V-1_C-1

  This day I was so exhausted.

  I came back from work walking through the streets, the lights the shadows the moon and the cold of this night, only reminds me of how I went from being alive to being just a robot that works for a green paper without a value but what people gave it.

  It felt like I wasn't breathing, the image I see with my eyes appears still and lifeless, the sounds are grey and it all felt like walking under water.

  While I was walking slowly swaying towards my house from a far, I saw from far away I saw my house, out of it standing in front of the door, I saw a group with a completely black clothes that seem no different then cops's uniforms but-.. they held weapons.

  It didn't take them much to notice me, they ..were they chasing me?! ...why were they in front of my house? for me!? why..with!

  Without thinking I ran away when they noticed me, through the alleys between the houses, I started to hear my breath as I ran.

  I started to see and hear beyond grey.

  "I've always been into sports"...

  I didn't stop until I reached the city's wall

  [A wall 3m high between the city and the forest.

  The forest is known for being dangerous, but it's not hard to go to the other side]

  When I was near the wall and looked back at the street, I saw them in the other end of the street now I had to go to the other side.

  I managed to jump and climb over the wall, falling to the ground my leg got hurt and naturally I continued running, it was just painful.

  I could hear their voices behind the wall, I just had to keep running, I kept hitting the ground by accident as i ran.

  I kept noticing the distinct sounds of special animals. Through the trees I kept running and running...until no animal sound was heard, I couldn't hear any more animals...

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  1_C-2

  I was capable of moving and even running, I merely felt pain and discomfort.

  through this forest I was feeling a strange unease sensation, I wasn't exactly afraid, I had gone through worse in the past, but there was a different feeling to these woods.

  No animal to be heard or seen and strange voices like whispers, dark shades and a dark sky, it was the night but I couldn't see the stars, but the trees covered most of the sky anyways so i didn't look too much into it.

  Every step felt like hands grabbing my leg, a feeling that can be described like walking in the water. Shadow's movements were different than the tree branches when the wind blows, it's hard to be sure in the dark, maybe I'm just sleepy.

  As I walked into a deeper darkness as the moon vanishing behind clouds, I felt a shiver that tells me I'm not alone...

  I kept walking none stop sweat started irritating my eyes, just to notice the same scenery.

  To find that I was walking in a circle, and what had once been there is now somehow disappeared gone, some rocks I don't remember are there some things that I remember are not there anymore.

  On the trees what appears like a very faded image of a human face, but it's probably my imagination.

  Moving forward I've constantly felt eyes from far away watching but without moving as if many were looking at me, were they even human.

  And I continuing walking through the trees, with the feeling of coldness continues. then... I heard foot steps from a far...

  I flinched then ran away, I was running and running, l look behind without seeing a thing but hearing the shadows screams under the shades of his footsteps, nothing felt right and I was too scared to stop...

  I saw an old wooden house in front of me and I entered it immediately,

  The house seemed normal inside other then bird skulls on the ground and some weird tools on the wall and a small bed in the front.

  The hut seems normal to a point, it felt warm, there is a lot of bugs on the walls unfortunately.

  On a shelf there is a book at the side of the bed I didn't care about it I just went to sleep.

  Looking at the sealing the exhaustion just took me deep to sleep, before I fell asleep I saw red words on the wall at that time I've already fallen asleep.

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  ...(While half sleeping in the middle of the night, a white soul like a shadow that have the shape of a big lizard on the wall, it was the size of a human child walking on the wall.

  And a big bug flying near the lizard, and then.. the lizard ate it...).

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  1_C-3

  When I woke up the house looked normal, rusty old wooden surfaces and quiet the interesting "things" in it.

  on my left hand were a book that seemed old with a black cover.

  I opened it but found nothing and all pages are empty, I felt disappointed but... it was too suspicious.

  minutes after searching in the house, I found a big knife and a bag and a bow all were hangingon the wall, and I took them. (including the book)

  the atmosphere felt fresh but dense, unable to feel safe and knowing very will that whoever those black-clothing armed guys are, they are probably very close comingfor me.

  [This forest is quite special, I'm not sure why but it's illegal to enter the forest, and that's why it's surrounded by walls]

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  It's because I was hungry I went out to catch something.

  I went out and found near the house a river, it seemed fresh enough.

  I went to drink some water, when I was reaching the water, looking at a clear stream with stones at the bottom and with some plants covering the bottom.

  strangely no fish in it...!

  And after I drank some of it I saw something swimming or ...

  it's flowed in the bottom part, it is bones in a strange shape, large and long it's a full body of bones, irregular bones that ive neverseen before.

  it had a large sharp teeth and horns .

  When I saw something like that I looked at it for only few seconds and then I walked away fast.

  it wasn't normal...

  I continued looking for a meal. walking between berch trees and oak wood I noticed some berry bushes,

  then I saw a rabbit, I used my bow and I took so long just aiming, then i let go, killed it the second I got a chance.

  When I reached it, I found it so skinny and probably sick with weird spots covering it, I can't eat this one and there is something on its forehead ...it's a mark! a black circle?

  I continued looking around again and again for a while,i saw markes on trees and strange footprints . still I ignored it all.

  until I saw a deer and in the same way with the rabbit,I tried to kill it and I hit it, but it ran away...

  I failed unfortunately.

  While I was going further into the forest, a fruit tree was in my way ,I took a few from it in my bag and went deeper.

  at a nice spot, I started preparing a camp fire, it took a long while to burn it, and then I went to sleep...

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  After a while I woke up, opened my eyes, it was still the night.

  I heard a weird specific noise around me, so I got prepared to the worst, possibly a wild animal.

  The first thing I noticed after a few minutes is the moon eclipse, it was clearly the moon because I was able to look straight at it, It was so weird and more dim.

  And very eerie and terrifying.

