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Didn’t feel like waking up today; I don't know why I made that decision, I just wasn’t in the mood. I had done the same mundane task for over a period of time. I decided today to just relax and go out and do some shopping. Needed to go off and not be stressed for a change. I’m surprised I don’t go on as many walks as I used to. It's one of the few things that actually makes me whole in myself. I guess talking to people and drawing keeps my mind in paradise. I do like the leisure take of shopping as well, but I often find myself bored since it's a very linear task to do. *Sigh*, if only I didn't feel like repeating myself all the damn time. I just can’t seem to find anything interesting to talk about. I mostly do it when there is some danger going on. I guess it's the more tense part that allows me to express myself even further than regular tasks that everyday people do. Something I've been meaning to try out is the sandwiches there. Heard from a few locals that this isn’t like any other sandwich they’ve had. It looks basic,but the taste is something that won’t leave your tastebuds the moment it hits your tongue. Personally, not a huge fan of sandwiches, though it is something I occasionally get. I could probably snag one for Melody if she wants. Just to do something nice I suppose. Something I haven’t brought up is that this one of two only shops open since there have been creatures spotted in other areas, leading to several deaths and the closure of shops with that experience. The one I go to is packed, but not nearly as large as the other one which is much bigger and larger in scale. Just giving a little more context to something I mentioned earlier. As I was approaching the store I stopped when I heard a rhythmic tone that was slowly approaching me. I turned to look at it, it reassembled something of a marionette. It was pale and its figure was humanoid, with legs and arms but no facial features whatsoever. The structure and face were grayish. It looked wobbly like a drunk person you would see in the middle of the night. For some reason I felt like I wanted to approach it; I had felt like I was in trance from the melody. I hadn’t even noticed the strings attached to each limb, the marionette had persuaded me to come closer. I was a foot away from the thing; as soon as I stepped right in front of it, a big shadow appeared and at that moment I snapped out my trance. A large black widow appeared above the marionette who was puppeteering the strings. It proceeded to try to jump on top of me. It landed and tried to seek its teeth into my vein while I was trying to release the thing off me. I attempted to grab my pocket knife in the left pocket;I took it out and stabbed one of its legs. The creature retaliated; I was free from the struggle. I wasn’t safe for long as I stopped to catch my breath near a stoplight, which was stupid of me to do. Cause when I did, a lampshade had pounced on me within an instance of no warning or prior. Though thankfully, I didn’t struggle that much like I did with the widow. The mass of dirt wasn’t completely on top of me. Making it easy for me to kick the damn thing off. The creature didn't seem to have enough time to catch up to me after I kicked it, so I just decided to run as fast as I could regardless of how much I was out of breath. The store was only a block away, I turned around and luckily, nothing was chasing me and didn’t put me or anyone else in danger. I was thinking of warning everyone else, but it seemed like they didn’t follow me and I would only cause more chaos to everyone; I decided not to impose panic on everyone. I quickly got the supplies I needed and left. Felt like I was being chased everywhere I travel, even before all this, I'd haven’t had this many encounters. The headmaster in charge of this mess must be putting me through more challenges, which would explain why this is mainly happening to me and not specifically anyone else. Although maybe this could have caused other attacks to happen to other civilians also. I’m not too sure of what to think of the situation, I guess only time can tell. For now, all I can think of is planning out what routesI want to take at this time. Guess it would be nice to gather as many supplies as I can, some food, and water to keep up my survival obviously. I gathered as many things inside the store that could accompany me for now at least. To be honest I’m pretty petrified about even doing anything with my plan; I keep thinking that if I go through with this plan, that I will inevitably have the fate to die a slow painful death, that not even my mind could conjure of what it could depict. I can’t understand how people around me can be so calm and collective when the whole world is in shambles. I guess people have learned to cope well during these hellish times, but I know that people don’t want to cause panic and probably have bad or even worse situations than mine. Hmmm… I’m not so sure what to actually do right now, maybe go back to the junkyard, make myself dinner or perhaps just get a good night's sleep. I just need something to keep all this anxiety off my mind. Even if I went to the junkyard I would just tire myself out and not even find anything even remotely useful. I simply decided to have a nice salad and some crackers as a side. It doesn’t quite fill my appetite, but it is satisfying enough for me to go get some rest.
“You are so close to me, so..very..CLOSE! There won’t be much time left. The clock always ticks, never stops. Time never ages, and so do we. It feels like as the days pass nothing ever really changes..doesn’t it?’’
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I can't shake the feeling that something will go horribly wrong. A tiny voice rings in my ears, asking me what choice I should make. Stay here and live the rest of my life in fear of the world, or do I try to gather myself with triumphant victory, or die/live trying to protect the world. Either way, no choice sounds very enduring to do. One will lend me a path of sorrow and with the feeling that maybe everything will be ok,but only to realize that the light is slowly fading away and the darkness creeps in to consume what is left of me. The path that leads to salvation will ultimately harm me more and maybe others as well, if I don’t follow through. Each path is a challenge in its own way; I try to stray away from the path that leads me to eternal darkness. Although, I already feel as if it's already the case; darkness is only a feeling in the mind I tell myself,but the feeling creeps ever closer. I can’t explain it so clearly, almost like you would have to be in my shoes to understand what I am currently going through. I just feel like I need someone to talk to to get rid of all this stress that is developing in my mind. It's consuming all the happiness and optimism I once had which now leaves a shallow empty spot where nothing can get in, or get out. I wouldn’t know if Melody would understand or help me at all. I feel bad, as it just seems like self pity,but I can't deal with this on my own. So I decided to go to her house and try to talk to her. I knock on her door and she opens it without any hesitation.
