To make things worse, Kendall and I are fighting. I tried to tell her that I was just working late, but she didn’t believe me. She said, (Where the fuck have you been all night! No calls! No text! You realize how late it is!). She said; if I was at work, then explain why I didn’t answer her when she tried to call. The truth is I couldn’t even remember the last time I used my phone. It is always on silent at work. She thinks I’m cheating on her…ya right…like I have time for that. I’m trying to get my life together.
Journal date: August 16th, 2005
Last night I was driving home from work. I had seen a building that said, ‘Psychic Readings’. I have always been skeptical of that kind of stuff, but I wanted answers. All of the building’s words were lit up in purple light. Astrology on the left side of the door, tarot cards on the right side of the door. The word ‘Psychic Readings’ was located just above the door and had four stars on each side. I walked into the building. The whole place was full of items, to either banish or summon spirits. It smelt like burning amber incense. There was a lady behind the counter, her name was Janus, she smiled when I entered, and said, (how can I help you child). Me being the smart ass I am, I said, (Shouldn’t you know that already). She gave me a little giggle, but I don’t really think, she found it funny. I told her that I needed to get my dreams explained. She had me follow her through a beaded doorway, into her back room.
That room had a table, which was lit by four lights, shining down from the roof onto the table. She offered me a seat. I sat down across from her. She asked me to explain my dream. I did. I told her about my dream, and then my encounter with Artemia. I explained she was wearing a robe with an eagle on it. That freaked Janus out for some reason. She said the eagle was the symbol of a messenger, a symbol of opportunity, freedom, and power. She said it was one of the most unique animals to see in a dream. She said that a spirit was trying to tell me something of great importance. She said we needed to contact the spirit world. Janus asked me to concentrate all my focus on Artemia, so she could speak with her. We had reached across the table to each other, to connect our hands. After a few moments of focusing, her hand twitched. She said, (Deiham it’s so dark here, there is nothing but a door. It is barely lighted, and smoke is slowly drifting around the whole area). She said she was going to try to pass through the door. She had opened the door. (Deiham I see a spirit, not as you explained though). She said he was sitting in a chair smoking a cigar; he had on a business suit and a smirk on his face. She repeated everything that the spirit said, as he said it. She said, (That man in front of you, wants to rape you, beat you, and rob you! Make him leave!) I don’t understand who the hell this spirit was. Janus freaked out on me. She grabbed a nearby metal candle holder and started swinging it at me. I could believe it. I ran out of there as fast as I could. I don’t what happened. I never believed in the spirit world. If it was true, who was this spirit? Maybe it was that punk kid Tom, maybe he passed away and wanted to mess with me from beyond the grave…Nah, that can’t be it. Maybe the storeowner just wanted to fuck with me for being a smart ass with her when I first walked in. I don’t know…I still don’t know what the hell is going on. I feel like I’m going completely crazy. I just can’t believe she actually talked to any spirit. I’m still left with no answers.
Journal date: August 17th, 2005
Ding! Ding! Ding! The next morning I woke up to my antique grandfather alarm clock, it showed 9 A.M. I slept well last night. I didn’t have any nightmares; In fact I couldn’t remember dreaming at all. I had sat up on the couch and stretched. Then I got up off the couch and stretched some more. It felt so good to sleep so well. I decided to go down the hall and peek in the bedroom. Kendall was still fast asleep. I had tippy-toed to the closet and grabbed some clothes for a shower. I walked into the bathroom. The bathroom cabinet mirror was left open above the sink. I had closed the mirror slow like something was going to show up in the mirror; like my life was a scary movie; nothing was there. I’m losing my mind…I just feel like there is someone here…watching me.
Journal date: August 18th, 2005
I started the day, like any other day. I headed out of the bedroom, as soon as I opened the bedroom door. Artemia was there. I stood frozen, like an ice burg. I could not move. Artemia extended out her hand. She said that she wanted me to take a walk with her. I found that funny, because, at the time, I couldn’t even move my legs. I found the courage to pinch my elbow…I wanted to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. I was scared, but my curiosity overpowered my fear. I decided to take Artemia’s hand. She told me on the walk, no one would be able to see us, or hear us.
Artemia had transported us to the street, right in front of my apartment. She told me to look around. Nothing was real. She said a spell was put on the people of earth. She pointed over towards a lady walking a dog, she said, it wasn’t real. I didn’t understand, I asked her what she meant. She said that people of Earth, are really from a place called Casporix. She then pointed just under the highway. There was a homeless man there. He appeared to be talking to himself. Everything he owned was in the shopping cart next to him. There wasn’t much in the cart. He just had some pop cans, clothes, and a little weather radio up front. The only other item he owned was a trash bag, probably just filled with more junk. Artemia asked me what I thought of that homeless man. I told her, that he was a man down on his luck, and probably a little crazy too. Artemia began to explain to me on how this world was created. She said, (Earth is not real, and there was a pathway to the other world). She called this would Casporix. She said we travel toward this world when we dream. She said there is a middle dimension, a dimension between Earth, and Casporix. When we sleep we can travel to the middle dimension. When people have a strong enough mind, they can push through into Casporix. If someone can make it pass the middle dimension, into Casporix, a man named Epialeus, the keeper of the portal, returns them to Earth. When people are returned, they forget about Casporix. Sometimes they even forget what they dreamt about. I didn’t know how to take all this in. I just wanted my life to go back to the way it was. I was finally making progress in my life. I had a good job, a girlfriend, and was getting to a point in my life where I was actually happy. I told Artemia that I had enough for now. I need to clear my head. This whole scenario was just too difficult for me to take in. How could everything be fake? It didn’t make sense to me. I had to clear my head.
