The Einherji
By:Karsten Johnson
I woke up in a cold sweat, from a nightmare screaming staring at the name Melody printed of the wall
“No Will don't go!”
And that's when I realized it was only a dream.
“It was only a dream,” I told myself.
But then why do I always sleep with a test tube and crossbow always above my bed frame as a momento? Was I being unreasonable, was I just forcing upon myself the memory of that night?
“I just don't know what to do, I still miss him,” I said as I slumped over, “I have occasionally had dreams like this ever since that one night at the accursed park.”
It was the middle of october and I was looking for ideas on where I could go for my birthday on my phone, because I was going to be turning 17 in a week. when my mom called me up stairs
“Will, UPSTAIRS” my mom shouted down to the basement
“In a Minute.” I called in reply
So I finished what I was doing, which was fine with me. I had just found the perfect idea and I made my way up the cold dark carpeted stairway to the main floor.
“What's up?” I asked
“You remember the new neighbor don’t you?” she asked expectantly
“Yeah?” wondering if she was referring to the strange man who had recently moved into the creepy manor at the top of Crook's Hill.
“Yes, well I have invited him to dinner and I want you to promise you behave tonight.” she said with a hint of worry in her voice as if I was going to scare him away.
“But I was supposed to meet the guys tonight," she looked at me as if asking how this was important, "we were going to have a group date.” I replied in a whiny voice that usually makes her give in.
“No, not tonight, you can invite that nice girl melody if you like.” she replied as if this was going to make up for the torture of being in one of her cheesy dinner dates. And the last thing he wanted was the girl he was talking to, to think he would rather hangout with his mom and strange Mr. Turner rather than her.
“But I don't want her to meet you just yet.” I lied
“Oh don’t be silly,” she said in an annoyed voice, “ I promise I won't embarrass you terribly.” she added with a goofy smile.
“Ohhh thank you.” I rolled my eyes.
“Well that's all I need, you can go back downstairs.” she said sounding hurt
So I headed back down stairs and as I walked down I could have sworn I heard my mom humming.
As soon as I got down stairs I got dressed in Jeans, my thermal gear because it was cold outside and my Raynaud's would kill me if not properly covered, and I put on a T-shirt, a camo hoodie, and finally my boots. And I texted the gang I would be there in a few minutes. I had to be there, it was going to be a group date, me and Melody, my friend Nick and his girlfriend Marley, and finally my last friend, Hudson and his girlfriend Alexandra. We were supposed to meet at the old abandoned amusement park that was supposed to still work; it was just abandoned for no apparent reason. I had no clue about what rides there are; I just know it's called Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, and melody has been dying to explore it and so that's where we were going. I left my mom a note telling her good luck with Mr.Turner And that if she gets to work on her romance life so do I, and with that I left heading through the fire escape and made my way to the garage on the opposite side of the complex. And as soon as I got there and took out my car keys and got into my ford pick-up truck I had gotten as an early present for my birthday and I made my way to melody’s house to pick her up.
I was driving down the road listening to rich men north of Richmond, when I was passing a gas station that looked to be open and so I thought it would be nice if I got Melody, one of her favorite treats. And so to keep her from getting upset about the stop I told her I was going to be a few minutes late because I have a surprise for her. And as I walked into the Blockz and walked straight to the back for a monster energy and grabbed a white and a mango loco and two king size snicker bars and a handful of 5-hour energy, and made my way to the checkout. As I was checking out and grabbing a bag I swear I saw my mom out of the corner of my eye and I swirled around to try to explain why I was wasn't at home but she just disappeared and worrying about whether he will rat me out to my mom I asked the check out lady if she saw a woman behind me and she looked at me like I was crazy and said
“I ain't seen nobody in months, you first customer in a while.” she said, smiling creepily and longingly at me.
“I got to go.” I said quickly
“WHY THE HURRY!” she shouted after me
“WE COULD HAVE SOME FUN IN THE BACK, CUTIE!” and with that I grabbed my stuff and I got in my truck and didn't stop until I got to Melody’s house.
On the drive there I separated my stuff from Melody’s stuff. I got the 5-hour energy in case we needed to run from a crazy tramp and so I put those in my jacket pocket and so I put my girlfriends mango loco, a snicker bar and a 5 hour energy into the bag and I saved mine and put my snicker into my bag of flashlights,flares,and first aid. And I had put my pocket knife into my pocket. And then I stepped out of the truck on her driveway and went up the steps and knocked on the door.
Melody was first to answer the door, she was wearing a pair of jeans and an old t-shirt I gave her and the boots I gave her for her birthday. She was wanted by all the guys in highschool, she has red hair and is about as tall as me and she has a very pretty face, and has been known to be sarcastic from time to time, but is overall a amazing girl, she’s not afraid of getting dirty, or watching horror movies, nor the bloody games I like to play. If given the chance all the men I know would love to have a chance with her, I really was lucky.
“What took you so long.” she asked looking pouty
“I got you a little something.” I said as I handed over the bag
“Oh you shouldn't have.” she said though I could tell she was pleased
“Well come in.” she offered
As I walked in, her little sister who is two years younger than me dashed out of the room blushing.
“Still a little shy, isn't she?” I said smiling at melody
“You know why she is shy around you.” she said curtly
“So why am I here?” I asked confused about the holdup my friends were most likely going to not be happy about
“What, I thought you might like some time with your girlfriend alone?”she asked innocently
“I told you not until we're married.” I said worried
“It’s not that silly,” she said smiling, “I have something for you.”
“Sorry, that was my bad.” I replied sheepishly
“It’s ok I could keep it if you would like to go now?” she asked mischievously
“Nah, now you got me interested.” I replied eagerly
“Ok follow me.” she replied shortly
I have only been in her house once and it has pretty much stayed the same. There were still alcohol bottles in her fathers room and the man himself was asleep on the couch.
“Is your father doing better?” I asked
“Yes he is only drinking twice a week now.”
“That's awesome.” I said smiling at her and she smiled back.
I think her room is the biggest in the house, it has a bathroom and a full sized walk in closet, and a dresser that was full of clothes, most from me and others from others seeing how her mom had died and her dad can't yet support the family so I am the one who bought her the phone she uses and the clothes and have been helping her get into collage. She wants to go to WVU like me, I ended up getting a full scholarship for swimming and she is trying for a scholarship for math, she is extremely smart for her age.
“It’s in here.” she said as went into her closet and later pulled out a small box that was wrapped.
“What’s this?” I asked smiling
“Open it.” she replied eagerly
And so curiously I felt it and it seemed heavy and so when I pulled the wrapping paper I found a handgun.
“No way, how did you know I was wanting this?” I asked in shock
“It’s my job to know what you want, and plus you have been talking about it non stop.” she said smiling.
