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"HELP! Someone please help me..."
I was out of breath to scream anymore and too weak to push further.
My throat was sandy and scorching... my face was masked with tears... my feet was sore and bruised... my body was cold and shivering, from both the coldness and fear, as if one touch could break me into shards of glass.
All i remembered was going to bed due to a piercing headache.
Half asleep a sudden fog masked my room choking me awake. When I woke the place was freezing cold which sent me in a fit of shivers.
My bed was gone and so was my room and I was now standing in the middle of nowhere bared feet and wet.
Shards of glass stuck everywhere on my skin and I could see blood oozing from them.
My feet was so bloody I wasn't able to make out just how much damage it sustained but I knew it was pretty bad.
I heard a chain dragging on the ground, then I saw the redness of someone's eyes protruding from the fog.
I somehow knew I had to run but not why and I could hear my heart thumping vigorously, more than I could feel it beat in my chest, as though it wanted to come out of there.
I felt hot salty liquid involuntarily running down my face and I knew it was tears.
There was no one in sight beyond the reach of the fog and there weren't any houses either but trees. Tall big ones that looked scary in the darkness.
The creatures of the night hooted, howled and chirped all around but I was unable to see any of them.
I didn't know how long I was running and I hadn't realize I was slowing down whilst he was gaining more ground on me by just walking slowly and dragging his chain.
That seemed outright impossible since I was outrunning him yet still he managed to stay on my tail but my thoughts weren't there at the moment.
Where exactly were my thoughts? My head was filled with so many things all at once that it was hard to pinpoint where my thoughts were focused the most.
I realized too late that I was outran so when I heard him wrapping his thick metal chain around his arm.
"He does when he has caught you," voices whispered in my head.
I felt it wrap around me and he tugged pulling me violently towards him.
I fell at his feet and looked up at his face where only a pair of red eyes can be seen and nothing was there where his nose, mouth and ears should be.
I called him the 'Face-less man' but he had a name because he kept saying, "What is my name?" as he wrapped his chain around his hand which only made the end around my body get tighter.
" I... I... don't know. I d...d...on't know your n... n... ame."
He pounced upon me, adding more pain to my already inflamed body, and started choking me as he banged my head vigorously into the soil.
"WHAT IS MY NAAAME?"
"SAY IT! SAY IT! SAAAY IT!"
I felt the tremors of his voice and my skin felt as though it was being peeled off of me.
It was terrifying even to the creatures of the night for they grew louder and fussy. I tried to think of something other than the pain my body was in or this psychotic man that was torturing me or of the animals who were defenceless against him.
He stopped choking me and was now punching at my face as he grew angrier at me.
Maybe he realized I no longer heard his voice and that my mind was far away from this place.
He held my face to his and squeezed at my jaw maybe even breaking the bone and I tasted blood within my mouth.
Maybe I had even lost a few tooth but who could tell since my mouth was engulfed in so much pain.
One could not tell if they were toothless or just missing a few tooth or none of the above.
I endured it all because my answer was still the same.
I knew not his name nor who he was but he knew mine and each attempt of a reply to what I taught his name may be was like tossing gasoline adding more flames to his already lit fire.
Why should I continue to answer this ignorant and inpatient guy who cared not about my well being and more about his name?
What is his dumb name worth that my pathetic life isn't.
My life is pathetic and maybe he should kill me and get it over with. I don't care anymore I only wanted to sleep, to close my eyes and maybe sleep forever.
I would forgive him since he's only doing me a favour by doing exactly what I couldn't do: which was end my worthless life.
I don't care if he showed no sympathy or is annoying me by asking about some f**king dumb name.
I'm not his mother, how am I supposed to know his name and then for a second I felt sorry for him thinking about his parents and how they would feel having a son that looked so unappealing and had a voice he'd made even the earth tremor under his feet.
Maybe if he was a bit nicer the sympathy would have been more that a second but in general I'm not a sympathetic person.
His voice echoed in the darkness adding more intensity to it.
Each blow was harder and I was slowly loosing consciousness but he won't let me close my eyes. He slapped me to open them as he continued to scream at at me.
"I.. told... you... already I... don't... know... your... name!"
"Please let me go! I beg of you!"
"I don't know your name or even who you are but if you tell me I would?"
When i asked him to let me go i was actually referring to him letting me die.
