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Alone at the End of the World

AS_Woodward
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Synopsis
A man wake up in a field with no memory of who he is, as he navigates his way through a post apocalyptic world he slowly regains memories of who he was and the life he had. Set to discover who he is and what happened to the world he is. Outcasted everywhere he goes with no understanding as to why, he slowly uncovers a mystery hidden in his memories.
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Chapter 1 - Chapter 1 Where am I?

I woke up in a field, unaware of who I was, or where anyone had gone. It was a wheat field, void of any civilization, I got up off the ground and dusted myself off. In the far distance I saw a barn. I decided to start walking to it, as I was looking around, I noticed there wasn't much around, I didn't see any farmers, any workers, not even a single tractor, where did everyone go?

As I started approaching the barn I noticed that the door was cracked open just a little bit. From what I could see there wasn't anything inside, I needed to know though, where had everyone gone? Once I had reached the door, I cracked it open a little more, I noticed on the wall of the barn there was blood on the wall. It was spelling something out.

"It isn't safe here. Go to Euthoria."

What is Euthoria? I patted around my body to see if I had anything on me, however I had nothing on me. I once again looked around, but I couldn't see anything else in the field. All that was visible was this barn. I just picked a direction and started walking. Then suddenly I tripped and fell to the ground, when I looked at what I tripped over there was a now broken string, I was unsure of what the string was attached to. However, this could potentially be a good thing. That string must lead somewhere.

I grabbed onto the string and started following where it went, picking it up as I went on. After walking for a few minutes, I reached an area with a post, the post wasn't tall enough to stick out of the field, the post had four strings going in four directions. I wondered, am I in the center of this field? Where does each string go?

I started following the string that went the opposite way. I didn't go very far when I reached a hole in the ground, at the other end of the string was a cow hoof, I wondered why someone would have severed a cow hoof like that, however the hoof was just dangling in the air down in a hole, I couldn't see the bottom of the pit, as I was staring down into the darkness I saw two red eyes light up, there was something down there, is that why it wasn't safe? Maybe that is the thing that caused my memory loss?

Whatever was in that hole seemed too dangerous to let out, so I started to head back to the post with the strings, I began to follow one of the other strings, as I was following the string I noticed there were some scarecrows in this part of the farm. I had to stay focused though, I need to find out where I am. However, as I was following the string there was a scarecrow in the path, as I got closer something seemed off about the scarecrow.

Suddenly I could smell the sweet aromatic smell coming into my nose, it was clearly coming from the scarecrow. Why did it smell so good though? As I approached the scarecrow I realized it was no scarecrow at all. Instead, it was a crucified body, and from the looks of it, it had been sitting there for a while. Why did it smell so good though? Rotting bodies shouldn't smell that good. I felt like I was in a trance, I was struggling to take my eyes off the body, and it felt like I was being drawn towards it.

I had to break the trance if I wanted to get out of here. I looked away and continued past the body, and continued following the string, and after a while of walking I ended up at this little farm house, it was a slight shade of blue, with a white porch, the windows seemed to have all been broken, I walked up to the porch and the railing to the porch appeared to have been broken.

I opened the white door and as I stepped in, I was in the living room, the place looked like it had been robbed. The furniture was all tipped over, and all the glass had been broken, I continued to walk around, there were two bedrooms, both doors were closed, and through the living room was the dining room which was shared with the kitchen. If it wasn't ransacked this would be a cozy little place to live.

Suddenly I heard a crashing sound coming from one of the rooms, I slowly walked over to the room and gently grabbed the doorknob before turning it.

"Is anyone in there?" I asked

I didn't hear any response, so I slowly opened the door, and on the other side of the door was some sort of monster, I leaped back away from the door. As I hit the wall behind me the creature came barging through the door and was now looking me in the eyes.

Its eyes were yellow, its face was scaly and black with two spikes sticking out on both sides, it had no hair, its hands had no nails, its entire body was scaly. It had rugged old beat-up clothes on, like he had been in a fight. I was frozen with fear, staring it in the eyes. It looked like it was trying to figure out who I was. As if he knew or something. It didn't make a single noise but rather just stood there and stared at me.

After about a minute of staring it walked away and went back into the room, my heart was racing, I slowly stood up and went inside the opposite room where I was going to climb out of the window so that thing wouldn't be able to see and follow me. I noticed the bathroom was destroyed as well. As I was looking at the bathroom a memory came to me.

I was standing there looking into a mirror, I was young with black hair, and behind me was an older woman, she was smiling at me, she was also looking into the mirror. I was smiling as I looked back at her.

That was the whole memory, I couldn't remember who the women even was, she seemed really familiar I can only assume she was my mother or something, until I can remember more, I just feel like a part of me is missing, not being able to remember anything about myself. Or even where I am. Additionally the mirror in the bathroom was also broken in here. The question is why was all the glass broken?