When I left the sun, I didn't really have a plan. Just… picked a direction and flew. That was it. Didn't really have a direction in mind, because... I didn't really know what to do. Just confused. So one push of ki later, and I was off, tearing through the endless dark like a comet.
Worlds blurred past me. Some were pale, cratered rocks that spun in silence. Others were giants striped with storms, clouds swirling in colours I'd never seen before. One planet was nothing but ice, glowing faint blue from sunlight scattering across its frozen crust. Another was a sphere of fire, cracks in its surface glowing as if it had been split open from the inside.
I passed fields of asteroids drifting in loose formation, scattered remains of worlds that never formed. They floated in silence, perhaps colliding slowly over centuries as they drifted through the actionless space.
Farther still, I cut through a trail of comets, each one leaving behind a long, glittering veil that stretched for millions of miles. From a distance, they looked ethereal.
Everywhere I looked, there was something. A nebula sprawled across my path, a vast cloud of gas that shimmered purple, green, and gold like spilt paint on water.
newborn stars glowing faintly as they began to grow. I slowed to float through it, letting the colours roll past me, sparks of starlight catching in the ki haze around my body. I watched, I stared... before I pushed on again.
I passed close to a red giant, it's survived curled with instability, as flares leapt out with enough force to swallow gas giants whole. Compared to the sun, it felt older, more tired. I don't know why... but that's what I could feel. so... strange... I described the feeling. My senses drifted outwards to a contrast afar. A small glance led me to a small white star, bright and sharp, blazing with heat far higher than the star that I lay beside.
Its distance was close, but not nearly enough that it could force matter transfer. A dying red dward, and the end result of its death. So dense, it could rip the other in a heartbeat if given its chance.
If close enough, the giant's outer layers would bleed away, spiralling toward the dwarf like a slow-motion whirlpool. funnelling in a brilliant stream of light, forming a glowing disk that wrapped the smaller star like a crown. The dwarf would gorge itself, fattening on its elder until either the giant was stripped bare or the dwarf takes too much, and causes a Type La Supernova. It's gluttony for energy, causing its downfall.
What other me tried to do, in a sense. But I am thankful for that. Considering it let me gain control again.
I hovered in place a moment longer, watching the red giant's restless flares ripple outward. My head tilted, just a little, gaze glancing back to the white ball in the distance.
Could I do it? If shoved close, would that cause the process to begin?
The idea made me gain a small smile at the imagery. It would be pretty... I thought before letting a small laugh slip, giving a short head shake. "Heh, probably not... I'd probably just collapse the star on my own. Maybe in the future I could..."
With that, I let the thought go, turned my back on the pair, and drifted forward into the dark.
The stars slid past me as I flew, each one glittering like a pinprick in an endless sea. At first, I kept my pace steady, scanning what passed by, following trails of thought that didn't really lead anywhere. A spiral galaxy turned lazily in the distance in perfect arcs of light, and further still, I spotted the faint haze of nebulae, faint swaths of colour like paint strokes brushed against the black canvas. Further onwards, I saw a distortion of light, an empty void that multiple celestial objects orbited around.
Light didn't flow straight anymore. It bent, curved, like it was being sucked toward nothing. The closer I got, the more wrong it all felt. Stars stretched thin into arcs, like their glow was getting dragged around an invisible drain. Planets and debris circled, pulled into orbits that made no sense unless you knew what was hiding in the centre. A gravity many magnitudes more intense than Earth or even stars. So much more powerful even at this distance, my ki flared on instinct, holding me steady so I wouldn't slide in.
I slowed, hovering on the edge of it, and the pull hit me. a black hole... strange that even with this strength, with all this ki and still, gravity at this level is still this effective. I thought, wondering how weird that was, that even with the power to destroy galaxies with a flick of a finger, they still struggle in high-level gravity. But still, I know im way too weak to face an actual black hole, and considering how small this one is. I'm not touching it.
Even with something like Kaioken times 100, the singularity would win. There's a reason why physics starts to shut down around it. hmm... I should find out how to learn magic, considering that my current knowledge is quite rudimentary.
I circled around the hole in space before turning away and launching off.
leaving it, shrinking behind me.
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I kept flying, the stars sliding by like glitter on black paper. At first, I tried to keep count, pick out constellations, anything to keep my head busy. But after a while, it all started to blur together, stars, more stars, the same empty dark between them. My body didn't tire, it wasn't physically possible for that interaction to ever happen in my body now with the Majin's cells in me.
But... little ol me was not a part of that packaged deal.
My pace slowed without me noticing, like I was just drifting on autopilot. The glow of passing suns became background noise. As i started to muffle reality and thought.
My eyelids felt heavier with every blink. I'll just.. close my eyes for a bit. i muttered internally,
I closed them, mmmmmmmmm
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(3 Minutes Later)
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"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
And just like that, she was knocked out. Drifting through space at extreme speeds.
A/N... I was forced by the curriculum to do poetry and so I might have gotten a bit carried away, but ahem, anyway. Plot (hoppfully) starts next chapter. I hope you enjoyed.
See ya!