chapter 3

the whitest of the rooms and that odd gaging sensation

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enjoy at own risk

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"Welcome to the 13th hour. My name is Aeon" I looked and saw him, the boy in white, he was just standing in the middle of a huge empty white room. I closed my eyes and shook my head, when I opend my eyes again the boy was now sitting in a chair and in frount of him was a small round white deck and another chair.

"Please sit, you will be more comphturble" I did as he asked and just looked at him for a while.

"I'm assuming you have no idea why you are hear? I will explane it to you the best I can but I will tell you that my master is much better at explaneing it then I am" The boy explaned and I thaught I could hear a slight note of resentment in the word 'master' but the boy's expresion had not changed at all from the small smile he had on.

"I have no idea what's going on. the last thing I remeber is being stabed" On that note I quickly felt my gut but there was no wound.

"Well yes but this is the 13th hour. It is out side of time and space, you can be in here for years and not a single second will pass in the real world so do not worry about you're real body you are perfectly safe here" The boy explaned. "This place I might add is also ,for the time being, only avalible to you, me, and my master. the 13th hour is a safe haven for you. It will be the place where you will start ... and more then likely the place where it all must end" I looked at the boy his face was solom but he was soon simeling again and he cheeked his watch.

"Well anyway on to bussness you see you are dieing. You were as you just said you're self stabbed, I can not allow you to stay here forever and infact if you do you will most certenly go mad however do not worry you will not be leaveing alone" Aeon said folding his hands under his chin and looking at me.

"Are you comeing with me? becuss im not sure how much help a kid can be." I said very bluntly.

"Oh me no I am bound to this tower and my not leave but I can help you in one way." He said cheeking his watch again. "Time is short so we must hurry."

"I thaught you said that time was unmoveing here? What do you mean time is short?" I asked standing up not understanding what this kid was going on about.

"There is a reason is called the 13th hour, There are only 12 hours on a normal clock and this is the realm out side of time but you see a normal human can only last in here for one hour before there mind starts to unhindg that is why time is short, you have been i here longer then you think" The boy then stood up and started walking backwords.

"You see this" He said after I had followed him a relativly short distence. He was pointing to what looked like an elevator.

"Um ... yes" I said look a it it seemned normal. The boy opend a pannle next to the door of the elevador and I saw 22 buttons on it. most of them were black but the number 14 which was blinking red.

"Somebody who was not invided has found there way in to this realm. This does not happen offten but it has happend before. that button has been blinking for 30 minuets or in you're time I guess it would be about 3 days in you're time" Once again I looked at the kid questingly he saw my face and once again started to explane.

"When in here it is true that time is unmoveing in the real world however when in the real world time still moves in here just at a much slower pace in my time here I have clockd it to one day is 10 minuets. And the worst part about all this is like I said that boy has been there for 30 minuets he only has 30 more before his mind is gone. that's three more days" Aeon was now stareing at the botton but his face was blank and he started off back to the small table.

"That boy who stabed you. do you know him?" Aeon asked.

"Well no not really I only heard his name today, Kenny" I said.

"Well this ... Kenny I belive is the one who fell in to our realm. What stabed you out there was his reflection, his inner desiers and feeling manafested in to a phisical form and it's only getting stronger. in three days time he will complet and the real ...Kenny was it? Will loss his mind and be forever lost. Do you not wish for this to happen?" Aeon asked sitting still.

Sure I did not really know the guy but I don't think anybody dserves a fate like that, Well that is if I'm not allready dead and this is just the last 7 minuets of my active brain.

"No I don't want that to happen." I answer.

"Then you must go after the real Kenny and bring him to face himself. It is the only way. But once they are together there is nothing you can do but hope that he win's the battle." Aeon said shifting in his seat slightly.

"Battle"

"Yes, there is not a dounbt in my mind that this boy will feel something when he comes face to face with him self and nothing good ever comes from it. I'm not sure what the battle will be like but if he lives. Make sure to bring him here." Said Aeon now pulling out his clock again,

"We are almost out of time. Did you hear anything before you came here? Anything at all? And did you feel anything?" He asked look serius.

"Um ya I felt like there was a fire in the back of my throught and some girl asked me something." I said.

"What did she ask?" He asked me leanign forward.

"Well it was more like she gave me a choice. She said 'I may save you if that is what you wish' what does that mean?" I asked he closed his eyes and nodded his head.

"Then it has made contact with you now then only one thing left to do." Aeon stood up and his chair dissapeared. I stood up just in time to nto fall as my chair did the same. A piece of papre started to drift down from what looked like nowhere and it stoped at my eye level. On the dest a pen had appeard.

"This is the contract. If you wish to save the boy locked away in this realm then you should sign it. However you can just leave now if you choose but I can not insure that you will remain safe without her protection." I wounderd what he mant by 'her' but I figured he must be refering to the voice I heard.

"She can help you, Mearly sign the contract and call out her name. But you must hurry only 60 seconds left" He said. I reached down for the pen and looked at the ctonract reading it over.

"30 seconds"

I had no idea what I had just read it was in so big of a hurry that I just then slamned it on the table.

"15 seconds"

I started to write my name on the contract half way done.

"5 seconds"

I could feel it my mind about to rip I printed down the rest of my name and set the pen down. The pain in my trought skyrocked and I felt another burning pain in my stomick, The ground was cold and I felt something warm on my hands. Around me pepole were shouting.

I looked around and slowly got up to my knees. My throut was still buring and only one thing could settle the flames. The name of my saveior it had shot it's self in to my head the moment the contract was seilded. I looked over to Kenny or more the reflection of kenny. Her name would call her forth set her free or as free as she could be while bound to my by the contract.

