Chapter 23: Shi Tian
No life has ever escaped the inevitability. None have ever escaped the unyielding grasp of the cursed, a plague that affects all, evil. Throughout all time without exception all enter the path of sin, they enter that path of darkness leading their world astray they bring ruin to the very place they call home.
Exceptions stood for everything however, unforeseen throughout each and every universe those ignorant die sinless. From the very beginning newborns without exception are born pure a creature exempt from evil.
Into this world all are born without sin, from that moment however, is what shaped their entire being, it was then from their very birth that their ideals were trampled and around them their world once pure turned sinister.
From the very start they were doomed by the very beings that cared for them, their mother, their father, their closest friends, and family it was them that took it away, it was them that brought those unknowingly into this world demonic. They were corrupted, their whole world was torn from its axis, the laws and walls crumbled away, and thus they were relinquished out to a world evil. They were released upon a world where demons reign king.
How the ocean's waves push back and forth, none cared it was something overlooked for to this ocean none cared, ignorance was the same overlooked by all it is exempt from a world chaotic. But it was impossible... How? Just how could a child grow to know evil when it never knew of parents or anyone for that matter? Simple they wouldn't.
On an island all alone a creature stood strong one of a kind this oddity stood separate from all isolated from a world corrupt. A being of nothing but flesh and organs, but it raised itself, it fed itself, it taught itself, and it was here on an island of needles where this being remained pure, as pure as the day of its emergence upon this world twisted.
But truly... In this world chaotic nothing meant anything, and anything meant nothing, nothing was ever perfect. Exceptions to even the inevitable, for to even exceptions there were anomalies there were things so crazed it actually became probable.
Children eventually grow corrupt that is inevitable, but to those that escaped the cycle of insanity to escape fate there was always a price. Corruption wasn't all children learned from those around, when young they were taught of the one the call light or holiness itself and to learn of this light... It was the very difference between a blessing and a curse.
For those exempt to these teachings however, a harsh punishment to be cursed from the day of their birth to the day they die, to be cursed eternally. Cursed to be pursued by the elusive one they call death. Ignorance is bliss, but it was this ignorance that cursed them. To those ignorant, their days laid numbered, for always three steps ahead of them misfortune waits.
Reachable by all but wished upon by many, for the first time a young boy enters that elusive place of euphoria known as sleep that many fail to enter but he made it there to that world were both counterparts meet. That world where realism and delusion meet in the world of dreams.
Dreaming at the very peak of existence. He dreams of himself floating amongst the stars in a space void of life, he dreams of himself in a place so frighteningly real one would suffocate from just the thought of it.
However it was here high above all life, a boy wishing for a world of stars awoke in a dome of shadows and was cursed to never move. Engulfing this boy these shadows, devouring him the seed of darkness, and trapping him, ignorance. But he knew not of this world, he knew not of darkness and it too knew not of him so he just stared, looking out from inside this empty shell holding him prisoner with bright eyes to a cosmos infinitely beautiful.
His eyes staring intently lit up he wanted to remember everything not willing to waste even single second and so he stared at this cosmos beautiful. To this beautiful array of stars entering his vision, a cosmos new and limitless ran across the empty void of space calling forth light brightening a world hidden in darkness.
Millions of colors brought light to all, the cycle of life, the stars transferring cosmic rays of light across the emptiness of space shining upon frozen rocks drifting through space, and from this, planets are born, universes are created... The birth of a world new, however in life things come and go, eventually, as time passed all is to cease the stars dissipated and all life dies. But just as life is taken, the cycle continues and a new world is born.
Illogical but over this boy the seed of darkness watched over him, but how? In the time this boy had lived, never. Not even a single time had he met darkness, never once had he felt chaos, but regardless of everything exceptions overcome all. Exceptions to everything this boy's soul was being fed on, it was being suffocated by something, depraved and corrupt. Devouring his very being an exception, a shadow was cast across the whole world isolating his very being... Darkness, it watched over him.
Exceptions to everything, to be born from darkness itself... To be born with the seed that birthed darkness, it meant that you were one cursed. Something fated to become the seed of chaos, something fated to becoming the embodiment of darkness itself, you where the chaos.
To this world of nothingness, permanent is no word that exists. For in this world plagued by the evil in one's hearts from that very evil darkness is born and so in this world unruly nowhere is safe from the chaos that is cultivation.
Under the shadow of darkness, a boy he grinned, he smiled, and he laughed. His eyes veering out, only to be blinded by a bright light, but he smiled to that bright light that blinded him for an instant, he commended it. To shine so bright across a black canvas of which countless veering lights resided, surely this one it was special.
Blinded by something unknown, he looked further peaking outside the darkness, through the eerie and distorted nature of this thing holding him down, he looked to find that light indifferent to everything, that light that shines beyond all. But what he saw, was an aurora of stars each unique, a plethora of countless stars in which each shined brighter than the latter, a canvas filled with stars of different colors shined before him, but for that bright light, he had searched he saw not.
A boy merely wishing for a sky of immense beauty above, a boy that wished only for the light of the sky to sit over him, was cursed. Born with darkness, inside his heart, he was forsaken, from the very start this boy was given no chance. To be born with darkness, inside your heart... It meant the world frowned upon you, it meant they looked upon your very creation with disgusted, and worst of all it meant that even God abandoned you to this world of chaos cursing you eternally.
