Reborn In The World Of The Undead

1. Dream

Consuming darkness, It was so deep that one was scared to allow themselves to feel, it was so deep that no one dared to touch themself. When the air touched the body, only then did you understand that you existed as part of that darkness. The feeling of just having bones that were no longer encased by flesh and the winds that blew colder than snow, that made you forget the touch of ice.

I could not understand what I was doing in such a place. I should be sleeping in my bed, but I was here in this unknown place. Was this a dream? Far from touching myself to check on my own well being, I was too nervous to so much as breathe in this place. I never thought that the feeling of having just bones as your body instead of flesh encasing them would be so scary.

Determined not to take a single step in this abysmal darkness, I tried to listen to what was going on around me. Taking a single step to the side when one had no understanding of their surroundings could only be seen as foolishness. I closed my eyes as I focused on listening. I could not see anything, but I could hear. It had been a mistake for me to close my eyes and try to listen for any living creature in the dense silence.

The moment that I closed my eyes, the silence had been filled with a strange sound as if someone was breaking wood. But that noise had not seemed to have actually been wood breaking, it had sounded like something else cracking. I knew that there was no use in opening my eyes because I would just find myself in the same darkness that I had been in before. However, I still slowly opened my eyes only to find that it was no longer complete darkness, red light covered the landscape.

I raised my eyes looking towards the moon discovering that the red light had been coming from the moon, but the color of the moon itself was not red. The moon should have looked beautiful, not as scary as it appeared. Suddenly the moonlight changed its color again, now it was blue. Now I understood why when I had first arrived it had been so very dark, the color of the moon had been black.

After an unknown segment of time the moon was changing its color. How was it possible that the moon was changing color? What kind of dream was this? Was this really a dream? Then I heard the sound of broken wood again, only this time it was coming from behind me. The dilemma of whether I should look back or not began to run through my mind, but I slowly turned my body around so that I could assuage my fear.

Turning around the scene that greeted me was incredible. I was surrounded by so many carcasses that were all rotting. Their stench was horrific. It was hard to believe that I had been standing in the middle of rotten corpses. Studying the carcasses, it seemed as if they still had life as they all raised their heads up as they looked towards me. At the same time, I realized that it had not been the sound of wood breaking, but the sound of bones cracking as all of them moved. As they were trying to move their bodies, their bones kept shifting and cracking. Watching this scene, my mind was completely blown. I wanted to scream in fear, but I felt as if I had lost my voice.

Then one of them began walking towards me. Just like any other intelligent being, I had the incredibly strong urge to run away from this ghastly place as soon as possible so that I could save myself from these living corpses. The moment that I thought about running away to save myself, I realized that I was not able to move my body. I was completely helpless and pathetic. I was frozen in place, but there did not appear to be an escape from here. The bones of the carcasses were disintegrating as they moved, but still they had not stopped coming forward towards me. I knew that they were very close to me but I refused to let myself scream, I just closed my eyes.

After being surrounded in the center of a field of living corpses where there were no other humans other than me, it would have been foolish of me to have shouted for help. My whole body had begun to sweat profusely. I could smell their putrid stench even better, it was proof that they were standing in front of me.

Abruptly, the sound of bones breaking stopped and the strange silence from earlier resumed taking over once again. Slowly opening my eyes, I saw that the carcasses were still standing before me, but all his bones were melting into puddles of goo. Due to the melting of their bones, the smell had become even more unbearable, turning into a noxious stench.

The light from the moon had disappeared, causing the whole place to be transformed into the same abysmal darkness as earlier. The silence was disturbed by many scary voices. A figure materialized out of the darkness enveloped by the voices of people screaming, shouting, crying, moaning, and groaning. That figure looked so hulking and menacing that I hadn't even wanted to guess what was approaching me.

Out of the darkness, I watched a giant body advancing towards me, whose appearance was ten times more terrible than a normal human being. The same rancid aroma was wafting off of him that had been coming from the now melted corpses. Due to darkness, I was only able to make out his figure, not his face. I had been able to discern that hulking figure coming closer to me, I felt his penetrating stare at me. At that moment, I realized that I was able to shake my body. It would be possible for me to run away from here, but it was already too late because the figure had started talking to me.

"20 years ... " his heavy, dangerous, and inhuman voice flooded my ears. Fearing him, the intention of running away completely left my mind because I knew that if I tried something like that he could kill me. I stayed there like an ice sculpture.

"The search that has lasted 20 years has ended today." This creepy individual was saying things that were as weird as he smelled bad. What had he meant that he had been looking for me for 20 years? But I was only 20 years old. Had that meant that he had been waiting for me since I had been born? But why? What type of bullshit was that?

"Who are you? Where am I?" I had converted my fear and nervousness into words, by fully suppressing them in an attempt to understand what was happening to me.

"This place and I are your future." He said, confusing me again with yet another thing that I could not understand.

"I think that you are mistaken. Maybe you are looking for someone else and are speaking to the wrong person," I told him but he flashed his eyes. The moment this happened, my throat went completely dry out of fear. I realized how large his eyes were and that he was not a regular human being. I had also realized that what stood before me was not a normal person, but something that was beyond my imagination.

"Until now, no one had survived in front of these cannibal carcasses. They could not stand living in this place. Do you know the reason behind that?" He asked me and I immediately shook my head. He was talking about something dangerous.

"Because they were all weak human beings. Millions of people have stood in this same place before you and upon seeing those cannibal carcasses, my warriors, they began running to save their lives, knowing that there was no way to escape from here. Their fruitless efforts and foolishness made them food for my warriors. Those who tried to show cleverness got worse than that and yet you were able to stand in front of them and forced me to appear before you. You are where my search has led and where it ended… ” he explained.

After listening to what he had to say, I understood that I was in great danger. I started to ready myself to take footsteps back so that I could run away, but I felt as if my neck was burning. Painful screams escaped from my mouth as I placed my hand on my neck where I felt the burning pain. My whole body turned red, I sat on my knees with my whole body covered in sweat.

I glared up at that gigantic figure, recognizing what he was doing to me. I tried to open my mouth to stop him, but not a single word came out, the pain only increased. The pain had become completely unbearable, now I could not see anything. I felt my eyes closing as the darkness had once again taken me into its embrace. I felt my body falling to the hard ground and heard the sound of heavy footsteps coming closer to me.

"This is my boon that I give to you that will turn into a curse for you. See you soon ... Destroyer."