Novels2Search
I live in the dark world
chapter 1 'nightmare'

chapter 1 'nightmare'

Lieng kai was born as the third son of the leader of the Lieng family, was the first child of the second wife even in modern times the Lieng family had the custom of head of the family had more than one wife, that was for the  next leader of the family Lieng decide according merit and not by bloodline, this custom was maintained to keep the family prospers.

The Lieng family was one of the few families in the world who could trace their bloodlines of their ancestors to over 1000 years in time, even royalty not could boast of such achievement, as an family incredibly old the Lieng had large territories and a large fortune, over time the family lieng suffered good times and bad times, fortunes winning and losing others. The last great fortune made great grandfather of kai during the white gold war , that left enough assets to live like kings for 100 years,the leng family regained its former glory and all the possessions losted

Kai was not a normal child, after learning to speak mimicked the maids and others people  resulting that at 5 years could speak two languages fluently,was good in math and had memory photographic just seeing an image for a second I could record in your mind for lifetime. Kai's mother made an IQ test and he obtained 180 points,  at 7 years kai was simply a genius child prodigy in the leng family was very clear who It would be the next head of the family.

Kai learning incredibly fast but still behaved like a boy was curious and active, kai father was very proud of his son and treated him like a treasure.

But everything changed when kai turned 10 that night began the nightmares kai woke up screaming and cries of fear and terror were heard throughout the mansion,

but not was once time the nightmares come every night in the moment kai closed eyes began nightmares, dreams were terrible horrible monstrosities,people fantasy and strange symbols that no sense.

Kai's mother took him to doctors, psychologists and any specialist who find, tested drugs and therapies but it was a failure in fact that it only got worse, eventually nightmares became more intense, for kai were almost real and then began the hallucinating.

Images, visions or sounds that appear while awake for kai life became a nightmare, no matter how smart it was was still a child and life played a trick him.

Then the father kai confessed a secret to his wife in the leng family every X generations appeared a 'sheep black' was someone who looked outstanding in his youth but eventually lost his head, like kai begin with dreams, nightmares , hallucinations, mood swings, bodily pain and total madness in the end.

It was the curse of the Lieng family, after failing all attempts at treatment or cure, kai became the 'pariah' of the family and left to their fate. He did not take long to understand that it was 'abandoned' by the family, to keep the face and reputation was sent to a small house with some servants did not lack money or servants, but that not did good now when he was tormented constantly by nightmares and hallucinations .

Despite being young kai understood that he was losing his mind also of the mental problems it added  terrible attacks of muscle pain, kai writhed of pain was as if the body was stung by thousand snakes no soothing could pain relief.

When he was the verge of collapse the help came from an unexpected source, the grandfather of kai came to visit, I talk to kai as if he were an adult and explain the curse of the family that was something that suffered some people actually his older brother also  suffered and eventually committed suicide, most of those suffering the curse committed suicide or lose their heads, before leaving he offered kai an amulet, he explained was an heirloom but his brother told him that would give a "Moment of peace 'to the next person who suffered the curse.

It was an old ring made of wood with symbols blurred,  willing to accept their fate kai fell into a deep depression,nightmares, pain and hallucinations became more and more

intense no matter how screaming for help nobody came to helped, the servants were clear the young teacher suffered 'episodes' of madness kai took the amulet as last hope ... and worked.

When put the ring her mind calmed and went blank, that day he slept deeply for three hours, like clockwork after 3 hours the ring loses effect and the nightmares return . But only that brief moment of clarity was a ray of light in the darkness kai was willing to try anything

Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.

if science not working was willing to other unconventional treatments and also if the family had an amulet that worked against the curse maybe could have more tracks.

Kai sank into a comprehensive research family records, history, events and above all with people who had their same state.

He found lot information from them even some treatments that worked for a short period of time, kai did not lose hope and practical any method available; meditation,breath control, tai chi, chakra, yoga.

the Some especially worked meditation that soothed his mind, found records, diaries, paintings, drawings and sculptures of other people with the 'curse', after much research he realized that everyone was similary, all share forms or symbols...how was possible it?

Than 200 years apart seen exactly the same.

Kira sank in the investigation,at 13 the pain bodily increased lot and began practicing various martial arts that worked very well, learned to distinguish hallucinations from reality basically used the method of 'shadow' if something had shade then it was real. After proposing several crazy theories, all the  dreams, nightmare and hallucinations were like 'chunks' of several films mixed and jumbled.

Kai made a diary 'dream journal' and hundreds of drawings of scenes of dreams trying order the movie ... at 14 kira could find the source of the leng family, the oldest home  family was an abandoned property in some mountains near the city J. without hesitation he moved to the mountains, at this point long ago that the family forgot andthe ignored completely.

After 3 years of research and drawings he could complete the 'film' were 3 different stories and strange symbols was a combination of several ancient languages.

***********************************************************************

The first was about the universe was composed of different levels and planes, something about the limits and barriers of the planes ... it was not very clear.

***********************************************************************

The second was on humans; its history, evolution and energy that existed in them.

***********************************************************************

The third was the most intense end of all, the conjunction of all their nightmares; It Was the story of a person, how he grew, matured into a man, formed a family an ordinary man but very happy and suddenly all change ... the sky was divided into 2 and terrible creatures descended on the earth ... war.

A war like no other, a war between worlds. The unnamed man saw how his family was murdered, devoured and taken prisoner, destroyed his body, devoured his flesh and consumed his soul.

The man went mad with anger and pain, he was powerless to save his family he could only see how they were all killed, in a blinking the world sink in the dark, the sky was stained with blood, the sun changed a black color And the world sank into darkness.

For some reason the nameless man survived, survived that day, and every day to come, I wander the earth watching the destruction, death and pain brought by the invaders. They were creatures with tremendous power; The swords were useless, the arrows did not pierce his skin, the fire and the rocks did no harm, they were strong ... very strong. But the worst is that they were cruel they enjoyed hurting others, making them suffer, planting the seed of hatred, they were carriers of calamity and destruction.

The man without name walk  for the world for more than 100 years, time did not affect him, he not have hungry, he not have thirsty, he not have sleep, he was not tired ... he could not die.

Surrounded by darkness understood what his role was in the world, he was 'the witness' someone who could do nothing but 'see' how the world perished ... lost the sense of time, name, memory, hatred, Love, body, he lost everything until he became a ghost that contained the memorial of time.

He did not know how much time he did not know where he was alone he traveled aimlessly, until one day he found a child, for some reason the child was different the child was special ... the child was like him.

The nameless man woke up after a long dream and had only one goal ... he wanted to die. Approached the child trying to speak, but the man without name had no voice or body yet the child hear your voice and ate him.

The child receives all the memories and information of the faceless man, received power and became the first 'awake', understood that humans were more powerful than they thought, he understood the secrets of energy  and weaknesses of monsters.

The child grew up and became a man formed an army of 'awake' and took revenge of the invaders; Murdered, massacred, liberated all their fury, humans are terrible creatures when they are together with the same goal.

The first 'awake' was not limited to his own power, take the power of other creatures of the abyss and found the way to separate both worlds.

With time the first generation of awakened perished but the  successive generations achieved the victory closing the crack and separating the worlds.