  Around me, I couldn't hear any voices nor sounds, as if there is no any animal in the forest, it was even worse than the normal weird forest at the daytime...

  Then!! I heard the same weird noise again, I went to my bag and took the bow and the knife and got ready.

  the noise was near, getting closer, and closer, then finally I saw it!!!

  It was the most creepy thing I've ever seen.

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  1_C-4

  Dark aura and a pale body with no color at all, smoke rising from it's feet giving him a dark surrounding.

  Standing under the moon surrounded by trees.

  but the moon not a normal moon, it's just a white thin circle, as if the moon had an eclipse, I could tell it was the moon because it was so dim unlike the sun-eclipse.

  The beast was huge about my hight, on fours, and it was staring at me with light reflecting eyes, and the beast continuesly breathing loudly, making heavy sounds.

  Then it rushed towards me, I in an instant ran instinctively, the beast was fast but lacked mobility, it was struggling with turns whenever I turn left or right.

  I had to hit the beast with my bow, to survive, after running for a while I got enough distance to use the bow.

  at first the beast was running directly towards me but in a second the beast jumped to the side almost dodging my bow.

  But I still threw the arrow at it, although it hit, the beast didn't stop running.

  I had to run away, from side to side, the trees are almost too packed at this spot, it slowed me but not as much as it slowed the beast, I got to an open spot...

  This area seamed like a bold spot not even grass were there, only a small statue at the middle of it.

  Ignoring it... I didn't hear the the sound of the beast running towards me, it was silent.

  I didn't take my chances here and ran back to my campfire.

  while running, I heard it again..

  The beast appeared in front of me ready to kill me.

  I immediately held my bow and threw a bad shot at it, the shot only got thr leg, the beast started running unbothered..

  I rest my hand on my knife, the beast jumped to attack me, but I was determined to kill it.

  ...you see, I was... too scared to run away, too scared to face it again.

  To me death would be a nice cozy fate, unlike running constantly for life that could end at any second...

  I... I attacked the beast head on, and peirce the chest and with no second to waste I ran away.

  The beast started running behind me, but... it was getting slower and slower.

  after ten minutes of running the beast fell dead.

  I slowly approached the dead body of the beast, it looks almost like a kangaroo!?

  The beast had hooves on the rear legs, but more like a kangaroo hands, the teeth exactly like a rabbit teeth and a short tail.

  A few seconds of gazing upon the corpse, after a few seconds the beast started evaporating into a black smock.

  It didn't take more than five seconds for the beast to disappear.

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  I went back to my campfire...

  I noticed something, looking up the..

  the moon is back to normal.

  I was breathing heavily, my legs were weak, I immediately sat in front of the fire.

  I was tired and I wasn't sleepy.

  I opened the bag and took out the book.

  I thought of writing a journal or a diary.

  ...

  There was something different?!

  there was a page, a page with writing in it, although 'bad writing' it was readable.

  On the corner there was an image of an eclipse.

  the page had a title.

  " [souls of revenge] although known as the dwellers of the eclipse."

  ...

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  1_C-5

  "dwellers of the..." ?? *sigh* it doesn't matter it's not as weird as words appearing out of nowhere nor as weird as the beast.

  still if you see my face you'll see a pale shocked expression.

  things are getting weirder and weirder in my life...

  from black uniformed armed group to a lunar-eclipse.

  wait.. am I in another world?

  *I chuckled* at my thoughts, trying not to get frightened to death.

  I then prepare myself to sleep.

  I am a very fast sleeper so the second I opened my eyes again I found the morning sunrise shining through the woods.

  A pale mist, a silent morning.

  I took my bag and started walking through the woods.

  Each step I take feels like walking on a high altitude robe.

  It's a feeling of unease.

  'meh' I shrugged.

  Although I just noticed, the berch trees scattered in between the oak woods.

  Those trees didn't seem normal almost like eyes were drawn on them, after walking for a while I finally saw a bird.

  Seeing a bird here is like seeing light, here I never even heard their sounds let alone seeing one.

  I stared at it for a little too long... but it never moved !! Suspicious.

  I got a little closer, after two steps the white-marked raven twisted it's head to gaze at me... those eyes were dead!

  I flinched, taking a few steps back.

  After a few seconds of staring, the bird did nothing else.

  Feeling confident I chose to walk forward, a decision that...ehm..

  Step forward one by one felt like walking on mud, the air itself started to feel heavy, reminds me of being in the same room as a smoker.

  Something I face a lot since I work in a company.

  After getting far away from the raven I noticed a new creature!

  it was a deer, same as the last one it wasn't moving.

  But I noticed something about the deer, there was blood flowing down the deer's leg.

  After one other step, without lifting its head off the ground, the deer turned it's head towards me.

  I stayed still but my heart was racing, telling me to run away.

  The thing is, I was too concentrated on the deer that I didn't realize what's behind it nor what's above.

  After few seconds, I noticed something... 10 no 12 other deers were behind that one, far enough not to be noticed.

  Some of them... had their belly ripped off with minimal blood flowing down.

  I noticed in the middle of the crowd a small statue holding a crimson red gem.

  I only looked at it for one second just for all those deers to start screaming, their screaming sounds like a deer being tortured, heavy and cracking, and tearing.

  I immediately started running as soon as the deers started running towards me. unfortunately for those deers I now am beter at running away...

  twenty minutes later I found myself on a cliff, near me is a massive black rock.

  I lost the deers long ago... good.

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  I've already made a camp here brought food and even prepared a makeshift bed.

  On the horizon in the distance not too far away, slightly above the taller trees, I saw a mob of multiple bird? No those are way bigger.

  the weirdest thing about those flying things is that their shape resemble a bug, a massive grasshopper, is just my guess from what I can see.

