Attractor beyond the universe

The attractors infection was now spreading across the universe. Nearly ever single bird like being in the whole universe carried one of its descendants. Ever single or of them was constantly sending it more size and power. It was growing several light-years every second.

Its galaxy dwarfing eyestalk lures now attracted even the primordial platonic birds which appeared shortly after the beginning universe of which all birds and even the idea of birds is a reflection of. Even the smallest of them was more then ten million light years tall. In fact it was the pull of the gravity of incalculable weight which was the source of the expansion of the universe. Once they took their bites the growth rate speed up over a thousand times. The eyestalk simply grew over whole galaxies, the whole populations of them now lived with and off the eye-stalks.

The attractors felt a new power fool into it. It now good control the very concept of birdness. It now understood the minds of birds of a fundamental level, using that knowledge it made its self even more delicious to all birds. It could now imbue any living thing with birdishness. It did so, adding a selection of bird element to every living thing in the universe that wasn't a bird. For example caterpillar now had several bird talons, wolves grew beaks, fur was turned into feathers, cows were suddenly given massive crow wings. All of these were now infected when they ate bulbous eye-stalks. Now every nearly being in the universe was channelling more and more power to the attractors, its growth stepped up once again. Whole galactic superstructures were just grown right through.

On and on the attractor grew, faster and faster. It could now got stop growing even if it ever wanted to. Every living being what constantly sending it more and more size and power, every new lifeform was now born infected. Thus its rate of growth kept ramping up and up.

Suddenly and expectantly the attractor felt something solid with one eye-stalks. A little latter it felt it with the other one too. As it continued to grow more of of itself has pushed against this barrier. It wouldn't yield, not one picometer. It then felt and barrier curving against its growing flesh. It was completely surrounded, there was no escape. It was trapped in the inside of a sphere. It was getting cramped. It knew it would soon be crushed by its own growth, it tried to stop growing but it couldn't. Unless their was a miracle it would be crushed to a pulp.

When crushing seemed mere moments away the barrier suddenly grew larger. It had free space, for now, but with its constant growth it would soon enough fill up this new space too.

A voice.

“I've just called for help, she will be a got you grow or be able to pass it up to someone who can. I'll just keep growing for one until then,” said the voice that seem to come from all directions at once.

“Where are you?, what are you?” asked the panicked attractor

“I'm the barrier around your universe, as you've no doubt guessed I'm completely indestructible. I also watch over this universe for my lady,” said the barrier

“Who is your lady” asked the attractor

“You'll see her very soon, a she should be big enough in a few seconds,” foreshadowed the barrier.

The attractor saw a (relatively) tiny speck. It was merely galaxy sized. It less then a second it was clear it was growing. It grow rate made it look like the formation of a stalactite in comparison. It quickly grew to a million and ten ten million light-years. Then attractor felt power within it that was orders of magnitudes above its own, it knew it could easily have grown much faster. It grew again for a hundred million light years. Its shape was clear it was some sort of bird. At a billion light years it was clear it was an owl. It continued to grow, he felt a mind that compared to this like a whale to an amoeba gentle brush up against his. She, that attractor just new the gender, know knew it far far better then it go ever know itself. It felt her mind brush over itself again. The attractors growth stopped, instantly. The owl continued to grow until a single one of its eyes was as big as the expanded universe, the attractor knew it could have got bigger.

The attractor was suddenly bathed in benevolence “Thank you, jufocinstopifincator 73 for finding this soul withered by its own growth.” The owl addressed the attractor, “I am Minerva, heraldic owl of the former goddess Athena, I am protector of that universe and 12 billions others. I help beings find a purpose become endless growth, which gets boring eventually. Do you also need help to find a purpose,” asked Minerva although it obliviously already knew the answer but knew it helped if she did it this way.

“Yes,” said the attractor having just realised that it need.

“Very well, I have several things for you to try...”

Note: I will now take suggestion about that the attractor's purpose could be. Anything could be possible as the macrocracy is a place where if you don't like the laws of physics you can just move to or make new ones and the amount of the resources available is functionally infinite. The winner, but only if there are a least 3 entries, chosen using my own arbitrary methodology, will have the canonical ending and will have a short story of about this length written for them.