“How long have you had this?” I asked
“Since November,” she said, “I have been holding onto it.”
“This is awesome.” I said looking at her in awe
“Your welcome, let's go, we better not be late.” She replied as she grabbed her coat.
When we had finally arrived, the gate to the park was already opened so that must mean that they must already be inside
“Where do you think they went?” I asked Melody
“I have no clue, maybe the ferris wheel?” she responded
And so we went to check and as we went through the threshold and passed the gate I saw my mom out of the corner of my eye, and so I decided to take my 5 hour drink just in case, and I decided that I would look back occasionally just to make sure we were not being followed
When we finally got to the ferris wheel we didn't see anyone and so we decided to check the rest of the rides and when we still found nobody there but us we decided to use the cameras in the security room and we weren't ready for what we found there.
When we got to the main office we found the door to the security office was locked and so we found a wrench and smashed the door handle off and we started going through the tapes. Several of the tapes were when the park was open but then we found what we were looking for, we had found the most recent tape and hit play and what we found was disturbing.
It showed our friends entering the park drinking and kissing and started destroying the park with sledgehammers and then all of a sudden they pointed off camera and started running and then they ran off camera
“Quickly, where is the next camera?” Melody was beyond worried.
“Here.” and I hit play
We saw my friends pointing and then running toward the entrance and then the gate suddenly slammed shut and my friends tried to climb it, but they appeared to be pushed back down as if some force was pushing them back in. Then one of the girls screamed and pointed to what looked like a rotting corpse walking toward them, and then Melody closed her eyes and put her head on my shoulder whimpering. And it’s a good thing she did because that undead was not very clean. And then it played the clip of us entering the park and then the zombie following us around the park but keeping a distance and the funny thing is that whenever I was looking at It I thought was my mom, and then it showed us walking into the main office and it waited a few minutes as if unsure where we would go and then entered then tapped Melody on the shoulder.
“You need to see this.” I said and I showed her the clip of the zombie entering the Office
“What time did it enter?” she asked meekly
“Five minutes ago.” I replied, terrified.
“Check the hall camera.” she replied quietly, in shock
“It’s just standing at the office desk.” I told her putting my arm around her, trying to comfort her.
“How are we going to get out?” she asked slightly louder than normal
“Take my gun and take the emergency exit at the end of the hall and I will take the shotgun off the wall and take care of it.”
“She nodded then kissed me and said to be careful and she ran down the hall and left me wondering if that was the last kiss I will get from her.
I quickly checked the camera before I left to make sure it was still there, and for better or worse it was. And after that I left carefully tiptoeing down the hall toward the weapon rack and slowly raised the shotgun from the rack but before I could act the zombie had moved down the hall and was running, It no longer looked like my mom had finally showed it’s true form, a rotting corpse, with maggots wriggling around its body and it had somehow lost one of its feet and so had to hobble around but had a empty, hungry look in its eye. It was on me before I could lift the gun and luckily I had my knife with me and as I reached for it I had a sharp pain in my shoulder to see it had bitten me rather than tear me apart like it had with my friends and so I pushed through the pain and got the knife out and went crazy, at that point I had more adrenaline in my body than blood due to my wound and so I stabbed and stabbed that zombie until it had stopped moving. It was dead it had looked like minced meat when I was done with it but it had managed to do the same thing to me and so I layed on the floor wondering weather I was ever going to be 17 and if I would see my sweet Melody again and that's when it hit, the worst pain in my body, it was like my whole body was on fire, and then it had stopped; I was somehow standing but I couldn't feel it, I would have worried why I couldn't feel my body, but I had this little voice in my head that said
“I NEED FOOD!” and that’s when I knew pain was of no concern to me, for I will never feel it again. I knew that I had only one item of importance and that was food and only food. I was hungry and at that moment I had smelled blood and I wasn't going to let anything stop me from getting food and at that moment I smelled blood.
“I told you, all I remember was Will telling me to go home.” I told my Father
“Told you that man was bad news.” my Father replied, half falling off the couch in an attempt to look at me.
“He saved me from a crazy old tramp, I told you this.”
“A likely story.” replied my Father stubbornly
“Whatever, I am not in the mood for this.” I yelled as I went to my room wondering whether today really happened.
“What am I going to do, I have no clue what happened to him.” I whispered miserably to myself
But in my head I knew what I had to do. I had to go back.
“By dad I am leaving.” I called expecting nothing but a grunt as a response
“Gugh.” my dad murmured
This time I had been prepared. I had a bag full of flares, flashlight,lighter,multi tool, and the gun Will told me to hold onto.
When I got there it was already dark and so I was nervous. I had always had an enormous fear of the dark but I had to make sure he wasn't here. And so I first searched the office, but he wasn't there. So I checked the camera to see exactly what had happened in the office after I had left and I had noticed a tape I hadn't seen before. It was labeled Laboratory and so curious as to why there was a Laboratory in the park I hit play and instantly noticed something different about this tape. A man’s voice started playing saying,
“This is doctor Krum, and I have made a wonderful discovery, I have found a way for the body to continue to function after death.” I had hit pause,
“So this is what happened to that man who had killed my friends.” and I hit unpause
“It was quite simple. I had found out that if the brain is introduced to a major amount of Uranium the body is forced to start up again, fascinating! I instantly began to experiment with this, it was proven to have worked on rats and crows so I had to know whether it worked on the human body but there was a small hiccup, I had none! And I wasn't allowed near cemeteries any more due to past experiments. And so I had to find other ways to have the resources I needed and so I went to work er “finding” a body. And that’s when the police got suspicious saying that my park was dangerous so I let them think that, I couldn't tell them the truth. That I was killing those people, instead of the rides and so I let the staff take the fall. Then I used their bodies in my experiment and that's when I had hit the jackpot I had finally created the closest thing I could to life, but that's when it went all wrong. One of my precious experiments failed and it was sadly the biggest failure, the dose of Uranium, at first, seemed to only block off the thinking process to think and so It had the thinking skills of a toddler constantly screaming it's hungry and trying to bite others, but sadly I had noticed that the flesh was decomposing faster than normal and It was getting more and more aggressive, until I had to lock that one up and that's when I deemed it appropriate to name it Subject-Z0M5-6. I couldn't destroy it. My partner (A small man named William Turner) was saying it was a failure but he was wrong, for behind his back I had conducted experiments on it. Its immune system was amazing and it had an immense intolerance to pain and it seemed nigh indestructible. It was able to resist flame and electricity and it seemed to have faster reflexes, and better strength. I had to replace the door with iridium because it had almost punched a hole in the 5 feet thick door! This is wonderful I thought, but my coworker thought I was mad and he went behind my back and created a foul cure! The nerve he had to try to destroy my wonderful creation, a masterpiece! So I had tried to destroy his so-called cure but it was more a virus, an awful liquid, but that bastard hid It from me! I had instantly fired him, but he had disappeared. Next thing I know, the cops were at my door. How dare he! And so that’s when I had to perfect the dosage. I thought that if I would lower the dose a smidge and add some veritasium, a wonderful mixture of rubidium and cobalt, that would thicken my blood flow in order to cancel the effects of the brain rot and the bodily decomposition. And so I had just injected myself with my wonderful creation and watched as the police tried to get into the Lab and that's when I had decided to walked out and let them chase me with my powers, I felt like a god but that's when it went wrong, I had felt a awful pain everywhere and then a burning feeling that felt like I was on fire and then…” static, the tape had ended and I had run with everything I had, to my car to get the hell out of here in order to talk to the man my boyfriend, will’s mom had decided to date, a Mr.William Turner.