One thing that’s very upsetting is her costume appears more raggedy and rundown, which makes me feel disheartened to see her state like this. I immediately forgot all about my talk with her and tried to focus more on her condition. I tried to take it slow when we both sat on her couch. ‘’So what did you come by to talk about today,’’ Melody says with her usual cheerful tone. ‘’Well I was gonna discuss about something a bit personal,but then I noticed your costume looks worn out and I was wondering how is your living conditions at the moment.’’ ‘’Oh,me? Well I’m fine, there are just costumes I wear when I don’t go out in public.’’ ‘’That’s a bit weird don’t you think? Wearing worn out clothes wouldn’t make sense to where when no one is around if you already have fresh ones i’m assuming.’’ ‘’Cmon it’s not a big deal.’’ ‘’Yes,but..’’ ‘’Trust me, it’s fine, now, what did you want to talk about again?’’ I sigh and say, ‘’I feel trapped in my head. My thoughts are scrambled here and there. I can’t control them anymore, they are consuming my inner mind and leaving darkness to fester in there like a bird’s nest.’’ ‘’Why do you think you feel that way?’’ ‘’It’s because of my mission that makes me frightened of what’s to come. Having the feeling of the weight of the world is driving me mad. Nothing is helping me think about the positives of this only that it can save everyone, but even then how do I know I can.’’ She tilts her head down and is not sure what else to respond with. ‘’Maybe you don’t have to do it alone.’’ ‘’Huh?’’ I am confused. ‘’We should go together.’’ ‘’Together? No, that would only put you in potentially harm’s way. I can’t risk such a thing, it could lead to you being injured or killed.’’ ‘’You know it would be impossible to do this alone; if there was an opportunity I knew you would take it. You can trust me on your route and I’ll do my best to help any way I can.’’ ‘’I still don’t know, I still have no clue what the hell I’m going up against. We’re talking about demons or even gods that are controlling at will. There is no chance I can stop it let alone us two. That’s why it’s better if I leave one less person out of harm's way.’’ ‘’I know it's worrying to you, I won’t spout some cliche shit like I know how you're feeling,but I know that we can do something if we work together. You have to give it a chance.’’ ‘’I suppose that might be the correct choice I have to make, even if I do it alone, it wouldn’t make as much of an impact if I didn’t do it with someone else. I suppose we can work together on fighting the tyranny that controls the world. We’ll need lot’s of planning before we start jumping into action. I’ve actually did some small bits of drawing for maps in my time,but i’m sure our plan will be efficient..hopefully..’’ ‘’I won’t deny your doubt, we have no experience with this type of stuff;we’re only teenagers after all.’’ ‘’Yea, to think some local teens could prospect the idea of saving the world.’’ I was pretty glad we were getting some talking done and that she had the courage to ask to come along, even if I had not thought of the idea too fondly. We were just continuing our conversation when she mentioned something interesting. ‘’Have you heard of imaginary friends?’’ Imaginary friends?’’ ‘’Yea, they were like friends you thought up when you were little when you used to draw them.’’ Some people had them in their possession, and others didn’t;they were quite popular,then for some reason everyone had stopped using them. Like all the imaginary friends started to disappear.’’ She was kinda talking crazy talk, I don’t recall any imaginary friends in my life, maybe she was just making things up to spin an off topic up. ‘’Yea, I really don’t know what they are. Don’t remember them either.’’ ‘’Oh well, surprised you never had one.’’ ‘’Nope, can’t recall, maybe in my mind,but that’s it. ‘’Yea,but,they weren’t in the mind, ya know. They were real.’’ ‘’Man, that must’ve been so cool, how was that even possible?’’ She shrugged and said ‘’No one really knows how,it just happened for some time. Anyways, let's not dwell on it for too long, we got more important matters at hand, and besides, I don't know much about it really,can barely remember myself.’’ ‘’Yea, we need to have a foolproof plan or if not we’ll meet a terrible fate. Only issue is our supplies, not to mention that I need the last piece for Skip at my house.’’ ‘’No luck on finding the last one?’’ ‘’Nope, still trying to find it, I feel like I'm really close though. To be completely honest, this piece is probably gonna be the biggest hurdle for us. The fact it could be literally anywhere is the major issue at hand; I got lucky in the junkyard,but there is no way a piece is there. It has to be in this area I believe,but checking around will take days or hell,even weeks.’’ ‘’What does the pieces look like?’’ ‘’Well they basically look like giant double A batteries except more metallic with a glowing green aura near the middle. Something like that doesn't seem that difficult to find,but believe me when I say it's very grueling and can be arduous on you when you try to search for days on end. Only way I’ve been able to find the batteries is the green glowing aura which can make it a dead giveaway for what it is.’’ ‘’Green glowing aura you say?
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