Kevin loses

Light splintered around them. Darkness took its place. The people around them split as the sound of ripping paper filled the air around them. Jess shivered as the icy breath of freezing clod slithered across her skin.

"I wish I'd never made my last wish," Kevin said, but nothing happened. The darkness pressed down around them. The classroom disappeared, the people too, leaving nothing but a black and empty void in it's place. The void wasn't empty. There was a presence there. A presence at once impossibly heavy and yet as soft as a feather. "I wish I never made my last wish!" Kevin screamed, his voice breaking as fear colored it.

"Daughter, what is this?" a voice whispered. It came from everywhere and nowhere, it's words sounding as soft and faint as a whisper and as loud as a scream. Jess wished she could cover her ears, but her hands were still cuffed. Kevin screamed, his hands going to his ears.

"I have sinned, Father," her mother said, and Jess turned to see her mom sobbing. "I'm sorry."

"I have a granddaughter," the voice replied. "Who has done this to her?" it continued and Jess shivered at the quiet rage behind it's words.

"He did," Jess said, nodding at Kevin, who was sobbing in the corner. Did this void even have a corner? Was he sobbing in the middle of the floor? This place didn't even have a floor so it didn't matter. Suddenly, Kevin jerked to his feet, his arms and legs pinned to his side and his eyes were wide.

"No, wait. She deserved this! She rejected me first. She--"

You cannot speak.

No sooner had the entity spoken its words then Kevin's mouth disappeared. His hand lifted against his will. Jess could see his muscles bulging as he struggled to pull his hand down, but it was no use. Jessica's bonds dissipated like smoke into the air. She stood up, noticing that the pain was gone as she did. Her body was completely clean and her bruises and signs of her torment were gone. A robe appeared around her body. It was some sort of Greek toga thing, and felt very loose around her, but she clutched it to her body gratefully.

"My daughter is mine," the voice said. Its voice reverberated around them. Kevin's jaw worked soundlessly, his eyes bulged in their sockets and his muscles spasmed. "My granddaughter is MINE. Who are you to take my children? Who are you to hurt my family? Their punishment is mine to deliver. Who are you to steal from me?" the voice continued. Tears sprang in Kevin's eyes. Jess almost felt sorry for him. Almost.

The air popped around them and Kevin was gone. Wherever he'd gone too, Jess couldn't say. For some reason, she didn't want to know. As much as he'd hurt her, as badly as he'd tormented her, something told her he'd have it a thousand times worse wherever he was going. Suddenly, she felt a hand on her arm. Jess turned to see a man standing behind her. No, not a man. A woman? No. The figure was neither old nor young, male or female. It had no detectable skin color or race. it constantly shifted like a static TV screen. One minute, she was looking at a human shaped galaxy awash with stars, the next a fiery inferno stretched out into infinity, but shaped as a human. The human shape never changed, but what was inside it did.

"I am your grandfather," the same voice said, except this time it came from the entity.

You will submit to me.

"Yes, Grandfather," Jess said, falling to her knees and prostrating herself before him. She did so willingly. She didn't care what happened to her anymore. Kevin was gone, her friends were safe. She'd miss them, sure, and she had no idea what kind of torments awaited her here in her grandfather's domain, but anything was preferable to what Kevin had done to her. She would gladly serve the being that had saved her. Jess couldn't see it, but she felt her grandfather smile.

"Father, I--" Jessica's mother said.

Silence.

Jessica shivered as her mother whimpered. Her grandfather knelt before her and touched her face. Jessica looked up into the swirling abyss that was her grandfather's face.

"You lived a mortal life. You had mortal parents, friends, hopes, dreams, and desires."

"Yes, Grandfather.

"Do you wish to return to them?" Grandfather asked, and Jessica shivered.

"Yes, and no," Jess replied.

"Explain."

"I love my family, my friends, and the life I had. I would love nothing more than to go back to them like nothing ever happened but that's not realistic. You saved me, Grandfather. I will gladly do whatever you tell me. The person I am now, wouldn't know what to do in my old life. I'd have a literal mountain of trauma and eons of therapy to go through. Plus, someone else could find my ring and control me. I'd much rather serve you."

"You don't know me, child. Your mother fled me for a reason."

"I'm sure she did, but like you said, I don't know you. Maybe you're not so bad," Jess said, and the entity laughed. Its laughter was equal parts soothing and terrifying.

"You will serve me, child. Your mortal life is behind you. Your mortal parents will believe that you have gone missing. Everything will return to as it was the night of your 18th birthday. Your parents will return to their home to find you missing. They will mourn. Your friends will mourn. All of your classmates will mourn, but life will go on. No one will torment them ever again. You have my word."

"Thank you, Grandfather."

"You will call me master," Grandfather replied.

"Yes, Master," Jess said. This wasn't so bad. It was already ten billions times better than having Kevin as a master, and she could at least have the satisfaction that her family and friends were okay.