I had run home and thrown all my stuff on my bed and that's when I realized I still don't know what happened to Will and so, too tired to worry about It I went to bed wondering what had happened to the man I wanted to marry someday. It was ten in the morning when I woke up and I needed to talk to Mrs.Dutton and so I was about to get into my truck and that's when it started, I saw Will out of the corner of my eye and I did a quick about-face to yell at him for disappearing but there was nobody there
“Huh, wonder if the stress is starting to get to me.” and with that over with I got into the truck and drove off making it towards Crook’s Hill. I had pulled onto the street when I saw Will walking across the road I had almost hit him when all of a sudden he was gone,
“Ok, change of plans I am going straight to Mr.William Turner’s house.” I decided
And so I had driven straight past Mrs.Dutton's house and up to the old mansion that I had once been in 3 years ago back when I was 14, where I met Will. I avoided the steps because due to a past experience I knew they would fall off the frame and it would hurt a lot and instead jumped over them and knocked on the door.
“What do you want?” cried a old voice from behind the closed door
“Hello, my name is Melody and I need to talk to you about something important.” I yelled through the door
“I don't want any cookies!” he cried
“I am too old for that and it's about Lake Shawnee Amusement Park!” I cried desperately
“Shhhh! he can always hear you, come in where it's safe.” he replied timidly and opened the ancient door which revealed an even more ancient man that resembled a garden gnome. And as he led me into what I assumed was a living room filled with old bottles filled to the brim with strange liquids but one of the bottles' names was familiar… it had a little piece of tape that had written in sharpie ZOM5-6 I was about to ask him why he had this but he caught me staring at it and said
“My old lab partner's monstrosity, he created it a long time ago and I had stolen a sample to try to study a cure for it which I think I had found.”
“Yes but why would you keep it here?” I asked not being able to peel my eyes from the small flask filled with green liquid
“I can't keep it anywhere else and plus, the government knows about it and so they pay me a lot of money to keep it to myself, to keep a zombie pandemic from starting.” he said with a smile and winked at me.
“So do you have a cure yet?” I asked
“Yes child, I said that a minute ago, please pay attention.” he replied annoyed.
“Where is it?” I asked
“In my old laboratory,” he said smartly.
“The one in the park you mean? I don't know where it is.” I said
“That’s because it’s hidden, you have to go to the merry-go-round and play it counter-clockwise for thirty seconds then clockwise for ten seconds.” he said
“Ok, but one more thing, why am I seeing things? It only happened after I left the park.” I had been waiting to ask this whenever I had gotten the chance.
“What are you seeing?” he asked the smile gone
“It looks like my boyfriend, who was with me the first time I went to the park.” I said
“Hmm, did he leave with you?” he asked looking sympathetic at me
“No, and I haven't seen him since, he has to be okay though right? He must be hiding.” I asked not so sure
“Well there are two things that could have happened, one being that the zombie is still Dr.Krum and it has seen young Mr.will. Or two, Will got bitten.” he replied with a trace of doubt on his face.
“Ok but that still doesn't explain why he is following me.” I asked annoyed
“The zombie follows people who have most recently been in that park. And it takes the form of the one you love most, hence why it looks like your boyfriend.” he replied while adjusting the belt around his fat belly.
“Ok I am leaving now.” annoyed by the bad news of the fact that my boyfriend might be undead.
“As you should, as you should.” he replied looking disappointed that his company was leaving. And so he told me good luck and handed me a crossbow.
“For the cure, that way you don't have to get close.” and I had made my way back toward what I thought would have been the last time , but boy I wish I knew I would not go back home the same.
I pulled up to the park gates and found once again open, and so I got out of my car and walked through the threshold and it was instantaneous, a rising sense of dread filled my whole body, and I knew that the creature is here and I need to be careful and watch my back. I made my way to the carousel and followed the instructions and then each of the horses gave a shudder and started going backwards faster and faster until I noticed that the frame of the carousel was like a giant screw and it was unscrewing and one of the horses were lifting, showing a ladder that was pitch black and not knowing what else to do I took a deep breath and climbed into the abyss.
I was climbing down when I first heard it, a low growl and I didn’t know what it was until I reached around the wall and found a light switch and so I flipped it. And staring at me was an extremely decomposed body clawing at the glass container right in front of me, I let out a little yelp and silently I cursed to myself.
“Why the hell did he not tell me about Larry here.” I said upset
I looked around and saw it was a huge, full, place. It was at least 30 yards long and had shelves and tables everywhere covered in sciency equipment, bunsen burners, flasks, and test tubes filled with mysterious liquids of random colors just like in Mr.Turner’s house. And a small walled off area had a sign that read Dr.Turner.
“Bingo.” I said as I walked across the lab towards the double doorway. When I got there I heard a crash behind me and I quickly cranked my head around to see what it was and staring at me was a zombie but it wasn’t using a disguise, it was a huge hulkish abomination with a lab coat and had a nametag; it read Dr.Krum.
“Crap,” I said as I quickly ran into Mr.Turner’s office and locked the door behind me. Good news, the door was reinforced so that thing isn't getting in any time soon, bad news, I was trapped. I at least had time to search through his office thoroughly, but every time the creature banged on the door I jumped and swerved around to make sure the door was still there.
“I hate this,” I told myself “Where the heck is this cure?” I saw a picture of Mr.Turner standing next to an old man, both of them, their eyes full of laughter, laughing at a joke only they knew. And in anger I snatched it to throw when a soft POP noise echoed from the desk and I looked to see that the thick pen on his desk had made the noise and upon closer inspection I realized that the top had procured a needle and that’s when I decided I should take a closer look at this pen. And that’s when I saw that the pen was only a sticker and I ripped it off anxiously and under it was a small test tube that read ZOM5-6 cure and under it in fine print that made me squint, that read One dose. Wonderful I thought, what do I do about big and ugly, and as if the small room heard me, another small POP told me I had more goodies to open. This time it was the bookshelf opening, revealing a small tunnel and at the end of it was another small test tube that read, ZOM5-6 Wipe and again in fine print it read Warning Kills the host of the virus.