  I opened the weird book again as I was ready to sleep, I opened the page of the eclipse, most of what was written is things I realized after the short "meeting"

  Except for one thing...

  "the dwellers are avenging souls, meaning that they only appear to take revenge. Especially if they got killed for no reason, or that their body didn't get eaten or berried"

  ...hmm okay.

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  1_C-6

  I opened my eyes feeling like the earth is moving, or at least what was my head resting on.

  I jolted off the black rock... it's.. it was moving?

  I am not... no, I am sure of it.

  For a few seconds the rock stayed motionless.

  After a while I just took my things and left.

  It was the morning already after all.

  I started going down the cliff by going around it.

  As I reached the lower part of the cliff, I heard a sound that can only be described as a boulder slamming to the ground.

  'I KNEW IT' it was a bad omen, it's probably the rock, I know it's something bad.

  Immediately I started running away as soon as I started hearing the sound of rocks slamming with rocks.

  As I was running away I looked back for a second and saw it, surrounded by dust a massive black golem was running towards me like a gorilla.

  I've had enough of running away I had to find a way out of its sight.

  after all there is no way to kill a rock, not one I know about.

  After running in terror for multiple minutes I reached the best solution that I could imagine.

  "Water"

  Immediately I jumped to the side river and dragged my body through the running water.

  After reaching the other side I looked back at the Golem, the thing stopped in front of the conveniently wide river and backed down going back to his sleeping spot.

  *heavy exhale* I thought I was gonna die, I sat down on the ground from the sheer fear.

  A few seconds has passed and I already started walking through the woods.

  Surprisingly there are quite the good amount of fruit trees.

  While I was collecting some ripe fruits I saw something in the sky!

  It was a blinding light if you look straight at it, flying through the sky faster than a meteor.

  This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.

  At the end it started slowing down and slowly going down, it landed on a far off mountain.

  'weird?'

  After backing some food and eating some fruits I resumed my walking.

  A while later I started hearing the sound of water swaying over a shore, as I thought I found a lake, a big one at that with a river flowing into it.

  I took some steps along side the lake-side, the lake seemed quiet and lacked plant life, anyhow I found my next sleeping spot...

  I saw a fishing hut, I went inside it but got disappointed because I saw nothing interesting, it was just a normal fishing hut, a small one at that.

  putting down my stuff in the fishing hut, I then took the fishing rod and hopefully I could catch something.

  sitting on the edge of the wooden shelf casting my fishing rod on the water, to be honest I don't know anything about fishing so I was just spending time...

  After a while I just gave up and threw the fishing rod inside the hut, after that I took a walk around the lake.

  Not much was noticeable about the lake it was almost like a shy person.

  I sat down next to the water only a feet away, if I think about it I don't feel like I miss my old life at all, when I was young I was a very athletic person to the point of being envied, but I lost it and became a person without a life.

  wandering won't get me anywhere... wait what is this feeling on my leg!!?

  I looked at my leg but I saw nothing, but I am feeling my leg get wrapped by a snake or something.

  before I could think straight I got pulled to the water.

  I was grabbing to the ground trying to avoid drowning...

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  1_C-7

  Ugh! I was digging my fingers through the wet soil unable to anchor my body.

  I can feel my leg being stretched and pulled to the water, splashing of water fell on me as I was resisting the pull.

  but to no avail, my head was already under water.

  I can feel my body traveling through the water to an unwanted depths.

  I grabbed the knife that was in a secure pocket.

  without seeing what I am attacking I just swung my knife to wherever I expect the unknown ropes tying my leg.

  I struck a nerve!! it felt like I cut through flesh, it immediately let loose of my leg and I rushed swimming to the shore, taking a breath with water in my lungs, I coughed at least five times.

  I kept taking steps away from the water as I was taking a breath in.

  then I felt something wrapping around my hand.

  it seems the beast is too stubborn pulling me towards the lake, but before I reached the water I've managed to cut it again but harder, cutting all the way through the tender flesh.

  I severed a limb, I saw something that was invisible started to fade into my vision, seeing it was as disgusting as you would expect.

  the blood was as red as a dead rose, and the limb looks like a lizard's tail although it was obvious that it belongs to an octopus... a big one.

  after two injuries did the beast finally leave me alone?

  after a few seconds of nothing but the calm waves sliding through the shore I stood up and started backing away.

  maybe it was my instinct or I just was scared but...

  seconds later I felt five "ropes" wrapping around my limbs and neck, but it didn't pull me, this time it was wrapped tightly trying to squeeze my limbs and neck as hard as it could.

  I used all my power to cut the one wrapped around my neck before I die.

  compressing my hand and putting as much tension as I could to reach the neck area... and slice.

  it didn't cut it but it made an injury.

  the beast loosened the one wrapped around my neck for a second, and I just had adrenaline soaking my brain.

  I bit the limb as hard as I could, the already injured limb immediately pulled off of my neck.

  and with taking a good deep breath I got enough energy to slice another tentacle.

  and as I sliced the one wrapping around my left hand all the other one let loose, now I don't know where they are since it's invisible.

  I turned around looking at the direction where I got some hints to the beast resistance, but instead of water it was on land... no it was on sand, and what worse (for the beast) is that it was making clear markings on the sand.

  I rushed forward towards the beast..

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  somehow the rest was just too easy, I've slain an invisible octopus.

  as my knife was deep through the octopus's head, it finally showed itself.

  it's color is normal but what isn't normal is that it has only one eye, moreover it's limbs are at least 20 meters in length.

  as I was looking at the beast eye it didn't seem... like an eye, it looks just like a pearl or a jewel, it doesn't even has a pupil.

  Impressed by the shiny peerl I reached out to touch it, It was... as solid as a peerl. I grabbed it and pulled it off of the octopus.

  It was quite easy to pull off.

  the second I held it in my hand I felt a shiver run across my skin.