Journal date: August 21st, 2005
Ding! Ding! Ding! Damn antique clock. I just wanted to sleep. The clock woke me up, again at 9 am. I decided that I’m not going to go to work today. I need to clear my head. I called in. Kendall called, but I didn’t answer. I just really don’t feel like talking to anybody.
Journal date: August 21st, 2005
So much for relaxing today, I called in for no reason. I usually don’t make two journal entries in one day, but Artemia showed up again. I was just sitting on the couch. I felt like someone was behind me. I slowly turned my head back, and sure enough, Artemia was standing there. I hopped off the couch, and yelled, (Holy Mother Mary, and Joseph). She said (I’m not your Mother, Mary, or Joseph). She told me she wanted to walk again. I agreed.
She had transported us to a dark cold hallway. The hallway was dim lighted, with four rooms on each side. The hallway had double doors at the end. All I heard was a clutter of voices. All gibberish, nothing made any sense. The occupants of each room were completely insane. Artemia explained that everyone there traveled to Casporix, but when they returned their minds stayed behind. They had to live their lives in torment unless I could save them from this curse. Me? I wanted to ask her, but I couldn’t. We were interrupted. Band! Bang! Bang! Someone or something pounded on the double doors down at the end of the hall. Then a man dressed in medieval armor busted through the door. That man was gigantic and was dragging a big sword behind him. I recognized that man. He was the man from my dream. He was fighting on the platform. He was the victor of the sword fight. I was scared to death; I’ll never forget the
way he looked. His chest plate had a circle of pitchforks in the middle. His helmet had a faceplate, which was that of an evil man, with two horns. That man looked like the devil himself busted through the door, wearing battle armor. Then out of nowhere a thick sheet of ice, had spread from the floor to the ceiling; then wall to wall. It had blocked the beast. The ice was thick; it stopped the beast from getting to us. He had started hitting it over, and over again, with his giant sword. Then I woke up….
Journal date: August 21, 2005
I had to look at my journal. What the hell is going on? Am I dreaming all of this stuff? Ding! Ding! Ding! It’s still 9 am…August 21st…how is this happening? I’m so confused how it’s still 9 am, same day, and I already have 2 journal entries…it’s like I’m not really waking up. I heard some sounds coming from the front door. Scared the shit out of me. There was banging on the door, then the handle turned. I held my breath, worried about what was going to come through the door. I was relieved when I found out it was just Kendall. She is gone now; she came over to break up with me. She said that she felt I was too distant from her. It was true. I had bigger problems than a girlfriend. I really didn’t put up too much of a fight for her to stay. GOD, I’m so tired. I need to go back to sleep.
Journal date: Aug 22nd, 2005
It’s so early in the morning. Artemia woke me up, at 2:00 am. I am sure I wasn’t dreaming. She asked me to get out of bed and follow her into the living room. When I did she asked me if I knew anything about the grandfather clock in the living room. I told her that it was delivered to me as a gift from my mother. I wasn’t sure exactly who sent the clock; it didn’t have a return address on it. Then she told me, that the clock was created when the spell was complete. She said that my true mother was Minervah, Queen of Kylouz, the biggest kingdom of Casporix. She held out her hand, and from nothing she made a hammer appear. She held the hammer by the head and offered me the handle. She told me to break the clock if I want answers. She asked me to trust her. She said that breaking the clock would bring me closer to saving my mother. She is currently is a prisoner in Kylouz. I wanted answers. I wasn’t sure how breaking the only gift, I ever got from my mother, was going to bring me closer to her, but I had to try.
I grabbed the hammer by the head. I smashed it over, and over again. I kept hitting it until it was broken into multiple pieces. Out of the corner of my eye, I had noticed something shining. It was a sword. The sword was a broken sword, the top half of the blade was missing. Artemia was happy I found the sword, but she told me there was something more important. I kept digging through the broken wood, springs, and metal. Then I found it, the item that would change my life forever. A blue shining skull, half of it was missing.
My Visions…
I had seen many visions of Casporix, many stories. The land was once a world of beauty. The trouble started with King Safri, the king of Kylouz. Kylouz was the main kingdom of Casporix. It was where all paid worship to their leader, and a majority of people lived there; but not everyone. There was a kingdom to the south, the kingdom of Sylvania; Sylvania was located under the left wing of the ‘Stones of the Phoenix’.
