Realities Collide

I headed over to Mei's house today, since she hadn't called back, neither she had even spammed my messages today. I knocked on her door just to find no one at home. I tried calling her once more. She wasn't answering. I got worried.

However, there was a letter on her doormat. I picked it up just to find my name on the back of the mail. It was meant for me. There was no address where it came from. But it seemed that it was meant to send to me, however my address was not even here. It was blank.

Did she take my mail without my consent? I opened the letter to see what it says. And once I did, my heart dropped. The message was written all in blood in a classy and fancy cursive font.

"My Klei,

It is I, Fear. Rest assured, for I have kidnapped your girl. If you're asking why, come here and find out. And if you're asking me how I came into this world in a different body, and not having to control yours, well it wasn't me who took her, you have to give credit for the eldritch monsters, which of course, ahem, my loyal henchmen, especially giving brilliant credits to you! Fantastic props to you for leaving the door to my wonderland open! How brilliant! I didn't think I'd be invited to your reality. Now, all hell will let loose, quite literally, I must say.

-Sincerely, yourself

F"

I must be either dreaming or insane enough to believe this. The back of the note has some sort of drawing of a sigil in straight lines. It was a clue and its hint was written saying, "Encrypt this sigil in a 3x3 grid. The numbers are in order by the grid. Turn numbers into letters, then add the vowels, and you'll find me."

This sounds like a very complex puzzle. That's when I went home with the note, and then did my research on how to make numbers into letters. All I know is to spell the number of letters such as 7 to seven, and such.

Although, the queer thing about this is there has to be a beginning and end to this sigil to make all these lines. All the lines connect and it seems 2-dimensional that it has no cut lines. They are all like a constellation of the stars in the night sky in the universe.

That's when I tried to think deeper. And dig deeper. The numbers are in order, by a 3x3 grid. So, I drew a 3x3 grid on a paper, and copied the exact same sigil onto the grid, then added the numbers in chronological order. 1 2 3 at the upper grid, 4 5 6 at the middle, then lastly 7 8 9 at the bottom grid.

But it wouldn't sense how this sigil or peculiar symbol was drawn by a 3x3 grid in one line making different turns. But I noticed the circle at the lower right of the drawing, then at the lower left was an ending cross. I did some research on what a sigil is, and that's when I learned that a sigil is drawn by using cosmological and astronomical mathematics that were used by astrologists back in ancient times since cavemen learned how to worship gods.

Which the gods of ancient mythologies taught humans how to perceive time by using the sun's direction and the shadow of the rocks and where the shadow hits on the pebbles that work as numbers at a clock. Such as the shadow is the hand, the big rock is the centre, and the pebbles surrounding it are the pebbles.

This same goes for different variations of learning astrology during the ancient times: how they learned the earth is a round sphere and realised it was not flat. Which took inspiration to naming planets by the gods that taught them.

That's when I dived down deeper into the rabbit hole, to the point of learning the occult and mysticism. That's when I finally found how sigils are made, where sigils are used by Chaos Magickians or witches back in the day where their tradition is "BELIEF IS KEY".

That is when I put letters from 1 to 9 in a straight sentence. Then wrote the alphabet under the numbers, but not in a straight sentence. Once the letter stops at 9, I continue the alphabet in the next line, which is lower, until it reaches the letter Z.

Then started to redraw the sigil starting from the cross in straight a straight line but somehow turning to different letters in a different but similar copy of the 3x3 grid.

That's when I realised to myself, the lines where it turns, that's the number it was supposed to give! Then, once I stopped at the circle, which I so thought to be the end of the sigil drawing, I tried to decipher the numbers. But the numbers didn't make sense if I translate it to letters using the astronomical mathematics of the occult.

Despite no matter how many countless variations of adding vowels into the continent letters, it's just gibberish!

That's when I did more research and realised that the sigil always starts with a circle and ends in a cross. I felt silly for a moment and redid it again in a different paper.

That's when I found out the next clue! The numbers were "9, 6, 2, 7, 6, 5, 3, 7, 7."

However, translating the numbers into letters was so hard because each number has three different letters, except for 9 only has two letters.

But this is what I got so far, "R F T P F N C G G"

But when I carefully read it without the vowels, I read it as "ROOFTOP OF ONE CROWN GG?" But what is GG? Then I had a revelation of One Crown at the main town of Guagua in the plaza!

So it reads as;

"ROOFTOP OF ONE CROWN GUAGUA."

That's where I am headed.

I picked up my knife and ran all the way there. But I realised, the door I opened and left open in my personal inferno. That's how they got through, right? Which means another thing than the monsters and F escaping into the real world.

My powers from that fictional wonderland he created must probably be here in the real world too! That's when I had the sudden surge of power of my left hand showing a huge aura of a demon arm that has the power to invoke any weapon I could conjure.

That's when I revealed my left hand's demonic arm aura to come out and summon countless throwing knives. Ah yes! This will be useful!

Then, I finally got out of the house after weeks of learning the occult, just for one single clue that drove me insane!

