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10Mar/061

Nachbreinner : prologue (possible novel)

Its been days now since my life got a turn for the more bizzare. But I'm not really complaining yet.

 Everyone, it seems, seems to have their own ideals. Even me. Only diffrence is, I'm wildly diffrent from everyone else here. This is unfamiliar territory. And I am no longer what I was. Only thing I know now is to serve my master by eliminating evil targets.

I still remember what it was like, a long time ago before all these started. Before I was forced into this predicament.

 I was the only child of my parents, who had merger income, just enough to provide a comfortable and happy home with what we needed - an education, books, a computer, television and most of all, a pair of caring parents, who did little to understood me, but neverthenless, loved me for what I am. I had little friends because I felt that I never fit in to any group. People would reject me as I was too diffrent from them, or so I thought. During that time, I often complained that my life was boring, and how much I wanted to end it. I was unhappy because I was happy. Or, more accurately, because there was no reason for me to live. No worlds for me to save. No universe for me to defend. It was boring and mundane, and I know that I am meant for bigger things.

My parents never allowed me to take up any form of martial arts, as they were peace loving people. But my lust towards blood and violence grew stronger and stronger each day. Violent video games played through my computer helped quench my thirst for the blood of demons, but I still have them. I often felt misplaced in my body, which was weak, fat and limp. It was in the worst shape possible because I had been kept away by my parents who really treasured me from socializing from a young age and thus, I spent my time indoors, not being able to get it in shape. And, due to the lack of friends, books became my companions, but that was slowly replaced with the computer as it arrived into my room. No one at school liked me. They stayed away from me and I never knew why. And I hated them for treating me diffrent.

Thus, depression set in. I lost intrest in living and drove away all the friends I had. My best friend who tried his best to care for me couldnt take it anymore when I started demanding to know every bit of him. I was unreasonable. But I could not help it. He gave up on me while hating me, although he denies it. And serval other friends too have been converted into enemies by my irrational behaviour. For all I know, they hated my guts. And I hated them too because they hurt me a lot. Each day, my heart grew darker and darker as I embraced the pain that they brought to me. And the longing for me to taste their blood in my mouth grew fonder each day. The warm, creamy red liquid that has the wonderful aroma of iron. How I wish it flowed down my throat as I bit off tender chunks of flesh from their necks as revenge for hurting me deeply so. But I could not. I dare not.

I continued to mope their loss and drowned myself in a downward spiral, to a point where I started to hear voices telling me I was useless and I needed to end my life to start a new one. It sounded like a very good idea, but I did not have the courage. I was a coward. So, instead, I wondered into long walks alone in the middle of nowhere looking for the place I belong. This helped me in calming my lust for raw flesh and blood. My human side was slowly dissolving into a monster. 

And I found it. Or rather they found me. My master. I still remember the day I met my master. It was the day where I met my destiny and everything else that I belonged to.

I was walking into a desolate path. It was a jungle path, one of the many jungle reserves that the city of my area have. A nice place to go. No one to disturb me and judge me when I cry. A perfect place for mending all my wounds. But it was already late and the area was dark. There was an abandoned place that seemed like a place that no one visits. Strangely, it has never been there before but I felt tempted to go check it out. The moment I reached, I saw a tiger attacking a deer and its child. The tiger was heartless as I can see through its eyes. It was cold and piercing while the doe tried to protect its child. My lips could taste its blood, and andrenalin flushed my body. I have to taste raw flesh and blood. Must. But the doe's frightened, yet sad but furious eyes stirred my anger as the bambi looked in fear and helplessly. Righteousness. I must have righteousness. I lunged at the tiger's neck and gave it a strong bite. I could taste blood and it was all that I cared. the tiger's claws sunk into my shoulders, but the pain was overwhelmed by a sense of arousal and euphoria that consumed my body the minute. The deer and her young scampered away as I sucked the blood out of that animal with my mouth. Warm, tasty, creamy, fragnant blood. And a struggling victim that is evil. Evil blood tasted as good as I imagined it to be for so long. And I kept drinking. All I could think of was to have more of this divine liquid as well as the satisfaction that I have killed an evil being. The wounds on my back dosent seem to hurt at all. All I can feel is raw energy flowing through my veins. Eventually, the tiger's paws weakened their grip and fell down. The struggles became weaker and weaker, and finally they stopped, with a look of horror on the tiger's eyes. I felt blessed. The feeling that this is what I should have been doing for a very long time overwrote everything else in my mind - the computer, my studies, my friends, and all my memories which I required to be who I am.

