The Land Of Lost Souls

Introduction:

Have you ever wanted to start your life over? Have a fresh new start? More adventure? Or even a place where no matter who or what you are, you would fit in? What if I told you that I could take you to that place, what is it called? well, it's The Land Of Lost Souls. Oh, right my apologies, I forgot to introduce myself, the names Horace, Horace The Timekeeper. I help those in need of help, and the gaurdian of the entrance to the world, I am also as my name states, I control and keep track of time, whether it be reversing, forwarding, or stopping time, it's my job. But enough about me, the story I'm about to tell you is all about The Land Of Lost Souls that I wrote about in my journal. So I guess you would call me the Narrator. Anyways, enjoy!

Chapter 1: The First Encounter

Where do I begin? Well, I would tell you how the world had been created but as of the moment I am writing this I can't quite remember much, anything before the moment I helped the first one to enter the realm other than myself is a blur. So let's start with the beginning that I do remember. I guess this is the part where I have to get "creative" so, In a dark yet gloomy forest, there was a hellhound demon roaming, jumping universe to universe until suddenly they appear in the dark forest, curiously they came upon a black and grey portal, in curiousity they had started to check out the interesting portal that had appeared out of thin air in front of them. Suddenly a man walks out from the portal, he seemed to have a small mohawk with a bandage wrapping around one of his eyes, his fangs as sharp as a needle, His ears pointed like those of an elf. In the man's hand however, rested a pocket watch, the hound had gotten spooked a bit but was struck with even more curiosity wondering to themselves, "What is that? where did he come from?" The hound tilted his head at him. "Don't be afraid young one, i'm not gonna hurt you, my name is Horace, Horace The Timekeeper. I am here to take you away from your troubles" yes, this is what I said to them, I wasn't quite sure of the gender at the time so I didn't label them as such. Anyways, I held my hand out to them, reassuring the hound that I was indeed harmless and as they take my hand with their paw and going towards the portal, another man walks out from the portal. Now, now, I know I said that the hound I spoke about was the first one to join me in the world, but I forgot to mention that I wasn't completely alone, the man was tall but looked like an everyday magician, he had short black hair with bangs covering his forehead, but one thing for sure is when he smiled you can tell he wasn't normal. He infact was not just a magician, but a vampire as well. Who was this man? His name was Grim, Grim the Magnificent, a vampire magician, and a master of illusions. But, one thing for sure was me and him didn't look quite far apart from looking alike. This man, was indeed, my brother. "What do you want now Grim?" I say calmly holding the hound close to my side. "I want it." He says with a grin, "you want what?" I ask. "The hound. I want the hound, I want him as a partner. Please, dearest Horace?" He smiles innocently with what would seem to be puppy dog eyes. "It's up to them not me" I say while looking at the hound. But what I didn't know was the consequences would be from this next part later on. "Alright Hound, would you like to work for me?" He says nicely and what I didn't realize was that through his black eyes was a mischievous plan, as he secretly casted hypnotic illusions upon the hound, causing them to fall under his control, not just by his eyes but something else he had, But I wasn't sure at the time by what though. The hound nodded and let go of my hand, scurrying over to Grim, "Wait! We haven't got a name from you, what is your name?" I say to the hound. "The hounds name is Blackdog." Grim says confidently, "and how would you know this?" I ask him, but by the time I was about to finish they both walk through the portal. I sigh and look back, then I look back at the portal and enter back through.

Chapter 2: The Cliff

It's been a while that Blackdog had joined us, It's been interesting but it still feels kind of empty here, even if there's the three of us and the creatures that have in the past snuck in through the portal, which by the way isn't my fault, the portal I can control but sometimes it spawns randomly for some odd reason. Anyways, today I had felt as though there was more people who needed help, so I got up from my bed, got ready and opened the portal. I said goodbye to my brother and the hound and went through the portal to find the next person to help. There, on the other side of the portal had been a short haired boy with his hat on backwards, a design of a line what could be a scar or birth mark for all I know, and his bangs covered one of his eyes a bit, he was sitting alone near a cliff about to jump, "Hey!" I say quickly and calmly. The boy turns towards me suprised by not just the portal but by me, a hybrid, appearing out of nowhere. "W-who are you?" The boy says a bit spooked, "I'm Horace! Horace The Timekeeper. I've come to help you! Back away from the ledge and I promise I can take you to a better place, one where I feel you'd fit in. Come, now, take my hand." I say reassuringly. The boy sighs and looks back at the ledge then towards me and walks over taking my hand. "Name?" I say, "what?" He says, "your name" I chuckled. The boy blushed a bit and cleared his throat, "The names Damien." I smile and say, "Damien? that's a great name" the boy blushed a bit more, "oh uh, thank you." I nod, "your very welcome" with that we both walked through the portal, though after crossing through I hadn't noticed that the portal hadn't of closed like it should've..

Chapter 3: Tangled In Puppet Strings

The portal sat there still opened for quite a long time, it was silent throughout the cliff area where it first had appeared. Suddenly a man comes out from the shadows in anger, it seemed he had been looking for something, he had two black and white striped puppet arms, a black trench coat with the hoodie up, the hood covered the top half of his face which at that point is only showing what had seemed to be a white mask with a skull looking nose and a mouth plate like the ones on a knights helmet. He seemed to be what could be a puppet demon of some sort. He walked over to the portal and walked in, without my help or guidance, who was this man? I didn't know at the time because as I said, he went by himself. As the man walked through and into The Land Of Lost Souls, he started to look around until my brother Grim spotted him. Grim started to fall for him and after had, as it seems, had spotted him earlier and had read his mind, his thoughts, and his past. Because of this, Grim was angry at the fact that man had a liking for someone already making Grim jealous, and because of how jealous he'd gotten, something within him snapped, caused him to turn evil. So Grim being the master of illusions, then had made the illusion that in the man's eye, had seemed to look like the girl the man had fallen head over heels for. Grim disguised his voice to be like hers and lured the man in and as the man went to hug Grim, Grim raises his left hand which was the only hand that had a glove on it, and his hand glows causing strings to attach themselves to the man's puppet arms. Grim chuckled as he revealed himself and teleported both of them to Grims lair. The man still filled with anger had been tugging at the restraints, "LET ME GO YOU MOTHER F-" The man was cut off when smacked hard across the face. "Shut it your mine now, you will not only entertain me.. but submit yourself to me for now on. Your my puppet, understood?" Grim says sternly, "And if I don't?" The man growls, "If you don't.." Grim says as he gets real up close and personal towards the man, which then Grim runs his hand down the man's cheek, "I'll have to punish you, my puppet~" Grim smirks. "You sick bast-" again the man is cut off by another slap and grim laughing maniacally.

Chapter 4:

To be continued....