Part Nine
Finality
The sounds coming from the subway tracks made the ever parania squirm in me, this prediciment was awful. Reality was hard enough for one person but than an alternate one where ghoulish freaks came at from seemingly nowhere was just cruel. The only limelight to it all was the man that called himself 'Loki' and I guess you would have to be careful around him too. He was unique you could say, not only in dress but just everything about him. He seemed to be godly yet he was trying to denounce that and be something more normal I guess.
I could feel for him but I couldn't quite understand why I did on so many levels. I mean, I'd like to be normal than cursed with what he had to deal with everyday. I mean, I only have been experiencing it for alittle while and all I want is to be back home with Dad and not worry about random dogs or creatures trying to kill me. Then the train jerked and made human like noises and I fell forward. I couldn't sense Loki anywhere I began to wonder where he could have went.
The sudden stop shook me and I waited for my sense of balance to return. Standing up, I noticed bloody footprints heading towards the door that lead to the car ahead of the last. Going into the next car, I still saw bloody footprints and continued to follow them. Thats when I entered the next car to see several bodies of monsters slaughtered. I looked at them and saw that a shotgun must have caused their deaths. So, Loki was here and heading towards the next car.
I continued to follow him, trying not to look at the discarded carcasses of dead monsters slain by Loki. After awhile, it seemed like every car I entered I was entering into some wierd layer of another universe. Loki's footprints were always there though, seeming to guide me to where he was. My heart ached, I missed him dearly. I reached the front car and the foot prints lead out into wherever the subway stopped.
I couldn't have imagined what I saw where the subway stopped. The footprints went toward a flight of stairs going down but where we were was baffling. There was graffiti on the wall and that cursed symbol of circles and strange characters on the wall that gave me an intense head ache. I looked away from it as I continued to follow the phantom of Loki. I couldn't help but feel like I was lost but who wouldn't really? I just wished this didn't happen.
But then if this didn't happen, I won't have meet Loki. Something told me that if I hadn't I would have been worse off. Why though? We meet in a freaky dream I had and other than that, I wouldn't have interacted with him or well, if I was still in reality. I guess it wouldn't matter now, I've meet him and I really should try staying near him since he seems to be an ally and he knows his way around the Otherworld.
As I followed Loki, I could sometimes see him and when I was in reality, I couldn't. It almost like every other step, I could see him, know that he existed. Sometimes, I began to question myself. Was he even real, or was he a part of my imagination guiding me through this? I had a stronger feeling that he was tangible and real but in this whacky world, nothing was impossible.
Thats when he just stopped while we were in the middle of the otherworld sewer. I looked at him curiously, his back faced to me and his head cocked to the side. I was so used to him solving all the puzzles and I hadn't payed attention to the fact that we were in the middle of a room that had a walkway over filthy water.
"Loki...whats wrong? You've been acting wierd. Has the otherworld got to you?" I asked and he jerked his arm that held the shotgun and he turned around, his head straightening out and his eyes were more unusual than they normally were.
What otherworld? There hasn't been any other world than this. This is the true world, the only world, the world that is the only one existing. His voice was deep and it had an awful rumbling behind it (his normal whisper with the wailing sirens and ghostly children whispers was gone).
"Who are you and where the hell is Loki?!" I barked at the body of Loki but whatever was in him.
Oh holy mother, you shouldn't be with that fool. He will only hinder our awaiting sister. That is all he said before he seemed to snap back to normal and he collasped towards me.
"Loki! Loki?" I went over to him and his normal voice replied to me with only a muffled moan and something schreeched from the water.
A dead monster floated to the top and Loki slightly stirred. Lifting him up and throwing his arm (with the hand without the shotgun) around my shoulder and I walked sideways across the pathway and then returned to walking straight when I got to the other side.
"Don't worry Loki, I'll look after you for once." I promised him and he just grumbled something as I continued dragging him along with me.
Next time in Fading Twilight;;
I finally can return home but what happened to Loki back there? What the hell possessed him? He must have been possessed by some wierd thing that Claudia probably sent after him. I can't tell but whatever happens, I'll give that cult woman a piece of my mind!
