So, here I am again, still focusing on the "How to make a story". Deciding on to reveal one of my favorite things, I decided to make a journal about it. Time Cycles, as suggested in the title. I love Time Cycles, I love how no matter what you do, it'll always lead in a Cycle. I'll show a few examples.
1: Knight of Cornelia
I am Garland.
I am a Knight of Cornelia.
Loyal I was to my Queen.
However, I soon became rogue for an unknown reason.
I kidnapped the Princess and by instinct, I went to the Chaos Shrine nearby.
I stood on the altar, wondering why I decided to go rouge.
Before I could ponder further about it, four nameless warriors came to me.
We fought and eventually, I die.
However, I was revived not in the present, but the past.
My revivors were four fiends, able to control the elements of this world.
It seems I made a deal with them earlier.
In the past, I would send them to the future.
Where in turn they'll send me back in the past at the time of my death.
With that said, I remembered everything.
I would die in the past, but be reborn in the future.
In the future, I would turn rouge at some point and cause the four nameless warriors to kill me.
Then the four fiends I sent to that time would send me back in the past.
Then the four past fiends would revive me, telling me that they were waiting.
I then would gain more knowledge and strength for every time I'm sent in the past.
So there they go. I opened a space-time rift, transporting them to my original time.
Now alone, I would wait my remaining years until my time has come.
Now old, now alone, I would lay on the altar and die a peaceful, lonely death.
To make this cycle infinite, my memories would be erased.
Now dead, now alone, I lay to rest on the altar.
But I will be reborn in the future.
I am Garland.
I am a Knight of Cornelia.
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One cycle there. Now one way to prevent the cycle is for the four nameless warriors to go back to the past, destroy the fiends there and defeat Garland again.
2. Not so Original Book
I am a man, dedicated to being a scientist.
However, I was also a crazy one.
No one would help me due to my reputation.
I then dedicated myself to build a time machine.
However, there was no way I could.
Not without proper instructions.
Just then, out of the bushes came a mysterious man who gave me an old worn-out book.
Before asking what it was, he mysteriously vanished.
Looking at the book, I discovered that it was on how to build a time machine.
But it was so worn out, there was no way I could read it.
So, using technology, I made a pure copy of the book. Just like new.
So, I dedicated my life in building it.
It took me thirty years, but I finally finished it.
Remembering that mysterious man from thirty years ago, I grabbed the now worn out book and transported to the past.
Remaining hidden in the bushes, I waited for him.
And waited...and waited.
Noticing he's not coming, I walked out of the bushes and approached my younger self and handed him the book.
The energy from the machine worn out and I vanished, going back to my own time.
Then I saw that I was the mysterious man. I pondered day and night on how long the cycle has been going.
I then dedicated the remaining of my life trying to figure it out.
Second Cycle. As you can see, there is no true source of the book. The book is subjected to disposal, but revived as another book.
3. It's like a dream.
It's all like a dream.
I would fall asleep in that church, with the couple about to get married with the brides sister watching.
Just then, I jolted awake by the sudden appearance of SWAT Officers, gunning down the couple.
The bride would survive, and accidently murder her sister, where then she'll lose her memories.
I then would find her in the back, confused, and hurt.
I offered to take her under my wing.
Just then, strange monsters appeared, all twisted and deadly.
However, the bride would not panic, she'll simply activate a strange power called Overdive.
Diving into individuals, offering her strength.
That triggered another memory inside of me.
I am a High One. A monster taking appearance of a human.
I would not be alone, there would be other High Ones.
A downfall to one of us would only make the monsters stronger.
This girl would defeat both the High Ones and the Monsters, saving mankind.
I would be the last to fall.
On my last brim of life, she would aim the gun at me and pull the trigger.
The fall of both the High Ones and the Monsters would trigger a disturbance in the space-time rift.
Being the last one alive, I would witness this. As the bullet neared me, the rift would take me back.
I'd wake up again in that church, in the very same position as the SWAT Officers would come and gun them down.
I'd again would find her in the back, taking her under my wing.
I've no memories for the transportation would overwrite my memories.
The cycle would continue, when the monsters would again appear.
It will repeat itself, concluding with me waking up in the same church.
This cycle seems like an endless dream, waking up after dying, only to observe history repeating itself.
4. Never Ending Fantasy
Cosmos. Goddess of Harmony.
Chaos. God of Discord.
Two gods, trapped in an endless battle.
Both gods would summon warriors from other realms.
Where they would fight until one falls.
Once one side is victorious, a divine energy; called Shinryu, would come and purify them.
It would send the fallen warriors to where they were.
Only the winners of the previous war would have memories of this.
Once Chaos or Cosmos reawakens with restored powers, they would again summon the same warriors.
They have no memories for the purification would also delete their memories of that time.
They would battle again, until one side is victorious.
No matter who wins, they would again lose their memories after their downfall.
Even Cosmos and Chaos would be purified with their memories gone as well.
No matter who wins, they still lose.
Kind of not so confusing.
That's all my tired mind could think up of at the moment. Hope you enjoyed it.
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