Not on Earth...

13.8 billion years ago

The entity was displeased. His daughters had left him. After all he had done for them? He had just asked them to provide him with warmth, with comfort, in a cruel, unforgiving universe.

Well, that and the occasional fuck, or whatever the equivalent of intercourse was for the entity.

He realized he'd have to get up and actually find them, track them, use his powers to bring them back to his universe. This displeased him. Using his powers was a suboptimal solution.

Well, he couldn't think of anything better to do. He used his sense to locate the girls in the universe. And yet, they were nowhere. The little tingling in his mind worsened slightly. He was sufficiently alarmed.

Then, he saw one, across a vast expanse of space, of clouds of dust blocking his regular sight so his magical vision was necessary. She showed up on his radar for the briefest moment, then disappeared. But he remembered everything. He remembered the exact spot she had been at.

The entity departed.

When he reached, he felt a new emotion. _Surprise? _For no one was there. Just a gaping hole in the surface of the universe. His universe. He felt a momentary pain.

And then he noticed that the hole led to a new universe. His daughters had broken free from his control as he slumbered, had created an entirely new universe. More than one. Infinitely many. Nestled like sheets of paper in infinitely many infinitely tall stacks. They had successfully escaped him. He couldn't see them anymore. The entity felt a new emotion. Anger? He returned to his slumber changed.

For billions of years, he plotted his ****.

In time, the universes developed in parallel, creating intelligent life forms in the form of his daughters. All on the same planet, orbiting a normal star, on an arm of a spiral galaxy, in a perfectly ordinary galaxy cluster, in an infinity of identical universes. Somewhere where his daughters could hide.

His daughters told the intelligent life forms, the humans, of him, calling him the Master. They called themselves the Daughters, but the humans, they called them the jinni.

And he plotted his ****.

The humans learned to farm. The jinni tried not to interfere in their development, instead letting them face adversity and evolve as a species. They built tiny settlements. They built "wonders." They built less tiny settlements. Their population increased. Spread out. Learned.

Then the Master executed his plan.

He couldn't bind the jinni back to himself, but he could bind them. He had seen the humans evolve into a filthy, vile, selfish species, and he saw it fit to get **** on the jinni with them. He crafted a ring, with gold worked into elaborate, unearthly patterns, and affixed one of those precious stones the selfish humans loved. An emerald. He hurled them into every multiverse, deposited them onto Earths, in places where humans would find them easily. He bound the jinni to the rings. Now the humans who the jinni had spent so much effort to create were the masters of the jinni, using whatever wish granting powers they had for their own selfish gain.

And the Master was content.

Now

The Master arose from his slumber. He felt a tingle in his brain he hadn't felt in ages. And he knew one of his daughters was free, through some vile scheming or plots or the like.

The Master did not like this.

He went to the hole between universes. He glanced around before leaving.

He was going to reclaim one of his daughters.

Author's Note

Hey, leuler here. As I was reading this story, and specifically the author info page, I realized that one element of this universe hadn't really been explored: the Master(s), being(s) who hunt down unbound genies. I thought a storyline involving these characters would be interesting to have, and so I made it.

I won't have like regular updates or anything, because of the amount of IRL work I have. However, I'd really like to develop this, and if you have any good ideas for how a showdown with the Master would go, please add on!

Thanks for the crazy amounts of support on my first chapter!