Story for Mara

"Seiyu why are you hurt again?" his mother asked. "Were you out fighting again?" "No mom" he replied in a melancholic voice. "I fell down. I'm going to wash my face now." His black eye and bruised face did little to help his argument but his mother decided not to question him anymore. Seiyu was known for always getting into fights. He didn't want them, but people always seem to be looking for him. He was a good fighter, but he wanted to use them to protect his loved ones. He came from a middle class home with enough income to provide for the rent, costs of living, and to provide for him. He lived alone with his mother, and he always strives to make her proud of him, but that never was the case. He came home with bruises on him and his mother thought he was a delinquent. She didn't know he let himself get beat up and he didn't fight back unless there were other people with him. There was one thing unusual about Seiyu. He had an abnormal healing rate. He was tested by doctors and they couldn't figure out what it was. This was also another reason why he was a constant victim of other people's misdemeanors. They wanted to leave him with a scar but he always healed. The next day he woke up with a refreshed feeling and it looked like he never got into a fight the previous night. Usually Seiyu would go to school and encounter people who wanted to bully him more, but today he didn't feel like having to deal with them. He put on a black hooded sweater with the words "Slay Evil Immediately" inscribed on it in Japanese. They were a reference to a show known as "Rurouni Kenshin" which he remembered watching when he was younger. Aside from the sweater he also put on his favorite pair of jeans and some white shoes. "Mom, I'm going to school now." he yelled out to his mother. There was no response. This wasn't unusual. Whenever he came home bruised the way he was the previous night, his mother would not talk to him the following morning. He sighed and walked out the door. He knew his mother would look to see if he took the bus to school so he did that and got off the following stop. Seiyu was a city kid and knew his way around the city. Today, Seiyu felt like going to the park and that's exactly what he did. The park was an hour away and when he got there it was already 10 AM. He walked along the road inside the park until he found a spot which he believed to be secluded. He laid down and looked up at the cloud-filled sky. There seemed to be something unusual going on up in the sky. The clouds were there...but why could he see through them? "What the...why can I see through the clouds?" he thought as he looked at the vast darkness beginning to engulf the sky. He got up and began to run. The darkness seemed to be following him. What exactly was going on?! Did he do something to piss God off? "No that can't be." he thought to himself. The Earth began shaking. Was this the end of the world? BANG! Seiyu was abruptly woken up by some loud noise. Startled he looked around and saw smoke coming from the left and he began to walk toward it. After passing by some trees he eventually saw this girl on the ground and what seemed to be some machine. "Are you okay?" he asked the girl but he payed more attention to the machine. "Yeah I'm fine" this mysterious girl replied. "What happened?" he asked the girl another question. "Oh nothing I was just trying to work this machine. It was supposed to help me make something." Seiyu looked at her and was immediately drawn to the girl. She was wearing a tank top and some shorts which seemed unusual to Seiyu considering the slightly cold weather. "What were you trying to make?" Seiyu asked hoping to keep the conversation going. He wanted to know this girl better. "Well I was trying to make this reallllly big shirt." she replied. "How big exactly?" he asked. "Well...it's supposed to fit 1000 people." His jaw dropped. "What?" he questioned. "How in the world is a shirt supposed to fit 1000 people?! How will you even measure it?" he asked. "Well..." this mysterious girl began explaining things that Seiyu has never heard of but he just nodded along. "Okay...so what's your name?" he asked. "Mara. What about you?" "I'm Seiyu" he replied. "Well Seiyu can you try to help me fix this machine?" Mara asked. "I'll see what I can do" he replied. One hour later of following Mara's instructions they finished repairing the machine. "So why are you trying to make such a big shirt?" he asked. "Well you won't believe me if I told you, so I won't." she said. "Try me." he replied. "Well you know that Jack and the Beanstalk story right? How there's a giant up in the sky or something? Well this is like that...in the sense that this shirt is for a giant." Seiyu