Yeal, the president of the United Regions of Mila if anyone had to describe her would be a tall lady. She has a strange green hair, closed second set of eyes, open set of purple eyes with the time ticking within her irises. The most notable part of her are her black horns that shoot out of her head at the side and carve up and out. The black horns then turn sharply and fall across her face on one horn and around the back of her head with the other.
She's always wearing a suit or dress shirt with a long draped black cape down her back. Her office was supposed to be in Spirit, the capital over where Mila was founded.
So when Rex teleported us outside a room I thought that was the office in Spirit. The group was allowed to stay right outside the room with Rex as I had to go in.
Stella was fidgeting with her new jacket watching me reach for the handle of the door.
"Be respectful, Heo."
"Y-yes. I got it." I flashed her a smile and twisted the door knob.
The door itself was made from ulnarah wood. Mostly black with pulsing blue magic. The door opened into a room full of ulnarah wood designs. A round table with cushioned seats surrounding the wood. All seats were empty and turned just slightly towards the center which held that intimidating outline of Yeal's horns.
"Hello. I'm Heo… I guess I need to clarify Heo Estellé not the Primé you know."
She stood up silently, her form becoming illuminated by a dim light at the end of the table. She wore a scowl, veins overlapped over her face in pairs of three —a sign someone can actually use positive karma—all three stressing not to burst.
She had a choker on, a black oversize sweatshirt that was cut in the front showing a tight white shirt. Along the side of the black sweat shirt were checkered patterns separated three times by the black sweatshirt again. Her shirt had a grey pattern of rectangles on her right side and a black rib cage on her left.
She stepped around the table, not making a noise as I saw the rest of her. Short black shorts opened up her legs that were the same tight white material with a waving black spinal column going down her legs.
"Um… It's nice to meet you, president."
Her feet slowly wisped towards me. Her arm reached back slightly preparing a punch.
"Hold on Hold on!" I slammed my back against the door.
Her hand shot out, connecting at my chest and falling through. As quickly as I felt fear I was relieved to not see any blood, before I was terrified again that she was grasping Primé. I felt my magic ripped out and Primé's body clobbering to the floor.
"Ah…" I sweated, looking at both of them.
"I've finally got you."
Her foot came down onto him. He shifted dodging the kick barely.
"Woah! Woah! Hold on!" He stood up quickly, yelling in my voice.
She grabbed him by his black flaming coat and tossed him against the wall on the right side of the room.
"HEO!" Stella yelled on the other side of the door.
The group pulled the door open, meeting my eyes. Rex's face was scrunched looking at me and then at the towering Yeal. His eyes along with the group slowly shifted toward Primé. I slammed the door shut not allowing them to see Primé.
"I'm fine-" I tried to tell them but Primé began to scream.
"God, Yeal at least let me appo-" A light orange and gold light blasted the wall next to him.
"You dare think you can just apologize?" Her voice stressed against itself.
"No! I know I can't just undo that! But I'm not-"
Yeal's foot pressed him against the wall. I didn't even see her move, but her foot caved in his stomach, enough that bright orange magic spewed out of him.
"Gods Yeal please don't kill him!" I pleaded.
Her foot only further pressed into him. I actively lost magic as she hurt him, but also obligation came over my body. I flung towards her, tossing my arm in an ark.
She caught it with her vein bolstering hand. "Universal rat. Know where you stand as-" her voice cut off looking into my eyes.
She howled, releasing Primé and falling back. Screaming and clutching her chest, tears streaming down her face. Primé after recovering a second looked at me wide eyed.
"What the hell did you do to her!" He spoke just like Yeal spoke to him.
His hands flew up to my throat pulling me into the air. I tried to speak back but his hands closed quickly around my throat and likewise my ability to speak.
His four eyes bulged and looked at me like a monster would. I grabbed his head and pulled him back into my body. His hand around my throat fell in and he disappeared in a fit of screams. I felt most of my magic return but I lost some.
"Gods! Calm down everyone! What the hell is even going on?" I asked.
"T-the hell you do to me?" Yeal gave a choked gasp on the ground.
"I flashed you with Universal Destruction. You weren't listening to me and I can't beat you so it's all I could do."
"You just… flashed a spell to destroy the universe like it's nothing?"
"It is nothing. There's no energy nor amount of energy that can possibly fuel that spell. You are the one who wrote the description you should know."
She stood up, her head cracking to the side. Her eyes were staring down at me. I took an awkward side step to get out of her way.
"Why did Primé attack me, do you know?"
"Well…" The veins disappeared on her face becoming replaced by a hue of red. "It might be because-"
"Shut it!" Primé's hand came out of my chest. "Sorry Estellé for how I reacted its just… Gods." His voice faltered. "I can't even say it."
"He's a little shit is all you need to know, Heo."
"Ahh," my mind latched onto the familiar tension, "so like King Āpala and Kenna."
Yeal cranned her head. Primé simply flashed a thumbs up. I nodded up and down.
"I see you two really do like each other then?"
I watched as Primé repetitively waved his arms and Yeal's face became a different shade of red. A vein popping in her face.
"What you'd just say?"
"Allright that's enough." Rex's voice spoke, Yeal was pushed back from me by his hand. "I don't know what I expected leaving you alone with the person who killed you but I thought I made it clear that there will be no violence towards Heo."
