply because we can control it easier, we have a sense of reality if it's something that seems beyond our grasp or control," Kredek said as he got a few centimeters away from Sun Wukong's position, being shorter than the monkey king, he had to look up at him.  "Those were the same with the hallucinations, we kept seeing a megrosto number of sequences, each sequence was an Infinite series of realities each telling us more about creation than we knew was possible, we saw proceedings that our entire world was just being written by a light-skinned boy sitting on his toilet and so much, it was then that I knew what hallucinations truly were, it isn't just a trick from external substances to mess with the mind, hallucinations actually are a way of opening the mind modules to get a deeper understanding of beyond reality itself."

As Kredek said that, Sun Wukong's eyes opened, he looked over at Dishra, he didn't appear shocked or amazed by what Kredek had said, if anything, he had a neutral expression meaning he had thought in that direction before.

"So that explains everything," Sun Wukong thought to himself.  "What about if those who disrupted the preliminaries weren't from this creation, in fact, it's not about what if, it's about what actually happened, they came to this creation for a purpose," Sun Wukong thought to himself.  "If I am to guess correctly, it has to do with Zhangshun Shan, that was why the memories were tampered with in his favor," Sun Wukong kept thinking.  "But why come from another creation to visit Zhangshun Shan of all, I knew there was something strange about that figure, how he kept doing the impossible and no matter what, he always stood tall and overcame, if Kredek was right about what hallucinations are," Sun Wukong kept thinking hard.  "Then the probability of this world being created by the Jade Emperor might actually not be all there is to it, there are beings beyond this world itself who are capable of deciding how the fate of this world goes, it's hilarious, I can control the fate of creatures of 1A origin and lower but now, I realize my fate is being controlled by one young simpleton who's probably playing with his crotch as he's deciding my every thoughts, thinking about it just makes me feel like a puppet but if he had to bring someone from another work of fiction to this or wait, maybe he didn't bring them, how about if that's even beyond his control, beyond his Control means that there are some beings who even from here can actually override the world where the one who's deciding how this story is from, that's why whoseover came here came here, they must have decided the fate of the one who's writing this by setting the fate that Zhangshun Shan will eventually be victorious in the end," Sun Wukong had a creepy smile on his face.  "But the one who's writing this is in for a big surprise, I will show him what the phrase reality can be disappointing really means, reality no matter what creation is disappointing for the inhabitants, I am going to win and nothing shall stand in my way," Sun Wukong now had his most evil smile on as he looked at his two friends.

"You have been the greatest help ever," he began.  "Several times, you have helped me out of difficult times, there's no way I can repay you, I wouldn't have been who I am now without you two neither would have I been able to arrive at the truth without you two."

"This is bad," Dishra said moving back, he was still smiling cheerfully.  "Times like this when you tell us how you appreciate and love us, it's those times that you do something disastrous."

"Dishra is right, the look in your eyes is wrong," Kredek answered.  "It's as if they suddenly changed when you arrived at a conclusion in your head."

"When I came here, I thought we would have sake, laugh, I would tell you my problems, we would think of solutions and then think about the good old times, there was supposed to be a flashback scene but what if the one from the beyond reality was the one deciding my fate by making me concieve that, I was thinking of enlisting you two to help me," Sun Wukong smiled evilly.  "But no one decides my fate not even the one who's the reason for my existence, that's why I am going to act differently that what he expects me to do, reality is like the size of his crotch, I am sure," Sun Wukong grinned as he blitzed past his old friends.  "Disappointing."

As he said that, Kredek and Dishra's bodies were suddenly enclosed in a black miasma, thier bodies began to melt as they vanished.

"I am going to kill you," Sun Wukong began looking at no one in particular.  "I don't know for what reason you started writing this but one thing is sure, you created the wrong character," Sun Wukong laughed maniacally as he vanished from the spot where he stood.

Over 500 Trigintillion centuries ago -:

Dishra had his legs crossed, he put his two hands together, his eyes were closed but he smiled, he was meditating and he appeared to be engrossed in whatever he was doing.

"You really are a strange one," came a voice behind him.

Dishra turned and looked at the one who was speaking to him, it was Kredek, he had taken the form of a 7 feet tall man with red hair and a large burly body.  Dishra on the other hand took the form of a 5'10 feet man in his middle twenties.

"And why do you say that," Dishra asked still smiling.

"You are the first being of high dimensional tier that still mediates and other than that, you are always smiling, it's creepy if you don't know."