“Well there goes Big and ugly.” I looked around the room for some kind of exit and again as if the room knew what I wanted. A small ladder was next to a sign that read Security Office.
“Wonderful now I can get him from behind.” and so I started to climb and I finally came out into the office right where it all started.
I loaded the crossbow with the Wipe test tube and made my way back to the damn laboratory. Thankfully the ladder was still open and so I started to climb down when I heard it, crashing and clanging and so I started to climb down slower and sprinted behind a tabletop and that’s when I saw it, the Will Zombie was fighting the Dr.Krum abomination I knew it I wasn't dreaming, will was all decomposed so he wasn't human, but something in his eyes looked intelligent unlike Dr.Krum so I started to make my way closer when I heard it a sharp crashing noise and I looked up to see the abomination had ripped off one of the legs off the table and so did Will. Will looked toward me and Winked, WINKED. It is my Will, I wasn't dreaming it really was Will and so the two of them started slashing each other with the sharp metal legs, each had deep cuts but then Will landed a devastating blow, he had stabbed the Dr.Krum in the stomach it wretched it free from wills hand and ripped it out and threw it javelin style and it stabbed will in the chest and he looked at me and smiled and looked at me with those beautiful blue eyes that I would stare into in the summer, and then he got an empty look in his eyes and collapsed. I saw what little life he had slip away.
“Hey what’s up, long time no see, I’m back, I know I know I am undead and yes I shouldn't be talking but for some insane reason(I don’t know why) I had gained back my intelligence while stalking Melody, crazy right? Well I’m back and when I gained back my intelligence was when I was in the middle of a road and I almost got run over by her, talk about a rude awakening. And so I was so lost at what was happening I had no clue what she was doing but I felt like I should follow her, and so I did. I followed her with incredible speed, I had never felt anything like it before, I was running 30 mph, I was keeping up with her car and so I was able to look at her, she was driving to Crook’s Hill up to old Mr.Turner’s house. I wondered what was going on, why she was going to his house and so I decided to follow, not like I had much of a choice, I felt like I couldn't leave her side even If I wanted to, strange right? I followed her and decided it would be best if I stayed outside so I stayed sitting on the porch remembering the good old days when we were fourteen, kissing on the steps and then laughing when I fell through the board. Then this old man came and sat down next to me, ok I know I should have asked a good question like, “How do you see me?” or “why aren’t you running away from me, I am a zombie?” or even “why am I still intelligent?” but no, the first question I asked was whether they ever fixed the steps or not. And he looked at me and smiled and said he was sorry I had to bear the curse and I knew he knew what I was.
“Why aren't you scared?” I asked
“Because, I am just like you.”
“Ah, who did you in?” i asked
“Long story.” he replied
“I got nothing but time, at least give me a shortened version.” I asked
“Can’t, I will tell you there is a huge monster you need to fight.”
“I know, I can’t eat brains, that is a pretty big beast for zombies aint it.” I said
He chuckled and smiled then said
“Yes, but no, there is an abomination at the lab. And with that he got up and walked away.”
“Where!?” I yelled
“Follow Melody and all shall be revealed.”
Wonderful I thought, monster duty. And I was trying to make sense of what he was talking about when I got ripped to a white room and staring at me was the biggest yo momma joke ever, it was fat,ugly,and mutated. Then I heard it, the one thing that was recognizable, Melody’s scared breathing that sounded like the dead and I looked and saw Melody coming down the ladder and that’s when I thought I should test the limits of the undead body.
“NOOO!!” I screamed as I saw Will Get impaled and fall to the ground out of anger I shot the Wipe and saw the creature’s skin start to bubble and then change back to a normal pink color instead of the green it was and lying dead on the floor was a man who appeared to be in his mid forty’s look at me and mouth the words .
“Thank you.” and then he died, out of anger i kicked his body, then realized it wasn't fair, it wasn't his fault, it was that accursed virus’s fault and then I ran over to Will’s body and wept for what seemed like hours.
Later that week
It was my turn to go up and talk, but I just couldn't, nobody but me knew what really happened three days ago, they thought he had a car crash and got impaled on site. But I knew about the heroic deeds he had committed to save my life. And nobody ever will so I refuse to go up and tarnish his memory by saying he died by just a mere accident. I went up to go and apologize but when I got up there I saw a little man sitting in the back, smiling and giving me a thumbs up that I had never seen before but he had somehow seemed familiar then I realized who it was, it was that strange man who I had seen in the photo but something seemed off, he had an empty look in his eyes then I heard ear splitting laughing it was awful it seemed to laugh at me, and the man in the back was laughing, then he slowly started to fade until he wasn't there, and by the look of the crowd they hadn't heard or seen him and that’s when I decided I need to go and so I quickly( although regretfully) told the fake story and how he was always a awful driver then I watched them bury his body and then I saw him, Will was sitting on the coffin then he looked at me and said
“I never looked good in a suit don’t you think, I should have had you dress me, that would have been fun anywho I got to go, Hel Isn't a very nice goddess, and I got to go back to helheim love you and don't forget it then he smiled at me and disappeared.
“I’m done, I’m going home, to read about norse mythology.” and with that I left and I was always occasionally visited by that laughing spirit who I later found out was Loki but he was always followed by Will so I guess it was ok. On my deathbed later in life I was visited one last time by a spirit, this time they claimed to be a valkyrie offered me a place in valhalla the place where those who have died as a hero and so I went with her hoping that I would see Will one last time and so I went with her and that wraps up to here. And the rest of the einherjar clapped at my heroic deeds and in the crowd I saw a man who had clapped the most, he was a tall redhead who was in jeans and a camo hoodie who smiled at me and waved me over, I had finally seen who I came here for I finally am with my WIll and we will be until ragnarok do we part.
By:Karsten Johnson
I woke up in a cold sweat, from a nightmare screaming staring at the name Melody printed of the wall
“No Will don't go!”
And that's when I realized it was only a dream.
“It was only a dream,” I told myself.
But then why do I always sleep with a test tube and crossbow always above my bed frame as a momento? Was I being unreasonable, was I just forcing upon myself the memory of that night?
“I just don't know what to do, I still miss him,” I said as I slumped over, “I have occasionally had dreams like this ever since that one night at the accursed park.”
