While Leroy things about every possibility and reference, something strange is happening in towns all around him. The town where his school is, the town where he is right now, The town where his friend lives. Almost everywhere around him, weird Portals or rift start appearing.

As every rift is invisible no sightings of it where found. And as ever Person or object touches it vanishes from existence. Be it memory or knowledge about that one thing. And their quantity keeps growing over time more and more.

The most Rifts, weirdly seem to form around the center of Leroy’s home and the Entrance of the Everlast Hospital. From which the Everlast Hospital is near his school and his friends’ home.

Back to Leroy who is currently on his way to his friend’s home. The only person which in this situation can help him. As he found out that the work of his still exist now only missing him in it, but his ideas which he created with someone still stand weirdly enough.

After finding nothing more to write down I try to confront myself with the reality of my situation. But after minutes nothing comes up, no goal or idea of what to do now?

I am aware of possibilities which could be my reality. But what now? Like knowing that part of my actions is controlled or changed by something. Which not only changes me but even questions if I’m still me or just a husk of who I once was.

But even the situation I’m in right now can’t stop me from getting excited. As I once said “If Monsters or supernatural exist doesn’t that mean that one can use them to their advantage”

Like what if someone gains superpower would he be alone or would someone else spawn with a superpower too. As there are always faults and downsides to everything. Even the strongest Monster has weaknesses.

So why not find it, and why not just do it with the one I always talked about that kind of things. Even if my friend can’t remember me, I still can have fun with him.

Motivating myself, I decide to visit my old Friend again which I always visit on the Weekends with my emergency bag.

Wait a moment didn’t we plan for such an occasion years ago? Ah yes, we planned out of fun, for such an occasion and created a password only known by us to keep contact if one loses the memory of one another.

Thinking back, he did create those codes before I meet him. “We rly were strange children.” I whispered to myself as many other moments of such codes come to mind.

After a Long day of weird bullshit and events I finally make my way to somewhere I know, and which shouldn’t have changed. I made my way to my friend´s home while going over Old McGuffins short cut.

Going through, the short cut I find myself before a familiar street. Left and right were some of the old neighbors we had after we moved to a new town. Some of them I knew dearly as they often told me about their past, but as of late or since we moved the contact with them kinda broke. But the new neighbors weren’t so dispirited as I thought. They would be mean to strangers a little but after a little warm up with them. Everything started to roll, and they started to engage the train called the Jennkins family.

Thinking about the happy memories I had I in this street, I start to slowly come back to myself. Man, I can’t stop thinking so much about every little detail.

As I walk the way a memory comes back to me. On how we used to call this path from the short cut to my friend’s house. We called it the secret code after it went like this “up street, up the stairs, down the allay, then down the stairs. left and then right then left again into an alley, afterwards right to the street over the sign saying B something street. Afterwards go to the A something street sign and look to the start of my journey.”

In short up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A and the Start button. Which is the secret Konami code one often referred in the legendary gamer community.

The start of my journey being the train station. Which is visible near my friend’s house. As I think about it “It´s such a bullshit I can’t just go straight through the private buildings, but no we don’t want children walking over our beautiful lawn, so we installed an alarm so even sneaking over it silently will call out an alarm. Giving those a good shot of the person trespassing. Which then calls the police right away” I stupid shitter and their high-tech burglar alarm used for a shitty lawn.

After some time waiting, having already rang the bell, I find myself before my friend looking at me as if I was a stranger. Still hurts but I think I can take it.

He almost closed the door immediately, but I put my foot between the doors. He looks at me weird for a few second and then waits for me to say something.

I remember when we talked about it. “we can’t just put our foot in the door we should do more to signal something weird otherwise a total stranger to the code could just barge in whenever he wants right” “Yeah but I just want to signal that we are friends and forgot about each other. Why can’t It just be simple.” “Ok as a compromise the foot in the door stays but we have to say something extra to rely the different scenarios, right?” “ok fine with me”

He looks at me annoyed as I fall into my thoughts again. Let me think how the code go again ah yes. “How are the wife and kids?” He looks at me as if I had eaten his dinner or something with big eyes and an open jaw.

He tries to hold his bearings, but you could slightly hear it in his voice as he shouts into the house to his mom that a friend came over and that they are discussing something for school up in his room.

Looking around my second home. Feelings come up I tried to suppress some tears flow down my check, but he doesn’t notice it walking me through his home up to his room.

The old house still has the pictures which are weirdly always missing one person. In the one we were on the beach having fun and so his mom decided to come over and take a picture of us. But here you can see only him looking excited at the camera but being weirdly not in the center.

Or the Items I gifted him a strangely missing too. Some were buddha statues which his mother loved others being statues of a silver dragon from jugi yo. All missing which instead have an abnormal emptiness which doesn’t fit in the style of everything.

But yeah, the creepy wallpaper still standing strong. From all the things I would have like to disappear, that one was one on the top of the list. As I had accidentally hinted it to his mother and thereby given her a love for life I which to this day I regret dearly.

