The Alternate Universe by Ilyan DS - HTML preview

Chapter 1

Michael Xavier

There was once a boy named Michael. He was a normal boy like the rest of us and lived in Abingdon. The only difference was that his mother died when he was very young. He didn’t remember much about her, but he did remember he had vowed to find out more about her life. He hadn’t done anything about it until this day. This time he wasn’t going to stay in his bedroom!!! After all, his house had been his family’s property for very long, so he might find stuff in the attic. 

Chapter 2

Mother

“Dad? Can I go into the attic?” said Michael.

“Yes, of course,” replied Dad, without looking up.

“Thanks,” then Michael was off. He didn’t find much in the attic, but he found a book titled:

My Life

By Carine Xavier

“That’ll do, let’s see what it says,” mumbled Michael. Then he went back down in his bedroom.

  My Life

By Carine Xavier

Birth

I was not born here. I was born in a parallel universe called The Obsidian  Dimension. I came here because of my interest in literature, as you will see in my childhood…

Childhood

The people in the Obsidian Dimension know about planet earth. We even learnt about the Humans from Earth. But as I learnt about them, I wanted  to discover the world of reading and writing. So, at 17 years old, I went on earth.

Adulthood

I found a portal in early Yapruptoin, Abingdon here in the UK, it was a very funny portal, too. It looked like a toy in a playground under construction,  except it had been closed for more than 17 years, so I went in to investigate.  And then boom! Before you know it, you're in a parallel universe, studying  Literature at Oxford University, instead of learning sword fighting and learning to serve. Then, Once, I saw a car and the thought came to me:  I discovered that the Obsidian Dimension was far behind in education. So, I was goi

“Oh, that’s weird why does it stop? I’ll go ask Dad,” said Michael to himself.

“Dad? Why didn’t Mum finish her diary thingy?”

Dad burst into tears.

Chapter 3

 Why is my life like this

“It… was when… she got murdered!!!” snivelled Dad.

Michael stood there, stunned “Murdered?! Why didn’t you tell me before? By who?”

“Chris…Ronald…he…he…he...killed her… that beast!!!”

Michael gasped, “That’s horrible! Why?”

“Just go to your room, I need some time to … calm down!”

Michael went to his room. Well, he​ needed time to think. Why hadn’t Dad told him before? What had Mum done to get murdered by Chris Ronald? And what portal?!!!

“Dad, I’m going to the playground!” shouted Michael

“Ok, come back quickly when you’re finished, though!” Dad shouted back.

Chapter 4

The crossing

Michael knew exactly where to go. He had gone to Abbey Meadows a lot in his life. He went every afternoon to play football with his mates. But every time he went, he puzzled himself with a trampoline, decorated with kaleidoscopic​ art, that had been closed for over his whole life. That​ ​was what he was looking for. He looked around him; what was he thinking! It was 5 in the morning, why would anyone be around! As he crept to it, he noticed the colours were shifting out of place. It was nearly hypnotizing him! He looked around one last time and went in. It was sickening! The lights were giving him a headache and after 2 minutes of pure headache, he hit his head.

“Darn it, a rock.”

Then he fainted.

Chapter 5

The introduction to a new world

“Are you OK?”

Michael opened his eyes. A girl with brownish goldish eyes stood over him. She was wearing a multicoloured tracksuit and she had obsidian earrings and an obsidian ring.

“This is The Obsidian Dimension, isn’t it?” asked Michael.

The girl gasped, “How do you know about us!”

“I read it in my mum’s journal, she died when I was young.”

“Who was your mum?”

“I don’t know much, but she was born here and her name is Carine.”

“Carine Xavier!?” the girl said, astonished.

“Yeah, why are you so surprised?”

“‘Carine Xavier, the only one whom survived the portal,’ and now you’ve survived it too! You know, What if, maybe all your family can do it. You know, a special gift?”

Michael nodded, unsure.

Then the girl said “By the way, my name is Evelyn. Evelyn Harper.”

“More like Evelyn Talker,” Michael muttered. Then he said, this time out loud, “Michael Xavier.”

“Nice to meet you, you look cold, come to my house,” suggested Evelyn, with a big smile on her face.

Chapter 6 Magic exists

Chris Ronald jumped out of the portal. He looked around. He was no threat on Earth, but here, in the Obsidian Dimension, they had found out how to combine dark energy to obsidian, that made a sort of magic only the Obsidian Spirit knew the limits. He would need something that could make him look at every angle. He took his phone and made the camera so it would be as if he was taking a selfie. He had tried tracking Carine's son down for 12 years, and he finally knew he was in another dimension. He wasn’t going to stop at anything. He was going to track down and kill Michael, even if it was the last thing he did. 

