6arrett

6arrett is a novel by 6arrett.

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6arrett (incl. Our Little Universe)

A Metaphor

 Our Little Universe

  1. Down in the Ocean: Part 1

2. Down in the Ocean: Part 2

3. Down In The Ocean...Up In The Stars 4. Universe Sanctuary

5. Stars Light Star

6. 666 ✝ 666

7. Space Rip

 "this book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously." F.N.

Down In The Ocean: Part 1

Walking on the sand they could feel the hot, sun- kissed spectacles of sand stabbing their feet. Amplified by the sun's energy after taking off their footwear, the four friends hurried to grab a spot closest to the water. "Let's get in!", the youngest said as he removed his shirt and ran to the water. The other three joined him and felt the icy cold seawater as they submerged their feet lightly in the

 water. "On three", the eldest said as he grabbed the other two girls' hands and one of the girls grabbed the youngest boys' hand. "One...two...three!" they shouted, and found them falling down into the blue deep.

Down in the ocean they fell, passing families of fish and monsters that lived in the different levels of watery hell. As they fell deeper, the sunlight began to slowly disappear until there was only a black void. But suddenly, a beautiful colored city came into full view at the deepest part of the ocean. Although foreign to the group of friends, they felt welcomed by the colorful, neon city. Coral buildings lit up as if emblazoned by crimson, sapphire, and emerald stones. They were amazed and in awe at the sight. Then, as if an earthquake from an invader, the city began to be destroyed in the near distance.

Razor-sharp teeth mixed with an unknown vengeance, tore the city of neon and light, having no mercy and no shame. As the lights began to fade, only death and destruction was left behind. Once again, the four friends encountered a black oblivion and so they decided to investigate.

Walking around the barren city, they noticed another disturbing sight. In the ocean, like on the earth's terrain, there are black sinkholes of mystery. Leading to the unknown, nobody knew where these pits end. The four friends embraced courage and bravery and decided to step over the edge of the black pit, leaving their fate in the hands of the unknown.

 A familiar sensation washed over them in the black sea: stomach turning and flipping sensations of falling. Thinking this led on forever, their assumptions were dashed away when they felt the suddenness of solid ground. In another height dimension they looked up and saw a distant faint light shining down. Sunlight, hope, and love. Although they were in the unknown, they still had hope on their side. (star)

When they looked around, they saw a desert made up of sand. Endless miles of sand and dunes made up this level of sea-hell. They then noticed a minuscule creature approaching them. A creature of the deep who was familiar with the depths introduced himself. "Hello friends, I am the leader of the deep ocean. You can call me plankton. Don't be worried as all species of plankton go by this name, but if you want a specific name for me you may choose as you desire.", he reassured.

"Um, hello there Mr. Plankton. What was all that about up there? A mysterious creature destroyed the entire beautiful city of neon colors. Why would he do such a thing?", the eldest boy asked. "Ah, the monster, Angler. Pay him no mind. You must venture on to find the secrets of the deep sea and the universe. You will find a glorious underwater paradise.", he replied. "Underwater paradise? But-" the elder replied back but suddenly with a snap, Mr. Plankton disappeared, leaving only a pile of salty dust behind.

After contemplating for a few moments, the four friends decided to listen to Mr. Plankton's advice and

 ventured onward. Venture on to where, however, they didn't understand, but they moved forward continuing their adventure. They walked along the sand-desert terrain. Endless hills and dunes of sand particles after another they saw. "What's the point of this?", the youngest boy screamed out.

One of the girls replied with, "maybe there's no point of this. Maybe this is a dream. An illusion.". The youngest boy looked annoyed but kept on walking.

Walking,

and walking,

and walking.

On and on.

A never ending walk...

Why not running? Malnutrition and weakness would catch up to them and so the group kept going without stopping. Through their pain and boredom of never ending hills, they went on.

In the corner of their eyes, they noticed a twinkling light of hope. Shifting their bodies and heads, they noticed the twinkling gold light like a star in the distance. As they walked toward it they found themselves picking up speed until they were sprinting. 10 feet away...5 feet...and they were just about to grasp it when,

down\_freefall

 Down, deeper. Around them they were falling in an endless darkness.

"This is what death must feel like." the youngest shouted and suddenly, Mr. Plankton appeared and was free falling alongside them. But this was not the Mr. Plankton they thought of. Instead, the ghost of Mr. Plankton was falling with them. He told them, "don't be fooled my friends for the underwater paradise is not of light, but of darkness...", and he disappeared once again.

Feeling like an endless fall, the friends looked up, hoping for some helpful intervention or a sign of anything to help them...

Absolutely nothing.

Only the shimmer of a distant star shined from above. Unknown if it was a planet or a star body, the only sign of hope in their minds one last time until

BANG!

.

.

.

A collision...

\*somewhere in this universe, a collision of human and planet occurred... A long hibernation followed.\*

 Down in the Ocean: Part 2

Waiting... Waiting... Waiting...

Asteroids glazed by, passing by, slowly, watching the still planet. As time passed away, the asteroids did too.

 Breaking up into pieces and returning to the universe from where they came from.

In the watery space of the sea at the bottom of the ocean, planets lay alone. Lying dormant and waiting for the right time.

Long ago, when the bodies landed on the ocean floor, the universe was birthed. With their dormancy, time passed and left behind a shadowy figure of its former self. The universe; tired and worn out from the status quo. The universe and divine realm was promised with love and harmony. In the human world, however, great masses of ignorance, hatred, and violence remained leaving behind a cold winter devoid of warmth.

When things remain the same for too long, something must change. In all cycles, there is an end. The fruits of willing ignorance have been consumed for too long and now the universe and the planet of life are worn out. Sick of the willing ignorance that people live in day to day, associating with what does not matter: negativity.

There is a star among these four planets at the bottom of the sea. In the watery habitat he remained dormant and asleep for a short period of time. Asleep, but not dead. Granted with the task of saving the planet, he was ignored. The negative and hatred had consumed all life and positivity.

The humans think negatively in groups and with group comes unpredictable power and with negativity combined with power comes destruction. They desired hatred,

 ignorance, and destruction and that was what the universe granted them.

This is the beginning of the end.

The angel lay dormant and then died. In death, he found reincarnation as an asteroid in the sea. The angel, rebirthed as this creature floated and swam up to the top to witness the demons' wish.

The element of fire contains great power. It grants the power of destruction and also love. Fire is one of the many blessings and curses in this universe. With his spirit of light he witnessed the power of the element. Not letting the evil overtake him, the universe asked him "To live or to die?". The angel chose to live but also to die. With this wish it was granted.

Falling... Down...

Into the deep...

The brightness of the fire slowly dissipated, leaving death and destruction, corpse and bone like the people were promised in its place. Like the fire, the light in his spirit disappeared and died.

 Down in the Ocean...Up in the

Stars

  What is your paradise?

 Is it traveling the world with your loved one? Doing what you love as a job? How about watching the whole world fall apart in front of your eyes?

Two lovers walked along the sand, gazing into the distance. "Let's build a boat and travel the world", one said. The other replied with "okay" and a smile. Holding hands, they built the boat with their bare hands, stopping only to admire their art. At last they finished and they kicked off from the shore, waving goodbye to nobody, only their beloved home.

In the middle of the ocean, the air began to get hot. Hotter and hotter it got and when some water from the sea splashed onto the lovers' skin, they winced. Boiling hot, but why?

With the boiling temperature, the sky became intense with thunder and ash-filled clouds. Déjà vu of the attic from the past, the soot-like clouds were haunting and were only a prelude of what was to come.

Thousands of miles away, the lovers heard a loud explosion and with a great force, they were knocked off of their feet with a powerful shockwave. "Look!", cried one of the lovers as he pointed to the distance.

A wall. A liquid wall of blood coming to knock them out. The ocean had turned blood-red and tsunami-like and was coming to destroy. Before the lovers were washed away into nothing, the sky opened up and through the opening they witnessed a bright light; a single glimmer of hope.

 Like the couples, people from all over the world saw this phenomenon of light and saw a ghostly spirit ascending. It looked like a dead or sleeping body being abducted by extraterrestrials, except the people of earth did not understand what was going on.

\*

If they only knew

\*

Under the ocean's surface, the dead fish remained

deceased. Then, it began to rise as a bright light shined upon the boy. Up and up and up, all through the different levels of hell he rose. As he was pulled out of the water, his body became human again but still dead. Above the bleeding sea he rose, through the small opening in the stormy clouds. Faster than a millisecond, the gap closed, and the planet was granted its wicked wish by the universe.

As he passed through the atmosphere, he shed his earthly vessel and was left as a sole soul; the original form. The soul opened its eyes to see the universe phenomenon that he always desired to see since the beginning. Earth was now covered in darkness and floating before him. He saw the crater-faced moon, a comet and asteroid passersby, and the life-giving brightest star in the solar system. Gazing at the sun and feeling its rays shine through him, he felt warmly at peace.

 With the soul's human life behind him, he was ready to explore the deep caverns and secrets of the universe. Although he could not control his soul, he placed full trust that the universe would deliver him where he needed to go.

black holes, moon comet, planet

unknown entity, father figure light chaser, dimension life host

our universe is large but small infinite but finite immortal but mortal

...

\*

 Universe Sanctuary

"Hear the planets sing, feel the intense energy. Deliver him from..."

 As the soul floated throughout the infinite field of bright stars and darkness, he had flashbacks of his human childhood. To be more specific, his old childhood bedroom.

In his old bedroom, on the walls lay tiny white spectacles on solid black background: a two dimensional image of space. He also remembered the buzzing pest that was flying and buzzing nonstop around his habitat. With a light swat, its life ceased to exist onto the universe wallpaper and now as a single fly, he flew in the actual third dimension of space. The third dimension, where he saw elders and children, births and deaths of magnificent proportions...

As he floated past Aries, asteroids of chaos, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Gemini, Pisces, Scorpio, and another set of asteroids, he approached the entrance of his whole life and in the far distance he saw the creator of life and light, the brightest star in the solar system, start to slowly fade away.

Going into the unknown territory of the quiet and lonely universe can be frightening to mortals but to all immortal souls there is no such thing as fear. Minds clouded in dark clouds can't see what's on the other side of the fence, the other side of the coin, the void of the unknown.

While the universe grants gifts, it doesn't grant its gems to negative vessels of energy. Sometimes, it takes a lifetime in order for the universe to grant the desired wishes it receives.

 Everything you desire is at your fingertips, even on the three dimensional plane,

However,

it takes inner work and inner searching in order to access these gifts.

 The planets, each with their own unique personalities said goodbye to the soul with love. As the soul received these gifts of knowledge and heart, he finally felt at peace. Like sudden death, goodbyes can be difficult, but they are necessary in order to find what one is looking for: the knowledge and knowing of the infinite and truth.

With this goodbye, another approached. The universe knew that he had the tools in order to go beyond and so with this realization it granted him full control. His individual will power was granted and with that, he left the Milky Way Galaxy for good.

Knowing that this had always been his dream, he was ready to explore many new adventures of infinite; infinite immortal adventures to learn hidden secrets. Finally, he left this sanctuary of peace and life in order to endure another sanctuary.

As the soul finally knew, the universe is the soul and the soul is the universe. Every soul comes to this revelation when they awaken again. The revelation that the soul is everywhere and nowhere all at once. In every dimension, every place of time, space, and event, the soul is there.

 \*

the one soul inside all humans makes up the soul of the divine universe

\*

 Stars Light Star

"Silently

one by one

in the infinite meadows of heaven blossomed the lovely stars,

the forget-me-nots of the angels" - H.W.L.

As his parents finished the bedtime story, they said goodnight and turned out the lights. The boy lay in his bed under the covers and watched the ceiling. Twinkling bright lights, star-like, twinkled back at him. He was always amazed whenever he would look outside and see the real phenomenon; the real bright stars. As he closed his eyes and dreamed, he dreamt of the biggest star in the entire universe. Bigger than the earth, the moon, and even the sun combined. He floated around this great mass and watched it as if he were in a movie in awe at each twinkling occurrence on its surface.

When the boy grew up he desired more than ever to someday travel amongst the stars and see the biggest star with his own eyes...

 ...so he did.

 3333 A.D.

Drifting through the 3D plane of space, the ship floated seamlessly. News of a star, a star bigger than the sun came about when strange frequencies signaled to earth from the area. NASA quickly announced the discovery to the public and shortly after sent a space probe to investigate. As the probe got closer and closer to its goal, strange frequencies interfered and the probe slowly began to experience a full mechanical failure. However, through the use of a camera, it managed to capture a sight that was beyond what humans ever witnessed with their eyes before it died: millions of small solar flares of every color from the color spectrum danced in the atmosphere. Surrounding the massive star, it was like an angel-kissed phenomenon.

The non-controllable probe drifted until it was consumed entirely and destroyed by this star of color and light. NASA and the world amazed at what secrets the star may have, began funding a spacecraft that could travel light years. 3000 light years to be exact. As this began 100 years prior to the space voyage, it took 100 years to finally

 complete (or 100 years to retrieve it from a secret location on Earth? The world and history might never know...).

In January, 3333 A.D., S.C. LIGHT took off from earth. In an instant, the craft was in the galaxy of the bright star and set out to search for it. It took a couple of days until S.C. LIGHT found the multiple colored specks of solar flares floating around them. What they soon found was that the flares floated through the ship and when the crew touched the flares, they did not hurt; they burst into manifestations of bright light and then disappeared.

These solar flares did not hurt them nor the ship when they touched. Wondering where this bright star was and why they couldn't see it if they were around its solar flare specks, the crew got into their space suits and began to do a space walk outside.

Through the pressurized exit they left but to their horror, they found themselves floating through empty space. Flipping and doing contortions, they feared their lives would end, but something strange happened.

The crew stopped floating chaotically and stopped upright in relation to the spaceship. It was almost like they could walk even though there was no solid ground. In other words, they could walk in space. In front of their eyes, a small ball of light was floating. Out of nowhere, it began to spiral around itself in the form of Fibonacci's spiral.

It kept spiraling until it was the size circumferentially of six suns. As it spiraled to its enormous size, the crew suddenly found themselves many millions of miles away

 and were amazed again. The light at the center of the spiral burst to become the real planet.

Rainbows upon rainbows of colors burst into formation. The crew thought they would die because of the heat or get blinded by the bright light, but it was almost as if they were given permission by this great mass to live.

When the star was fully formed, it sent a message to each of the humans witnessing it telepathically:

"Anything and Everything, Infinite and Immortal you have become. Think and it's yours.

