13 Hallucination?

A middle aged man right in front of me, white dyed hair long to his knees. He was tall as an old tree and skinny like a branch with a striped shirt, looked as if it belonged to a long time slave.

The man's hair was blown away by the wind, you could see his wicked smile with spit drooling down from his mouth. His whole face was covered with some kind of tissue where you could see all of his mouth muscles and tendons, everything was moving. There was also a hole in his skull where you could see his brain that was pulsating for some god unknown reason. That smile... You almost can't see it, but it is there. It's making every single part of my body shiver to such an extent that the barrier started repelling me.

"Hayden do something! I need to escape... But how? I don't want to die..." I thought to myself and as that thought started swallowing my mind I slapped myself and stood up. I started running as fast as I could. The man did not react instantly but instead started laughing, his head slowly started ticking as if he was breaking his own neck without using hands.

Then his eyes instantly focused fully on me and he started running as if he was a monster who was not afraid of pain. His movements were unnatural; it looked somewhat like a monster with limbs breaking and dislocating each meter of running. I was running really fast, but I still was no match for his wicked chase; it was impossible for me to outrun him without any use of dark powers. The next thing I knew was that I was to die right here and now.

"So who do we have here?." He laughed with a devilish voice, it almost sounded as if two people were talking simultaneously.

"I'm H-Hayden…. D-Don't get c-close to m-me!" I'm really scared. I don't want to repeat the same thing as with my brother… That pain. Even though I lost consciousness the pain was still there.

"I see you are scared." The almost unseeable grin on his face this time was very visible.

"..." I was too terrified to say a word. I didn't even know what to add… That grin was too terrifying.

"Let's have fun with this little sorcerer." The ominous laugh of this voice was so excruciating for my ears, like petrifying, I almost froze in place. The voice that said those words though… It wasn't the same person, more like second but… The same?

"What do you want to do to me…" I knew that there is no way to escape, so I just accepted that excruciating fate. Even if painful...

"Meet my little friend. This small one is named 'Savage'. Do you want to know why?" A black mantis appeared in his hands. The bug was so small it was barely visible, like a small moving black sun.

"I actually don't." I nodded with complete confidence and no fear in my voice.

"Perfect. So now, I will break your legs as slowly as possible to let you feel the pain for as long as possible. After that, because you can't escape. I will put this little guy inside your throat and let him do what he wants inside you." He growled with his other voice… I don't know anymore how many of those he has. I only know that every single one is as evil as he himself.

"..." I can't say a word. It didn't matter, I already feel cold… Why is this world so cruel? It's so unfair. I hate this place… If god existed. Why did he create us this way?

Then he broke my leg, it was incredibly painful. Then the second one I felt my tendons and muscles getting pierced with broken bone parts. The other pieces that were shattered off got into the veins, I could feel everything that was happening within my body… "I want to die…" I was screaming, my voice cords themselves started ripping apart. And that thought of dying devoured me when he slowly started approaching my mouth with that bug in his hand. I saw his face again and began to try and escape. My broken bones almost flying, I panickaly screamed. Blood oozing out of the openly broken limbs of mine. The agonizing struggle was futile. I gave up…

He put it inside my mouth and as I felt it slowly going down my throat, I knew this was the end.

"This is just the beginning." He cackled with demonic voices, many of them. I thought he could read my mind, but it probably was just a coincidence... Or was it? "Why am I thinking about this? I need to think of a plan to esca…" This thought was interrupted.

"You know you can't run away from me Hayden." He added while the bug was really slowly approaching the inside of my stomach.

The small insect began… I felt all the pain inside my stomach, everything was being cut one by one. Every single part, I was screaming, shouting, and calling for help, but there was no one. "Why am I not dead? Why am I not passing out?" This was something that was hard for me to understand. "He is constantly healing me…" an explanation came to my mind that was devastating my mind. I wanted to fall down… I didn't want to feel that pain anymore. Each slash, each heal, slowly makes my sanity to fall. My mind is going blank. At this time I think I died over 100 times… And came back around the same amount.

I stopped screaming. I understood that the only thing I can do is laugh together with the psycho, I lost it… I'm not here anymore. This is someone else, Sorry, all of you…

"But whom? Who am I apologizing to? I don't have anyone, no one. Flora? Who... Is that?" This was the last thought. After that my consciousness disappeared…

Only the sound of his voice was left in the dark consciousness. I only saw my own image from behind… With a big piece of blue around me. Around only black with a small white crack in the unending darkness.

Sorrow and dark… Cold and bare… A world apocalyptic and hard to live in, my legs tied to the dark, which made me unable to move. It's time to go for a long sleep Hayden… You've done enough. "But what have I done?" It doesn't matter Hayden… It was already enough.

You died.