Michael ran as fast as he could. Evelyn had told him that the sooner they would get home, the sooner she would teach him magic. She was going to teach him good and​ dark magic because she had said: “It’s not what you use, it's how you use it.”

This was obviously going to be the most memorable part of his life.

Chapter 7 Obsidian

“Right. First, we need to get you an obsidian necklace. But don’t think it’s just for beauty, it has a lot of dark matter in it. And if you open it, it’ll eat you alive,” warned Evelyn.

“Charming. Ever so charming,” replied Michael, ironically.

It did not take long for them to get to the jewellery store, but on the way, Michael asked himself who would put something that contained such power in a jewellery​ store​? It seemed just weird! But then he saw an explanation. It was the prettiest thing he had ever seen. There was an almost vantablack chain, then the obsidian, also vantablack, was a small dagger. But all this black was confusing Michael;

“Why is everything so dark,” he asked Evelyn.

So she replied, “We manage to get the dark matter with Vantablack. We transform the dark matter into a type of dark light, and the Vantablack is so black that it absorbs it. That is how the dark colour came into existence. When you attack using it, a black cloud surrounds the chain.”

The seller started getting impatient; “The necklace is 850 glips! Either you buy something or you will be banned from my shop! Now hurry up!”

Evelyn took 2 pieces of paper stamped with black diamonds and took the necklace.

She gave Michael the necklace and told Michael; “Say ‘Give me the powers of the good and the bad,’ then put it on.”

Michael followed the instructions and put it on.

Chapter 8 The knowing of his future

“I know where he is! I will go to him and slaughter him in his sleep! He will not survive to stop me, and I will make the two worlds clash together! I will then make another universe and the people will have to make me king or they will get crushed by the powers of Nature, also under my​ command! Nobody can stop me!” cackled Chris. But he said it a bit too loud: he turned around to face thousands of soldiers making black holes. But Chris was too powerful. He made a bigger black hole; sucking their black holes into his. The soldiers ran away, leaving Chris to continue his horrible journey.

Michael woke up to find his obsidian necklace glowing and talking to him;

“Go to the Obsidian spirit with somebody from this world as quickly as you can or the two universes will make their way to one. When and if you are seeking help, I will know. You shall call me Ewan. When you can, kill Chris, the terror of the worlds.” Then it fell back to where it was.

Michael was white as a sheet. He was expecting weird things going on but not this! He just came here to find out about his mother and now he was supposed to save not one, but two universes!!! He had to go now and bring Evelyn with him. A few hours passed.

“Hey Ewan, help me carry Evelyn.”

“Yes, sir,” and with that, he made a floating bed and put Evelyn on it.

Chapter 9 The journey on Death’s path

and Evelyn jumped into an ever so futuristic car. He had never seen anything like it on Earth. Evelyn was still angry that she had to wake up so early.

“Why did you have to go so early!” she said.

“Because Ewan told me to!”

“Who in the world is Ewan!?”

“Hey, Ewan, come out and tell Evelyn your name is  Ewan.”

“Yes sir, hello Evelyn, my name is Ewan.” said the necklace.

Evelyn was shocked. “How could it be! Michael, you are the Defender Of The Two Worlds! You were born for this! Chris killed your mother because he knew​ ​that you would put an end to him! He killed Carine thinking if he did, you wouldn’t exist! So if he finds out, he will try and kill you, so you’re right, we should make it quick!” 

Then Michael asked, “How do you people make these cars so cool?”

“It’s not us that makes them, the Obsidian makes it. So instead of petrol or electricity, that your cars run on, they run on Obsidian. This one is a Futurgenix XPS-100 and it’s really​ out of date. We’ve got one about 3 decades newer than that.​ ​”

Michael nodded. Then suddenly, he jumped out of the car and told Evelyn to hurry up. He ran as fast as Vantablack would suck in Dark Matter. Then he jumped onto a roof and jumped on the airbus. He told Ewan to get Evelyn and they got a few hundred feet in the air. Then the impossible happened. In a flash, Michael found himself falling to the ground. Then, only darkness. 

Chapter 10 The awakening

Michael woke up. There wasn’t a scratch on his body.

“Thanks, Ewan.”

