Living is Lying

Ⅴ: Walk Towards the Light

It's really bright... Where am I? Is that someone in the distance?

He steps closer and closer to the figure in the distance.

"Nonononono! This can't be right! It's over!?" said the figure. Its frantic demeanor frightened Carter. It was seemingly controlling some floating screens, like something seen in a sci-fi movie. That's when they spot Carter. "YOU!" They scream, their singular eye now glowing red. They pull Carter the rest of the way to them. They snap their fingers, and the screens disappear.

"Where the hell am I? How do you know my name?" Carter asks. He was dizzy from the venom the spider had inserted into his body.

"You may be--a bit confused... I am your creator. You may call me King, for that is my name. You died via spider bite... not a good way to go out..." Their eye was now back to its normal color. King was a black king chess piece, with only one eye. They were much bigger and taller than Carter as if they were like this to feel more powerful than they are.

Carter is in shock until it all starts coming back to him.

"I-I'm dead..! Y-Yeah, that's right..."

King shrinks down to just a few inches taller than Carter

"I have to break some shocking news to you, Carter," King states.

Carter seems confused. Surely he could get only good news from the person who had created him, right?

"What?"

"You see, you aren't real. In fact, everything you know is, except for me of course. I made you, as some form of comfort to cope with my former life... You see, I was just like you, seemingly hated by everyone. I... ended up killing myself fourteen years ago when I was your age. I created you because I wanted to know what it was like to not feel inferior to others, t-to finally be the one on top. I'm truly sorry, Carter." Carter was frozen. They had to be joking! It couldn't be true, could it? It could be, it made sense after all. Any questions he asked about why things happened to him or if he had any meaning in his life were shut down. They were stopping him from learning the truth, and it worked.

"Y-You're fucking with me... This isn't true! W-WHY!? WHY WOULD YOU TORTURE ME!?" Carter screams.

"Calm down... Since my experiment ended early, I will send you back to Earth, and you will forget this has happened. You will wake up in class as if you fell asleep in the middle of a lecture. Goodbye, Carter. It was a-" Before King could finish, they were punched by Carter. King flinches, but is okay, as if no damage was done.

"I FUCKING HATE YOU!" Carter screams.

"Come on, Carter. You don't want to fight me. This would be the biggest mistake you'd make in all your existence." King says calmly.

"BRING IT ON, ASSHOLE!" Carter responds.

"Very well then..."