Chapter 5 - The Unwanted Truth

Truth. A controversial issue of choice. A gift, and a curse. For those seeking it, and for those running from it, it can have its consequences, good or bad. To look for this on your own, would be the down fall of one, but to run from it with many, would be the down fall of all. Knowing the truth and understanding the truth can be very different things. To understand is to except and face what ever comes ahead. To know is to be aware of the challenge at hand. At times it can be difficult to comprehend which aspect of the truth you have. Few can master either of the two, but a few enlighten ones can balance themselves in both. Those who know it, those who fear it, those who seek it, and those who find it, all in one, one in all, for it isn't one person who can change, but all of many who stay the same....... Chapter Five: The Unwanted TruthWe walked unaware of the dangers following us. So many questions were circling in my mind, so many of them puzzled me. They went against every thing I knew. The voices grew louder in my head. I of course, redundantly tried to hide it. "Who were the other voices from the chain?" "Why, after billions of years of wearing it, have they appeared now?" "Why are they here?" "What were they arguing over?" The questions merely spun with in the confines of my mind as they dazed me through out the whole trip. The dream, the voices, the chain, no of it made sense anymore. One moment we began our trip, and the next we were in front of palace, trying to make ourselves as presentable as possible."Unia: Charlie, are you certain you don't need to rest.""Charlie: Yeah, I'm fine (He stutters), I still don't know why we're here, but lets get it over with. (Stutters again)""Janie: Mom, I really think something is wrong with Charlie!""Charlie: Janie, I'm fine don't worry about i-i-t.... (Faints)""Janie: CHARLIE, CHARLIE, ARE YOU OKAY?!""Unia: I was afraid of this, it was too much for mind to handle, he must be tapping into the forces of the chain, the forces must have took control of his body. The strain was to much, we must head back immediately, otherwise the power will drive him mad, and eventually he'll become a vegetable*." (*: In this case, "Vegetable" means brain dead.)Jagvu and his goons were not far behind us, and Unia knew it. Their only hope was to run and take the emperor before darkness got to him first. The sky grew darker as the black dragon grew closer, the ground rumbled as the living statues followed. Each second, Janie's heart beat quickened in fear for my life. Each moment, my mind drifted farther away from reality. The palace doors right in front of us shook as they grew ever so nearer. Janie finally snapped, she charged full swing, banner fight into battle. Jagvu seemed almost ready for this. The dragon, as if it was one with Jagvu, constricted Janie. Grumeg played the flute even louder. With each note the force grew stronger. The statues pulverized the already trapped Janie. Unia feared for her daughter, but grabbed hold of me and ran into the palace."Unia: Guards, I need to speak with the emperor!""Guard One: The emperor is busy, he can't talk to you right now.""Unia: (her eyes glow) WELL THEN TELL HIM ITS FROM UNIA!""Guard Two: No!""Unia: THEN GET OUT OF MY WAY!"Unia pushed them to the sides and rushed over to the Emperor's chambers. She slammed open the doors and laid me on the soft ground. "Emperor: So, I guess that old prophet was right, you three would visit me in my life time, so, am I needed?""Unia: Yes, we need your crown, and we need the Porcelain key hole! We also need to help Charlie here, call your strongest army to return to my home in the jungle not far from here ad take a black shiny box under the bed, and take the long way back to avoid the battle, otherwise the medicine will be dropped, and Charlie here will perish from the inside out....""Emperor: I understand, now me must go before the battle outside reaches in here, so quickly, we must take back way out!"(Booming sound on the walls)"Unia: Hurry!"They ran as fast as they could to a hidden way out. The emperor call forth a small army of his to go and get the medicine. Charlie looked in really bad shape, and a battle was going on with in the confines of his mind:"Charlie (Normal): You two must explain to me!""Charlie (Light): Now look what you did darkness, he's asking questions far sooner than expected, and he is not ready for it!""Charlie (Dark): Look, if I hadn't done what I had done all of us would have died at the hand of that amateur. Charlie here hasn't tapped into the full power of this chain!""Charlie (Normal): OKAY, ONE OF YOU MUST EXPLAIN WHAT THE WORLD IS GOING ON!""Charlie (Light): Well, we were afraid this would happen, but it is already to late, we may as well explain. You see, in the first universe we, the derogatory forces of light and darkness, were trapped in the chain created by an ultimate force. We were sentenced to become part of the curse to guard the path way into the core. You see, there is a planet in the center of the universe that we were from. We, and the part to reach the core, were put on this earth, and scattered through out the planet, awaiting the day for the finder to become one in and with. We awaited countless eternities for you, the finder. You see if we can not complete our mission, then we maybe erased from existence. We, you, were destined to stop it. You see, it is because of a prophecy that something outside this universe would change what happened to you, the