“You are welcome, sir. I tried saving Evelyn, too, but it was too late.”

sprinted to Evelyn. She hadn’t woken up. She had cuts and bruises everywhere. On Earth, she would need stitches and 5-week hospitalization. But here, the odds had no limits.

“It’s not too late yet, Ewan, please heal her.”

“It is too late to heal her right now, but I can take her to the hospital,” Ewan replied.

So Ewan took Evelyn, and out of nowhere, a black portal appeared. It was a portal to the hospital.

“Quick! Bring me the AI Memory brain part! Michael, I am so sorry, she has a lot of brain damage so she will need Artificial Intelligence for her memory. The memory will be normal but she will often suffer migraines.” declared the surgeon, sadly.

Chapter 11 The learning

Chris knew he had to go in front of the spirit’s mountain. It was as if his guts were telling him to do it in person. And his guts never​ lied. The only problem was, half of the armed forces were protesting it. But for him, it was no problem. He would hide and surprise attack them when they came.

Evelyn fell, clutching her head. A migraine.

“Aagh! Michael! Please give me water!”

Michael looked around desperately for some water. “There isn’t any!”

But Evelyn needed a type, at least, of water. “What about those little bubble things?”

“Nope, Nothing. Where do I get some?”

“Order some on your Wristmate! It comes in less than a second.”

“What do you mean, Wristmate?”

“Take mine! I’ll set one up for you later. Just put it on, shake your wrist and order water on  the app; I’m Hungry.” did what he was told. In a few seconds, a drone popped out of nowhere and gave him some water. Michael gave her the water and stared at the drone. 

Evelyn started to laugh. “What, you’ve never seen a drone before? You are more out of date than an egg from the last decade!”

“I have seen a drone before! I’ve just never seen one come out of nowhere with food!”

“Oh, that was only invented last month. Guess you’re not so out of date after all!” giggled Evelyn.

The next day, the two friends started what they needed for the journey. Of course, they needed magic. They would learn magic until Michael could suck in others. He would be able to suck even portals and to move black holes with​ portals. 

“So, it’s the easiest thing on earth. You just think about what you want to pop up and boom, you’ve got a heap of dark or pure magic in front of you! What is the best, is you can use dark magic if you use it for good! The dark magic is what you break, and the pure magic is what you make and in between is transformation. The limits are your imagination!” explained Evelyn.

Michael marvelled at how easy the magic was. And how amazing was this world, having both magic and​ ​science. This was his dream come true! Now, he had to train for the magic. 

Evelyn told him what to do. “Right. Try to make a portal.”

Then a booming, deep voice shouted: “Michael shall learn magic the right way!”

Then the traces of a vortex began to appear.  Evelyn gasped “The Obsidian Spirit!”

Michael woke up. Evelyn had a new Obsidian Bracelet. 

“Its name is Alvaro,” cheerfully said Evelyn, “I lost mine when I was small and I never bought a new one!”

Then Michael felt weird. Suddenly, there was magic in his veins. He could feel it.

Then he laughed. He was going to beat Chris in a few seconds. Then Chris jumped through the open window. 

“Hi Michael, are you ready to fight the DESTROYER!!!”  With that, he threw a fireball to Michael. Michael dissolved  the ball just before an ice ball flew into his stomach. This was going to be harder than he thought.

Chapter 12 The Defeat

Michael made a portal, resembling a black hole. He pretended to get sucked in and landed behind Chris with no noise. Then his instinct told him to be stupid and instead of killing Chris, he punched him in the back of the head. Chris shrugged Michael’s hand off and made a black hole. Michael turned to dark magic and destroyed it. Then he remembered the third magic; Transformation. He knew this would give him an advantage. He transformed himself into many castle walls and closed in upon Chris. But Chris just changed Michael back and threw a fireball. Michael made it rain in the castle walls and blew the fire out. But there was still a stone inside and it burnt Michael’s hand. He cried in agony, then, out of nowhere, a portal separated Chris’s head from his body and Michael missed the swing to finish off Chris. But it was not the end. Then, Michael made a type of fireball-black hole and engulfed Chris in flames, killing him before sucking him in and spitting his corpse out of a distant white hole.

The whole universe assembled on a big planet. Michael was a universal hero now, and as for Chris’s corpse, an alien found it and the hatred was so much that he didn’t want to touch him, so he set him on fire (yes, again​ ​).

And as for Michael’s mother, she came back alive, as Chris was killed. So Michael just asked her what happened and guess what, she had forgotten! ;-P

 THE END