I am all of your desires and fears."

When it finished communicating its message, a portal on the star opened up. In less than a second, the crew were sucked in and it closed behind them.

White oblivion: the opposite of an oblivious afterlife. The group were now in an all white landscape. As they walked forward and took each stop, they could feel and see vibrations. One of them thought of the message they received: anything that they thought of could and would be theirs and they could manifest anything.

The first woman thought of strawberry ice cream in a cone. In an instant, the sweet ice cream in a cone was in hands. The second woman thought of a tall oak tree and in front of them, a tree sprouted from the white ground. One of the men dreamed of something bigger: another

 spacecraft so that they could easily return home. The other man with a brave might, thought of a wormhole to travel anywhere he wanted to in the infinite universe. In an instant, a cloudy mist that looked like a portal formed in front of them. Outsmarting the third, he thought of the wormhole traveling back to earth so he could go home. He then walked through the cloudy mist and found himself back on earth, but something was different...

 DEATH

Dead bodies everywhere. Even though he was protected from dying he could feel the heat of cities burning all over the earth. He could feel the earth itself physically burning.

The man ended up on a beach somewhere he did not recognize but he did notice black smoke rising into the atmosphere more inland. Along with the black smoke, there were black clouds covering the entire planet. As if the scene couldn't get any more dreadful, he noticed the disturbing ocean.

Artery blood-red. It was as if blood had taken the place of water. Out of nowhere the sky crackled and a thick lightning bolt struck the ocean. With this strike, the ocean receded from the beach into a massive wall and became a tsunami.

However, if did not crash into land. The tsunami formed a wall and then the wall began to travel outward towards the sea. The beach was no more, only miles and miles of sand. The man heard six explosions, then the sky became night: a night of black clouds, black smoke, and fire.

Remembering his powers, he imagined himself back inside the rainbow-colored star. He opened his eyes and found himself back at once.

After witnessing the horrors back on earth, he told the two women and other man about it. They began to be frightened and began to worry if they would ever have a

 home again. After they thought worrying thoughts they received another message from the star being they were inside of.

"Please do not fear. Earth is destroyed. There are four survivors. You four have the tools,

in order to create a new world.

I must tell you however, there is a fifth survivor. But not in the current form...

A survivor.

A light bearer.

An angel.

You four must search for him

And you will be able to create a new world based on,

Love, Peace, and Harmony."

After receiving this message, the four humans decided to search for this unknown angel who would help them form a new world without evil.

 666 ✝ 666

"The \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ will be the infernal \_\_\_\_\_\_ again for the

third and last time...

Soon, many evils shall be committed by the means of \_\_\_\_\_, the infernal \_\_\_\_\_\_, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate.

Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, "Now! Now!" and sometime later will vanish." -Nostradamus

 Birth. Life. Death.

Evil. Good. Light. DARK.

Human. Body. MIND.

LIGHT TEETH

COFFEE STAINED teeth.

Outer space. Stars. CONSTELLATIONS. Tesselations. Human. Mirror. REFLECTION. ALIEN

In a world of evil, there was a beacon of light. DEATH

Soul RISING Traveling the stars Universe exploration Earth destroyed

 Discovering the universe

Comets and black holes Stars and planets

Universe phenomenon

Colliding stars Colliding planets Gamma Ray explosions Unknown creatures

LI6HT YEARS

Old soul

Long journeys of light and death.

Floating among the clouds of space

PEACE

 10 9 8 7

and SLEEP Protected soul by the universe

Traveling and floating FOREVER space intuition

Universe

cosmos, stars, galaxies, planets

Endless Adventures Infinite Adventures

 6

5 4 3 2

1

One

One way only

Escaping the old and mundane Escaping limits

Escapade

...

 One Way Escapade.

 Space Rip

He lay down on his bed and thought about the universe. The man thought about dimension and space and time. To the right of his bed was another bed that came furnished with the house. He usually put his things on that bed since it took up space in his room. He heard the sound of something hit the ground and became unsettled by it and began to think of something strange: What if it instead fell on the wall or in mid-air and made that same sound? The man stepped his foot on the ground and just above the bed to his right came a rip in space.

As he touched his right foot on the ground, he saw his foot hanging in midair coming through the rip. He then stood up with both feet on the floor and a magnificent phenomenon happened: He found that his other foot fell through and after a couple of seconds, he saw his body falling through the ground into the floor. Almost bewildered at what had happened, the rip in space was still floating in front of him but he didn't know what to do with it. It only showed a black void of space so he grasped the edges of the rip, peered through, and was amazed at what was there.

 The universe is a complex thing made up of many complex ideas. There are written essays, history, life, and time in the universe and also humans. Beings unknown also contribute to the complexity of the universe. To describe the sights inside the space is easy: knowledge. The boy saw many man-made objects like the telescope, a solar system model, and even a diagram of the human body. Along with all of these pieces of knowledge, he also saw every piece of art ever created by humanity.

Among the art pieces, he saw the pyramids from Egypt, every church built, and every piece of art. Any human creation was in this rip in space.

Down\_

\_he fell into a never ending black void and as he fell down, each artistic piece and creation was shown in front of him from the first ever created to the most recent. It seems like it would take years to take in all this information but it was consumed in less than a second. Then, he finally knew the purpose of all of this.

After the most recent art creation, he was surrounded by a black void again as he falling and eventually, everything started to slow down and he noticed that his falling sensation came to a conclusion. Then, he saw in front of him, his own body asleep on his bed. He knew he was on his bed for he was wearing the clothes that he was wearing before he ventured into the space rip. The boy looked content and at peace while he was asleep.

 After watching himself sleep, he called out "Milky Way Galaxy" and his sleeping body disappeared and was instantly shown the great size of the actual Milky Way Galaxy (true to size) floating in front of him. He then called out "Pyramids of Giza" and the ancient pyramids formed out of nothing in front of him. The boy called out "Universe" and all around him, little lights twinkled on and he could see forever. He eventually called out "Home" and was again shown his human body lying asleep. The boy then reached out to his sleeping body and touched it and was amazed at the sight of what happened.

Where he touched, beautiful light glowed on the sleeping skin and his sleeping self awoke and was staring back at him. They both floated in this black void but were independent of each other. They locked eyes and saw the past, present, and future of history and time. The version of himself staring back and his actual self touched their hands to communicate. Feelings of love, anger, fear, happiness, and every other emotion felt up to that point were communicated all at once and then they let go. The former sleeping version mouthed "Come on" and the next thing he knew, he was being pulled up, up past the creations of art, up above it all. He waved his hand and the next thing he knew everything was surrounding him and floating around the two like moons and planets.

Out of nowhere, the rip in space became again and

he could see his bedroom wall. When he was about to leave, his former sleeping self gave him an object but it was only a ball of light, and then he said, "You'll see"

 which was audible this time. They then hugged and embraced each other meaningfully and his former sleeping self became one with him and he floated up into his room and onto the ground. The ball of light took the form of a black book, black pages and all. Inside the book there was every single creation of art in the entire course of history that he witnessed in the black void and on the last page was his name signed in gold on a blank black page. He took out a white crayon and drew a sleeping boy, like his former self. He also drew a bright yellow sun in the corner with rays shining down on himself and then he closed the book and filed it into his personal library.

After all of that, he decided to go outside onto his private boat dock and ended up falling asleep, against the warmth of the sun's beating rays as the sun slept too, creating darkness•

 Black holes Comets

Unknown entities Light chasers

Moons Planets

Father figures Dimension life hosts

OUR LITTLE UNIVERSE

When we change our perspective from earthly matters and stop searching for answers external,

We are surprised to find that OUR LITTLE UNIVERSE has always been within us...

 The era of ignorance ends

and,

The era of

6

begins.

 6arrett7.

 \*\*\*\*\*\*

 6arrett

1. Time Rip

2. The Isolated Lion

3. 3sotericism

4. Blank Borders

5. Colour

6. Blck Monrch

7. 7 (Green)

8. 13 (Red)

9. 56 Over 2

10. ? (Unknown)

11. Futuristic Vortex Alignment

12. Overture

13. Memento Mori

 Prologue: The Great City

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10, \*leap\*, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, \*leap\*. Up the stairs he ran...

As the sun was rising in the great city, the citizens awoke. Ready for work, they left their living quarters. In a nightclub, dancers were leaving to go back home, and seven blocks away, a writer faced his imminent death. He ran up the stairs of the building, scared of what was to come. The man knew what awaited him but this was the only place he could hide. With great strength, he burst through the rooftop doors and ran to the edge of the roof.

"Run! Go away! Leave while you can! Murder..." his hoarse voice screamed to the world although nobody could hear him. He was out of luck considering he lost his voice after screaming to get away from Stockholm syndrome. The man escaped his "friend's'" apartment where he was being held captive after attempting to start a revolution of the people. It was only a matter of time before he would be found and killed off.

With a great force, the doors to the rooftop opened to reveal his "friend" standing in the walkway and then walking towards him.

"Delusional, delusional. You thought you could escape from me? Your time is nearly up. You're going to pay for your actions.", his friend said in a menacing tone. "Pay? Pay for trying to wake up our world to see the evil that's

 going on right in front of them? I'd rather die than live in this corrupt and messed up world!", he replied very forcefully, trying to be strong but his throat hurt from trying to scream. "It would have never happened, bud. We gave you all the power you could desire and you went on and betrayed us. You were supposed to lead the world and the readers of your trash down the wrong way, our way, but you decided to pull a fast one. Poor, poor you.", his friend said to him condescendingly. After his friend was done speaking, the writer seized the kitchen knife he took from the apartment from his pocket and started to walk toward his "friend". "No, not poor me. Poor all of you evil puppet masters and manipulators who think that you can control the world. All of you will pay for your actions." he threatened as he walked even closer. As he walked toward his friend, he began to swing at him with the knife. "Stop. Give me the knife.", the friend threatened in a calm and sadistic manner and as he tried to grab it, the writer ended up slicing his hand.

Blood started to run on the cement roof. "Damn it, give me it! Give me the damn knife. I'm not playing!", he screamed. As the writer swung again, the friend pounced and grabbed his wrist. With a sharp twist it was broken and the writer began to scream.

The writer dropped the knife and clutched his broken wrist. The writer's "friend" quickly obtained the knife, put the writer in a headlock, and held the knife to the writer's throat. "One slash and you're dead, or do you prefer the

 easy way out?", he asked as he forced the writer to look down.

27 stories of death awaited him. The writer pleaded with "Please, stop. Please!", but the ex-friend didn't let up. Tears filled his eyes as the ex-friend replied coldly with "Rest in piss" and he threw him off of the rooftop, 27 stories high..

  "I carry the universe guide." - 6arrett

 1. Time Rip

"We'll call him 6!", Mary screamed with joy as she

held her newborn baby boy as tears of happiness filled her eyes, and his. "Why not 8 since he was born at exactly eight in the morning?", her husband replied back with a smile as Mary gave him a smirk. Mary and the newborn boy, 6, locked eyes and instantly formed a deep psychic connection. When 6's dad held him, they also formed an intense psychic connection.

6's parents took the newborn home two days later after Mary regained her strength and 6 was determined healthy. As their child grew up, he was nothing like they had ever seen before. 6 was a quiet, mature, introspective child who liked to read, liked fantasy worlds, and liked observing the world. 6 also liked strange people and out of the ordinary things. He was the most unique child that they had ever known.

In high school, he took up a passion for writing and as 6 developed his interests, he came up with so many broad ideas for stories of his own that he had a hard time trying to write them all. 6 eventually settled on one idea for a story and so, for the next two years of school he wrote the special story.

The story that he wrote, called Faces, was about a low-lit hallway with emblems of faces of different human

 emotions lining the walls that illuminated whenever the main character touched them. The thing about this hallway was that it trapped the main character. There were no doors, no windows, only a rectangular shaped, isolated hallway. When the main character touched one of the face emblems, a new corridor opened up at one end of the hallway to reveal a specific world. The happy face would open up the passage to an at-peace, content world. The frightened face would open up the corridor to a terrifying world full of demons, murder, and scared people. At the end of the novel when the main character saved each world from their extremes, a passage at the opposite end of the hallway opened to reveal an all black room. The main character entered it and the corridor shut, leaving the main character in a pitch-black world. Out of nowhere, a horseshoe-shaped island appeared in the distance as the main character found himself on a beach a short way away from it. The beautiful city had all red glowing lights and was surrounding an idol in the middle of the lake. He heard the sound of 80s dream pop music playing from the cabanas on the beaches of both arcs of the island. The twist ending surprised the readers that read 6's story.

He read the story to his friends and his family and they all fell in love with not only the story, but how extensive the worlds that 6 created were and at how surprising the ending was. They all agreed that he should become a writer and to devote his time to the art.

When 6 turned 18 years old, he graduated high school. He decided to go to college and while he was in

 college, he worked on perfecting his writing. During this time, 6 isolated himself almost completely in order for him to only focus on his writing and his writing only. 6 wanted to be the best of the best and so he pushed himself and sacrificed in order to achieve his dreams of becoming an author.

Although it would take him a lot of hard work and discipline, he knew if he put his mind and heart to his craft, he would reap the benefits in time...

 2. The Isolated Lion

"6, why don't you ever go outside?", 6's mother Mary asked him as he was downstairs getting a cup of tea. After a few seconds of quiet he replied with, "Well, going out doesn't really interest me anymore. I mean I'm not a recluse or anything I'm just very busy working on creating and perfecting my writing. Don't worry about me, Mom.", 6 replied with a reassuring face. Mary replied with, "Okay, but you should at least go out to the pool or the gym or something outside. You don't have to go out to buy anything but it would be good for you to get some fresh air sometime", in a warm tone and smiled. "Mom, don't worry," 6 replied, "It'll all be okay", he said and walked upstairs to his room.

As 6 walked to his room to continue working on his writing and research, he noticed a strange coincidence. The clock on the hallway wall suddenly stopped completely with the hour, minute, and second hands all at the number 6. 6 called out to his Mom downstairs, "Hey Mom, this clock is broken!". Mary went up the stairs and just as she was about to see the strange phenomenon, the hour, minute, and second hands all went back to the normal time. "What is it, dear?", she asked. 6 replied with "That was weird, all of the hands on the clock were at 6 just now, and when you came up, they started to go back to the regular time.", and a strange look on his face. "Hm,

 maybe just a glitch I guess. It's no big deal, hun." Mary said as she gave him a puzzling look and went back downstairs.

