I was in this goddamn maze again. The creature chasing me again. Except this time I stopped and turned to face it. It stopped in front of me.
"You do not run? Are you brave or stupid?" the creature said as it got closer.
"Neither. I'm Curious as to why you're chasing me." I stood my ground even when he thrust his sharp tail at me. He laughed and looked at me again.
"I'm trying to give you something." I cocked my head in confusion.
"Give me something? What?" I asked and he reached out his hand.
"You need to earn it first." I took his hand and he flew above the maze, taking me with him, to a new layer. The ground was as clear as glass from the inside however from the bottom it's pitch black.
"What do I need to do?" I asked after we landed. He looked at me and pointed forward. I looked where he was pointing and saw her, a little girl with a white dress and a red bow around here abdomen. Here head and arms looked like they had been stitched on, she had a red dress cut down to her knees, her eyes were black with black streaks coming from them. She was holding a sewing needle and fixing her arm. She looked up at us and her eyes widened.
"Brother? Why did you bring him here?" she asked the creature behind me.
"He is ready.." he declared. At the sound of this she flew forward and began to hover around me.
"Are you ready?" she asked finally.
"I don't know what I'm doing. But, yeah I guess." She smiled at this and snapped her fingers a shadow appeared in front of me. It was Hellfire.
"Fight him." the girl demanded.
"With what? I gave him my scythe." At this the girl waved her hand and a knife appeared in my hand. It looked familiar. I dropped it as the memories came flooding back.
It was my mother's knife.
"What's wrong, Dreamscape?" the monster asked as he picked up the knife and handed it back to me. "You must overcome your fears."
I took the knife. My hands where shaking, my eye socket began to hurt just looking at it. I looked at the doll and nodded. Her hand waved, and all of a sudden the Hellfire shadow drew his scythe.
I moved in a way that I haven't before. My stance was different, my back was straight, I held out my knife and pointed it at him, my head was cocked. He finally charged me, Hellfire had always been brash. His shadow even showed it, he swung near my torso. I jumped over it and slashed at him with the knife. He moved back and I hit the ground, cracking it. I stood and he was taunting me. I slashed at him from at least ten feet away, the slash somehow traveled to him. I could see the red slash line. He he blocked it with his scythe, but was knocked back.
"Perfect!" the doll exclaimed. "You can master it. Try holding the slash now."
I did as I was told. I slashed and concentrated, instead of moving, the slash stayed midair. I drew another one across it and made an X, then I hit it with the hilt of the knife and it traveled as one towards Hellfire, but yet again he blocked it with the scythe, but it knocked him back further than before. I knew how to beat him. I moved quickly, I had gotten to him and slashed repeatedly, he kept blocking with his scythe until the scythe broke. It had shattered finally, after that I grabbed him and pinned him to the ground with my knife to his throat.
"Good now finish him." the doll demanded. I looked into this Hellfire's eyes, and I saw something I didn't think shadows could emit. Fear. I hesitated.
"What are you waiting for??" the dark creature yelled. "Finnish him!!"
"I-I can't!" I shouted back as I got off of the Hellfire. I reached my hand out to him. The shadow looked shocked, he reached for my hand and I helped him up. I turned to the doll and the dark creature. "Your nightmares, I control you."
"YOU GOT IT!" the dark creature yelled.
"You passed the test." the doll confirmed.
I grabbed the knife and flipped it in the air and caught it.
"What's my prize?" I asked.
"The knife." the doll and the dark creature said in unison, and with that I woke up.
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"WAKE UP DREAMSCAPE!!!" I heard someone screaming. I popped to my feet and looked around. The forest was on fire.
"GUYS!!" I shouted and they all where around me suddenly. Everyone except Greg. "WHERE IS GREG?!"
"Flower Power was captured." Hellfire respond.
"By who?"
"War."
I looked around and closed my eyes. I could sense her, she was a horseman so she gave off a lot of power. My body began to glow. "I'm coming, Greg." And with that I suddenly appeared next to War.
"WHAT??!! HOW DID YOU???!!!!" War screamed and jumped back as she saw me. I looked at her and felt myself fill with rage. She was around 7'10 and really strongly built, wearing a spartan like outfit with a red skirt. The knife from my dream appeared in my hand.
"Well War, let's settle this." I took the fighting stance from my dream. She looked shocked and then smirked and drew her own sword. Around 5ft long and radiating heat off of it.
"You wanna fight me you little shit?!" her voice was more manly and loud than a Mildred's, although that's not saying much as Mildread is soft spoken. She looked like she was very strong. She did kill death after all. "That little knife isn't gonna do anything for you."
"Wanna bet?" I said as I slashed at the air. Just like my dream it traveled and hit her, she looked surprised. "You killed the first person to ever take truly care of me." I spied the sack behind her, that had to have Greg in it.
"Death was weak!" War yelled at me. "You are destined to kill us! Be he couldn't bring himself to kill you!"
"Then you will be the first to be killed by me." I ran at her and slashed over and over. She blocked them all and when I got to her. The blades clashed, and the patterned started. Swing, parry, swing, parry. Until finally my friends arrived.
"What the hell man!" Hellfire shouted at me. "I was worried!"
"We all where!" Mildread yelled.
"Well now's my time to escape." War said as her horse appeared and she grabbed greg and rode off.
"Hellfire, I need Despair!"
"You got it boss!" Hellfire responded. He raised his scythe and Despair appeared. I rode after War until I finally caught up to her.
"WHAT!?!?!" War yelled as I came up next to her. "That's deaths horse!"
"When one horseman dies. One more will take their place." I stated to her. "Hellfire is the new Death, and there will be a new War." I jumped over to her horse and grabbed on to her saddle. The horse was giant so she could ride it. I managed to climb up on her back and put my knife to her throat.
"Its over War!" I said inching the knife closer to her throat. "You will pay for Death!"
"I'M NOT DYING TODAY!" A portal opened up in our path. The portal showed nothing but fire. Greg was still in the sack and would die if he went through. Now was when I had to make a decision. I could kill War, but there was not enough time to stop her horse, or I could save Greg and jump off, but fail at killing War. There was not enough time to do both.
I was running out of time, a decision was needed.
Kill... or save...
I knew the right choice. I would have another chance to kill War. I grabbed the sack and jumped off of the horse, hitting the ground hard but didnt land on Greg. War rode through the portal and the portal disappeared. I opened up the sack and found Greg. He was unconscious, but alive. I made a sigh of relief, and sat down with my back to a tree, looking at Greg on the ground facing the sky. I looked into the sky and waited for the others.
