Part 6

How is everyone doing? For those who may not know my name is Auren and I come from a different dimension/universe and I am here to warn you about The Void. An ever hungering dimensional swallower. Currently I'm on the cusp of knowing how to stop IT for good before its too late.

Sorry for the long wait my friends. I had to go on a mental break due to the last story... It brought up some scars I believed wouldn't effect me. Normally I have the mental fortitude to withstand anything but remembering the past was... Painful to say the least but I digress. Last night I went through my memory banks to see what I could've missed and I have found a dimension I have been to that could help with removing The Void however, this event is not for the feint of heart.

After what happened with the last visit...I traveled to another place. I must've repressed this dimension entirely as I don't remember any of what happened to me until I found the file. It all starts off where the last story left off in a blinding flash of light.

As I was moving through the white zone, which I have dubbed Tabula Rasa. I watched a story of a young girl in an orphanage who was being forced to watch as a child was ripped to shreds in front of her. The graphic detail was terrifying and made me nauseous. The young girl was able to escape the demon but barely... I can't shake the feeling that she just seems familiar

It's always strange traveling through this zone I feel like I've been here before... like I made this place but that can't be. I was born on a planet with parents and friends.. It just felt like this was my home and the place I thought to be my home is just something I made up.. I refuse this to be the case it could just be the zone as it's still largely unknown to me.

In one last flash of light I entered a new dimension, this one was.... odd. It looked as if I landed in an old Victorian city with cobbled streets and people walking around in old outfits, in which SUIT automatically matched so I can blend in. The residents of this place where odd as in every one of them wore normal Victorian attire but they all had plague masks on. The streets smelled a mixture of perfume, sewage and rotting flesh. The combination of them all had my stomach churning and dry heaving.

It didn't take long for SUIT to "filter" the smells out and I was able to function. Looking around there were many stores as I must've dropped into a market and surprisingly no one was looking at me or wondering why I appeared in a flash of light. Everyone there seemed oblivious and kept going on with their normal existence.

Walking around the shopping center there was an over abundance of butchers. There was one tailor, one cobbler, two bakeries, and three churches for some reason. I wanted to look further into the stores themselves the butchers had meat and they all sold the same kind just named "cattle". Nothing specific just "cattle" Thought that was odd but I can understand everything about my travels has been odd. Going into the cobbler they had only leather shoes and the tailor only sold leather clothing from jackets to underwear it was all leather. Maybe whatever plague these people are dealing with is transmissible through the skin.

The sun was setting on this town and I needed a place to stay so I wandered around a bit and found a tavern with rooms for rent. Issue is I had no currency to buy a room. Looking around it was still as if nothing I did bothered anyone as if I was completely outside the scope of vision or ability to notice me at all. So I just went to one of the rooms and broke in. This was just for the night. In the morning I was feeling rested I kept asking people to speak to their leader or whomever runs this town but no one answered.

After a couple hours of being ignored I was approached by three people wearing the same attire but red and gold themed.

Royal Guards: We are the royal guards and you are an invader. The king want's a word with you.

Me: Sure I was wanting to speak to him anyhow... Wait how do you notice me and no one else?

They didn't answer but just motioned me to follow them. We were walking for about fifteen minutes when I saw it. A white and gold tower with a large brick building attached to it. It was when I was within twenty yards of the large building I got a warning from SUIT that contagious hazards were trying to invade but it was able to filter it all. This hazard was a fungus that had I have never encountered before. While I was walking SUIT was running a diagnostics of the unknown fungus.

I entered the building and there was a long red carpet leading to a throne made of leather that looked like the one the tailors made. On the throne was a king. A large humanoid being that was bound to a chair and without a head. He was rotting away yet I could feel a terrifying presence as I approached him. The guards stopped a few yards before I reached him. They didn't get closer not sure why but I didn't think much of it at the time.

When I was at the base of his throne I can see fungal growths where his head would be. His body was covered in these growths. It was then he spoke in a thunderous tone. I could hear his very voice was shaking my soul.

Headless King: You are an intruder in my lands. I have felt your presence since you arrived and I am intrigued on how you are immune to my control.

It was then I realized the fungus, the people, and the plague were all a part of the kings presence. Looking back the rotting flesh smell was the population and everyone I met so far has been deceased.

Me: I came here to warn you and your people that a great evil is coming. The stars in the sky are vanishing and The Void will swallow you as well.

Headless King: The Void has been here and has no power over my realm. She was banished long ago and refuses to come back. You are invading, so give me a good reason why I shouldn't end you now?

Within his words I felt malice and ill will. With this threat I started to see the walls around me closing in. The Headless King seemed to be getting farther away. SUIT let me know this wasn't an hallucination but his power was shaping reality around him passively. The King was stuck to this chair however its powers were so great the very fabric of time and space were bending. I yelled in desperation but my screams were silenced as I was buried in a mound of fungus.

Somehow I must've breathed enough spores in before SUIT could filter it when I arrived and subsequently been infected . Shortly after being entombed I lost consciousness. It was days maybe weeks later when I awoke inside a factory behind old, rusty bars. There were normal looking humans all stripped naked and living in squaller with some sort of collar. I instantly felt my neck and I had one as well.

