Chapter 2: ACT II: LOCKED INTO DESPAIR
"You cannot hide! You live in me and I am part of YOU!"
"YOU DO NOT CONTROL ME!" Edgar furiously screamed, "I will not be controlled by DEMONS!"
"We are your friends; your enemy is yourself!" hissed by the Demons as they began laughing loudly….
"STOP!" he screamed as he stood up from a bed, "A nightmare?! I don't remember where I have seen that hall!", His head felt like it was cracking.
Edgar looked at the clock in his bedside closet saying that it is only three in the morning. The little crack in the door let a little amount of light inside the room when someone turned the light on in the dark living room and rushes in front of the door of his room. The person casts a big shadow that almost blocked all the light that goes inside the room.
A big and dark figure appeared as the door flung open and began yelling, "Who the hell is screaming in the middle of night while everybody is asleep?!" Edgar became more confused as the dark shadowy figure with glowing silver eyes slowly neared his old, rusty bed. He pulled his stained blanket as the figure reach him "So, I see that you are now awake... Very good I thought you will be another failure. It's good that he gives me goods that are not damaged from time to time!" The woman of her sixties said.
The woman looked nearer at Edgar. The dim light was enough to uncover the wrinkled and puffy face of the woman wearing heavy make up and yellow lipstick. "You get some rest now! I will be waiting for you at the end! Hahaha!" laughing, the fat, curly-haired woman started for the door then shouted at the back of the room, "Go back to bed you little Brats!!!"
The woman approached the door and slammed it shut and locked it. Minutes passed after the woman got out of the room, the tiny light that lit the room vanished, but the full moon coming from the steel-barred windows gave light to the big room filled with small rusty old beds some blankets stained some are not and beside those are rotting cabinet with some assorted stuff and clocks that are out of sync. Edgar felt dizzy and realized a bandage wrapped in his head and in his hand. It made him more afraid and confused. "Where am I? Why is my head bandaged? What happened to me?" he whispered.
He lied down in the uncomfortable bed his eyes wondering about. To calm himself and collect his thoughts he closes his eye to concentrate but before he could shut his eye, whispering noises filled the room and he could see small sized shadows slowly moving in the corner of the room. The moon's light slowly moved as it shone towards the face of the shadowy figures revealing children covered with bruises, blood, and scratches. With his limp foot he forced himself to stand up and started walking towards the figure. Creaking noises filled the room as he followed the center of the wooden floor and as he approached them he greeted them in a shaky voice and asked, "Please, can you tell me where am I?"
"You are in a prison of your own.", The child with blue eyes replied with his frail voice shaking from the cold.
"Wha...what do you mean? Please explain it to me."
"The truth. The certain truth you must find it. You must help her. She will be in danger!", said the blonde girl beside the boy as she gazes at Edgar blankly.
Still in state of confusion, he stood up and though every muscle in his small body is aching, he walked using his small, frail legs toward the children.
"Where are we? Where should we escape?"
The children looked at his eye blankly while red tears are welling from them, "You can't escape nor hide in our home. What you see, she sees. They will never leave you." The faint voice of the child slowly filled the big room. Chills ran through his spine as he tried to walk away from the shivering body of the children still standing but their consciousness seemed to have spirited away. Trembling in fear he remembers the small demons that have terrorized from the hallway and the rooms of the house and what the demon had said to him.
The children was slowly obscure by the black smoke that was entering from the small crack at the bottom of the door. The thick fog formed a body of a human and possessed white and one with blue eyes that glows and illuminated everything they see. Edgar was bewildered and shook even more.
His trembling lips and jaws synchronized with the white noise the black figures made. He asked, "Who are you…...? What are you doing in this room? What do you want?!"
"Shhhhshhhshshshhhhhhhst..... You are in the realm of the root of your existence. Shhhhshhhshshshhhhhhhst... What you see is what you are. Shhhhshhhshshshhhhhhhst... We are not a mere image; WE are a memory of the PAST! Shhhhshhhshshshhhhhhhst..." The dark figure with blue gleaming eyes replied slowly with a very soft voice. "Shhhhshhhshshshhhhhhhst..... Are you happy that you saw them again when you are still friends? Shhhhshhhshshshhhhhhhst..." the dark shadows altogether said in a very whispering way.
"I...I do...n't understand."
"Shhhhshhhshshshhhhhhhst..... You need to find her. She will tell you where and what. Shhhhshhhshshshhhhhhhst..... Now go! Shhhhshhhshshshhhhhhhst....."
A white light appeared in the distance and have engulfed the darkness blinding anyone who stares at it. Edgar saw the room clearly, it was filled with decorations, toys and portraits of beautiful flowers and sceneries in its wall and the children that was limp in the floor was now smiling and laughing gleefully as they play their toys and with each other. The light intensified and he was blinded, he fell in his feet and passed out because of shock. His mind became blank as the floor beneath him vanished and he was left falling in the white void unconcious.
Weekly Power Status
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