Phantom Fantasies

Chapter 1

I woke up with a banging headache and ringing in my ears. I sat and grab my head, and look around. My vision is hazy but I make out a forest. The trees seem to grow up as far as the sky and the bark is a glistening black. I try to stand and look for a path as my vision clears up. From where I stand, the forest looks crowded and it doesn't seem like there would be room enough to make a path. Seeing as how I don't know where I am I decide to walk through the forest.

It's really hard to see, since the forest has a light fog covering the tress. As I walk I try to remember how I ended up in the the forest. That's when I realize I don't remember anything. I don't remember how I got here or where I'm from. I even remember my name. All that I can recall is my age.18 years old. Although I wonder why I can't remember anything. What happened to me that made me forget? As I asked myself these questions, I didn't pay attention to where I was going and bumped into something. I staggered back a little and saw a man with grayish white hair. The man turned around and stared at me with glassy wide eyes.

"Do you know where my wife is?"

"What?"

"My wife came into the forest and never came back, I came here to look for her. Have you seen her?" I don't really know about this man, he looks pretty unstable, and considering the bags under his eyes, it's apparent he hasn't slept in a long time. Not wanting to trigger this guy off I point in a random direction and he looked off in the distance. I start to back away and turn away until I heard a faint "Liar." And was pushed to the ground and blacked out.

I woke up and saw I was being dragged through the forest. I look up and see it was the man from earlier. I try to rub my head, but noticed my hands where bound together. I began to slightly panic and struggled to get free, but the man wouldn't let go. In fact, I don't even think he noticed me moving. I decided to give up, since I wasn't going to be free anytime soon. Every now and again, I would hear him mumble something like " Where is she." or "I wish she would stop playing this game."

I try to look up ahead to see where he was taking me to no avail. Even though I don't really want to talk to him, I want to know what at least is going on.

"Hey, where are you taking me?"

He remained silent for a moment and replied," Glad to see your awake."

"Yeah, I'm glad too, but where are we going?"

" You're going to the light place."

"What's the light place?"

"It's where all the bad people go."

"Bad people?"

"Yep, people like you who try to keep me away from my love. I don't like people who lie to me, so I have to punish you."

My heart started to race when he began talking in a insane pitch voice. It was as if he was talking to a child and trying to get them to understand something.

"So what happens to people in this light place?"

"Weeelll, whenever I throw someone in they start to scream in such a beautiful way and their light starts to glow and then 'poof' they turn to ash."

"Wait, they explode?!" I exclaim

He turns his head back to me and his face is horrific. His pupils are small and he has a big crazed smile running from cheek to cheek. He starts laughing " Yes, I guess you can say, but its gives off such a pretty light."

My eyes start to widened and I start to call out for help, all the while the man was laughing." You have a great scream for a young man, I think your punishment will be the greatest of all. I can't wait, good thing we are almost there."

I look ahead and see a kind of cliff, and my breath started to go faster. I starts struggling as hard an I could. Kicking and yelling for help, whatever I could do to escape. Suddenly I felt my foot drop to the ground and back up from the man as much as I could, until I noticed his focus wasn't on me. I follow his gaze off in the tress and saw a figure in the distance."Allison, Is it really you?"

I look at the figure cover in the fog and heard a heard a hissing noise somewhere. The man started to stagger towards the girl in the fog." It's me Richard, love."

The figure started to move towards Richard and saw the old lady that I guess is Allison.

"Allison, I have grown so tired of this game of cat and mouse."

I heard a another hiss that was louder this time. I started to get to my feet and saw Allison cupping his face. "Honey, let's go back."

Suddenly her eyes turned white and her jaw unhinged as tendrils started to come out of her back. The tendrils wrapped themselves around him and she started to suck out the muscles and blood. I felt myself go sick and decided to start running. Since the tress were so big and thick it was hard to maneuver around. I suddenly heard hissing and looked back at a monster that was coated in black scales and white fur. It had six centipede like legs and a torso like a women's and has mantis like arms.It hissed and bared its fangs at me as I ran.

As we entered another clearing, it pounce on me and held my arms apart with its tendrils. I close my eyes and screamed for help one last time as the creature bit into my neck. I then heard the creature screech and saw it was backing away, but then towered over me as if protecting its prey.

I heard some yells and commands coming from somewhere, I tried seeing where its coming from until the creature screeched again and hugged closer to me. It was obvious this thing isn't going to let go if its prey that easily. So I tried to think of a way to escape while whatever it is was distracting it. Since this thing snaps forward to attack I could slip out as it moves away from me. I waited until it strikes again... It moved forward do I start sliding out from under it. If my hands weren't bound together this would be so much easier. As I was about to slip the creature started to fall back. I tried sliding away until I felt something grab me, and pulled me out before I was flattened. The got up and hissed again and ran off into the woods.

I take time to catch my breath and to relax. The thing that pulled me out patted me on the back." You okay?"

I looked up and saw a girl with blonde twin braids and wearing goggles. She had a puffy jacket with big buttons and a khaki skirt. I give her a nod and she helps me up.

"You know I never saw you around before, are you new?"

"What do you mean by 'new'?"

"Ah, I see." She took my hands cut them free from the bind and took me over to a young boy with big round glassy with auburn eyes and was writing in a little book. He wore giant hooded trench coat and had scars on his face. The girls walks up to him and taps his shoulder.

"Charlie, can I see the record list." He nods and searches for it in his bag. I look around and see different people all with weird weapons and strange clothing. I stared at them with curiosity until the girl tugged on my sleeve. She help a weird looking book and opened it.

" Do you have any memory of your past?"

"No."

"Okay, that is to be expected.

"Expected?"

"Do you remember your name?"

"W-wait a minute ho-"

"Name. Do you or do you not rmember?"

"No I don't now-"

"How about family?"

"Hold o-"

"Likes,dislikes,age,birthday?"

"Wait!" She looks up at and sighs."What?"

"What did mean by its to be expected or if I'm new, what exactly is going on here?"

She looks to the others and back at me."Do you remember anything about yourself?"

I sigh and say I'm 18. She flips through the pages and reads a few. Until she found a page she was looking for.

"Good thing your there is only two 18 year olds today, so your picture was easy to find."

I raise a brow at her."My picture?"

She closes the book and looks up at me.

"Vincent Faller, you're dead."