Prologue: Abduction

An idea that I'm working on. Starts in the modern world and then...

 

 

 

             The problem Leon was facing was a lack of motivation. He never really got out; he never went out and talked with people. He would just go to work deal with what would happen there and come home watch a movie, read a book, play a game. He knew he was becoming depressed and he would do nothing about it. He still lived at home which added to his depression. He would sit at his laptop for hours listening to music. And sometimes he would go for walks around the town he lived in listening to his Ipod. Every once and awhile he would visit friends but he didn’t get along with them as well as he used to when he was in school. They seemed to have a nice enough time when they would hang out but Leon felt uncomfortable hanging out with his old friends. He never went to clubs like his friends did. He knew he wasn’t good at dancing and was never willing to go and take a chance in front of his friends and the girls who were dancing.

             So Leon’s depression grew. He would always put up a mask to hide his depression. He would always hide behind a smile and would laugh and joke with his friends and the people he worked with and even his family. He began to do less with the day and the only benefit he saw out of all of what he was doing was that he was saving more money because he did less.

             Leon thought he should try to get himself in better shape but he never acquired the motivation to take himself to the gym. And so would just either continue watching movies, playing games or going for a walk. He found himself more and more getting lost in his thoughts and would find himself at times just zoning out even in the middle of work. When he would hang out with his friends it would help him from thinking so much and relax but if he ever got disinterested he would zone out again. And sense he did this so often he talked to people less and they talked to him less. He felt disconnected from life and the world that he began to avoid it. Leon felt so useless at times like he wasn’t helping anyone even himself. He had no purpose no plans to find a purpose he was just living. He would put on a facade for others and at times he became so immersed in his facade that it felt like it was a part of him but he knew better.

Lately he had visions in his sleep of nightmarish images children dieing being sacrificed in heinous rituals. He wondered what brought about such devilish thoughts. Was he actually going crazy? Leon thought this at times after reading things in psychology books but he was not sure and would deny it immediately whenever he would think he was going mad.

              After a normal day of work he had graveyard shift he came home and swept the floor and vacuumed the carpet. He fed his household pets and was about to watch a movie. When he felt like doing something else. He walked around his house trying to start doing something else but nothing caught his attention or held his interest. Leon decided to go out for a walk.

              Leon put on his headphones and began to walk down the street to the park about a dozen blocks away. He began to think of more uplifting thoughts than he had experienced in awhile. He started thinking of changing his patterns and trying new things. He thought of seeing his friends more, going to college, going to nightclubs, going out on dates and he began to swear to himself that he would change. He began to tell himself that he was going to start doing those things. Leon was nearing the park and was actually having a good time walking through his neighborhood. He started to make his way through the park and stopped for awhile at a park bench and looked around at the people and animals now in the park. He closed his eyes for awhile listening only to his music.

Open your eyes.

            Leon snapped his eyes open in an instant. He looked around for the person would spoke to him but there was no one even remotely close to him.

Walk.

            The voice spoke again but Leon knew there was no one around him. The voice was in head. Leon hoped to god he was imagining things. He didn’t want it to turn out he was schizophrenic and he was crazy. But Leon felt uncomfortable now and began to do what the voice had told him to do. He was about to walk entirely out of the park when he saw Kiara. Kiara was a girl he had gone to high school with. They did not really know each other, not personally. Just by acquaintance really but he had a crush on her in school and never really talked to her while they were in school. But Leon decided that he was going to go and talk to her. She was just sitting at another park bench close to a basketball court. She turned towards Leon and locked eyes with him. Leon almost looked away from her when she looked at him but he held his gaze. He continued to walk to her and she stood up. It seemed as if she was undecided about letting Leon come to talk to her or not. But before she could decide to leave Leon was in front of her.

“Hi it’s been a long time. How’s it going?”

“Hello Leon. I’m doing pretty well.”

“That’s good to know.” Leon paused he didn’t really know what to say. He had become so bad at talking to people and making conversation.

“Um… How’s college?” Leon felt like an idiot he had brave enough to come up and talk to her but he didn’t really think of anything to say beforehand.

“It’s actually a lot of fun. You should have put more thought to what you were doing in you future while you were in school Leon. You could be in college right now too.”

“True I should have put more thought into my future but I would still have to be working at some stupid job. I don’t have any money for college really saved up and neither did my parents.”

“That’s too bad. Why haven’t you been saving up money?”

“Because I’m stupid and I have to find out things the hard way rather than listen to my parent’s advice.”

“Yeah that sounds about right.”

Leon hesitated after she said that. Right then everything that the both of them said hit him. Finally hit him. He knew he was going to change because he was now willing to change. And then he laughed.

“What’s so funny?”

“I just realized how big of an idiot I’ve been my entire life.”

Kiara smiled then for the second time since they started talking but the first one that actually seemed genuine.

“I’m glad I came over to talk to you.”

“You sound like your about to end the conversation.”

“Well no I just felt like it needed to be said.”

Kiara paused and just looked Leon straight in the face.

“You’re strange you know that.”

“Yeah I’ve been told that.”

Leon started to feel like the conversation was going to end up going badly.

“That’s not necessarily a bad thing.”

“I’m glad you think that way.”

             Leon suddenly noticed a man in a black robe. He was facing Leon and Kiara and he could see the glint of the figures eyes. Leon felt incredibly uncomfortable in an instant and wanted to get the hell out of there.

“Did you here me Leon”

“Sorry I saw someone I thought I recognized.”

“Would you like to go out sometime?” Hell yeah he would he thought. He never thought she would ask. He was ecstatic.

“Yes I would.”

             Then Leon saw the man in the black robes again and he was closer. It was strange. He was this close and it was daytime yet under his hood all that could be seen was darkness. He must have had long hair because dark gray hair stuck out the hood. Then the man rose up his arms and then Leon’s arms shot up as well. Suddenly iron clamps snapped onto his wrists and then Kiara gasped. She grabbed on to Leon’s arm to feel the bracelets. Then suddenly a harsh breeze hit his face and rain poured all around them. And then both Leon and Kiara were being pulled through the air towards the man in the black robes. He was scared that he would hit the man but then he was gone. Leon then remembered terrible pain and then all around him was darkness.

You are ours.

 

 

Reviews

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This is deep. This is really deep. This first two paragraphs resonate with the daily life of most people in their 20s nowadays. I think everyone goes through that "thinking way too much and doing nothing" phase. It's crazy, because everyone feels it's only them, but it's really more common than we think. I figured that this girl was somehow luring Leon. Like a devil in disguise. I'm surprised Leon didn't drink or do drugs since he was so bored in such a still, suburban life.

Regardless, I like Leon. I think anyone, man or woman, can relate to him at least a little. I'm looking forward to the next chapter. From the modern world to a whole other dimension, huh?