‘Stones of the Phoenix’, gained its name from the rock, and cliff formations, which from heights, was shaped like a Phoenix. Sylvania was under the shade of the high cliffs and rock formations. To the left of Sylvania was a canyon, which spread almost the whole length of the land. The canyon was miles deep. Sylvania was secluded, and hard to get to. Sylvania was nowhere as advanced as Kylouz; the people there enjoyed living off the land. They respected the land, and the forest, they used only what they needed from the woods. They did not build giant stone structures. However, the kingdom was not small by any means. They had many who lived there, and held a great army, and a giant wooden castle. King Tomlin was the ruler there. The trouble began when King Safri demanded King Tomlin swear allegiance under his rule.
King Safri was worried the beast of the north would attack Kylouz, before they would ever enter the woods. The beast of the north lived in a place called Ebon Frost. The beast had raided villages, in the outskirts of Kylouz many years prior; King Safri’s daughter Minervah, was in one of those villages, but lived. King Safri, feared them, but none would dare travel to Ebon Frost for war. The beast that lived there could turn invisible, and could control water, and ice. He only wanted to be defensive against them. His scouts had noticed the beast getting closer to the River of Preditus; which ran through the entire continent. The River of Preditus was roughly 6 miles wide but ran from coast-to-coast. Running high north, to the deep south, ocean to ocean.
There were only two was to pass over the river. One was on the right wing of the Phoenix, and the other was far south of Sylvania. The river was the only thing that separated Kylouz and the beast. King Safri was worried a situation could soon arise with the beast, and asked King Tomlin to swear allegiance to come to aid if he ever needed them. He already had the loyalty of Rebutjar. A smaller Kingdom, located far to the east of Sylvania. He felt if the beast attacked, he would need all kingdoms together. That allegiance would have required King Tomlin to provide supplies for King Safri if ever needed. That request would have meant that King Tomlin would have to destroy the trees, and use other materials found in his kingdom; which he refused. Also, if the beast did attack, King Tomlin wouldn’t want to have to provide troops to Kylouz; he would want them in Sylvania, protecting his home. The kings could not come to an agreement, so they declared war on each other. In a war referred to now as the Battle of the Phoenix.
Months passed, and although Kylouz had a bigger army King Safri was losing the war. He was attacking King Tomlin’s land. Most of the battle occurred at the ‘Stones of the Phoenix’, which was mostly on King Tomlin’s land, so he had the advantage. The inside of the Phoenix was a flat land, but the outer part of the Phoenix was very high cliffs, and rock formations. There were only two entrances into the battlefield, west of the River of Preditus. One was at the beak of the Phoenix, and the other towards the bottom of the tail, which lead straight into Sylvania. The only other entrance, no one ever used, because it was on the east side of the river, which was beast territory. The right wing of the Phoenix had cliffs that went high over the River of Preditus, down a mountain, but no one dared to use it. The path was too dangerous.
King Safri needed help. He had gone to the Northwest, to a place called Witches Peak. Not many had the courage to see the witches. At that time, people feared them even more than the beast. The witches were a magical race. Not to say they couldn’t be killed, but contact with them was avoided. It was said that, the witches were violent, but no one ever talked to the witches, nor seen them for many decades. It was said that the witches held the most magic in the world. King Safri didn’t fear the witches’ magic, he wanted to use it, and he wanted to win the war. He traveled to the Witches’ Peak. After heading through the mountains, he came to a ladder, which he climbed, leaving his horse, and his guards at the bottom. He had found himself on a platform, with four pillars that overlooked the ocean. He called out the witches to show their faces, and they did. The witches had appeared and formed a slow-moving circle around King Safri. The witches were gray, with long fingernails, and completely black robes; between their robes, and bodies, there was no distinction in color. All one could really see of the witches were their glowing yellow eyes. They asked him why he had come, explained he was either brave or stupid. He had told the witches his situation. King Safri explained that he was losing the war with King Tomlin. He demanded help, and warned them, if they refused, he would come after them next. The witches did not like threats but ignored this one; they had bigger plans in mind.
The witches didn’t like the world as it was. There were too many wars raging. They wanted to restore the balance of good and evil, they had already been working on a plan. They had created an object that would restore the balance. It was a crystal skull. The skull was a medium sized pendant, which shined different shades of blue; it had a small hoop on the top; so
it could be worn as a necklace. They named it, the skull of power. The person who wore the skull would have GOD-like powers. The person who wore it could alter realities, create or destroy anything. The skull could take anyone’s deepest wishes, and make them true. The witches knew that this power could be devastating if it fell into the wrong hands. They had to test the person, to make sure they were worthy. Until the test was completed the skull would not work. The witches needed someone who was pure at heart, but the person also had to be able to banish evil. To activate the skull a sacrifice from someone, pure of heart, had to be made.
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