Tournament of the Gods

Tale of three friends II

Dishra had the warmest smile on his face as he shook Kredek, Kredek didn't understand the reason for the warm smile but even he couldn't help but smile as the duo broke contact.

"Hurry up," Kredek ordered.  "Bring down the stars."

"For someone who said moments ago that you didn't care about your life," Dishra spoke.  "You sure are in a haste to get out of a life threatening situation."

"That was then, this is now!!!" Kredek grunted.

"Hehehehehe, you are really funny, you should be a comedian," Dishra smiled as he makes signals with his hands.

"If I was a comedian, you'd be the joke," Kredek answered bluntly.

"At least it would be funny and expensive," Dishra continued.  "Unlike your life which has been nothing but a cheap and boring joke."

"Ouch," Kredek said, his eyes looked like he wanted to cry.  "That's really insensitive."

"You started it, just showed you who could do it better," Dishra said looking away from him, still smiling merrily, he increases the speed by which he made those hand signals, eventually the exploding stars which were going off around them suddenly vanished.  "And that's that, it's gone."

"Bastard," Kredek gritted his teeth as he levitated above the ground.

"Don't be so pained," Dishra smiled. "So I guess we are friends now," Dishra smiled as he did a little celebratory dance around.  "I have never had a friend before, I wonder what sorts of things friends do."

"You are a 20D being," Kredek began disapprovingly.  "Haven't you seen what your lower creation does, there are several of them whom regard each other as friends and comrades."

"I have never actually had a creation before, I don't create worlds, I just do everything by myself but that's not important," Dishra smiled even more warmly while Kredek looked at him with disgust in his eyes.  "So what sorta things do friends do."

"I don't know," Kredek patted his head tiredly.   "Friendly things I guess."

"And what's an example of something friendly?"

"I don't know," Kredek had an evil grin on his face.  "But if you let me wipe yourself from the face of reality, that would be your most friendly act."

"But it would also be my last," Dishra said hugging himself as he makes a childish pose.  "If that's the most friendly act, I would do that last, right now, I will do the littlest friendliest things I can."

"You really are a strange one," Kredek said with a bummed out look, as he did, a red crown instantly reappeared on his head, with the appearance of the crown, his eyes wore a concerned look.

"What's the matter, you look agitated," Dishra observed.

"None of your business," Kredek answered indignantly as he vanished.

He reappeared in an open field, there were hundreds of humans on the field where he appeared at, they were of different races from blacks to Caucasians to Asians to Mongolians, they were dressed in different attires and each of them had a look of amazement on their faces.

"We are friends now," Kredek heard Dishra's voice say behind him, reluctantly, he turns to Dishra who still kept grinning childishly.  "Everything regarding you is now my business."

"Don't you have someone else to disturb," Kredek gritted his teeth as red appears on his forehead.  "You are pissing me the f**k off."

"Well, that's your problem," Dishra smiled.  "It's the job of a friend to endure his counterpart," Dishra smiled as he moved over to Kredek.  "You were extremely fast in coming here, I am guessing you must have seen something unprecedented for in one of your creation, that's the case, isn't it?"

"You aren't wrong," Kredek answered him as he now looked at a 6'5 stone statue of a monkey which was directly in front of them.  "I don't understand how this statue found it's way here, based on what I can seen, it had been gathering energy from different dimensional planes, some lower but none higher than a 20D plane as I can clearly comprehend it's wavelength, if what you said about higher dimensions is true, I shouldn't be able to fathom intricacies of higher dimensions," Kredek said, he had a look of concern.

"You aren't wrong," Dishra continued.  "It has been gathering energy, it took the form of a monkey," Dishra putting his hands to his face as he looked at it.  "No matter how much we want to put it, it's astonishing?"

"What do you mean astonishing?"

"When a creature is created," Dishra said as he moved over to the stone statue which was in front of him.  "There's usually an emblem of it's creator directly marked on the soul, like yours and mine has the emblem of the Jade Emperor because he created us and the humans around here have your emblem and that of the Jade Emperor as you created them and the Jade Emperor created you but what's astonishing is that this statue doesn't have any form of emblem at all, it's almost as if he wasn't created, as if he just came into being."