"How strange...", 6 thought in his mind as he went into his room. When he got to his desk he took a look at the large list of research topics that he would be researching and learning about to apply to his own writings and works and inner knowledge. He had just finished recording notes and researching about the concept of time and was now about to move on to his next objective: Occultism.

Magick, astrology, and spirituality all came across his mind when he saw the word and he was always amazed about the topic of the Occult. Although he wasn't into the Occult, he still found the topic intriguing. First, he started off with the early history of the practice, then he moved on to the famous works by famous Occult authors, and finally he moved on to the modern practice of it. This took him about a week and then he moved on to another topic that he had chosen that looked interesting: Astronomy. He did the same thing that he did with the other topics, researching until he felt like he knew the basis of what the topic was about. He began to see connections between Astrology and Astronomy and how they complimented each other.

After a few months, 6 began to get sick of the same old same old. It was the end of October when he decided to begin exercising regularly and also go somewhere at least once a week. Whether it was a park, the movies, or just driving around, he knew he needed to go outside and

 accepted that his mother was right. Something that caught his eye when he went out however, was how detached everybody was from their surroundings and each other. People were always glued to their phones or a television instead of interacting with each other. Although he knew he had no place to speak it always struck him funny, like there was a certain cold, isolated energy that was affecting everybody including him. Another thing that also made him feel strange was that if he was having a bad day, people would look at him funny or they would look like they were annoyed by something. As if something was controlling them to feel depressed... But if he were feeling chipper and very happy, people would notice him and even if they were depressed looking, they began to look more happy and relaxed like him. 6 knew of the Law of Attraction but didn't know if it worked with humans and in reality or not. He decided eventually that it did but that one would have to be aware of it in order to see what was really going on.

On a Friday night, the night before Halloween, 6 fell asleep after watching a movie about a man whose pregnant wife was sick and one evening after going for an evening walk, he was approached by an old man with white hair in all black clothing. The old man said he knew the man's wife was sick and that he had an offer. If he sacrificed his soon-to-be born daughter, his wife would make it out alive, the man would achieve a high paying job, and him and his wife would live in a luxurious mansion feeling content together, but, when the man died, the man

 in the cloak would come and take his soul for eternity. Eventually, the man did agree to the offer but after gaining all his material wealth and possessions, he ended up committing suicide because he couldn't live with the guilt of what he did.

Later on that night, 6 dreamed of an all black landscape where he was walking. He walked and walked until he found himself on a wooden boat dock on a river. There was a full moon in the sky and 6 found himself feeling very uneasy. Not knowing why he would go out to a boat dock in the middle of the night, he decided to sit down. All of a sudden he heard footsteps that sounded like hooves walking towards him. He decided to just play it cool as if nothing was wrong. Then, out of nowhere, 6 had a series of visions: A rose garden. A black cathedral, a throne on a checkered floor, an underground red chamber, and a city that looked like New York City...

"6! Wake up! Are you okay?", Mary asked as she burst into 6's room. 6 awoke with a startled feeling. "Yeah Mom, what happened?", he asked. "There was a loud gunshot sound. It sounded like it came from a few houses down. Are you okay?", Mary asked as she hugged him. 6 replied with "Yeah Mom, I didn't even hear it." and felt a confused feeling inside him. Mary hugged him and made sure he was alright and then went back to bed. 6 felt a dark, ominous feeling that he couldn't quite put his finger on so he contemplated about what might have happened for a few minutes and then fell back asleep.

 3. 3sotericism

"News reports coming in that the random gun shot heard last night in Boca Raton at three in the morning was the Gold family. The father, Chris, committed a murder suicide of himself, his wife, Angela, and their 13 year old son, Michael. We wish our regards. Coming up...", the local news lady announced on tv. As 6 heard this while eating his oatmeal in the living room, he nearly choked. What are the odds? "That's absolutely horrendous", Mary said to 6 as she walked into the room with a cup of coffee to take with her to work. "May they rest in peace...", she said with a sorrowful tone to her voice. She told 6 that she would be working very late tonight even though it was Halloween and the weekend and she told 6 to hand out candy to the kids that came by and to at least act a little scared of the kids' costumes. She gave 6 a kiss and a hug and was off.

Even though it was a Saturday, 6 decided he was going to work out and after working out, he would go get some ice cream as a treat. 6 didn't like to dress up for Halloween anymore but he wanted to go out just to see what was going on. After, he would go to the boat dock and watch the stars. He eventually decided to

 just leave the candy on the front porch for the kids to ravage through so he didn't have to sit inside all night.

6 threw away the remaining oatmeal that he didn't eat and decided to make the first part of the day a beach day. He grabbed his beach bag, one of his favorite books, a beach towel, and after he put on his swimsuit, he walked out to the beach.

It was somewhat of a sunny day, although there were a lot of clouds. In the distance, 6 could see dark grey, almost black stormy clouds. 6 decided to make the most of the day outside so he spent a couple of hours outside reading a book and watching the cool ocean waves until he felt the wetness of rain droplets upon his skin. Grabbing his belongings, he began to walk back to his condo complex as fast as he could when he witnessed something terrifying.

The dark clouds that were approaching overhead almost seemed like they were in a movie and it was as if they were sped up to move faster. They were coming to where 6 was and after a moment of silence, a large lightning bolt struck the exact spot where 6 was sitting and relaxing. Horrified at what could have possibly happened, 6 ran back to his condo complex and to his house until he was safely back inside.

After a quick snack, 6 waited a couple of hours later until it stopped raining in order to go out to his boat dock. Once he was out there, he decided to watch

 the sky just in case any storm clouds decided to strike again.

After watching the beautifully grim sky and determining that everything was okay now, he made his way into the gym to get an exercising session in. 6 was still extremely shocked at what happened out at the beach that he didn't realize that he kept increasing the speed of the treadmill because he was thinking so deeply. Why would a lightning bolt strike the exact spot that he was sitting of all places? 6 chocked it up to life being full of strange occurrences and brought his mind back to the present moment.

After finishing his run and somewhat of a boring day alone, 6 drove down to the ice cream shop to be around people and to get a treat. 6 walked back to his house, retrieved his car keys, and went to and got into his car and he was finally off to the ice cream shop.

Outside, the sky was cloudy and dark and many clouds were overhead in the town of Boca Raton. It was definitely going to rain that day but it was all just a matter of when. 6 wondered why it was so cloudy and dark when the day before the sun was out and shining bright and happily. He hardly believed in omens but this was different. It was as if 6 could feel something wrong with the vibes that he was experiencing while driving. After contemplating for a brief moment a car honked alarmingly just as he was about to swerve into the

 opposite lane to the left of him. With a quick move, he jerked the steering wheel back to his lane.

6 arrived at the local ice cream shop and went inside, but as he was about to go inside, he saw a homeless man sitting outside with an empty white cup and looking down at the ground. 6 didn't know why he felt so bad for the man, but he just had a certain striking feeling about him. Feeling guilty, 6 took out his wallet (which was something he never did) and begin to look for a five dollar bill. Just as he was about to find one, a worker from inside the ice cream shop came outside and clapped his hands together loudly and shouted, "Get the hell out of here!", while also stomping his foot loudly near the homeless man. The homeless man looked up at the worker calmly and then stood up. He then reached into his cup and pulled out a small shining diamond. "For you", the homeless man said with a smile, but 6 felt a sudden rush of danger about this smile. 6 thought "Don't take it" in his mind regarding the store worker but the store worker quickly snatched the diamond out of the homeless man's hand and said, "Wow! It's so bright, Thank you! But you still have to get out of here..." and crossed his arms. The homeless man walked over to 6 and took out another object from his cup. This time, the homeless man held in his hand a blue, shining crystal. He told 6, "Sapphire", and then put the crystal in 6's hands. "Keep and protect it. You may find a use for it down the line...", and then walked

 away. 6 looked down at the gem and looked up to say thank you but when he did the homeless man was gone. He looked back at the ice cream shop worker but he was gone too. 6 decided to go inside and ask why the store worker screamed at the homeless man.

"Hey! Why did you yell at that homeless man out there?", 6 called out to the worker who screamed at the man who was now standing behind the counter. "I don't know what the hell you're talking about kid.", he replied to 6 with a snarky tone and an arrogant look on his face. "But you just-", 6 started but he was cut off by a loud wind gust which blew the door to the ice cream shop open. Along with the sudden wind gust, a loud lightning strike struck the outside of the shop where the homeless man was sitting which frightened 6, the workers, and the other customers. After all this happened, 6 felt an odd feeling like he should not be there and to get as far away as possible so he left without getting ice cream. As he walked outside he noticed something strange about the place where the homeless man was sitting.

The lightning struck pavement where the homeless man was sitting looked like a black "67" was etched into the sidewalk. 6 was bewildered at how this could have happened so precisely so he stood in awe. After a few seconds he decided to go as the sky was now rumbling and even angrier than it was before.

 After a short drive, 6 arrived back at his house and decided to do some research to find out what the stone that he was given was all about. He knew Sapphire was blue but he didn't know why he was given it. As he browsed the internet, he found out that it was the birthstone for the Libra zodiac sign, which 6 was born under. 6 found out that Sapphire also symbolized protection and royalty. With this information he realized there would have to be a specific reason why he was given a Sapphire stone but the store worker was given a Diamond (and why 6 didn't want the store worker to take the Diamond so strongly). Not wanting to worry himself to death, he decided to take a break from all the strange things going on and decided to read a book, a fictional book to be exact in order to get his mind off of the weird weather and overall weird feelings that he was feeling. He read a couple of chapters from the fictional tale and eventually felt sick of being inside so he decided he would go listen to some music out at the private boat dock and also to star gaze.

The sun was completely set by the time he went outside and the sky somehow fully cleared itself to reveal a dark night filled with stars and a bright, full moon. What amazed 6 was the stark contrast from only a little while ago when the sky was dark and haunting to now when it was beautiful and wondrous but also somewhat mysterious. He listened to a couple of songs

 with only one headphone in just in case someone were to come out there and frighten 6 when he heard footsteps approaching him where he was relaxing.

These footsteps were not just any ordinary footsteps, however, they sounded like hooves and 6 thought it was weird how this person or whatever they were took a step and then stopped. Took another single step and then stopped again. When the person reached the end of the dock, 6 saw who it was.

A mysterious hooded and black cloaked figure walked up to the end of the walkway, hunched over the wooden dock, and looked downwards at the water. This figure's face was hidden so 6 could not see whether they were male or female. He also felt an ominous feeling almost instantly after he looked at the cloaked figure but he was also intrigued. Somehow gaining courage to initiate a conversation, 6 greeted the figure with a quiet "Hello" without trying to sound too creepy or awkward.

The black cloaked figure remained hunched over and then turned to look at 6. The figure's face was completely hidden in darkness so 6 still could not see who it was but after a moment, the figure replied with an even quieter, masculine, "Hi, nice to meet you." and pulled back their sleeves to greet 6 with a handshake. Instantly when 6 shook their hand it was colder than a glacier. There was a moment of silence again when the

 figure pulled back their hood, sat down next to 6, and asked "What is it with everybody being so freaking awkward when meeting other people?" in a male's voice but more outgoing this time. 6 was going to reply with an "Um" but was quickly cut off as the male figure said, "No need to say anything. My name is Az, what's yours?", in a somewhat friendly tone. After a few moments of silence, Az replied with. "Well, are you going to speak or not?" and 6 replied back with "You told me not to speak...". After a couple of seconds, Az began to laugh maniacally. "It was a joke.", he said while laughing and stood up. 6 was bewildered at why this stranger was being so friendly towards him when Az out of nowhere picked 6 up and said "Laugh! It's good for the soul.". Still having his guard up somewhat, 6 began to laugh a little when Az started to say, "What the hell is that? Come on, really laugh with your belly!" and began to tickle 6. 6 absolutely hated being tickled because he would always laugh but there was no way to escape so he laughed as loud and as hard as he could. After a couple of moments, Az stopped tickling him and said to 6 in a cheerful tone, "Good job. So really, what's your name?" and 6 replied with, "You might think I'm crazy, but 6.". Az looked confused and then asked, "Wait really? Your name is 6?". 6 replied with "Yeah, really." and looked at Az. Az then asked 6, "Well, that's a very interesting name I must say. Do you know what 6 means?" and 6 looked confused. "What 6

 means? I don't understand. How can a number have a meaning?", he asked Az and then Az said that his name, even though it was a number, had a meaning to it. "Your name is the number of man. That's strange how you wouldn't know what your name meant. I mean if your family is so eccentric enough to name you a number surely they would know what the number means. Tell me though, why do you act so tense, 6? I feel like you are stressed about something...", Az explained and asked. Not wanting to tell what was really going on with all of the strange happenings, 6 told Az, "Eh, it's nothing really. Just normal teenage stuff, I guess.". Az looked 6 in the eyes with a look of knowing and he began to walk around 6 while saying "Funny. I saw you out at the beach earlier while you were reading a book and after you got up to leave, a lightning bolt struck where you were sitting. It happened again while you were at that local ice cream shop with that homeless man, correct?". 6, now feeling completely surprised but also weirded out, asked Az how he knew what had happened and if he was stalking 6. Az explained to 6 that he has been interested in 6 for a long time now, since 6 was born. Extremely creeped out now, 6 got up to leave but Az was blocking his path. "Excuse me.", 6 said and gave Az a nudge when Az forcefully pushed 6 back into his seat with a powerful push. "Don't be disrespectful.", Az

 demanded in a surprisingly deep, vibrating tone. 6 thought he saw smoke blowing out from Az's nostrils..

"You have a lot to learn 6 but you'll learn eventually. Our meeting and everything that's happened and everything that will happen for now on has been planned from before you were born. You might not like me now but you will grow to at least tolerate me. I want to know one final thing about you.... Az paused for a moment while looking at 6.

"Have you ever wanted to be rich and famous?", Az questioned 6. 6 didn't understand why Az would ask him such a thing, especially something so random.

When 6 ran his mind through everything related to his writing, he never thought about writing a book that would become popular and possibly even becoming a famous author. 6 only thought of writing to become an author but not a completely famous and well known author. He thought it over and came to an obvious conclusion: Of course he would love to be rich and famous. "Hell yeah", 6 answered. "Why do you ask such a thing?", 6 asked after answering, still feeling a bit shocked at what Az said and did. Az stared at 6 and then replied with, "If you want to be rich and famous, I can make you rich and famous..." and a sinister smile. 6 told Az, "Okay, if you can make me rich and famous then you have to at least stop with all of the creepy vibes and intense staring. What's the catch here?" as

 he crossed his arms. Az paused for a moment and then explained everything to 6.

