Land of the Restless
Once upon a memory…
Land of the Restless
I don't remember anything before, this moment. All I remember is this feeling; I'm trapped in a moment and everything will end soon. I stand here before this mansion feeling as if this moment was my entire life. As I walk in, I think maybe I could have lived here. I was in the main hall. I didn't feel any temperature, but I felt a strange aura, it was dark and peaceful at the same time. The whole room was lit by moon light, then suddenly the doors slammed shut and I heard it lock.
I walked deeper into the mansion. Ghosts of the shadows haunt my every step. I entered a narrow hall way, lit by candle light. Paintings with faces clawed and torn seem to stare at me; as I started hearing whispers. They keep getting louder, then a gust of wind blew and all the candles went out. I stood there peering forward.
A spot light shined in front of me and black stick-like claw comes down in the center of the spot light. I felt paralyzed, like when you wake up in the middle of the night and you hear whispers, crying, screaming, and laughing. Then suddenly, I woke up, like I was ascending out of a pool, back to reality. The candles relit themselves as I went towards that spot to see what the claw had dropped. It was a journal entry…
00/00/00
Inside everyone is darkness that fills their cold hearts. Anger, rage, depression, sadness, and hatred are all one feeling that rests deep within them. So how can I be mad?! Everyone has a dark raving insanity within them…
I live here! This is my home! But still they are here. They almost control me. I hear their thoughts, and see what they see.
As soon as I was done reading, I saw something headed toward me. It was some what a man; tall, gaunt, and grey. His head was bald, round and his ears were pointed. His fingers were long with long sharp nails. He seemed to glide through the moon light as his nails slid across the wall and his lower half was covered by shadow. He glided right passed me ignoring me with his head down…and he was gone.
I kept walking down that hallway for hours. At the end of the hallway I saw a desk with another journal entry on it. It was weirder then the last.
00/00/00
Their hideous voices fill my head, and they pretend to ignore me. But sometimes they stare at me when there're alone. They would seem to be just normal people. Except for them. That grey freak that roams the house, and every once in a while that small cloaked thing appears and talks about some prophesy. Leave me alone!!! You’re not real!!!
Suddenly I heard more whispers. It was coming from the next room. I went in and seen that man again. I slowly walked up behind him slowly. I then realized it was just a statue. The inscription read "the Gate Keeper". Next to that was a painting.
I gazed at it in amazement. It was a painting of a war between the Grim Reaper and his stick like shadow army fighting an army of demons. The shadows were all shaped differently and they each had a different weapon. In the center was a young girl thrusting a katana through a demon's chest. The girl was somewhere between the ages of 13-15. Standing next to her was a small cloaked man. He looked like he was 3 feet tall, and was holding a staff with a crystal ball at the end.
While I was examining the painting I heard a voice behind me "The forgotten, an error without evidence, that will cost a man his entire existence, and a man who lost touch with reality. All of these are the beginning of a prophesy. A prophesy of two great wars. One will be fought here on earth, and one will be fought in a land between Heaven and Hell and behind reality, and could even explode onto earth. I have been waiting all eternity for this war, and now that you are here, I guess it's time to start searching for her"
I turned around; it was the small cloaked man from the painting.
"Search for who?" I asked. He pointed at the girl thrusting the katana through the demon's chest, "Her" he replied. “She is destined to find the link between the two wars and end them both.”
"Why am I here?" I asked. He replied “Sorry….You'll see" he disappeared, but in the spot he was standing, a katana, unsheathed lied there. I picked it up and walked to the next room.
It was a banquet hall all lit by candles, and the ceiling was covered by a pitch black shadow. I looked up, the Gate Keeper descended down from that shadow. The lower half of his body was covered by a black and purple flame, and he stared straight at me.
"Why am I here!!?" I yelled.
Gate Keeper: "This is the gate to the Land of the Restless, where unrested spirits go" he replied. "I'm dead?!!" I yelled shocked. He floated toward me and said "yes, but your not supposed to be. The season's cycle, night and day, everything we depend on to never go wrong, not even God himself is perfect. But, this is not something Death has understood. So last time something went wrong in the cycle of life and death, he blamed me and sent those disgusting creatures to turn me into this hideous form. I WOULN'T LET THAT HAPPEN AGAIN!!!!!! I'LL DISPOSE OF THE EDVIDENCE, YOUR ENTIRE EXCISTANCE!!!!! "
He flew up and threw a black flame at me, so I deflected it with the katana. He darted toward me with his claw out. I dodged him and tried to stab him in the back, but as soon as the sword touched him, it shattered into pieces. He thrusted his claw into my chest and said "I'll dispose of your entire existence!!!" he threw me down, and as I laid there slowly fading away I heard him say "I'll get my revenge on Death soon!"…
Days after this event, a man with schizophrenia was found in an abandoned mansion. He told his story to the police but they didn't believe him, assuming the gate keeper, the cloaked man, and the lost man, were all other personalities. They sent him to an insane asylum, and when they threw him in his cell, in his exact words he yelled "I'M NOT CRAZY!!! EVERYONE HAS A DARK INSANITY WITHIN THEM, AND I'M CURSED WITH THE ABILITY TO SEE WHAT I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO SEE! BEHIND REALITY! THE WAR IS COMING!!!"
