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Erebus the saviour

Mrinali Agarwal
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Submitted to Contest #3 in response to the prompt: 'Your character wakes up in a different world. What do they do?'


"Argh, it's already morning!" sighs Erebus. When he wakes up he wonders where he is rubbing his eyes and not able to believe himself. The grass was blue and the sky was blue with violet shiny stars. The trees trunk were silver in colour, the leaves were shining like a lantern. All seemed to be magical.

He wonders where he is. He starts exploring the new world. He was nervous but also curious. As he walked a little further his eyes went upon a strange tower with a shiny light standing tall beyond a river. He walked on a trail through the bushes which seem to be the only path to the tower. As he came closer the tower became taller and taller and as he got closer he got to know that the tower was actually a lighthouse. There was also a small boat lying beside the lighthouse.

He enters inside the tower to see whether there was a other lifeform.

He climbed up the stairs and checked each floor but to his dismay there was no sign of life anywhere. His hope went in vain and for him, there was no point of waiting there. So, he came down the stairs thinking about his home when suddenly a light shone brightly. To his astonishment, there was a single room he hadn't explored yet. He was even more exited to go inside the room as it appeared just after he came down from the stairs, it was not there before when he entered the lighthouse.

As he enters the room, he found several things from his world. Now he breathe a sigh of relief as there were other people like him who came to this world before him. But as he went inside the room he saw a library. And inside the library he saw a creature with a long tail flying through the whole library. Erebus was a bit scared but happy as there was another living being except him in this world. He went to the creature feeling scared and shy but as he came close to him he found that the creature was a Genie and a friendly one.

"Hi, you don't seem to be from here." asks Genie. "Yeah, sure I am not from here. Well I am Erebus" "And I am Zafar, a Genie" replies Zafar. "Welcome to Milele, a world of magic and astonishment" says Zafar "Oh! that's why everything seems to be opposite here. But do you know why I am here?"asks Erebus "For sure. Because this world chose you." "What! but why would this world chose me and for what? What I remember the last is that I went to sleep and as I woke up, I was here, in this world". In astonishment, Erebus was very confused and not able to understand a single word from Zafar.

"Okay, so let's come to the point now, our world is in trouble and even yours."
"And from what?" asks Erebus "Now you might be knowing that your world is not the only world in this universe." asks the Genie "Yeah" Erebus replied in a obvious way "So just like our world, there are several other worlds and one of them, known as 'Tysar' is trying to capture every other world they can and have already captured many of the dimensions and the rest of the domains are getting united to solve the problem." "Understood, but what's my role in this. Wait! are you going to say that I am the one this world chose to save this whole universe?" "Well, yes" replied Genie "But I am just a 11 year old boy and not a superhero!" exclamed Erebus "That's true but this world is never wrong."

Surprised, Erebus is feeling proud but also fears that he is having responsibility for this whole universe and whether he could fulfill the same.


The Genie took him amongst his people and introduced him to them and told them the whole story. They sat down and put on their thinking caps to find a solution to save the universe. Initially they could not arrive at a consensus, but finally they were able to prepare a plan.

They initiated actions to execute the plan and prepared their defences, as they had decided not to attack first, but to rather defend themselves.

Many weeks passed, but nothing happened. Probably, the information of all worlds coming together had reached Tysar and it had abandoned it's expansionist ideology.

It was the harvest season and the worlds were busy in enjoying the yields of their produce. Suddenly, there were fireworks all around. Oh wait! It wasn't fireworks at all, Tysar had attacked.... Everyone was taken aback as they had not expected something like this to happen. Immediately Erebus swung into action and started executing the plan that they had prepared. At times it would appear that the worlds wouldn't be able to protect themselves from Tysar's attack, but Erebus, Zafar and their team didn't lose hope and continued to fight. Their persistent efforts ultimately forced Tysar to retreat.

Now, all the worlds, Tysar had captured were free from his rule and even all the worlds whom he attacked were now having no fear from the Tysar world.

Now Erebus was free from his responsibility and ready to leave to his world. He was very exited to leave for his home again. But it had been a great adventure for him and even learned the moral that greed is not a good thing.

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Very well written! So creative!!

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Interesting read.

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