Chapter 9 Confusion
My heart was still pounding in my chest, breathing was barely coming and my head was spinning. I managed to make it through the hotel, only bumping into a few people, finally I made it to the elevator, every time I blinked I saw the graveyard, those skeletons on their horses, trying to take my Mystery, I was pretty sure that none of their arrows hit me yet I still felt pain in my arm. I couldn't deny it with each step I took to my room, I was bleeding. I made it to my room without drawing un-wanted attention, I really didn't need to explain why I was bleeding, what would I say? Skeletons on horses shot arrows at me while a ghost got me out of there? Yeah, just thinking it made me sound crazy. Luckily I knew how to deal with my arm, peeling back my shirt I found a nice even gash running from my shoulder right to the elbow joint. I didn't know if stitches were necessary but for now I would make do. I took my shirt and held it over the gash to stop the bleeding. Right now I needed answers, answers and a very strong drink. I tried not to think of what happened to Mystery but I will never forget that look in her silver eyes when she was put on the back of that horse. She didn't want to go with them, that was obvious. I pulled back my shirt and for the second time that night, my eyes bulged. It was gone, it had just vanished, as though it was never there. No blood, no gash, nothing. My arm looked as normal as ever. I had no idea what was going on but it didn't put me at ease either, there was a general rule among people, when you can't see something, thats when you're in trouble. Running my hands over my face, I tried to put my thoughts in some sort of rational order, it didn't help or work for that matter. It all just played through how it happened. I saw her sister's grave, then we were ambushed by horse-riding skeletors, I was hit and then the gash just vanished. Just thinking about it made my energy drop. I flopped down on the bed and just looked up at the ceiling hoping that the answers just came to me out of no where. Other than the fact that Mystery was taken, the other thing that bothered me was I was pretty sure I had seen those freaks before. Some where, I had seen them but I just couldn't think where. After laying there for what seemed an eternity, I got up and had a long shower, the water relaxed me and let me inspect my arm again, it was all clear and normal. Nothing was wrong, except everything. I got out of the shower and had a thought, maybe there was a way I could figure out all this crap, after all, shit like this happened to people all over world apparently. Hopefully I could find something, anything that would help. My hopes were extinshed once I loaded up Google, what exactly could I type in that would get me a straight fucking answer. I typed in the only thing I could, skeletons riding horses. I wasn't surprised at all the crap I got in response, it sounded like crap but after everything that had transpired in the past few days, I was forced to believe. I had always kinda believed in that kind of thing but this just re-inforced everything. After the fifteenth page I finally found something that helped.
Guardians of the lost;
The three horsemen of the lost take souls to their final resting place, the horsemen take souls that are stuck between Heaven and Hell. Guardians only take souls that have ended with 'suspicious' circumstances.
I had no idea what the hell that meant, it was only confusing and more questions. I shut my eyes briefly before ringing a number I rarely rung outside of work, but if there was any one man to know more about this stuff than me, it was him.
"Hey Kane, to what do I owe this pleasure?" John Cena's pleasant voice made me want to punch him through the phone.
"I have a question for you, I was reading something on the net and I'm very un-sure of what it means, wondering of you could help"
"Sure, I guess"
"What do you know about the Guardians of the lost?"
"Guardians? Uh not much really. Just that if a death doesn't have an answer then the soul that was taken is stuck, it doesn't know where to go and the guardians try to take it to the right place,"
"Is there any way to stop them?"
"Nothing that I know of, but the soul has a choice, it doesn't have to go with them if they don't want too,"
"Why wouldn't they want too?"
"Sometimes they have un-finished business, mythology has it that, sometimes if the death is solved while they are stuck then the guardians have no choice but to let it go,"
"Meaning they come back to life?"
"Yeah, I guess so, but Kane its just myth, none of it is real"
I hung up on him, now I had a little bit more of the puzzle, at least I think I did. Mystery was stuck between resting places, the guardians were trying to take her and she needed me to help solve the puzzle as to what happened to her. I could save her life, and now that there was a chance to make her real, I was going to take it.
