Chapter 1: The Unknown

"Oh hoooooooooooo", she sings with a silly little tune. We are confusinsly stuck in awes. She dances and spins in a whimsical manner. 

"I finally have enough to pull! Come on, source! I have enough to pull! Let's see what I get!" 

Her abrasiveness is sure a surprise.

 She spins and stops, as she gracefully slides her right index finger from left to right, in front of her, bringing up transparent screens, from left to right, laid side by side in a semi circle in her view. Like 3 monitors surrounding a weeb. Obviously she has experience in whatever it is she's doins.

 There are 3 screens laid out in front of her, each a light transparent blue all sharing the same color. The 2 side screens are empty, with the middle 1 displaying what looks to be like a deck of cards. Each card has a special color, many share the same hues, with some that clearly stand out such as a crimson red, sparkling cider gold, and even some that are prismatic: which displays many colours.

"Hmmm.... So these are all the ones that have passed since! It's been a while so there's quite a lot! I can feel it! There's something amazing here! I'll get the absolute best!"

She remembers all the other times she's done this. We flash back very fast, as if she barely wants to acknowledge these experiences.

Flashback 1: "Auf!" - her voice makes a cartoonlike yet still sad sound. We see a fat otaku in front of her, for some reason his favorite anime figure is behind him floating.

Flashback 2: "Gwah!" - her response. "Aw come on goddess, u can't tell me u don't find me kawaiis" - A red haired smug young man says. She sets him on fire as he screams in agony. We see he's fine but just burnt to a crisp. As she shakes her head with her hand over her forehead. 

Flashback 3: "Uhm, I refuse." A large muscular black haired man who looks like a lumberjack says, while satisfyingly scratching his head with his index. "What! Why! It's an amazing experience! You'd be perfect for it!" She bursts. "Because: I just want to be an amoeba." He replies. She pauses. "But you had so much purpose in life! You were amazing! You were 1 of the hardest workers I've ever seen!" She says with awe. Perhaps the gods in their almightiness have begun to appreciate the concept of hard work. Or perhaps they always have. "That's right. I'm proud of the work I've done, and the life I've made for myself. That's why I'd like to be an amoeba. Relaxins through life, drifting in the seas, eating waste." We see his dreams of being an amoeba, serenely drifting in the seas and eating waste. and it is beautiful. She sighs as she grants his wish, as her head slowly hunches down.

Flashback 4: "Nah, that sounds like too much work." A gyaru who looks like she's in high school says. "But don't you want to see what else is out there? To live a completely different life?? One that's unimaginable beyond your.... wildest imagination!!! You can't even imagine it!!!" the goddess screams. "Nah. I think I like my life. It was easy." The gyaru responds nonchalantly. She takes out her phone and starts scrolling throughs. "Where did u get that?!?!?" The goddess screams as she pulls her own hair.

Flashback 5: We see the goddess staring at someone. It is revealed to be skinny otaku this time. 1 that clearly browses the internet for way too long. He stares back at her in awe. "Wow, am I about to be a god?" he exclaims. "I always knew I was special! I always knew I wasn't a sheep!!!!" he excitedly finishes. "Eheheh... yeah...something like that." the goddess's response. She has a dissatisfied look on her face. Time passes. "Well, good luck." as she sends him off. (Possible re-occuring character, that turns from gag skinny otaku to someone with a pure heart, like kamen rider in OPM.)

We're back to the present. 

She lets out a huge sigh. Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Okay, well those last ones weren't all that amazing. But this 1 I really feel it! I've gathered so much karma these past few years!" she excitedly assures herself. 

As she moves her finger to navigate the screens, we can see the cards behind the middle screen highlighted, and slightly spread out. On the left monitor a number shows up: 88,888,888x. 

"88,888,888x souls! That's a good sign. Right...? I forget how the sacred numbers work with us." She puzzles. "Well, it can't be a bad sign."

She lifts her index finger to bring up a singular transparent card and number on the right screen. The card is labeled as, "4 free previews!!!!".

"Hehehehehe............. AHHAHHAAHA!!!! WITH THIS, I CAN LOOK AT ****4 CARDS**** BEFORE I CHOOOOSEEEE!!!!"

Her hand shakes with happiness. 

"Yes... yes! All the stars are aligning. Fate is working with me! I can feel it. I can feel it!!!!!! I CAN FEEL IT!!!!!!!!!"

She swipes her right hand from the right screen to the middle, transferring the transparent card labeled "4 free previews!!!!" onto the middle screen's deck of cards. It shuffles with an intense speed. It moves so fast as it is shuffling over 88 million cards, it can barely be seen. 

"YESSS, YES!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!" 

She screams. As it shuffles faster and faster. Her eyes look insane. Like an animal looking at a feast of its favorites, while being leashed just inches away from eating it. She starts to slobber,tongue out, this bitch is freaky as hell bro! Are we sure this is a divine being????? 

The cards shuffle at an even faster rate, faster and faster it spins. It almost seems like its speed is faster than the nebulas behind it. The goddess eyes beam with what can only described as complete looney tunes.

"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, SPIN FOR YOUR GODDESS!" She brings both her arms into the air flexing, as lightning clouds explode behind her in the far off distance. She licks her lips nearly as fast as the cards spin. It's clear she has some kind of addiktion.