"So you know what a club is right? Well, in order to be rich and famous, you need to become a part of the club. In order to become a part of the club you need to do a few important things to show your loyalty.", Az explained and 6 asked, "What are they? I'm not going to have to do any blood rituals or something crazy like that, will I?" after having researched conspiracy theories about the world of fame before. Az looked at 6, laughing maniacally in his mind at 6's naiveté. "Not a blood ritual per say...have you ever heard of sacrifices?", Az asked. 6 replied with "Yeah..." as Az replied with "Well....you might have to make a sacrifice. It's an eye for an eye you see? You give up a loved one to the club and they give you money and popularity as a result. In the world of karma and our own world, there's a process called 'give and take'. Let me remind you that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. If you refuse, this mission is aborted and don't be surprised if you find yourself being taken out before your life even starts. If you accept, however, you can begin the journey to fame right away. Don't make the decision right now, as it is a big one. You need to really think this through. Okay?", Az explained. 6 was absolutely stunned at this revelation from Az. He was basically being blackmailed into sacrificing one of his family members for money and wealth. "Why was Az doing

 this?" he thought to himself as Az went on again. "If you do everything as you are told and complete the journey successfully, you will be told secrets about our world and our universe that only members of the club get to know. Anything you want to know that the higher ups have an answer to will be known. You'll have a comfortable, lavish life in any mansion of your choice, popularity, and thousands, no, millions and millions of fans, and knowledge that people would kill for. Like I said, you don't have to make a decision right away. Hell, I want you to think this all over. I'll come back to you when you need to make the choice.", Az explained one last time as he pulled out a stone from his cloak pocket. "This is Onyx. You might find that you need this in the near or far future..." Az said to 6 as he hugged him and then walked away into the darkness. Completely stunned and mind blown at what had just happened, 6 went inside to his warm bed and finally went to sleep after going over everything that Az had told him.

 4. Blank Borders

Healing, writing, secrets revealed. Writing and healing.

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A great city, tall buildings, loud scream.

Breaking out, running the streets, hiking the stairs, confrontation. Pushed off roof.

 \*RING RING RING\* \*RING RING RING\*

6's alarm clock went off and as he turned it off for the day, thoughts and memories of the weirdest night of his life popped back into his mind. Remembering that a cloaked and hooded man named Az asked if he would like to be famous and told him he had to sacrifice a loved one wasn't the first thing he wanted to think of in a half awake state.

Outside, the sky was sunny and beautiful and the condo community where 6 lived was green and tropical with beautiful palm trees. This was a stark contrast from the day before where it looked like the Devil was about to manifest himself on the earth itself. Thinking back to the night before, it almost felt like a dream and now that 6 sat for a second and thought about it, he felt like he was still in a dream. The contrasting weather from the day before, the strangely beautiful community he lived in and a feeling of peace and contentment all contributed to this dream-like feeling. In order to see if he was still in a dream, he decided to go to the grocery store to get some green tea since he remembered he was out.

Remembering that he didn't have enough money to get a box of tea, he opened his door and went downstairs to ask his Mom for some money. He walked down the stairs and sitting down in the middle of the floor in the living room was his Mother doing what

 looked like meditation. He could hear nature sounds playing from the television and his Mother's eyes were closed, concentrating on the messages she was receiving in her mind.

"Um, hey Mom...", 6 greeted her awkwardly while she was in a completely different state of mind that 6 was not used to seeing, ever. She opened her eyes to conclude the meditation and got up and hugged 6 telling him good morning and asked, "Do you want some breakfast, dear? I can make you a smoothie and a full course breakfast if you'd like, sweetie.", she said with a warm, sweet tone as she was hugging 6. This was the weirdest behavior 6 had ever experienced from his mother. Usually, she would sleep in on Sundays and would never make breakfast for 6. Not that she was a bad Mother, she was just exhausted from her long week of work. Also, something weird 6 thought, was that she was meditating. This seemed completely out of character for her since she had never meditated in her life and would call it a waste of time. 6 replied with "No thanks, Mom", and then proceeded to ask, "Are you feeling alright, Mom? You never act this way..". Mary looked confused and asked, "I never act what way?" and 6 replied with, "Well, you never meditate or make breakfast on Sundays, let alone a full course breakfast. I just think it's weird that all of a sudden out of nowhere you decide to do these things. That's all." and Mary replied back with, "6, I am a

 completely fine and healthy adult. I just thought of doing something different and semi-productive for my Sunday. That's it. So what did you want to ask me?" she asked. 6 stood confused for a moment and then asked if she had 10 bucks for a box of green tea from the store. Mary had a confused look on her face and asked if he still had the 100 dollars that she gave him from yesterday. 6 was stunned with confusion because one, he didn't remember getting 100 dollars from his mother the day before and two, Mary never gave him 100 dollars just out of the blue. "Uh...", 6 mumbled and then Mary told him to go and check his wallet and that she would make him breakfast right away.

6 rushed upstairs with a puzzling feeling inside him and opened up his wallet that was resting on the nightstand by his bed. In his wallet were five 100 dollar bills, five 50 dollar bills, and five 20 dollar bills. "What in the...." he said to himself confused out loud. He didn't remember having all this money in his wallet. 6 remembered the day before when he was in his car and about to go into the ice cream shop that he checked his wallet so that he had enough money to pay and he only had one five dollar bill and a bunch of ones. If 6 didn't completely believe he was in a dream before, he definitely believed it now. He rushed back downstairs to ask his Mom about all of the money that he had and to also see what she was making since the

 smell of the food was overpowering and filling the entire house.

"Hey Mom, where did I get all this money from?", 6 asked as he showed her the money. "6, don't you remember. I always give you money so that you can take care of yourself and also so you can have a little fun once in a while. The world requires money in a lot of ways to do things. You should remember, silly.", Mary told him. Completely confused at her weird phrase, he just went along with it, and then he was completely blown away.

Sitting on the dining room table was what 6's Mom called a "full course breakfast": a mix of sunny side up and scrambled eggs on a large platter, a plate of 10 different breads, toasted, a plate of mixed fruit with exotic types like kiwi, papaya, guava and more well known ones like watermelon and pineapple. A huge platter of crispy and greasy bacon and sausages, a plate of Belgian waffles, and another with perfectly cooked pancakes.

Mary pushed him into a chair and told him to eat so that he wouldn't get malnourished. 6 paused for a moment completely bewildered at how she made such an abundance of food in such a short span of time and was about to ask more questions when he reminded himself that this was all a dream. 6 usually didn't like breakfast foods but this was different. It was almost as if everything that she had cooked was homemade.

 When 6 was done, he was about to help wash the dishes but Mary told him not to worry and to go and get his green tea from the store that he was wanting. This was also weird as Mary usually always wanted him to help with the dishes when they were done eating but as 6 remembered and reassured himself, this was all a dream.

As 6 walked out to the car, the sky and outside surroundings looked as surreal as ever. The blue looked like a bright baby blue, the trees and plants surrounding the house and throughout the condo looked fresh, healthy, and green, and the neighbors he saw outside looked healthy with glowing skin. In other words, the colours were rich and vibrant as ever and it really did feel like a dream.

When he got into his car and drove to the grocery store, he felt at peace and at ease which is something he usually didn't feel. Usually, it was difficult for 6 to go through simple social situations but this time it was different. 6 actually felt brave enough to strike up a conversation with whoever he would see when he got there and maybe even go as far as paying for someone's groceries. This shocked 6 because he had never felt such a giving and gratuitous spirit before.

He arrived at the grocery store and outside was a homeless man in bright but cheap, beach clothes. As 6 and the homeless man looked at each other, 6 didn't feel a sense of sadness and sorrow like the other

 homeless man. He felt like he should give the man something to eat which was the right thing to do. 6 ended up approaching the man and began to strike up a conversation.

The man introduced himself as Walter Jenkins. Walter had just lost his house, his wife, and his daughter and was now all alone trying to survive. 6 told Walter that he could buy what he needed if Walter would let him buy it, which he did, and after this, Walter proposed something strange. "You know, I have never had someone do this for me and I'm feeling very lively and optimistic today. What do you say we ruffle a few feathers?", he asked. 6 wasn't sure what Walter was getting at when Walter looked towards a young woman who was watching their exchanges.

Walter looked at her and said, "It's funny isn't it? People want to put themselves first and say "Screw you" to everyone else right? Well, I'm going to be the one to say that it isn't right. It isn't right at all. Everybody has to have their smartphones and everybody has to have their luxurious brand name clothes when there is flesh and blood dying out here in the streets.", he said as he pointed to the passersby who were looking down at their phones and ignoring Walter. "Most people want to stay in their comfort zone and not open their eyes to the ugly truth and reality of the whole situation. You know it's a sad world when we want to be selfish and only care about ourselves when there are people dying

 because they don't have enough money for their next meal!", Walter began to shout now but was still civilized. "If people want to ignore the ugly truth then how about we call their asses out! You're a selfish bastard if you're willing to ignore your fellow human beings who are starving! You're a selfish piece of shit if you want to turn your back on your fellow human being who is trying to make it in this world! Peace and love will prevail and hatred will perish! ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited me in. I needed clothes and you clothed me. I was sick and you looked after me. I was in prison and you came to visit me.'!".

A large crowd began to gather around Walter and 6 now and were clapping and cheering. Walter shouted to everybody, "So shall the first be last and the last be first!", and everybody screamed with joy, knowing that Walter had just recited a powerful bible verse. 6 felt empowered and happy too and felt everybody's amplified energy. There was something about Walter Jenkins that was intriguing like the other homeless man at the ice cream shop. He had a certain vibe around him that was glowing and empowering. Out of nowhere, a man in a gold Rolls Royce car drove up next to Walter and told him to get in the car. 6 felt nervous that

 Walter was going to be arrested but the man didn't show any sort of proof that he was law enforcement. Walter said thanks to everybody and turned to 6. "I never did get your name but I want to wish you good health. Maybe with the right amount of luck you can change the world. ", Walter told 6 with a wink and then got in the car. Before the wealthy looking man in the Rolls Royce drove off with Walter, 6 shouted, "My name's 6!", and waved as the Rolls Royce drove off.

 1 month later...

 6 returned to the grocery store again a month later to pick up for groceries for his Mother, and as he was checking out his items, he noticed one of the newspaper headlines that read as follows:

"BREAKING: United States Government overthrown by American people.

Late last night on a cold winter night in Washington, D.C., a crowd of 100,000 people from all over the U.S. marched into the nation's capitol demanding the President and government officials to step down. After months of tension with the government planning to go to war and to invade China and Russia, the American people, from far left Democrats to far right Republicans, and everybody in between, joined together to overthrow the government. A grand total of 49,788 casualties have been reported in the violent fight between the American people and their unreliable government. The mainstream media news outlets have also been infiltrated by citizens of the public as reports of the American people "being sick of the lies of the mainstream media" for years now come in. More news is to come of what the American people as a whole plan to do."

 5. Colour

Monday

"It's a brand new day, oh how I'm excited to be alive!", 6 was singing as he jumped out of bed. "Mom!", 6 yelled to his mother across the hall. "Let's go in a submarine today!", and that was exactly what they did.

When 6 and his Mother went out far into the sea, they boarded a submarine and were off to the depths of the ocean to witness the beauty of the marine life and underwater nature. 6 thought he would be nervous and would freak out in the submarine because of claustrophobia but he was just fine. He didn't have time to be nervous or anxious as the sights of the underwater animals captured and intrigued his and his Mother's sights.

They looked out of the window and saw a beautiful family of golden seahorses. The seahorses came up to the submarine's window and greeted 6 and Mary and then they were off to their own lives again. "I want to live under here", Mary said as she hugged 6 lovingly. "The ocean really is a calming and healing sanctuary and we should really visit more often.", Mary also said as 6 replied with, "Let's come again tomorrow, then. We can go see the beautiful jellyfish in the deeper part of

 the sea. I've heard there are tons of them just hanging around in the darkness of the depths.". After the seahorses left, they went back to the ocean surface, to the beach, and went to the restaurant nearby to eat a luxurious seafood dinner.

 Tuesday

Down in the ocean they continued the next day until the light of the water began to fade away into darkness. When the sunlight was completely faded, they felt a sense of mystery down in the deep when they looked out into the pitch-black. After a couple of moments they saw hints of violet light begin to appear as a group of about 50 beautiful glowing jellyfish came into full view. In complete awe at the view, Mary and 6 were speechless and they were left almost completely mute when a group of blue jellyfish began to blend with the purple ones to create a mesmerizing amethyst colour palette. This trip underwater made 6 and Mary appreciate the beauty of life. After, they decided to go see a movie and went out to a nice dinner.

 Wednesday

"Just one more beach day and I'll have had enough.", 6 yelled down to Mary from the second floor of their house as she cooked her famous full course breakfast meal again on a bright and sunny Wednesday. "That's fine, just make sure you bring out the beach chairs because I don't want to sit on the scalding hot sand", she replied and they were off 10 minutes later.

Outside, the sun was shining bright and it was another bright and lively day with beautiful scenery and beautiful people. Out at the beachfront, 6 and Mary were all alone. "I can't imagine why there's nobody out here I mean it's such a gorgeous day", Mary told 6 as they set up their beach chairs and relaxed in the sun. As they sun tanned by the ocean, 6 and Mary felt completely relaxed and almost fell in a trance by the sun's rays. 6 put a hat over his face to protect his skin and he began to drift off when he heard a small group of people walk to the edge of the ocean water talking about the planets in the solar system. He took off the hat that was covering his face and saw the four people, 2 boys and 2 girls, that were talking about the planets. "Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. I'm telling you, it's real", one of the girls said to one of the boys. There

 was an older boy and girl and then a younger boy and girl and they looked ready to jump into the ocean.

The four joined into a line and counted out loud, "One...two...three!", and they jumped into the ocean, but something mysterious happened. As they jumped into the ocean, it was like they fell 10 feet underwater because it looked like they had disappeared into the depths of the water. After they disappeared, 6's vision went pitch-black.

He saw complete darkness when what looked like four planets in space lit up his vision. They weren't the planets in our solar system, they were completely different. The first planet was a bright white colour and was shining like a light in the darkness. The second was a dark but calming blue colour, similar to Neptune. The third was a ruby red colour and the fourth was royal purple. Out of nowhere the three coloured planets burst into a light show and the white star was left alone. Then, the white star burst and flooded the darkness with light as 6 awoke on the beach.