It was the middle of october and I was looking for ideas on where I could go for my birthday on my phone, because I was going to be turning 17 in a week. when my mom called me up stairs
“Will, UPSTAIRS” my mom shouted down to the basement
“In a Minute.” I called in reply
So I finished what I was doing, which was fine with me. I had just found the perfect idea and I made my way up the cold dark carpeted stairway to the main floor.
“What's up?” I asked
“You remember the new neighbor don’t you?” she asked expectantly
“Yeah?” wondering if she was referring to the strange man who had recently moved into the creepy manor at the top of Crook's Hill.
“Yes, well I have invited him to dinner and I want you to promise you behave tonight.” she said with a hint of worry in her voice as if I was going to scare him away.
“But I was supposed to meet the guys tonight," she looked at me as if asking how this was important, "we were going to have a group date.” I replied in a whiny voice that usually makes her give in.
“No, not tonight, you can invite that nice girl melody if you like.” she replied as if this was going to make up for the torture of being in one of her cheesy dinner dates. And the last thing he wanted was the girl he was talking to, to think he would rather hangout with his mom and strange Mr. Turner rather than her.
“But I don't want her to meet you just yet.” I lied
“Oh don’t be silly,” she said in an annoyed voice, “ I promise I won't embarrass you terribly.” she added with a goofy smile.
“Ohhh thank you.” I rolled my eyes.
“Well that's all I need, you can go back downstairs.” she said sounding hurt
So I headed back down stairs and as I walked down I could have sworn I heard my mom humming.
As soon as I got down stairs I got dressed in Jeans, my thermal gear because it was cold outside and my Raynaud's would kill me if not properly covered, and I put on a T-shirt, a camo hoodie, and finally my boots. And I texted the gang I would be there in a few minutes. I had to be there, it was going to be a group date, me and Melody, my friend Nick and his girlfriend Marley, and finally my last friend, Hudson and his girlfriend Alexandra. We were supposed to meet at the old abandoned amusement park that was supposed to still work; it was just abandoned for no apparent reason. I had no clue about what rides there are; I just know it's called Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, and melody has been dying to explore it and so that's where we were going. I left my mom a note telling her good luck with Mr.Turner And that if she gets to work on her romance life so do I, and with that I left heading through the fire escape and made my way to the garage on the opposite side of the complex. And as soon as I got there and took out my car keys and got into my ford pick-up truck I had gotten as an early present for my birthday and I made my way to melody’s house to pick her up.
I was driving down the road listening to rich men north of Richmond, when I was passing a gas station that looked to be open and so I thought it would be nice if I got Melody, one of her favorite treats. And so to keep her from getting upset about the stop I told her I was going to be a few minutes late because I have a surprise for her. And as I walked into the Blockz and walked straight to the back for a monster energy and grabbed a white and a mango loco and two king size snicker bars and a handful of 5-hour energy, and made my way to the checkout. As I was checking out and grabbing a bag I swear I saw my mom out of the corner of my eye and I swirled around to try to explain why I was wasn't at home but she just disappeared and worrying about whether he will rat me out to my mom I asked the check out lady if she saw a woman behind me and she looked at me like I was crazy and said
“I ain't seen nobody in months, you first customer in a while.” she said, smiling creepily and longingly at me.
“I got to go.” I said quickly
“WHY THE HURRY!” she shouted after me
“WE COULD HAVE SOME FUN IN THE BACK, CUTIE!” and with that I grabbed my stuff and I got in my truck and didn't stop until I got to Melody’s house.
On the drive there I separated my stuff from Melody’s stuff. I got the 5-hour energy in case we needed to run from a crazy tramp and so I put those in my jacket pocket and so I put my girlfriends mango loco, a snicker bar and a 5 hour energy into the bag and I saved mine and put my snicker into my bag of flashlights,flares,and first aid. And I had put my pocket knife into my pocket. And then I stepped out of the truck on her driveway and went up the steps and knocked on the door.
Melody was first to answer the door, she was wearing a pair of jeans and an old t-shirt I gave her and the boots I gave her for her birthday. She was wanted by all the guys in highschool, she has red hair and is about as tall as me and she has a very pretty face, and has been known to be sarcastic from time to time, but is overall a amazing girl, she’s not afraid of getting dirty, or watching horror movies, nor the bloody games I like to play. If given the chance all the men I know would love to have a chance with her, I really was lucky.
“What took you so long.” she asked looking pouty
“I got you a little something.” I said as I handed over the bag
“Oh you shouldn't have.” she said though I could tell she was pleased
“Well come in.” she offered
As I walked in, her little sister who is two years younger than me dashed out of the room blushing.
“Still a little shy, isn't she?” I said smiling at melody
“You know why she is shy around you.” she said curtly
“So why am I here?” I asked confused about the holdup my friends were most likely going to not be happy about
“What, I thought you might like some time with your girlfriend alone?”she asked innocently
“I told you not until we're married.” I said worried
“It’s not that silly,” she said smiling, “I have something for you.”
“Sorry, that was my bad.” I replied sheepishly
“It’s ok I could keep it if you would like to go now?” she asked mischievously
“Nah, now you got me interested.” I replied eagerly
“Ok follow me.” she replied shortly
I have only been in her house once and it has pretty much stayed the same. There were still alcohol bottles in her fathers room and the man himself was asleep on the couch.
“Is your father doing better?” I asked
“Yes he is only drinking twice a week now.”
“That's awesome.” I said smiling at her and she smiled back.
I think her room is the biggest in the house, it has a bathroom and a full sized walk in closet, and a dresser that was full of clothes, most from me and others from others seeing how her mom had died and her dad can't yet support the family so I am the one who bought her the phone she uses and the clothes and have been helping her get into collage. She wants to go to WVU like me, I ended up getting a full scholarship for swimming and she is trying for a scholarship for math, she is extremely smart for her age.
“It’s in here.” she said as went into her closet and later pulled out a small box that was wrapped.
“What’s this?” I asked smiling
“Open it.” she replied eagerly
And so curiously I felt it and it seemed heavy and so when I pulled the wrapping paper I found a handgun.
“No way, how did you know I was wanting this?” I asked in shock
“It’s my job to know what you want, and plus you have been talking about it non stop.” she said smiling.
“How long have you had this?” I asked
“Since November,” she said, “I have been holding onto it.”
“This is awesome.” I said looking at her in awe
“Your welcome, let's go, we better not be late.” She replied as she grabbed her coat.
