Cyrus stood frightened in a very dark and empty place .
It seemed like space but with air making it breathable .
Until a dark and tall spirit slowly came towards him . It felt familiar for some reason ...
Before he could even twitch, the shadowed entity materialized its wicked scythe, the deadly curve swept toward him in a silent blur...
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"NOOOOOO" shouted Cyrus ,
as he saw his restaurant getting burnt into ashes in front of his eyes along with his friends who were trying everything to escape the building and save their lives .
But Just as a piece of the shattered glass was about to fall on him , he woke up .
"It was just a dream . Cyrus calm down ..."
It was just a normal day of his daily life if it wasn't for the bad dream..
But He quickly forgot about it and went to open his restaurant , "Gotta earn the dollars" said Cyrus .
It went better than he thought he was having fun with his friends while also doing the work.
He also earned a lot of money that day .
But the thought of the dream was still disturbing him .
The next day ,
It would have been the same as usual if it wasn't for the same dream that woke him up before his alarm .
This really disturbed him even more .
"How could I get literally the same dream in a row " thought Cyrus .
A week passed but he kept getting the same dream again and again.
"It is trying to warn me about something? , will the dream come true , I think I need some therapy " said Cyrus .
He took a day off and went to a therapist that his best friend recommended.
The therapist asked him to try to pay attention to the small details - it could be the time , date any thing which may feel off if the same dream re-occurs .
But that night he was not able to sleep properly . At last he slept and it happened, the same dream but after he could understand that it was a dream, it was already too late and he woke up .
He told about what happened to the therapist and he recommended him to wear a special headset which will help him gain consciousness while still being in the dream , and Cyrus being a rich man bought it , he then patientally waited for the night and slept .
At last nightime came and he slept .
The dream came but he now knew that it was fake so he tried to focus on the wall clock and saw 8:00 p.m.
Now slowly but surely, Cyrus collected some more details , he had already found the time but when he saw the date on the same clock , it was in the future , it said 6th November when it was actually 1st November.
His therapist recommended him to not go to the restaurant that day and also give an reason to his friends so that they also won't go .
He also noticed something strange , after he saw the date and time , the dream was getting shorter every night .
And on 4th November, he saw that dream for the last time ...
And on the same night he also noticed that this time only he was stuck in the restaurant, only him ... Not even his friends or any customers .
And now it was the day , he told his friends that he had received a government order to close his restaurant for today .
His friends did not believe him at first but they trusted him .
And at 8:00p.m. he came to the restaurant but nothing happened.
He waited for 5mins and mysteriously lost consciousness, after he woke up he saw himself in a hospital.
"What happened, why am I here ?" Said Cyrus to the doctor.
The doctor told him that he had inhaled the deadly gases of the fire of the restaurant.
"But while I was awake , there was no fire" asked Cyrus being confused.
"There is no other reason for you to have lost your consciousness " said the doctor smiling as he pat Cyrus on his back .
Just to make sure , he called his friends to make sure that they're fine , but to his horror he found out that his best friend had died in the fire while trying to get his notebook that he forgot inside .
He was broken...
It was like his world had ended in front of him .
But this wasn't the end . As No one can escape Death .
That night Cyrus got a dream where he was stuck in a black dimension with a shadowed figure in front oh him .
"YOU MAY HAVE ESCAPED ME TODAY BUT WILL YOU SURVIVE TOMORROW???
HAHAHAHAH" Said the figure .
That dream frightened him so much that while waking up , he fell from his bed .
That day his friend's funeral was being held and just as he was about to deliver his speech , to his horror he saw the same figure behind one of his friends and his friend then seemed to lose consciousness.
He was rushed to the hospital but there was no escaping from DEATH.
the doctors said that it was a heart attack but Cyrus knew the real reason .
He slowly saw all his friends dying in front of him everyday .
And when all the people he knew had died he knew it was his turn , his time had came .
He went to the place where that restaurant once stood and sat there for hours , at last the same figure appeared before him.
"AHA YOUR TIME HAS FINALLY COME , AS IT WILL PROVE THAT NO ONE ESCAPES DEATH" Said the figure .
"I wasn't trying to escape from you , I just didn't want to die so soon I just wanted to live my life to the fullest , I just wanted to live for some more time . I know that everything that has been born will eventually die " said Cyrus as the mysterious figure took out his scythe and slashed him ...
The End