"What's creepy is that look on your face, it makes you look like what the humans call a," Dishra smiled stroking his chin as if appearing deep in thought.  "Rapist."

"Your words are also inappropriate," Kredek frowned.  "A higher dimensional being shouldn't address others with words such as that."

"What's inappropriate is the new look you have got on your face now," Dishra grinned.

"I have had it with this absurdity," Kredek frowned.  "I can't wipe you out of existence as we are of the same dimensional tier but fortunately, there are several ways of dealing with simpletons such as yourself."

"If you want to rid me of my misery, you can start by wiping yourself out of existence, that'd be really helpful," Dishra grinned.  "Come on now, I have been cracking jokes for a while, why aren't you laughing? Aren't you seeing the funny side?"

"The prerequisite for a joke is that it be funny," Kredek frowned.  "But I am sure I would see the funny side when you and existence are no longer being uttered in the same sentence."

As Kredek said that, a sword appeared in his right arm.  "I personally forged this myself, it's made of the finest 20D metals, I shall use this to obliterate you from existence, I have grown weary of your asininity."

"O ma se ooo," Dishra smiled in a mocking tone. (What he said is Yoruba for it's a pity).

Kredek frowned as he disappeared, he reappeared behind Dishra as he swiped his weapon, Dishra jumped backwards in time to avoid the sword swing, almost immediately as he jumped back, he brought his arm down, immediately hundreds of exploding stars appeared around Kredek.

"While you were forging swords like a simple 3D blacksmith, I was creating objects of 20D essence, the stars around you are imbued with my energy itself, in case you are too retarded to catch my drift, if the explosion from the stars get to you, you are a goner, also, you can't teleport or transport yourself out, it's set like a circle around you, it blocks any form of interference both from the outside and inside, I know you have been seeing me for a while, I had set those around and didn't activate it as if I did, I too would have been affected."

As he said that, the stars began to explode in a comically circular fashion.

"It blocks interference right," Kredek now had an evil smile.

"Yes, it does," Dishra smugly replied.

"That's just what I needed to hear," Kredek grinned as he makes a few motions with his fingers.  As he did that, Dishra suddenly appeared by his side. 

"What happened?  How is this possible?" Dishra asked, shock clearly written around his face.

"You have spent quite a while where I presently am, so there's a huge concentration of your energy and essence around, all I did was activate a magnetic field around, since this place has more concentration of your essence and you being where you are had little or no essence of yours, it immediately drew you here, it doesn't qualify as interference as it's in no way affecting the exploding stars, it's just drawing back what's rightfully in his position," Kredek had an evil grin on his face.  "Now, you are either going to get destroyed with me or you deactivate the useless trap that you set."

"What makes you think I won't go for the former option?"

"Your eyes says it all, you desire to live, you don't want to die, the eyes of any creature is the doorway to the true representation of it's soul and from what I can perceive through your eyes, you do want to live, you don't want to die, that's why I know you'd rather save both of us than let yourself perish, I on the other hand don't care much if I live or die, there's nothing I have to live for, I have created thousands of realities, each bore me out, I have experienced hundreds of lifetimes even amongst my creation and it all feels boring, there's nothing worth living for and if I die now, I'd die but I refuse to die without letting the one who's responsible live."

"You really have issues," Dishra smiled even more cheerfully.  "I will put down the stars but I have a condition."

"What is it?"

"Let's be friends, you don't yet know the true value of what it means to be alive, there's no gift better than the gift of life, there's so much you must know, life is too precious to waste even a moment of it regretting being alive, life is proof that you were worthy of being real, things without life can never understand the joy of life as they never experienced it but we both do and that's why we must leave each moment to the fullest, it's because we are alive that we can experience pleasure, joy, pain, agony, disappointment and so much more, I have come to embrace all I have felt and find solace and comfort in it, being alive is something that you can only be happy about because you are alive, it's a treasure to be alive and it must be treated as such."

"What are you talking about?" Kredek had a disappointing look on his face.  "We are 20D beings, we can manipulate time as we desire."

"Not exactly, we can only manipulate the concept of time on planes that are of lower dimensional tier than we were, you can't alter time on a 21D plane, I know that cause I have tried and we also can't increase our dimensional hierarchy."

"You know all that and you aren't scared one bit," Kredek had a puzzled look on his face.

"Yep, and I will tell you the secret of my happiness, all you need to be is my friend," Dishra said extending his hand to him, Kredek looked at him with a puzzled look.

"You really are a strange one," Kredek said after a while, he extended his arm and the two 20D beings shook hands.