“1:Volatile Crescendo:1”
[this is a pilot chapter to see if people like it, if it recieves a good response based on views and comments i will post the rest of it in chapters (this being the first), Until then Enjoy.]
Day never arrives in this twisted place, night reigns forever. But here is where? certainly not the only place in fact….there is no end to this world, as there is no other side to infinity. But infinity is not alike, no two things the exact same (of course there are exceptions). I don’t know how i got here or why? maybe i’d have to find that out, I did however know that home was long gone and there was little hope of return. Growing ever colder in the pouring rain i pulled up my hood, tightened my trenchcoat and slowly walked down the steep path towards the gates of Midian. The rain combined with the omenous atmosphere sent a chill down my spine. I stood before the gates, sheltered by the vicious arch above my head, waiting for something to happen, someone to come, anything but all at once nothing. Yet nothing, was recieved with open arms, as its impossible to be afraid of nothing………or is it? The gates screamed and scraped, welcoming a stranger to a stranger world. Not a second after stepping through the gate it grew darker and the black clouds began to roll across the sky, but now i was overwhelmed with a sense of fear, the kind experienced in unescapeable nightmares. Something as simple as the bitter taste of the cold air seemed to bring a sense of longing for home. I could stand here no longer, i had to go in. What could only be described as a Cathedral stood in the shadow of its former glory in this negative of Eden. It rained harder but i could still see the two moons glowing in triumph of their victory over the sun. I reached the Cathedral, it was like Wonderland meets Golgotha. Children laughing, screaming, crying i could hear them inside, each voice like a knife in my side. Deciding to go in I opened the gnarled doors defaced by time and crept in. Light, Candle Light, Burning Torch light, Fire light in general. “RiNG a RouND oF RoSeS, a PoCKeT FuLL oF PoSieS, a TiSSue, a TiSSue We aLL FaLL DoWn.” All of the stained glass was boarded up, shattered pieces lay on the floor reflecting the light. I noticed i was standing in a giant pentagram carved into the black marble floor. The fluid in the carving glinted like blood, but i didn’t really want to know. There were books, ripped, shredded and torn apart strewn over the floor. At the end of the Cathedral Hall were three doors, each with writing above them.
1″The Asylum.”
2″Shadowlands.”
3″Th* C*t*d*l”
All of the vowles on the third door had been scored out. Doors two and three were bolted, chained and deadlocked shut. Door one had the same but was open. Cautiously i approached the first door, the childrens voices got louder with every step i took reaching a volatile crescendo raging through me. I kicked open the door and it all stopped like batteries running low until……..silence. I was in a long white hallway with lots of doors. Hearing a mumbling voice i walked over to the door it was coming from and gazed through the slit. Inside was a teenage boy, Strapped into a seat, the cap of his skull lying on a steel plate beside him. It was like a half finished labotomy, his wild-eyed stare and sinister grin sent a chill down my spine. He was using the cap of his skull as an ashtray, occasionally dropping his cigarette onto his vomit and blood covered clothes. I turned away to look through another door. Inside this one was a woman, standing in a corner looking through a dirty window. I noticed blood trickling down her hands, by the looks of it she was dead and had been for wuite some time. I put my guitar (“music to tame the beast”) and bag down and leaned on the cold door. “Is this place real?” i thought, but my thoughts were soon interupted by a sound. Knocking, i could hear it…but coming from where? Behind me? yes, Behind me?!?!?!…..”Help me, Help us”. I turned and lookded back into the cell, it was the woman.”What?” i whispered. “Are you one of us?” she screached. “No, im not like you.” i replied.”Oh really?” as she spoke the walls turned black like bleach fading clothes and the floor split and cracked letting a burning red light up into the room. I looked back up at her and was face to face with death himself…..”My Kingdom” he moaned, each word making my blood freeze. Everything started to be consumed by darkness, but not dark like night, Dark like the black in space:cold, unwelcoming and forboding. But as this monstrous dark conquered everything, i felt my vision blur, a loud ringing in my ears and i fell to the ground unconscious.