When we had finally arrived, the gate to the park was already opened so that must mean that they must already be inside
“Where do you think they went?” I asked Melody
“I have no clue, maybe the ferris wheel?” she responded
And so we went to check and as we went through the threshold and passed the gate I saw my mom out of the corner of my eye, and so I decided to take my 5 hour drink just in case, and I decided that I would look back occasionally just to make sure we were not being followed
When we finally got to the ferris wheel we didn't see anyone and so we decided to check the rest of the rides and when we still found nobody there but us we decided to use the cameras in the security room and we weren't ready for what we found there.
When we got to the main office we found the door to the security office was locked and so we found a wrench and smashed the door handle off and we started going through the tapes. Several of the tapes were when the park was open but then we found what we were looking for, we had found the most recent tape and hit play and what we found was disturbing.
It showed our friends entering the park drinking and kissing and started destroying the park with sledgehammers and then all of a sudden they pointed off camera and started running and then they ran off camera
“Quickly, where is the next camera?” Melody was beyond worried.
“Here.” and I hit play
We saw my friends pointing and then running toward the entrance and then the gate suddenly slammed shut and my friends tried to climb it, but they appeared to be pushed back down as if some force was pushing them back in. Then one of the girls screamed and pointed to what looked like a rotting corpse walking toward them, and then Melody closed her eyes and put her head on my shoulder whimpering. And it’s a good thing she did because that undead was not very clean. And then it played the clip of us entering the park and then the zombie following us around the park but keeping a distance and the funny thing is that whenever I was looking at It I thought was my mom, and then it showed us walking into the main office and it waited a few minutes as if unsure where we would go and then entered then tapped Melody on the shoulder.
“You need to see this.” I said and I showed her the clip of the zombie entering the Office
“What time did it enter?” she asked meekly
“Five minutes ago.” I replied, terrified.
“Check the hall camera.” she replied quietly, in shock
“It’s just standing at the office desk.” I told her putting my arm around her, trying to comfort her.
“How are we going to get out?” she asked slightly louder than normal
“Take my gun and take the emergency exit at the end of the hall and I will take the shotgun off the wall and take care of it.”
“She nodded then kissed me and said to be careful and she ran down the hall and left me wondering if that was the last kiss I will get from her.
I quickly checked the camera before I left to make sure it was still there, and for better or worse it was. And after that I left carefully tiptoeing down the hall toward the weapon rack and slowly raised the shotgun from the rack but before I could act the zombie had moved down the hall and was running, It no longer looked like my mom had finally showed it’s true form, a rotting corpse, with maggots wriggling around its body and it had somehow lost one of its feet and so had to hobble around but had a empty, hungry look in its eye. It was on me before I could lift the gun and luckily I had my knife with me and as I reached for it I had a sharp pain in my shoulder to see it had bitten me rather than tear me apart like it had with my friends and so I pushed through the pain and got the knife out and went crazy, at that point I had more adrenaline in my body than blood due to my wound and so I stabbed and stabbed that zombie until it had stopped moving. It was dead it had looked like minced meat when I was done with it but it had managed to do the same thing to me and so I layed on the floor wondering weather I was ever going to be 17 and if I would see my sweet Melody again and that's when it hit, the worst pain in my body, it was like my whole body was on fire, and then it had stopped; I was somehow standing but I couldn't feel it, I would have worried why I couldn't feel my body, but I had this little voice in my head that said
“I NEED FOOD!” and that’s when I knew pain was of no concern to me, for I will never feel it again. I knew that I had only one item of importance and that was food and only food. I was hungry and at that moment I had smelled blood and I wasn't going to let anything stop me from getting food and at that moment I smelled blood.
“I told you, all I remember was Will telling me to go home.” I told my Father
“Told you that man was bad news.” my Father replied, half falling off the couch in an attempt to look at me.
“He saved me from a crazy old tramp, I told you this.”
“A likely story.” replied my Father stubbornly
“Whatever, I am not in the mood for this.” I yelled as I went to my room wondering whether today really happened.
“What am I going to do, I have no clue what happened to him.” I whispered miserably to myself
But in my head I knew what I had to do. I had to go back.
“By dad I am leaving.” I called expecting nothing but a grunt as a response
“Gugh.” my dad murmured
This time I had been prepared. I had a bag full of flares, flashlight,lighter,multi tool, and the gun Will told me to hold onto.
When I got there it was already dark and so I was nervous. I had always had an enormous fear of the dark but I had to make sure he wasn't here. And so I first searched the office, but he wasn't there. So I checked the camera to see exactly what had happened in the office after I had left and I had noticed a tape I hadn't seen before. It was labeled Laboratory and so curious as to why there was a Laboratory in the park I hit play and instantly noticed something different about this tape. A man’s voice started playing saying,
“This is doctor Krum, and I have made a wonderful discovery, I have found a way for the body to continue to function after death.” I had hit pause,
“So this is what happened to that man who had killed my friends.” and I hit unpause
“It was quite simple. I had found out that if the brain is introduced to a major amount of Uranium the body is forced to start up again, fascinating! I instantly began to experiment with this, it was proven to have worked on rats and crows so I had to know whether it worked on the human body but there was a small hiccup, I had none! And I wasn't allowed near cemeteries any more due to past experiments. And so I had to find other ways to have the resources I needed and so I went to work er “finding” a body. And that’s when the police got suspicious saying that my park was dangerous so I let them think that, I couldn't tell them the truth. That I was killing those people, instead of the rides and so I let the staff take the fall. Then I used their bodies in my experiment and that's when I had hit the jackpot I had finally created the closest thing I could to life, but that's when it went all wrong. One of my precious experiments failed and it was sadly the biggest failure, the dose of Uranium, at first, seemed to only block off the thinking process to think and so It had the thinking skills of a toddler constantly screaming it's hungry and trying to bite others, but sadly I had noticed that the flesh was decomposing faster than normal and It was getting more and more aggressive, until I had to lock that one up and that's when I deemed it appropriate to name it Subject-Z0M5-6. I couldn't destroy it. My partner (A small man named William Turner) was saying it was a failure but he was wrong, for behind his back I had conducted experiments on it. Its immune system was amazing and it had an immense intolerance to pain and it seemed nigh indestructible. It was able to resist flame and electricity and it seemed to have faster reflexes, and better strength. I had to replace the door with iridium because it had almost punched a hole in the 5 feet thick door! This is wonderful I thought, but my coworker thought I was mad and he went behind my back and created a foul cure! The nerve he had to try to destroy my wonderful creation, a masterpiece! So I had tried to destroy his so-called cure but it was more a virus, an awful liquid, but that bastard hid It from me! I had instantly fired him, but he had disappeared. Next thing I know, the cops were at my door. How dare he! And so that’s when I had to perfect the dosage. I thought that if I would lower the dose a smidge and add some veritasium, a wonderful mixture of rubidium and cobalt, that would thicken my blood flow in order to cancel the effects of the brain rot and the bodily decomposition. And so I had just injected myself with my wonderful creation and watched as the police tried to get into the Lab and that's when I had decided to walked out and let them chase me with my powers, I felt like a god but that's when it went wrong, I had felt a awful pain everywhere and then a burning feeling that felt like I was on fire and then…” static, the tape had ended and I had run with everything I had, to my car to get the hell out of here in order to talk to the man my boyfriend, will’s mom had decided to date, a Mr.William Turner.