"Jesus!", 6 yelled out as he woke up in a snap, jumped up, and ran to the ocean edge. He thought the four people that showed up were drowning in the water but all that he felt was the sand under his feet under the water. "What's wrong, honey?", Mary asked as she rushed over to him. 6 looked around and saw that they were the only ones on the beach. "You didn't see them? They fell into the ocean...", 6 told her as she

 looked confused. "Them? There's nobody else here, 6. Are you feeling alright 6? I feel like you're dehydrated.", Mary replied and hugged him. 6 had no idea what had just happened so he decided to leave it alone so his Mother wouldn't think that he had lost his mind. 6 took a few sips of water that they brought and continued to lay out in the sun for a couple hours until he went back inside with his mother and ordered a pizza for dinner and went to sleep for the night.

6 drifted off to sleep and continued to dream about the same four people and the four planets over and over until he awoke the next day. But something was different...

 Thursday

Tweet, tweet, tweet, the birds chirped as 6 found himself lying in a deserted forest area. Trees upon trees surrounded him and grass was under his body on the forest floor. 6 had no idea where he was but had a strange feeling about this place.

He got to his feet and looked around. There were only trees for what looked like an endless amount of miles but there was also a path of grass that led through the trees. He decided to follow the beautiful green grass path to see where it led to but after walking, and walking, and walking for what seemed like an infinite amount of time, 6 got tired and decided to stop for a moment.

This was definitely not an ordinary forest he thought to himself. What if this was an illusion? Surely wherever he would be, whether it be a dream or a reality, there would be some forces at play to stop him from reaching an end. After a while, the sun began to set and after a moment of contemplation he decided to walk further.

The sun began to set lower and lower until it was almost completely nightfall when 6 finally saw something. In the distance through the trees, he saw what looked like flames on torches burning in an open

 area of the forest. He approached the flames when finally he saw where he was.

In the square shaped open field lay a dark cemetery. The cemetery was inside a black fence and at the entrance was a gate with an emblem of a skull with a shining jeweled crown. The gate was cracked open and so, 6 decided to step through to check out what was inside. As he touched the gate, two torches that were unlit on either side of the gate exploded with fire. Startled by this happening, 6 entered the cemetery as quickly as he could.

As 6 walked through the cemetery he noticed something odd: all of the paths in the cemetery led to the center of the cemetery where a stone tomb rested. Curious as to what the stone tomb was for, he walked over to it and read the plaque. Startled at who the tomb was for when he read it, 6 began to back away to the entrance and ran for it. Out of nowhere the front gate burst open with a force so strong that it also knocked 6 down to the ground. He noticed a cloaked person walking towards him in an angry way.

"Get the hell up", the cloaked person said to 6. "What?", 6 replied and suddenly he found himself suspended 10 feet above the ground. It was like the force that pushed him back that the cloaked person used but this time it was holding him above the ground. The cloaked figure shouted "Morir!" and 6 was

 slammed to the grass in less than a second and buried under the surface in the hard dirt...

\*

6 awoke in what seemed like a buried coffin under the ground. He found that he could barely breathe and when he did, gruesome heat filled his lungs. "Help! Stop, please!", he shouted in a blood-curdling scream and quickly found himself pulled out of the ground, into the air again, and slammed onto the grass. With many bones broken, 6 could barely contain the pain when he saw the cloaked figure again but this time, with his hood down. As 6 whimpered in pain, the cloaked figure that 6 recognized as Az began to speak. "Make your decision...now!", Az yelled when what seemed like four sharp swords pierced 6. The pain now completely unbearable, 6 was on the verge of death when Az repeated the same phrase, "Make your decision...NOW!". 6 knew that he was talking about the sacrifice and if he was going to go through with it or not. Not thinking straight as he was bleeding profusely, 6 yelled out, "Yes! Yes! Sacrifice whoever!", and as he was about to take his last breath, the stone tomb was engulfed in flames and 6 was thrown to the fire as his mortal body was burned up. With the deed done, Az left the cemetery and disappeared once again, into the darkness.

 it was for you.

 6. Blck Monrch

Friday

The wind breezed, the river water flowed, the birds chirped, and a boy was awakened. Feeling down, the boy got up and moped through the beautiful meadow. In a sudden moment, the sad feelings were dashed away as a white rabbit hopped to and fro near him. It stomped its foot and the boy laughed and then it was off. Thinking that death couldn't be so bad after all, he appreciated the setting where he was and that he was

finally at peace.

The boy walked his feet through the sweet river water, he held out his finger as a bird landed on it, and he played in the grass when suddenly something caught his eye. Blood dripped onto the colourful scene from a black monarch butterfly. The boy was intrigued and decided to follow it and as he did, the scene of the beautiful meadow changed into a setting of pure white.

A man with glasses, black hair, and white skin appeared out of nowhere sitting at a wooden desk and writing with a pen and paper furiously and quickly. "They want dramatic then I'll give them dramatic. I'll spill all the secrets about this bullshit industry they've told me and then I'll see how much they like it.", the

 man said as he finished writing a sentence. "I'll write three books exposing the true behind the scenes secrets intertwined in a "fictional story". That way it will be confusing for the public but it will still have the secrets that they need to know. It's brilliant!", he said to himself again and then he disappeared.

Then, an office filled with what looked like a group of angry people behind a desk on one side and the same man with the glasses who was writing before was on the other side of the room. "We're not publishing this trash.", an old man in a suit said to the man with glasses in a cold tone as he gave him a glaring look. "We know exactly what you're trying to do and if you think that you're going to pull a fast one then think again. Take your crap outside to the sidewalk because that's the only place you're going to end up.", the same man said as the man with glasses stood straight up and replied. "I'm not going to sacrifice my vision, my art for your crummy salary. You want to control everything that we, the artists put out but then the garbage that you do put out, the public doesn't buy. Did it ever cross your mind that I'm the artist and you're the business guys? I create the art that I think the public should consume and you promote it, not the other way around. You will never control what I create and I'd rather jump off a building than do what you monsters want me to do." he said savagely as he left the room. The scene disappeared again.

 The last scene that the boy was shown was not for the faint of heart. The same man with glasses was shown in his house again but this time he was struggling with a cloaked figure. The cloaked figure had a sharp knife in his hand and he was trying to stab the writer but he was holding the cloaked figure off of him. The writer pushed the cloaked figure off of him violently into his bedroom mirror and then he made a run for it as quick as he could. He ran to the front door as quickly as possible but the cloaked man recovered quickly and was right behind him. The writer ducked as the cloaked figure stabbed and ended up stabbing through the door. "You're done!", the cloaked figure shouted as he pointed to the door which had six deadbolt locks in place. 6 began to get really immersed in what was going on and screamed "No!" as the cloaked figure began to close in on the man with the glasses but out of nowhere, a hiss and an angry meow from a cat was heard as it bit the cloaked figure's leg as fast as he could. This gave the writer enough time to unlock the door and with a swift kick to the cloaked figure's head, the cloaked figure was knocked out and lying on the ground. The unstable writer walked over to his cat and gave him one last goodbye and then he was off.

Since the apartment was on the 6th floor and the elevator was broken, he had no other choice other than to run down the six stories that led to the entrance to

 get out of the apartment building. When he reached the bottom, he decided to make a run for it outside.

It was a peaceful morning in New York City and as the writer ran through the streets, people looked at the him strangely as if he had lost it as he shouted, "Call the police! There's a murderer! Run!", but they just ignored him, thinking that he was just another crazy person who had lost his mind. Thinking of where to go, he decided to go to his publishing house's building which was tall and decided to hide at the top of the building on the roof and wait until the police would get there as he knew his publisher most likely sent the cloaked figure to kill him off. He knew that the police would arrest the cloaked man and whoever sent the cloaked man after him. The man ran across the street and was off to the roof.

The assistant at the front desk asked for identification and he showed his publishing house ID but something was up. She said "I have him" into her ear piece and then she told him that he was being detained and arrested for obstruction of peace. She called to the security guards to capture the man but as she shouted this, he ran as fast as he could to the stairs. With adrenaline and his blood rushing at lightning speed, he ran faster than he ever could upstairs to get to the roof.

 \*

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, \*leap\*, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, \*leap\*. Up the stairs he rain...

As the sun was rising in the great city, the citizens awoke. Ready for work, they left their living quarters. In a nightclub, dancers were leaving to go back home, and seven blocks away, a writer faced his imminent death. He ran up the stairs of the building, scared of what was to come. The man knew what awaited him but this was the only place he could hide. With great strength, he burst through the rooftop doors and ran to the edge of the roof.

"Run! Go away! Leave while you can! Murder..." his hoarse voice screamed to the world although nobody could hear him. He was out of luck considering he lost his voice after screaming to get away from Stockholm syndrome. The man escaped his "friend's'" apartment where he was being held captive after attempting to start a revolution of the people. It was only a matter of time before he would be found and killed off.

With a great force, the doors to the rooftop opened to reveal his "friend" standing in the walkway and then walking towards him.

"Delusional, delusional. You thought you could escape from me? Your time is nearly up. You're going to pay for your actions.", his friend said in a menacing tone. "Pay? Pay for trying to wake up our world to see the evil that's going on right in front of them? I'd rather die than live in this corrupt and messed up world!", he replied very forcefully, trying to be strong but his throat hurt from trying

 to scream. "It would have never happened, bud. We gave you all the power you could desire and you went on and betrayed us. You were supposed to lead the world and the readers of your trash down the wrong way, our way, but you decided to pull a fast one. Poor, poor you.", his friend said to him condescendingly. After his friend was done speaking, the writer seized the kitchen knife he took from the apartment from his pocket and started to walk toward his "friend". "No, not poor me. Poor all of you evil puppet masters and manipulators who think that you can control the world. All of you will pay for your actions." he threatened as he walked even closer. As he walked toward his friend, he began to swing at him with the knife. "Stop. Give me the knife.", the friend threatened in a calm and sadistic manner and as he tried to grab it, the writer ended up slicing his hand.

Blood started to run on the cement roof. "Damn it, give me it! Give me the damn knife. I'm not playing!", he screamed. As the writer swung again, the friend pounced and grabbed his wrist. With a sharp twist, it was broken and the writer began to scream.

The writer dropped the knife and clutched his broken wrist. The writer's "friend" quickly obtained the knife, put the writer in a headlock, and held the knife to the writer's throat. "One slash and you're dead, or do you prefer the easy way out?", he asked as he forced the writer to look down.

27 stories of death awaited him. The writer pleaded with "Please, stop. Please!", but the ex-friend didn't let up.

 Tears filled his eyes as the ex-friend replied coldly with "Rest in piss" and he threw him off of the rooftop, 27 stories high...

two star crossed lovers

 7. Green

6 awoke from what seemed like a very deep sleep

as he heard busy streets under him and saw tall skyscrapers surrounding him. He stood up and found that he was on the roof of the same exact building that the writer was pushed off to his death. The smell of cigarette smoke and garbage bags filled the air as 6 pushed himself up and looked down. 6 was standing 27 stories up from the hard concrete and all it would take was one trip, or push, for him to fall to his demise. As 6 was observing the scene down below of the Great City, a dark orb appeared and floated behind him and then expanded to the form of a human body but there was something different. On top of this human orb form's head, two horns were starting to grow and with a snap, the orb form was cloaked in a black satin cloak, took its full physical form as half-man, half goat, and descended onto the ground with the sound of clicking hooves as he touched the ground. 6 heard the sound, turned around, and began to feel terrified.

The figure in the cloak took the hood of his cloak off to reveal the same man from the dock and the graveyard, Az, but this time, he had sharpened red horns on his head. "How's it been, 6?", Az questioned 6

 as he let out a cackle. 6 was absolutely furious with Az for what he did and it was showing in his facial expression. ""How has it been?" Who the hell do you think you are? You almost killed me!", 6 said as he pushed Az back with his hands. Az almost tripped backwards onto the ground but he caught himself and replied with, "Almost? 6, the old you is dead and gone. Buried. Now come over here and apologize to your Master for what you just did.". 6 was blind with rage now and pushed Az again and this time, Az did fall to the ground. The expression on Az's face changed dramatically as his eyes turned blood red and sharp veins popped out of his face. "How dare you!" he snapped as he was pushed up from an imaginary force behind him, flipped 6 upside down, and was now holding him over the edge of the roof, 27 stories up.

"Stop, please! Seriously, Az! I'm sorry! I apologize, Master!", 6 screamed as he knew what Az was about to do. "Everybody go away! Run! He'll kill you all!", 6 screamed again but this time to the people down below, however, nobody could hear him. "You're not ready...You need to die a couple more times...", Az said and paused suddenly. "Have fun in hell...", he said as he threw 6 down to the hard concrete to his death.

 8. Red

While 6 was falling, it seemed like an infinite

number of things ran through his mind, all at the same time. Among what was going through his mind, he remembered his childhood, what the butterfly showed him, meeting Az for the first time, the government's fall, and many other things. 6 was falling so fast that his mind could not completely comprehend what was about to happen and as he fell, he could feel his body twisting and turning disturbingly through the air. 6 closed his eyes as he approached the final ten floors to his doom. 10...9...8...7...6...5...His mind was now racing at an infinite miles per hour...4...3...2...1...His body tightened as he was about to hit the hard concrete but something mind-boggling happened.

6 did not hit the concrete ground as he thought he would but he fell through the ground to what seemed like a dark chamber. The dark chamber had a blood-red checkered stainless steel floor and four black checkered stainless steel walls with four lit torches on each wall. 6 landed softly on the cold stainless steel ground and heard something odd. Below the floor he heard what sounded like a song or a chant performed by a group of gruesome voices. It seemed like they

 were conjuring a demon... 6 put his ear to the ground and heard the song that they sang:

 He whirls the whirls,

The whirls he whirls.

Down the rabbit hole,

Down the rabbit drain. Whiskers fall and he dances down, Twirling his body through the free air He does contortions, lands on a red floor. And listens closely.

For he hears the sound

Of sinister games.

The song that is sung downstairs says: "You enter a new state of mind This state is confusing yet amusing You'll have fun but you'll be disturbed For when you discover the truth, You'll be full

Of intelligence and laughter and also Feeling.

There are 2 stages in life,

One when you're asleep, and one when you're awake

When you're asleep, you're ignorant , dead and blind.

When you're awake, you're Aquarius, enlightened and illuminated. You're entering the stage of awakening

You shall be enlightened for the first time.

Truths will be revealed to you in time

But for now just take things as they come because

When you realize the truth you will be set free.

In death and in life, freedom exists

So why don't you just wake up?"

The voices sang so that's what I did

I pinched myself in my dreams

A bloody pinch to wake the brain contraptions That process the information and make me okay. Here is the 13th door.

