There is a difference between not knowing where to go and not knowing where you are.
The scariest thing in this world is finding yourself living in both circumstances at the same time.
It is then and only that you are truly lost
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"What where am I ?"
Matthew was shocked to find that he was sitting on a chair.The chair seemed to have been a combination of numerous red bones.
Matthew found that he was sitting at one and f the ends of a long oval shaped dinning table.
He looked around to better understand where he was.He twisted his head and looked at the walls.
Matthew saw an array of picture frames hung on the walls.The dinning table had eighteen chairs circled around it.
There were plates in front of each chair accompanied with one fork,a spoon and knife.
There was also a fruit bowl in the center of the table.Matthew didn't know whether the fruits were actually real but they seemed real enough to to him.
There was a chandelier hung on the ceiling right on top of the table.There we're also countless other ornaments used as decorations in the dining.
At one side of the room was a large door,standing at around 10 feet in height and in the opposing end was s very similar door.
After looking at one on the photos,he saw a ghostly creature with red eyes within it.
"What the actual fuck."
Matthew realized that I very frame contained a picture of numerous scary creatures who resembled ghosts.He was shocked to be beholding such a sight.
The room he was in was shaped like a square.On three out of the four walls of the room were 8 picture frames each.
Each of the frames were scary and terrifying.
Matthew attempted to get up from his seat but fell down as soon as he tried.
"Why is my body so weak?"he asked himself while trying to get up.
Matthew's body was unable to stand straight my though.His body kept on shaking due to tiredness,he had no choice but to stay down.
"It's comfy here anyways."
Matthew continued to lay on the ground, attempting to regain his strength until the floor he laid on began to rumble.
"What the-."
Stomp!
The loud sound of someone jumping on the ground was heard by Matthew.Ge turned his head slowly to get a view on the source of the sound.
To his shock it was a humanoid figure,but not just any ordinary one.It was one of the beings painted in the frame.
The ghostly creature in one of the pictures had come alive.
One of them would have been enough but seven other pictures began to sprout out the beings painted in them.
The tiredness that Matthew was originally feeling was chased out by fear.
He forced himself to get up from the floor and began to retreat by walking backwards carefully.
He was attempting to be as far away from the ghosts as possible.He kept on retreating until he had his back complete resting on a wall.
Unfortunately for him,he was right under a picture frame and a transparent green hand reached out of the frame and grabbed Matthew by his dark hair.
Matthew didn't scream in fear but rather acted instinctively and punched the arm grabbed him.
His punch made the ghost like creature retreat his hand back into the frame.
Matthew was shocked to find that his punches connected with the spirit,and was also surprised that they could touch him.
He thought to himself that they couldn't be ghosts if they could make physical contacts,but he didn't care what they were as he could tell that they easily outnumbered him and hence decided to run out of the dining.
He ran out of the dining room expecting the creatures to follow him but they didn't.He saw them walk out of the completely opposite door.
With them not following him,Matthew decided to take things slow.He thought of testing again as his body still hurt but decided against it as he wasn't sure where he was.
After leaving the dining,he found himself in a long corridor.It was a rectangular pathway with no doors except the one at the end.The hallway was also lighted up by torches hung on the walls.
The pathway was empty except for a long red and black floor-mat.There weren't windows or even pictures like in the last room.
Matthew found this quite shocking due to how long and huge the hallway was.It was quite gombsmacking to him for a room to be this large and yet empty.
"Maybe the owner didn't pay the constructors" he joked while keeping his poker face.
He kept on walking down the hallway until he reached the door.The door was regular sized unlike the kitchen door.
He twisted the door handle and walked through it.
As soon as he passed the though,he realized that he was in a completely identical hallway.He kept on moving forward but each room was identical.
He began running down the hallway but still kept seeing identical hallways.
He had ran through 34 doors but where he was didn't change.He began to believe that it wasn't as if he was in the same room,he was in the same room.
He turned around to see which room was behind him and to his shock he saw it was the dining room which in theory,he should have passed it a long time ago.
He was gombsmacked at the occurrence.He didn't want to believe that such a thing was possible.
"I'm I dreaming or something?"he asked himself.
He was about to attempt walking through the door once more when he hear a loud sound.
CLANG!
It sounded like metal colliding with the ground.Due to the absence of windows and the walls not being reverberated,the sound echoed around the walls,thus amplifying the magnitude of the volume.
Matthew turned around to better understand what produced the sound.He saw an air-vent that was detached from the walls on the floor.
He looked up to see that someone had unscrewed and pushed it down.The culprit jumped down and landed on the foot-mat.
It was clear that the person had been moving through the vents.
The vent crawler was a tall dark-haired male with glistening red eyes and fair-skin.The man had scars on his face and had a well defined musculature,he also held a dagger in his hand and wore Black- Gloves on his two hands. He wore a long dark robe and carried a scabbard which he used to keep his dagger.
Matthew realized that this dude was a stranger and so held his two fists forwards and was in a battle stand.
Matthew had raised his guards up in case this person was going to attack.
"I'd put your guard down if I were you—Puts his dagger in his scabbard and looks at Matthew intimidatingly—"If you try to fight me,it won't end well."
"Yeah,for you."
Matthew turned a deaf ear to the stranger's warning and lunged at him with a hardened fist.
The stranger casually sidestepped to the left and dodged Matthew's blow.
Matthew however didn't stop moving and carried his momentum into performing another blow at he stranger.
The dude however dodged but Matthew just lunged at him again.
They continued these series of moves continuously.
Matthew kept on trying to land a hit but it was futile as his attempts weren't even getting close to the guy.
The stranger was just that much faster than Matthew which shocked him as no human had ever been able to beat him in a face-off of agility .
Mathew was under the assumption that his opponent was human as he looked very human but he didn't know that this stranger wasn't human.
"Give up dude.You can't land a hit on me.This match is over."
"What!You also haven't even landed a blow on me."
As soon as Matthew said that,his opponent instantly switched from defense to attack and effortlessly kicked Mattgew in the guts.
Though the stranger looked like he didn't use much force in the kick,he had actually afflicted an incredible amount of pain on Matthew.
That one kick brought down Matthew to his knees and made him grab his stomach like he'd die if he didn't.
"Are you happy now?I landed a hit and so I said"—pockets his hands—"This match is over."
The man begins to walk away from Matthew but feels his trouser get tugged back.
He turns around and sees that Matthew was on the ground holding his trouser.
Matthew to the shock of the stranger begins to slowly get up from his knees and stand straight.
"Do you really think you can get rid of me that easily?I am not such an easy foe."says Matthew while clenching his left hand in pain.
"How are you standing?You should've been on the floor for much longer after that kick."
"I'm an assassin,I know the weak spots in the human body,I know exactly where someone like you would target."
"Oh reall,Guess I underestimated you…
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Don't worry that'll never happen again."