Mad Woman Rambles

Every universe has their gods; multiple universes, multiple gods. Kalti was one of many divine beings in a universe not unlike our own. She was no different than the other gods she served with. Kalti’s conclave of gods, in this nameless universe far, far away thrived on equality. Peace and balance reigned throughout, no one god more powerful than the others in power and strength. This story isn’t about their universe; not directly. This story is about Kalti and a series of unfortunate events that drove her from her beloved home. 

Kalti fed off of life energy from dying stars nearby that threatened the worlds within her universe. As they collapsed, she would devour them one by one allowing for new worlds to be reborn, keeping peace within the galaxy. That was until she was betrayed by a god that coveted her abilities. He wanted to control her and use her to take over their universe as its Supreme Being. 

As was custom, Kalti received word that a world was dying. The older god that ruled over that world announced the ‘Harvest’ was drawing near and the planet was primed to be devoured to begin anew. Nothing seemed amiss because this god had lived longer than any of the gods could remember. He had just been there when they were birthed into existence, so they trusted in his word.

Kalti began her process, clearing her mind and opening the passage for the dying world to be cleansed and born again; scattered throughout the cosmos, stardust to be reshaped. As she opened her mind, the planet’s pulse weakly responded to her. It called to her as music calls to a singer. Slow and sad. Quiet in some spots only to crescendo as if in its death throes. 

With a loud explosion on the surface, Kalti began to feed. She floated above the planet and unhinged her jaws as a steady stream of life energy began flowing from the world, filling the void that resided in her gullet. As she fed, the world broke apart slowly, tiny glowing pieces of life energy swirling, spiraling towards the black void that resided within her. A kaleidoscope of colors filling the darkness, making their way to her, tickling her lips as the stardust tripped across them. 

When the final crumbs were consumed, she opened her eyes, floating alone in the vastness of space. The dead planet gone, her belly swollen and full, her mind sleepy. She gently floated to her world, her tree, the weeping willow, where she drifted to sleep. 

The sweet dreams of her reshaping the stardust into the planet it would become didn’t come as they normally do. Instead, dreams of beings screaming and running, and fire everywhere filled her mind’s eye. The heat was so intense her life energy boiled, threatening to consume her. As sudden as it overcame her, it stopped. 

Her eyes flew open as she took in the planet she had just created. Standing in front of her was a being that would inhabit the planet. Blue skin, multiple eyes with hair covering its lower half. It lay in front of her, life energy pulsating as it flowed through its veins. Creating a soft blue glow around its body. The pulsing called to her. And the void within her answered back. It woke up but had a completely different feel to it. The void never woke on its own like this. It always obeyed her, bending to her will. However, now it spoke to her. 

‘It flows like the others. You felt it then as you feel it now. Life energy that lives. It ebbs and flows and provides sustenance for them; for us. Drink.’

‘How?’

‘With a kiss. Feel the pulse, and kiss.’ 

Kalti knelt by the being feeling the thriving, pulsing life energy flowing through it. The energy quickened the closer she drew to it. She cooed and shushed the being when its eyes opened and locked with hers. 

“Sleep. All will be better when you wake,” she said hovering over the pulse. As her lips met the skin, fangs descended. Fangs that never existed until that moment. She shrunk back, her hand moving to her mouth. With a sting, she pulled her finger back, a golden glow pooled at the tip of it. 

‘DRINK!’ The void thundered through her mind, clenching her stomach with an unbearable pain. ‘DRINK! The pain will lessen.’ Kalti shook her head in horror. She could not take the living life energy from this being. It wasn’t her place; she was no ruler over life and death. 

‘But you are. Ruler of life and death. You drink up death and create life when you sleep. This is the same. Drink and this being will be born anew.’ The void reasoned, incited. 

With shimmering golden tears streaming down her cheeks, Kalti shuddered with the pain and horror of what she was being coaxed to do. Her long black hair fell over the being that lay in front of her like an offering as she leaned over it. She reached down to kiss the rhythmic pulse. 

‘This pulse is just like the other dying worlds’; she convinced herself as her lips surrounded the pulse on the blue skin. Fangs sliced into the mound she created with her mouth and a gush of life energy flooded over her tongue, down her throat and into her gullet. It was unlike any other experience she ever had. She felt the being’s death and with it the whole of Creation. Her eyes flared, matching the soul of the universe, vastness of the dark with the twinkle of starlight.  

‘Another…’ the void demanded. While the being’s life energy quenched the pain, the hunger only grew stronger. ‘Another.’ It whispered as she swooned from the rush.  

“Intoxicating, isn’t it?” a deep voice rumbled from behind her. Kalti jerked her head around hissing at the intrusion as the energy- lust rode her body.  “I felt the same way when I first tasted it. You’ll learn to control it. That’s why I chose you. These beings needed to be reborn. We all do. Soon the others will understand, and we will help me make them.” 

‘Jeva?’ Kalti questioned as the universe drained from her eyes turning them red. 

“Yes, let’s begin,” he instructed and indeed they did. Jeva taught Kalti how to control the ‘thirst’ and cultivated her gifts. As a result, Kalti’s power grew, causing the other god to grow nervous. As she continued to grow, Jeva took over the worlds that Kalti had changed the beings of, creating an army. His greed grew with each passing day until Kalti’s ability became more than he reckoned with. 

The day Kalti told him ‘No’ Jeva realized he couldn’t control her any longer. That day she realized just how powerful she had grown. She no longer wanted to answer to him. She no longer wanted to hand planets over to him to rule while she did all the work. He had overplayed his hand and had grown too complacent. He tried to exert control over her by force, but she fought back and for once in his entire existence he knew true fear. But he wouldn’t stand for it. Kalti was his to do with whatever he pleased. 

As trickster gods do, Jeva threw himself at the mercy of the other gods. He pleaded with them to lock her up. Together they would be able to destroy her. They would be able to conquer her and take over her worlds. The gods, seeing how much power Kalti had accumulated, conceded to join forces with Jeva as long as he released the extra worlds he took over and returned them to their original gods. Of course, Jeva agreed as long as they would help take Kalti out. As always, the trickster god had a trick up his sleeve; he borrowed power from the other gods to develop a weapon to kill her. Though the other gods had not realized the weapon would destroy her, they were told it would only put her to sleep. 

So began the Battle of the Heavens. The gods warred against Kalti, but she was too strong. As the tides turned in Kalti’s favor, a final battle took place where Jeva used the weapon against her only to fall under its blade. Upon Jeva’s death the six of the strongest gods worked to overwhelm her, almost killing her with it. However, Kalti had become as crafty as the trickster god, Jeva, and broke the weapon. Doing so almost killed her, but she fled to our universe to heal the damage done to her by the gods. 

A wild hunt began as she fled, crash landing on Earth. Here, she met Mallec and changed him into the first vampire. Together they wreaked havoc with mass feedings of humans and fae alike, drawing the gods’ attention. Her power flared, bringing their search for her across galaxies closer to Earth. Soon, they caught up to her here and called the weapon pieces from the cosmos here to finish what they started back in their universe. As the weapon’s pieces slowly came to our universe, Jeva’s bloodlust influence subsided and the gods, weakened from being gone from their power sources for so long, agreed to rehabilitate Kalti. 

This act of mercy was in their universe’s custom of (insert word here) where the collective reminded the accused of the good they have done in order for them to change their ways. However, without enough power to attempt this or finish her off they trapped Kalti here on Earth until they could return for her. They opened a portal back to their universe, with the help of the humans, bestowing upon them the gift of their powers. Hoping to one day return and collect their beloved goddess and restore her back to who she had always been.