World of Lysandus #3: The Desperation

As I rose, I could feel the newly achieved powers I was granted. It felt as if I could fly, and was light as a feather. It also felt as if my senses were enhanced ten times the amount they were before. I could hear the wind blowing outside. I tried to listen closer, and heard only emptiness. As I opened the door to the outside world, I instantly smelt the death in the air. Evil Lysandus had teased me. He had destroyed everything around me and had murdered the whole town. I could hear birds chirping, and a television down the street which had been left on. While I was hiding, Evil had transformed my world into a graveyard. The only problem was, he didn't bury any of them. The stench was unbearable, especially since all of my senses were heightened.

Then I heard something, an empty can falling in an alley way. It was about two blocks down. I was there within a couple of seconds, and I saw an old withered man with only one leg crawling towards me. Then he stopped, looked at me, and screamed as if I were the most hideous beast in the world. I tried to explain to him that I was not the one that had murdered everyone, but his screams were too loud, and they muffled my words.

Then he stopped and looked at me for a few seconds. Loud in my mind I heard his thoughts. In his thoughts I learned that he knew I wasn't the one, and I also learned that he was completely out of his mind. I saw flashes of skin being ripped from the scalp of my head. I saw him smashing my head up against a wall until my skull cracked open and my brains completely fell out, as if I were an egg. Then I saw him eating my brains and enjoying. Laughing and not even knowing why.

Suddenly he lifted his head and started to bang it on the sidewalk. I tried to stop him and he only begged to die. I placed my glove on his face and his eyes grew big. He calmed down and I reassembled his sanity. It had been completely destroyed, as if Evil knew exactly which wires to cut, how to make his strands snap, and felt like destroying a bit of his happy memories too. I tried as much as I could to fix everything, but it was too late, the old man went limp and was dead on the sidewalk. I placed both my hands on his chest and searched for his soul. Because he had just died, it was still in him, so I sent it to a good place.

I walked around and checked other bodies but they had been betrayed of their souls. They now resided inside of Evil Lysandus, being devoured by the demons which controlled him.

Then I felt something brush up against me, and I turned around in shock. Standing behind me were some of the souls that Evil had forgotten like a messy eater. They were definitely all insane and on the verge of destroying me. A little girl jumped at me, but as soon as she touched me her face changed. Her white see through figure dissolved and melted into my skin. I started freaking out until I heard her voice inside of me. She said, "Thank you. I don't know how but you've saved me. I feel safe in here with you, I feel sane once again."

Then I heard the voice of the old man inside me, and he was talking to the little girl, telling her that all would be well. The crowd of souls in front of me all leaped forward towards me. I was knocked down by the number of spirits rushing into my body. When they were all done, I could hear almost twenty voices in my head. I thought that they would drive me insane, but they didn't. In fact they comforted me, and made me stronger. It was the first comfort I had felt since before I knew that there was such a thing as an evil me.

That's when my true goal became clear, that's when I could actually feel my purpose. I searched the town and found several other souls, and when I was done I went to the next town. I kept wondering how far Evil had gone, and if he knew that I was ready for him this time, and I wouldn't even have to go to the Gallows' world. The stronger I got, the more I could sense his evil presence around me. Along the way I needed rest so I decided to use one of his victim's beds. They had offered it to me for saving their soul. I had to push off their dead corpse before I could lay down, but once I did I was instantly asleep.

I knew that my dreams would be filled with Evil Lysandus's visions, as if he had a camcorder and was sending me videos of his pleasures in killing. He appeared to me and showed me that he was hiding in a kindergarten. I usually was incapable of controlling myself in my dreams, but this time I was fully functional. I grabbed him by the neck and threw him down into the boiler room. I flew down through the floor to greet him, and saw the fear and amazement in his eyes. He was dumbstruck, and I shoved my hands into his stomach and pulled out what souls I could.

My hands burned as I plunged them into him, and I could tell it hurt him as well. He fell to the floor in pain and I could feel his pain, lightheaded and sick. He felt as if he had just drank the finest wine in the world, but had just puked up the most disgusting moonshine ever made. Before I could get much more, he punched me in the face and sent me back to my body. Now he was scared, and he was hesitant to destroy the kindergartners. Perhaps I delayed him for some time, until I could actually find and destroy him once and for all.