Dark Being 2: “Let me introduce myself. I am Latorfix, Impure Lieutenant of Existence. You are Mally, a Dream Club Member... I was going to torture you for waking up into the Impure City, but I want to have some fun with you first... Do you notice the doors around you?
This area is called the Hallway of Dreams. Each door connects a person to a dream of another. Guess the right door. Only one door leads to freedom. The rest lead to your suffering... Choose wisely... See if you could escape this place if you can...” She laughed before disappearing from sight.
Mally: “What kind of game Latorfix wants me to play? Like it or not, I have to play her game if I wish to escape here.”
Mally glanced at each door while thinking about her decision. Rising up from the sofa, she walked towards door number 3. She took in a deep breath before she opened it.
On the other side of that door, she found herself on a bus. She was sitting as a passenger at the back row. Her body was buckled down with a seat belt. When she tried to open her seat belt, she couldn’t. Looking inside the bus, she realized that she was the only passenger there.
She glanced out the windows to find herself in a downtown city full of high-rise buildings. The street she was on had a clean look to it. Not one form of litter was on the ground. Everything from the street posts to the buildings themselves seemed new as if recently built. Strangely, there was no one around which was off for a downtown city.
The sounds of the bus engine roaring got to her attention. Afterwards, she felt the bus starting to move. It was taking her down a street to an unknown designation.
Her worries grew once the bus immediately bolted into high speed. It was at the same speed it would be if it was on the highway. Her body was forcefully planted on the back rest with her hands firmly grabbing on her seat.
The bus zoomed across the street. At first, she heard the rush of wind that came from the bus’s speed. In no time, she started to hear sounds of explosions, metal scratching metal and things being damaged.
When she looked out of the windows, she was able to comprehend the chaos. Damaged cars were being moved aside like rag dolls. Street light posts were being knocked over. Mail boxes to any landscaping street feature were smashed into pieces. Lots of honking from vehicles ended in the sounds of vehicle collisions. The street that was once attractive in looks was starting to become a war zone.
Mally: She expressed panic. “What is that bus driver doing? Is he insane?”
The speed of the bus continued to increase until the bus lost control. It began to steer off the street into a building. A loud collision of the bus smashing through the building soon followed. She heard the sounds of the bus scratching through metal and brick. It was moving through the building destroying itself in the process. Bus windows shattered to bring in debris. One-third of the bus roof began to peel back from roughly rubbing the building's ceiling.
Mally tried in her best efforts to move an inch of her body. Struggling to turn her head, she saw out of the windows a lot of things happening. First, she was in an office full of office equipment. After, she found herself moving inside the building walls. She saw plumbing and metal support columns. After that, she found herself in a restaurant.
The bus burst out of the restaurant to end up outside. It was there where the bus crossed over a street to end up crashing into another building.
Mally: “I need to stop this driver before we both suffer a fatality!!”
She desperately tried in vain to cut her seat belt. Eventually, she was able to. With her hands firmly grabbing each seat rest, she struggled to travel to the front of the bus. She was determined to meet up with the driver. The speed to which the bus was moving made every step she took difficult. Every time large debris flew into the bus, she had to sit down on a seat to avoid getting hit. The debris was in the form of building materials, vehicle parts and heads of street lights.
Once she made it to the driver, she expressed shock to find out that the driver was really a dummy.
Mally: “Seriously...? I have to control this bus!!”
Mally pushed the dummy out of the way then tried to operate the bus as a driver. What remains of the bus front window was protecting the driver side. It served as her source of protection against large debris that could hit her. The debris that flowed into the bus from the top ended up hitting the seats behind her. In no time, the seats gradually had debris and dirt everywhere.
She tried in her best efforts to use the steering wheel to control the bus. In every second, she slammed down on the breaks to stop the bus. Learning that the breaks didn’t work, she had to focus on controlling the steering wheel. Unexpectedly, the steering wheel broke off from the bus. A look of shock was on her face.
The bus broke outside of an herb store to end up at an open field that seemed like a park. A few trees were in isolated spots. Buildings could be seen from a distance.
The bus started to move up to the air 80 feet. Mally saw the city beneath her making her heart stop for a moment. When the bus started to descend, she covered herself to expect the worse. Instead of the bus exploding to the ground on impact, it dug into the ground. Mally the whole time was too afraid to look out. All she could hear was the ground being forcefully moved around. It sounded like a drill digging the ground.