 "HAaaaaaaa...HAaaAaa.... haaa..." Her panting slows down as the cards slow to their shuffle. 

As they slow to a crawl, the deck lifts beyond the screen and heads towards the goddess. 

"Yes...yessss. Come to your goddess. What did the princess get? What did lil ol' me get? Kawaiis goddess of the nebulas. The graceful splendor of ur universe! The amazing karma built upon eras of graceful*muffles into incoherence*

A dark green singular card comes out. And solidly places itself on the left screen.

"Ohhhh! Yes! This is a good one, this soul has a dark feel to it. Naturesque.Like the light winds traveling through a forest. Fallen leaves.Elegant as nature.Just like me."She says with a smirk.

A dark blue card slowly reveals itself from the deck, going up and then placing itself next to the dark green card, like the waves touching its shores. And returning back to the ocean, where it resides.

The goddess is speechless. "Wow. This 1`s a spiritual individual. I can only imagine what he's been thru."

In the deck, a 3rd, deep red card comes out. And with an umf, and places itself next to the dark blue card. 

"Oh....This one has the true soul of a warrior. But the hue of his card is deep. It shows he isn't just a battle hardened axe, but a wise commandore in battle. One who knows of war, and for that reason seeks the balanse of compromise." She is pleased with her summaries. 

She smiles.

As she raises her hands,"I KNEW THESE WOULD BE GOOD! Ohhhhhwwhwhhwhhwwww... Praise source!" she weeps with gratefulness.

At least 8 seconds pass.

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And then.

A dark aura emerges from the deck of cards. She regains composure and cautiously peeks with 1 eye.

A black card, slowly brings itself out of the deck of cards. As if it were consciously doing so. The goddess cautiously looks at it, not making a single noise. The card is a quarter of the way out. Her eyes filled with cautiousness, layered with a fear of unknowingness. As she does not know what to expect. The card is halfway out. She stops breathing. The universe itself seems to have gone silent. The nebulas vanish. The card is 3/4 out. Her brows lower, and her eyes stare intently. The black card is 4/5ths out. The air darkens. The card is fully out. And places itself on the right of all the other cards.

The goddess stands there, in her stillness. She has begun breathing again. But this time, slower. She closes her eyes, and continues breathing. There have been zero thoughts, and zero words since the black card revealed itself.

With her eyes still closed, and with her nose, takes a deep breath in. And lets it out.

Although the black card is the least flashy one, almost hidden by the darkness of space. It seems to have filled the goddess's mind with its existence. The cards next to it seem to fade into the darkness. 

For the first time in what seems like ages since the black card revealed itself: She starts to think.

"This entire time, I've chosen cards that I felt worthy. I mean, so far it hasn't been working out too well. Sometimes I get a good one, but most of the time they just end up being trash. I mean, all souls are amazing. But for what we're doing, we need someone specific. I spent a lot of time getting this pull. And I know the other 3 cards are good. But I've chosen cards I thought were good before.... and sometimes they end up well, other times not so well." *She scratches her head*

 "Argh! This is the first time a card has made me felt this way..." - She glances at the black card.

 "Usually I can get a grasp on a soul. But this one..." The black card stays completely still. As if listening.

She pauses."....This one. I can't even tell if it's human." She pauses.

She looks at the black card. As if waiting for an answer. 

"Gah!" she says, as she walks away from the screens, and takes laps around the platform, while she pulls her hair. 

"Maybe it's time to try something new. Something unknown." She says, almost with a sense of fear. 

She looks over at the black card. As if waiting for an answer. But the black card stays still.

All of a sudden, she becomes quiet again. Just looking at the card. As if entranced by the blackness of the unknown. We get closer and closer to the black card. But its stillness doesn't change. 

She walks to the screens again, and in silence, taps on the black card with her right index finger.

 'Are you sure?' the popup screen says with Yes and No as responses. She confirms yes. 

The black card brings itself in front of her, as the others go back into the deck, and the screens disappear. All that's left is the goddess, with the black card.

She has a look of purpose. "Open!" she says, as if convinsing herself this was the right idea.

An aura of blackness emerges from the card, as if it was black smoke. There is an overwhelming amount of it. But the goddess stands still. Merely observing as the blacksmoke covers the roman floors. Emerges from the smoke, we see a blackened person, as they start to exist in this universe. There is a nakedness that all souls have when brought to existence. But somehow, the blackness of this aura is covering this person. A head a barely seen. The blackness covers their face, and their body, as they slowly float down, but still levitating above the floor. The goddess patiently waits.

The blackness moves all around their body. As it settles, we see the silohuette of a male figure. His size is small. An adult. His face still is unseeable. As he floats there in the air, his neck hunched, the blackness fades. Just enough to see his closed eyes. He is asleep. We see him slowly breathing. The goddess waits patiently.

 With her right hand, she summons quite a long staff. Its color white as sky clouds, embellished with designs and intricacies that combine that of clouds and ancient trees. At the tip, her staff bends into a beautiful circular pattern, with a blue crystal in the middle of it. Its visuals can barely be identified by an era, but rather just a respresentation of nature itself. She gently taps the space in front of her with it, as if using the vibrations to subtley wake the unknown persons

*tap

she waits.

*tap tap

she waits.

*tap*tap*tap*tap*

she waits.

And so... 

He begins to move.