Fantasy: Chapter 6: Clues

A Chapter by Linis Arizen

Clues:

I sat there on my bed, watching Cat vacuum the rest of the glass on my floor, I ran a figure under my nose, why did I wake up like that? And that Guy, who is he? I sat there pondering the facts, I’m having weird dreams of me in a different world, and this guy appearing everywhere, my mirror, the hospital, and now my bathroom, what did he mean, Dear Puppet? I shook my head and stood up and watched as Cat took the vacuum out of my room, I heard her go down the stairs. I looked at the frame of my mirror, I wonder if I will have seven years of bad luck for breaking a mirror in a dream stasis. Jack walks into my room, he looks at me.

“So…what’s up?”

I looked at him, “Nothing much….my arm hurts...my head hurts...hell just about my whole body hurts…”

“So, what are these dreams about?

“The dreams…their…weird…I’m in a different world…a world of…with these humanoid creatures...I’ve only seen one, maybe two of the different beings…there are Luciens…Faes…Syths…and Norbids…I’ve seen the Faes, they are beautiful, slim, elegant, and I think I’ve seen a Norbid…”

Jack stood there as I went on, he stared at me like I was losing it even more than I already have.

“Umm...Leon…lets forget I even asked…” he looked around then heard a door open downstairs, “I’ll be right back, that might be David…or Al…”

I nodded and watched him walk out of the room. I looked round. I had to figure out about these dreams, but who could help me?

I stood up and started pacing back and forth, I looked up thinking about all the things I know about this Dream World, the races, the moons, the names, Cushote, Corvas, Kyrika Woods, Diau, Tiatui, and then there’s that Itrien magic Craven mentioned. I looked around my room. I stopped and looked at my bookshelf, there are books on here that people never heard about, there are about two-hundred of them, I looked at the bottom row first, going up. So many books, I didn’t think me, Jack, and Cat stored up such a collection, after about thirty minutes I just sat on the floor and lightly hit the bottom of the bookshelf, I looked up and stared at the all the books, I felt like they were crushing me, then I see a book that stood out like a sore thumb, I stood up and looked at the book, it was a dark red book called “The Crimson Moon” by Dr. Raymond L. Cushowe. Cushowe? Cushote? There we go. I grab the book, the cover had two moons on it, a small red moon, and a larger grey one, just like the ones I saw in the field, I turned the book over and read the back of it.

In the world of Elmemna, its inhabitants are separated by their differences, which are solving it by fighting. But that isn’t the only problem in Elmemna, a Norbid Mage named Lloyd searches for a dark book that holds unimagineable power. In a field in the Cushote Province a young Breic boy wakes up unsure of where he is, or where he came from. Along with the Racial War, Lloyd, and this boy, there is a Breic Empire led by Heuthel Moritas. This small empire is trying to take control of all Elmemna, using any means necessary to get to its goal. All of these things tie together to reveal a bigger picture in this great fantasy, adventure by Dr. Raymond Cushowe.

I looked up, almost shocked, and even more confused than before. But some things make some sense. I’m the boy in the field, but that’s all I could put together at the moment, I need to find this Dr. Raymond, I kept the book and quickly went into the room across the hall, this room was the Game Room, our Playstation 3, Xbox, and Gamecube sat on a big entertainment stand along with a big HDTV Flatscreen, I walked over to the computer, it was a Dell, nothing to special, I sat down and logged in, I sat there and waited. Everything was confusing, my head started to hurt, after the computer logged in I opened up the internet browser, the homepage came up, lucky for me, it was Google, I typed in Dr. Raymond L. Cushowe, it quickly gave results, a lot. This could take some time.

After about fifteen minutes of going through site after site, I found his own biography site that gave details about his work, I looked it over, he owns his own business, its turns out he’s a therapist, great, I’m going to a shrink for help, anyways its in a town called Laketon in North Carolina. North Carolina, great. I wonder if I could get a number somewhere. That’s it. I stood up and ran downstairs, to my not so utter surprise, Jack, David, Allen, and Cat were sitting in the living room, I looked at Allen, “Allen! Hey, come here I need your help, in the Game Room,” I quickly ran up the stairs and walked into the game room, shortly after, Allen walked into the room, Cat was behind him, Jack, then David followed them, Allen pulled a chair up next to me, “What do you need my help with?” his cold low voice always sent a chill up my back. I looked at him and pointed to Raymond’s name, “I need this guy’s home phone, and or cell phone, and you’re the only one I know that can get it quickly.”. Allen looks at me then to Cat, she shrugged and looked at me, “You want Allen to hack into the System and find this guy’s number? Why not just try the numbers there?” she pointed to a series of numbers under Raymond’s business address, I looked at her, “Because I will most likely get a secretary or something and all their going to say is You need an Appointment to speak to Dr. Raymond, so please get me a Direct way to talk to him…” I sat there and looked at them. I looked down, “Alright I’ll call this number…” I turned and faced the computer screen and took out my phone, I heard David and Jack leave the room, Allen and Cat stood there, I input the number in my cell and hit the talk button, it starts ringing, another one, then another, and another, another, then a male voice answers the phone, “Hello?”. I looked down and looked at Allen and Cat.

“Is this Doctor Raymond Cushowe?”.

“This is his son, why?”.

“Uh..is your father in? Can I speak to him?”.

“No he’s on vacation in Virginia”.

My eyes widen, “No way! Where in Virginia?”

The voice got dark and hostile, “Why do you want to know?”.

“I need to speak to your father, please it’s an emergency!”.

There was a pause then I heard the voice creep back through the phone, “He’s…in…a place called Mainet”.

I smiled, that town is only four hours from here, “Where in Mainet?”.

“Last I heard he’s staying in a hotel,…the..uh..The Three Brothers Hotel.”.

“Thank you so much for your help”

“Uh huh…” the line went quiet.

I looked at Cat, “I need to get to The Three Brothers Hotel in Mainet”. She looked at me confused more than ever, “Why?”

“Please, I’m either going with you, or without you…” I looked down.

“But, what about your party?” she looked down, kind of sad.

“I’m getting alittle old for birthday parties, don’t you think?”.

She giggled alittle bit, “I guess, well when do you want to leave?”.

“Now, you know how to get there?”.

“I know how to get to Mainet, yes..”.

I grabbed my cell and walked down the stairs, Cat was following behind me, I hurry out the front door to her car, I jumped into the passenger side, after awhile, Jack and Cat get in, Jack got into the back seats, and Cat in the driver’s seat, she turned on the car and started heading down the driveway, she looks at me, “Leon…you look like your about to pass out, you should rest, but when…we get…to..Mainet…I..want..a…explanation…”

As she spoke, I looked out the window, thinking how easy this all was to get information, and I could figure everything out by reading this book, something didn’t add up right, there has to be a catch, but my head was hurting to much to think of that so I started to watch the scenery go by, then everything started to fade, oddly, I smiled.