Megan's Bout with Deminity - Prologue - Book One

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Megan has nearly lost her mind. Although intelligent and satirical, her demand for fantasy makes her appear delusion. Unfortunately, there is still a part of her deep inside that can't let go of reality. When she meets a mysterious Hooded Man in need of help, he tempts her into entering Deminity, an infinite, chaotic dimension that is home to a variety of eccentric beings. Once there, she struggles to throw down the barriers of her own common sense and finds herself in one perplexing bind after another, whether it's watching the world flip upside down before her eyes, battling a monstrous grape juice addiction or being hurled across the universe in the crater of a moon golf ball.2

What she doesn't realize is that there's a power struggle going on more ghastly than she can imagine. Either she must lose her sense of reality in order to guide her way through the chaos, or be at the mercy of a treacherous tyrant.3

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The Prelude of the Ancient War 5


Deminity was an endless land beyond the scope of finite, a place where eternal beings of all shapes and forms lived. It didn't matter if they had the design of an inanimate object, such as Baccus - the popular and tipsy canteen of wine - or was an animal who humans deem to be unintelligent, because the infinite nature of Deminity has given sensible livelihood to many silent things. It was the type of world where a venus fly trap would rather debate politics with an insect than try to devour it. Of course, the insect may still have gotten eaten if its side was too left wing, but that was another matter.6

Where this strange dimension came from, nobody knows, but it was a remarkable place nonetheless. It had escaped the flow of time that wrinkles mortals so quickly, and had such erratic properties that it would have given Einstein a massive headache. But to the eternal beings who lived there, chaos was the only way to live. In fact, the one thing that they could always count on was that their dimension was always changing around them. Sometimes a planet could be spinning one way, and then all of a sudden, it could change directions and spin the other. Why, one clumsy (and very hairy) being once fell down a hole that appeared in a field. When she landed in a room full of helium balloons, she snatched up some of them in her furry palms and proceeded to float back up the same hole. When she reached the top, she wasn't even surprised to find herself coming out of a volcano.7

To a change-fearing human, this would be very vexing and impossible to navigate; could even drive them to madness. But the eternal mind was designed with the ability to make sense of such drastic swings to their environment. To them, it would be the boring, stagnant dimension of the humans that would be unbearable to live in. They would likely organize a heated march through the cities, demanding to see Newton for developing such crazy laws of motion. 8

However, only one from Deminity ever went to Earth, for reasons that were his own, so most of the eternal beings were too busy dealing with their own problems, such as war, fascists and egotists. All of these issues arose out of the ancient war, but it had been the actions of a tiny planet prior to it that really ignited the flame. 9

The planet, called Purin, was tucked away from sight behind a massive waterfall of silver water in the vastness of outer space. The waterfall, which was spherical in design, acted as a protective barrier to keep outsiders away. Its strange properties allowed the water to always be falling around the planet, and only the most daring and confident could plunge through it. Those who failed would be swept up in the raging current and forced to orbit the planet forever as a drowned satellite. 10

Their isolated world was so pure, that many of its inhabitants were the silkiest white beings in all of the dimension. Almost everything on the planet was pristine and white as well, from the planet's ivory surface to the two-beaked doves and the unicorns with a lust for dancing. Even the trees were a sight to see, sprouting leaves that looked and tasted like white chocolate. 11

Only the Queen was made of something different than normal matter, an immaculate concoction of silver pure energy that took the form of a translucent tiara. She was the one responsible for the perfect flow of the waterfall barrier, using her confident powers to keep the silver water from either splashing down onto their perfect world, or floating off into the vastness of space. 12

At first glance, the planet seemed a heavenly place, filled with cheers and celebration from the public square. It was enclosed with shiny walls of quartz and lay before the towering and spotless palace of soap, the place where Queen Silka ruled the common schmuck underneath the puffy white clouds and the rippling, silver sky. 13

On closer inspection, not all was holy and right, as some in the middle of the publics eye were filled with grimace and terror. The loud cheers that circled the square were actually jaunts of humiliation, and they were celebrating the persecution of those who were different. Not all the beings who lived there were considered pure, since some were unfortunate enough to have a blander shade of white in their appearance. Like a yellowing tooth in a sea of pearly whites, they stood out amongst the pure whites and were often taunted to no end, even facing constant violence by those with the power to inflict harm.14

It was O.K. for the purest to do as they pleased to the impure, but the other way around was unacceptable. It was also criminal for any impure to demand to be treated equally, or even defend or otherwise get revenge on a pure white. Those who acted outside the law were sentenced by the ruthless Queen to a public display. 15

Right in the middle of the public square, a few of the impure beings were being singled out for their unlawful actions. It was a loud scene as a yellowing teapot was smashed into pieces for filling a silver pool of hostile and clean seashells with scalding water. The bellowing increased as an unsightly unicorn had its horn removed for asking one of its purest kind on a date. Worst of all, a puffy graying cloud was forced to evaporate water droplets filled with painful acid, simply because she wished to discuss her rights with the Queen. 16

The horrible discrimination was only feeding the fury and anger of an onlooker, who called himself Marsius. He was tall and thin, with a body like a human, only he had a dull horn like a unicorn in the middle of his forehead. Like the others, he was a lesser shade of white with no body hair, a hollow jaw, tiny nose and beady eyes that were entirely yellow. 17

Disgusted with what he was witnessing, he covered himself in a long black hooded cloak just to spite everyone. This created quite the outcry amongst those celebrating in the public square. To stop him, the Queen's personal bodyguards - who were winged polar bears - soared down from the high pillars that encircled the palace and snatched him in their claws, dragging him forcefully to the Queen's chamber to face punishment for his defiance.18

Marsius stood before Silka, gazing through her silver tiara in rage, watching the soap walls ripple through her energy form. She was so furious with Marsius and his black cloak, that she sentenced him to a long stint of ridicule for all the purest to see. Before he was dragged away, he reached out and swung his fist at Silka, but he couldn't hurt her. His punch went right through her tiara form and out the other side. Silka laughed at his futile effort, leaving Marsius unpoised as he was dragged by the body guards to his hideous fate. 19

He was brought to a deep pit in the public square and was forced to endure a barrage of seagulls pooping on him, covering his black cloak in sticky white goo that wouldn't rub off. Although the white goo was clean and pure, as only the purest could have poop that didn't smell, it was still embarrassing beyond measure. 20

It was in that pit that his fury grew, swearing he would somehow become powerful enough to throttle Silka by her misty silver coronet and save his kind from discrimination. 21