《Re:Mento Mori》Interlude 1: Freedom
Advertisement
A woman stood in front of hastily handmade graves that were placed near a ruin. She wore a silver ornate dress that touched the ground. Her hair was short much like a man's and had the color of her dress. Her eyes were also silver and so too were the uniforms of the people accompanying her. She stood at 170cm and her chest was nonexistent.
She stood like a goddess basking in the sun while she deprived the graves of light. She had found these graves while waiting for her helper to come back with news. Just as she was getting bored, she saw her helper running towards her with a satisfied smile.
Her helper wore an outfit that wouldn’t look too strange on a priest had it not been dyed silver. The hood was down so one could see his face. His hair was snow white and his eyes were red. He was deathly pale, so much so it hurt to look at him. The rest of them wore very similar outfits save for the helpers' unique red marks. He had five in total and each one looked like someone had dipped their finger in some blood and made tally marks.
The helper bowed and readied himself for his god's questioning.
“What did you find?”
An elegant voice leaked out of the woman’s mouth and vibrated through the servants’ ear. He felt so much happiness at that moment he almost forgot to answer.
“We found an assassin dead. No sign of the one who killed him.”
“Diener, read the book for me please.”
Diener elated that his god had just used please, frantically rummaged around his robes searching for the book. After feeling the binds, he pulled it out. The book was about the size of an Encyclopedia and weighed just as much. Inside were countless pages but none were filled. Every single page in that book was blank.
Advertisement
Diener flipped through the book found a good page and began to read. Words that weren’t there before started to appear in red. As he read more and more forbidden knowledge his head grew hotter, and his eyes heavier. Crimson flowed down his cheeks staining the page as he read more and more.
“That’s quite enough now.”
His god’s firm words stopped his eyes from reading anymore. He closed the book and awaited further instruction.
“What did you see?”
“One year and two months from now the sword saint will be in Priscillaca. She will be accompanied by four others and then they will die save for the one.”
“Is he the survivor?”
“Yes.”
A sinister smile crept onto her face and her loyal followers burst into tears at the momentous sight.
“Good work Diener. With that little business out of the way can we start the show?”
“Of course! Bring them out!”
Robed men carried four tied up local villagers and tossed them at the feet of Diener. There was one woman, one man, one boy, and one elderly woman. They started screaming for help but that didn’t do anything but make the god smile once more.
“I love humans. So cute, so sinful, so free. Please do the honors, Diener.”
Diener bowed and then threw a knife down at the feet of the tied-up man. He leaned forward and put his red-stained face directly in front of the man.
“We will usher you into true freedom. The freedom to choose your fate. I’m going to let you go, from there you have three choices. One, kill yourself with that knife. Two, kill that woman with the knife. Three, kill me with the knife.”
Diener removed the restraints on the man. The man picked up the knife and his hands trembled.
Advertisement
“Now choose your path. Choose your freedom.”
“Why? Why are you doing this?”
The albino priest tilted his head in genuine confusion.
“Why you say? Because I am free to do so and nothing more. Now choose”
The woman pleaded and pleaded but the man could no longer hear. All he could hear was his own heartbeat and the god's bated breaths. He screamed and the knife pierced through the woman’s skull and her cries were ceased. The man dropped down and let the knife go.
“Excellent! Excellent! That was freedom. Don’t you feel freer? Don’t you feel like a weight has been lifted off your shoulders? Everyone please can we give this brave man a show of respect!”
The hooded figures that surrounded the area like a sea of silver clapped their hands in unison while tears of joy left the face of Diener who had been greatly moved.
“Can…can I go now? I can go now right!?”
“Of course! Head on home to your family and let them know about the wonders of true freedom.”
The man bolted and the silver sea parted for him. He ran and ran until he was out of sight. The man would never tell anyone of what had happened there for as long as he lived.
Diener took the knife and wiped it off on the woman’s clothes then gave it to the elderly woman.
“Choose your freedom.”
“Hmph, an easy choice.”
The woman stabbed herself in the heart. The child cried and the onlookers watched with attentive eyes. As she lay on the ground bleeding out to the sounds of cries her kidnappers smiled. They smiled because this, this was freedom as well. The freedom to die. The freedom to kill. The freedom to live. The freedom to fight.
The god walked forward towards the boy who was still crying.
“Shhhhh, it’ll be all right. Let me make it better.”
Her hand touched the boy's head and his cries stopped. His breathing stopped, his heart stopped, his brain stopped. With her authority, all function in the boys’ body stopped at once. She turned around walked away from the blood pools. Diener followed on hand and foot.
“Was it to your liking my lady?”
“It was very nice Diener.”
She turned around and touched the face of Diener lovingly. She stroked his hair and wiped away some of the smears of blood. As she did this Diener felt like his heart would explode.