But as soon as I opened the door, everything was different. The world that I used to see as earth in the 21st century is now a post-apocalyptic universe, as if it had a nuclear winter. It looked exactly like how my wonderland looked.

The eldritch monsters had taken over the world. But I hope she's alive!!! I must go!

I ran as fast as I could to One Crown Building in Guagua. And as soon as I got to the rooftop, despite the falling structures, it was hard for me to climb up to the roof. No one was there, but another letter.

I opened it, and it was another GODDAMNED CLUE! How long must I do this just to save her?!

Then there were these abominable creatures that surrounded me, I guess this tactic could work just for me to work hard on finding the answer of a clue, then come to the exact place, find myself exhausted and desperate just to be disappointed enough to be frustrated, it would weaken me for the perfect ambush.

However, it fired back by releasing all of my strength to slay all of my demons, the demons I've been shaking for years and just to kill them off my mind already!

But it left me even more exhausted to the point I could barely walk. I killed all the demons without a scratch, but I sweated too much. I used all of my power with anger and upsetting frustration.

That's when I passed out. And was taken into F's lair. F's true name is Fear. And he is my Fear. He is the embodiment of everything I am afraid of.

And what am I afraid of? Loneliness, the fact that everyone I knew and loved died in this world, and even my lover had been taken away. And there is none but emptiness in my world now.

Losing everyone I know is what I am most afraid of. And Fear well damned knows.

That's when a young adult boy that looked exactly like me, but wearing the same white hoodie as I do. However, he wears a black one, and has white hair wherein I have black. It was Fear, and he walked up to me as I was tied up, unable to use my power since I've used all of them for now. That was when I was barely awake, yet still so tired. I saw Fear trying to seduce Mei, but she was not having it. She was crying in terror for her life.

I shouted to leave her alone, but Fear came to me and said, "No one can love you, but me. For I am you, and you are me. No one can love you but yourself. Friends are temporary. They come and go throughout your life."

"Why are you doing this?!" I demanded an answer.

"To prove a point. Such as I mentioned, friends are temporary, nothing last forever. Only yourself can last forever within you. You, yourself alone. Because friends come and go, they don't usually last that long in your life, through quarrels, little mistakes, unfortunate deaths, and most of all, even lovers don't last by your side. That is just the only thing a hopeless romantic such as yourself fantasise. That is why only use women, just for my entertainment and never get bored. Just a past-time. But will I care if Twitter would cancel me for that?

Of course, they are fools. It is like an online asylum and everyone on Twitter is bat shit insane. And they call me crazy, huh!

Have you ever seen what's like in there? I've seen more than you did, because you choose to ignore the fact that you, yourself, or me, I'm better than most of these stupid people of society. This is what the world has gone to now? Cancel culture? Fat phobia being a thing now? Being proud and parade that you like cock because you're a guy and have to be obnoxious and loud to force their sexual beliefs on others when people aren't comfortable every fucking day?

Gen Z at its finest is absolutely stupid. I could go on an eternity of a lecture on how stupid Gen Z is. There is nothing wrong with being gay or lesbian. The fact that people don't have common sense is what I disrespect. Imagine there are so many people suffering from mental disorders that ruined their life, but Gen Z is faking these disorders just for clout and attention. Jesus. That is not the only thing why I hate this world so much. In fact, society is just dumb, really."

"And that's your point in this? What does this have to do with her?!"

"To prove a point, and my point is, I killed everyone in this world because they are terrible. No one has the right to have their own opinions anymore. The stupidity of Gen Z will ruin another person's life and expose them on social media with lies, deceit, and exaggeration in order to ruin their lives for self righteous virtue. All because they have their own opinions. Freedom of speech doesn't even exist anymore! People are getting their lives ruined here and there not just on the internet, but in real life as well, all because, what? Some blue-haired girl's pronouns are attack slash helicopter, xe/xem/xeir, all that, was misgendered being called a 'she' when she becomes so self-entitled and self-centred to demand people to respect her otherwise she would cancel them on TikTok by grabbing the camera and ruin their lives among with the rest of the community to hate on that person.

I respect people who are gay, bisexual, lesbian, trans. What I don't get is people who are so stupid and self-entitled they think the world revolves around them with their delusion!

Do you realise how damaging the person's reputation will get all because of one simple mistake? All because she didn't even mention her pronouns while grabbing a bite at McDonalds and the clerk asks 'What would you like to order, ma'am?', and they ruin a minimum wage worker's life by having their army of the community to ruin their life, because they go by ze/zem/zeir? I respect the pronouns, but why do you have to go all your way to do something so foul and evil?"

"I believe everyone is equal! No matter what you say, I believe that everyone has their unlimited potential, no matter who they are." I shouted, "The only difference is those who don't know how to use it! We are all human, and in the end, we all die in the same casket!"

"Enough… you disgust me. I can't believe you are me."

"I am nothing like you!"

He slowly walked towards me and put a small little book in the chest pocket of my hoodie, then said, "If you say so, henchmen, drop him into the cliff."

"What?! Wait no!"

Then they pushed me off the cliff, causing me to fall to my death.