After its time digging the ground, it burst through to land onto train tracks. The tires exploded immediately from the sharpness of the tracks. At that point, it was riding on rims. The friction from the rims on train tracks started to produce sparks.
Mally hesitantly looked out to see where she was. She figured out that she was in a subway tunnel.
A bright light soon caught her eye. Once she paid attention to what that light was, she discovered with concern that it was a subway train. Its horn got louder the closer the bus approached the train. Her eyes were filled with shock that she froze for a while. She soon snapped out of that trance to try to figure out what to do.
Mally: “Mally... Think of something!! Anything!!”
She placed her hands on her head while closing her eyes. The sounds from the train horn made it hard for her to mentally concentrate.
When she opened her eyes, she discovered the subway train along with the subway tunnel was gone. Even the bus she was in was gone. Replacing them was the view of mountains. Some mountains varied in sizes from a few feet to heights of Mount Everest. On some mountains, some forms of vegetation exist while on others, there was snow.
She looked at the mountain she was on that went 50 feet to the sky. The mountain contains a forest full of pine trees. A raging river to her right was carrying water upwards to the top. Her facial expression showed a sense of remembrance.
Mally: “This was one of the locations the Lady of the Light revealed to me...”
Mally saw a flash of light emerging to her sights. Once it receded, it revealed to be the Lady of the Light. Mally looked on with a smile as if relieved to see her.
Lady of Light: “Welcome back on the World of Transcendence Mally.”
Mally: “It is a pleasure to see you again. I am currently facing a major situation.”
Lady of Light: “I understand. An Impure Lieutenant has trapped you in the Hallway of Dreams. You are finding a way out of it.”
Mally: “That is correct…”
Lady of Light: “The solution to solve your situation would be discovered here. The Mountains of Intelligence would help you with what you need to free yourself from the Hallway of Dreams. I will return once you have been given what the mountains have to offer you.”
The Lady of the Light disappeared leaving Mally alone to reflect.
Mally: “If this place will help me to awaken my powers, then I have to trust what the mountains have to show me then.”
Mally looked around her environment some more before journeying upwards. At a given height, she stopped to observe the mountains glowing bright. She started to see the mountains changing their appearances. They soon appeared more like universes in the shape of mountains.
The universes then started to expand eventually becoming spheres. She covered herself as the universes consumed her. Once she looked around, she found out that was in floating in outer space. Soon, a rush of images came quickly to her from all sides. She saw the following images:
There were countless green spheres that looked like beads. They were moving around in yellow electricity.
An unlimited number of pink cubes that stayed in one place. They appeared to be vibrating blue waves of energy out of them.
Of the other images she saw, they appeared very alien that it was hard for her to describe. The number of images hitting her appeared to be limitless. As quickly as it happened, she snapped out of the universe. She was back on the mountain she left. Looking around, she discovered that the mountains appeared normal again.
When she looked up to the sky, she expressed shock. What she saw was the universe above her where the sky used to be. It was like she was on a world where the upper half of its atmosphere was non-existent.
When she looked carefully at the universe, she saw many colors of the rainbow moving in light speed. Unexpectedly, dark beams in the form of universes moved down to some mountains. When they connected, she started to see each mountain vibrate before changing.
She saw one mountain break into thousands of small rocks. The dark beam quickly got consumed into each rock. Afterwards, the rocks then reformed into objects similar to hoops but were in standing position. The hoops were suspended in the sky. Blue energy with bits of white sparkles started to appear inside of the hoops. The hoops moved to random areas on another mountain that wasn’t affected by the beams.
On that mountain, she saw white portals appearing. Out of them, she saw people who were angels. They started to walk through the hoops repeatedly. Instantly, their bodies started to glow white. She saw their bodies becoming more youthful and their auras more intense. The auras the villagers were expressing were almost to the point that she could shatter.
She looked at the second mountain that was affected by a dark beam. It had broken up into thousands of rocks. Once the rocks consumed the energies from the dark beams, they reformed into objects. The objects looked like magnify glass lens. Each lens moved off to another unaffected mountain where they orbited around it.
From the center of each lens, they fired thin beams of light to different areas on the mountain. Once the beams disappeared, she started to see words being shown in the lenses. The lenses started to function like computer screens. On the screens of the lenses, it showed information about the mountain through charts and pictures. The information was non-ending as if it could produce an infinite number of textbooks on it.