Land of the Restless
I don't remember anything before, this moment. All I remember is this feeling; I'm trapped in a moment and everything will end soon. I stand here before this mansion feeling as if this moment was my entire life. As I walk in, I think maybe I could have lived here. I was in the main hall. I didn't feel any temperature, but I felt a strange aura, it was dark and peaceful at the same time. The whole room was lit by moon light, then suddenly the doors slammed shut and I heard it lock.
I walked deeper into the mansion. Ghosts of the shadows haunt my every step. I entered a narrow hall way, lit by candle light. Paintings with faces clawed and torn seem to stare at me; as I started hearing whispers. They keep getting louder, then a gust of wind blew and all the candles went out. I stood there peering forward.
A spot light shined in front of me and black stick-like claw comes down in the center of the spot light. I felt paralyzed, like when you wake up in the middle of the night and you hear whispers, crying, screaming, and laughing. Then suddenly, I woke up, like I was ascending out of a pool, back to reality. The candles relit themselves as I went towards that spot to see what the claw had dropped. It was a journal entry…
00/00/00
Inside everyone is darkness that fills their cold hearts. Anger, rage, depression, sadness, and hatred are all one feeling that rests deep within them. So how can I be mad?! Everyone has a dark raving insanity within them…
I live here! This is my home! But still they are here. They almost control me. I hear their thoughts, and see what they see.
As soon as I was done reading, I saw something headed toward me. It was some what a man; tall, gaunt, and grey. His head was bald, round and his ears were pointed. His fingers were long with long sharp nails. He seemed to glide through the moon light as his nails slid across the wall and his lower half was covered by shadow. He glided right passed me ignoring me with his head down…and he was gone.
I kept walking down that hallway for hours. At the end of the hallway I saw a desk with another journal entry on it. It was weirder then the last.
00/00/00
Their hideous voices fill my head, and they pretend to ignore me. But sometimes they stare at me when there're alone. They would seem to be just normal people. Except for them. That grey freak that roams the house, and every once in a while that small cloaked thing appears and talks about some prophesy. Leave me alone!!! You’re not real!!!
Suddenly I heard more whispers. It was coming from the next room. I went in and seen that man again. I slowly walked up behind him slowly. I then realized it was just a statue. The inscription read "the Gate Keeper". Next to that was a painting.
I gazed at it in amazement. It was a painting of a war between the Grim Reaper and his stick like shadow army fighting an army of demons. The shadows were all shaped differently and they each had a different weapon. In the center was a young girl thrusting a katana through a demon's chest. The girl was somewhere between the ages of 13-15. Standing next to her was a small cloaked man. He looked like he was 3 feet tall, and was holding a staff with a crystal ball at the end.
While I was examining the painting I heard a voice behind me "The forgotten, an error without evidence, that will cost a man his entire existence, and a man who lost touch with reality. All of these are the beginning of a prophesy. A prophesy of two great wars. One will be fought here on earth, and one will be fought in a land between Heaven and Hell and behind reality, and could even explode onto earth. I have been waiting all eternity for this war, and now that you are here, I guess it's time to start searching for her"
I turned around; it was the small cloaked man from the painting.
"Search for who?" I asked. He pointed at the girl thrusting the katana through the demon's chest, "Her" he replied. “She is destined to find the link between the two wars and end them both.”
"Why am I here?" I asked. He replied “Sorry….You'll see" he disappeared, but in the spot he was standing, a katana, unsheathed lied there. I picked it up and walked to the next room.
It was a banquet hall all lit by candles, and the ceiling was covered by a pitch black shadow. I looked up, the Gate Keeper descended down from that shadow. The lower half of his body was covered by a black and purple flame, and he stared straight at me.
"Why am I here!!?" I yelled.
Gate Keeper: "This is the gate to the Land of the Restless, where unrested spirits go" he replied. "I'm dead?!!" I yelled shocked. He floated toward me and said "yes, but your not supposed to be. The season's cycle, night and day, everything we depend on to never go wrong, not even God himself is perfect. But, this is not something Death has understood. So last time something went wrong in the cycle of life and death, he blamed me and sent those disgusting creatures to turn me into this hideous form. I WOULN'T LET THAT HAPPEN AGAIN!!!!!! I'LL DISPOSE OF THE EDVIDENCE, YOUR ENTIRE EXCISTANCE!!!!! "
He flew up and threw a black flame at me, so I deflected it with the katana. He darted toward me with his claw out. I dodged him and tried to stab him in the back, but as soon as the sword touched him, it shattered into pieces. He thrusted his claw into my chest and said "I'll dispose of your entire existence!!!" he threw me down, and as I laid there slowly fading away I heard him say "I'll get my revenge on Death soon!"…
Days after this event, a man with schizophrenia was found in an abandoned mansion. He told his story to the police but they didn't believe him, assuming the gate keeper, the cloaked man, and the lost man, were all other personalities. They sent him to an insane asylum, and when they threw him in his cell, in his exact words he yelled "I'M NOT CRAZY!!! EVERYONE HAS A DARK INSANITY WITHIN THEM, AND I'M CURSED WITH THE ABILITY TO SEE WHAT I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO SEE! BEHIND REALITY! THE WAR IS COMING!!!"