  My body, my skin turned invisible even the peerl..

  shocked I instinctively let go of the peerl, as it fell to the ground my skin turned back visible...

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  1_C-8

  I... I can turn invisible!!

  Okay that is quite weird and disturbing.

  I kneeled and grabbed the peerl again, again I turned invisible, I then put the peerl in my bag.

  Noticing the book in my bag, I was curious to see if anything changed.

  As the book was in my hand I went through the pages flipping them like cards, I noticed a page that wasn't blank.

  On the page was a description of the octopus that I just killed.

  the title reads: [Lake's resident]

  Wait!! that was just one resident?

  How many are there?! and... is.. the real danger actually being the lake?

  I tried to search if there is a page about the lake but found nothing.

  The description of the Lake's resident is as you might expect.

  The last line was:

  "A lonely child that's always rebirthed,

  Kill it once and you'll be cursed

  More to come, grudge unfixed

  Many sought, his eyes they fetched"

  From what I understand there'll be more of this creature, that's a problem.

  More over it seems there is entities that seek his eye.

  I returned the book to my bag and went back to the hut.

  It was as rusty and old as I remember it, I laid on the hard floor with my hand laid under my head I closed my eyes trying to sleep...

  At midnight, a bang woke me up.

  Startled I looked at the only window in this old hut.

  I... I saw two shining eyes, it was obvious that they reflecting the moon light, standing still behind the foggy old window glass.

  Staying still, staying silent... after about fifty long seconds the eyes disappeared!

  The eyes didn't move it just disappeared...

  After a heavy exhale and good a inhale I sat up.

  Is it... another resident?

  No, no way. This one had two eyes and from the hight of the window I suspect that the thing is as tall as me if not taller.

  I grabbed my bag and held my knife.

  After calming down I started hearing sound from outside the hut like footsteps, water splashing and some weird sounds.

  As much as I wanted to stay here, running away from this lake seemed more reasonable, I just had to inspect whatever is happening outside before I leave.

  With my bag and my knife I stood in front of the door

  Inhale...exhale...

  Okay, I opened the door with some wood friction sounds.

  It's always annoying, I looked through the thin opening to see through.

  What!!! Black humanoid silhouettes running faster than a bike...

  Their only apparent struggle is the trouble of turning and changing course and directions.

  Wait! Are those horns? no, those are.. ears? Those look like rabbit ears.

  After another glance their legs looked more like animal legs with three segments.

  But their silhouettes are one of a human-ish creature.

  They were attacking an invisible enemy!

  I guess I know who.

  But from their speed, why are they loosing!? Is there more than one octopus?

  One of the silhouettes is on the side who seems injured, there are 4 of them.

  *sigh* I can run away.

  Remembering the peerl in my bag, I grabbed it to turn invisible, I then opened the door slowly enough to let me through.

  None seemed to notice me, immediately I started running towards the woods.

  *huff, huff, huff, huff*

  After running for a while I really started gaining some distance.

  While running through the woods a really annoying and terrified sound was following me.

  It was the footsteps of a really fast creature.

  Wait... after listening closely, it was just one.

  These damn rabbits have a really good hearing ability. 'Shit'

  It kept following me precisely, I tried to change course but nothing worked.

  Following me like his life depends on it, it won't take the fast creature long to reach me.

  As I was running, the sound of the footsteps got closer and closer then the footsteps are now coming from my side only few meters apart.

  I gave the silhouette one glance just to see something good.

  That was the injured one...

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  1_C-9

  Reminds you I'm invisible at the moment, still this two-legged creature is following me.

  I even noticed that the injury was in it's leg, specifically the left one.

  I had an idea to try, I looked around and chose a perfect oak tree for my plan, I stopped in front of the tree and silently climbed it till I got above one of the branches.

  The long-eared creature stopped in front of the tree not sure where exactly I went or did I just stop in place.

  Making the slightest sounds would give off my hiding.

  The creature was very cautious as if it could here my heartbeats he had no doubt that I was there.

  I held my knife tightly and jumped at the beast, piercing the throat, even I was surprised how easy it was.

  But it didn't stop moving like in films, in fact the beast went berserk on me trying to tear me through the air while I was still invisible.

  The beast landed two slashes with it's short claws but then fell to the ground twitching twisting like having a body spasm.

  It was a disgusting sight and horrible, the blood on the ground was covering a wide area and spreading further.

  My knife was still in it's neck while dying slowly.

  After a long minute of watching a beast suffocating, I went and pulled my knife out of the neck then I remembered something.

  I looked around making sure that the woods are as empty as always, I pulled out the mysterious book and scrolled through the pages, 'that's the one'.

  As usual a page that describes the beast that I just faced.

  The title reads: [long-eared assassins].

  'With their speed I'm not surprised' I said to myself.

  The description isn't very informative as usual, but something took my attention:

  "Hiding in their caves.

  running from the graves.

  Hunted by the flying elves.

  Seeking the eye, that hides them from the eyes."

  So there are hunters that hunt these fast creatures! That's terrifying utterly terrifying.

  'I got to leave this place'

  After making sure that nothing fell from my bag especially the "eye", I resumed my adventure through the woods, my pace was way faster this time.

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  After a while of walking through the the woods my feeling of unease reappeared.

  The feeling that something is watching me and the feeling that something is walking with me.

  Even the sound of my footsteps seems to occur twice as if someone is walking in sync with me.

  In the past I dismissed it as me being anxious, but after seeing all these nightmares... I think it might actually be another anomaly lurking in the light and even at night.

  The more I walk the more I feel like someone is breathing behind me, and I feel like I'm being watched from all directions.

  Especially from those trees, their trunks seems to have eyes carved into it.

  Finally I found a nice spot to rest and complete my sleep since those "long-eared assassins" disturbed my slumber...*sigh*.

