The Glassy Sky

ZACK'S MEMORY

August 10, 1996

Monday

Two years have passed and I know that my creations have all grown. I do visit them whenever I sleep so I went back to the limbo only to find out that everything was ruined. Every city I've built has been burned to cinder and people that used to live there are no longer there. These cities have been uninhabitable for quite some time, and I never knew about it. I also noticed that the sky looks like a broken glass. "What happened?" I asked myself. I only left for a few days and now everything's in ruins. I know that time flows differently in this world, so I don't know if I've left them for days if not months. Then I saw Sam running towards me, saying "Don't come any closer!" He said, "Let's go to another person's dream world, it's safer to talk there."

"What happened here?" I began to ask out of curiosity and fright.

"I promise to tell you everything, but for now, let's just get out of here." We walked away from my own door, and entered a neighboring door. "We need to hide in the forest. "Sam said. So we hid under the lustrous forest in another person's limbo.

"Okay, now tell me what happened?" I asked.

"A demon came in, looking for you. He destroyed everything on his path because he knows that you have the sword."

"How did he know that I have the sword, and who's the demon?" I asked.

"I know, because I saw you have it." Then all of the sudden, Sam turned into a monstrous creature, a nefarious being where it's body is covered with shadow. It has eyes red as blood, horns like those of a goat and claws like those of the big cats but are covered in shadows, he later revealed his wings that looks like those of a bats, but are very big and devilish in nature. He became very tall and I can't move a single muscle.

"Who are you," I asked, "and what have you done with my brother?"

"Don't worry," He responded, "he's safe, for now. I'm Morpheus and you my friend have something that I need. Hand me the sword and no one will get hurt."

"I don't know what you're talking about." I know who he was and what he wants but I won't give him what he wants.

"Give me the sword!" The demon shouted. I'm frightened beyond comprehension. I closed my eyes and said "I told you, I don't know what you're talking about."

"I know you do," He responded, "or do I have to force my way into your mind?" He then unleashed his shadowy tentacles towards me, binding my entire body and it burns when he touches me. "This is going to hurt, he said." He put his hands into my head and started scanning my memories. It burns every time he sees a memory in my head. I don't know if I'm going to lose all of those memories, but I remembered a part of my memory where when we we're younger, Sam and I used to play on our garden whenever our parents are not around.

Then all of the sudden, someone threw a stone that hit Morpheus directly to his eyes. Then he let loose of his tentacles, and suddenly I was able to move. Then I started wander around to see who did it, it was Sam. "Run, brother!" Sam said. We started running towards the door, but Morpheus started flying. He started shooting fireballs towards our direction, so we ran on an omnidirectional manner so that the fireballs won't shoot directly at us. We're almost near the door, and I've noticed that Morpheus is making a huge fireball towards our direction. I closed the door immediately, but it exploded because of the fireball. So we run towards my own limbo.

I do remember it was two years ago, the 17th of February 1994, before I was pulled out of my limbo. I was in the garden in the sky castle when I visited by angels from above the sky. The time stopped, everything turned grey and then there's a bright white light in the sky and I saw a lot of seraphim flying. I know it's not part of my dream world for I didn't create angels along with it so I asked, "Who are you?"