"I am well aware of that, but it was the planet eater himself who attacked him first."
"Still calling me a he."
"Doesn't matter. Act like the president." He responded to Yeal.
She sighed and walked back to her chair. Sitting down Rex then brought me over to another seat by her.
"This is a good time to ask about Universal Being, Heo. Make sure to use this well."
"Thank you." I sat down facing Yeal. "Is there anything you'd like to know?" I asked after a few long seconds.
"Of course. What is your oldest memory?"
"Ah, well… walking along the sidewalk with my family probably." I said scrambling for something so far back.
"Were they Helio and Cass Estellé?"
"...No."
"So who are you really?"
Rex looked down at me. I felt the group's hands press against the door. Yeal herself cranned her neck again.
"Thats obvious!" That other voice from me spoke, his hand flying out not littered with scars. "He is Heo Caster Estellé. Both the boy who died as Leo and the girl who was cut in half. He has lived as both and therefore is both!"
"I didn-"
"That's right! I myself and the boy who died as Leo but also died as Heo the planet eater. Me and Estellé are different people."
"Thats both what I wanted to hear and not… So who is that third voice?"
"Excuse me mam, my name is Heo Chime. The greatest healer of all Heos." She reached her hand farther from my body to shake Yeals.
Yeal took her hand, shaking it and giving an oddly smiley response. "You seem much better than Primé."
"Well of course, me and Primé are different people who walked different paths. Mine is much nobler but being an eater of planets is nothing to scoff at."
"Wow, thanks."
"You act like you know him?" Yeal asked.
"Well, there's rules to Universal Being, like how the future and past Universal Being help out the current."
I stared down at the two hands. "I'm not going to free load power off you two."
"You wouldn't, we'd be as strong as you and can do what you can. We just have the knowledge of our existences."
"Sorry but that's a lie. I saw Primé multiple times use a whole bunch of both positive and negative karma like its fire for me."
"Well, you can do that. You just never tried."
"What?" I shifted.
"As part of the infinite future and past versions of Heo there are some with strong powers like me or planet eater. Taking our power is a form of well killing us, but taking something small like a karma polarity isn't much."
"So right now I can take around six, or I guess you can take around six. Thats enough to do what I was doing against Calamid."
"What about Lynix?"
"That was four. You got stronger in the last month, I'll give you that."
"Doesn't this all mean, you are the same Primé who-"
"No! I don't know if I lived past the destruction of the universe, if I'd be this way or not but I'm not the same Primé who you know."
"But you have his memories?"
"I do."
"HOLD ON!" I yelled "Destroyed the universe? Like how? What the fuck!"
"It's a long story…"
"That you will tell in embarrassment." Yeal spoke flatly.
He wobbled out of my body. His face downcast, as he repeated a fight in the very center of the universe.
Heo Primé's point of view
Millions of light years away from anything, the center of the universe where at this point in time should be quiet, should finally be peaceful. When I pulled a battle here, the peace vanished.
"What do you think your destroyer title will do? I've manipulated you into killing your friends without breaking the slightest sweat." Said the Fool god, Fool.
A twisted god in the form of a silly girl with silver hair braided on one side of her bangs, pale skin and light blue eyes. On her face were red and blue diamond stickers stuck below and above her eyes, and a heart sticker above her right eye. A floating white star spiralled around her head—the sign of a true god. It was vast and endless looking, with a pattern of diamond and hearts placed on top of it as if the dimensions of the star didn't matter. She wore a clown outfit striped red and blue with more hearts and diamonds.
That doesn't matter now, this world is simply not able to be saved. The only way to ever avenge them, is to kill God.
"I'm sorry Fool but I have to kill you like everyone else. Even if this is wrong too." what was left of my heart wined.
"Yeah? Well come try it, I'll let you have a free shot." Fool extended her arms outward.
The dark space behind us felt less like a void compared to the heartless individual in front of me. I'm sorry, everyone. I should be close enough. If she is dumb enough to let me attack, I'll just use it now. I extended my hand and started the spell. A glow radiated off my face and I followed the steps to the spell that I was given. Fool shrieked at the sight of the glow. The fear was unfounded from the weight of something very costly lurking off my face. The only way to win is to destroy this universe, and hope I wasn't tricked again.
"Lord above all, destroyer."
My body glowed with all my strength put into the spell. The range of the spell expanded rapidly as I envisioned magic flowing into whatever symbol or rune that was on my face.
"Petrichor fire."
Invigoration filled my speech. The chant composed with the unspoken. Words fell in place. The natural course of action for a being such as 'destroyer'.
"Grasp the universe and devour it."
Fool stared at me with a dead pan look on her face. Her body was shaking ever so slightly.
"Universal destruction."
How could I have gotten this spell, I was so close, I would have known. That's what she's thinking right now, I know it. Ultimately, nothing could stop the gravity that pushed the universe into itself.
…
I told them everything. How I killed a god. How I beat an unstoppable force. Chimé knew somehow I wasn't fully honest with the end of the universe. She pushed and Estellé sat motionlessly staring at me.
"I don't know why…" I blushed remembering her face. "I just blindly followed her orders. My best friends I killed because she told me to. It was necessary, for what? I should have asked. I didn't."
I looked down shamefully. Chimé rested a comforting hand on me from Estellé's body. But Estellé did the opposite, his hand came flying towards me and crashed against my head.