Myth Of Reality

Home: Part II

Thera woke up in her bed as if everything was back to normal. She looked around cautiously, and when she found nothing out of the ordinary, she went into her brother's rooms.

Pure happiness spread across her face as she saw they were playing together. They were here.

Thera lunged at them and gave them a giant hug. She was trying not to cry over a dream, but she let a tear roll down her face. The brothers didn't see, and she wiped it away before they had the chance.

"Why are you hugging us, sis?" One said.

"I don't give you enough hugs," Thera said, "so this will be a regular thing!"

She tickled them, and they laughed. After they went back to playing, Thera walked downstairs. She noticed right away that something wasn't right.

Sometimes Thera liked to imagine that her parents were alive and that they lived with them again.

This didn't feel like her imagination.

As she moved down the stairs, Thera gazed upon her parents, who were sitting on the couch, alive and well.

"Good morning, honey!" Her mother said as she walked to give Thera a hug.

Thera backed away slowly and tripped on the stairs, her eyes filled with tears. "This isn't real.." 

she thought, "they're dead!"

She pushed through her "parents" and ran out the door, slamming it shut.

Later, her parents had opened the door, but Thera wasn't there. She was long gone.

~1 hour later~

With the shock of her parents alive finally gone, Thera decided to reason about this.

"From what I learned at the training academy in the short time I was there, Delario is a powerful demon able to manipulate space, and bring thoughts to reality," Thera thought, "so maybe since I thought about my parents being alive and healthy so much, they're here. This reality is fake! But what do I do about it?"

Just then, a portal appeared right in front of Thera. Prepared to fight, she took her stance. She saw something starting to step out, and sighed with relief as she saw who it was.

Adam had come to help her.

"Are you okay?" He asked Thera.

"Physically, yes," Thera said, "mentally is another question."

She told him about how her parents were dead, but they were in her living room, very much alive. She then explained her theory.

"If your theory is true," Adam started, "then Myth must be in a different world than this. His version of reality and yours are very different."

"So how could I get to it?" Thera asked.

"I could open a portal to his reality, but the world would most likely reject you to the point everyone fake you come in contact with will turn to what they truly are."

Thera nodded. This world was fake, but if she stayed here any longer, she could possibly want to stay with her parents.

Adam opened the portal, and Thera jumped through it. As she went through, she could faintly hear Adam telling her good luck.

~Through the portal~

Thera arrived at Myth's reality where she was before, but something was off.

She walked around a bit, and saw the street was deserted! A newspaper flew down the road and 

Thera grabbed it. The headline was: Boy wakes up from a 10-year coma and returning home.

It had a picture of Myth, with who Thera assumed was his mother.

She saw the name of the hospital and walked there. A few minutes later, she arrived at the place and walked up to the front desk to ask for their address, as she didn't know it.

As soon as she opened her mouth, the receptionist started to grow and turn a shade of hot pink. Her eyes turned yellow, and her teeth became sharp.

Thera looked around, but it seemed like everything was frozen beside the two of them.

She jabbed the Pink Esea in its vitals, and it fell over, disappearing. Thera then jumped across the desk and started looking through the files from the computer. She found the folder with Myth in it and looked at the address.

"Got it!" She exclaimed loudly.

She realized her mistake too late. As she clamped her mouth shut, everyone in the hospital started turning into Pink Esea. Before they could complete their transformation, Thera bolted and looked for the address.

She jumped in a car and started driving as fast as she could. The streets were empty, luckily enough.

Thera was about to get to Myth's house when she saw that somehow the Pink Esea got in front of her and were blocking her path. She was about to turn around when she saw they had also blocked that path as well. Trapped, Thera made a split second decision and drove full speed at the creatures. Just as the car was about to hit, she jumped out. Because of the speed she was going, several bruises were forming, and blood all over her.

Thera limped to Myth's door and opened it. To her surprise, she found a man with wide eyes, probably in his mid-twenties, reaching into the fridge. Yet, somehow she knew it was Myth.

"Myth," Thera said, "this isn't real. We have to escape."