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Come, Just as You Are

🇺🇸Smile_4_Life
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Dear Diary, What is going on!? Am I seeing things- are my eyes going bad!? I keep on seeing these gray hazy shapes beside people! And no, they're definitely not shadows! They shape is completely different from what it's next to- well, most of the time. I'll just ignore it and maybe it'll go away. -Week later- Dear Diary and my sanity if it's listening, Things are going from delusional to outright cuckoo crazy! I swear I saw a face in the gray globs I've been seeing, but it wasn't scary or anything, it was like catching the face of an angel. And it wasn't like he had perfect features or anything, but his eyes. The care and heartfelt love in them was so... unbelievable? I guess? I can't explain it... I can neither explain what I saw today, but it wasn't the sort of spooky but endearing sort of thing I saw yesterday, but a bewildering (?, yeah, I would put it that way) scene of a witch riding on a broom through out traffic on the highway. Every once in a while, she would disappear into one of the cars and then jump into another one. Strangely enough, after she came out, most of the people driving would either start becoming careless or be shooting off their horn at another car. I am seriously considering going to see a psychiatrist, but I don't want to explain why to my dad, so I'll just ignore it for now. Surely, it'll go away!? -Week later- Dear Diary!!! It hasn't gone away!!!! It's getting worse!! I keep on seeing roads disappearing and being replaced with wide open fields as if no man has touched it before! Not only that, sometimes I see part of a building missing as if a line was drawn straight down in a clean cut and a forest begins as if it was natural! I've been keeping my distance from these strange things I've seen, but now I wonder if I should investigate? I picked a flower from one of my 'hallucinations' and it was real! Maybe, the rest is real too? Could it be possible? But if it is, why did it have to be me? I'm just a normal girl in high school trying to graduate so I can go to college with a dance scholarship. Maybe go on a few dates or see if Sean would help me find a guy from the soccer team? They are so hot! Isn't that hard enough for a girl? -Couple of days later- Dear Diary!!!!!! I have HUGE NEWS! I'm not crazy after all, I actually found someone who gave me some answers! His name... did I ask him? I'm sure I did, but I don't remember! Darn my horrible memory that acts like a willful child choosing what it wants and doesn't! Anyway, I atleast remember the most important thing- I'm not crazy! So it turns out, I came across our forgotten world. Or should I say kingdom. Anyway, he tried to explain that the world is like a coin with 2 faces on it- same world but two parts that can't face each other. Although, we did at one point, but that was before the rebellion and this really evil guy took a third of the kingdom to go up against the king. He didn't win though and retreated. .... but then, what was it? He put out a bet to the king? or something? Ah, faulty memory, I'll have to ask again. But in the long run- he and his minions are fighting the King and his loyal people for our world.... or something. I don't think it has anything to do with me, I'll just enjoy the new scenery I get to see now. -Couple of Months Later- "EXCUSE ME!? You want me to do WHAT NOW!? I must've heard you wrong!"
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Chapter 1 - A Forgotten History (Prologue)

"My liege, what shall be our next plan?" a sinister and hoarse voice asked to the young man walking in front of the army. Their army in a sorry state for wear. Although they had been punished with being banished from the kingdom for trying to rebel against the King; their once called brothers and sisters did not just kindly watch them as they left the gates, but rushed them out with bows and arrows, swords, spears, the fangs, and claws of our old friends. Even nature who we thought only knew of how to sing and praise the king- took part in pushing, pulling, whipping, scorching, and many more afflictions to cast them out.

Many of them were injured to the point that it seemed questionable of why they were still alive, but only the King could take away life from any living being. The King had not given a verdict of death though, but of banishment and a curse. A curse that gave them a second form so that they might not have the blessing to be made wholly in his image. Many of their brothers and sisters dug into their skin, hoping to tear off this shameful image but it was no use. Even if they bled, the skin would heal and again they would be accursed to switch between shells of their body.

"My liege, I do not mean to question you, but because of this curse- not to mention, not being able to escape the all seeing eyes of..." the hoarse voice continued, but was slapped on the mouth before he finished.

"Never!" The young looking man growled out, "Never again do I want you calling him in my presence or any other! He is not our sovereign any longer, epecially not for any of you! You are mine! You submit to me your glory, respect, and your very lives to me! Do I make myself clear?" He towered over the man, heaving for deep breaths as he insisted on keeeping his original power. He criticizied himself for how low he had fallen! Detesting himself for taking effort to slap such a weakling. He was determined, though, to master this curse and use it to his advantage. He wasn't sure how as of yet- but he had an inkling.

"Yes, m-mm-my k-k-kking...?" the man gasped out as he struggled to a kneeling position. The name feeling foreign to his tongue and to his very soul to call someone other than his prior king to someone else, believing in some ways it could not be done. Not once from the time of his creation, has anyone spoken the name for other than their creator, their King. The same could be said for rebelling, not till this young man atleast.

"Don't turn it into a question." the young man growled again, swinging his foot to cleanly hit across the side of his face. The man was propelled by the force and ended up burying his face up to his neck in the hard rock covered ground. "Mayhaps, though, there is a more appropriate name for me. Hearing it from you, I feel like I am getting the ki- tsk! 'That man's' leftovers and I shall have it all! Much much more!" The young man smirked as he looked into the void, the void mirroring his ominous aura that ran deep inside the man and perhaps a little bit of the madness that slithered and enticed the young man that was hidden in his eyes. The very eyes that betrayed his concentration and took on the form of a venomous snake's eye or many eons later would be considered the eye of a serpent dragon.

"As for where we shall go, we shall find somewhere to heal and train our new curse- no, my power!" The young man glanced back at the mutltitude of the crowd and grinned. He hadn't done a bad job at the beginning, stealing one- third of the people from the kingdom along with him, but now it was time for bigger treasure and bigger gains. "After that, didn't 'that man' boast he was enjoying watching his creation prosper across the worlds he had created? I believe I should go sightseeing for a new home for us."

"What a wonderful idea, my king!" The man warbled as he tried to speak around the gravel in his mouth, using his arms to try and pull himself out from the ground.

"Yes, it is, isn't it? So once you're done with being a fool, go and find someone from my army who has a second form that I can ride."

"Of.... course,....my king!"

'Things to steal from the King: First: his joy.... Tsk! used his name again, I really have to come up with a new name for him.'

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