It's opened.

 Step through the threshold

And forget about your inner demons...

 When the song concluded, the four walls disappeared into the ground as a new, oval wall ascended from the ground that surrounded 6. The oval wall that surrounded him had 13 doors and were numbered accordingly. 6 took it that he was supposed to choose a door to go through and so he chose the lucky 13th, which was in the song that the demons sang. As he walked to the 13th door and stood in front of it, the other twelve doors disappeared and the 13th door gave way to darkness. Embracing what was to come, 6 conjured up a strong amount of courage within and walked onwards.

 9. 56 Over 2

In the haunting darkness, 6 walked forward until

he could see Az standing in the distance as a light from above shined upon him. Az looked at him with a cold glare as 6 walked what seemed like a walk of shame until he reached Az. "Back so soon, are we? Have you had enough time to think about what you've done?", Az asked 6 as 6 stared at him. "You disrespected me, your Master. I'm the one you never want to disrespect. 6, you should really feel ashamed of yourself. I can take away all your hopes and dreams in an instant.", Az said to 6 again. "Now then, there's no reason for you to speak, only to listen. I'm giving you one last chance to prove that you're serious about wanting to join me to become rich, wealthy, and famous. I give you in this list, 19 things to find and return to me. Once you find all of these things I will know and they will be crossed off of the list. After you have found everything, you will get everything you've ever dreamed of.", Az told 6 as 6 heard in his mind the cheers and screams of crowds from all over the world screaming "6! We love you!". Az handed the list to 6 and upon looking at the 19 things that he needed to find, he was completely befuddled. "Wait, what do you

 mean by a 'beach-housed red room' and a 'nightmare grotto'? These all seem like confusing metaphors...", 6 said to Az as Az replied to him. "But they're not. Everything that you need to find is in or near your house and to find them, you may need to use the power of your mind. The internal 6 will know where all of these things are. That's all I will be able to tell you...", Az said as he disappeared leaving 6 bathing in the light alone. "Walk onward and you will return to your home", he heard Az's voice say as 6 stood a moment, and then walked onwards.

"What are these things?" 6 said in his mind, confused-like. None of this made any sense and he was on the last straw with Az. One more mess up and he would surely be killed off for good. While 6 thought of all of these things and as he walking forward, he suddenly stepped into very cold water that was moving with a current which shocked him. On and on he walked until he reached what he finally knew now as the private beach that the residents of his condo could relax on.

It was night time now and as 6 walked to the walkway that led to the road to cross to his condo, he saw in one of the luxurious mansions, a single room glowing with a murder blood-red light. He thought this was extremely odd as this was the only light that was lit in all of the mansions that lined the beach, which had never happened before. Even the street lights in

 the distance were completely off which 6 thought was also strange. Feeling drawn to the red light and after shuffling through his mind, he finally got it now: beach- housed red room! With an ominous feeling inside his body, he walked up the walkway to the mansion with the room that housed the red light and stood on the back porch. "What if the owners found him in their house?" he thought to himself. Surely they would kill him or call the police on him. Looking into the house, he saw that it was pitch-black and had an urging feeling to go inside.

6 made a deal with himself. If the back door was unlocked, he would quickly go up to the red room to see what all the fuss was about, but if it were locked, he would go back to his condo and search for the other 18 objects. 6 touched the door handle, twisted it and found that it opened with a smooth motion. With a nervous but excited pit in his stomach, he found himself in the living room.

He walked over to the light switches and turned them on but found that none of them worked. Feeling terrified now, he walked over to what looked like the stairs as quickly as he could and climbed. When he reached the landing of the stairs he noticed a Ruby crystal resting on a pillow and could see that it was a Ruby because of the glare from the red light coming from the room at the end of the hall. Contemplating on whether to take it or not since he had the other

 Sapphire and Onyx gems, he decided to leave it as it wasn't his and he wasn't a thief. As he walked toward the end of the hallway where the red glowing room was, 6 noticed in the room that there were two cardboard boxes and when he was in the room itself, he noticed a green baby plant that was growing from the inside of each of the boxes.

Suddenly, he began to hear a sinister tapping and then a low growling noise as the sound of footsteps came from the stairs. The footsteps stopped and then like an ambush, it was as if someone was running towards the red room where 6 was but 6 found that nobody was there. The room began to vibrate, the tapping ceased, and then something even creepier happened. On the ground, he noticed a black shadow growing and getting bigger as each second passed by. The shadow was in the form of a human with horns and as it grew to its full size on the wall, 6 noticed he had gained a kitchen knife in his hand. Thinking that he could stab the shadow, 6 ran to the wall and stabbed it as hard as he could thinking that it was Az.

Immediately, blood began to drizzle down the wall as if he had just murdered somebody and then he began to hear high pitched screaming growing louder and as it got closer and more intense, 6 began to freak out. When the sound became unbearable and deafening, 6 dropped the knife as he passed out onto the ground.

 \*

A couple seconds later, 6 regained consciousness and saw the shadow again but now it began to cackle one of the most disturbing cackles 6 had ever heard. After anger began to boil inside of him, 6 charged at the shadow but he didn't realize that the shadow was against the glass window. With a tremendous force, 6's body crashed through the glass window as he fell to the pavement below.

Falling and falling and falling he fell but something was wrong. What seemed like a short distance turned into a long and freezing fall. Shocked at the drastic temperature change, he wondered why he was taking forever to reach the pavement but as he reached the end of his fall, he was taken by surprise.

In the dark night, icy air drifted and blew around as he found himself a foot deep in cold wintery white snow. While shivering from the cold, he noticed in the distance, a cave lit with a torch that seemed like a home of warmth. 6 picked up his feet and ran as quickly and efficiently as he could to the cave when he heard a low, almost droning or humming type of noise begin to play. When he reached the cave's opening, the droning noise turned into a quiet song.

The song wasn't a normal song, it was a somber, ambient song which drew emotion from 6. Not understanding why he felt sad, he decided to venture

 deeper into the cave to hear more. Inside, the cave was lit by torches on either side and the dirty cave ground turned into a dark mahogany floor. The cave then took a sharp right turn and at the end of the corridor rested a wooden dining room table. On the wooden table rested a dark purple liquid in a diamond shaped vial and in the corner at the end of the dining room corridor was a man with winter clothes on who was sitting and facing the wall and reciting a poem:

 Spirits inside this cave possess and control my mind. I drink their poison

to feel safe inside.

10 years I've waited here for a sacrifice.

An unknowing human

to trap and put in my place.

So now human,

you must sit at the table.

On the table lies a small gift your Stockholm syndrome liquid...

 When the man finished the poem, he turned around, opened his eyes and stared at 6 with bulging black eyes. His mouth curled into a most disturbing smile and he walked to the table. The man retrieved the vial of purple liquid from the table top and began walking over to 6 when something else clicked in 6's mind. In the poem that the disturbed man recited was the line, "your Stockholm syndrome liquid", and on the list of things that 6 had to find was a Stockholm syndrome liquid. 6 took it that the crystal vial was what 6 had to take but how was he supposed to take it when the mad man looked like he was about to force it down 6's mouth which is definitely not what 6 was about to let happen?

When the man was about five feet away from 6, he paused, and then told 6, "For you", with a smile as he held out the vial. 6 had a feeling that it wasn't going to be that easy so he played along. He began to hold out his hand when, as he anticipated, the man reached to grab and force 6 over to where he was but with a quickness, he began to run like a football player at the disturbed man with all of his force. 6 tackled the man to the ground but he found out that he had made a huge mistake.

When 6 and the man were falling to the ground, the man dropped the purple vial to the ground on purpose and under the weight of 6, he collapsed into

 dust. Realizing what he just did, 6 screamed out in anger as he began to punch the ground.

Freaking out now with anger, he turned to run down the corridor but found that it didn't go back to the entrance of the cave, it now went straight. As he kept walking, he wondered what horror awaited him next. He now noticed that the sad ambient song began to evolve into what sounded like a monster growling. "What do I do?" 6 asked himself as he kept on walking. What 6 noticed at the end of the opposite corridor from the dining room table sent chills down his spine.

In the darkness was a purple glowing vortex that was twisting and twirling in front of a black platform. 6 now realized that it was a portal. Thinking that it could possibly take him home, he stood on the platform before he walked through and cried out with desperation, "Just take me home! Please!". When he walked through, he felt like he was traveling at light speed and then all was well.

6 kept on walking and then noticed that he was looking into his room from outside of it in a dark void. He noticed that his Mom was walking into his room and calling out his name. She said that she was going to work and that she wished he would come home. As she waited for a moment, 6 cried out but she didn't hear him so she walked back out to leave for work.

 "Mom! Wait!" 6 yelled but he found that he could not walk through this fourth dimension into the third dimension. After a moment, he found that a portal opened up on the bedroom wall and after walking through he found himself back in his room. 6 ran downstairs and outside into the dark night to see if his Mom was still there but found that she had already left. "Damn it!" he shouted as he kicked the side of his house and walked back inside angrily. If things couldn't get any worse, he now noticed a dark mass slowly forming as it took the shape of a man with horns and 6 now knew exactly who it was. Az took full form as he stepped on the ground, walking towards 6.

"Hello again, 6. I have come to see the progress you have made. You have retrieved all 19 objects I asked of you, correct?", Az questioned 6 as a nervous pit grew in 6's stomach. "Um, about that. I found two of the things but didn't retrieve them...", 6 said as he looked at the ground. Az looked angry for a moment and then cleared his expression. "Yes, the beach- housed red room and the Stockholm syndrome liquid. You experienced the horrors yet you didn't bring one measly artifact back from your travels?", Az asked. 6 shook his head as he couldn't bare to make eye contact since he knew what was about to happen. "Well, 6, that is quite alright. I'll give you until sunrise to find at least four objects so that way, you'll have experienced six different horrors in total.", Az said with

 a laugh. "Why the hell would I want to experience any type of horrors? Why can't I just be a part of the club?", 6 asked visibly irritated. "I can't just give you what you want, you have to put in some work. It's not even that difficult, 6. Four measly objects is all you need to find. After that, all of the money and fame will be all yours.", Az said as he began to slowly change form to a cloudy black mist. "Remember, everything you need to find is already in your mind...", Az said as the black mist disappeared completely.

6 was annoyed with Az but decided to find the four other objects so that all of this mess could be put behind him. He was about to reach for the list of things to find when he finally realized that the time was midnight. He ran upstairs to look at his phone and found that it was Thursday, April 28th. He questioned why on earth would his Mom be working at a midnight and realized that stranger things had happened in his life and then it hit him like a train, "April 28th?!", he said out loud. "What in the hell? How long have I been gone for?", as he began to freak out. He realized now why 6's mother looked visibly sad, he must have been gone for at least three months now. Realizing that he was wasting precious time, 6 took out the list and took a look at the things that he had to find.

He looked for a couple of seconds and then one of the items he came across seemed to almost click instantly: "Blood pain rain drops". He knew that clouds

 could carry acid rain and it could erode things over time, but he also knew that acid could melt human skin and make someone bleed. After this realization, an extremely loud lightning strike struck the earth outside as it began to rain violently. Thinking that this could possibly be the acid rain, 6 ran to his garage to get a water pail and put it outside. When he felt the rain fall on his skin, even just a couple drops of water, he felt a sharp and intense burning feeling. "What the hell?!", he screamed out in pain as his hand burned violently. "Surely acid rain can't burn this much? This must be pure acid.", he told himself as he could see now that the pail was slowly melting from this strong acidic rain substance. Realizing that a plastic water pail wasn't going to hold what felt like hydrochloric acid, he went to get one of his Mom's good cooking pots from the cupboard. 6 said "I'm sorry, Mom", out loud as he pushed the cooking pot out into the rain very carefully. Some acid rain burned his skin terribly again as he cried out in pain, brought in the cooking pot, and turned on the sink to wash his hands off.

After he finished washing his hands, he walked over to the list of 19 things to find another item. One horror down, three more to go... Another item caught his interest that he had somewhat of an idea about: the nightmare grotto. This item he knew was somewhere outside around the water of the intracoastal but he wasn't sure exactly where. 6 walked outside to get a

 better feeling for what and where this "nightmare grotto" was.

He knew that a grotto was a small indoor cave by the water but he also knew that there were no caves anywhere near where he was. Deciding to start with the first area he knew of and then to slowly make his way across the coast of the intracoastal, he made his way to a dark sandy marsh area across from a couple of parking spots in the parking area right outside his house. He walked straight out of his house along the lines of parking spots, the tennis court to his left and the houses lined up on his right when he passed the last house on the right and right next to it rested the wet marsh area. Could this be where the nightmare grotto was? Thinking that there was no cave in sight, he decided to walk back to his house where he could find another one of the items when he heard something lurch in the marsh. It wasn't an alligator as he could hear something walking towards to where he was. "Come, 6. Walk over to me...", he heard a female's voice sing softly but eerily to him in the dark. The tone that she called to him in was a sickly sweet noise that 6 had a bad feeling about. Wondering if this was the key to get to the cave, he walked towards the voice. He stepped into the wet marsh as the water began to get up to his knees and finally his thighs. "Hello?", 6 called out as he heard nothing but silence. Deciding that it was all in his mind, he walked back to

 the parking area and when he was just about to reach the pavement, he felt himself pulled backwards as he fell onto his back. Whatever was pulling him now would not let up and was pulling him to the marsh area and under the water. As 6 was pulled, he screamed out in extreme fear. "Somebody help! There's a monster...", he yelled as he was pulled under the water.

The creature was trying to keep him under the water to drown him but 6 punched it in the face. Looking up from underwater, he noticed a bright green light that was not there before. When he reached the surface he now knew where he was.

In front of where 6 was floating was a black spiraling rock tower. To the right of the tower was a step area emerging from the water with stairs that spiraled around the tower to the top. The cave was dark inside as it glowed a bright green colour. Remembering that he had to bring back one object from his travels, 6 made his way as quickly as possible to the stepping area where he could get out and get to the top of the rock tower as quickly as possible, which he took it that the top of the rock tower had whatever he needed to retrieve. He swam over and pulled himself out as he could see blood emerging from cuts where the creature was pulling him from. With a quick and efficient movement like inside the house with the stairs that housed the red room, he made his way up

 the slippery, wet rock stairs that led to the top of the tower.

After he reached the top, he noticed a pedestal that had three levels with stones resting on each level. On each pedestal there were a couple of inscribed words that described what each level was all about.