  I looked around still as paranoid of those "hidden eyes", I had to investigate it.

  I went to one of the closest perch trees and started investigating the carvings on the body of the long tree.

  They unfortunately seems too natural but eerily precise.

  I used my knife to slash one of the eyes, but nothing happened after that.

  *sigh*... I walked back towards my nice spot annoyed, but I again felt a presence behind me.

  Without turning my head I tried to concentrate on it as much as possible.

  !!!it seems to... fidget! What? The sounds were as faint as the sounds of the clapping of an owl or just slightly higher.

  It was very unnoticeable as long as you are not concentrated on it.

  Hmmm, I thought for a while then I spoke with an audible voice:

  "Who are you?"

  My voice wasn't so sure nor was it steady.

  But then a shiver ran down my spine as I heard the sound of whispers.

  As if two unhuman entities whispered in sync.

  There words blend with the sounds of wind.

  "Shhh~ don't m?nd me~" ...

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  1_C-9

  ? My sweat is already sliding down, my heart is racing with horror, every motion of air is as cold as ice, my blood feels heavier and my legs are ready to run for kilometers.

  Every second that pass I feel like my lungs will give up.

  Still I still didn't move, I cleared my throat and cautiously said-

  "Who are you...?"

  After a few seconds of silence, I was about to turn my head but I stopped.

  Then another few more seconds passed...then I said with more fear-

  "What... are you?"

  The entity replied after a few seconds of annoying silence-

  "H?mph your quest?ons... are no fun~"

  The chilling breeze of the wind that carried his whispers carried with it sinister intent and horrifying playfulness. It was hard to concentrate on his voice, it felt like trying to hunt an invisible prey.

  I answered with a slightly more composed tone-

  "Can't you answer my question?..."

  I shivered again, speaking to an unknown entity is more terrifying when you are the prey, especially since I know nothing about 'it'.

  After a minute of silence I turned my head... but I saw nothing, to be honest I expected that...

  It means that the whisperer doesn't have to be here to talk to me, which is.. more terrifying.

  Then the whisperer said-

  "Where ?s the fun In answer?ng your quest?ons, I prefer keep?ng you ?n the dark~"

  My bones started to feel cold, not knowing where those whispers are coming from really started messing with my head.

  Surrounded by the eyes of this entity made me feel like I am already dead but is being played with before eaten.

  "Whats your name?" -I asked with shivers going through my bones.

  And after an agonizing minute the whispers resounded-

  "...C?phr"

  This time the wind carried a different tone to his whispers, one with hesitance but composure.

  Still the fear in my heart was enough to keep me in the dark.

  I walked to my camp preparing it, while i do that I thought carefully of my next question, minutes later I asked-

  "...Why do you watch me?"

  The air cooled down even more, before I got Ciphr's answer-

  "Ever s?nce you stepped foot on my garden..."

  He stopped talking immediately after his last words as if keeping himself from telling me too much.

  I laid my eyes on the weird book... then I asked holding the book in my hand-

  "What do you know about this mysterious book?"

  Ciphr didn't answer for about three minutes straight, by that time I gave up on getting an answer and prepared a makeshift bed to sleep.

  But then he answered whispering even slower-

  "Th?s book ?s l?ke ocean water, ?t'll never g?ve anyth?ng but more quest?ons, unless you don't seek answers but seek knowledge"

  This was the longest he had spoken, I was in shock when his whispers kept flowing through the air.

  Still, his answer was of someone knowledgeable, in addition he also mentioned his "garden"

  This entity is getting more scary by the second.

  I started preparing a way to keep the peerl in touch with my skin to keep me invisible through the night.

  ...Reluctantly I asked-

  "What is this place"

  After mere seconds Ciphr answer but not with words but instead with mocking chuckles that flowed with the air.

  After that I tried to ask more questions but mostly got no replies.

  Resigned, I went to sleep but the air was too heavy to breathe, the trees that were eerie are now obviously eyes of Ciphr.

  After two hours of restless anxiety I finally fell asleep.

  .

  .

  .

  In the morning I woke up before the sunrise out of instinctive fear.

  Took my bag and I put the peerl belt on me, as I continued walking away from the lake.

  Through those woods that felt like they are less dense, the amount of trees are lessening by the minute.

  It was eerie... speaking of the devil lets see if Ciphr is awake-

  "Good morning"

  After about half a minute I heard the air move faster making whispers from the swaying of tree branches, then I heard a distinct whisper-

  "Shhh~ I told you, don't m?nd me~"

  My breathing was heavy as I heard those whispers, the air as cold as always.

  *sigh*

  I forced my legs to move forward through the woods.

  After half an hour of walking the distance between the closest two trees was already more than five meters.

  Walking through made me feel too visible, easy to see easy to kill.

  But as I felt I reached the ends of the woods I saw.. a silhouette laid on the floor, after two steps I was sure.

  It was a human...

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  1_C-11

  My eyes laid on that black uniform, it was easy to recognize it it was the exact same as the ones worn by those armed group who stood in front of my house before I run towards this unnatural nature of a forest.

  Looking at the body laid on the ground... my blood froze and my sweat dripping at the second I laid eyes on his face.

  It wasn't even a face, he was missing his face as if torn off by force.

  The blood was dripping down the sides, it was easy to see the bones even the hole that leads to the throat.

  The brain was missing leaving behind nothing.

  There were no blood on the ground except the new drops of blood.

  After a second of horror, the head rolled to the side forced by gravity.

  It was easy to recognize that this was a new incident.

  A cold breeze forced a shiver through my heart as I heard the disgusting whispers of chuckles.

  It was mockery to my horrified expression.

  Ignoring him, I had to leave quickly before the monster comes back but...

  I had to know something I had to get any possible information about those black dressed group.

