Reincarnated into Another World with Mind Control Powers

I woke up in the middle of the night and realized something was incredibly wrong. I had a stomach ache earlier that day, but that was nothing to what I was experiencing now. My stomach felt like it was going to explode. I fumbled my way out of my bed and quickly into the bathroom. I dizzily crashed into almost every door and wall on the way there. That’s the last thing I remember before I died.

I woke up for the second time that night. Except, I didn’t wake up in my room in my comfy bed, I woke up standing up surrounded by thick smoky blackness.

“Flynn Silverbush?” A voice asked from the darkness.

“Yes, that’s my name.” I replied back meekly, severely confused on what was happening.

A figure started to emerge from the blackness as the smoke dissipated around them. Once the figure was in full view, my jaw dropped. It appeared to be an angel with wings, halo, the whole works. She was stunning. She had long flowing blonde hair, piercing blue eyes and the most beautiful face I had ever seen. She was drop dead gorgeous.

“Welcome to Purgatory.” she said with a sly smile. Before I could respond she continued. “And please, no questions. You humans go on and on with your questions. Why do you humans feel the need to know everything? Trust me, it gets boring. Having some mystery in your life is a good thing. It keeps you guessing, yeah?” She slowly walked over to me and brushed my hair to the side. Then she looked me in the eye for what felt like an eternity. It was if she was studying my soul. I was stunned and didn’t move a muscle. She finally withdrew her gaze and starting walking away from me. As she walked away she said “Let me make this quick. I feel bad for you Flynn. Do you know how you died?”

“No” I responded.

She turned back to me and said “You died because you ate an expired lunchable. Do you know how many other humans have died because they ate an expired lunchable?” She asked with dripping contempt.

“I do not.”

“Zero. You are the first one. You died at the age of 25 because of an expired lunchable. I would laugh but it’s more tragic than funny. You didn’t accomplish much in your short life. You were working a dead end job with a manager you couldn’t stand, you dropped out of college because, I don’t even know why, because you were lazy? You were still living in the basement at your parents house. Jeez, you were going nowhere fast. So listen, I’m bored and I feel sorry for you Flynn, so I’m gonna make you an offer.” She started to walk towards me and continued to talk.

“You can either go to heaven and spend eternity meditating. Which is extremely boring, trust me I've been there. Or…” She paused for dramatic effect. “…you could be reincarnated into a fantasy world with one power of your choice. Which do you choose? And please hurry up, I don’t have all day.”

I thought for a second and said “Um, what kind of fantasy world is it?”

The angel rolled her eyes “I thought I told you I don’t like questions. I’ll answer this one, but this is the last answer you will get to any of your questions. It’s your standard fantasy world with various races, beasts, monsters, magic etc. Kind of like a world you would read about in what you humans call anime or manga.”

I thought about my choice a little bit more and said “I’ll take the reincarnation into a fantasy world. I hate meditating.”

“Excellent choice Flynn!” She responded with a grin. “In that case, here are all the options for the powers you can choose.” She snapped her fingers and in an instant a hardcover book appeared in my hands. It was titled “Powers”. “Very creative” I sarcastically thought to myself. I began to scan through the book. On every page there was only a single power with no details listed. Almost every power you could think of was listed in this book. “Super Strength, Telekinesis, Water Bending, Flying, Laser Vision… etc.” It was a shame I could only pick one.

I paged through the book and stopped on a power that peaked my interest - “Mind Control”. I had always been fascinated with the idea of mind control. It seemed like it would be a useful power. I wish however that there were details listed on the page.

I could tell that the Angel was getting annoyed my choice was taking so long. So, I looked up at her and said “I Choose Mind Control”.

“Ah! Very interesting choice Flynn.” The angel replied, “Well I wish you luck on your new life, off you go!” She gave me a farewell wink and snapped her fingers. I then woke up for the third time that night, but this time in a fantasy world.