The place smelled of feces and body odor. Closer look none of the humans here had the fungal infection tied to them. However they all had a marking on their necks resembling the sign "Omega". When I approached one of them to see what is going on a wave of fear washed over me as their eyes and tongues were removed. Non of these people could talk or see.

I wanted to scream but I couldn't because my vocal cords was removed. SUIT was repairing the damage that I was delt but the fungus was making it hard to keep it working at 100%. As I waited to see what was going on I heard footsteps approach me. What came into the room was a large creature. It seemed to be a number of people melded together and patched using the same fungus. It had seven arms and four heads with each eye working and moving. It smelt of decay and fresh blood. it carried a few leashes and came into my cell. It grabbed me and two others and ordered us to move.

We kept walking down this long hallway with rusty metal walls. In the background I could hear saws whirling and meat being chopped up. In an instant I pieced it all together. This was the slaughter house and we are the cattle. I wanted to fight back but I felt if I tried I would be killed on the spot. So I abided my time for an opening.

We finally got to a room where another one of these abominations opened the door and let us in. It then tied our hands together. In the room was a metal grate with holes for drainage and above the grate was a single metal hook. The thing grabbed the first person and put them on the hook impaling them right under the collar bone. They did little to fight as the thing moved closer and proceeded to flay the man alive. Carefully removing all his skin aside from his head. Any time the mad would move the thing would hit him on the head knocking him out.

The man stopped moving as I assumed he was killed in this process. The abomination grabbed a cleaver and ..... and ripped into his stomach to remove his organs. I wished his death swift after that as his body was limp. This thing then proceeded to eat the intestines and slurp them up as if they were noodles of spaghetti. I couldn't bare this anymore and cried knowing I may die.

The abomination then started to make cuts into this husk of a man and with that removing large portions of muscle and tissue and tossed each of them in a bucket nearby. Once all his muscle was removed he was beheaded and removed from the hook. The abomination took the body and tossed it into a chute. Next was the lady Infront of me who actually fought a little kicking and punching but to no avail as she was swiftly hooked and knocked out.

SUIT let me know all repairs were done. This gave me hope so I took the opportunity and sprinted toward the only exit I saw... the body chute. As I ran by the abomination it let out a powerful yell

The thing: Where are you going cattle HAHAHA you can't escape.

It swung one of its arms hitting me in the spine with a steel hammer. I felt my spine being crushed by the hammer. It then tried to pick me up when SUIT activated a powerful shock sending this thing to its knees, buying me time to jump through the chute. It felt like I slid down this chute for thirty minutes before finally falling onto a mound of rotting bones and flesh. I stood up from the pile and looked around for an exit. It was then I realized I was in a cave with THOUSANDS of dead bodies and bones. In the distance I saw a light so I carefully walked across the dead bodies and escaped through a small hole.

Outside the hole was the town in the background. It was about a mile away from it. My SUIT informed me that it has fixed my spine fully and found resistance to the fungus. With that information I slowly made my way to the city again. Since SUIT is fully integrated within my cells I was able to get a new disguise without much effort. As I entered the city I could see it wasn't working as all the citizens just stared at me.

As I approached the gold tower the citizens became more and more restless. They were all pointing at me with and making awful screeching sounds. I opened the door and the king was there. The headless king yelled out and shook the room

Headless King: I am older then time, I have seen the end and begging of all things but I haven't seen you. What are you traveler to be immune to my my power?

It was then I was surrounded by the abominations and they all attacked me at once. Holding me in place they dragged me to the king. As I was forced to kneel in front of the king I can feel it trying to break into my mind. I can hear it speaking to me in a language I have never heard.

Headless king: WHAT ARE YOU.... I have seen all life and all possible things and yet, YOU have evaded my vision....

After he spoke the world started to twist and turn as natural laws started to break down. The very things that held me were turned to dust and the room around me was melting. The Headless king on his throne was doing all this. Breaking the base reality with his thoughts... SUIT felt the danger and worked a way to resist it. However his psionic abilities was able to effect me still. In a flash he showed me how the Headless king was made and how he was a being of pure decay. The platonic concept of death and decay. As he fought off the void he left a part of him in the void. This thing was able to resist The Void Ultimately winning the war.

I felt like the headless king couldn't kill me so he was showing me how to defeat The Void. And as fast as it came to, the visions left. And all was left was me and the king in the room. Besides me were twisted abominations fused into the walls and floors. The Headless King told me to leave and never come back. As I left the tower just outside the door all of the "cattle" were being ripped open by the residents of the king. Bone cracking and screams is all you heard. The blood was everywhere even in the air the sky was a dark red hue.... The creatures all saw me... Their masks that they wore started to open up revealing a hidden mouth of razor sharp teeth that were all stained black and red. They all rushed me and I crouched into a ball to defend my self. It was then I saw a blinding flashing light.

I was teleported outside the dimension again. Into safety... But what horrors do I await in the next one? Well, that's a story for a different time. For now, I have a way to erase the void. Pray that I succeed friends and be safe out there.

-Auren Da'at-