Chapter 12: The Spectre of Phantasm Forest
The walking corpse has me pinned to a tree, with a sword on my neck and I can start to feel the blade cut into my neck, the foul smell of death embeds itself into my mind. He looks at me and gives me his vile, crooked grin and then he speaks.
"Child, you have done something truly awful," He starts in a very cruel tone, "You have broken every rule of existence, and herby under the commands given to me by the very embodiment of existence himself, have come to banish your soul into the deepest depth of hell." And before I get a chance to respond the undead fiend's right-hand starts to glow a dark, blood-red as he extends it toward me.
When his hand gets within five inches of my chest, he clinches it and excruciating pain erupts throughout my chest. The pain is so intense it feels like my heart is on fire and someone decided to dump acid on it trying to extinguish the flames. Before I can stop it a scream tears itself out of my lungs, I don't understand why but I have no control over it. The strange thing is that the scream hurts way more than the pain in my chest.
Suddenly I can feel a darkness rise through my throat, and my vision begins to blur. Within seconds my conscience is almost completely gone when a familiar presence shows up in my mind, a feeling I know I recognize but not sure where from, it was like an unseen hand seized my mind and all the darkness fades away.
It wasn't long when I found myself in a peculiar room. It was featureless and dull. It had no color yet it was neither white nor black. and all I could see was a blurred silhouette standing off in the distance. I take step towards it and a shockwave erupts throughout my body freezing me.
"We are in a non-existent plane of reality where forgotten memories reside," an eerie voice says from behind me, but when I turn my head to look no one is there, "I am the one known as Raiyesianculthuciamonotheiysheain, but you can just call me Raiy, seriously. I am the embodiment of limits and the impossible." yet again the voice comes from behind me, but there is still no one there, the only person in this place is a lifeless figure off in the distance.
"Where are y-" I start but I am interrupted with a swift, and extremely painful crack throughout my spine, and everything goes dark, and the last thing I see is a face that looks neither male nor female, kind nor wicked, nor young or old. I open my eyes to find myself back in the eerie forest with a blade still pressed against my throat.
"Yet again you defy the rules, once death accepts you, you must remain dead," The monster states in an irritated tone, and I feel the sharp, painful pinch of the blade severing my neck, but death doesn't follow. Normally I would die but I sit there, blade halfway through my neck, alive. The vile creature looks at me in a surreal fear that I could never imagine a terrifying thing like himself to accomplish.
At this point, I cannot feel the pain of the blade in my throat, and when I look down I learn why... I am a ghost. It is a truly odd feeling, I feel light and free, yet I feel restricted as if I am chained up to something like a pet dog. I reach my hand towards the monster and he steps back.
"How could you do this," he stammers in shock, "I was told you that you possess immortality over death, if I knew you could take on a spiritual form I would have rather accepted Dreith's rath." and with that, the undead beast vanishes in a cloud of thick black smoke.
Mere seconds after the evil being is gone I feel a gentle yet firm tug on my mind and I can feel myself getting dragged back into my body, and then light overwhelms me, and I find myself back in the colorless void, only this time the lifeless silhouette isn't there. I find myself in unsettling loneliness, it reminds me of something that I cannot currently think of.
I low eerie whistle of wind blows through the colorless void of nothingness, only there is no wind. A silent hum starts to vibrate through the non-existent void, and I can see faint colors start to ripple into an existential substance. The colors form life-like scenes around me that strike me as something I should recognize but none of which I have seen before. I see a young boy who looks a lot like a male version of me, and I realize he must be my twin but he looks nothing like the 'brother' I accidentally killed.
That is when it strikes me, the supposed brother I met and killed never told me his name. I mean sure he acted sincerely, but he knew things about me I didn't even know about myself, and he acted as if we have met before but we haven't, at least from what I have seen. All this thinking makes my brain hurt so I sit down, and I feel something, a gentle tug and the little boy is tugging on my hand.
"Angel, do you want to play? Mommy told me that if I try hard enough I can do anything I want, so I bring you home," The boy smiles at me and that is when I notice that I am the age of 8, just like the little boy. Whatever the heck is going on here, "Don't worry mommy doesn't have to know I brought you back from the dead. This is our little secret." the last sentence is said in an oddly low and dark tone and his face grows blank and everything shatters, literally.
"Kiereiada, you have broken every law that I have set up," A darkness overwhelms me and I cannot see anything around me. The dark voice continues, "I, Dreith Maze, hereby condemn you to an eternity of non-existence, where none shall hear your cries of anguish." And he snaps his fingers, but nothing changes. I hear a second, a third, and a fourth snap within quick succession of one another, but nothing changes and the atmosphere around me intensifies.
"How dare you defy my powers, what are you?" He demands in mortified rage, "No, wait, you cannot be, no you are too powerful to be that, I could have sworn I was successful at stripping the Twila of their existential powers." He stares at me through the darkness and I can feel his powers fade, "This isn't the last of me, I will figure out what you are and I will destroy you for the sake of ex-" and that is the last I can sense of him and everything around returns to normal, and I am back in the forest which oddly looks like the forest I grew up in, which strikes me as odd because I could swear that I was transferred into a completely different reality.
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