The Gate In The Bleeding Sky

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Whether by an ironic, almost stupid and ridiculous decision of destiny, when I woke up from that brief dream, which must not have lasted more than... Maybe two minutes, great was my surprise when I saw what had happened in the brief moment of my fainting.

That man, who apparently slipped on the ground, since, something I did not mention, the well was going up a slight rocky hill. It seems that when he kicked me at the last moment that I can remember, he slipped, hitting his head against the rocks of the well, the wet scene of his face disfigured by the blow on those rocks, with a broken jaw, and those eyes that despite being inert, still revealed what seems to be the psychopathy and madness into which that man had fallen.... I don't know who he was or why he acted the way he did... The only thing I can think of is that he was maddened by everything that inhabited that forest, and maybe, just maybe, in his madness, he attacked everything that came close, fearing for his life, believing me, just another creature.

The machete seems to have fallen to the bottom of the well, I intuit that that was the metallic blow I heard at the last second of my fainting, so after seeing his immobile and broken body, his broken leg and his broken neck, I got out of there.

I was not interested in checking the house, I was not interested in looking in the well, not even in finding my phone, it was not an exploration, I just wanted to get out, so I wanted to get out of there, to go back home. Therefore, I started to run desperately, trying to return between my steps, although logically I ended up getting lost, but what I wanted, was to get out. Between tears, tired sighs and the thick fog I ended up, somehow, returning to the abandoned town where we found the metallic star, there was no longer that red sky, everything had returned to the thick cloudy sky, although that did not improve my mood, worse when I heard again those sounds in four legs once more. I don't know if they were real or a figment of my imagination due to the strong anxiety, because by then, my body was not working properly, physically emaciated, mentally broken and emotionally dead.

I just ran and in the distance, a strong light, like from a flashlight, my emotions began to enter into abysmal confusion, I no longer knew whether to trust or not, but fed up with everything, I just ran towards it ... Yes, it was a person, it seems that the team sent in our search, desperate I ran towards him, falling into his arms.

When I came out of the initial emotion, I began to realize... I had never seen this man in town, and Don Juan wanted fewer people to know what was going on... All these thoughts were piling up in my head, and soon I suddenly pulled away from the man, and when I saw him... I was suddenly very excited. As a man he had nothing... Well, the clothes, but his hands began to turn into thin, horrible pointed hands, with long fingers, the arms began to lengthen as well, with a sound of bones breaking and flesh or muscles moving and lengthening. Soon, a bright light surrounded that creature, more human than the previous one, but totally disgusting and horrible, and from its arms unfolded two sticky and cartilaginous wings, like a bat, with some black feathers, as if it were a plucked bird.

That thing watched me with a smiling look, on its elongated head there seemed to be a disgusting pumping mass, a kind of throbbing organ covered by a light layer of transparent skin full of blood... It looked like an owl, or a bat, I don't know, that thing was almost not comparable to something slightly normal.

My body constantly had jolts in front of that creature, little jumps, I couldn't even breathe in front of... that. It was coming closer, walking slowly, while its long, thin, bird-like legs were loudly rattling the ground.

I was paralyzed, I did not move, remembering it I cannot deny my stupidity, anyone would have run away when seeing such a thing, but well, I guess remembering it is not the same as living it... I remember again the red light appearing in the sky, I saw it more clearly, a hole in the sky, as if it was a wound, the sky became reddish, crimson, blood... It started to rain, heavily, the water seemed to be tinted by the red of the sky, although it was thick, I do not know if it was water... The creature stopped and looked at the sky, extending its gigantic vampire wings, appreciating that open wound in the sky, letting out a scream, a kind of roar, very sharp, perhaps more similar to the sound an annoying bird would make than a mammal, when its eyes turned to me, I got up suddenly, running to my right, with all my energy... Or what could be considered, were left of them, that thing let out a scream again, a scream that only seemed to make the rain worse, a scream that sounded like thunder crashing to the earth.