"That's impossible, everything created must have a creator," Kredek retorted.

"Yes, that's how the order of things was supposed to be like but this is new, something which has never happened in all of creation before and it's now taking place before the both of us," Dishra has an excited look on his face.  "It's indeed wonderful."

"What's wonderful about this?" Kredek had a look of anger.  "He suddenly appeared in one of my creation, he has no emblem of any one, if anything, he spells trouble, I have a feeling if we don't eradicate him now, he would eradicate us."

"Relax gramps," Dishra said to him.  "Why are you always do uptight and see everyone as the enemy?"

"I never related with other 20D beings or higher because I can't perceive thier life and time-lines relating to them as I can see of my creation therefore bringing an element of uncertainty, I hate being uncertain, you can be planning my doom and I won't know simply because it's impossible for me to read your mind, I hate things I am uncertain of and not in complete control over, that's why I enjoyed being by myself in my little world, it was something I completely understood and could freely control."

"And yet, see how you turned out to be," Dishra said, there was pitiful intent in his eyes, he no longer smiled, instead, he appeared tearful.  "Since you could see everything that went in your creation, you no longer knew the essence of surprises or hope, everything was exactly as you envisioned so it always turned out like how you saw, therefore you can't know the essence of life."

Kredek didn't answer, he just looked over at Dishra, the way Dishra looked at him made him feel bad about himself, Dishra looked at him the way a mother looked upon an injured and devastated child, Kredek felt uneasy about that.

"What makes life truly worth living is the adventure, the risk, the uncertainty and the need to hope, life is a game, when you know all the moves and outcome of a game, you get bored and no longer see the fun in it but when the game's outcome is uncertain, when it's full of mysteries and there are stakes to it, that's when you recognize the significance and you are immediately drawn in to play the game, you hope to win even though victory isn't hundred percent certain, there's a lot of uncertainties about what if this or that happens, what if I make a mistake, what if I lose this, it's all of that that constitutes what life actually is, that fact that we can never tell for certain exactly everything that would happen next, it's adventurous, dangerous, exciting, scary all depending on how you look at it but we hope that we would get through each day and that the best happens to us, a life has not known hope can not understand what it means to be alive, it's in moments in life when hope is required that the meaning of being truly alive becomes known," Dishra said as he walked towards Kredek, putting his right arm on Kredek's left shoulder. "You have been confined to your little world long enough, here you are just existing and dictating existence for others but you aren't actually living, come with me, let's survey dimensional planes beyond our comprehension, let's go on journeys full of mysteries, uncertainty and adventure, let's explore existence, let us be TRULY ALIVE!!!"

Kredek could feel tears dropping from his two eyes, strangely, this individual whom he had thought was a pain in the ass had encouraged him in ways he didn't think was possible.

"I was always scared of exploring this archverse further because of uncertainty and I felt I would see things I couldn't control but right now, I feel different, I am no longer scared, I want to survey existence itself and I will do it with my newfound friend, I have a feeling adventures beyond my wildest dream await me and even though I would meet people and things I have no control over, I am not scared but rather, I feel excitement."

While he thought, the stone statue which was directly in front of the two friends began to c***k, Kredek and Dishra immediately turned towards the stone, parts of it began to fall to the ground, it was breaking even faster than it did before, Dishra looked around, everyone was frozen in their steps, even the random particles in the air too were frozen, extending his prescence, Dishra could view thousands of Universes which were Infinite in size and magnitude and every form of creature in each Universe appeared to be Frozen or paused. 

"I understand you don't want any of your creation hurt," Dishra began in Kredek's direction.  "But stopping time across all your creation, is that really necessary?"

"That's what's surprising me, I am not the one who paused time, the one who is directly responsible for that," Kredek said looking at the statue which kept breaking away.  "Is whosever is in that statue."

"That's not all," Dishra continued.  "I sensed a malevolent aura from him, I have a feeling we won't exactly be getting a warm welcome when he finally unveils himself from the statue."

