Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 3 2018 | Page 56

The gun pointed to a snake, he lifted it, and directed it square between my eyes, just above the nose.
“Don’t get in my way,” the King asserted, in a deep, menacing voice, flames in his eyes.
Well, this was my turn to do something, my teammates helped me enough, I am not a damsel in distress,
but what do I do against a gun?
“Oww!” howled the King, clutching his reddened, newly-punched face. But it wasn’t just the punch that
had defeated him-- it was the bullet from his own gun, somehow changing its own course. “That’s
cheating!”
“We won fair and square, selfish lowlife,” Deus declared, so sure.
There are times to be kind, grateful, but I cannot let this man rule any longer, not when he has shown to go
lengths so far as to kill me. This is the fate he was given by God. With the King unable to move, we roll the
dice for the last time. We win. Celebration? I still have this tugging feeling I did something bad. Was
punching this man right? Hurting someone isn’t right. Deus’ words broke my thoughts, as if he could read
my mind. “Don’t put yourself down, I know you did the right thi-”
“How do you sound so sure!” tears spilled out in unstoppable rivers.
“If you must, then, brace yourself,” he whispered.
“I changed the path of the bullet.”
“What?”
“I’m the ‘One True God’.”
My jaw fell to the ground. Sun and Penny were equally flabbergasted. The One stood beside us this whole
time! Speechless was an understatement. My senses had to be tricking me, but they were not. Trying to
calm us all down, Deus said: “that man only wanted The Flower because it grants powers rivalling mine.
Sun didn’t break the flower, I did, and for that I am sorry.”
“None taken,” squeaked Sun, still paralysed on the spot.
Deus continued. “And I made Sally challenge his title to eliminate him once and for all. Anything abnormal
in your lives, it was me.”
All I can do is nod. God was standing right before us. It felt so out of place. This was the feeling I’d been
having all along. Yet it felt like piece of me was filled. The tantalising spell on us broke as Penny exclaimed:
“I’m still hungry!”
Laughter filled the air, tension and anxiety wearing away. “Go ahead,” Deus grinned encouragingly.
“You’re all Kings and Queens now.”