On the lowest pedestal was inscribed, "Easy: No monsters, but the stone turns to dust after one minute." . On the second pedestal was inscribed, "Medium: One small monster but the stone turns to dust after five minutes.", and on the tallest pedestal was inscribed, "Hard: One terrifying monster. The stone does not turn into dust at all but you better know how to dive...".

Deciding that he needed the stone to stay in tact, he chose the tallest pedestal. The only thing that worried him was the diving part. "Why would he need to dive?" he thought to himself. Figuring that it couldn't be so hard, he picked up a stone from the highest pedestal as the three pedestals disappeared into the ground. As they disappeared, he heard something emerge from the water down below. It screamed out in anger as it swam to the stairs and began running up them at a speed quicker than 6 realized. Realizing now the part about diving, he knew that he was going to have to dive down to the water since he couldn't go back down the stairs. With barely any time to contemplate, he figured it was about four stories high

 and as he put the stone in his pocket, he knew that whether he wanted to be or not, he was ready.

Feeling the stomping below of the monster quickly catching up to him, 6 looked down below and then walked backwards to give him enough space to jump. At a running speed and with a jump, 6 dived down to the icy water. As he hit the water and went under, the green light did not disappear. 6 came back for more air and was now terrified at what was about to happen.

At the top of the tower was the terrifying monster preparing to jump. 6 noticed that the monster had the face of a bull but the body of a woman. In less than a second, the monster jumped from the top of the tower and landed on top of 6 as he was knocked out cold.

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Inside his mind, 6 knew that he was drowning and that the monster would soon eat him alive when he began to think of his home and his family. He thought of his Mom, of his house, and of his condo community and the happy memories contained within. The thoughts warmed and comforted his heart because he knew that the memories of his home and his family would always be there when he needed them. Giving him strength now to finish what he started, he returned to his body underwater and was now fighting the monster. The monster thrashed and lashed as it

 punched and choked 6 and he punched back when suddenly he knew how to get back. Even though the cold water was pulling him into hypothermia, the extended time under water was drowning him, and the fight with the monster was slowly destroying his body, he was able to imagine and physically feel his condo community and the marsh area.

He thought of the marsh area where he would have to return to and now when he opened his eyes, the space above the water was not glowing green but a dark night black. Still fighting and defending himself from the monster, he pulled himself above the water's surface as he kept the monster forcefully under water. As it pulled itself out also, 6 felt the bull face with its sharp horns and dripping mucus nose in the darkness as he gave it one forceful punch and then kicked it into the watery depths from where it came. Figuring that it could come back, 6 pulled himself out as quick as he could, ran across the parking lot, into the house and locked the door. 6 could feel the coming on of hypothermia when he ran upstairs, turned the shower on, and got into the boiling hot water. Not even caring that it was stinging his open cuts and wounds, he stood in the boiling hot water until his body temperature finally came back to normal. He adjusted the temperature, took his clothes off, and finished rinsing off when he got out, put a fresh pair of clothes on and sat on his bed.

 In complete shock at everything that just went down, 6 sat quietly, almost soulless as he thought of the list and that he needed to find two more things to finish this all. Knowing that he had to push himself before the sun came up, he went downstairs to look at the list.

6 took the stone from his pocket that came from the nightmare grotto and sat it next to the cooking pot with the acid rain on the dining room table. He looked over the list to find yet another object to find.

Even though these things were difficult to find, at least some of these had to be things that 6 had seen in his life before since he thought that he recognized two more items from the list. They were the "basket of roses" and the "two checkerboard thrones". 6 did not have a rose basket in his house but he did have the painting, "A Basket of Roses" by Henri Fantin-Latour framed in his room. He also knew of the two checkerboard thrones because they were the two seating areas at the clubhouse that were opposite of each other that were in a checkered pattern. Relieved that he had surprisingly found the final two objects that he needed to find, he went upstairs first to get the painting and then he would go to the checkerboard "thrones" to get whatever was there.

6 hurried up the stairs, two at a time, and quickly made his way across the long hallway and into his room to retrieve the painting. He walked over to the

 painting on his wall and as he grabbed the edges and pulled, something painful happened. A moment after he grabbed the painting, tiny thorns impaled his fingers that were holding onto the painting. Feeling extreme pain, 6 dropped the painting and it fell to the floor and shattered around his feet. Thankfully, he was wearing shoes, however, the thorns impaled his fingers to where they were now dripping with blood. All over his room, rose flowers and small rose bushes began to grow that had sharp thorns all over them. 6 quickly ran into his bathroom to wash off his hands as he shut the door and screamed out in pain.

Blood flowed off of his fingers and into the drain as he washed them off and after he used a spare towel to dry his hands off, he would have to make his way through the jungle of roses that surely had sharp thorns all over now which could make his whole body bleed. 6 opened the door and could see the horror of flowers.

There was now a thicket of roses that filled his entire room... "What am I to do now?", 6 thought as he surely could not just walk through it all. After a couple of moments he had a brilliant idea: in his bathroom he had a drain cleaner that used heat in order to clean the drain but he wondered if he poured the solution on the roses, if the liquid would make them wither away. 6 opened the container that the solution was in and began to pour it on the roses. Luckily, the solution

 began to make the roses turn into a black, goo-like solution that covered the floor. He poured more and more until his entire bedroom floor was now a black goo-like mess and finally went back downstairs.

After 6 finished tending to and bandaging his bloody fingers in the downstairs kitchen, he grabbed a pair of grill tongs and oven mitts and ran back upstairs to get the painting that was now under the rose-goo substance. He decided to use his shoe to push away any of the goo that was on top of the painting. After a couple of moments fuddling, he said "Screw it" to himself and used the grill tongs to grab the broken picture frame along with the picture from under the goo and proceeded to bring them downstairs to put on the dining room table where the stone and cooking pot of acid rain rested.

With that horrifically painful incident behind him, 6 decided to go to the clubhouse where just outside sat the two checkerboard thrones. Not knowing if he was supposed to bring the three objects to where the last object was, he remembered that Az was watching him and that Az would know he had retrieved the three objects so he went outside, closed his front door, and made the short trip to the clubhouse.

There was a certain weird feeling he felt as he was walking in the night that almost screamed "Stop. Go home now. Don't do it", but 6 in his desperation and need to end all of this, decided to ignore it. He walked

 on the sidewalk that led a short trail to the clubhouse and stood in front of one of the "thrones".

On either side of the throne he was standing in front of, there were two columns and the opposite facing throne also had two columns so that they were a perfect mirror of each other. He also noticed that on one of the columns was a black human eye shaped symbol. 6 decided to touch it but it did not seem to respond to his touch. Wondering if there was anything he was supposed to retrieve or not, 6 decided to sit on one of the thrones as he thought that it would trigger the completion of the tasks, which would make the most sense.

For a moment, the throne did not do anything but after a quick second, the surrounding columns and clubhouse disappeared and 6 found that he was in pitch-black darkness again along with the opposite checkered throne as Az took his form on the royal throne in all his glory.

 10. ? (Unknown)

"Well done!", Az cheered with delight with a smile

on his face as he began to clap but after a couple of claps, his claps started to be repetitive. Az clapped, then stopped. He clapped and then stopped and as he was doing this, his face looked like he was in a trance or hypnotic state. 6, feeling creeped out, proceeded to ask, "Az?" as he slowly got up from his throne to see what was wrong. "WAIT! STOP!", Az screamed out in poor terror which made 6 fall right back into his seat. Something was off however as Az looked like he was looking through 6 and calling out to someone or something that wasn't there. After a moment's silence Az screamed out, "But I can't! Not now!", as 6 was utterly confused. 6 was about to speak again but Az snapped out of his trance and said "Wait, 6...", normally as his throne turned to sit next to 6's. "Just look", he said as the darkness around them turned into the cosmos of outer space.

Stars, galaxies, and planets lit up around them as 6 was taken on an adventure of epic proportions. As he witnessed every part of the grand universe, Az narrated and revealed to him the hidden secrets of the entire universe itself. 6 was told by Az where his soul

 originated from in the universe and about his past lives. Az told him that the writer that was planning on exposing the secrets of the entertainment industry that the black butterfly showed him was him in a past life and that now, 6 was supposed to finish what he had started from that lifetime in this lifetime. Among the many other things he was revealed, he was also told "As Above, So Below" and Az explained that whatever happens to the planets above, triggers something to happen on the earth below.

After Az finished explaining everything in depth and caught 6 up to everything that was going on, he told 6 why his name was 6. He explained that 6 was a nickname for a longer name that his family did not want to call him because when the time came, he would have to assume it as his alias. Az told him to keep it secret as it wasn't the right time to reveal it yet. Az went on to explain from earlier that everything in his life has been planned and that yes, his fame and wealth was planned to come to fruition also.

When Az was finally done explaining it all, he told 6 to "Do what you will with it but be warned, once the planets align, you will die and come to be with me in 13 forever." and began to cackle. This disturbed 6 greatly. "Was the underground chamber where 6 fell to 13 after he was pushed off of the building by Az?" he thought to himself. He also thought it was strange that Az laughed so maniacally since 6 thought that he was

 a friend. After cackling for a few moments, Az was back to normal as he told 6 that he looked tired and needed rest. He finished off with, "You're going to need it for the near future..." as he started bleeding profusely from the mouth and eyes. He began to cackle violently again but once again, everything went dark...

 11. Futuristic Vortex

Alignment

6 suddenly found his self traveling through what

seemed like a vortex of stars. It was as if something was pulling him along until he reached the end and saw a small white light began to grow and consume him. "Huh?" he called out and suddenly he was thrust down to his bed in his bedroom back on Earth.

As his eyes got used to the bedroom after being consumed by the white light, he began to feel a pulsing headache, almost as if his head was about to split in two. He also felt like his stomach was about to be ripped straight out of him. 6 quickly got up from his bed and went to the bathroom to vomit.

When he opened his bathroom door, something was very strange. Everything in his bedroom had turned a lifeless grey colour. After he was done puking, he went to his bedroom again and found out that everything in his bedroom was grey also. "Oh God no...", 6 said to himself in horror as he looked outside.

The beautiful green palm trees, the white water tower, the fancy cars, and even the baby blue sky had turned a disgusting grey colour. It seemed like all of the life was completely sucked out of everything and

 what was left behind was only a worthless shell. "What the hell is going on?", 6 asked himself as he felt another pulsing sensation inside his head. This time, however, it seemed like his head really was about to bust open.

6 fell to the ground and held his head. He began to hear a high pitched noise and he began to go deaf. "Stop!", he cried out and although he couldn't hear it, what he witnessed was terrifying. When 6 spoke it was almost like the imaginary words hit the wall and made what looked like a pulsing vibration on the surface. "Help! Somebody help!", he called out in fear and saw more intense pulses.

6 opened up his door and ran down the hallway to his Mother's room. He called out his Mother's name and searched for her but eventually found that she wasn't there. He ran back inside his room and shut his door.

What was he to do? Everything was completely grey, he couldn't hear his own words or any sounds, and he was completely terrified. Something happened, however, as 6 was about to go in a blind rage.

On his big wall that he walked through from the fourth dimension from last time, was a black dot that began to grow until it was the size of a quarter. After a couple of seconds it began to swirl around itself until it formed a spiral looking vortex. "Fibonacci's Spiral!", 6 yelled out and found that he could suddenly hear

 again. When the spiral reached the edge of the wall, another dot appeared next to it, grew into a quarter sized dot, and spiraled around like the previous one.

6 had no idea what he was supposed to know or do with the Fibonacci spiral so he decided to do some research into the topic. The numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 , 21 and so on formed what was known as Fibonacci's Sequence. It is known that Fibonacci's Sequence appears unexpectedly in mathematics and that the numbers form what is known as the Golden spiral, an endless spiral that almost looks like a reversed 6 in its beginning stages. 6 was about to close his computer when something caught his eye: the Golden Ratio or the Phi symbol. The Phi symbol looked like it was a fancy drawn 6 and he learned that Phi was the growth factor of the spiral of Fibonacci.

6 acquired the info that Fibonacci's Sequence was found in nature, in mathematics, and that Phi or the Golden Ratio (the growth factor of the golden spiral), looked like a fancy six. What was he to do now? Not wanting this information to waste away, 6 spent nearly 7 hours researching more in depth about Fibonacci's Sequence until he was starving and tired and found himself asleep. He found that a poem came to him in his dream and when he awoke, he wrote it down in his notebook. When he was done writing, his mind drifted away and found that he was unknowingly writing the

 numbers of the Fibonacci Sequence. He snapped back into reality and something horrifying happened.

The numbers that 6 wrote down in his notebook rearranged themselves on the page in the form of a spiral and as the numbers came off the page, they transformed into an actual spiral. With a snap, the spiral found itself around 6's neck and was choking him. "St-op..." 6 called out while holding the spiral and trying to pull it off. The spiral would not let go and choked 6 until he blacked out and fell to the ground.

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After 6 regained consciousness, he found that his room turned a space black colour and as he was about to get up, the floor began to spiral downwards into an endless staircase that went on forever. Thinking that it was okay, 6 began to walk down the staircase until he heard what sounded like a demon growling below. In an instant, he ran back up to his room's floor and waited.

The two spirals on the wall had now turned white and were joined by many more spirals spiraling on the wall and now, the floor. 6 didn't know what to do but he had an idea. He walked over to his desk, grabbed the poem that he received from the dream, and recited it to the demon that was on the spiraling staircase down below:

 "Spiraling circles, spiraling Xerxes, spiraling head, spiraling neck.

Whirling down and out, a new dimension.

Spiraling circles, spiraling circles, dash of cinnamon, spice up your boring life.

Whirling whirls, spiraling circles, dashing cloves, mind of..."

 "Mind of...", 6 called out but nothing was happening. "Mind of!" he called out again but still nothing happened... "MIND OF!!!", 6 screamed at the top of his lungs and right after he screamed out, a girl's voice began to scream bloody murder as 6 heard something devouring her down below. 6 found himself horrified at what was happening but there was no way he was going down there to be devoured too. Feeling horrible, he waited as he heard the sounds of a girl being eaten by a demon. After a few moments, the demon began to make its way up to 6 as 6 heard its hooves clicking on the stairs, one by one.

Click...click...click...click...click...click. The demon walked up the stairs until 6 could make out the top of its head. The familiar horns of Az began to take shape as he came into full view and stepped onto 6's bedroom floor. His mouth dripped with blood as he looked down in a depressing manner...

