Note: When I fell asleep I had the goal of meeting up with MoSh to find out the cause of some nasty dreams Mu on Mortal Mist has been having that seem to have similarities to MoSh's inner world, just really evil. With this goal in mind I fell asleep with my light / sound machine and slipped into a WILD.
I was in MoSh's inner world. I was inside his house. I looked around to see if MoSh was there. I spotted MoSh. I went over to him and told him to do a reality check. He looked at me strangely. I remembered there was a strange reality check he wanted me to mention. Biting his own hand? Ouch. I told MoSh that he'd said something about biting his hand. He asked why he would want to do that. I said I didn't have a clue… that was the reality check he'd told me to suggest to him. I told MoSh this is a dream, so become lucid… and remember the dream.
Ok… I'd read a couple of the dreams Mu has posted online so I focused as best as I could and opened a portal. MoSh and I went through the portal…
On the other side I looked around. It looked like MoSh's inner world… and at the same time it didn't. It looked like I had stepped into the Silent Hill version of MoSh's inner world… The house was run down and falling apart. There were cobwebs everywhere, the place looked like it was decaying, a foul smell hung in the air. It was also quite dark in there. I wondered what had happened. I also noticed that MoSh was gone. Where had he gone? How had we gotten separated? We had gone through the same portal… Well, let's start by cleaning this place up. I used the song Full Moonlight to clean the dark energy and corruption from the area. Golden energy filled the area, but it didn't seem to have any effect… What? How could that be? I repeated the song… still nothing. That was annoying…
I started exploring, looking for MoSh. I went downstairs and found the kitchen was crawling with weird mutant bugs. They scampered from sight. There was a woman there… or something that vaguely resembled a woman… Her skin was pale gray, and she was dressed in filthy rags. Her hair was long, black, limp, and stringy. It was filthy. Her fingernails were claws, and there were deposits of filth all over her body. She looked over at me and I saw she had no eyes. Just burned out black sockets where eyes should be. Bloody pus was dripping from the sockets like tears. She opened her mouth and hissed menacingly at me. She had razor pointed teeth and fangs. I was briefly stunned by the sight which somehow seemed to say 'I hate you, go away!' and 'Please help me…' at the same time. I would opt for the second option. I had a horrible feeling I was looking at Asuka… but who could have done this to her?! I would fix it.
I focused on the song Touch My Heart to heal Asuka. Golden energy formed and flowed through Asuka… but nothing seemed to happen! How could that be? The twisted visage of Asuka was crawling towards me like the woman off of The Grudge.
She was hissing as she came, pulling herself along on her claw-like fingernails. I focused on Touch My Heart again. The song played, the golden energy was still doing nothing. I found that very disturbing… I turned and hurried away from the twisted Asuka.
I went into the living room. I saw someone on the couch. I couldn't see him well… it was MoSh! I had found him! I went over to him. As I was approaching I heard a horrible yelping sound. I stopped momentarily and then continued. I found MoSh, looking twisted in much the same way Asuka had. He was using his claw-like finger nails to tear into the stomach of a struggling and yelping golden retriever. I felt sick to my stomach.
"MoSh!" I said, "What happened? Just hang on… I'll fix this…"
MoSh responded to me by tearing the dog's throat open with his fanged mouth. Now he had bloody tissue hanging from his evilly grinning mouth. I took a deep breath and focused carefully on the song I was about to use. Please let it work… please work this time… it HAS to work this time… is what I found myself repeating in my mind. I focused on the song Touch My Heart again. And the song created the energy just the way it is supposed to… and it had absolutely no effect on the twisted MoSh in front of me.
"FUCK!" I cursed loudly, "Why the fuck isn't it working? Why can't I heal you?! Just stay here… I'll find a way to cure you, I swear I will!" I was answered with a hiss. I turned away from the corrupted MoSh and went outside. Once I was outside the house I looked around. The entire inner world was decaying around me. But how? How had all of this crap gotten through the shield? As a matter of fact, where was the shield? I looked up and saw nothing but dark clouds. The ground was covered with dead plants and rot. I headed around the house. I had to find the source of the corruption… had to cure it… somehow…
The twisted MoSh jumped at me, reaching for my face and my eyes with his claws. I held him away and pushed him off. I had to get out of there and find out why my healing spells weren't working. Out behind the house where there's usually a garden and a pond there was nothing but death and decay… and MoSh! Wtf? MoSh was there! He looked completely normal! What he was holding was anything but normal… it was a little girl that had solid black eyes, pale gray skin, and blood all over her face. She snarled and hissed with sharp bloody teeth. MoSh had his arms around her chest and was refusing to let go. Golden energy was surrounding both of them and not doing anything for the girl, who I figured must be a corrupted Sydney. Sydney hissed loudly again and now bit down on MoSh's arm hard. Blood dripped from where she was biting and chewing. MoSh continued holding her.
"I'm not going to let you go, Sydney!" he said to the girl he was holding.
I was thinking… I had now seen two MoShes. That was not possible unless more than one came from different dimensions… and none of the corrupted ones could be healed… maybe… what if they weren't real? What if they were just illusions meant to fool us? That would explain everything… and that meant MoSh was holding onto a fake twisted illusion of Sydney. I went over to MoSh and pulled the Sydney thing out of his arms.
"What the fuck are you doing?" MoSh asked, "We have to heal her! We have to save her!"
"She's not real!" I said to MoSh, "None of this is real! It's all an illusion!" I got the Sydney thing away from MoSh and pushed her away. She dropped to her hands and knees and hissed menacingly at us. MoSh was heading for her again. I grabbed MoSh in my arms to hold him back. "It's not real!" I said, "Damn! What we see, what we feel, we will see just what is real!" I added a corny rhyme spell to the end. Everything in the corrupted world suddenly stopped. It was like someone had frozen time. Then it shattered. Shards of the world were collapsing around MoSh and me. The Sydney thing fell apart along with everything else. Soon it was just MoSh and me standing in his normal inner world.
"What in the world?" MoSh was asking as he was looking around. I looked at MoSh. He looked normal. No dark energy corruption. Just normal. I could still see the image of the twisted, corrupted MoSh in my mind, completely unaffected by my healing spells. I pulled MoSh into a hug, feeling relief that he was ok. And that meant the others were ok, too. No corrupted Asuka… no corrupted Sydney… all ok. I was still hugging MoSh when I saw Asuka come out the back door with Sydney. Asuka looked a bit surprised. She said she was surprised we were there because she had thought we had gone to check on Mu's dreams. I was holding MoSh when everything faded to black and I woke.
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