Saving A Goddess

(This story was inspired by some things I've seen on tiktok)

I sat on my bed sketching in my sketchbook killing time before school. I was sketching what I imagined our goddess would look like. Over the last four hundred years our goddess has been the main subject of our history. One day she decided to change the way things worked for us. She created a system with her powers that would help humans determine certain things in their lives. The list consists of how many words we get each year. As in how many words we get to say for that entire year. I think she created that because many humans have nothing but mean things to say to one another and she probably hoped that with a limit on how many words you get to use would cause the humans to control what we say and save it for more important things then being mean. I always choose to give my words away. I never know who they go to but I feel I don’t need any. If I truly need to say something I can just write it down or text it to the person.

Next is Intelligence level mine is level Ten which apparently means I’m a genius but honestly I don’t see how or care. After intelligence is your bank account which pops up when you're sixteen. Usually she gives me more then enough to move off the streets but I never keep it all. I keep enough to keep myself fed and hydrated then choose to give the rest away to someone else who needs it. I’ve been on the streets since a young age and I rather give my money away to someone else who needs it then live comfortably while others suffer around me

The only reason I have nice things like a bed, dresser, cell phone, nice clothes and cute things to decorate the abandoned building I live in is because my best friend is rich. I know she’s my best friend because there is actually a slot for best friend and her name is there. Her Name is Esme and her parents are very successful people. Esme insisted on buying me these things and with no words to argue with her there wasn’t much I could do except leave her long texts about how I don’t need a lot of stuff. After doing this for a while we made an agreement. If I let her occasionally buy me things then she will let me pick the charities her money goes to. She also gets a decent amount of money from the goddess but since she gets a monthly allowance from her parents she doesn’t need it so she decided it would go to charity. Since I would already give my money to people in need we would alternate between donating to hospitals for sickness and donating to pet shelters, I love pets.

The next section is spirit animal, in which the spirit animal you would get would be your pet, or at least something similar to your spirit animal. Esme got a unicorn as her spirit animal which would explain her love for horses. My selection of favorite animals ranging from land sea hair and even mythical animals was a long list so I didn’t think I would hate what I got and I wasn’t wrong. I got a phoenix but what confused me is I didn't randomly find a bird to become my pet like everyone else had for their spirit animals. I mean birds like me but again no pet like i’m supposed to have.

After the spirit animal it says spiritual color. Some people would get one color which was most common, others would get two or three. Esme got Light blue, Lavender and light pink as her colors but I got Dark blue, Black, Silver and White. Four colors. My teacher said she had never met anyone with four colors before and no one I talked to knew what that meant.

Finally was the carrier section. Both me and Esme were blank. Our teacher said that wasn’t uncommon. That sometimes it took a while for people to find out what they are meant to be in life. When we turned seventeen a new section appeared with the title soul mate, under that it gave a list of features about your soul mate. Hair, eyes, skin personality, and everything in our own list but according to Esme we have to play fun little games to fill in these sections so you can figure it out. Esme was not happy when she found out her soul mate was the biggest bully in school. Jake. According to her list Jake’s personality was kind hearted but She had trouble believing that.

I tried to tell her he isn’t as he seems because I knew something she didn’t but when a girl doesn’t want to read her texts about it there's nothing you can really do about it.

“Hey Ember.” Esme said my name from the entrance to my little home breaking me from my thoughts. “It’s time to go or we’ll be late for our graduation.” I looked up at her. She was dressed as if she was going to walk down a runway for the Paris fashion show. I just smiled at her as I put my sketchbook and color pencils back in my bag and got up. I wasn’t dressed as fancy as she but I did try to not look intimidating as she put it.

I walked over to her then she led me to her limo which caused a little irritation to rise. “I know what you're thinking and I know you get motion sickness but it's only a thirty minute drive from here to the school and I want to do your makeup for the graduation photos and yes I promise I will not go overboard. Simple yet sparkly.” She smiled at me. You know someone is your best friend when they know you so well they can basically read your mind,

I sighed softly and got into the limo. When we got to school, everyone around us was celebrating, Hugging, high-fiving, laughing and saying goodbyes to all their friends. I always thought I was a loner because I never talked. Yes I had a lot of numbers in my phone and there was a small group I would hang out with but I always thought I was being tolerated because I am Esma’s best friend but Many students came up to me hugged me said they would miss me and handed me written letters. Before I realized it I had more letters then I could fit in my bag and Esma had to give me one of her emergency suitcases from the back of her limo just so I had a place to put them all.

When I walked onto the stage to accept my diploma the principal said something that I think summed up the letters. He said that I was a big help to the school and the other students and that he was proud to have me as a graduate. I mean I did help when I could but it’s not like I saved the world. After the ceremony I sat at the edge of the stage and watched everyone around being happy with their families and it made me think of mine. Wishing they were still alive. That's when I noticed a notification from my list. I tapped the air in front of me where I saw the Exclamation mark. When I tapped it words appeared before me. You can now feel everything your soulmate feels.

After I finished reading that I started to feel weird. My body felt heavy. There was this one time where I was in a fight with a man larger then me and after kicking him out his body fell on me. It felt like that but heavier. My chest felt tight making it harder to breathe. I probably won’t suffocate but it definitely wasn’t comfortable.

I got another notification. Another update to my list. I opened it. It automatically scrolled to my soulmate stuff because that was the last thing I checked but I scrolled back to my stuff to see what the other notification was and next to the carrier it said Hero. Which was confusing me. As far as I knew there was no such thing as a Hero for a carrier and in parenthesis was the word leader. That's when I heard a scream. I quickly stood up and scanned the crowd. Esme was glowing and started floating then I noticed her soulmate Jake was also glowing and floating.

Someone screamed from somewhere closer to me. I looked at her and she was staring at me in shock and fear. I looked down at my hands and found myself glowing as well as floating. I started to panic and everything around me started to get blurry and spinning at the same time. I felt like puking and I felt like it was getting harder to breathe then before but despite my cloudy mind I managed to force myself to calm down and relax. With my eyes closed I focused on my breathing despite it being difficult. A steady breath is still the best. Then I reminded myself that I in fact wasn’t spinning, I was just floating and with that fact settled my nausea subsided slowly.

Once I was for sure calm and ready for whatever was going to happen, I felt my body drop. I landed on one foot the other extended to the side and one hand bracing myself in front of me. I looked up to check on Esme and I watched her fall to the ground less gracefully. “Esme!” I said not realising I spoke out loud as I rushed over to her. “Esme are you ok?” I asked as I helped her sit up and made sure she wasn’t hurt.

“You said my name.” She said weakly

“What” I asked her.

“You are talking” She smiled

I looked at her confused. I mean I heard it but it was hard to believe since I should have any words. I looked at my list and my words had an infinity symbol.

“I have infinite words.” I mumbled confused

“I’m so happy for you!” She said as she hugged me.

“Um. Can someone explain what just happened?” Jake asked.

“I can” A strange voice came from all around. That's when a bright light came from the stage and when it faded a beautiful lady was floating there. her dress flowing around her. “As most of you know I am your goddess and for four hundred years I have been searching for the right people to go on a special quest for me to save my sister. That is why I created this system. Now three of those special people are standing right there,” She said pointing to us. “And now that they’ve been accepted and have their powers they will meet with the other two Heros I have chosen and go on a quest to rescue my dear sister.”

No one said anything, we just stared at her in shock. She then created fire in her hands and it formed into a bird shape seconds later it turned into an actual bird. More specifically a phoenix and it flew over to me and rubbed its head on my cheek affectionately. “She will be your guid” The goddess said before she disappeared again leaving everyone completely speechless.