I had run home and thrown all my stuff on my bed and that's when I realized I still don't know what happened to Will and so, too tired to worry about It I went to bed wondering what had happened to the man I wanted to marry someday. It was ten in the morning when I woke up and I needed to talk to Mrs.Dutton and so I was about to get into my truck and that's when it started, I saw Will out of the corner of my eye and I did a quick about-face to yell at him for disappearing but there was nobody there
“Huh, wonder if the stress is starting to get to me.” and with that over with I got into the truck and drove off making it towards Crook’s Hill. I had pulled onto the street when I saw Will walking across the road I had almost hit him when all of a sudden he was gone,
“Ok, change of plans I am going straight to Mr.William Turner’s house.” I decided
And so I had driven straight past Mrs.Dutton's house and up to the old mansion that I had once been in 3 years ago back when I was 14, where I met Will. I avoided the steps because due to a past experience I knew they would fall off the frame and it would hurt a lot and instead jumped over them and knocked on the door.
“What do you want?” cried a old voice from behind the closed door
“Hello, my name is Melody and I need to talk to you about something important.” I yelled through the door
“I don't want any cookies!” he cried
“I am too old for that and it's about Lake Shawnee Amusement Park!” I cried desperately
“Shhhh! he can always hear you, come in where it's safe.” he replied timidly and opened the ancient door which revealed an even more ancient man that resembled a garden gnome. And as he led me into what I assumed was a living room filled with old bottles filled to the brim with strange liquids but one of the bottles' names was familiar… it had a little piece of tape that had written in sharpie ZOM5-6 I was about to ask him why he had this but he caught me staring at it and said
“My old lab partner's monstrosity, he created it a long time ago and I had stolen a sample to try to study a cure for it which I think I had found.”
“Yes but why would you keep it here?” I asked not being able to peel my eyes from the small flask filled with green liquid
“I can't keep it anywhere else and plus, the government knows about it and so they pay me a lot of money to keep it to myself, to keep a zombie pandemic from starting.” he said with a smile and winked at me.
“So do you have a cure yet?” I asked
“Yes child, I said that a minute ago, please pay attention.” he replied annoyed.
“Where is it?” I asked
“In my old laboratory,” he said smartly.
“The one in the park you mean? I don't know where it is.” I said
“That’s because it’s hidden, you have to go to the merry-go-round and play it counter-clockwise for thirty seconds then clockwise for ten seconds.” he said
“Ok, but one more thing, why am I seeing things? It only happened after I left the park.” I had been waiting to ask this whenever I had gotten the chance.
“What are you seeing?” he asked the smile gone
“It looks like my boyfriend, who was with me the first time I went to the park.” I said
“Hmm, did he leave with you?” he asked looking sympathetic at me
“No, and I haven't seen him since, he has to be okay though right? He must be hiding.” I asked not so sure
“Well there are two things that could have happened, one being that the zombie is still Dr.Krum and it has seen young Mr.will. Or two, Will got bitten.” he replied with a trace of doubt on his face.
“Ok but that still doesn't explain why he is following me.” I asked annoyed
“The zombie follows people who have most recently been in that park. And it takes the form of the one you love most, hence why it looks like your boyfriend.” he replied while adjusting the belt around his fat belly.
“Ok I am leaving now.” annoyed by the bad news of the fact that my boyfriend might be undead.
“As you should, as you should.” he replied looking disappointed that his company was leaving. And so he told me good luck and handed me a crossbow.
“For the cure, that way you don't have to get close.” and I had made my way back toward what I thought would have been the last time , but boy I wish I knew I would not go back home the same.
I pulled up to the park gates and found once again open, and so I got out of my car and walked through the threshold and it was instantaneous, a rising sense of dread filled my whole body, and I knew that the creature is here and I need to be careful and watch my back. I made my way to the carousel and followed the instructions and then each of the horses gave a shudder and started going backwards faster and faster until I noticed that the frame of the carousel was like a giant screw and it was unscrewing and one of the horses were lifting, showing a ladder that was pitch black and not knowing what else to do I took a deep breath and climbed into the abyss.
I was climbing down when I first heard it, a low growl and I didn’t know what it was until I reached around the wall and found a light switch and so I flipped it. And staring at me was an extremely decomposed body clawing at the glass container right in front of me, I let out a little yelp and silently I cursed to myself.
“Why the hell did he not tell me about Larry here.” I said upset
I looked around and saw it was a huge, full, place. It was at least 30 yards long and had shelves and tables everywhere covered in sciency equipment, bunsen burners, flasks, and test tubes filled with mysterious liquids of random colors just like in Mr.Turner’s house. And a small walled off area had a sign that read Dr.Turner.
“Bingo.” I said as I walked across the lab towards the double doorway. When I got there I heard a crash behind me and I quickly cranked my head around to see what it was and staring at me was a zombie but it wasn’t using a disguise, it was a huge hulkish abomination with a lab coat and had a nametag; it read Dr.Krum.
“Crap,” I said as I quickly ran into Mr.Turner’s office and locked the door behind me. Good news, the door was reinforced so that thing isn't getting in any time soon, bad news, I was trapped. I at least had time to search through his office thoroughly, but every time the creature banged on the door I jumped and swerved around to make sure the door was still there.
“I hate this,” I told myself “Where the heck is this cure?” I saw a picture of Mr.Turner standing next to an old man, both of them, their eyes full of laughter, laughing at a joke only they knew. And in anger I snatched it to throw when a soft POP noise echoed from the desk and I looked to see that the thick pen on his desk had made the noise and upon closer inspection I realized that the top had procured a needle and that’s when I decided I should take a closer look at this pen. And that’s when I saw that the pen was only a sticker and I ripped it off anxiously and under it was a small test tube that read ZOM5-6 cure and under it in fine print that made me squint, that read One dose. Wonderful I thought, what do I do about big and ugly, and as if the small room heard me, another small POP told me I had more goodies to open. This time it was the bookshelf opening, revealing a small tunnel and at the end of it was another small test tube that read, ZOM5-6 Wipe and again in fine print it read Warning Kills the host of the virus.
“Well there goes Big and ugly.” I looked around the room for some kind of exit and again as if the room knew what I wanted. A small ladder was next to a sign that read Security Office.
