The Awakening

[RAL]

The Dream

Solari found himself on the top of a mountain. He stared off into the distance. There was a thick mist that covered the entire area, it was hard enough to even see five feet in front of you. Solari stood there mute, looking around. He began walking off into the distance as if to somehow escape the mist. Something was very strange about this dream indeed. No matter what direction Solari walked in, he somehow seemed to only go uphill.

The sounds of his steps made a crunching noise. Solari looked down to see the ground almost purely made of bones. Somehow, for the first time in his life, he was scared. Solari trembled. He slowly continued to climb up the hill untill he reached the top. He pulled himself up to the very top of the large mountain, where he was shocked at what he saw. There, at the top of the mountain, stood a mirror. Solari slowly approached the mirror, in horror at what he saw. He stared into the mirror. Something not human stared back at him, edging ever closer to the mirror as he did, matching his rhythm and movements. The creature smiled at him. Somehow, Solari found himself smiling as well. He stood there, fixed on top of the hill, staring into the mirror ontop of the mounds of human bones. Is this what he had become? Was this the other entity that lived inside him, finally coming to a full appearance. If so, it was bad news for Solari. He had taken his luxury of killing to far, it just made the creature stronger and stronger with every death, with every ounce of flesh he consumed.

The mirror started to crack, and the glass exploded backward into the air in slow motion, shattering into thousands upon thousands of peices. Upon the other side, stood the creature in flesh. Was this some kind of omen? Behind the creature stood others similar to him, but not nearly as large or threatening. The mound began to trembled as if a earthquick was happening. The creature lunged at Solari pulling him through the mirror frame within a instant...