Chapter #7Get the hammer. by: Relate   You quickly run into your garage and lift the toolbox from its shelf. You set it down on the ground and pull out a large hammer. You bring it back up to your room, not daring to let anyone outside see or hear your activities. You lock your bedroom door, kick off your shoes, and set the crystal down on the thick desk across from your bed. "This shouldn't be too hard.." you say to yourself. Standing up still, you raise the hammer about six inches over the crystal and eagerly bring it down. Smashed! You lift the hammer up and set it aside and look triumphantly at the fissure your stroke has left in the top of the crystal. You find it quite easy to stick your fingernails in the crack and peel off a piece nearly half the size of the crystal's jagged roof. You set the fragment down and slide your head over the opened crystal to peer through. You see Jake and Eric's ant-sized forms looking up at your visage in panic. "How's the view from down there, little guys?"
"H-how did you get so big?!" a tiny little Jake says, looking up at you in awe from the interior.
"Forget about me, I'd be more worried about what's going to happen to you!" you retort. You tilt the crystal on its side and let Jake and Eric tumble across the landscape, out of the crystal, and into your palm.
"Hmm, what to do about all these tiny people..." you posit. Wiping them all out at once would be fun, to be sure. But then again, doing so would limit your future possibilities. Still, being responsible for extinguishing a whole species of intelligent life, causing an apocalypse.. that isn't something your everyday teenage guy gets to do! You can hardly contain yourself as your pick up the crystal once more and look inside one last time with a big grin across your face, knowing that every pathetic little runt in this world is now looking up at your gleeful, sky-sized face. To them, this is an entire extinction event. You can't even begin to imagine what it would be like in your world, if some giant alien or something literally was holding the planet in his hand to crush like a grape. The thought of that makes this even more savory to you, knowing that you are the giant alien.
After you finish surveying the interior, you lean just a little bit more forward... and give the crystal a sharp and quick blow. A thin dust lifts from the surface of the crystal's floor and brushes out the side. "Oops... looks like I just blew half the world off the ground. Too bad for them!" you say to Jake and Eric, who you have left on the desk under your watchful gaze. "Now to finish the job..." You really enjoy the next part. You peel the other half of the crystal's roof away, exposing the untouched half of the world's populace. You bring the crystal to your face and open your mouth. Then, you slowly stick your long tongue out of your mouth and extend it. You place the sticky appendage against the floor of the crystal, where it surely has flattened or gathered up a great portion of those still living. Then, you simply drag your tongue across the surface. You can feel little grains gather at the tip of your tongue as the wall of flesh consumes one city after another. You finish, relishing the tingling sensation that the people on your tongue cause as they drown in the saliva inside your oral cavity."Thdat thastes gud" you say aloud so Jake and Eric can hear, and then swallow. Finally you take the crystal, surely void of *almost* all life, and place it upright at the bottom of a drinking glass you left in your room from earlier.
Eventually, the survivors of this event can rebuild... and this time, a new civilization can emerge in your own image. You have the power to shape this new one in any way you want, at this size. You can picture returning to the crystal world to command the building of enormous statues in your likeness, tiny slaves toiling their lives away in order to avoid your crushing wrath, like the Egyptian slaves on the pyramids. But that's all for a later date, when you repair the crystal and return. For now, you have Jake and Eric to toy with!   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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