burst out laughing. It was the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard. A giant? In this day and age? Just who was this Mara girl? "See I told you." she said scowling at Seiyu. "I'm sorry" he apologized, "it just seemed so unexpected." "I believe you" he lied. Despite this unusual thing about her, Seiyu thought he liked her. She was the most attractive girl he had seen for a while. "So just where exactly is this giant?" Seiyu asked expecting some crazy answer. "Well if you really want to know, I can show you." And with that out of thin air she procured a unusual flower. This flower was like none other. It was a Chrysanthemum mixed with what seemed like a Spiraea with what seemed every color on it. Mara tugged on the red colored part and then in what seemed like a millisecond he was in some unknown land. "What the hell?" he exclaimed. "Where are we?" he asked Mara. He turned around and he found no one next to him. Then he saw it. He looked up and saw the biggest "human" alive. "So she wasn't lying..." he thought. "Here's your food Gawl" Mara said to the giant. "Wait, what?" Seiyu thought. "This has got to be some bad dream" "It's so easy to trick these humans" Mara laughed. In a quick swift the giant swiped his hand down at an attempt to capture Seiyu. Seiyu quickly dodged and then began to run. "Running is futile against a giant" Mara yelled. "She's right.." he thought. All his life he was dealt with shit and he felt stupid for thinking this new person would have changed things. The giant was beginning to close in on him and then he was caught. "Why are you doing this to me?" he asked her. "Well Gawl needs food." she said indifferently. "Who the hell are you?" he asked. "I am the person who you think I am." she said. Then water drops began to fall on his face. It began to rain. "So it was just a dream..." he thought. "That was pretty freaky..." he said out loud. "What was?" a voice said. Seiyu turned around and there she was. "MARA?! YOU'RE REAL?!" Seiyu said with fear beginning to overtake his emotions. "What? how do you my name?" she asked. "What? What in the world is going on?" he said. "I saw you...in a dream I just had" he told her and he proceeded to detail her of the nightmare he just had. "Wow, what an unusual dream and imagination you have Seiyu" she said with a mocking look on her face. "So...you think I'm beautiful huh?" she said her expression changing cunningly. Seiyu began to blush. "I guess..." he said in a low voice. "Well look what we have here" another voice said. "Aw shit" Seiyu thought as one of the delinquents showed up. "This is too fucking cliched" Seiyu said. "Please go away I don't want to hurt you guys." Seiyu warned them. "Hurt us? You never stand up for yourself." the delinquent said. "So be it." Seiyu said and began to charge at them. What happened afterward was unusual. As Seiyu defeated the first delinquent the others were defeated by an unexpected person. "Mara...you could fight?" Seiyu asked. "Well yeah... I'm able to control a giant aren't I? A fight against these people is nothing" she said. "Wait so the giant thing was real?" Seiyu asked. "Who knows? It could be" she said. "What do you think of me, Seiyu?" "Well you already know" he replied. "Exactly." she said. Seiyu was still confused. "Well I'm the person who you think I am" she said. " You were getting tired of this world were you not? You then proceeded to destroy it. You didn't want that so you... Read More changed it to something completely unexpected. Your life was full of fights and hate and never experienced love and so you conjured me up. However, new to this you then proceeded to defense mechanism and made that giant that would have devoured you while making me evil, thinking that you can never have true happiness. But once again you didn't want this and made me the way you wanted me." she said. "So what you're trying to say is that I'm God?" he asked. "Something similar to it, yes. You are not yet an omniscient being but you are close to it, Seiyu" Mara said. "Your sweater reads that you will slay evil immediately and that held true when you saw those delinquents coming. You wanted to protect me which is what a "God" does to us humans in a way right? He gives us pain so we can learn from it. He gives us memory so we can remember all the good and persevere through the bad. We learn from our mistakes and we try to distinguish good from evil. We have war which despite all the bad, tends to procure good. We have to make sacrifices in this world and we die because we need to. Otherwise we all would be "God." " Mara said. "With the way you speak it seems like you're the god and not me" Seiyu said. "I'm the person who you think I am" Mara finished.