I ran on all fours to the jungle. I had bloodlust. It feels great to be able to kill anything I want and healing myself the minute I start feeding on their tasty elixir. I ventured within the ruins running like a half-animal-half-human creature, enjoying my newfound freedom. All was well until suddenly I felt the presence of something else that was far more superior than me. Something like a human. I sniffed the air and felt the presence of danger was coming my way. I ran as swift as I could into the woods. But unfortunately, my body was the limit and I felt slow. The danger loomed near but I could not do anything.

Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain embedded into my thigh. A big sized, but dignified figure mad his way here and snapped a collar over my neck. I tried to rip it off. After all I'm human and I do not deserve to be treated like an animal. The collar only grew tighter and it was made of a cold metal substance. I was choking and furious.

"I'm human and I must not be treated this way! Who are you?"

"Calm down boy. You're no longer human."

"what?"

The figure produced a mirror. He was wearing hooded robes with a hood over his face, causing his face to be only a shadow. He show it to me. I looked into it.

To my horror I saw that I had ears. cat ears. and sharp teeth. I could clearly see my eyes dilating in horror within the mirror. I cried, no, more like roared with all my might.

And that was all I remembered before I woke up in a cage. With the collar still on my neck. I moved my limbs but they were chained.

"where am I? what happened?"

"child, you're in my domain. The nterbra realm. The realm in which most humans refer to as, the supernatural realm."

"Why do you call me child when you treat me like an animal?" I snared, as I ran my hands to my head. No ears.

"because, child, your heart is not human. You allowed hate to conquer it. You may have a human form, but you have an animal's feral heart. Until you recover, you will have to be treated as an animal."

At that point, I regretted. I was so used to being treated as a human, yet I longed for adventure. Now I traded my humanity in the name of adventure. My heart sank.

"but, there is hope. You are no ordinary creature, child. You are still young, and you can prevent the destruction of your race."

The voice made itself a form. The same dignified, large-sized man, now in some sort of ceremonial robes, with a calm and pristine face. He did not look old nor did he look young.

"I am shelzerlab. I'm a sage in this realm. This is the realm that controls earth and everything else humans know as mother nature and the universe, and I am its ruler and keeper. There are many other beings that live here. Some are good and some are bad. Some create disasters for humans. Disasters that claim thousands of lives just because they hate humans. And those demons need to be quelled. They will cause humans to erase themselves by poisoning them with delusion, turning them against themselves. But my boy, you will be able to stop all those from happening."

My mind went blank.

"From now on, I shall train you. And you shall help me help the human race. Now, rest."

The lights went off. But I could not sleep even when my eyes are closed. In my wooden cage. Not in my pyjamas. And that was when all these memories of all that happened came back like a roll of film, each matching its perfect timeline, never out of sync. It seems to be a lot. A lot I tell you. But now, no one is watching. No one cares. All I know now is that I'm not a human anymore, and that I belong to something like his posession. It was a strange feeling, but I felt safe. And that I can no longer go back to the life I had once, even tho I laugh at my suicidal former self. It all sounds so stupid now.

All I want now, is to go back to the life I once had.

31Dec/051

The meeting (short story)

It was the end of the year, the only time where I ever clean my room, as I did not have the time to do it and that usually, I would be piling things into the room, not out of it. And as I was cleaning my room, I saw an old friend whom I never met for years, but he was, after all someone who knew me that long, and knew who I really am, despite all my misgivings and actions, which, most often causes people to misintepret me and even me misintepreting myself.

I called out to him. He looked and waved back, and stood there. I ran outside to get him and invite him into my home, then into my messy room. We were close friends a long time ago, and he would have often slept over at my place, while I did at his. So it was perfectly normal to let him into my private quarters, with every one of my personal and cherished belongings on the floor.

He made himself comfortable on the beanbag on the quaint corner of my messy room, and looked at me as I picked up books that I threw out from my shelf a few moments ago to arrange and place them somewhere else.

"So," he said. "You havent changed much since we last met, as I can see." as he looked around the room and at me with a warm smile, the smile that would always made me feel better when I was sad.

"Yea" I replied, in a half-happy, half-uncomfortable and half-consoled way. "I havent changed that much I guess." It's been over 20 years and yet, I feel that little has changed about me as I paint a smile on my face. But then again, my memory runs thru the great divide where I went wild and dumped him for other, more popular and outgoing friends, as well as rebelling my parents and things of that sort. Its all behind me tho, but I still own him an apology. My smile turned into a slight frown.

"Actually, I did change...but for a brief moment...and I do owe you and apology for what I did that time" I apologized, with my head drooping down low, for I did not have the courage to face him.