  I looked around and saw a broken weapon it was sizable and looked futuristic but it was easy to see that it was made in this era but with extra effort into it's shape.

  Unfortunately the weapon was split in half revealing it's insides.

  Looking back at the corpse, I started searching through the black uniform.

  I couldn't find much except for an ID card that had a symbol, it was three lines going in three different direction contained in a circle.

  I continued searching the dead man for any clues.

  Unfortunately all I got is a gun, this group seems very secretive.

  I hid 'my' gun and started walking away as fast as possible and as invisible as possible.

  Obviously, the second I realized there possibly roams around a monster that seeks brains I immediately turned invisible using the peerl-belt.

  As I was walking as silently as possible cold winds carried terrifying whispers of mockery to my ears, speaking with sounds easily mistakable for a breeze just as always Ciphr whispered-

  "...Beh?nd you~"

  The shock threw me off guard unable to even jump from the terrifying words.

  I looked behind me but...

  Unable to see anything I gulped and hid behind a tree then grabbed my gun without revealing it, I then whispered-

  "Are you serious...or just toying with me"

  The dirty bastard answered with a serious tone-

  "Try me"

  He knew I'm not stupid enough to ignore such a high possibility of... death.

  It was easy to recognize that the predator was here minutes ago.

  I carefully peeked around the the tree trunk, my eyes laid on a seen as terrible as I first laid eyes on it.

  I saw nothing I saw no dead body, the corpse disappeared...

  I took out my gun and kept searching for the thing.

  Unable to see it I sighed but this was a dumb idea.

  A second later I heard the rumbling of a four legged creature running towards me.

  Looked at the direction, jumping over a bush I saw the despicable corpse running on all fours towards me.

  Shooting it on the spot the dead body seemed irritated by my shots for a few seconds twitching around.

  Then the faceless dead stood up on two and started running towards me at full speed.

  Shooting it again, most of my shots were directed at the torso, after 4 shots the dead finally trembled to the ground twitching furiously in agony.

  Then laid on its back seconds passed but I wasn't sure that I was safe.

  Then the chest of his corpse moved a little then cracked open by a wasp looking ocean-ish arthropod.

  But I didn't give it time to say hi, Shooting it with the consecutive bullets the thing took it's last breathes on the ground twitching and twisting in pain.

  *sigh* finally I took a breathe.

  But the sound of gunshots will only bring more chances of death but my legs couldn't move right now dew to the absence of adrenaline.

  Remembering the mysterious book, I opened it to check quickly before I leave but in fact I was already walking away...

  I opened the book and to no one's surprised there was a new writings.

  The title: [Cerberus]

  Huh! Isn't that...?

  I gotta read the description.

  After reading the long page I understood the following.

  'Cerberus, is a two-heade predator one of its heads is in the normal correct spot but lacked a brain dew to a small cranium...

  The other head was at the end of the tail, it lacked a mouth having only two prey eyes which were to the side plus a big brain and ears.

  Cerberus have six legs but two are always off the ground, curled inward.

  The beast looks like a wolf only with the rest of its features.

  Moreover it's massive and faster than a cheetah.

  Lastly ,the Neo-Cerberus or the eggs,

  In short they occupy the chest of an un-eaten prey of the Cerberus and use the body to get as much food then eat the corpse and turn slowly to a Cerberus youngling later.

  *Sigh*. I put back the book and started running as fast as I could while still invisible.

  After a few hours of running and resting and resuming. I finally reached the empty land lacking any trees.

  It was obviously more dangerous dew to lack of any cover but I had my special cover...

  In front of me two to three hundred meters away, a mansion...soaked in dark gloomy air.

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  1_C-12

  A shiver caressed my skin as I gazed upon the dark mansion... and after a second of doubt I took a step forward.

  Every step I took didn't feel right, as if I wasn't walking on earthly grounds more like I was walking inside a imaginary land.

  After trying to shake of my anxiety I looked back... I saw... I saw the dust that I left behind by my footsteps strained in the air deprived off of the chains of gravity like a still-image on a screen.

  The scene made my eyes widen in surprise.

  I slightly got used to the horrors of this unnatural woods of nightmares but...

  But I didn't expect to see something truly out of this world.

  I froze for a few seconds but I can't go back I have to go forward.

  With that I forced my frozen muscles to take me forward.

  The air in this ethereal place was as unreal, it had the smell of smoke and the taste of cold water.

  After walking for a while I glanced back just to see the tail of dust left by my feet which looked like a long rope, the seen was unreal.

  I shook my head forcing fear out of it I then kept walking.

  Looking at the old mansion felt... wrong, something was wrong, after taking twenty more steps I realized the reason, it didn't matter how many steps I take towards the mansion the mansion doesn't get even slightly bit closer.

  I took thirty more steps and still couldn't get closer.

  I stopped, not knowing what to do I looked around me but all I could see is the lack of trees, the ground was filled with dead old leaves that are probably ten years old covering the ground with yellowish color.

  I looked back and all I saw is the trail behind me... but one thing was different the end of the tail of dust was slowly descending to the ground bit by bit.

  Time seems to go slowly for it, it was taking its time as if gravity was struggling to pull it down.

  The scene was fascinating, which for some reason grasped my attention until the last particles of dust descended right in front of my eyes.

  But I was really too occupied by the descending particles hence why I didn't sense the dark presence behind me.

  I flinched and turned my head just to see the massive wooden walls of the old mansion, with it's nice rusty doors in front of me.

  The air was even more smocky and the empty mansion seemed to have it's own hidden eyes staring at me.

  The brocken glass and dead decorative plants surrounding the mansion and the spider webs, all gave the old mansion a classic horror feeling.

  I looked at the doors not realizing when they opened, I just chose to go in.

  As I was taking my steps inside the eerie mansion, the feeling of being watched never left my chest.