If he let me live I have to face the cruelty of the world and if he keep me here I have to face the harshness of a deranged man putting me through hell just to tell him his name, which I clearly made known I didn't know.
"You doooo! Now say it! LET IT OUUUUUT!"
How was I supposed to know the name of someone whose face I have never seen, which was both a joke and a fact, and whose voice was so cold and terrifying it drove a deeper meaning to fear into you.
There was something like a magnetic field around him which pulled at something deep within me, like my organs wanting to come out of my body through my pores, but it was only a feeling... A very uncomfortable and miserable feeling which no one should ever have to encounter and yet still it had to be me in this position and I was in excruciating pain.
"Mike?"
"Tttry againnn"
He spoke calmer but in a slithering voice like a snake.
He got off of me and I was now able to sit up so I dragged myself to a tree and tested my body at its trunk for support.
I spat the blood within my mouth and I stared at his action of rapping the thick metal chain around his arm.
He was quite muscular and strong for one could tell that the chain he casually carried around looked very heavy yet still he wielded it as though it weighed as little as a feather.
Quite impressive he was but I shook all good thoughts of him out my head since I didn't want to develop Stockholm's syndrome towards my kidnapper and even my killer, if I don't make it out alive.
" Dave?"
"Jonathan?"
"Bob?"
"Frank?"
"Daisy?"
I said with a mocking laughter
Yes, I was laughing and finding humour in a situation like this.
Maybe I was going crazy, who knew?
But I just couldn't stop the loud laughter of my delusional self which was angering him and he lost all patience once more with me.
Not like I care anymore. Why should I give two sh*t about what happens?
Let me die please
"No, no, no, no, no, nooooo!"
He dropped the chain and was pacing like a little child deep in thoughts then he stopped and looked me dead In the eye as he slowly stooped to my level.
He stroked my face and cleared some lingering hair that fell on it and the bright glow within his eyes turned soft.
For about five minutes we were like that.
Him caressing my face and me staring into his abyss like eyes.
I felt at home in them and for the very first time, I felt loved and everything within me told me he was good and that I should trust him but how can you trust someone who clearly kidnapped you and tortured you throughout a strange creepy forest so I ruined the moment.
"The face-less man?", I Whispered much to myself as I turned away from him but he still heard.
He widened his brimstone eyes and snarked like a beast. I still am unsure how he spoke or made sound without a mouth and heard without an ear and I'm pretty sure he smelled too, hahahaha.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"YOU MUST REMEMBER MY NAME. YOU KNOW IT. NOW TELL ME MY NAAAAME!"
I wished I was dead because the pain was too much. He was now holding me up against the very same tree by my throat.
I had no idea as to why this man was punishing me for not knowing his name.
Why was it important to him that I tell him?
Why was his name important to me?
How did I get here and why am I here facing a million forms of pain and agony but not dead as yet?
Am I in hell, is this what hell is?
"Just tell me your name if it is that important. I beg of you, please."
"I don't know your name or who you are so let me die in peace "
My voice was so raspy and the pain in my throat made it harder to talk but worst of all, his hand blocking my airway was pulling the strength out of me.
He got angrier each time I spoke and so I stopped talking but he was still choking me. This time I was surely being nocked out and he didn't hit at me to open my eyes, he was now killing me.
I was useless to him now so obviously he was killing me.
The sounds of the creatures in the forest died, the coldness chilling my body to a crystal was no longer felt, the pain surrounding my body went next, the remainder of my blood started heating my body up as it boiled and then everything faded as I was consumed in total darkness.
"Remember who you are, Remember where you came from."
"Find yourself, Look deep and hard, Search for what you lost."
"Don't give up but give in to the true you, Remember everything, Don't block it out child... remember."
"Remember who I am and what I can do for you, remember my name and all will become clear."
"Then you will finally be able to let me in."
"A war is coming and you are unprepared for it. If you don't start now this world and yours will be lost to despair and may never remember who you are, what you can do or what exist beyond this world."
Those words rung in my head over and over again.
They echoed in the darkness and bounced as though they were hitting a wall and being pitched back and forth crazily.
All this was total nonsense like the shit from a fairy tale but my life wasn't a fairy tale.
I was now in total darkness but I was able to hear my voice or was it my thoughts.
Maybe I'm in the afterworld now....
Hahaha hahaha haaaaa...
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