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Rated: E · Short Story · Young Adult · #2126862
A story wrong turns, losing yourself and then finding yourself once again
You know that time in your life, when you feel as if the world is crashing in around you…
I experienced that moment. To the extent of conforming to those around me, just to get by…
Through the haze of years, which I felt self-doubt, I finally found freedom.
Let us start from the point of no return. This is some of my story.

My name… Yes, that would be a must… I will go by the name, Humanity. I have no set age. But I will chart the moments, to which I believe a time in point, would bring me to the age of 20. Stuck behind a mask, I call sex. I could go anyway, but for story sake, let’s just say, I am female.
You found me at a cross road, one that could have lead either way. You found me in a crowd, just trying to fade into the background. You, which goes by the name Destruction; must have known… You must have felt it… that emotional serge, which radiated all around me… You wanted my soul… But I didn’t know until it was too late.
Collecting strength, from those who do not show it… Making sure, they never hone it. You took a magnetic hold, on the one that the stories all told, would be able to change everything, once she realized her destiny… Today I would be the one, to satisfy your pain.
I heard of you long ago…Those same stories told, of a predator which traveled the world. A predator that had destruction running through their veins. Searching for those which felt weak. A perfect target, to play the prey… Those that had a desperation to understand, that which made them different… You took over lands, and left destruction in your path.

A manipulations treasure-trove… It’s true, I am the one which could allow you to prevail. The one that did not understand the stories… The broken one, which will bow their head, and take to their knees. Because the past haunts them in their dreams, where silent screams, numb them to what’s never believed… You believe this is what will make me not fight, and just trust what you want me to see. So please Destruction, follow Humanity into one last dream, and try to break me if you please.


Past the thieves of present day, into the woods where I used to play. Stands a willow, beside a cave which holds the key, hidden from Destruction’s name… I tell myself there will come a day, to which I would learn this stranger’s name. This day will lead me far away, from this dream I dared not stay, unto a path, far from this place… Evil queens and villains in disguise. Filled with drowning roads, slick holds, whirlpools of straggled dreams, with islands never meant to last, but a foot hold all the same, for those who do not yet know their way… This is my dream of what I thought to be true, a nightmare hidden only by my blind eyes. Which are shadowed by lights dreams, clouds of confusion, held together by the weeping mists, strengthened by wondering faith, and unforeseen roads not far from my grasp, guarded by a creature so bold, it devours anyone’s true paths… This creature was vial to those whose faith wandered. This creature, with Destruction's help filled those dreamer's heads with struggles of emotions, struggles of lost hope, struggles that this small world where they resided, was all there was… All there would ever be… So why try to escape?
But I am a dreamer, and my name holds strong. This is where Destruction faltered… See, I finally started to understand. Into those woods, to which we started, stands a willow beside a cave. The key, hidden from Destruction’s name, is of the one the stories told, which has the power, once her destiny was realized, to change everything… I learned this stranger’s name, the one that will lead me far away, out of this dream I dared not stay, unto a path, to a castle made of glass…
Her name is Humanity… It was always me… This power that lead you to me… Has become stronger in your wake. I played Destruction’s game, and I finally am going to make my way, with this power growing stronger every day. That vial creature which blocks the way, is no threat to me, for my weakness is fading fast and this new found strength will guide me past…
Deep breaths, as I enter this castle made of glass, through a hidden door, which holds the secrets I came to seek. Timid times called back to me, but I found myself wanting more. I found what held back the fears. Covering me with what appeared, hidden eyes saw just my disguise. But in this castle made of glass, disguises don’t last forever…
Inside a mirror, all our pasts hold truth. To a kingdom exchange was told to be soon… I held my mirror close, until there were just two, and just like that…my mirror left my hand and so did the truth… As I looked down, in its place was a past I had not foreseen. Within in this mirror, a rescuer from this new day, has come to show me a life to which I’d stay, with an ending as old as fairy-tales time.

What little girl, didn’t grow up wishing for her prince? I watched those movies of the prince that saved the princess. Those movies are what made me dream… But these fairy-tales were not as they seemed. For within each one was a meaning to be found…
Bringing me back to the woods where I use to play, from under the willow I now lay, devising a plan to block these thieves of present day and never letting Destruction form another way… For this family, with love, will learn these ways. Humanity now rules these days.
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