Chapter 14

Megan, Sally and Kelly were sprawled out on top of each-other on Sally's bed, sleeping deeply, to recover from the ultimate fucking that they'd all just received from their genies. Meanwhile, Marcio, Iago and Barnabus were sat on the bed with them, stroking their skin softly, and chatting.

"I do love having a Mistress rather than a Master," Marcio smiled. "Much better when they wish for you to fuck them."

"Oh yes, because you're so reluctant to fuck guys," Iago said sarcastically. "What about the time Sarah and Jürgen told us to fuck? You were more keen than I was."

"What can I say?" Marcio grinned. "I like sex."

"So, you two know each-other then?" Barnabus asked.

"Our last Masters were part of a society of Masters," Iago replied. "And from the looks of the calendar on that wall over there, it's only been a few days."

Barnabus looked over at the calendar, and was shocked.

"2015!?" He exclaimed. "My word, it's been longer than usual."

"When did your last Master die?" Iago asked him.

"1903," Barnabus replied. "I honestly expected his daughter to rub my lamp after that. I don't know how I've ended up sealed away for 112 years." Iago and Marcio stayed silent.

Alexis reclined on the sofa in her lamp, the one that had been a gift from a Roman senator she'd served, as something to remember him by. He was a pretty sweet guy. Loved cuddles as much as she did. Cute cum face.

She reached for her mug of hot chocolate, and took a sip, before setting it back down on the table, and picking up her diary. She'd not updated it for yesterday or today yet, so she had a lot to write. She opened it, and willed it to flick to the back. She ran her finger along the paper's surface, the words being automatically imprinted into it. After all, who needs a pen when you've got magic flowing from your fingertips?

[i]"Yesterday we finally stood up to the society. Matt and Sophie had us create alternate dimensions for them, where they can live out bad lives as punishment for everything they've done. I honestly don't know if I agree with it, but I'm very glad those people are gone now. They were no good.

Today we sent the lamps out into the world, to allow them to be found by humans who will become their Masters. We nearly didn't though. Sophie was against it, because she thought that those hundreds of people would just end up causing more harm than good, so she wanted to keep the lamps hidden. Matt convinced her otherwise though, and they had Lumiosa and I monitor the lamps, to ensure that nothing bad happens. I can already sense that 3 of them have been rubbed; two brothers and a sister."[/i]

Alexis reached the end up the page, and another appeared after it automatically, extending the already very long book.

[i]"I've been thinking about the future a lot. No-one's said it yet, but if Matt and Sophie are exempt from the rules, it means they can wish to be immortal. Not that I'd mind that. I like Sophie after all, and an eternity with her is much more preferable to more cruel Masters. I just wonder if they'll do it."[/i]

Alexis closed her diary, and let it float back onto the shelf where it lived, next to her first edition of The Canterbury Tales (She'd get around to reading it one day, she swore!) and Leonardo's painting of her reclining on the banks of the Arno. Every museum in the world would probably have begged her for it, but her Master had given her "La Bella dalla Lanterna" as a gift, and she would treasure it for the rest of her eternal existence.

Alexis got comfy with her hot chocolate, and looked around. This place wasn't huge, with most of the other rooms being taken up by the various nick-knacks she'd collected over the millennia, but it was home. The one place that no-one could ruin for her. Where she could be alone with her thoughts, with no humans nagging her to grant their mundane desires. Something she'd learned throughout her long existence was that, no matter the era, from the dawn of man to the 21st century, humans all want the same things. Mostly sex, with political power and wealth coming in close behind. Not that she minded granting those wishes, of course. She liked seeing how happy her magic made her Masters. It was just nice when people were a bit more creative in their wishes.

At this point, Alexis felt the familiar tug that came from her lamp being rubbed.

"Why must it always be when I'm getting comfy?" she lamented. She watched the clouds of light-blue smoke surround her, and seconds later, she was in Sophie's bedroom, facing her Mistress.

"What do you desire of me, oh great and wondrous Mistress?" Alexis asked, doing an overly-dramatic bow.

"Showing off, are we?" Sophie asked her.

"No, if I was showing off, I'd have emerged with a fireworks show and music," Alexis said, reclining on the bed. "So what's up?"

"Well Matt and I have been thinking..." Sophie replied. "And well, we want to fulfil one of the society's goals."

"No mindless slaves, I hope?"

"Alexis, please let our Masters speak," Lumiosa scolded her fellow genie.

"As we were saying," Matt continued. "Though the society was partly gathering lamps to keep them away from people who would misuse them, one of their goals with it was to attempt to meet the maker."

"There is no maker," Alexis said dismissively.

"Then who sent Lumiosa to Matt?" Sophie asked. "Who wrote the note? Who decided we should be exempt from the rules? Someone's been setting events into motion. It wouldn't surprise me if the maker's the reason I got you all those years ago."

"You got me because my previous Master was dying and he wanted to choose his successor, instead of leaving it to fate," Alexis told her. "You were chosen because you were in the right place at the right time. It could just as easily have been anyone else."

"What if it was more than fate though? What if I was there at that time because the maker made me be? What if your Master died at that moment because the maker wanted him to give you to me?"

