The door opened up to reveal the main hall. I walked around the tables and glanced around the room. It was clean and empty, but I'm sure not too long ago it was filled with people, creatures and food. I walked through the door that lead to the entrance hall and paused, looking outside the front door. I could see small wooden fences enclosing the pebbled path lying in front of me. There were various trees dotted around on the grass.
I stepped outside and immediately the outside world welcomed me. The fresh air, the faint muttering in the distance, and bright sun, and the running river. It seemed so peaceful, I didn't feel myself liking it. I strolled along the colourful stones beneath me and stuffed my hands into my pocket.
I looked over to where I saw a young girl crying on a wooden arched bridge. There were two other girls comforting her. I had chosen to walk that route, so I have to walk past them. As I edged closer and closer, I began to listen in on their conversation.
"B-but I loved that dog! It was my best friend!" She blurted out among sniffs and tears. "Now, now, Losha. We can always get another puppy for you! There's no point crying over it." The two girls walked off in the direction I was heading. I stopped walking and watched the girl on the floor-Losha I think her name was.
"They-they don't understand! I don't want another puppy.. I want my Yorrn back! Those, horrible people taking him from me.. Waaaaaaah!" She moaned, rubbing her eyes. I knelt down and she looked ta me with sore, red eyes.
"What happened?" I asked out of the blue. Should I even care? She said something about bad guys, so there might be something in it for me..
"I was out playing with my puppy, yorrn at the northern leren mountains, and then these scary men came and snatched her from my arms! Then they shoved me into a tree and laughed, walking away with my puppy! And, and! They were dangling him from his tail! Please, will you help me?"
I wanted to laugh, but I stopped myself. "Sure." I sighed, then noticed her sleeve was all stained with blood. I examined her body closely and saw bruises, cuts and blood scattered everywhere. "Do those people you were just with know about these injuries?" I asked.
Losha shook her head. "No, just thinking about it.. Scares me" she covered up her blood-stained sleeve with her other arm. "So, you know where you was last with your dog?" I cut to the chase.
"Yes. Follow me.. please. And we'll have to be sneaky" she stood up. She struggled in front of me as I followed her through fields of weird creatures and scenes I couldn't remember. Finally, she stopped walking. Lifting her wounded arm, she pointed to the bottom of a mountain, with a few trees and large mushrooms. "I'm too scared to go any further" she cried. She would of slowed me down anyway, so that was fine. "Stay here, then." I walked down the hill as she sat against a tree at the top of the hill. As I came closer to the bottom of the mountain, I saw a little campfire and there were two people sitting there laughing.
Why didn't I sneak past them? I felt overconfident, and I ended walking straight up to them. They were both wearing black hoodies, the same as me. One wore a black cap with a yellow front and some sort of logo printed on it. He had straight black hair poking out from under the cap. The other guy had a small brown cowboy hat with a white feather sticking out the top. He had a blonde fringe and menacing blue eyes.
"You two.. Have you seen a puppy around here?" I asked, straightforward. The one with the cap stared at me, then smirked secretly. "Oh, this is interesting." The blonde guy beside him chuckled, tilting his head and staring at me. "It's ever so nice to see you again".
They knew me. These guys.. Was it them who made me lose my memory? Anger inside me was fuelled into rage, and I clenched my fist and bit down on my teeth. "Looking for a lost puppy?" The one with a cap smiled. "Or maybe you're the lost puppy here."
I could just punch them, but something was holding me back. I felt like it was against the rules to hit them, although in one swipe I could harm Losha at my own free will. Free will? What was that.
"What's wrong?" The blonde haired guy pouted, standing up and pulling a chain of some sort. A ruffled up puppy was thrusted onto the ground from behind a mushroom. It looked like nearly all it's fur was ripped out, and its legs and nose was bleeding. It whimpered and whined.
I breathed in slowly. "That's the dog. Give it back." I held out my hand and stared at him in the eye. Before I could move, he took my hand and shook it. "Lifus. ... You know I really have missed you, my forgetful friend." I snatched my hand back and he laughed, dropping the chain on the floor.
"The other guy stood up, and adjusted his cap. "I might as well introduce myself, though even back then you never bothered to remember my name. Kubar." I blinked, they both knew me, but I didn't remember them. Nor did a weird vision trigger.
Kubar laughed "You don't need to introduce yourself, you don't even know who you are!" He laughed again. "Come on, Lifus. Let's leave him. Until we meet again!" Kubar and Lifus strolled off without looking back at me. I stared at the puppy on the ground and picked up the chain. I wanted to go after them, my heart seemed to beat as if I was missing out on a really important chance.
I clutched the chain and picked the puppy up, it's two front paws were hunched over my shoulders and it was wagging it's tail. "I'm not a good guy." I mumbled to the dog. "I'm one of them."
