The two warriors had begun to the long and perilous journey to Greece. The great land of Greece was north of Tzaria, so the had to travel through many villages. While walking through a forest, they heard a young boy crying off in the distance. “Help me, please anyone I need your help.”
The two decided to find the young lad and give him some assistance. “Where are you,” Liliana asked?
“Please HELP, HELP ME.”
The two sliced there way through many thick bushes and shrubs to reach a small village. I knew this place, this is where I became what I am today. This place is called The Village of The Dead. I don’t believe they knew though, otherwise they would have started to run the other way. Most people don’t leave here alive. The damp and dank village was eerie. There were strange sounds coming from every direction. With strong gusts of bone-chilling winds whisking through sporadically.
“I don’t like it here Lily, this place doesn’t seem right.”
“Don’t be such a baby Sam, that yelling boy needs our help. We need to find him quickly so we can help him.” Both them started to look around for any type of life in this little dainty town.
“Hello, anybody here,” Sam asked. “Come over here Liliana, it looks like a cabin with a fire.”
As they approached the cabin, a dark shadowy figure swiftly moved behind the window. They had both noticed the shady figure, the girl had her two swords unsheathed and ready for an encounter. The girl now approaching the door, she then grabs the door and opens it cautiously. Her shaky hands start to knock the handle of the door. The door was now opened, a the warm air from a brewing fire comforted her shivery face.
I stayed in the shadows and gazed in through the fogged window. There was a man asleep, on a tattered bed. His hands were across his chest, like he enjoyed being asleep. I could tell he was in a deep sleep. The dried up drool on the side of his mouth looked like it had been there for days. I see a dark figure coming down the old creaky stairwell.
“Ah, I see you have noticed my friend, people call him The Dreaming, but I have learned to call him friend.
“Whats your name stranger, the girl asked tentatively.
“There is no reason for you to know my name my young friends, what are you doing here. Let me guess, the little boy must’ve have brought you here with his loud shouting. Oh he has brought me more vict-I mean more friends,” he says with a nefarious smile.
“Well, where is the boy? I heard a lot of shouting and screaming this way.”
“Ah, the boy is around, no need to worry friends.”
“Why do you keep calling us your friends sir,” Sam asked?
“Well, if he’s safe then we’ll be on our way. Lets go Sam!”
“Woah friends, not so fast. The Dreaming is waiting for us. He wants us to meet him at his house for dinner.”
“This guy is totally crazy Sam, lets get out of here now. We don’t have time for this, Greece is waiting for us!”
“My friends don’t go please, we have dinner plans.” The two began to leave the forbidden cabin until they heard the stranger mutter something, “I’m sorry, Abra-dazdle-Lahem! A dark portal appeared out of nowhere. He is waiting for you, the two of them were sucked into this vortex. The strange man walked in after them while muttering, “This is for my family, this is for my family.” Since I didn’t want to miss them I followed them in into it as well. We were all in the same town, and in the same house. This time the man wasn’t sleep. He was waiting for them at the table.
“Ah, I see you’ve made it,” the man said. “Welcome to my dreams, this is where I live. This is my reality, ever since one night I don’t remember, I have always found my thoughts so relaxing.”
“I have done what you asked, can me and my family leave,” the stranger asked?
“I am a man of my word, take them and go. Just walk out the back door, and you and your family will awake.”
“Wait, we aren’t staying here either Sam, lets get outta here as well!”
“Oh not so fast, he’s been my friend for over 50 years now, I need more friends. Oh, when I first found the stranger, he was only a little boy with his brothers and sisters. They were so adorable, I had to keep them around. A man gets lonely in his dreams,” he spoke with a smile.
This guy was eerie, something wasn’t right about him. He hasn’t stopped smiling since the two of them came to this imaginary world. His eager demeanor implies that he thinks this place is real.
“Come eat guys, I have prepared a tasty meal for you two. I bet you are starving. “We aren’t eating with you, we have to get back to the real world.”
The boy just stood there in silence and shock, he had nothing to say to the delusional man. I don’t blame him either, I wouldn’t talk if I were trapped as well.
“Let us go mister, or die,” Liliana threatened. She unsheathed her swords, and pointed them at the Dreamer. “You will let us go!”
