VOID's Punishment

Opening written by Landon himself. Describing the VOID realm and his inner thoughts.

The rain fell, hard as ice.

The clouds had taken over the sky; no sunlight could be seen through this thick layer of overcast. This is the place I dwell in now, a place filled with an overwhelming sense of time lost.

Here, life can barely exist; while there is no hunger, there is no delight in the taste or scent of food; nor refreshment from the quenching of one’s thirst.

Color has no purpose here, for in color, emotions are born.

No sounds other than your own harsh breath, and the sounds of the perpetual rain.

A strong sense of memories left forgotten; for the few who have experienced this exile from any other realm.

No one ever talks about the place between.

Here there is no chance for redemption.

No savior from damnation, no corporal punishment for wrongs committed.

I am here on my own will, my personal sacrifice with the knowledge that my suffering brought peace to that planet.

The planet where the people I love now inhabit, in a time of tranquility.

While waiting for eternity to end, I can do nothing but reminisce; to recall when I once lived on that now beautiful planet.

When I lived upon planet Earth; it was covered in chaos and madness.

The era of human kind was at its worst.

Human's used to kill one another for as small a thing as a piece of paper with no real meaning.

Their humanity lost in the toils of human desire.

They murdered millions in the names of peace and justice.

Even those who claim to praise some god have blood splattered in their past.

A stain they have long forgotten.

But who am I to judge the human race?

I am no longer human.

I was born with a destiny to live in both worlds.

Humans have no name for what I was; for I was a collection of souls within a body.

The Knight to lead the Queen to her reign.

My own past is covered in blood, stained with the liquid that keeps living creatures alive.

We were not perfect.

There is an overwhelming darkness in each of our hearts.

A darkness so deep hat some could not grow beyond, some unable to see through the abyss of their own defects.

A darkness ever creeping towards control, those of us unable to escape, became the true bane of existence.

The VOID is my home now, it's energies having driven me insane, now keep my calm.

I sit down in the spot I have not moved from in years, my once dreadful abilites dwindled to nothing.

I look back on why I am here, and see their faces again.

A faint smile streaks across my face.

They were everything to me.

I did this all for them.

I miss them.

They live now in my memories.

Their destinies unfolding upon the planet we saved.

That was so long ago.

A single tear.

I am sorry, for I am no longer here, Landon is in the past.