Startled awake by a jolt of pain he almost jumped out of his skin. His body was too weak to even move so he just trashed like a fish on land. Crazy laughter filled his ears.
“See. See. SEE! I told you, junior, that I am not crazy. I TOLD it will work. Hhahahah, that will show those fools who doubted my work. That will show them. This is only the beginning, soon there will be other hahahaha, many OTHERS. hahahahhahahah! I will conquer the realm.”
In front of him a mad man was screaming like possessed. Barely conscious he tried to think ‘What is going on? ‘How did I get here?’,but his thoughts were slipping away.
‘Just who am I?’
His eyelids were heavy, he couldn’t keep them open. They just kept closing as soon as he opened them. Before the darkness closed in half here, half there he muttered.
“Nirvana”
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When he woke up next time he was in considerably better health and he knew who he was. It is just that he didn’t know how he ended up in this body. The body he ‘wore’ wasn’t the same one he died in, and it wasn’t a new one.
‘How did he end up in it?’
The body he ‘wore’ didn’t contain any clues that he could spot, and he didn’t see any clothes anywhere.
‘The old man, maybe he knows something. Did he heal him? What did he succeed at?’
The problem was that the old man was crazy. Not a little crazy, but full blown crazy. He was carrving something while telling a cock-and-a-bull story.
“And then a hole in the ground opened and a creature of the void came out. Mouth wide open and teeth glistering in the sun. It ate the Gabudol, the City of the Light in one bite causing the deaths of millions. It was the start of the first void war. “
‘Void? Any place invaded by void is no more. None survives the void. Bat shit crazy old man.’’
“Me, myself, wasn’t much at all, only the strongest hero and the one who killed the fool thing at the end. Heheheheh.”
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“What a courageous hero you are, senior. How many swings did it take you? One?”
He glanced at me with a cocky grin and said
“Tsch, tsch” He mimed while shaking his head “You still think too little of me. One look and it was DEAD. I TELL YA, one look and it was dead.”
The guy was obviously mad, nothing he said has any credence. And yet, even the lies could hold clues for those who have nothing. There was nothing to lose by asking.
“So, do yo-”
“And after we killed the foul thing. We ATE IT. WHOLE. The taste was bliss from beyond hehe, I can’t wait for another invasion. It is going to be a real feast”
The only sane person here tried again.
“Khem, excuse me, do you-”
He was interrupted again.
“Now that I think about it, the invasion is about to begin soon. In some 10, 20, 50? 75 ish million years, no later I would reckon. A BLINK OF AN EYE for people like us, right BUDDY? HAHAHAHAH-”
More than slightly annoyed sane person gave it one more try
“We? Who are we exactly?”
His face changed, almost inhumanly so.
“You don’t remember senior? You don’t remember me?” He said with pity and sadness in his voice
Senior? What?’
“I apologize, but I truly don’t remember. I don’t remember anything in my life. Nothing. Only blank space.”
The bat shit crazy old man didn’t even care, he was still carving.
“It’s all alright JACKY, I, YOUR JUNIOR, will take care of everything. I swear upon MYdao, that I will find a cure for you and help you return your MEMORIES.”
‘Jacky. Is that the name the owner of this body carried?’
“It’s no biggie, Jax” He added swinging the knife around
The old man wasn’t listening. Not really. And Jacky? Jax? doubted the old man would even care if the world was ending with how crazy he was.
The fire was dying, so the old man added the carving he was working on as fuel. I stirred the pile to help it catch. ‘I am at his mercy either way. There is nothing I can do if he decieds to kill me. Time to push on-
The wood in the fire interrupted his thought. It was the carving. The old man’s carving. His heart skipped a beat as he was what it depicted. A monster, a monster eating his eyes.
He jumped up, to get ready, to fight. Only to fall down to his ass as he collided with the old man. The crazy guys wasn’t over the fire anymore, but right on top of him. Staring at him.
In his eyes.
His eyeballs.
“Arentcha, a little pretty thing. You thought I wouldn’t notice, huh? That I wouldn’t notice an intruder in my realm? Hheheheh.But, I did. I did notice. A now…“
‘Please be quick’
“Time to convert you”
He said with a kind grandfatherly smile before the darkness overtook everything.