“Oh foolish girl, how do you expect to kill me in my own world. I can’t die while in my dream, and you can’t kill me. Now sit down and enjoy your dinner, you guys are going to be here for quite some time. Until I get tired of you, you will stay in this godforsaken village with me.”
“Liliana just sit and eat, we will find a way out of here later,” the boy whispered. They sat down next to the Dreaming Man, and began to partake in the dinner. “Now, thats more like it, you know the fish is fresh. I just caught it this morning. You guys ought to come out and fish with me sometimes, since we’re going to be spending a lot more time together. I also have some fresh wool for your beds upstairs.”
This guy was really starting to get under my skin, he was surprisingly delusional. The two of them did nothing but follow the man’s strange requests. After they finished their dinner, he made them gather around the fire and made them sing the Song of Angels. That song was a very old and famous that was past down through many generations. After a the long song was finished, it was time for bed. “Okay guys, lets get up to bed. We have a big day tomorrow.” The man walked away to his private room. The two warriors had to sleep upstairs in an old tattered room. It looked like the room had to be over a 100 years old.
“Sam, we have to get out of here now. There has to be a way out of this guys deranged head.”
“I know, I think we have to help him though. He seemed a little disturbed and bothered by something. I know it has to do something with that screaming boy. He lead us here for a reason.”
He rose up from the wool covered bed spread, and started to pace back and forth with critical pondering. Then he heard something outside a nearby open window, it was a boy. He was running away from the house. Then Sam went to the stairwell, he saw the same boy falling down the stairs.
“What are you doing Sam, we need to find away out of here, we don’t need to take a tour of the cabin, she said angrily!
“Wait Lily, I think I know what happened to the boy. I think he was killed. It had to be the reason he lured us here.”
He walked down and heard echoes of more screaming coming from the Dreamers room. It was the same kid, I heard it too now. Sam unlocked the door with the tip of his sword. He saw the strange man, sleeping. It was odd, we were already in a dream, so how could be dreaming again?
The old man got up, eyes still closed, went to the kitchen, and started to make these violent gestures over and over again. The boy knew how the kid had died. Sam bolted upstairs and waited till morning with Liliana. “I hope you got a plan Sam, cause I don’t want to stay here any longer.”
They had waited for morning for quite some time till they impatiently got up and looked for the strange man. He wasn’t in his private area, and he wasn’t in the kitchen either. They looked outside, the night sky was still out. Then Sam saw that strange kid again, he was running. “Come on Lily, I think he wants us to follow him.” So they did, and after a few minutes of running, they saw the man at the nearby lake. “I know who that boy was Mr.” “He was your son and you killed him.”
“Those are LIES! I did no such thing. Why would I kill my own son,” the man pleaded with angst.
“You didn’t know you killed him because you were sleep, you are a sleepwalker. You killed him while you were sleeping that one night you mentioned earlier. You aren’t having a regular dream, this is a nightmare. The only reason you haven’t gone completely insane is that you kept that man here for so long until you could lure others here to replace them. Your son told me through silence, you pushed him down the stairs while assaulting him, then he escaped through an open window. You followed him to this exact lake and pushed him in. Unfortunately, he couldn’t swim and he drowned,” Sam said confidently.
“You’re right, I just didn’t want to admit it to myself. I DIDN’T MEAN TOO! This is why I stay in my dreams, I can’t face the real world now.”
The man sighed and realized that he couldn’t hold them any longer. There was no reason to keep them in this non-reality. “I guess you guys can leave now then. Abra-dazdle-Lahem! You are free to leave, just leave me here in my own thoughts. I have no place in the real world.”
The same portal reappeared before them and they stepped through. They awoke in the same cabin, they had fallen asleep near the Dreamer. “Lets get out of here Sam.”
They had begun to leave the Village and came across the boy from the dream world. “Did you find my Dad?”
“Yes, he stayed in his own world. I did not want to leave that place.”
“Its okay, I’m just glad he forgave him self after all this time. I can finally be at rest. I couldn’t leave this place until he forgave himself. Now I can leave just like you guys, I just won’t be going to the same place. Well, I guess I’ll see you when you guys die, hope we’ll go to the same place. See you later.”
As the young boy got further away from them, he started to fade along with the brisk wind. Until he was out of sight, they watched him.
“Lets go, I’m ready to leave this place. There is no place for us here Sam. Greece is waiting for us.”
As the two started off, I just had to say goodbye to my once living home.....
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