Nightmare Diaries
The Mystery Is Misery (Part 2)
A noise woke Travis. With a little pain, Travis tried to move on. Looking around, Travis realized that he was now in his room, when he sat down earlier the cloth on his forehead fell, the cloth compresses.
Travis held his own forehead, the heat he felt. His legs were bandaged but there were blood spots. Shortly after, someone entered his room.
“Dad.” Travis' father approached him with a basin filled with water, he took the cloth that Travis was holding, dipped it in the water he was carrying earlier, then slightly pushed Travis to lie down, then compressed Travis.
So many question marks on Travis' head, what has happened to him now that he's here?.
“Do not move first, your legs are still badly injured.” Travis is actually afraid of his father at this time, after what happened why he ended up here at this time, Travis tries to understand but he still does not understand.
“What has happened dad?” His father looked at Travis. Travis swallowed his saliva to minimize his heartbeat.
“You fell.” Travis.
“Hah?”
“Last night you fell off the couch, you fainted.”
“But this?” Travis pointed at his feet.
“When I lifted you into the room accidentally nudged the table until the knife on the table fell and hit your feet, I apologize for that.” Travis blinked his eyes again, in disbelief.
“No dad! Grey and I had a freak incident last night.” Travis tried to defend his speculation.
“Grey? I don't know where he was, this morning came out after a fight, until now has not returned.” Then his father comes out of Travis' room, leaving Travis alone with questions in his head.
Travis was still shocked by what he heard, so everything he read was just a dream? But everything was too obvious, the wound was the same as he remembered, and Grey, what happened to him. Travis remembers that the last thing he saw was the father standing in front of him after beating him.
Dreams can't be that clear, Travis hit his own head. All the things his father said were reasonable as well, but was it possible that the injuries from the falling blade were this severe? Would her body be this late if it was all a dream?.
“What does Grey feel like this?” Travis asked himself. Instantly Travis remembers Grey, whether or not they experienced the same thing. Maybe he should wait for Grey to find the answer.
Too deep in his mind, Travis then realized because of the noise that did not go away since he woke up, he then glanced at the clock that showed 6 pm.
Feeling that Grey was coming home soon, Travis got up with great difficulty, he lowered his legs slowly.
“Akh!” Travis tried to endure the pain, he began to step out of the room. A violent voice rang out from behind, in Travis's mind, what his father was doing to cause a commotion like this.
Travis walked up to the wall of the house, and when he was in front of Grey's room he opened the door, there was nobody in the room but stuff scattered everywhere.
Travis went inside, he saw the same paper he saw last night. He took it and put it in his pocket.
“Do not!” travis' father's screaming voice was clear, Travis hurriedly turned around and stepped behind the house.
With a teetering step Travis tried to speed up his pace, the closer to the location the clearer was heard the screams of Travis' father that seemed to prevent something from happening. Travis opened the back door rudely.
“Dad!” As all the attention moves to Travis, Travis himself freezes with this kind of situation. His father is not alone.
“From Travis!” Grey shouted loudly. He looked miserable, blood was still flowing from his hands, even his wounds were starting to open, his wrists were dark reddish marks, his hair was disheveled, his eyes were soft, even in his face there were a lot of bruises.
At the tip of Grey's leg was a chicken that had been killed, as evidenced by the blood around the chicken, not just one, there were two other chickens with the same conditions as the chicken, killed. Travis swallowed his hard-earned saliva. It froze in place.
The woman who last night bothered him and stood not far from Grey's position, her eyes looking intimidatingly at Travis, the knife on her shoulder still there, no expression of pain, there was only an expression of vengeance.
“From Travis!! Don't look back one bit!” now the father who shouted warned Travis. The dark day made the horror atmosphere more, Travis's hair stood up to realize it.
His father is in a state that is not much different from Grey, but everything was fine, there is nothing wrong with his father, Travis feels like he is in a different dimension.
Suddenly from behind Travis felt something, with a little fear Travis looked back, and the figure of the creature he saw last night returned, right behind him.
“You promised you wouldn't bother him if I took his place! Don't forget your promise!!” travis' father screamed again. Suddenly travis' shoulder is held by the creature, a sense of heat immediately radiates to Travis' body.
