Ablackwing

Side Story: The Rings Of Fate

"What are you saying?" I asked while looking at his handsome face that appeared even prettier that morning.

"Just put a drop of your blood on the ring and you'll know," Black replied.

"Blood?" Now, where did the blood come from?

"Yeah."

"But it'll hurt..." I protested.

"It won't," He said, and a needle appeared in his right hand. He held my left hand and stared at it. I closed my eyes, hoping that it'll not hurt.

"Drop it on the ring," Black said after a moment.

Drop what? I opened my eyes again, and I saw that blood had started oozing out from my middle finger. Too fast! I didn't even realize when he pricked me.

Even though I didn't want to stain that ring, I did as he asked me to. It looked like some custom from the world of angels. I will surely clean it properly later. I smeared my blood over the ring. Upon coming in contact with blood, the ring emitted a faint light, and the blood started to disappear. It appeared like the ring was swallowing my blood.

"What's happening?"

"Wait for it."

After the whole drop of blood disappeared, red coloured strange symbols appeared on the surface of the ring and shone brightly for a moment before they disappeared. The ring regained its original metallic silver appearance, as if everything that happened before was an illusion.

"Now the next step might be hard. Close your eyes and... I guess, think of going inside the ring."

I closed my eyes and I could feel the ring in my hand. I paid all of my attention to it and thought about going inside the ring as he asked me to. Suddenly, there was darkness everywhere. It was different than the darkness you feel when you close your eyes. I felt like some gate had opened or like I've crossed some invisible barrier.

I had a weird feeling that I could see everything in that darkness. I felt omniscient. There were a bunch of books, and a lot of different food dishes floating in that space. I picked a floating apple, and it felt so real.

"Eve," I heard Black call my name. It was a very weird sensation, as if I was sleeping and Black was trying to wake me up.

When I opened my eyes, I was still in my backyard kneeling along with Black.

"I didn't think you'd be successful in the first try. I was so anxious thinking about explaining it."

"What the hell was that?" I exclaimed.

He laughed upon my reaction, but then he explained. "Do you remember space zero?"

"Yeah... It's a world you created?"

"Yes! The same. Well, I created a gate to that world inside this ring. You can use the ring to access the world from anywhere, anytime. It belongs to you too now..."

When I lowered my head to look at that ordinary-looking ring, I saw an apple in my hand. It was the same apple I picked up in that strange place.

"Though you can only keep things in that space or take them out. You can't change the rules of that world... Yet..." Black continued explaining.

He picked up the apple from my hand and started eating it. It was then when I saw the exact silver ring in his hand.

"I created one for myself too."

They looked so much like engagement rings!