Warning! There might be some parts that might disturb younger readers. You've been warned.

Part Three

Failure

Standing outside the mall and taking in a relaxing breath of fresh air, I smiled as I have triumphantly escaped that old man detective. What he said about someone trying to find made me curious though, why would anyone come looking for me? My father knows where I am and I don't think I was missing anywhere. Well whatever, he was probably some pedophilish old man that was trying to find any excuse to bring me with him. Grossing myself out, I turned and walked north. I wasn't expecting any of these events happening but an image that stayed in my mind was the image of Loki's eyes.

Thinking about his name, Loki is the name of some Norse god. He was kind of the devil in the Norse mythological god group and thinking about how the name and the man could be put together, it seemed fitting. He looked like a god and he seemed to be involved with that...nightmare world that she dreamt of. Then she thought about when he appeared to her during her subway ride to the mall. He went to reach out to her but he seemed unable to reach past the window.

Coincidence? Probably but I don't have a very good guess on what he is or why he seems so dead set on helping me but it doesn't matter now. Finding a door, I went through it to show me the inner workings of the mall. Walking along the corridors, I found my way out and into one of the wings of the shopping mall. Up ahead was a iron gating that prevented me from going straight to the exit but an open shop door told me I could walk my way around to the exit. When I stepped into the room, I gasped in horror at what I saw and wondering to myself what was going on.

Not too far away from me was a monster with a long face, body and arms and legs eating a corpse of what seemed to be a female. Bits of her face were lying around all over as the monster seemed to eat sloppily. On a shelf behind me was a hand gun and I grabbed it just as the monster took notice to me and came my way. I clammed up for a moment but then steeled myself only a little.

"Stay away from me!" I warned but it ignored me and kept on coming, "I'm warning you!"

Thats when I shot the first bullet into him. I kept at it, fear telling me to keep on firing. After nine more shots, it stopped only a few more steps away from me and fell backwards dead. I put the gun to my side and looked at the corpse of the monster. What will I tell the police? I can't just say I killed this...this thing. Then I looked across the room to the dead woman. I didn't need to get any closer to tell that she was dead. There's another thing to tell the police too, 'Yeah, I came in and this monster was eating this woman's face and she was obiviously killed by it.'. I sighed in disappiontment, this wasn't going to fly real well with the police. Grabbing the ammo that was lying on the ground next to the counter, I walked behind it and went through the door that had read 'EMPLOYEES ONLY'.

I leaned against the door as I closed it, sighing to myself in confusion. Why would I have seen that monster in the waking world? This wasn't right on any degree of level whatsoever. Hoping to find answers, I continued on. I came in contact with other monsters(that looked like dogs with their faces split right down the middle vertically and small like monster things). After finding a few things to open a door, I finally got into the book store, solved the puzzle there and headed back through the employee door yet again.

I walked down the hallway only to see a woman with long grey hair and wearing a long black robe waiting for me.

"Hey, do you know why there are monsters crawling all over the place?" I asked, the woman giving me a cold smile.

"Monsters...is that what you call your dear followers? They are only getting restless to see Paradise." The woman replied, her voice vibrant in quite alot of crazy.

"My...followers? Paradise? What drugs are you on?" I asked her, not even sure if she knew what SHE was talking about herself.

"It seems that Loki has told you nothing. I should've know he would always be a failure. I don't know why we should've just killed him before he became a nuisance." The woman replied, my anger rising now as I heard her diss Loki.

"He is the only one here besides me that seems to notice that these freaks aren't normal! I wouldn't call him a failure because you have lost your mind!" I spat at her, my fustration getting quite noticable.

"You don't remember him or I? I'm Claudia, don't you remember? You certainly seem to remember Loki, but he is hard to forget since he did try to take you away from us..." Claudia mumbled to herself but I could still hear her.

"Remember what? I don't know you. If your the one who hired that creepy detective, then forget about me coming with you or whatever." Clauda seemed to smile cockily as I said that and then I added, "Us? Who is Us?"

"My dear friend, you'll soon come back to us, even if that disgusting demon Loki tries to snatch you away again." Claudia muttered when I began to hear a high pitch ringing in my head and it made me ache all over.

"Claudia! Come back here!" I cried, crippled by pain of the mysterious sound, "How does she know Loki? I have to follow her or find him and ask..."

Thats when I got up and ran down the hall where Claudia disappeared, turning to an elevator and stepping inside with a horrible feeling in my gut.

(I don't own any copyrighted material; only Loki's wiener dog named TuTu.

Loki: STFU. Creep. I don't own a dog!

Me: Jk jk :D)

Next Chapter Summary;

What is happening to me?! This world, its here and I'm awake! Loki is hiding something from me and his connections to that strange woman is certainly one of them. He is definitely on my side but how are WE connected and what did he do for me that I can't remember? Is there anything to be remembered at all?