“Akh!” Travis squealed in pain, especially after his foot was stepped on by the creature.
“Do not hurt my son!” a huge wood smashed into the figure of the huge creature, piercing through its horn. And Travis' father bounced back to touch Travis.
Grey approaches Travis, helps Travis to stand up, and then leads Travis to run, limping, bleeding his leg again. With quick strides the Greys made it out of their home environment.
“How about Grey's father?” Grey slightly turned his head, exhaling his breath.
“She handed herself.”
“What do you mean Grey?” Travis whimpers in pain when his foot accidentally hits Grey's leg, Grey speeds up his pace.
“That woman, your sister.” Travis blinked his eyes, not understanding. Grey occasionally looked back, they did not have any lighting tools, and the main road was still far away.
“Your brother Travis, he's now a part of them, we're both bloodless. I was adopted when I was five, you were in a coma in the hospital. Remember?” Travis shakes.
“Because of the loss of his wife, the father made a pact with the genie, he wanted to turn on his wife after the accident that time, but the father forgot if the agreement could not just happen, the life is avenged, the life is avenged, dad was asked to kill a chicken every night Jum’at, but the second week after the agreement he forgot because he was still taking care of you, then the victim was your brother, your brother's life was taken by them. I can't just stop the deal. But until now it turned out to be a one-sided agreement, father got nothing, so he tried to block every step of the creature with the papers in the suitcase we saw last night, and last night my father handed me over to the creature,” explains Grey at length. Travis could only freeze with all the facts he had just heard. All this time he knew nothing about his family.
Grey whimpered in pain, his hands getting worse. He could not feel it was his hand. Trying to be strong, at least to protect Travis probably thought.
“This makes no sense Grey!” Travis could not believe this fact.
“See how we are now Travis! This is real! And you know what? I'm the next victim, dad adopted me just in case this happens, he wants you to stay alive, at least.” Grey has a flat face, no emotion on his face.
“But I don't have an older sister Grey!”
“There! You forgot about it because of the accident,” explains Grey again. Grey stopped his steps when they were confronted by the large creature they had seen, his gaze angry, big eyes red.
Travis reached into his pocket and gave it to Grey, Grey seemed to be in disbelief and then he took it with his left hand, then threw the dark-spoken drawing paper at the creature, then suddenly the creature was seen turning around and walking straight.
“This is only temporary Travis! He'll turn around chasing us.” Grey pulls Travis' hand, rubbing it with great difficulty.
The figure of the woman they had avoided appeared in front of them, and to their surprise they both saw what the figure carried, the head of their father. Travis stared in disbelief, holding back his tears, trying to hold back the vibration of his soul, as if there was such a great emotion within him that he wanted to avenge the actions of that figure.
The figure threw it at them, Grey shouted down, Travis immediately fell onto the asphalt of the road, the pain immediately spread throughout his body.
“No!” Grey shouted in frustration, his hands feeling numb, nothing felt coming from his hands.
“Grey! Control yourself!” Travis' screams were not at all harried by Grey, Travis got up and ran towards the female figure with a feeling of resentment, he tried to reach her but the figure seemed to be getting away
from her.
“Akh!!” Grey squealed in pain. Travis forced himself to run to the figure of the short-haired woman, although as hard as he ran, the distance remained the same, nothing changed, Travis like walking in place.
“Gosh.” Travis reaches into his pocket and retrieves the last sheet of strange paper he picked up in Grey's room. Looking briefly at the paper, there is an abstract image that forms a human silhouette, around which there is large writing. Travis ran back by holding the paper tightly.
Travis' distance and the figure eroded even further, though enveloped in overwhelming fear, Travis stopped right in front of the figure.
His eyes pointed at the knife that stuck on the shoulder of the figure, he tried to pull the knife, but his hand was held back by the figure, a sense of heat instantly radiating to his right hand, Travis was whimpering more and more in pain as the figure twisted his hand.
“No!! Please don’t!” Travis brushed off the figure's hand with his left hand clutching the paper.
Travis quickly pulled the figure's hair and combined it with the paper in his hand, so surprised that Travis saw the strands become maggots, Travis tried to roll the maggots with his paper.
As the figure groaned in pain, Travis pulled the knife, and as the figure grew more agonized, