I had the creepiest dream last night! I’ve had quite the full day, so I’d forgotten about it, until this evening. It started out with all the characters from the new Harvest Moon game that I’ve been playing: Grand Bazaar – and I know it was them, because I saw sprite images of the twin children and their mother, being nearly swallowed up in death, on the big get away bus-like vessel.
Chapter One
It seemed as though the entire Harvest Moon cast was running from something, trying to escape from an entity so fierce, it made grown men lose all emotional control within the vessel. Much like the phantom forces in the Final Fantasy movie, this deadly creature swept through the bus in a zig zag pattern, leaving every character in the diagonal opposite seats, perished. To their dismay, there was no way that they could vanquish the terror that lunged after them in the darkness.
At one point, the main character [I believe it was a male], was trying to stay out of sight within this great mansion, while he searched for his lady love. (Again in pixel form…yes, I’m a nerd and I’m proud of it). At one point, he knew that the master of the house had spotted him, as his efforts to vanish quickly up the stairs left him with shoulders sticking out from the stairwell landing. Although, the master of the house did not advance. He did not have to, as he knew that the demonic creature loose on the horizon, would catch up with them eventually.
Unfortunately while in hunt, his lady love was in fact the daughter of the master. With having grown up in the building, he nearly wretched at the thought that he might have to search dozens of rooms until he found her – she has made home of every one.
He could hear her…the soft pattering of his foot steps nearly drown out the sound he sought – he knew she was close, as he continued quietly treading down the halls. It was of the greatest importance that he stayed silent and out of sight – for to protect his master, the wind howled beneath it’s great wings, soaring constantly between the intruders within the castle and the rescue mission drawing nearer, from the speeding bus.
Alas, once the feeling of a lifetime had passed, the hero confronted his lady love, from the cloak of darkness. All her maids had left momentarily, as they spoke.
“You must come with us, fair maiden,” he breathed as his heart furiously raced. “We have no other hope in destroying that foul creature, if you are not a part of our plans.”
She sighed ponderously, as she let her gaze drift towards the chamber window. Light velvet curtains blew gently as the wind seemed to animate the anxiousness in them all. “You do know, kind sir,” she whispered. “The possibility lies in which I may not return. Who then, will carry on the reign in this land?”
A cross look jetted across his brow, as he gently grabbed hold of her wrist. “Milady, this appears to be our only chance of restoring the kingdom…Wouldst thou rather be queen of a ghastly land with no people?
“We have come far to enlist in your services, my dear…one chance doth permit us light unto certain darkness. This yarn I follow, in your foot steps, milady. I will follow you, wherever direction thou wind may blow.”
Her heart ached. Once having unleashed this nightmare creature, certainty lay within her mind, the battle would be as fruitless as trying to stop a freight train using a feather. From having traveled as far as the clan had, more than half of their men, women and children had perished, by the translucent hand of the beast. A fast lesson, it was, for the children who were not able to bury their parents, as their lives depended only on the steady continuation of the journey forward. Not one crew member knew what lied beyond their path. With only a distant feeling in the back of each mind, carelessly whispering confirmation, this would be the longest night of their lives.
"Amidst this grotesque light, it waits..
Solemn anguish wanes from brow–
Unto the hearts, of shortened fates,
Ours are heavy, yet unbowed.
I’ve often frightened dreams, love,
Of whence they float away.
While buried deep in mind, love,
My heart knows, here they lay."
~Jen Dyck