He had a glimmer in his eyes. "You dont need to." he consoled, with his hand reaching to me. "What you are now is the best apology...your willingness to change as soon as you realize you were hanging out with the wrong group, and all your efforts to strip away your preconceptions, delusions and denials that they have imposed on you...that, my friend, is the apology I need."

He hugged me to show me he meant it. I could feel tears welling up. I betrayed him, yet he was this good to me. I looked around my messy room, and deep inside, I knew it was the same mess I have. It hurts a lot, but I used to have a barrier around it until I realized that all it did was add more mess to it. My heart is still sore from the group that betrayed me, and I was searching for something to soothe it all along but I could not, until when I went for a retreat session and discovered that the wound can only heal if I stopped choking it with all my preconceptions, denial and blame.

He released me from the embrace and continued looking around.

"You sure do have a lot of stuff that you are not willing to throw away...although you dont need to use them anymore, like this broken pen." He commented, as he picked up a broken pen in which my ex-best friend from the group gave me as a birthday present. It was bittersweet as memories of times that will never return because my ex-best friend and the whole group cut off contact with me, and therefore there is no way for me to contact them again to apologize or anything. So my best bet is to move on. The pen broke at the day I discovered him lying about a few things to me all along as I flung it across the room with anger.

"yes...yes...I just cant find the will to throw them away..." I replied in a soft and slow tone.

"well, if you dont throw the old away, how are you going to write?" he replied with a piercing reply. "If you're going to keep all your old memories and grudges with you, when are you going to be happy?" he then looked at me with a twinkle in his eye. "I know, you cherish memories a lot, and they are a huge part of you...but...if you're keeping them, how are you going to change? I know you wanna change, so just throw what you need to."

I was shocked. He knew what I was thinking! Were we really that close? Did he really knew me that well?

I broke down and cried. I never imagined that I had such a true friend with me, one that did not care if I was a demanding person, who demanded honesty and sincerity amongst my aquaintances, and he did not care that I do get over his borders at times. He was angry at me for a few days when we were close friends after I told the girl he liked that he likes her, and he hated people who broke his private matters to others, but after a few days, he realized that i was just being too sincere and straightforward, and forgived me. And that, was the first time I cried because I was touched by his maturity.

He patted my back. "See, you never changed a bit." he teased. "And because of that, I forgive you. So dont feel bad okay?" He consoled me as he smiled with a warm smile. And I smiled too. "Do you mind if I help you out with your stuff?" He asked. I told him I didint mind.

"First" he said "some briefing. I know, you want to change into a more sincere person, so lets spring clean your heart first. Your ex best friend."

I felt angry when he said that.

"what did you feel?"
"angry"
"why?"
"he lied to me and betrayed my trust. how could someone who treated me so good be so unkind to me?"

My anger was seething.

"well, he's not the one who is suffering. you are. You cant let go, can you? He’s already forgotten you a long time ago and look here, you’re losing sleep over him.”

“yea…” I agreed, as it was a very logical point.

“Can you see that you have hurt him as well? And that you deserve this treatment?”

And it dawned to me that I have invaded his privacy twice by asking him where has he been, despite a warning. The friendship broke there and then. I suddenly realized that I didn’t see the whole picture all along: I was too busy nursing my own misery and making it worse as time went by. And that was 1 year ago.

“So you see…my friend, that’s a part of the mess in your heart cleaned up.” And with that he smiled.

And indeed, I did feel lighter.

“And then, question your real motive behind your friendship: were you friends with your ex best friend because he gave you benefits? Or anyone else for that matter?”

I looked into my heart, which was clear now and saw that I was friends with him because he was nice to me.

“I was friends with him because he was nice to me.”

“If he isn’t nice to you, will you be his friend?”
“no”
“this is not sincere friendship then. This is conditional friendship. Once the conditions are not met, the friendship breaks. Is this what you aim for?”

“No.” I answered firmly. I had always wanted to be as sincere as possible to everyone, and now I realize I was in denial when I told them I was sincere.

“Hahahaha. It is only now I realize I’m in denial all along.” I laughed ironically.

“And ah, denial. It’s gonna continue sinking you into the hole if you don’t get rid of it. Getting rid of denial is easy. Forget mind over matter. Forget right and wrong.”

He took the broken pen that my ex-best friend gave me.

“What is this?”
“it’s the pen that my ex best friend gave me. Ahhhh the times….” My mind started to recall the sweet moments, then the bitter moments.
“it’s just a pen. What are you saying? It’s not your memories. It’s simply a pen. See it as a pen and you wont feel bitter over anything.” And with that, he tossed the pen out the window.

