Dusted Summons

I had no idea where exactly I was going. Like it mattered. I usually go anywhere I want to, but this time it seemed more compelling. Almost as if I was being pulled to go in this direction. Epona was tired, I could tell. She was steadily growing more tired. I myself was dying of thirst. My tongue felt like a slab of dry leather in my mouth. Dust covered my face and clothes, and it was excruciatingly hot. I rode on into the desert Colossus, still unaware of quite where I was going, but something inside me compelled me to go in a certain direction.

We lived in a beautiful world, but I was feeling so ungrateful at the moment, almost suicidal.

Epona halted at one point. I figured she stopped from exhaustion. Feeling the same way, I tumbled off Epona and landed in the sand with a thud. I lay there for a few moments, not knowing quite to do. I was thirsty. I was tired. And I felt there was nothing more for me to do. Eventually, I stood up, looked around, and confronted my problems once more. I was 24 years old, married, and bored. My usual life of action and war was overshadowed by calm but sexually charged home life with my wife, Malon. I drew my sword and swung it around, then stuck out my dry tongue and attempted to cut it off. I was that bored. I knew it was a selfish thing to do, to harm myself, but what else could I do to feel emotion of sorts. I needed to refresh my life. I was tired of sleeping, tired of having sex, tired of learning. I wasn't tired of pain.

I stopped, realizing the stupidity of my thoughts. I fell to the sandy ground again and swore to myself. "fuck." Fuck. Such a beautiful word. I fell backward, sprawled out in the sand. After about 15 minutes, I got up, and realized Epona was missing. I looked a little further away to see her drinking from a nearby oasis. I walked on over and began drinking myself. The water tasted rustic and musty in a sense, but it mattered not to me. It was moist. I looked up from my drink and saw a gigantic mansion in the distance. Thinking it as I mirage a plunged my face into the water. I raised my face again to see the gigantic mansion again. I mounted a more-energized Epona and began to ride towards the mansion.

As I neared the mansion, feelings of apprehension began to fill me. Epona also began to slow down, but I pushed her to go more quickly. I arrived at the mansion's door and dismounted Epona. The door was gnarled with roots and the material that the mansion was made of was turning an orange-ish hue. I banged on the door. No answer. Feeling compelled to enter at all costs, I pulled out my megaton hammer and smashed the door open. It blew into a million pieces. The inside of the mansion was extremely bare. No furniture, no carpets, there was nothing at all. The entrance hall was littered with doors leading deeper into the house. There were four doors on each side of the hall, and in the center, there was a staircase leading upwards.

After realizing there was really no one to be found within, I slowly examined each of the doors. I had no idea of where to start, or where they lead to. The first door I saw had a crest of two sunken eyes engraved into a crest on the door. I grabbed the doorknob, but drew back and threw my hand off immediately. There must have been a type of poison applied to the door, for as I gripped the doorknob, I felt a crippling fatigue in my hand muscles. Yet simply trying to open the door compelled me more to enter. I grabbed the doorknob again and cringed as the pain flowed through my hand and into my arms. I eventually found my arm feeling so weak, I could not bring myself to twist the doorknob.

I stumbled backward and collapsed into a crying heap on the floor. I felt as though I could no longer do anything. A rush of blood then ran to my head. I pulled out my megaton hammer and smashed the door down. The door exploded into a green fluid and relinquished a room that was empty. As soon as I took one step into the room, I went blank and was transported to a totally different area.

(chapter 2 will come as soon as I get my shit together at school)