Today's #flashfiction #SpellsWithFriends

“Failure is not an option!”

Blues Clues*

Today Grandmother came over for dinner and other things happened like I came really close to immortality. But then I tripped and screwed it all up.

Anyway onto the flash fiction!

Spells With Friends

      For wizards the game Spells with Friends was simple. Take your crystal ball and cast a time spell into it. The other player casts a time in response. The crystal balls of the two wizards would be linked with a magical wormhole before the match began. Each spell cast would link with the one before it in the wormhole and change based on what it linked to. The better the elemental synergy the more points the player would score and the also the more quickly the player could cast their spell. The scorekeeper was a fairy of the Yorgi race who could travel in wormholes named David. All of the Yorgi race is named David, boy or girl, but they won't tell anyone why. It's a racial pride thing and both men and women Yorgi are employed to judge the games. Being that a game was only to usually have 100 spells in total it was one of the less complicated games. But the most intense tourneys decided to amp it up to one thousand spells.

        The game was mostly not really that noteworthy to wizards beyond its immense popularity. It was one of those things were it wasn't truly important on the big scale of things but tons of people played it. It didn't make the world go round, but people made friends and by circumstance a few wizards married because of it. Funny the ways wizards can bond. But on the worldwide, historic scale nothing happened.

        Except for one vital moment. When there was one wizard. One wizard who became obsessed with the game. It wasn't the game's fault. He was born nuts. He would have found something else if it wasn't for the game. But he always had to win. For a long time he always, always did. But eventually he met his match. Someone so incredibly skilled he was being totally wrecked. How did this make the game noteworthy. Because the obcessive wizard decided he would use anything he thought would make him win.

He used forbidden magic.

         He used one of the most powerful time spells ever. Something that would rewrite the rules of time. And since it rewrites the rules of time, technically it has perfect elemental synergy with everything. He would score infinite points.

       He cast the spell.

       When the other competitor realized what had happened he said, “Are you mad!? I surrender, stop it now!”

       “It's too late! That would have been a hollow victory anyway!”

        So time was rewritten inside of wormholes. Normal reality outside of them was left realtively intact with only a little damage eeking out. A few places frozen in time. Inside the wormhole all the Davids of the fairy race working inside were trapped in a nightmare land of time loops and the spacetime continually being bent and twisted within the wormholes as they were dragged into different deviant realities for all eternity.