variable in our constant world. You were destined to fail, to end existence itself. We were trapped here to become one with you to stop it, but, it can not be done.....""Charlie (Normal): Then why even try?""Charlie (Light): Because, it is what we were told to do...""Charlie (Dark): *Punches emptiness* MAN, must you remind me of the hopeless situation we are in?""Charlie (Light): It is the truth and nothing more darkness!""Charlie (Normal): Well, well, well, I guess this place is part of my mind isn't it?""Charlie (Light): Yes it is, your in a comma, and Janie is fighting for her life right now.""Charlie (Normal): WHAT! WELL THEN LET ME WAKE UP!""Charlie (Dark): We can't, this is still your mind. Only you can wake yourself up.""Charlie (Normal): But how!?""Charlie (Light): Go through the door and find your center young Charlie.""Charlie (Normal): What door?""Charlie (Dark): This one! (Point to a door that suddenly appeared) It enters the corridors of your mind."The other two Charlie faded away and I opened the door to find a strange place. There were stairs that led to nowhere, stairs that went up, rooms that led you back to where you started, windows that flipped your image vertically. In the center, hung from the ceiling, was a sword. He took every direction, but couldn't get up there. he tried jumping and acrobatics, but they wouldn't lift him off the ground. He then went to the mirror to see if from there he could spot a way up, and fell in the mirror itself. His hall was flipped, and he fell to the sword. Then, like in his dream, darkness engulfed the room, but he wasn't afraid. He bleed, but he pulled out the sword and attacked the shadow. I didn't even singe the shadow. he hit the walls, but nothing would hurt it. He tried everything he thought of, but nothing worked. The shadow absorbed everything. I had no idea what it was, but at all try I stabbed myself, hoping it would hurt him instead, and it did. What ever it was, it was gone now. There, were the sword was stood an opening. I went through it and I woke from my coma."Unia: Charlie, but, but, but how did you wake up?""Charlie: I really don't know, but I do know that Janie is in trouble and we have to go back.""Emperor: Its far too late, we have to go now before they do!""Charlie: We need to go NOW!""Unia: Charlie, she'll be fine on her own, now lets go!""Charlie: Fine!"We headed off to another temple as I still wondered what that shadow was. I didn't ask though, but we entered the temple to find it empty."Charlie: Where is the key hole?""Emperor: Just watch and see."The emperor took off his crown and set it on a table. Suddenly a lever popped out of the hat. He pulled it and our floor disappeared."Emperor: Geronimo!"We fell down for quite a while until we hit a strangely soft ground. My chain once more only let the tip of the key out. I opened another door and we entered a vast maze. Getting this one wasn't going to be as easy. Me and Unia had to cary the emperor, but at least we were running. Their were traps set every where. Spears shot out from the ground, boulders tried to run us over, and the porcelain key hole was surrounded by piraa infested water. We easily jumped it and grabbed what we came for, but the walls were breaking in, and Jagvu along with his allies bursted in. Janie was their captive."Jagvu: I am so glad you retrieved the key hole for us!""Charlie: I would never get anything for the likes of you!""Jagvu: Well if you don't I believe you'll never see Janie again. "Unia: You fiend!""Jagvu: Why thank you, now (Snaps fingers), Grumeg, destroy the emperor!"Grumeg reviled his power over shadow, he was one. He moved along the walls as we tried to stop him, but he sliced the emperor with his arms and merrily smirked. "Charlie: I fought you inside my mind!?""Grumeg: Yes, you see, that Kanihuy managed to hit you with his left arm, which was lined with a small piece of me. If he failed then I should have killed you from the inside.""Charlie: I beat you once, I can beat you again!""Grumeg: No, no, no, you see I am far stronger then just a small piece of me!"Grumeg made the first move, but he knew what he was doing. As long as he was shadow I couldn't hit him. The only parts of him hittable were those attacking me. He moved far to quickly to be hit. The battle seemed hopeless. He hit both my legs and one of my arms. Grumeg was winning and Janie was restrained by both the stautes and the dragon. I was losing it, my chain was taking over again, but this time a sword rolled out of my chain. I knew what to do. I hit the ground with it and out came the shadow. He used the flute to make the possessed monsters attack me, but I was so out of it the statues were destroyed just by me looking at them. The dragon was ripped to shreds as I breathed. It was no use to Grumeg. I struck the final blow and destroyed him. Then the sword was absorbed by my chain. "Jagvu: Well done Charlie, you may have Janie back, you won the battle but the war isn't over! Mwhahahahahahaha." He and his followers then disappeared, but took the flute with them. I had to cary Janie. Unia had to burry the emperor, and we had to find a way out. Once we did, the natives understood what had happened, and they offered us a boat, but we declined the offer. We had went far down to the bottom tip of South America and waited to let Janie heal, and from there we Unia had given us warm clothing to swim to Antarctica, but we were unaware that Jagvu was already there...

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