As Dishra said that, a wave swept from the statue itself, the wave reached at least 78 million universes and every where the wave touched got obliterated into nothingness.

Kredek was annoyed, his entire creation had been destroyed, same for that of some other beings.

When the wave cleared, a being came was now standing where the statue was, it was about 6'5 in height, it looked like a cross-breed of a human and a monkey, it had golden and whitish fur all over his body and on his face, he wore a cheeky smile, in his right arm, he held a long staff(it was Sun Wukong).

"Bastard!" Kredek shouted as he jumped from the ground towards the creature which had just newly been born, the monkey seeing Kredek come dashed to his right, Kredek narrowly passed him but almost immediately as he did, the monkey king appeared directly at Kredek's side(Kredek had erased the space between the monkey and him).

Summoning his sword to his other arm, Kredek slashed at the monkey king on his chest opening it and causing the monkey to move further back, it was bleeding profusely.

The monkey had a look on his face as if it wanted to cry, it looked over at Kredek and a wicked smile curved on his face, throwing his staff in front of him, it grew exponentially till it was about 70 feet high in the air, the monkey sat on it, he had a devious smile on his face, looking down upon Kredek, he waved his arms down, almost immediately, the heavens opened up sending hundreds of thousands of staffs towards Kredek.

Kredek smiled as he began to run on the space towards where Sun Wukong sat on his staff, reflexively and expertly, Kredek dodged all the staffs which were heading towards him, the ones he couldn't dodge, he split it into hundreds of pieces with the sword he held.

"Now, you are going to say, you bastard, you are finished now," Sun Wukong finally muttered under his breath.

"You bastard," Kredek frowned.  "You are finished now."

"That's actually my line," Sun Wukong said as he now stood upon his staff.  "I observed the only thing you could summon that could hurt me was that sword in your hand, seeing as how you came close to me when you could have easily created a creature that could wield the sword to come and try and fight me, you doing it yourself shows you have trust issues and you don't believe anything can be done well unless you do it yourself, I knew you were going to try and get within my range, that's why I had set traps for you."

"What are you blabbing about?" Kredek gritted his teeth.  "You are the same dimensional tier as me, none of your attacks is capable of erasing me."

"That's what you think," Sun Wukong grinned as he snaps his fingers, almost immediately as he had done that, Kredek's body stretched in both opposite directions both from his two arms and legs.  Kredek looked closely and upon inspection, he realized that he was bound by a chain and they were pulling him do far apart that it looked like they could easily rip him apart.

"Now you are going to say, you fool, this physical form is but a mere vessel I have chosen, I can easily take another form and disappear from this poor excuse of a trap you have set," Sun Wukong grinned underneath his breath.

"You fool, this physical form is but a mere vessel I have chosen, I can easily take another form and disappear from this poor excuse of a trap you have set," Kredek gritted his teeth as he tried to revert his body back to any gaseous or liquid form, it didn't work, he tried to teleport but yet, it still proved futile.  "What's happening?" He asked, for the first time in his life, Kredek had fear written all over his face.

"What's binding you is known as chains of subjugation," the monkey king smiled.  "I had immediately thought of it when I saw you use your sword on me, you were able to link the 20D metals your sword is composed of by adding a small smidge of your life force itself, the chain of subjugation on the other hand is composed of a large concentration of life force, what's great about it is that once it traps the target, every life force lost immediately returns back to me and in other to retain it's shape, it begins to siphon the life force from the individual it has trapped," Sun Wukong had an evil smile on his face.  "Because it keeps siphoning your life force, you are unable to use any of your hax-related abilities meaning you can't manipulate reality, space, time, fate, matter, soul or anything at all, you are restricted and helpless when bound with the chain of subjugation," Sun Wukong grinned.  "Now, who's the one who's finished."

"Still you," came a voice behind him, Sun Wukong turned towards the voice which had spoken, looking over, he saw Dishra, Dishra was still smiling warmly as he looked at Sun Wukong.

