Undying Love-Chp1

Started: 05-21-03 Completed: 07-06-03

CHAPTER 1: THE WEIRD WORLD

Raziel cowered in a small secluded corner of a squatter’s area, thinking of what went wrong for the whole day. He remembered being chased by the Elder God’s henchmen sent to get him to throw him back to the Lake of Death, and in haste, he shifted into the Material World. When he opened his eyes, he realized that he was in the middle of a big Material city with lights and loud music and lots and lots of people.

Everyone passing by looked at him like he was a freak. Well, technically, in everyone’s eyes, he was a freak: with a body built of either bones or muscles, his arms freakily wrapped up in brown, almost-tearing-apart bandages or some kind, his legs wearing rusty metal boots with his giant talon-like toes sticking out, his three abnormally large fingers—claws, to be exact—and his complexion, woah! He is bluer than any other people who had just been to the North Pole! What’s more freaky is that he travels around with a cape that had seen better days and his eyes were a glowing set of yellow.

Anyway, as I was saying, he was walking around the human-filled city like a total freak show. Some girls screamed at the sight of him and some teenagers looked at him and thought he was shooting a movie or some sort. Raziel was in total confusion. How did he get into this Material World? How did this happen? How could this happen? In the Material World, humans are supposed to be extinct! They’re not supposed to be around here! What was going on?

So therefore, our vampire undead hero had to find some place secret and people-less to sort things out. He tried to contemplate the meaning of all this when Ariel appeared beside him.

“You seemed troubled, Raziel.”

“What is this forsaken place? Why are there so many humans?!” Raziel snarled, spitting the last word like it was some kind of grotesque disease.

“I have come to a conclusion that you have fallen into the Material World of the past,” Ariel looked around her. “It seems like we are now in the 21st century state of the Material World.”

“How have I come to end up in a place like this?” Raziel banged his fist onto a rusty trashcan.

“I have to assume that it is due to your haste in shifting to the Material World. I suppose you were too anxious to get out of the Elder God’s henchmen and didn’t have time to coordinate where you want to go.”

“I am not anxious about that Squid! I don’t care about those henchmen! I was just…”

Raziel’s complaints were cut short by Ariel’s sudden announcement, “I see a problem.”

“What problem?” Raziel looked up at the ghostly figure of Ariel.

“Try to shift back to the Spectral World.”

Raziel tried. He found out in horror that he couldn’t shift back to the Spectral World, no matter how he tried. He gathered lots of strength and aura to shift himself into the Spectral World but to no avail. He slumped suddenly to the floor, panting like a dog.

“This cannot be happening. This cannot be happening!”

“It looks like there is no Spectral World in this dimension. Maybe there isn’t a Spectral World to get into unless you find a doorway or a vortex through. It seems that you’ll be here for quite some time,” Ariel said before disappearing into thin air.

The rain began to pour. Raziel could see all the humans, all those filthy little humans he wished he could sink his teeth into running around to find shelter. He was unlucky that there weren’t any squatters around, or he would’ve sucked the soul out of them. He remained sitting at his spot near the trashcan glaring at all the humans, all those potential meals running about away from his fatal grasp.

Finally, disregarding everything around him, he let out an angry, exasperated howl at the dark rainy sky above.