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Chapter 5 - 'Plain'{5}

🕯️ Scene 1: A Plan in the Dark

Hyde and Monkey stand in a hollowed cavern, the air damp and humming like a living thing. Strange symbols glow faintly along the walls.

Monkey paces, hands shaking—not from fear, but from fury.

Monkey – Everyone's scattered. Dead. Lost.

(looks at Hyde)

We find them. All of them. We pull everyone back together… or we die trying.

Hyde nods, jaw tight.

Hyde – The Garden broke us apart.

So we tear through it.

The ground trembles.

Dust rains down.

💥 Scene 2: The Collapse

Without warning, the cavern walls implode inward.

Stone folds like paper.

Monkey shouts as the ground vanishes beneath them.

Monkey – HYDE!

They fall.

Not into darkness—

but into light.

🌳 Scene 3: The Vision of the ALL Tree

They land—weightless.

Suspended in nothing.

Before them rises something impossible.

The ALL Tree.

Infinite. Towering. Its branches stretch across existence itself, each limb chained to glowing orbs—realms rotating slowly like planets caught in orbit.

Heaven. Hell. The Obvious Realm. Purgatory. Simulation.

Chains rattle violently.

Sudden flashes assault their minds—

Monsters screaming as realms collapseAngels falling like meteorsGod vomiting creation into the voidThe Worshipped tearing worlds apartNkumkani standing alone, bloodied, unbroken

Monkey clutches his head, screaming.

Monkey – MAKE IT STOP!

A voice echoes—not loud, but absolute.

Ancient Voice – You seek reunion… but the roots demand sacrifice.

The chains SNAP.

🌊 Scene 4: Fallen from the Sky

Hyde and Monkey are hurled downward.

Sky.

Clouds ripping past.

Wind screaming in their ears.

They crash into the ocean, vanishing beneath crushing depths.

Monkey fights upward, lungs burning.

Hyde grabs him.

They break the surface, gasping, choking.

The sky above is wrong—stars visible in daylight.

Monkey – …We're not where we were.

Hyde stares at the horizon.

Hyde – No.

We're where we're needed.

Something massive moves beneath the waves.

They swim.

Fast.

🐘 Scene 5: The Endless Follower

Elsewhere.

Zane and D'Angelo trek through cracked plains, heat shimmering above the ground.

Footsteps thunder behind them.

Heavy. Rhythmic.

They turn.

An elephant stands there.

Massive.

Silent.

Eyes empty—unnaturally intelligent.

D'Angelo – …Tell me you see that.

Zane – It's been following us since dawn.

They start walking.

The elephant follows.

They run.

It runs.

They stop.

It stops.

Closer now.

Too close.

Its skin is etched with faint runes.

Zane – That's not an animal.

The elephant lifts its trunk and lets out a low, resonant sound that vibrates through their bones.

The ground cracks beneath its feet.

D'Angelo – Whatever it wants…

it's not leaving.

🌑 Scene 6: Echoes of the Garden

Back at sea, Hyde and Monkey cling to floating debris.

Monkey stares at the sky.

Monkey – We saw it.

The spine of everything.

Hyde exhales slowly.

Hyde – And it saw us back.

Beneath them, something ancient stirs.

Roots.

Not trees—

but chains stretching through water and stone.

The Garden Behind the Fence is no longer contained.

It is reaching.

🌌 Closing Narration

Narrator –

Two survivors fall through reality and glimpse the truth holding existence together.

A watcher in the form of a beast follows without rest.

The ALL Tree trembles.

The Garden spreads its roots.

Reunion is coming—

but not without cost.

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