"Get out of here, you are no match for him, his wits and abilities are unknown and powerful, save yourself," Kredek said in his direction.

"Earlier on, you said friends do friendly things to each other, if I abandoned you and you died because I did, I don't think that would count as a friendly thing, you said the friendliest thing I could do was eliminating myself but I said I couldn't do that as that would be my last but I promised that I would do lots of little friendly acts before my ultimate one," Dishra smiled as exploding stars surrounded him.  "Saving your life, it will be one of my little friendly acts."

"When the both of you die together, is it also considered a friendly act," Sun Wukong asked evilly.

"Stone monkey, it's best you revert back to your nature, you are both a stone and monkey, the only thing you are capable of is being retarded and finding it hectic to think reasonably," Dishra smiled as he appeared before the creature.  "I said I would rescue my friend, in what world does that equate to dying, you must have substituted your real brain for a stone as there's no difference between the IQ of a rock and yours."

"You impertinent brat," Sun Wukong shouted as he ran towards Dishra but almost immediately, something exploded on the ground but Sun Wukong quickly jumped high in the air to avoid it.  "You think I didn't notice those invisible simpletons that you sent to start rigging everywhere with your exploding stars, you had hoped I would lose my demeanor and then attack harshly, then you thought I would be easy prey as I would fall into your traps, well, think again, I am not a fool."

"When I said you have the IQ of a stone," Dishra still had a warm smile as he spoke.  "I wasn't lying, I intentionally let you see those creatures, my aim was never for you to step on those stars, if anything I wanted you to see me set them."

"Why the f**k would he want to see me set them?" Sun Wukong thought to himself but almost immediately, the answer came to him.  "The only reason why he would want that is so as to distract me but from what could he be distracting me from, his aim is to defeat me, that much is obvious, He obviously doesn't know how to create subjugation chains so obviously that's not his plan, he can't create those exploding stars as they are so intricate and they take a lot of focus and concentration, the only weapon now on the battlefield capable of harming me is fuuuuuuuuuuucccccccckkkkkkkk," Sun Wukong began to panic as he continued to think. "while I was looking at him sending those invisible simpletons to set the stars, I had taken my gaze off his other companion, don't tell me," Sun Wukong could feel himself sweating as he looked over at Kredek's position, Kredek was no longer there, he had vanished. 

"Now, this is what you are going to say," Dishra smiled.  "Where's your blasted companion?"

"Where's your blasted companion?!!!" Sun Wukong shouted in Dishra's's direction.

"Right here," Sun Wukong heard a voice behind him, he tried to jump back but there was an exploding star where he jumped to.  (In haste, he had forgotten that he had actually seen those invisible creatures set it, what actually was in his mind was jumping away from the direction of Kredek's voice because he feared being cut again by his weapon, as a result, he fell into a trap even though he had seen it being set)

The exploding star activated sending the monkey king several miles forward, Sun Wukong landed on the bare space, he began to spit out blood, he could feel his Life force draining.

"What's happening?" He thought to himself as he looked up.

Kredek and Dishra were side by side, Dishra was holding two chains in his two arms while Kredek had tied the end of his sword with a chain.  "Regarding my voice whom you heard earlier," Kredek grinned at him.  "I had just manipulated sounds and words so you could hear that even though I wasn't there, also, my friend here had sent one of his small creatures while you were watching the others plant those exploding stars to come and free me, it had taken away my sword and used it to free me as my sword was on the same dimensional plane with it therefore making it able to cut it, based on what you said, chains of subjugation require life force to keep their form and if they are not binding a victim, they immediately become dependent back on the life force of thier caster so that's why we decided to repay you the favor."

"The monkey must think it's still in the wild where anything goes, how about we show him the difference between the wild and real life, he must have manners innoculated inside him," Dishra added.

"First thing you said all day that I agree with," Kredek grinned as he ran towards Sun Wukong, Dishra disappeared and reappeared at Sun Wukong's opposite direction. 

Sun Wukong gritted his teeth as he saw both of them coming towards him, he knew he was in for a world of pain.