Slowly, falling. Falling to the deepest depths of whatever exists beneath Earth. What Jake saw might just have been the devil himself. The creature that stood before him spoke no words, it only stared. Stared right into Jake's eyes so intensely, that it felt like the creature was piercing his very soul.
Jake clambered back onto his feet and looked back at the dark figure. His breath was cold and shaky, and he trembled as he tried to retreat backwards. Jake shouted at the creature, "D-don't come any closer, I'm warning you!" ...No response. The creature started moving closer and closer towards Jake, so he shouted again. "I-I'm being serious, don't come closer, or i'll have to-" " You'll have to what?"
The creature spoke. His voice was deep and harsh, he sounded almost exactly how Jake expected him to.
"Humans. They're all the same. Scared of everything they don't understand, it's pathetic. They say you can trust
them, but it's all lies, next thing you know, they've started another pointless war."
The creature continued to walk towards Jake, although slightly faster now. "Well, what do I have to do with any of that? I don't even know who you are!" Jake started backing away slower now. "Me? I am a proud warrior of a once proud race." "Once proud?" Jake asked. "What happened in my past is of no value to a dead man." The creature conjured a blade out of seemingly thin air. Jake was scared before, but now? He was terrified.
"No, this can't be happening, it can't end like this." Jake thought. "Oh, but it can." The creature said. "What the- are you reading my thoughts or something?" Jake questioned. "Anything goes in the mindscape." At this point, the creature was charging towards Jake at full speed, swinging his blade around. However, Jake didn't seem to notice, as by the time he realised what was going on, his head had almost been cut clean off of his neck.
Almost. Jake opened his eyes to see that the creature was on the ground, one of his Vantablack horns severed from his head. "I knew it." The creature said. "I KNEW IT." Before Jake could re-analyse his surroundings, the creature was in the air above Jake, ready to plunge his blade into Jake's chest. Jake reacted quickly, and dashed away from danger. He only now just realised what the creature had said. "The mindscape?" He thought. "Maybe he just means what's happening inside my head.
"It's more complex than that actually." The creature drew his blade once more, this time holding it in front of him. "But like i said before, this information is useless to someone who's about to be a lifeless body in his room." "My room?" Jake thought. "Whoah!" The creature was swinging his sword at Jake rapidly, Jake was impressed at how the creature was able to utilise such a large, heavy-looking weapon. That feeling was still overshadowed by the feeling of extreme terror.
It took a while for Jake to remember, but then, suddenly, it hit him. Literally and figuratively. He was in a room, his room. But at the same time that he remembered where he really was, the creature's blade had impaled him.
In that one moment, Jake felt relieved, relieved at the thought that he wasn't actually dying, or in this dark, freezing place. But then he was horrified, as he then realised the creature's blade really did go through him, because the pain was real, and it was unbearable.
The creature retrieved his blade, and said one more thing: "The end is arriving, and it will arrive sooner than you think." "Why are you..." Jake could barely get a single sentence out. "Save it, boy. Now, give me what I'm here for. Give. Me. The stone." Jake had no clue what he meant. "The s-stone? Ughh. What stone?" "Don't play dumb with me kid. The ----- sto-....of course he did." "What?" Jake asked. He was even more perplexed now.
"It seems you don't have it, thanks to him. And it also seems that your -------- haven't.....drat." "W-what? Thanks to wh-whOAAAH!" Jake screamed as the creature nearly threw him off the cliff they stood on. "Since you don't have the stone, I have no choice but to kill you now. It's too bad... actually, not at all. So, goodbye." The creature let go of Jake's t-shirt, dropping him into the deep abyss.
The last thing Jake heard as he fell was the sound of the creature's blade scraping against the rocky cliff, then the creature looked back at him, slowly, falling. But this time, he couldn't get back up.
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