Right now, to me, the pen was just a pen. It was no longer a memorabilia. No longer something precious to me. And all of a sudden, my heart felt calm and peaceful, a feeling I had never had for a very long time.

“thanks for helping me with my spring cleaning, dear friend.” I thanked him sincerely.

“now, is your heart calm now? Have you removed all the layers of denial?”
“yes”
“then, why are you talking to me? Why do you still see me?”

Only then, I realized he was an imaginary friend, and with that I no longer saw him.

I continued to clean my room, and threw away a lot of things I could no longer throw, and I realized how spacious my room was.

When all along I was complaining how small it is.

6Aug/040

purpuru

My mood wasnt that good yesterday and today. Joe refuses to take my quiz. He kept on saying later. He was using the computer in the lab he has the cheek to reply a message to his ex classmate than to take my quiz when I was hovering around him. He's such a mutherfucking idiot. That's so fucking rude.

Next was that hypocrite Nicholas which kept bugging me for the answers that I copied yesterday. But of course hypocritic behavior never fails to ignite my anger but I hid it. So I only gave him 1 question to copy.

Well, Joe's online today and yesterday. And he did not IM me although he did It's more than obvious that he's ignoring me and that he does not have the fucking balls to ignore me in real life because no one would update his rude, blur and lazy self, which is his true colours that was revealed after he quitted playing RO. Well, guess what? I'm gonna pretend to be blur too, so that you can ignore me in true life too.

Tell him his mistakes and he will say "everyone has their own individuality, dont force me to follow your character" Fine. I'm gonna ignore you and your fucking eccentric behavior. If you're going to be rude or if you want to ignore people whom you do not need, do it to someone else. Not me and I will not take crap from you. I'm gonna ignore you from now on if you give me shit. I'll shut my eyes and ears to him.

It's not me being pussy or anything but then again I dont know anyone that can tolerate such eccentric behaviour. It does more than irratate. Joe and his bad moods. He will sit in a corner with a pouty expression and grumpy behaviour and grumble whatever he's studying as stupid. And yet he claims his moodiness does not affect anyone. Sorry chum but it does.

Okay, this has been a very moody blog. I must admit that. But what makes me a lot more angrier is that my dad is forcing me to go to hell again. Yes. He is fucking forcing me to follow him to that old junkhouse. It's so fucking boring. I'd rather die or be kidnapped by elves or aliens that to go there again and taste ultimate boredroom. I was supposed to follow my mom back to Melaka for a change of view but no. My dad wants to force me there and saying no would yield bad results. Oh screw myself.; Why the fuck do I have such a shitty life? Someone save me before I explode into a thousand bits.

Just change the song to my happy weekend. SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY WEEKEND

29Apr/040

Eternal memories of light

Dear my love, haven't you wanted to be with me
And dear my love, haven't you longed to be free
I can't keep pretending that I don't even know you
And at sweet night, you are my own
Take my hand

[CHORUS:]
We're leaving here tonight
There's no need to tell anyone
They'd only hold us down
So by the morning light
We'll be half way to anywhere
Where love is more than just your name

I have dreamt of a place for you and I
No one knows who we are there
All I want is to give my life only to you
I've dreamt so long I cannot dream anymore
Let's run away, I'll take you there

[Chorus]

Forget this life
Come with me
Don't look back you're safe now
Unlock your heart
Drop your guard
No one's left to stop you

Forget this life
Come with me
Don't look back you're safe now
Unlock your heart
Drop your guard
No one's left to stop you now

[Chorus]

The same song has been playing in the background, repeating itself once it ends...

Me and Elise has been together for 5 years. Like the song, if we are with our friends and we meet each other, we must pretend that we dont know each other, to prevent cruel taunts. She is a beauty, a godess, and I am just a mere mortal. She has everything: brains, beauty, money, friends and a nice heart, and what I have is only a nice heart and peace of mind. Which is why, we will be pelted with cruel comments if people knew. Furthermore, Elise is half Japanese and my parents do not really like Japanese people. They still cant get over the world war 2 incident. Because of this, my parents still do not know of her existance yet.

This song...it reflects our love. I'm confused. For the very first time of my life, I'm confused. I'm too close to Elise, my love. I want her to be with me, but unfortunately it's making us freaks. I love her, but I want the best for her...and that is what she thinks too..

I logged on the the Malaysia Cosplay Club chatroom. The guys there were always nice to me, so I figured if I had a problem I could come to them for advice.