"Az, if you think you're going to-" 6 began but his phrase was quickly cut short as he was stabbed by Az with a sharp kitchen knife. Az pulled the knife out as 6 fell to the floor and stabbed him again. Az stabbed 6 with the kitchen knife a total of 13 times until 6's life and spirit was destroyed. In the darkness of death, 6 heard "Wake up..." from Az and in a sudden moment he found himself in his bed, but this time the colour had returned to his room and outside and there were

 no more splitting headaches. The doorbell rang and 6 quickly got up from his bed to go see who it was.

There was nobody waiting at the door but there was a newspaper from June 13. 6 picked it up and took it out of its plastic and before he could finish reading the first headline, his whole world and everything that he ever knew had changed forever.

The front page showed the scenes of a plane wreckage west of Fort Lauderdale and the main headline read, "Local family in private plane crash dead. Son missing". Sure enough, 6 read the names of each one of his family members that had crashed and found his name as the son that was missing. Like a strong bout of turbulence on a plane flight, 6 felt his stomach drop and everything began to get blurry...

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When 6 came back to reality, he dropped the

newspaper, grabbed his car keys from the key holder in the kitchen, and got in his car and left. The gravity of the situation hit 6 when he found himself at the first stoplight. 6's mind was fuzzy and he could not think straight but he had managed to get somewhat of an understanding of what was going on: his entire family was dead, he was all alone now, and he would have to make his own decisions from now on. The trouble with 6 was that he was so utterly overwhelmed with everything that happened with Az and his journey so

 far that 6 could not handle to even be on this planet anymore and now he knew that it was time.

6 eventually found himself at the local railroad crossing across town and decided to drive on the tracks and follow them for a little bit until he was in a hidden place away from everybody else and that's when he would do it. The bumpiness of the road did not have any impact on 6 as his mind was already fading out. He found a nice place where there was nobody around, only the set of train tracks that went on and on and trees that hid him from the nearby road. 6 drove off of the tracks into the rocky area, put his car into park and waited.

Struggling with his hold on reality, 6 looked down and tried not to cry but the tears were overflowing and as he waited for his death train, he sat still looking down at his lap and cried silently. When he finally realized it, he knew that the death of his family was his fault. He told Az to sacrifice whomever and now he knew what a huge mistake he had made. Not able to live with himself and what he did, his only desire now was to be with his family again and he knew the quickest way for that to happen.

In the distance, he could hear the sounds of a train horn making its way to where he was. 6 got out of his car and walked onto the train tracks. Questioning to himself if he really wanted to do this, he eventually came to the conclusion that he was ready. The train

 that was coming on the tracks that he was on was about a mile away now and slowly but surely, closing in on him. 6 took a couple of deep breaths and as the train was about 20 feet away, he closed his eyes and looked the opposite of the way the train was coming and when the train impacted his body, 6 knew his human life was over.

 12. Overture

The transition of death for 6 was a strange one as he found himself surrounded by the same white light that the vortex of light pulled him through. There was no longer any pain, no heartache, no sadness, only the light feeling of his pure soul. The blinding white light pulled 6 forward and he was now traveling many light years. The white light turned into a light pink colour which turned softly into an orange and then a bright red which turned into a light yellow which turned into a vivid green and then a dark blue. The dark blue turned into a royal dark purple and then turned black and white again. The cycle repeated until a rainbow of infinite colours surrounded 6 in this realm of light. 6 "swam" downwards and as he swam down, he found himself in a light orange and red atmosphere surrounded by clouds. He "swam" down further until he reached the sky of Earth. 6 realized where he was now and a sense of happiness filled him.

6, now in his soul form, was flying throughout the sky under a beautiful orange and red sunset. The colours were different from human form as he could now feel the colours and become one with them. At first, it was difficult to move in this form but as he began to grow accustomed to it, he "swam" above the

 ocean in the sky, diving and jumping and everything he had wanted to. He finally felt how a bird felt and was finally and truly content.

There was something 6 always wanted to do and now in his pure form, he could finally do it. 6's soul flew all the way up to the heavens and then he dived down past the atmosphere, clouds, and sky until he had entered the ocean and flew down to the ocean floor. He did the reverse now and flew from the bottom of the ocean to the heavens that surrounded the Earth. 6, amazed, did this a couple more times until yet another negative thing happened...

While 6 was at the bottom of the ocean, an unknown force had pulled his soul out into the middle of the sky and when 6's soul was turned upright, he could see that it was the demon, Az, horns and all. Az looked different to 6 now as he was in another form and he pulled out what looked like a knife of dark energy from the air.

"You think you could escape so easily?! You're WRONG! You must reap what you sow! Live the life you chose, 6! BE GONE!" Az communicated to 6 as he impaled the knife of dark energy into 6's soul. 6's soul began to diminish as the sky became filled with clouds, thunder and lightning immediately. 6's soul was falling to the ocean but the ocean completely changed to become an endless field of black and dead, soil and mud. 6's soul fell towards the ground

 and almost completely diminished but when he hit the ground, his physical body returned. The ground was disgusting with worms and snails and as 6 leaned up, he could make out what seemed like a black, gothic cathedral in the distance, and a lamp post with two black crows that rested on it halfway between where he was and the church. The sky was now a grey colour as dark clouds began to move overhead as they were now filled with a murderous vengeance, ready to kill...

 13. Memento Mori

"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home." - Tecumseh

 ...

 \*Ding\* \*Ding\* \*Ding\* \*Ding\* \*Ding\* \*Ding\* \*Ding\* \*Ding\* \*Ding\* \*Ding\* \*Ding\* \*Ding\* \*Ding\*...

The church bell of the gothic cathedral rang 13 times and when it stopped, the stormy clouds had finally closed in on the church, the lamp post, and the area where 6 was. Before 6 could get his head straight and find out where he was, a lightning strike so powerful struck about 20 feet from where he was. This terrified 6 to where now there was no time for thinking, only running towards the gothic cathedral to make his way safely inside. There was about a mile to get to the cathedral and halfway was the lamp post with the two black crows on it. 6 picked himself up and quickly ran as fast as he could to the church.

The soil of the field where 6 was was slippery and wet and hard to run on but 6 managed to get a comfortable running rhythm going on. He felt scared now, almost as if something dark and sinister was about to happen...

About halfway to the lamp post he began to grow tired but there was no time to stop now. When he reached the lamp post, the crows looked very angry at him and they had piercing red eyes that pierced through him. He knew that these crows were pissed off at him most likely for killing himself as they were probably Az himself incarnate, but in a quick moment,

 there was a lightning strike that deceased the birds in less than a second.

Baffled at being so close to being struck, 6 made his way onwards to the safety of the church. As he got closer and closer to the church, the sky began to get darker and darker until 6 was about 40 feet away and the sky began to grow a dark-black colour and finally began to rain.

When 6 was just outside of the church's doors, it was as if it was nighttime outside as 6 could see some hints of moonlight and what looked like a full moon. Finally reaching safety, 6 pushed the double doors open and walked inside to find himself in a dark lobby and he could see a set of double doors that were opened. He walked to the doors and now saw the heart of the church.

Multiple upon multiple rows of church benches there were and on some of those benches were what looked like people praying to God and confessing their sins. From the ceiling there were hanging candelabras that lit the way to the other end of the church where an altar rested. On the wall of the altar, there was a dark red stained glass window that was dripping with rain from the outside and was in the shape of a triangle.

What struck 6 as strange was that the people that were there seemed to be crying, like there was some sort of death that happened and this was the funeral.

 Wanting to see more, 6 made his way across the walkway to find a seat to sit down and rest and watch.

He only made a little bit of a walk when he heard "Go on...to the altar" behind him as someone touched 6's back. 6 looked to see an elderly woman that looked like she was on the verge of death, smiling towards him. Not wanting to disappoint or disrespect her, he decided to listen to her and made his way to the altar.

Although he didn't want to speak in front of everybody, he decided that it was the least he could do. After all, it had been what seemed like years since he had set foot in a church and this was the least he could do for his family that were very religious but were now dead. 6 made his way up the short steps of stairs, onto the altar, and looked and saw a letter on the podium addressed to '6arrett' that had a symbol that looked like a red and black drawn hand with three claws with a red and black dot connected in the center of it. Remembering that 6arrett was the name that Az told him was to be his future alias and realizing that it was addressed to him, he opened it and saw that it was a speech for him to recite to the people inside. With some courage, he began to speak.

"Um, hello. My name is 6 and I am going to recite a eulogy...Here is my eulogy...", he said as he cleared his throat and began:

 "Here is my eulogy.

The dark forces are out there.

In here, we're safe for the time being. Just you wait and see,

Soon, the light will come..."

 When 6 had finished the short eulogy the place went quiet and there was no more sobbing. 6 saw that everybody in there was staring coldly at him. After a few moments of silence, every person in the church began to cackle a laughter of pure evil.

Everybody in the room was cackling at 6 and now they were getting up from their seats and walking in the main aisle to the altar. There was a crowd of about 20 elderly people that were now closing in on 6 at the altar.

"Hey, you guys, wait a minute. What are you doing?", 6 asked as he began to get terrified and chills ran down his spine and realized now what a eulogy was. They were now making their way up the stairs and their cackling began to grow even more wretched and 6 saw what they truly were.

The 'old people' that 6 saw coming towards him were actually a crowd of bleeding, dead corpses. When they got closer and closer their skin began to melt off onto the floor until they were only skeletons. Skin and blood behind them and now skeletons, they circled around 6 and closed in on him.

"BUT 6ARRETT", 6 screamed out with all his might but now their bones were on all of the limbs of his body including his head and after they tore him limb from limb and violently ravaged his body, 6 finally ascended to a realm of peace and light.

 Epilogue: A New Day

In a rose garden filled with infinite roses and rose trees somewhere in the upper heavenly realms, a young man rested in the center on a patch of glowing green grass. After a short lifetime filled with many crazy events, he was finally at peace and resting. In this Rose Realm, he took the form of his body so that he would be able to smell the peace and love of the striking red roses that rested there and also so he could feel the grass that he was sleeping on.

With his past behind him, he was finally at peace with everything that had happened. Although he couldn't find his family in these heavens, he was able to find a place to sleep for all eternity if he wanted too. After what seemed like a thousand years, he finally awoke feeling brand new. When he remembered that everything in his past life was behind him, he was finally happy like he was when he was flying in the sky when he was previously a soul for a short time.

6arrett, in his new form, finally got up and took a short walk to the fountain of sweet water that was deeper in the rose garden. He walked straight ahead and took a right until he reached a gateway that led into a small courtyard with the fountain of sweet water and a bench to sit.

 He took a few sips until he was satisfied and sat down on the bench and thought for a few moments. 6arrett remembered everything that Az had told him about the universe, the creation of the universe, and everything about his past lives. Not knowing if he would be able to go back, 6arrett eventually came to peace with not being able to reincarnate back now that he was alone and was happy that he didn't have to worry about it. After pondering momentarily, he got up and took a short stroll around the beautiful white marble fountain.

As he was walking, he looked up at the sky. It was a striking green colour, something 6arrett had never seen before. Whenever he wanted to change the colour, he would only have to think of a colour and it would change to whatever he desired. He stopped by a rose bush that was near the fountain and smelled the sweet smell of roses that were growing from it. Touching the stem to get a better smell, he felt a sharp prickle of the rose thorn, not remembering that something so beautiful could have something so dangerous.

6arrett eventually made his way back to the patch of grass he was resting at and decided to rest even longer until he was ready to leave. He lied on his back about to fall asleep when suddenly, in the short distance, a figure appeared. As the figure began to walk towards 6arrett, he wondered who it was as the figure was dressed in a green cloak.

 The figure took his emerald green cloak off to reveal a bloody red coloured body that shined brightly like the roses in the Rose Realm. The man was horned, had piercing red eyes like the crows from the field where the gothic cathedral was, and had sharp hooves that rested on the ground.

 After a few moments of silence, the man began to laugh...

 DESTRUCTION

Waiting and wandering. Waiting and wandering. Somewhere in the universe of an infinite number of stars and planets, a young woman paced back and forth inside a colourful star. As she took each step, the ground would pulsate a grey colour under each step she took. Elsewhere in this universe, a floating light phenomenon explored the wide galaxies and embarked on endless adventures. The light being had already gone on a lifetime's worth of adventures in such a short amount of time but he had even more adventures and places to explore. Oh the places he would go.

Now the young woman that was pacing around quickly inside the star found her way back to the three others that were inside the safe haven. Inside, it was completely white, more purer than a virgin. On the outside were rainbow fires and explosions bursting with excitement on the star known as Ziv. Ziv was a special star as it was a living being (like the others) but it would also grant any wishes it was asked. The wishers , however, must be inside of Ziv in order for their wishes to come true. The young woman made it back to the other three people, a young woman and the other two men, and began to speak.

"Listen, I don't care what we have to do, we need to get back to Earth. Mother Earth. We can't live in here forever and we're not supposed to. What can we do to get back to Earth?", she asked with an almost helpless tone. Ziv

 telepathically communicated with her and the others felt what it said. "Please address me as Ziv. If you want to go back to Earth then fine", Ziv communicated and in a sudden moment, the young woman found herself on a sandy beach as she saw black clouds that cloaked the entire Earth. "Ziv, stop! Just stop it all, please!", the young woman pleaded with Ziv as Ziv brought her back to inside its safe haven.

"Don't you see? I can't stop it. I can't stop any of this. It was meant to be this way by the universe and divine realms. The Earth will completely be annihilated within the next 24 hours at this rate. I'm sorry", Ziv communicated. One of the young men began to speak next. "Well isn't there something, like a plan B? Okay, so the Earth's on its way to complete destruction and termination. Fine. But why can't we fight for it to survive? What I'm saying I guess, is there's got to be a way to fix earth back to the way it was minus the negativity.", he finished. Ziv paused for a moment and there was a long silence when suddenly Ziv communicated again. "The Angel. The Angel of Light is floating throughout the universe and having the time of his lifetimes. In order for the Earth to be restored to its original state we must find the Angel. With the Angel of Light, we can use his soul energy to give to the Earth as healing energy and restore her completely to her original beauty and health. There is a problem, however. In your current human state, you can not see or access this Angel of Light as he is traveling the universe as soul energy. If you are killed off, you will be able to find him much easier and plead with him to sacrifice

 himself for the greater good. This is essentially what we are doing here.", Ziv finished as the young man said, "Done.".

After a short moment, the four humans took their final breaths and after their visions went black, tiny lights began to take form in the darkness. Each of the humans in their mind thought "Ziv" and were instantly taken to in front of the colourful rainbow star. Now realizing their current forms as soul energy, they were ready to find the Angel of Light to restore Mother Earth.

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  6arrett.