In a heartbeat, it was over… the silent shadows started whispering while coming for me, and each step they took the colder it got, in a few minutes which felt like hours of pure horror and pain, they caught me, the whispers turned into horrific screams, my body turned into ice, my voice wouldn't come out and my body started to shiver. I froze and waited for my inevitable death while they were leading me to my despair, my darkness… The last thing I saw was an indescribable being…
The loud echoes awakened me and, in a tick of the clock i got suspicious of my surroundings, it was a space where i barely could see anything because of its pitch black colour surrounding me, it had a kind of watery floor, with a chained, rusty, old gate behind me, it was so big it astonished me, it was so mighty that i had trouble looking at it, where it had around 75 meters. I felt like "he" was calling me, it resonated with me… i felt a connection i had never felt before which attracted me, pulled me into it.
I stepped in front, waiting to unravel that awkward but at the same time warm feeling. Each step I took I felt more and more free, more loose, more unattached to the world and then… I reached it and a wave of unsettling feelings reached me.
-Should i really touch it? What if it's just a trap? What if it has something terrifying inside of it?- and right when I was about to stop myself and step back, something pushed my hand and my hand got stuck against the gate and the gate started to open… and I saw it, I saw the death waiting for me with a smile, an ephemeral smile as it also smiled to all the people i knew, and i remembered… I remembered everything that had happened, the face of defeat in my allies and my darkened chest with a hole in it. The demonic smile on that shadowed face… that devilish laugh of pure joy on seeing all those deaths in that lonely and bloody battlefield made him… excited for more, that's when I realized what we were fighting for, we were fighting for the survival of our world. My heart sank while realizing that I wasn't enough to save anyone, I couldn't even save my only friends, my companions, my family…
When I woke up to reality I was again in that dark space, with the gate slightly open, and; with a cold sweat I opened it and I was brought to a hopeless and terrific place, where I could only describe as "my darkest nightmare, the devil's terror…" , it showed a place which looked familiar, a place which seemed like home… but, darker, obscurer, a place followed by destruction, which made me kneel before it. It was a small house burning, in a dark, dark night, I felt familiar in a way but I couldn't remember anything, and when I least expected I heard a screaming of a mother begging for someone to save her baby. The baby was crying and the mom was desperate… I remembered what that "place" was, it was my home after everything happened, after that "flashback", it just kept going, as random images kept bubbling up; people I didn't know appeared, mostly dead or in the brink of death, most in a battlefield where the only things that were left were burning bodies, houses and people crying after their loved ones. As the flashbacks kept going I was faced with a familiar face, a face so familiar I couldn't forget, my brother on the top of a pile with hundreds of bodies fresh from a recent battle, his face was so desperate and powerless I felt my heart ache with such a force that it seemed like it was getting ripped apart by a gruesome monster,it seemed like there was a blunt knife slowly slicing through my head I started feeling a throbbing pain as I started gasping for air while breaking down sobbing uncontrollably, feeling like a worthless piece of trash for not protecting my little brother… but… was that really my brother? Who am I? WHAT IS THIS GATE? WHAT ARE ALL THESE SCENES THAT KEEP APPEARING? WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?- the man started panicking, started ventilenting as he kept asking questions that weren't going to be answered so quickly as he started to calm down he fell, unable to move his limbs, even his eyes wouldn't budge leaving him completely immobilized, helpless and terrified.