"Oh so you're not dead yet? Darn I was hopeing to get this done in one shot!" He said then he started running forward. ... Now!

"Lady Blank!" I shouted the boy stoped and everybody was stareing at me. I was about to say it again but at that moment I felt like I was chokeing and the next second a High heald shoe was sticking out of my mouth. Attatched to the shoe was a foot which was followed by a rather skinny leg. Sure the leg was like that of a super modle but you don't really take that in when it's cmeing from you're trought.

I was gagging and could hardly breath as more came out and planted it's self on the ground. Then another leg lookign identical to the first came out and stratched my lips very far makeing then bleed slightly at the edges, Thank god this womans legs were skinny. When is reched her hips I fellt they were growing to full size out side of my mouth so as not to tear my head off. After a good 30 seconds the rest of her body was out as well.

Her hair was white and she was wearing nothing but a night dress that went down to her knees and in truth was quite thin. Not thin enufe to see inside it with out trying but if you did try or there was a slight wind then it would be beond easy,

She turned around and looked down at me, Her lips did not move but her voice rang in my head like church bells.

"Master, I can heal you. say this word with power and I will help you"

I did as she said and called out.

"Dia!" She extended a single arm and a ring of light fell over my body I could feel the wound in my stomick comeing together and mending it's self. I was not really feeling 100% but could stand again.

The reflectiong of Kenny was stariign at the woman in horrior and i could see her smirk before truly opending her mouth and speeking.

"Boo." The reflection ran as fast as it could. Kyle and Stan did not bother running after him. They were too busy stareing at the woman who had steped out of my throught. I would have asked her so much but she started to turn to white mist and flow back in to my mouth. I saw a small glow come from my mouth when she was completly gone but it faded and I had one more fleeding glace at Kyle, and Stan running twords me before I passed out.

The dream I had... I don't remeber? a woman? a woman in white ... just standing there holding out her hand. Her lips moved but there was no sound. She retreted slowly and I folowerd her, the only sound made was the everylasting ring of silence that surounded us. She stopped at what looked like a mirrior and etched in the glass was the question. 'what is real? what is true? what is reality' and right under it what I beive to be the answer.

...'only what you make it out to be'

I awoke slowly after. The questions had loged them selfs to the back of my mind that I had forgoten about them as soon as I took in the light around me. I was on a bed and the surroundings looked familior. It was Kyel's room, so they must have braught me back home. There was nobody in the room with me. I wounder where they went?

I lifted my self up and had a strange feeling in my gut, that is when last night came back to me. The woman that came out of me ... did that really happen? Can a full grown woman just come from a throught by mearly calling her name. ... Her name.

I was trying had but I could not remeber it all that was comeing to me was 'lady'. lady what? I once again felt a sort of tingle in the back of my trought and walked over to the bathroom to see if there was anything in there.

I stood in frount of the mirrior and opend my mouth ... what I saw sent me leaping backwords in to the tub and it pulled the curttens down as well. My hand found it's way to my throut and i held it tight, not tight enufe to choke myself but tight enufe. I waited for my breathing to go back to normal and then stood up and walked back to the mirrior.

I slowly opened my mouth again as wide as I could while still being able to see the back of my throught. and there it was some kind of desighn inside of a circule in the back of my throught. I could not make out the desighen but it was there.

What the hell was going on. ageanst my better judjment I started bringing my hand up in to my mouth. Sticking two fingers in and pushing down in I was close to it now. A bit closer I told my self and with a slight lift of my arm I was able to touch the mark. It was warm or maybe that was just my throught but I could feel it and it was warmer then the rest of my mouth. At my touch it glowed slightly.

I could feel it comeing. reacking to my touch. the same felling from last night. I took my hand out of my mouth ... and I vomited in to the sink. I rubbed my throught and looked in again for a little bit.

"What are you?" I asked my self not expecting an aswer. but that did not stop me from getting one.

"persona" I stoped in my tracks for the door. I knew the voice came out of my mouth but I had said nothing my lips did not move but the voice rang clear as crystal.

"P-persona?" As the word left my lips the mark tingled and warmned yet again. Persona? What did that mean I knew what it ment in a form of if I had looked it up in a dictunary but when spoken it was as if a power was riseing up inside me. What was it?

"Persona" I said again nothing happend but the mark got even hotter and the light was starting to shine throue my teeth. If I was going to try this I was going to do it with feeling.

"Persona!" The mark had turned white hot and i could feel it again, not the sensation of gaging I had before but this sensation of rippaling power. I felt it riseign and opend my mouth as far as I could but it turned out to be un nessasary. un-like last night when the woman in white and shot out in a body to start with this time she was mearly white smoke drifting from my mouth which then formed her body.

She was pale her eyes were brown and her hair was ... blond? ... Last night her hair was white? or I think it was maybe my sight was blruty or something. Then again her lips were also a deep red then but now they were blue and she was not wearing a night dress. She was in what looked to be a normal black tank top and skinny blue-jeens? Why did she look so normal? This woman just materialized from vaper from a mark in the inner part of the back of my neck! That is not normal.

"Stop thinking so much. You will tire you're self out" She said but as always her lips never moved. Her voice just sounded in my head. So by now I was thinking 'HOLY SHIT SHE CAN READ MY MIND!' The woman just giggled which luckly did not just sound in my head.

"What are you?" I asked ... "Who are you?" I could not bring myself to asking anything else.

"Per-so-na. ... I... am you"

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Ya ending here this chapter allready seems to be kinda long. Please forgive and forget any spelling or grammar errors and I hope you enjoy this story. I'm pretty sure that so far it is the only one of it's kind.