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Wayward Dreams: The Forgotten Beliefs

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Earth is governed by three absolute beliefs: Law, Wealth, and Religion. They are the pillars of society, the truths that maintain order — and the chains that bind free thought. Those who reject them are not punished. They are erased. Cast into the Inverted Realm, a surreal world formed by humanity’s discarded dreams and forbidden ideals, the deviants awaken in a reality shaped by belief itself. Here, imagination mutates, convictions kill, and monsters called Phantasms hunt without reason — the corrupted remains of dreams the world refused to acknowledge. In this realm, power is not given. It is believed to be. And the greatest sin… is to doubt your own.
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Chapter 1 - The Void

Law, Wealth, and Religion, the three beliefs that maintain balance in the world, the unquestionable truth, and their authority encompassing the world as we knew it, and those who reject these truths are cast aside by their rebellious Ideals to the void

 

An Inverted realm in the size of the world, a place where ideals and disbelief, banished in fear of them rivaling the peace built for thousands of years

 

Abe Borshon, Adolf Heckler and Hou Lee Sheik. These three individuals found themselves on a barren deserted wasteland, confused and skeptical.

"Where am I?" The three uttered in confusion

An abrupt stinging sensation in their head jogged their memories, minutes away before they found themselves in this place. Abe was crashing the stock market, as a means of revenge from the rich. Adolf burning religious idols and cursing the skies for the reason of his suffering, and Sheik in a courtroom in trial by manslaughter for his numerous records of killing murderers. In a brutal inhumane manner, to purge evil just as his family was ravaged by their claws

 

Out of nowhere everything stopped, the three found themselves transported at a dark void alongside one another. Here they came face to face with a Sinister robed entity, moving in this space, and in its presence they can't speak nor act. When the being unveils a black book, it spoke of their crimes, and the darkness projected their sins

 

"I'm impressed, for thousands of years I finally some spry and hateful curs. To think there's anyone left in this age thats so defiant. But color me surprise,"

The three saw as their memories flash before their very eyes, and the first thing it implied was their swift departure. As a being of unspoken power lies before their very eyes, yet it did nothing, it smile the moment their eyes shake, wondering of their fates. It walks closer and vanished, and reappears a breath away from the three and uttered.

"Worry not, I am but a humbler Exiler. I am no executioner. The moment you step in the void, your death shall be painful, as heavy as your crimes,"

The dark floor beneath opens, they found themselves back to the world, yet they felt their body's weight grew lighter. The world remain motionless, and the lighter they became, an unknown force dragged them upwards to the sky above. This force never stopped and they never once fell, once they reached a certain height, the boundry of the world opens. Entering an inverted world, where they found themselves dragged to its crust, painfully landing at the desert.

 

"Fuck!!! What the hell is that thing? God damn it. I was so close... so close in overturning this shitty economy," Abe punched the sand beneath him, the force whisked apart of the sand near his eyes, and even with the sting his eyes remained open

 

"You.... useless piece of shit of a god!!! Now you appear before me!! To cast me aside?!!" Adolf repeatedly cuss away unbothered by the two

 

"So much for freedom, hey guys we need act quickly, did you forget? It told us something about dying," Sheik remained composed, after knowing he was miles away from the court, and unshackled by his cuffs

 

"Why aren't you so awfully calm, werent you about to get electrocuted or something?" Abe composed himself after noticing Sheik's overwhelming positivity

 

"And why should I listen to you, murderer? I can get out of this hell on my own. In any case, isnt the sky a little red?" As Adolf adresses the sky, the two found it odd and eerie, and the moment they saw the sun all black and depress with a melted horrid face

 

"Are we all seeing the same thing? As in the desert? Red sky, Black sun, and this oddly looking collar in our necks?"

 

As Sheik stood up alongside the rest, they found themselve in a distinctly different world. They realized the blood red sky, the black depressing sun, and a weird creature running directly to their position. They were frightened, as the beeping grew stronger as it approached implying that their killer is nigh approaching. But the moment they ought to fled, the figure vanished vefore their eyes, and a shadow loomed over their heads.

"Everyone step back!!!" Sheik yelled

A monster landed at the center, seconds later after Sheiks loud warning, the three were certain at first glance. A creature ranging from 7th feet, ahold of a butcher's knife and a psychotic smile, stood before them with a horrific grin. Its features was nothing alike of a monster, but a worn out anime figure, collecting heads as trophies, carried by its left hand

"Uwu!!!" Its cutesy tone could hardly mellow out the fierce malicious presence it brought

 

"Ahhhhh!!!"

 

"Uwu!!!" Two identical freakishly large dolls arrived seconds later, each one locked eyes with the three convicts, as the collar in their neck glows bright red

 

"Regroup later!!!" Sheik was the first to run away, as the doll hunting him rushed at him, the moment it realized its target

 

"It's every man for himself, it's nice knowing you," Adolf followed in Sheik's example, as his doll was oddly relaxed he managed to put some distance before it reliazes

 

"Calm down Abe, there's nothing to worry about, it barely did anything, so let's not do anything stupid," As Abe was panicking he shortly glanced at the doll and unfortunately his eyed met with its own

 

"Oh shit!!!!" The doll began to move, and waved its blade with the intent of cutting Abe apart

 

Near the deserted wasteland a figure spotted the animatronic doll as it chased after Abe

 

"Oooh fresh meat! Yo captain, we found one. He looks decent enough, my vision isn't reacting negatively to him, what do you say?" A woman equipped with scars and weapons approached the lookout and grabbed ahold of the telescope

 

"Can we reach him in time?"

 

As her group debated on their answer, Abe was but a hair away from meeting the bloody cleaver of this 7 foot doll, and just as he was getting some distance between them, he fucked up at the most crucial time, as he tripped by his own foot

 

'Seriously? This is embarrassing? Why did I have to fuck it up. I can't even walk straight, even though I'm not gay. I don't deserve this fate, I just wanted everyone to be equal, without that filthy wealth that divides and ravaged us from within. It sickens me that past bonds, can be easily breaken when it comes to monetary problems. Love so sacred and precious can be swayed by the lavishness of luxury. As if to say that without wealth, we're no different from pleas, were incapable of comfort, warmth, and contentment without it,'

 

As Abe's truest belief became the focus of his final moments, a surge of power awakened within. This led to dozens of chains bursting from within his very being, a shackle grew present at his arms and legs. Symbolizing his beliefs of a shackled unwanted dream, where no one is above, none is beneath, and all standing side by side taking the form of the Vision he ultimately wished

 

"Uwu!!!" As the blade struck Abe, the animatronic was in disbelief for how the sharpness of its blade and the force it applied hardly dealt a dent to his body

 

"Why can't all of us be equal? Is it that hard to be humble? To be content? To never downplay anyone else?"

 

The chains that sprouted from Abe had reached the doll in time. With the chains arrival came his survival, through his vision the force the doll would've inflicted was mitigated. In the binding presence of his chains, all is fair, all is equal, and, everything is balance.