"Sophie, the world doesn't work like that. The world is not being guided by some God-like being who made us all."

"Someone has to have made us."

"Master, Miss Sophie, if I may say something please," Lumiosa interrupted. "I do not know if there really is a maker, but if there is, I do not believe you will be able to find him. Though you are both exempt from the rules of the genies, I very much doubt that you will be able to simply wish for the maker to appear. His power would greatly exceed that of Alexis and I, and your only chance of meeting him would be if he himself wills it."

"Well we can at least try," Matt said. "I wish for the maker to appear here."

"Master, I cannot," Lumiosa told him. "I cannot summon someone without the faintest idea of who or where they are. I'm sorry."

"Well what are we going to do then?"

"I've got an idea," Sophie said.

"What?" Matt asked.

"Well, if we can't bring the maker here, why not go to him?" Sophie suggested. "If he really did create the universe, why don't we just go back to the start of the universe to see him?"

"That could possibly work," Lumiosa said.

"Except the fact that the society tried that, and they couldn't go back more than 50,000 years," Alexis said.

"Well maybe it'll work for us," Sophie said. "We don't know unless we try."

"There's no harm in trying," Matt said.

"I am willing to attempt it," Lumiosa added.

"Oh fine, we'll try, but it won't work," Alexis said. "Go on then, make your wishes."

"Alexis, I wish to go back to the beginning of the universe," Sophie commanded.

"Me too, Lumiosa."

A long, long time ago, a girl opened her eyes, wondering where she was. She sat up, and looked around her. She was in a completely empty room, where all the walls and floor were a golden-coloured metal.

Then, the information came to her. She was Alexis. That was her name. She was a genie. What is a genie, she thought, before the knowledge entered her head. A genie was a being who existed to serve humans. Soon, a human would rub her lamp, and she would be his genie servant until the day he died. She would use her magic powers to grant any wish he made. This would be her job for all eternity.

This was all very confusing for Alexis, who had only come into existence just a few minutes prior, and who had to take all this new information in. But then again, all information was new to her. Everything was new to her.

Alexis then felt a tugging sensation, and she instinctively moved onto her knees. Clouds of light-blue smoke surrounded her, and seconds later, she was in a dark, rocky place. Looking around her, she was in what appeared to be a cave. Cave. That was a word she'd just learned. This world was so interesting. In front of her in the cave was a group of people, gathered around a fire. One man in particular, she noticed, was holding a metal object. Her lamp.

"Master?" She asked. The group of humans all looked shocked.

Even longer ago, two humans and their genies were even more shocked. They looked around, and saw that they were floating in what appeared to be a completely black void.

"Well I was not expecting that to work," Alexis said, almost sounding impressed.

"What happened?" Matt asked. "Where are we?"

"Nowhere," Alexis replied. "We've gone back in time 14.6 billion years, to a few minutes before the big bang is scheduled to happen. That's why there's nothing here. Because there's nothing anywhere. The 4 of us are the only things in existence. I've had to make an invisible shell for us with air, heat and light in just so you two don't die, both because I like you, and because the prospect of waiting billions of years for human life to evolve so I can have another Master doesn't sound very fun."

"So what now?" Sophie asked. "There's nothing. No maker. Just us."

"My guess is, even if there is a maker, we won't see him," Alexis said. "He'll probably just will the universe into existence."

Sophie and Matt just floated there for a while, thinking.

"There's no maker," Matt finally admitted.

"Thank you," Alexis said. "So can we go home now? I've got a mug of hot chocolate waiting for me."

"Wait a second ... we're the only ones in the universe," Sophie said.

"Give the girl a prize," Alexis said sarcastically.

"What I'm saying," Sophie continued. "Is that if there's nothing here but us, how can the universe be created? You can't create something from nothing."

"What are you getting at?" Matt asked.

"Well ... maybe we create the universe? Maybe, just maybe, all of it's been for this. I got Alexis and you got Lumiosa so that we could come back and create the universe."

"Why would anyone do that? I mean, if someone can engineer all those events, why would they need us to create the universe? Surely they could do it themselves?"

"Maybe we are doing it ourselves."

"Sophie, are you suggesting that you and Matt are the makers?" Alexis asked.

"That's exactly what I'm suggesting," Sophie replied. "Maybe we create the universe. Maybe we created the genies and the humans. That's why we're exempt from the rules, because we made them. Everything happened so we could come back here and set the events in motion."

"It is possible," Lumiosa said. "We possess the ability to create a universe, so our magic could theoretically have created our own."

"I'm willing to believe it," Matt said. "After everything that's happened these past few weeks, I'm about ready to believe anything."

"What do you want to do then?" Alexis asked. "Wish for the universe to exist?"

"No," Sophie replied, shaking her head. "We should do it ourselves. We're exempt from the rules, so we can do whatever we want. Alexis, I wish to be omnipotent."

"Omnipotent?" Matt asked, confused. "Is that even possible?"

"Theoretically yes," Alexis replied. "Lumiosa and I are basically all-powerful, albeit limited by your desires. So if you desire the same power without the limitations, we should be able to give it to you."