  The sound of my footsteps echoed lacking any texture the more it echoed.

  The insides of the mansion held every item that it possessed before it got abandoned, every furniture and every painting on the walls and every symbol of it old inhabitants are left where it was only covered with webs.

  In front of me wide stairs leading to the second floor, I took my legs making my way in my anxious feeling of ignorance to possible threat.

  Maybe... just maybe this mansion is an entity.

  I took out my book and scrolled through the pages finding no new pages.

  But remembering what happened before entering the mansion, it was obvious that this mansion is an anomaly.

  Putting the book back inside the bag I walked through the corridors looking around.

  ... I noticed scribbles carved on a wooden door:

  "Slow when ascending, fast when descending, that's the time in this dimension.

  Fear the sunset and leave the graveyard or you shall be one with the graves"

  Unconsciously I turned my head to the nearest window, despite knowing that it was just sunrise when I entered the mansion the light was too bright for it to be the morning.

  ... in this mansion somehow time was speeding up.

  I turned back to the door to open it, slowly the door was hard to slide open dew to rust.

  At last the open door revealed a dark room full of spider webs occupied by families of spiders.

  I laid my eyes down... what!!!?

  I saw piles and piles of bones, they were full skeletons with every piece in place.

  It was truly a graveyard.

  I took a very deep breath, I knew I'll have to follow the warning carved by an unknown person.

  I closer the door slowly dew to friction. And glanced at the window once more the time was obviously after noon, the light was dimming slightly.

  I turned towards the stairs ready to leave but... obviously...

  In front of me, piles of spiders glued to each other formed a humanoid body.

  The entity that was made of spiders started talking with a voice that tries to resemble a human voice.

  The entity said-

  "Must you leave so fast? I was hoping you would... stay. stay. stay. STAY"

  The entity screamed and started disassembling to tiny spider that began to run towards me with unbelievable speeds.

  Surrounding the floor walls and sealing.

  At that second I remembered that I was invisible so, how can those spiders see me.

  It didn't matter because I was already on my feet running...

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  1-C_13

  As I was going through the corridors the spiders were flowing out of each and every door I see.

  The scene was truly horrible, but I had to keep running.

  But unfortunately soon enough I realized that I was in a maze, it doesn't matter where I go it always led me to the entity of spiders.

  I turned away from another dead end but my time is at it last breathes, as I saw the light of the afternoon dimming.

  I kept going downstairs but I find myself at the second floor.

  Specificly after each ten seconds the next turn or the next corridor will always connect to the first spot.

  But I never was fast enough to reach the exit in less than ten seconds, more over the windows are useless, jumping through a window only takes me back to point zero.

  And every door I opened only had a room full of bones and skeletons.

  After exhausting myself, I stopped to take a breath.

  But the corridors of this mansion began to turn dark, with no lights it was easy to make it very dark.

  ...but as the hallway are turning dimmer and darker... ethereal entities started glowing.

  The walls and the floor both glowing with glowing stains of... blood, or is it.

  It was as if it recorded every stain of blood that was shed on its wood and now is displaying it with a dark glow.

  I gritted my teeth, well... it was scary but not as much as the possible consequences of staying here till sunset.

  I ignored the ghosts of the victims and took off running.

  Obviously my next turn will lead me to her, and as I turned through a corner there it was with thousands of spiders covering the wood with a black shining color.

  I turned away and rushed to the best route to exit.

  As I was running, skeletal hands rose tearing through the wooden floor trying to grasp my feet.

  Thank God I was great at jumping otherwise...

  Landing on one of the hands from the best angle possible, I stepped on the unlucky hand and kept running.

  And through the corridors I had to make another turn, it always take a second out of the ten seconds count.

  WHAT?!... I was surprised to see the wooden corridor leads me to a dark ethereal emptiness, reminds me of the vacuum of space.

  I had to take another turn but my ten seconds already going to run out, thus I chose to take a breath first...

  I don't know why but this empty darkness thar enveloped the wooden corridor captured my attention, maybe just maybe it's an illusion.

  A drop of sweat ran down my face as I was gazing upon the abyss.

  But the abyss didn't gaze back...

  Somehow this was a good sign.

  Loneliness meant safety and I'll bet my life on this slim chance, especially since the light is drowning and the darkness is covering the sky, with the sunset.

  I jumped through the darkness... and felt nothing saw nothing heard nothing smelled nothing, it was true emptiness...

  A second felt like a whole minute, but that's all it was, just a second.

  Then I found myself falling to hit the wooden stairs! Wait stairs!!

  My body started rolling down the massive stairs, until I reached the floor.

  I stood up as I understood where I was.

  In front of me is the front gates but the time is already up, I had to run now.

  Rushing towards the front door, I felt a weird sensation just to realize the tens of spiders that are falling on me from the ceiling.

  Trying to throw them off of myself was futile with no avail.

  I had to endure it, as I was running towards the front door, then at least twenty skeletal hands peirce through the wooden floor Trying to block the front gate.

  Smoke was rising with them.

  My instinct gave me only one possible choice, At the last second I jumped over the bone blockade.

  And broke through the very old and un'locked' rusty gate as I slammed through it, tearing some injuries through my skin I fell to the hard ground of wooden stairs but not close enough to roll down them.

  The front gate open more than it broke, and I already knew that it had no lock.

  As I rose on my injured hands lifting my face off the cold wood, I looked back just to see a ghosty little girl with no presence except for a smock-like body.

  The ghost spoke-

  "Sigh... will, at least I got a little snack"

  Her voice had infinite echoes each one darker and more unhuman than the other revealing her true nature, she was no mere little ghost.

  Then she disappeared into nothingness, and the front gates slammed closer by themselves.

  I was rather confused what she meant when she said, "got a little snack" ?

