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Tale of a Demon

Darkness. It was all around him. Oddly, enough, he wasn't afraid. He remembered being terrified moments (or was it longer?) before, but he was calm now. Was he dead? He vaguely remembered a burning pain in his chest. But that felt so long ago….he felt his memories slowly being pulled apart...dissolving in the endless black…but he wasn't scared. He was calm. He was at peace. It wasn't painful. It was a relief, having these heart-wrenching memories slowly vanish, memories that had once led him to attempt suicide. Pain….there was so much of it in those memories….he didn't want them anymore. Better just to let them go….Then he felt it. A slight tug. There….right there! Something was pulling at him…Like a small child that wanted to show him something. Somehow he knew it was important. Struggling he tried to follow it. The darkness clung to him, gently calling him back to its embrace. He had trouble remembering. It suddenly seemed very important. Weird. Moments ago, it hardly mattered. He tried to remember his name. It was an effort. Nothing. He could feel them, memories at the edge of his mind, but no matter how hard he tried he just couldn't remember! He felt vaguely annoyed. It was hard. He felt so distant, from everything. His emotions, his thoughts, his memories. They all felt so far away….But still he walked. Letting the tugging sensation guide him. Slowly out of the black…Then it was all gone. He looked behind him, wondering where it was. There was nothing but blue sky. His memories felt closer now. He could almost grasp them. He tried remembering his name again. Still nothing. Sighing, he looked around. Where was he? An island? But no…there was a forest right there….That was odd, considering a sea of fire burned bright next to it. And the water lapping up on the shore didn't seem to have any effect on either of them. Next to what appeared to be an ocean was a cliff. If you could call it that. The land suddenly dropped off, no rise in elevation, no jagged edges; it was there, then not there. Gently he felt the tug again. Where was it coming from? Wait…there was more than one…one was pulling him to the burning sea, another to the pounding waves. But there was one more….where was it coming from? It was stronger than all the others…The forest? No, he felt no desire to go there. The cliff then? The moment he thought that, a jolt of fear shot through him. Something bad had happened on an edge like that. Definitely not the cliff. Where then? He knew but he had no idea. He closed his eyes. It felt stronger now. He instinctively followed the pull. He felt water against his ankles. The waves? No….deeper down….it was inside the water. He felt something similar inside the sea of flames, but he knew it wasn't what he was looking for. Taking a deep breath (he didn't know why, he was fairly certain he was dead) he plunged down into the water. There! He could almost see it. He had to swim farther down. As he swam, it got darker and darker, until he could no longer see. But he wasn't afraid. The black around him was calm. He no longer felt water around him. The pull was stronger than ever before now. This dark wasn't scary, it calmed him in a way nothing else could. He felt this was what the tug wanted to show him, as he felt it ease. All the other pulls had vanished. He was where he needed to be. Somehow this endless stretch of black nothingness was completely different then the darkness he had been in before. It was comfortable, but it felt alive. He heard a voice softly ring out from the black. "Ahhh…it has been a while since someone embraced the darkness. Child, I sense you are in great pain…and yet you trudged out of the nothingness to find me. You walked out of the emptiness that promised you a release from your suffering. Why? Even now, I can feel the torment locked away deep inside."

He didn't know what to say. Why had he walked out, away from the ink that promised to erase all his memories, and his pain along with it?

"I-I don't know…."

"There is no need to be nervous. I will not judge you. You are safe here. I'll ask you again. Why did you walk away from your chance at release?"

But he wasn't listening. Those three words rang in his head, you are safe, you are safe, you are safe. I'm safe….he thought to himself. I'm safe…. He couldn't remember the last time he had felt safe. He felt it was a long time ago. He struggled to remember.

"No….not yet. You will remember all soon enough."

He felt the memory fade again. He trusted this voice. He didn't know why. But he felt certain that he would remember when this was over.

"There….that's better, right?"

He nodded.

"Now where were we….? Ah yes. I was asking you why you walked all this way to find me…."

"I don't know why….there was this tug….and I just followed it."

"Why this one? Why here? You were pulled towards the flames and the water, were you not? Why did you embrace the dark?"

"I feel like I belong here." He did. He knew that if he went to the waves, or to the flames, he wouldn't feel like this, like he was meant to be here. Not like this. The voice chuckled.

"So true…Child, I shall make you an offer. I can give you another chance at life. Not a reincarnation, not as someone new. You. You will keep your memories and begin a new life. But you will not be human. The people from your past might reject you, might hurt you. Are you willing to take that chance?"

He thought about. The realized it was pointless. He'd already made his decision.

"Yes."

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