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Shadows of the Forgotten

Strange World

Strange World

Oct 13, 2024


After the portal closed, the beast and Johnny landed on the ground together. The beat suddenly gave Johnny the death stare.

“I’m going to kill you!” yelled at the beast, crawling close to Johnny and about to grab him.


Johnny immediately gotten up and started to run deeper into the dark forest, and the beast began chasing after him.


Johnny knew he only had several seconds to think about what to do until it caught him and ended him for good. He looked anywhere to hide quickly, and he saw a ditch and lay down quietly. Johnny didn’t say a word; he even covered his mouth, so the creature won’t hear him breathing.

The beast stopped and was looking around for Johnny.


“Where are you, my little prey? Playing hide and seek, are we?”I have all eternity of time to find you.” while quietly looking for places where Johnny is hiding.


It was getting closer towards his hiding spot, and Johnny quietly grabbed a small rock and threw it in a random direction so it could make a noise.

The beast heard the sound and ran quickly toward it while Johnny ran toward the opposite direction.


As Johnny ran, he didn’t see the small edge beneath him, and he fell into the side of the bog lake. He made a loud splash, and the beast heard the splash and saw Johnny. Johnny tried to swim away quickly, but the beat grabbed him, dunked him into the water, and pulled him back up.


“You fool, I’m going to make you wish that I gave you a fast death.” It dunked Johnny into the water again and pulled him back up repeatedly.


The beast enjoyed watching Johnny gasping for air and struggling to get out of its grip. It was ready to finish Johnny off and dunked him for the last time, but then it heard banjo sounds and a woman singing in the other side of the lake, and it paused. It lifted Johnny up and listened for the singing again.


“Who is there? Show yourself!” It demeaned.


The sound and singing stopped. Not a sound was heard, it was quiet…. Too quiet.


The beast didn’t move and was looking and smelling around his surroundings.


Suddenly, a big alligator popped out of the water, but the beast’s neck. The beast let go of Johnny instantly, and the creature was dragged underwater.


Johnny had made no hesitation in getting out of there quickly. It was still so dark, and Johnny couldn’t see anything, but he didn’t care; he wasn’t planning to turn around and risk being killed by the creature or whatever dragged him underwater.

His leg got tangled by a root and he fell and hit his head. He was loosing consciousness and saw a green figure heading toward him before he fainted.


Later, Johnny woke up with temporary blurry vision and heard two people talking, but it was incoherent. He saw that he was tied up, and his head was wrapped in white fabric. When his vision had gotten clearer, he looked around his surroundings and saw two strange figures facing behind, rummaging his book bag.


“Hey, what are you doing?” Asked Johnny.


The figures stopped talking to each other and went silent.


“What year is this?” Asked the figure while reading Johnny’s school ID.


“ What? It’s 1990?” answered Johnny, confused by the strange answer. “Who are you? What do you want?”


The two figures didn’t answer Johnny right away, they slowly approached him and showed themselves.


One figure was a male that had old-fashioned clothing like he was from a Wild West movie, but his appearance was skeletal with flaming blue hair. The other figure was a female with green skin and hair. She looked reptilian.


Johnny was spooked by their appearance and couldn’t run since he was tired up.


Where am I? Am I in hell? Asked Johnny.


Their laughter started to explode.

“Yeah, you are in hell, but you are still alive.” Replied the green woman and winked at the blue-haired man.

They started to giggle again.


“Look, I don’t have anything; just please let me go,” said Johnny.


The reptile girl found his headphones with his little radio and was curious about what that was. She used the wired headphones as floss, and the skeleton was looking at Johnny's spare shirt with a weird logo on it.

“What is this strange wording?” Asked the skeleton.


“It’s a band name?” Johnny responded.


“Band? You mean Bandits?” Asked the skeleton confused.


“No. It’s a music group.” Replied Johnny.


“Bandits?  Playing music while robbing?” He replied and they started to giggle again.


Now Johnny was starting to get annoyed with those two adults with childish behavior but didn’t say anything else.



Then, the skeleton   approached Johnny, as he pulled up a knife.

Johnny thought it was the end for him, so he closed his eyes, but the skeleton just cut his rope and walked away, ignoring Johnny.

Johnny was confused


“Yeah, yeah, you might be confused or shocked, but I don't care. Let me get to the point. You are stuck in some spirit world, and there is no way out.

But great news! You have a chance to seek refuge and get help from some guardians who can help your situation by walking into that town that is half a mile away,” said the skeleton, pointing the way.


“What you mean ? What? I have so many other questions. Said Johnny.


“Ask them, not my problem. Tell them some pity story that you have gotten robbed, and you need help so they can help you faster.” Said the skeleton while throwing the backpack back to Johnny.


Johnny looked into his backpack and his copied pages were gone.  The only things that were left was his ID and shirt.


Johnny wanted to say something but kept his mouth closed.

He knew if they wanted to kill him, they would’ve done it a long time ago. They are probably some trickster deities, and he is not going to feel for the ghost tricks again. He ignored the skeleton's suggestions about going into the town and wasn't  planning to leave these pages as well. He will be using those spells to go back to the living world. 


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