But this evil, it was beyond even that. In every single way it was different, its very being had far surpassed darkness, reaching even past chaos, this thing... It was something so grand, so demonic, and so utterly hated.
It was a darkness, never before seen nay! It was an oddity, a new demonically profound level of darkness, for these shadows they bent, they turned, they felt, and they moved. This darkness new, no this thing it wasn't darkness it was a living being, watching over this boy pure... What resided here was no darkness, but the very embodiment of something greater than darkness itself.
However under this demonic light, he cared not, staring off aimlessly to a world bright, he didn't need anything else, here he was happy. He was happy just standing afar admiring each star that passed over shining down ever so brightly.
Far away an eerie voice rang out, however, this boy trapped ignored it, but relentless this voice continued, soon this voice grew louder and although unwilling he heard it he heard a voice eerie yet familiar, "Shi Tian ------------- Shi Tian... Shi Tian, remember who you are, rise up once more, and remember. Remember to..." Fading away this voice ceases.
A name, but this name he felt something about it was familiar this name it was connected to him somehow, only now tilting his head away from his viewing of the stars, he muttered, "...Shi Tian?"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Screaming out, he was under a sudden immense pain like a drill digging into his skull a sharp pain sat in the back of his head. But with this pain he felt it, memories began to flow, he began to remember but it was too painful, and soon the memories all just faded, leaving him with briefs of a past unbeknown to him. All he knew was that this name was familiar to him. But just whose name was it? And this voice, he recognized it, but who? Whose voice was it?...
Once more this voice eerie rang out, ".........Shi Tian truly you have been gone for too long this time. This world has changed, its beings without you they've grown arrogant. They seem to have forgotten what true fear is. So show, destroy this world of child play, reign chaos upon this world that is merely a figment of its great past, and to those daring to call themselves God, show them what is means to be God, show them what it means to reign supreme."
As his memories fade, the pain ceased, but upon this eerie voice's last words, he screamed, "WAIT WHO ARE YOU?!" But his voice, a scream in space, an eternal void where no voice would escape managing to ever be heard here, in this place empty his voice went unheard, and this voice eerie disappeared never to speak again no matter how much he tried to call out.
Screaming out, the world around him changed, the seed of darkness grew clear, before him, a star illuminated his world, and with each forthcoming moment it moved closer, it was that bright light he had seen once before. Moving towards this boy this light it enveloped him, it devoured him, and it sent him off to the world of light.
A boy mutters, "...Shi Tian is I?" His eyes opening he looks upon a barren wasteland, his vision blurred, and his world growing dull he curses, "WHO THE FUCK IS SHI TIAN?!" Life, however, moves on, although confused, next to this boy. Next to Shi Tian a chunk of flesh, sudden realization. Just how... How did he get here, did he not fall to his death?
The pain too, it had disappeared entirely, smiling lightly, with fragments of his memory returning, he spoke, "Seed. Although I don't know who you are it seems I'll have to thank you, this time."
Yes... In life he had to move on, he had promised himself that he wouldn't just wish for the starry skies above, he had promised that if the starry skies weren't going to come to him, he'd take him all for himself.
He had to move on Shi Tian looked over to a chunk of flesh merely meters away, standing up he moved closer and with a smile on his face he began grabbing at this chunk of flesh. Diving his face right into this creature's flesh a disgusting feeling, this creature's skin was covered in a slimy mucusy layer. Although disgusted Shi Tian dove further taking a bite of this weird creature's flesh.
New feelings, new sensations, to this flesh of a creature unknown, Shi Tian felt disgusted, these creatures it was pungent, it smelt horrible, it had a horrible texture, and as a whole, it was completely revolting. Upon taking a single bite Shi Tian was shook and falling onto all fours he began to vomit out, "BLARGH, BBBLLLAARRRRRRGHHHHHHHHH."
But to survive he pushed back his disgust, wiping his hand across his face Shi Tian wiped the vomit away. To grow and, to fuel that thing inside of him that incessantly called him, he got back up ripped off a piece of flesh, and staring up to the sky above, he began to feast trying his best not to think of taste or that slimy running feeling he felt with each swallow.
He knew little, but he knew he had to be strong, to grasp that sky filled with the beauty of starlight he had to feast. He never knew why but with each bite he took he felt stronger, and deep down he felt that as long as he devoured one day he would evolve into something beyond.
So he ate, and ate without remorse, devouring everything from the flesh to the blood to the organs of this being disgusting.
But his meal it was short, this flesh it wasn't enough to satisfy this chaos within.
To be a mere scavenger in this world of predators his path was eternal. Hungry he had to dive once more, but this time he couldn't act without thought, he needed to be smart, he could no longer put his life at risk over some mere scraps.
Shi Tian had to take everything, he needed to scavenge on a greater scale. Shi Tian needed to snatch the meals of predators right from underneath their teeth. Only then would he grow, and only then would he be able to search further.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
Reclusive_Ant
Reclusive_Ant Will we ever find our truth?
Will we ever be at peace again?
Will we ever look upon a world bright?
"Will we ever connect, reaching each other once more, my old friend, seed."
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