She learned that the lenses were meant to gather research material on the properties of an object. The information only applied to the dream existence, not the physical existence. Such like what was it made of, how it was created, etc.
She saw the third affected mountain splitting into thousands of rocks. After consuming the dark beam energy, they reformed into a form of technology that looked like flat grey saucer disks. Each had the width of a car. They flew to another unaffected mountain where they functioned like helicopters. The technological creations took raw materials from the mountain. They drag the resources into them.
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Soon, many things emerged from the top. There were cubic purple energies and green spherical energies. The amount of energies that made such resources was hard for her to understand. Whatever the case, they were perfect. The resources landed to the ground like apples.
She noticed on the mountain villagers emerging into view. They picked up the created energies that were on the ground. They started to chew and eat the purple cubes as if they were food. They drank on green spheres as if it was form of beverage. After their meal, she saw purple energy radiate from them with such great intensity. The look of it amazed her. Through what she was seeing, she remembered.
Mally: “I see... I understand my powers now. They seem very familiar…”
Mally started to notice a light emerging to her sights. It soon was revealed to be the Lady of the Light again. The lady appeared happy for Mally.
Lady of Light: “Well done Mally, you now have the powers of intelligence. You can create technology through your own intelligence. You have what you need to handle your trials in the Hallway of Dreams. Farewell and good luck.”
Suddenly, Mally woke up from the World of Transcendence. When she opened her eyes, the realization of her situation came into focus. Fear was on her face when she seen the train moving towards her. Reflecting on her experience, she went into action.
Mally: “I have to get off this bus.”
Mally left the driver’s seat to get to the back of the bus. There, she summoned universe-looking spheres in the form of tennis balls. She sends them off to each bus seat for them to instantly explode. The universe-looking spheres consumed the materials of the seats. Soon, they came together to form one sphere. A flash of purple light emerged. Once it receded, she saw a plastic jacket that was suspended in the air.
A sense of wonder was on her face for a while before she ran over to grab it. She placed it on then quickly pressed a button on the top right of her jacket. It started to produce a purple force field to serve as her protection.
As she had the look of confidence in her jacket, she pressed on another button on the button left of her jacket. Her jacket started to glow in purple energies. Two rockets emerged from the back of her jacket. They activated causing her to be moved forcefully out of the bus. She burst through the back door in the process and landed on a walkway.
Without looking back, she used her rockets influenced by her jacket to fly for her life. The bus collided with the subway train. A large explosion occurred followed by a fiery ball of energy. The fireball was getting closer to her.
To her sights, she saw an exit door sign to her right. She flew over there quickly to the door to push it.
On the other side, she realized that she was back in the Hallway of Dreams. Her suit disappeared in purple light leaving behind her normal clothing. Looking at the subway tunnel she came from, it was gradually getting red. Quickly, she ran up to close the door. She walked back to see flames emerging from the door openings. Fortunately for her, the door was strong enough to hold back the flames.
Mally: She expressed concern. “That’s her game for me. Every door sends me to another dream which is a trap. One of these doors has to be the correct way out of here. Which one is it? Better play this carefully.”
Mally walked down the hallway checking on each door while thinking of her next choice. Staring at door number 27, she went over to open the door. On the other side, she found herself in a place that resembled a college campus. She was located in the Computer Commons.
Many people consisting of mostly students were on their computers typing away. Some were printing pages for class-related reasons. Three IT support employees in a help desk area were helping people with their computers.
Mally: “Hmmm... Number 27 brought me to this type of dream... It looks similar to my college...”
Suddenly, the computers released from their screen gibberish words. The words came from countless documents. When the gibberish words touched people, the people instantly disappeared in white light. People weren’t the only target for the gibberish words. They also touched the walls, flooring and other areas of the college. Whatever the words touched ended up being vaporized into light. Seeing what the words were doing made her on edge.
Concerned, she shot the computers into pieces then reformed them into a cubic device. The device was as big as her whole body. It had a flashing blue light on the center of each side. She pressed a button on it to cause that cubic device to emit out an electrical shockwave. The shockwave affected the entire Computer Commons. When the gibberish words were hit by the shockwave, they appeared to be shortening out. Soon, they fell to the ground unresponsive.