The old stairs always creaking when you step on the second fifth and eight steps and finally, his room still having a “Gotta catch ém all” Frame of his favorite anime series.

Inside you could find things worthy of an Otaku and Mystery geeg combined sprinkled with childhood expectations. Weird but still satisfying to see.

We come before his tee desk reserved for only the finest trades. From Card trades to game cartridge trades.

He sits down and looks at me excitedly to sit down. I look down at the oversized bean bag and let my self fall as if it was my calling. Getting the position of a true wow player.

He begins “So you are a friend of mine I forgot right?” Finally, something interesting as if playing games alone all days would bring anything to the table.

I say “Yes but you know there is more to this pie. Let’s just say something supernatural.” I wink at him.

He squeals like a little piggie creepy but fair “Finally ok good which one. Like Cursed, All strong, Mysterious, God, Secret project, Government, disease, All mighty, secret civilization.” I stop him before he tells me the complete alphabet.

“yes, Cursed object, I think. Or maybe cursed Artifact.” As I think about the difference. Object means that I have it with me, Artifact means I have it with me but can’t show it or I had it but it vanished.

He looks at me excited waiting for me to say the last part with certainty “Ehm yes it’s a cursed Artifact” Saying the last part out loud. At the exact moment you could see his world shattering or better said his smile forming into a frown. As he starts to consider, as he knows the difference between these two.

“Hmmm… A cursed artifact you say, did you find out the curse or consequences already?” I think to myself what it could be, only for it to smash into my face. Changing my habits, controlling the situation from the outside, deleting every memory or existence of any person or object. And being able to teleport.

As I say those things out loud, he looks at me weirdly, I look at him back with a face telling him to say what he wants to say “Did you maybe consider that it did more than that? Like maybe changing your memory or altering them?”

Why should it alter my memory everything is fine with ….? Fuck I can’t bring myself to believe as if a hand is holding me down from further thinking about anything. I look at him scared telling him only with my face that I think it’s true.

We both look into each other’s eyes and decide to not talk about it as we both know we are not strong or clever enough to change something like that.

We instead focus on the anomalies it gave to not only me but everything around it, as we conclude that it is not listening but only their trough a thought blocker which it put on me. To not think about certain things, he marked like …. Or …. I can’t remember them or how I reacted, but he showed me a video of me going ballasted when he asked me ….

The first anomaly we found were the weird and straight up bad works it did. With all the disappearing and stuff. Like that you can find a license covering the apartment building we lived in and how since the day we moved into it everything got deleted. Like since that day everything is blank. Not blank in you get into it and delete everything no in turning the art style into white and letting a weird 5 pages wide white blank stay there.

Or I told him about his photo’s downstairs. So, we went down, and he started to consider it even more as his memory is weird too. Like Having a floating curry pot in his memory convinced him immediately.

We looked over everything and the more we did the more we found out. Like a weird Rift like think forming all around us deleting everything about everything that had contact with him. Like his neighbor’s house 2 streets down which got hit.

And the more we searched the more we found out. First thing we found out is that it was a crack in space like anomaly. We conclude that it had a crack like shape after we researched the space it needed and which size would fit it to perfectly cut only that part out.

Second thing we concluded was that it spawns more around the places. I woke up in like around my home and around the Everlast Hospital. We followed the weird left space all around town and monitored it online.

One thing, it spread fast and nobody is stopping it, second thing is that it is following me indirectly. And we noticed on how the places I were in were the ones more met with those rifts. And the more we found out the more scared my friend became he told me that I should walk away to the train station and try to go as far as I could go.

He shoot me out. But before that we talked about everything I could think of, the last thing we did together was preparing my emergency backpack and prepping it to its full potential. Checking if everything were on the newest state they could be.

Like the block an Otaku made about what he would prepare for an apocalypse and tips and tricks some linked from different Reddit Links. Even got an old Windows XP Framework, which I could use to rebuild a computer.

Or my survival kits, like the tactical shovel which I can use for every situation and lastly the provision, which my friend still has left for me to fill up with more interesting stuff which does age fast but can be taken with you before the apocalypse begins.

Standing outside my friend’s house I find myself before a broken world.

When I look up, I see a big rift through the sky as if someone had thrown a baseball at a window and it cracked. The cracked then spread over the complete window, just know it’s in the sky infinitely spreading. I probably saved my ass by going away from the zone from where it started.

To my left and right I see nobody panicking everybody doing what they did normally. One walking his dog and accidently walking into a rift and disappearing, nobody blinking or giving an eye at that scene.

I even see some Buildings missing as if a glitch ran around destroying everything and wiping the memory of it ever existing. Even now it’s still difficult to concentrate on the building without consciously ignoring it.

I grab my backpack and rummage through it to find my wallet to buy a train ticket to anywhere. Looking through it I find enough money which could hold me a month above water.

I take out my handy to watch some stuff that should calm me down a little. Like a new video on YouTube while sitting on bench waiting for the next train near my friend’s house. Only to notice something weird. A crack opened on my screen inside the crack was a different part of the same device. You could describe it like a lens through which you could see something else, which before was hidden.