Stepping through patches of wet grass was a boy. He was searching for a toy that he threw for his cat to catch. The cat, however, didn't return after chasing the flying ball of dirty yarn and the boy only assumed the cat got lost. So, he decided, with his curiosity holding him high, to go search for both the yarn and his cat. He backtracked to where a small decent river was and shot a glance around to double-check for anything he might've missed. But yet again...Nothing. Until he noticed a tail peeking out of the water..
Isaac looked up at the seeping light above him; it kissed his face all over with a warm sensation. Although, he knew he couldn't return to his room..Not anymore. His mother had apparently gone crazy, hearing a voice from beyond tell her to rid of Isaac's sinful life. As she willingly grabbed a kitchen knife and stomped to her son's room, Isaac panicked, aware of what she was going to do and ended up finding a trapdoor. With nowhere else to go, he jumped down into the dark depths below. Now here he was, staring upwards and recalling a past event involving his beloved pet: Guppy.
"There you are!" He shouted with joy, pulling Guppy out of the river. It was then that his shouts of joy turned into screams of shock as Guppy was torn apart by the impact of the water. He let go in fear and the body was taken away by the clear unforgiving river. Isaac didn't realize what happened to his cat and why it 'swam' away but, he immediately ran back to his house for his mother's help. She was watching Christian shows on television, as usual in her daily routines. Her eyes never looked away from the screen until poor Isaac ran inside. "Mama!" He cried, tears flowing down his pink cheeks. "Guppy went away in the river!" Isaac's mother, never quite the same since her husband divorced, shrugged off his pitiful cries and responded blankly with a "Guppy'll be fine." statement. Isaac blinked away his tears and rubbed some off of his face. "Really?" He asked with hope. "Guppy's going to come back?" His mother nodded and then, turned her attention back to the television. Isaac became more happier at the thought of Guppy walking in, just completely normal and they'd play again like they always do. He kept that thought to himself, going back outside to play for some time while he waited for his pet to return. But, Guppy didn't come back.
He could feel the tears building up in his eyes when he finished looking into the memory. Isaac tilted his head low and his eyes slowly went down, too as he curled into a ball and cried. He didn't know what to do next nor what to expect in a dimly lit basement with cobwebs and...Spiders? He jumped up to his feet and backed away. Oh, how he feared spiders. He watched them with caution and tiptoed his distance from them though, they seemed to follow him. One gave a terrifying gaze straight at Isaac and lunged forward, fangs shown through an open mouth. Isaac could just give a mere scream, standing still and waiting for the spider to bite him. Surprisingly, the tears that fell from his face landed on the spider and caused it to recoil in pain then, shrivel up and disappear into dust. Isaac, more confused than ever, approached the other spiders and cried more due to being frightened to go near them. His tears made it to them and they, too, shriveled up and disappeared. He was glad to have got rid of them and felt relieved to have destroyed a fear of his but, he wondered why his tears killed the spiders. He thought it would've been impossible.
Nothing is impossible at this point. Isaac begun to take realization of that.
He wandered on to the next room, which had two other doors; a normal one like the first and a golden door that twinkled brightly with its colors. The middle of the room had a corpse, rotting with pieces of flesh hanging from its body. The eyes were closed and the body was still, making it seem most likely dead. Still, the sight of a corpse in the basement made Isaac sick to his stomach and he struggled to keep himself from vomiting. He also saw it stand up and open its eyes, full of empty sockets and blood that oozed down its face. It spotted Isaac all to quickly and made a run to him. "NonoNO!" Isaac yelled, breaking into a sprint to avoid the corpse. He thought it was dead; he thought it couldn't move. "Go away!" He told the corpse, shooting tears all around the floor. Fortunately, once the corpse stepped foot into the small pool of tears left on the floor, it melted like hot wax. The corpse let out a scratchy gurgle, looking down at its now-gushy lower body. After a few additional moments, it was reduced to nothing more than a useless pile of gooey skin. Isaac breathed heavily, looking upon what he-no, what his tears had done. He managed to not just kill several spiders but also, a living corpse with the liquid from his eyes. Could he have more power than he's known? Isaac heard the sound of doors opening; the two doors he looked at earlier. He didn't take attention to them and so, he didn't know that they closed on him before..
He decided to no longer worry about that for now and walked in the golden-door room. In there sat a pedestal and on that pedestal was a dice, red like blood. He carefully inched closer to it and poked it once. It didn't do anything strange; that was much pleasing to Isaac. He took the dice in his hands and smiled in relief. It was just like those old toys he had in his room before his mother took them away from him.
Mother?
No...He had to be strong. Mother wants him dead. Nobody's here to save him now.
It's time for him to keep going.