  Until I saw something that stopped my heart for an entire second, my face turned blue-ish as I looked down.

  As I laid my eyes on my feet, I saw that I was missing my two legs cut off from slightly ubove the knees.

  There were no bleeding only... a smocky silhouettes of ghostly legs that looked like film ghost body depictions.

  Thus now my legs are mere ghosts, literally.

  With this horrible incident I was too shocked to think of my next step.

  What should I do now, could I even survive anymore?

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  1_C-14

  I laid on the cold wood, taking my breath after running for the last hour none stop.

  After a few minutes of rest I took a deep breath and tried to think of something but got nothing on my mind.

  Looking up, the dark mansion was cutting half the view the rest was the night sky, there were no trees anywhere near this graveyard of a house.

  I took another deep breath, then sensed something from one of the windows, I then looked at it just to see the ghost girl staring at me with her glowing eyes, while her ghosty body blended with the dark interior of the mansion.

  I shivered and looked away, no one wants to share eye contact with a psychopathic horrific ghost.

  *Sigh* in any case I had to find my next move, then I remembered the mysterious book.

  As I opened the book, as I thought there were a new page.

  Title: [limbo's ambiance]

  "In this unholy land, a holocaust stained the innocent hand.

  A curse through time a curse through space, after dusk everything inside belongs to this place.

  Can do anything but can't leave this encase, to push her away show her, her own face.

  Surrounded by the cursed sand, it'll always remember what happened in these grounds."

  ...whoever wrote this is obsessed with poetry.

  In any case there is more to read, most of it is things I already know about this place, like the surrounding empty grounds can affect people going through it through affecting time and space.

  More over...What!?

  Huh??

  "If one of your limbs turns to ghosty matter, it's now in limbo eaten by the ambiance.

  The ghost limb can easily attach to any bio-mass closely resembling a limb or even if it doesn't resemble it that much"

  So... I can just attach whatever?! The hell !!!

  Well, at least there is a solution as ridiculous as it sounds.

  But... where can I find a leg?

  ...wait, oh! OH NO... sigh. I guess I have no other choice but the faceless man that I put down.

  But how far is the corpse?

  Wait, does dead legs even work?

  Sigh... for now I'll just sleep, this cold wood is causing me trouble.

  I looked at the sky, the moon is half tonight how beautiful.

  For the next few hours I kept moving around trying to sleep, finally after four hours I fell asleep.

  As I was sleeping I faced nightmare after nightmare, I went through at least fourth nightmares.

  Most of them are about people who died in the mansion, some of those nightmares were too detailed and precise.

  Next day as I opened my eyes, as the sun just started rising.

  I ate one of the fruits I had in my bag and got ready to leave.

  I tried to stand up on my half-legs but a very agonizing pain struck me, I felt it through the flesh and bones.

  When I tried to touch the cut part of my leg... it was rather surprising.

  I could easily feel the touch of my bones and the sensitive muscles tissues.

  It was a weird sensation, after a few seconds I stopped and chose to crawl.

  And here again I was going through the empty grounds surrounding the dark mansion.

  Unlike the first time, this time my trails didn't exist as if the dirt and dust didn't fly into the air.

  Every few meters I look back just to check, it took quite the long time, to the point the I spoke to Ciphr again-

  "Hey Ciphr, did you already know what this mansion is?"

  The whisperer didn't answer keeping silence.

  I spoke to myself- '*sigh*, ohh, is it boring for him, how annoying. He probably knew about the mansion.'

  I thought for a while then I spoke-

  "Do you think I could use the dead man's legs?"

  After a second the cold air whispered to my ears, scary just as always-

  "My, my~, why don't you try"

  I took a breathe to lift off the horrifying presence.

  So he wants me to try? That's no good at all, but I had no other choice eitherway.

  Continuing to crawl over the ground was no easy task especially dew to the hard surface and the small stones.

  It was obviously going to be agonizing, but I kept going until I reached the woods.

  It was hard not to feel extreme fear there, especially with the Cerberus running loose through the woods I had to be fast.

  Those woods are really still as silent as ever I'm surprised that there is no birds or small animals! There isn't even bugs except for ants.

  As if the all disappeared at some point, anyhow I have to keep going.

  Crawling through the woods were way worse dew to sticks and some sharp stones.

  After some time I am finally there, I can see the dead body with his chest still open as well as his missing face.

  I approached the corpse carefully, as I reached the corpse I made sure that there will be no jump-scare.

  Then I took out my knife and put it on his legs, cutting through the flesh was rather messy almost like cutting a tomato.

  And cutting through the bones was a nightmare, the bone is simply too annoyingly solid.

  I had struggle with them for half an hour until I finally cut it.

  Then I took a deep breath and tried to attach them to the rest of my legs, but as I put them I felt sensation for the first time but my happiness was crushed when I suddenly fainted and started seeing visions.

  I opened my eyes in a faint and unknown place, when I looked at myself I realized... that I am in the point of view of the soldier, the vision wasn't clear and also blurry.

  I looked around and saw other soldiers, as I was checking myself one of the soldiers who seemed to be the captain, call out to me- "MOVE" he shouted.

  I followed with the others, we were about a unit of seven including myself.

  I asked one of the slow walking soldiers who was behind along side me- "Hey uh... can you remind me why we are here in this... you know, dangerous place"

  He looked at me with indifference, it was obvious that I was trying to be slick.

  But the soldier said nothing, as if he didn't hear me, thinking back... it's a vision isn't it?

  So it is already surprising enough that I am in control not just walking but also watching.

  Then about half an hour later a weird sound sounded in the close range, it didn't take long for the unknown attacker to kill the captain.

  In fact it was showing off, he killed him in a fraction of a second.

  As the beast stood in front of us on fours with the neck of the captain in his jaw...

  (End of V-1)