Chapter 1 –
Never-ending Nightmares
Someone wakes up in a dark room with two
doors. One has a glass design of a naked male with blue flowers surrounding him
while the other has a design of a naked female who is surrounded by red roses.
The unknown individual walks through the female door and is presented by
another set of two doors with one label yes and the other no.
“Do you know who you are?” a feminine
voice asks.
The individual walks through the “Yes”
door and a girl with markings on her body grabs the person and throws them into
a pit of hands that grab them and pull them in while sinking them into a deep
abyss.
A woman wakes up in her bed, sweaty
and afraid.
She shakes off her feelings of fear
and says, “Just another damn nightmare.”
She takes her medication then throws
away the empty bottle.
“And these shitty medications don’t
help.”
Her name is Rose, she’s twenty-five years
old, and isn’t really anything special. She works as an accountant at a bank
while living in an apartment in a city called Hillside City. She doesn’t talk
to her family and only has one friend a man by the name of Richard. Today is
another normal day for work so she gets dressed and walks to her job. Along the
way things get strange as the morning sky becomes cloudy and the city foggy.
The people who rush to work in cars, buses, and on foot see to vanish in the
fog leaving Rose to walk the streets alone and confused. She tries to ignore
what’s happening and keeps walking forward. Further into the fog, dark figures
are seen on the edge of the fog, but don’t physically appear. What can only be
described as a rusty machine is heard as Rose continues her way to work and as
she gets closer, the fog seems to consume her, but as she enters the bank,
everything goes back to normal. Rose checks outside to see if everything is normal
and she sees the busy people that she was supposed to be seeing and the other
people who walk the streets, but didn’t. She then immediately goes to her desk
and takes her medication again that she keeps in her desk in case of
emergencies.
Richard, a close friend of Rose, who
has brown eyes, hair, and wears black clothes, with a red tie, approaches her
and says, “Hey, how are you doing?”
“Just fine. You?”
“Really? Because I just saw you taking
your pills. Don’t you take them at home?”
“Yes, but a normal dose doesn’t help.”
“Well try not to overdose alright?”
“Alright.”
Suddenly, three armed robbers
disguised in clown masks come in, shoot the guards, and demand money. Everyone
including Rose and Richard get down as one of the robbers explain that they’re
robbing the bank to get revenge on the government.
One person gets up in protest and
says, “Then why involve us in it you pieces of shit?! You’re not only gonna
hurt them, but you’re going to hurt us as well!”
The person gets shot in the leg and
the crowd screams in fear.
The robber then says, “Now if anyone
else wants to end up being shot then you have permission to speak.”
‘These guys are such assholes’, Rose
thinks to herself, ‘Thankfully I actually have something to deal with them.’
She pulls out a high-powered magnum
that she carries around in case of emergencies from her desk and crawls under
her desk as she aims at the robbers’ legs and shoots them with one bullet that
knocks down all of them. Once they are down, the crowd pounces on them,
knocking their weapons away and beat them up. One of them activates an
explosion that blows up certain parts of the bank like some of the walls and
the ceiling. Everyone in the bank scatter as they leave the bank just as the
police arrive. They pull out the robbers of the collapsing building and arrest
them.
Rose watches her only source of income
be destroyed right in front of her and feels the anger and headaches she has
get worse.
“Well this is turning out to be a
great day isn’t it?” says Richard.
“If great means absolutely terrible,
then yes. Today is a great day.”
Rose starts to walk away and Richard
follows her.
“Oh come on. Something like this
always happens in this city.”
“But did it really have to happen to
our job? I mean really as if I didn’t have enough to worry about.”
“That’s how it is though. Some people
think only for themselves and end up ruining the lives of others.”
“…”
“Hey since I didn’t really get a
chance to get breakfast, do you want to eat with out with me?”
“Sure. I got nothing better to do.”
“Cool.”
The two go to a nearby dinner and sit
down and order what they want. While waiting for their dishes to arrive, Rose
doses off and wakes up in a dark area with the dinner table and chair she sits
at still there except there is a lighter and a flashlight.
‘Where the Hell am I?’ Rose thinks to
herself as she picks up the lighter and flashlight, ‘Is this another
nightmare?’
She wanders the abyss with the
flashlight on as rain falls from the empty sky. She follows dark marks on the
ground that seem to be arrows that lead her to a maze-like area made of
corroded concrete. Movement can be heard in the maze as Rose moves forward
along with the shadows of what look to be monsters can be seen moving away from
her as if they are stalking her. As Rose keeps moving through the maze, the
noise of movement grow louder and louder until it suddenly stops. Rose stops
walking as she looks around and when she turns around, she sees a horrible
looking monster that has the face of the robber’s masks and chains that go
through its body. It swings at her as soon as she looks at it and breaks the
flashlight that she is holding, which hurts her arm and causes her to run. She
runs away from the monster as it chases her. It moves considerably fast despite
the bullet wound in its leg, but Rose manages to get away with enough sharp
turns. Rose sits down on the floor and takes a quick rest while holding her
arm.
‘Ah! That thing really hit my arm
really hard’, she thinks to herself.
Rose searches for her magnum on
herself, but can’t manage to find it.
‘Damn it! I thought I still had it
with me. Did I lose it? Whatever I just have to worry about getting out of
here.’
She uses the lighter to light her way
as she makes her way through the maze. It doesn’t give as much light as the
flashlight, but it’s better than nothing. After making her way further into the
maze, she stumbles into the monster again. She jolts back a little, but quickly
notices that it hasn’t noticed her yet despite being so close to it. It moves
closer to her, but she tries to keep the same distance away from it as it moves
past and away from her.
‘So that’s how it is. I just gotta
keep a good distance away from them with the lighter, but I still can barely
see anything.’
After a little more wandering, she
finds a sees a light ahead and starts to run towards it and as she does, she
hears the sound of footsteps chasing her. She picks up her pace as the light
grows brighter and the footsteps grow louder. The bright light envelops her as
she continues to run, giving her the hope that she’s escaping. As Rose thinks
she’s at the exit, she looks behind her and sees the monster that is chasing
her. It isn’t the monster from before. It’s something different, something
indescribable. The monster reaches out for Rose and grabs her shoulder.
“Hey Rose.”
Rose wakes up in the dinner she was at
before with Richard.
“Breakfast is here,” says Richard.
“Oh…cool,” Rose says as she shakes off
what happened.
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