At first, she began to smile but her smile was short-lived. She saw more gibberish words emerging out from other computers. Unlike the last group of gibberish words, those words weren’t affected by Mally’s technology's power.
Mally pressed another button on the cubic device to produce a holographic wall. It soon sealed the gibberish words inside of the Computer Commons. Once the gibberish words touched the wall, they exploded into dark smoke. Overtime, the gibberish words were gradually gaining immunity to the holographic wall. They started to eat through it.
With the realization that the gibberish words couldn’t be stopped had to run away from them. During her run down the hallways, she influenced some parts of the floor, ceiling and walls to form different technologies that were placed on the walls. They were in the form of cylinder-shaped poles with a variety of flashing lights.
She ran pass them then used her powers to cause her technologies to become active. They started to produce a thick energy wall of blue color. She hoped the walls could buy her some time.
When the gibberish words touched the wall barriers, the words distort in form before exploding. Unfortunately, most of them were able to eat through the wall barriers. Once they were free from the wall barriers, they began to pursue after her. They gradually picked up speed as they proceeded into tearing the college down. Pieces of ceiling fell to the floor. Walls broke free from their foundations. She had to watch her step since the college building was collapsing down all around her. Shock was on her face when she was witnessing the work the gibberish words were doing.
She shot the ceiling to form more technologies onto the ceiling. They were in the form of spinning discs. As they were spinning, green droplets of liquid poured out from them. It was like the spinning discs functioned like shower heads that sent liquid to the ground.
When the gibberish words were exposed by the liquid droplets, they stopped moving then started to circle around each other. They ended up attacking each other exploding in the process.
She glanced out to the other side to stop in fear. The same destructive gibberish words were moving to her from the opposite direction. They were destroying a location known as the Resignation Area. Unlike the gibberish words she faced before, the gibberish words she was seeing were twice as fast and destructive. The only escape she had was a stairwell to her right.
Mally: “I have to access a door to escape this dream... I hope this stairwell door is it.”
She ran to the stairwell exit. As she pushed open the doors, she didn’t find herself back to the Hallway of Dreams. Instead, she was in the stairwell. With disappointment on her face, she ran downstairs in hopes of accessing a door out of the dream.
As she was running down the stairs, the gibberish words started to destroy the stairwell. What was left was a blinding green light. With fear, she ran as fast as she could. She noticed many steps of the stairs were being summoned out of their foundations. They formed into spiky bombs. She had to dodge and skip each one. Like the gibberish words, the spiky bombs were pursuing her. Two spiky bombs touched each other to cause a series of explosions which shook the stairwell. Luckily, she was a floor level under where the explosions took place.
Not wanting to take any chances, she fired arrows at each bomb causing a purple glow around them. They started to morph into a different shape. Afterwards, they stopped pursuing after her. They instead moved upwards to act as vacuums to consume the gibberish words into themselves.
When she made it to the bottom, she tried to venture off out of the stairwell but she couldn’t. Looking at her left arm, she discovered that it was caught in the stair rail. Her arm was lodged in the bars.
She tried to pull her arm out but she couldn’t. The stair rail reformed itself around her body to restrain her in place. Looking up, she saw gibberish words and spiky bombs falling down to her. She summoned a shield that was in a shape of a dome. The force of her energy was enough to blast the distorted stair rail off of her.
In the hallway, she shot a purple beam into the stairwell. The stairwell started to liquefy until the whole thing collapsed down into a dark abyss. Falling spiky bombs and gibberish words went into the abyss. A look of relief was on her face. She then searched around for an exit.
Mally: “There has to be a way out of this place...”
She saw the college exit a few feet from where she was. With urgency, she ran over there to push open the doors. Back in the Hallway of Dreams, she emerged out of door number 27. Immediately, she closed the door then moved back to reflect.
Mally: “That was the incorrect door... Have to choose another that works...”
Mally carefully thought of the right door while walking deeper in the hallway. Door number 46 came to her attention. She was standing face to face with the door.
Mally: “Please be the right door...”
She hesitantly opened the door to find herself in a dark place. It was so dark that she could barely see anything.
Mally: “Not much of a dream when I can’t see anything...”
A yellow circular light appeared out of the blue. Afterwards, more yellow circular lights emerged around her. They surrounded her in every direction from the top to the bottom and in every side. Worry was on her face when she saw herself in a predicament.
