Erased - Analogical

[Chapter Fifteen]

|POV Logan|

It didn't take long for Patton and Roman to join us by the entrance to the Dark Side of the mind, clearly showing Patton had convinced the fanciful side to join us. Whether this choice was decided by Romans actual want to help or his want to be there for our Fatherly Trait was something I had no time to be dwelling on. I was further aware my warnings given to both the Light Sides and the Dark Sides may have come off as slightly extreme or unneeded, but this was serious to me. I had no clue how much time we had left, if we even had any, to get Virgil back home safe. The amount of negative emotions I was feeling were very evident, and I knew without a doubt that the Minor Dark sides may be able to detect it, which is why I was determined to block them out no matter what they tried to tell me once I entered their land. I just needed to stick with Janus.

I couldn't help but get frustrated over my minimal knowledge of Remus' imagination though. In the five minute break I took from Patton and Roman, I tried to search through every single book owned in my room to find details on the Reverse Room that was mentioned. The most I could find was a small paragraph located in a book that contained all recorded knowledge of King Creativity. Granted, the book itself wasn't very large as King was only present during the very young stages of Thomas' life, but it was atleast something. The paragraph simply told about what would happen if The King ever split and wished to refuse again and how to do it safely. I had to admit, it seemed much more precise than I would have originally assumed, one wrong move could be extremely harmful on the twins. But I had no reason to focus on that, the twins showed no interest in re-fusing and the book didn't speak about what would happen if any other side found their way into the room, so it was practically useless to me.

"Jeeezzz, you all look so serious, icky," Remus chuckled in a carefree tone as normal. I wish I could tell if Remus actually cared for Virgil and was hiding it behind his humour or if he actually didn't care that much about what we were doing, but of course, emotions are not my strong suit at all so I'm as good as blind when it comes to trying to analyse such things. I really need to read a book on behavioural analysis soon.

"Anywayss~ lets get going, stick close to me and Janus! He'll be leading you guys and i'll walk behind you all, so don't slow down! If you fall behind me, I won't wait for you to catch up~"

A mutual nod of agreement was given from me, Patton & Roman as we finally entered the Dark Side Of The Mind. The one place I had never had the chance to enter and examine before. Janus slowly pushed open the door and, as Remus said, began to lead our way. I entered first, before the other two could and started to follow the snake trait. The first thing that hit me as I entered was the massive shift in energy and aura, everything suddenly felt more intense and surreal, causing me to pause in my step. Taking a deep breath in and trying my best to clear my conscious, I continued to follow Janus deeper into the mind. A brief glance behind me had told me that both Patton and Roman had felt the same sense of surrealness that I had, yet they were being ushered on by Remus to continue moving .

For the first few minutes it was exactly how Remus had described it to us. A lone, single path that guided you into the unknown as we seemed to be surrounded by an empty void of nothingness. I didn't dare deviate from the path nor take my eyes off of Janus for more than a few seconds, refusing to run the risk of getting even slightly lost.

I was completely unsure of how long it had been. Remus said we would only be on the path for around 5 minutes, but there was a clear feeling of distorted time in this area, making it very difficult to keep track of time in the way I usually do.
For all I knew, it could have simply been 5 minutes, but it felt like 30. Every second making me more antsy and anxious about Virgils well being. So many possibility's began to race through my mind before a familiar voice snapped me out of my train of thought.

"A piece of advice," Janus began to speak, I glanced behind me again and noticed Patton, Roman and Remus seemed caught up in their own conversation so there was no doubt that he was giving this so called 'advice' to me, "don't get too caught up in your thoughts. Would be a shame if Logic corrupted and became Over-Thinking or Irrationality while we were over here."

He was right... if I let my own negative thinking combined with my irrational and sudden feeling of paranoia take over, it would be so much harder to find Virgil. I needed to stay calm, focused and rational. I could do this.

We didn't end up walking for much longer before the path finally begun to actually lead us somewhere and soon enough we had arrived by what seemed like an abandoned Village, but it was far from abandoned. There were many Minor Dark sides littering the streets so casually, it looked almost exactly like the village in the Light part of the mind except everything here was so dark and monotone. I recognised a few of the Minor Sides, such as anger, frustration, repression, envy etcetera, but there were also many I didn't recognise. I felt Patton and Roman approach behind me and pause, both of them clearly taking a moment to process the sight before us. It was just as Remus had said, again, noone seemed to even be bothered by Janus' appearance, it seemed like they were almost avoiding eye contact with him out of fear or some similar emotion. The only reason the Minor Dark sides seemed to have their gaze stuck on Janus for a prolonged period of time was as they begun to notice us three surrounded by Deceit and 'Dark Creativity'. I refer to Remus as 'Dark Creativity' in quotations as i'm sure in this part of the mind they just refer to him as Creativity and Roman is probably more known as 'Light Creativity'. The look in all of their eyes seemed aggressive and as if they were agitated by our very presence. In all honesty though, I knew they only really cared about harming Patton.

That may seem like an out-of-the-blue statement or as if i'm hoping Patton will be the one attacked instead of me, but it's not, its a logical conclusion to come to. You see, even if Patton isn't directly responsible for shutting all of these Minor Sides away in the dark side of the mind, it was still Pattons view on good and evil that influenced Thomas' psyche to separate the traits in the first place. But the Minor Traits couldn't exactly attack the subconscious, so harming Patton would be their next best rational option if they truly craved revenge upon us.

"Patton," I turned my head to face him, speaking in a hushed whisper, "you really need to be on guard here. Don't let them influence you."

Roman nodded in agreement with my statement, leading to Patton cautiously nodding aswell. Knowing the Father Figure, I doubt he had even put together the pieces as to why they would want to harm him. Sometimes his need to see the good in everything gets tedious.

"Are you all well and ready to proceed?" Janus glanced over his shoulder to ask us, "stay close, don't get distracted."

Simple enough instructions. Simple enough for me atleast.

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