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The Adventures of Finn Delgado: Chapter 1.3

Author: XIII, 25/07

The wave had been stopped by...me? What the hell was happening!?! How was this even possible? The wave shimmered in the summer light, it wasn't stopped as such, just sort of hanging there, a few very confused fish danced within, some debris from the harbour floated within, it was like a giant piece of amber, but with all the fluid qualities of water, almost like a lava lamp or a snowglobe. I stood there, and looked down at my hands, i was normal, the small scar on my left thmb was there, the paper cut still bled from earlier when i'd been filing some documents.
I wished that i could just make the wave go away, just get some time to think about this...it was too much power, i didn't think i could handle it, it was possible that i could do anything i chose, and it was that decision that led to the flash of light, and then a doorway opening, well, sort of, it was more a hole, a rip, like in a piece of paper, but it seemed impossible, then the next thing i knew, was that at least twenty people were poping thru this 'tear', this hole in the air. And they all looked like me.
Some were older, some were younger and some were even altogether something else, but the defining characteristic was that they all looked like me, the face was essentially the same, the same blonde/brown hair receding and/or long and unkempt. Time and circumstance hadn't really changed me it seemed, just other unknown factors...one of the selves came up to me.
'Hi there' he said, looking very smug and superior.
'I'm guessing you know that we're all you, well, sort of, don't worry, your brain will learn all it needs to know as you go on, even now changes are happening within you i'd guess, the same happened to me when i was you. Well, not exact--'
I cut his smug words short with my sudden outburst.
'What are you talking about? What would you know? Just fuck off! I don't need your help! You fucking....hallucination'
He smiled a smile of smug self-assurance which did nothing to help my mood, my fury was starting to assert itself as a defence to what was happening. In an instant i lashed out without really thinking, the wave was taken away in a sudden flash of intense heat, and flashed to steam. The alternate selves were burning to a crisp, their bodies turning to withered ash and finally, dust without even time to scream. I ran then, i ran as far as i could, which strangely enough was not very far, as it seemed i still had a normal human body, and not some super body. As i thought this, a fist smacked into my face, knocking the world out from my vision.

The Adventures of Finn Delgado: Chapter 1.2

Author: XIII, 21/07

At first there was a flash of light in the sky, pale silver in colour, like something had just winked into the sky. It wasn't a large flash, just a small sort of reflective light flash that was there for an instant and then disappeared to be replaced by a more sinister and terrifying sight, a red and orange ball of flame headed for the sea on the distant horizon, approaching fast and leaving the air sort of scorched in it's wake, a ball of flame about a mile across or so. It dawned on me instantly that this was it, the little bitter-minded daydream i had came into fruition, the comet, or whatever it was smashed into the sea about 3 miles from the coast, for an instant the sea where the comet hit flashed instantly into steam and then the wave came out of it almost like a sort of worm tunneling just under the surface of the earth at a tremendous speed. It gained momentum and size, ships at sea on the horizon were flung along with the wave, pushed along like small toys. The wave continued to grow, taller now than the very highest point of the town it beared down upon. My face blanched, i remember stupidly soiling myself then and there at the terrifying sight of what i believed to be my death approaching. My thoughts went to my friends, a girl i knew once who i'd never see again, my family nearby possibly seeing what i saw now. The wave came crashing into the harbour, the walls of the inner harbor disappearing inside a new wall, one of water, and far taller than they. Why was this happening? What had i done? Why had i thought what i thought? what i thought? Interesting...my mind said stop as i gave voice to the words and the sea just stopped dead, frozen there, unmoving as a block of granite. Voices started to impose themselves on me as i realised all of the town was collectively shitting itself at the site of it's death, and the realisation that this death wouldn't happen because the wall of water that hovered 6 miles above had stopped dead in it's tracks.

The Adventures of Finn Delgado: Chapter 1.1

Author: XIII, 10/07

From what I've been told of my life by various people, most often including myself, is that it has been one of the most erratic lives of any single being. I've been born about 10 times, died at least 6 times, and have erased whole portions of it just so I could be more comfortable with my own conscience. I have made fantasy reality, and have made reality fantasy just on a whim. Why I got this power is anyone's guess, but I got it, and no one else did, so there it is. I look back now without regret really, for all the terrible things I did have already been long since done, erased, re-done, and then erased again, only for my own whims to let them happen again. This is the end of my story now, my mind has grown weary of the constant restarts and rebirths, and I face the inevitability of my own end, this time, I hope, for real. I look out on the shoreline of this land and stare into the sun, until my eyes begin to make the strange dancing patterns that mean I looked too long, and I turn with the afterimage of the sun in my vision. Making my way back to the small fishing village up the coast, that will one day become so very different, I start to reminisce about my lives, the knowledge begins to seep through into my awareness, and it's as I get back to my small dwelling in the village that I decide to write the story that will help me move on with this small, insubstantial existence.
It begins, (as i recall it) with my first real birth, on Earth, in the latter half of the 20th Century. back then everything seemed so simple, i lived a normal childhood, i went to school, i studied, went to college, then began my job as an admin asistant in a small two-man office overlooking the harbour and that's where any similarity with a real life ends. One minute, i am a normal, happy(ish) person working a normal job, the next thing i know, i've wished for something to happen and it has. I guess it has something to do with the fact that i wasn't really happy, i was disillusioned with life. I, like many of you i'm sure, was a bit depressed that my life seemed to be going nowhere fast. I was just walking along the harbour wall, eating my lunch and thinking to my self how funny it would be if something really interesting happened, like say...a metoeor crashing into the distant sea was to create a tidal wave that wiped the small town of Bullsgate out, everyone and everything wiped out in a rush of water & debris. I felt strange for a moment, like deja vu had hit home and i'd thought this before, you can, i'm sure, guess what happened, i got my wish.

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