“Will you do something for me, Diener?”
He looked up to the face of his one true god and declared.
“Anything for you Lady Freiheit!”
Advertisement
The Devil and the Huntsman
A MEDIEVAL DARK FANTASY SERIES A great darkness is in the earth and supernatural forces are gathering around to take action and take over the world. The people believe that God has abandoned them and the earth is separated from the heavens. The people of the earth search for a mighty warrior to rule over them. They search for someone to swear that they will rule the world and bring the darkness out of the earth. The creatures of the night plague the lands and desire to take rule of the people. One man who takes the mantle to rule the world is none other than Julius of Romania. A man who sought nothing more than ambition and power to defeat his enemies and save his family. He makes a deal with the Demon Wolf and becomes victorious over many obstacles, battles, and onslaughts. One year passes by and his daughter, Lagertha of Stockholm, drinks the blood of the wolf and becomes the queen of the wolves. Her one and only purpose in life is to honor her people by killing her father and ridding him from the madness that overtook him. Many other people come who are linked together by fate and destiny. They are all cursed with all sorts of powers and tragic pasts. They all swore to live by the sword and die by the sword for the sake of saving their people and driving the forces of darkness away from the world. They would all make many hard choices and many sacrifices along the way. On this journey, they will come face to face against a man whose ambition clouded his soul and made him desire to rule the world and bring a new age to the land. They are called the three hunters: Delphine of Moria, the Cursed Knight; Ragnar of Midland, the Ranger; and Iris of Kattegat, the Huntress. They are all bound by the blood of the wolf, and they were all found by the magic of the Wolf Queen. Together, they will do what is necessary to fight back against the demons and end the tyrannical reign of Mephiles, the Demon Wolf. The Devil and the Huntsman is a new medieval dark fantasy series.
8 196Continuity
I’m writing this all down because I don’t know what else to do with it. This whole experience has been so completely insane that I must record it so people in the future can understand what is going on. Maybe someday someone else can make sense of it. Maybe that person is you, I have no idea. JR awakens from a dream to find that he is late for work! When he tries to call in, he realizes that something is not right. That’s when his friend and co-worker, Frank, calls him and informs him of what just happened to their workplace. JR finds himself in a world that grows increasingly surreal with every passing day. There are basic facts about himself are missing from his memory. When was his birthday again? Taking place in Chicago in the near future, strange buildings, strange events and stranger people populate this world on the other side of the looking glass. JR is left to struggle with his new job and new surroundings, but luckily his old friend Frank is still there to help guide him. He makes many friends who have interesting takes on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. First alerted by Frank, JR slowly becomes aware of a danger lurking in the background that is gradually spreading despite the fact that no one else seems to notice it or acknowledge that he might be on to something. All of this combines to make the novel Continuity about fear, anxiety and paranoia in a perplexing world that seems to be both real and not real at the same time. Rumored to be about 15 chapters and less than 200 pages the novel is written in a first person perspective that breaks the forth wall and will either leave you laughing with delight or scratching your head in confusion, or maybe both!? The one thing it won’t be is boring!
8 170The Cycler Gangs of Beta Fornax
A thousand years after humanity colonized the stars, society is split between the Academics and the Hipsters. When Juno saves Fern from a rival bicycle gang, they are thrust into the middle of the struggle between their two rigid societies—one which believes in culture and tradition above all else, and the other which strictly adheres to the pursuit of scientific knowledge. With Juno raised as a hipster bicycle gang member, and Fern as a scientist, the two become friends and learn to work together to seek a path that neither society condones. When Fern detects a mysterious signal from deep in space, Juno joins her on her quest to uncover its origin before the angry biker gangs and vengeful scientists catch up to them. They discover a third society that neither of the others had known about which might just solve all their problems.
8 195Mastery
An ex soldier is dropped into a forest unfamiliar. He meets people who speak a language he doesnt know, they wield weapons unfamiliar and fight forces unimaginable. This soldier chooses a path, a path few walk and none ever complete. He has chosen the path of mastery. Pic isnt mine! Daily chapters are the aim, at a minimum of 2000 words. DO NOT HOWEVER EXPECT FLAWLESS WORK, THIS IS RAW AND UNEDITED, QUANTITY OVER QUALITY!
8 196Christmas Special - F1 One Shots - Completed
JUST CHRISTMAS ONE SHOTS - 2020
8 113Specter of Oliver Queen
Conner and Mia go back to the past and pick up Thea, Laurel, Sara, Moira, Roy, Diggle, Quentin, and Tommy to show them what happened to Oliver when he was away and also to show them some things from the future so that they can help him when he returns to complete his mission of saving Starling City.
8 106