Codemonkey asked me if I was gay, because of all the rumors and bad publicity I had. Setsunakurosu asked me if I was really commited. And I said yes. And they said that I should go for it. Dai said that we should have sex. No way. Fortunately Xiao Ying understood and explained why not. Because it isnt right to do it before marrige. Setsunakurosu says again that she and JaceBarret are practically joined at the hip and it dosent scare them. But me and Elise, being so close that when she cries I often cry with her, scares me. Tenzan says that if I really love her, we should go on. And I plan to, except that it would alienate me and her from society.

I looked through the window. It was raining heavily. I saw how the raindrops crush the earth. How it shakes up the plants upon contact. I saw myself and Elise, sleeping together in a wet garden, a place, that we, freaks could never go. The song plays again. I know I love her. But I have to do what is best for us. But I still wanna go on.

The moderator of the chatroom suddenly asked everyone to stop dicussing about this matter. I logged off from the chatroom as I have found a solution.

I reached out for my Nokia 3315. The cheap cellphone I bought a year ago. I punched in Elise's phone number. The screen says Calling.... and when the tone rang twice, I stopped it. Elise is going to call me back. She dosent have to hold back on phone bills, unlike me. Very soon, she called me back, through my phone.

"Joey? You sound so...sad. What's the matter?"
"look, um, about what you said that day about breaking up...i don't think we should..."
"I really don't want to, but I will respect your decision"
"no. we are staying. I cant bear to break up with you anyway. It's not nessary"
"okay. good."
"just because....we are us, and that everyone else dosent respect us dosent mean that we should break up"
"but then, we will be freaks. yes. freaks"
"We'll go to a place where they do not consider us as freaks, ok?"
"....I still want this life...but for you, I'm ready to leave it"
"...no, I do not wish to see you make such a sacrifice..."
"you do know that if you die, I'll commit harakiri."
"yes. I do. my dad's back...how about we meet this saturday?"
"okay"

My dad came back and I had dinner.

****

At saturday, we met at Kyoto Gardens. It was, after all, her favourite hangout. It was the tea room today.

We changed into yukatas. It was more confortable in it. The ocha was served. I was kneeling, which was the proper way to sit in this place in the opposite direction of Elise, who, in her colourful yukata looked like an elegant Japanese princess. Her hand gracefully holds her cup of tea, one hand clapsing the body of the cup and the other shielding the body, and with a sip, the sleeves of her yukata enhanced her ever graceful movements, like the wings of a butterfly they vibrated. she placed down the cup to its original place.
Her lips opened.

"okay, what do we want to talk about?"
"You do realize that we have nothing here...?"
"except for our really close friends, everyone else seems to be ridiculing us"

I bent my head, and with full humility, apologised.

"I'm so sorry I caused you so much pain"

Tears were starting to stream from my eyes. they were warm ones.

Elise then rushed over to me and hugged me. My head was still lowered. Her head was near mine.

"No, it's not your fault. We never belonged here...."
"...I wish, I wish we could go away, like our song"

Elise eyes shrunk a little, as if she was in a state of meditation. She lifted her head to look somewhere else.

"if only, we were in the past, we would be able to run away to another place and...be husband and wife...even at this age..."
"I wish we could die together. We don't belong here...really"
"I know..."

I took out a pen and paper from my bag and wrote a will.

Elise had always kept a tanto with her and so did I. We took it out. I unsheathed mine and caressed the blade. I closed my eyes, and in a prayer like tone, I spoke

"Please, blade of justice, please spare me from the pain of this life. Please end my suffering, and bring me to the place where me and her truly belong. Please, fulfil us."

Elise looked on and unsheathed hers as well. My left hand held her right, and the other hand was holding the tanto. Her other hand was holding the tanto, too.

"Ready..."
"Goodbye...and to the Garden we go..."
"See you in His Garden..."

With a valiant cry, I stabbed my stomach with the blade. The pain was amazing. I was losing strength, but I had to kill myself. I dug the blade deeper, and I could feel and hear my stomach bursting. There was blood all over the place. Elise was still holding my hand, and the other was still holding the blade which was now embedded in her stomach, like mine. She was loosing more blood than I did...

"...Joey...I'm....I'm...going..."

The pain became more overwhelming. I closed my eyes. I could see light. Nothing but light. I couldnt feel anything more...

I saw Elise, sleeping amongst the wet grass, just like my vision, and I hugged her.

"We are here."
"In his garden, where all are dear"
"No one will laugh at us again, my love"

I hugged her and kissed her forehead, and then her lips.

It's here, we continue to live on, eternally, as the eternal memories, of light...

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