Sleepwalkers (prologue)
There are myths in our world, stories that seem like too much to be true, paranormal, abnormal, and just plain weird; ghosts, vampires, witches, wizards, aliens, werewolves, and superheroes. Many think they're just made-up stories, some hope, or fear that many of these myths are real, and very few know of their possible existence. I believe that there's some truth to everything, that any idea anyone's ever had or anything that's ever been thought up, anything we believe in at some point had to have existed, is currently real, or at some point in time will be real. Every idea had to have come from something right? Sure, some things are too dramatic, too fictional, or over exaggerated, but everything had to have originated from something or somewhere and from that idea formed another, and another, until we got today's myths.
There are things in this world that no one understands, secrets buried beneath years of mystery that no one had ever discovered. Every day we find something new, create a great new invention, or discover things that centuries, or only even decades ago were never imagined possible. To this day, even after centuries of hunting and searching, we are amazed by the most unexpected things. We will live for eons and never know everything that Earth as to give, the universe will still be empty to us and we will always be far from knowing everything. Unexpected things arrive in our world every day and we will never have enough time to see everything that can be made. New knowledge is discovered every day and knowledge is endless. My point is, there are things in our world that are right in front of us that we never paid enough attention to , to know what they are or what they were hiding.
In our everyday lives we walk around surrounded by mysteries we might never see, secrets no one will ever know, people beyond anything we've ever expected. We know humans use an average of about 8% of our brains capacity and that using more would make us incredibly intelligent compared to anyone else. What we know as a genius would probably use around 10 or 11% of their brain capacity. We also know that any more would give us incredible mind control, telepathy, psychic powers, telekinesis, control over anything, and incredible powers. What people don't know is that we are surrounded by people with these mysterious capabilities.
We're not superheroes, we don't look any different than any other human, because we are humans, we just use more than others. We have the power to control things with our mind, the power of mens motus, or mind motion in Latin, which sometime may seem like what you call magic. We also have somnium lectio, or dream reading, which allows us to read thoughts and see someone's dreams. We're stronger than a normal human and if anyone knew what we could do they'd think we were abnormal; paranormal. Our power gives us control over inanimate objects, read minds, communicate telepathically, we can do a lot, control so much with just a thought, and see and hear things no one else can. We can make anything out of everything. We're called, sleepwalkers.
I wouldn't say we're abnormal, but we're also not everyone else's definition of normal. Yes, we are strong, and yeah, we can do a lot, but the only thing we can't do it take control over a human being; change their thoughts; have power over their actions. The human brain is much too complicated for someone else to be able to take control over it. No one has that much power, except for one person. Demiter. The most powerful sleepwalker of all time. He used to be the one person everyone came to for help, he used the powers he had discovered for good, but slowly he began to change.
He would usually helped doctors and scientists because he had such an extended knowledge and could to practically anything with his powers. When someone was having depression problems, weird dreams, or insomnia, they would look to him for answers. He would see peoples thoughts and dreams, and was able to bring back memories of their past to search for answers to why someone had any of these unexplainable problems. Unfortunately, one day something went terribly wrong, and within the chaos he found out he was much more powerful that he thought. Having the life he had, he got tired of ways he was treated outside of home and decided to use his power to take revenge on everyone. Even the people he had helped. His reasons are still unknown, but I don't think I want to know what was going through his mind at that point in time. He now knew he could make people do anything he wanted, control anyone and anything, and destroy whatever he wanted with a single thought.
That day all the rage in the world had taken over, he owned everything, ruled over everyone because he knew that out of their fear, everyone would do as he commanded. He used his power to make sure everyone knew who he was and what he could do. Demiter made himself known as who we now call God. That's right; he made sure all mankind would follow him for the rest of all eternity. But he was smart, he wasn't going to be known for the horror he caused, but for the wonders he had given us. Why do you think we believe in the devil? Someone had to be the bad guy, right? Demiter wasn't an idiot, he knew how to get what he wanted, but he took revenge too far one day.
Today he is being held captive in a place unknown to all who inhabit our planet, except those who watch over him. It's a place far beneath the underworld, beyond miles of rock and magma, deep within the center of the Earth, away from the rest of humanity, a place where all his powers have been concealed. He has no power to control anything down there, any sleepwalker to be imprisoned here has their brain capacity is decreased to a normal humans level. Unfortunately he finds more and more ways to manipulate the rules because even with him being dumbed-down, he's still smarted than the average human, and he's slowly getting his power back. Every sleepwalker knows that one day, he will rise again, bringing great terror to everyone, but there's only one way he can come to full strength, and only one person can stop him.