“Wonderful now I can get him from behind.” and so I started to climb and I finally came out into the office right where it all started.
I loaded the crossbow with the Wipe test tube and made my way back to the damn laboratory. Thankfully the ladder was still open and so I started to climb down when I heard it, crashing and clanging and so I started to climb down slower and sprinted behind a tabletop and that’s when I saw it, the Will Zombie was fighting the Dr.Krum abomination I knew it I wasn't dreaming, will was all decomposed so he wasn't human, but something in his eyes looked intelligent unlike Dr.Krum so I started to make my way closer when I heard it a sharp crashing noise and I looked up to see the abomination had ripped off one of the legs off the table and so did Will. Will looked toward me and Winked, WINKED. It is my Will, I wasn't dreaming it really was Will and so the two of them started slashing each other with the sharp metal legs, each had deep cuts but then Will landed a devastating blow, he had stabbed the Dr.Krum in the stomach it wretched it free from wills hand and ripped it out and threw it javelin style and it stabbed will in the chest and he looked at me and smiled and looked at me with those beautiful blue eyes that I would stare into in the summer, and then he got an empty look in his eyes and collapsed. I saw what little life he had slip away.
“Hey what’s up, long time no see, I’m back, I know I know I am undead and yes I shouldn't be talking but for some insane reason(I don’t know why) I had gained back my intelligence while stalking Melody, crazy right? Well I’m back and when I gained back my intelligence was when I was in the middle of a road and I almost got run over by her, talk about a rude awakening. And so I was so lost at what was happening I had no clue what she was doing but I felt like I should follow her, and so I did. I followed her with incredible speed, I had never felt anything like it before, I was running 30 mph, I was keeping up with her car and so I was able to look at her, she was driving to Crook’s Hill up to old Mr.Turner’s house. I wondered what was going on, why she was going to his house and so I decided to follow, not like I had much of a choice, I felt like I couldn't leave her side even If I wanted to, strange right? I followed her and decided it would be best if I stayed outside so I stayed sitting on the porch remembering the good old days when we were fourteen, kissing on the steps and then laughing when I fell through the board. Then this old man came and sat down next to me, ok I know I should have asked a good question like, “How do you see me?” or “why aren’t you running away from me, I am a zombie?” or even “why am I still intelligent?” but no, the first question I asked was whether they ever fixed the steps or not. And he looked at me and smiled and said he was sorry I had to bear the curse and I knew he knew what I was.
“Why aren't you scared?” I asked
“Because, I am just like you.”
“Ah, who did you in?” i asked
“Long story.” he replied
“I got nothing but time, at least give me a shortened version.” I asked
“Can’t, I will tell you there is a huge monster you need to fight.”
“I know, I can’t eat brains, that is a pretty big beast for zombies aint it.” I said
He chuckled and smiled then said
“Yes, but no, there is an abomination at the lab. And with that he got up and walked away.”
“Where!?” I yelled
“Follow Melody and all shall be revealed.”
Wonderful I thought, monster duty. And I was trying to make sense of what he was talking about when I got ripped to a white room and staring at me was the biggest yo momma joke ever, it was fat,ugly,and mutated. Then I heard it, the one thing that was recognizable, Melody’s scared breathing that sounded like the dead and I looked and saw Melody coming down the ladder and that’s when I thought I should test the limits of the undead body.
“NOOO!!” I screamed as I saw Will Get impaled and fall to the ground out of anger I shot the Wipe and saw the creature’s skin start to bubble and then change back to a normal pink color instead of the green it was and lying dead on the floor was a man who appeared to be in his mid forty’s look at me and mouth the words .
“Thank you.” and then he died, out of anger i kicked his body, then realized it wasn't fair, it wasn't his fault, it was that accursed virus’s fault and then I ran over to Will’s body and wept for what seemed like hours.
Later that week
It was my turn to go up and talk, but I just couldn't, nobody but me knew what really happened three days ago, they thought he had a car crash and got impaled on site. But I knew about the heroic deeds he had committed to save my life. And nobody ever will so I refuse to go up and tarnish his memory by saying he died by just a mere accident. I went up to go and apologize but when I got up there I saw a little man sitting in the back, smiling and giving me a thumbs up that I had never seen before but he had somehow seemed familiar then I realized who it was, it was that strange man who I had seen in the photo but something seemed off, he had an empty look in his eyes then I heard ear splitting laughing it was awful it seemed to laugh at me, and the man in the back was laughing, then he slowly started to fade until he wasn't there, and by the look of the crowd they hadn't heard or seen him and that’s when I decided I need to go and so I quickly( although regretfully) told the fake story and how he was always a awful driver then I watched them bury his body and then I saw him, Will was sitting on the coffin then he looked at me and said
“I never looked good in a suit don’t you think, I should have had you dress me, that would have been fun anywho I got to go, Hel Isn't a very nice goddess, and I got to go back to helheim love you and don't forget it then he smiled at me and disappeared.
“I’m done, I’m going home, to read about norse mythology.” and with that I left and I was always occasionally visited by that laughing spirit who I later found out was Loki but he was always followed by Will so I guess it was ok. On my deathbed later in life I was visited one last time by a spirit, this time they claimed to be a valkyrie offered me a place in valhalla the place where those who have died as a hero and so I went with her hoping that I would see Will one last time and so I went with her and that wraps up to here. And the rest of the einherjar clapped at my heroic deeds and in the crowd I saw a man who had clapped the most, he was a tall redhead who was in jeans and a camo hoodie who smiled at me and waved me over, I had finally seen who I came here for I finally am with my WIll and we will be until ragnarok do we part.
Deep,deep underwater
Where the deep sea creatures slaughter
There lives a civilization
Where many have a mission
To make the sea a clean place
But the humans always have a hidden ace
Their king called a president
Always places dreams in cement
To lock them with his plunder
And for what; we wonder
We pray for a world of fairness
But many are born cursed with unawareness
This is not the world of the colonists
For the world is dying, scream the ecologists
We want a world where our children may grow
Without questioning whether they go
For the world tells them their pronouns are wrong
For which many aren’t headstrong
They agree and flee
To start their life anew
All for a person they never knew.
Where the deep sea creatures slaughter
There lives a civilization
Where many have a mission
To make the sea a clean place
But the humans always have a hidden ace
Their king called a president
Always places dreams in cement
To lock them with his plunder
And for what; we wonder
We pray for a world of fairness
But many are born cursed with unawareness
This is not the world of the colonists
For the world is dying, scream the ecologists
We want a world where our children may grow
Without questioning whether they go
For the world tells them their pronouns are wrong
For which many aren’t headstrong
They agree and flee
To start their life anew
All for a person they never knew.