They begin to fire lasers in unison. Quickly, she summoned her weapon to block the attacks. The lasers bounced off from her weapon to different areas. The lasers ended up bouncing off of invisible boundaries in the room. What was worrying to her was when they weren't disappearing.
As the lights kept shooting out lasers, eventually the lasers started to form a grid-looking structure. The circular lights stopped firing when the grid was fully formed. She found herself standing in one place seeing countless lines everywhere.
Curious, she summoned from her environment a purple box with small antennas on it. It was the size of an average television.
With her powers, she threw it to one part of the laser grid away from her. Once her object hits that part of the laser grid, the grid itself exploded in a domino effect. She quickly summoned her energy dome shield for protection. It had the appearance of the universe itself.
When the force of the explosion reached her, she was forcefully pushed back. Her shield started to bring out tiny spheres of the universe into the explosive energy. The color of the explosion gradually turned purple. Soon, it started to move away from her and started to condense to a given area. As it continued to compress and shrink, its state of matter changed. It was no longer energy but gradually was becoming a solid. At the end, it was now a solid red cube.
Mally: “Now I know what happens if I touch the grid...”
She released herself from her shield then walked over to the solid cube to observe it. It had yellow veins that moved randomly throughout the cube. The heat from it was enough to cook an egg.
Mally: “I managed to alter the explosion into a dense cube. I have to find a way to dispose of it. Just in case...”
She summoned a shield around the cube as a safety measure. As she could proceed in disposing the cube, the lights started to fire again. She immediately took her attention away from the cube to the lights. Like before, she was forced to dodge the lasers since her weapon had no effect on them.
Mally: “I have to prevent the lights from forming a grid.”
She fired a purple beam to one of the circular lights. The circular light stopped firing at first then it started to fire more rapidly. The same started to happen to the rest of the lights in the room. 10 lasers were being fired by each circular light in every second. Realizing she made a mistake, she had to once again cover herself up in a universe energy dome shield. She hoped that she could alter the explosion again.
The lasers bounced around the area to where she was. She was expecting that the lights would form a grid. Unexpectedly, the lasers bend and curved around her. They moved around her in a 360-degree circle. With every loop they made, they came closer to her. In about 20 loops later, they were just a few inches from touching her shield.
Worry was on her face as the lasers touched her shield. A rush of explosive energy pushed her around to random areas of the room. What increased her fear was when she saw her universe dome shield glowing red. Yellow electricity was randomly moving around her shield.
She charged her weapon until it vibrated. She glanced at her cracking shield with concern.
Mally: “I hope this works...”
She summoned outwards her shield to push back the explosive energy. Her shield started to alter the color of the explosive energy to blue. In that state, it made her surroundings glitch up. Soon, her environment shattered like glass revealing white space.
Once she opened her eyes, she found herself in a different location. All around her were dark rectangular prism-looking boxes. They were placed in a neat order in a circular room.
Mally: “Where I am?”
Mally shook her head to try to understand what had happened.
Mally: “As I suspected... By creating two different explosions, it would overwhelm the dream environment allowing me to be free... With the dreams I’ve visited, how are they connected with the Impure Plan...?”
She paid attention to a prism box for a moment before walking over to look in it. What she saw was a person sleeping in what appeared to be his bedroom. Mally walked over to more prism boxes to find people of different ages, races and backgrounds sleeping. They were sleeping in a bedroom, living room or any other place.
Mally: “They must be the people the Impure Order had claimed...”
A sound of footsteps turned her eyes to the left. Cautiously, she turned around to discover that it was Latorfix.
Latorfix: “Well done Mally for making it this far... You have found a way to free yourself from the Hallway of Dreams... You have grown strong just like Theodore...”
Mally: “I take it that you are responsible for this operation...”
Latorfix: “You could say that...”
Mally: “And given what I’ve witnessed in the Conversion Room, I feel that your operation is somehow connected...”
Latorfix: “In a way... Just learn that you and your friends are now a part of this place. Soon, your physical lives will be nothing but a memory. You will be forced to serve us just to be given a chance to return… If Theodore had decided to join us, he would be physically with you and your friends instead of being here…”
Mally: “I ensure you, with the assistance I have from my book, I will prevent the same fate for my friends and myself. We will save our friend from you. I may not have the opportunity to stop the Impure Order's negative actions upon the Earth, but at least I could end the operations you are committing to here.”
They went into fighting poses to wait the moment either of them would make the first move.