As I fell on top of my bed like a dying bird, my head was still full of worries. My heavy eyes closed, I could feel myself drifting towards a dream, a dream that wouldn't end. I woke to the sounds of birds, I tried to open my eyes expecting my room's ceilings to greet me, but as i got up i realised that i wasn't in my room.i was on the edge of a forest. As I got up and tried to console myself into believing this was all just a dream a voice of an elderly man bellowed near me. I looked at his small slender frame and the patches of white hair on his head. I couldn't bear not to laugh. His eyes filled with anger before dissolving into remorse he told me to get up and thank the gods that I was alive before guiding me towards a village of sorts near the woods. As we entered I felt myself in awe as everywhere I looked more things I believed to be fiction were brought to life right before my eyes, I saw it all.
Everything I dreamt of seeing, Wizards in long robes teaching the village kids magic, fantasy creatures just being simple barn animals and as I started to run around the village forgetting all my worries, too distracted by this fantasy which stood right in front. But suddenly as I reached the end of the village I saw the woods, the same place I was woken up in but for some reason I had a gut-retching feeling of pure fear come over me and as I felt every part of my body tighten up as if I was sick. I tried to scream but all that came out was a whisper and as I found the courage to run I was found.
My heart pounded, still full of fear but as i snapped out of that trance i was met by a guy my age, 17 at the oldest his eyes and face looked numb; his dirtied amour and bloodied sword reflected the suns rays and even before i could say hi he grabbed my collar and dragged me through the village towards a castle. As we entered I was thrown onto the floor of the castle and as I got up I saw that everyone from the village had gathered here because of me and as I saw them whisper about what I was, I knew I had to think of something fast.
So I calmed my resolve. I stood up in front of everyone and started to lie about everything. I told them that I was a hero here to save everyone from any and all beasts. i said that i was a powerful wizard who wouldn't allow any harm to come to any one and as i waited their hoping my lie would hold valid enough to ensure my life would be spared but as i waited for something to happen i suddenly saw everyone cheering at me and then in a blink of an eye i went from being nearly executed to being celbrating and as i stood in the middle of the castle being celebrated like a king ,everyone jumping on me asking question about my adventures everyone awestruck by me everyone treating me if i was truly a hero. as the sun fell down in this new world i was ready to fall asleep in the castles rooms my mind still fascinated by what i was surrounded me but as a guilt bubbled in me, i tried to shove it away because what would be the point, some part of still believed that this was all a dream, what could i do except fall asleep and find out. As my head hit the bed I felt the same sensation I did when this dream of mine started and as I drifted off to sleep, some part of me hoping this wasn't a dream and another part hoping it was and as I closed my eyes, I started to hear screams, screams which knew no end.
I jolted up out of my bed and ran outside towards the screams as if it was an instinct.I heard people start to cheer saying we are saved our hero has come, our hero has come, but as i stood their frozen i couldn't do anything i didn't know what to do but then as i came back to reality at the grim realisation that the cries for help had died i started to aimlessly walk around the village that had just called me its savior, now filled with streets of blood. As I came face to face with the monster who did it, the creatures known as the witch's pets, I just fell to my knees and screamed for my death, a death that never came.
as i stood there in a pool of blood surrounded by those who believed i could protect them my hands hit the floor and started to pulse with light and as i see this i start to laugh as this isn't just fiction they all dead now and its all my fault, but as those words leave my mouth i start to hear voices i start to hear bones cracking into place and i start to believe i somehow saved them i somehow became there hero but as i look up hoping to see all the villages smiling faces with all of there wounds healed, but as i look up i am horrified. as i start to stand all the villager start to draw towards me as if they don't have free will of there own and as i try to understand what i did one of the children in the village runs towards to hug me on the leg and as i saw into there eyes which have become an unnatural black i realise what i have done.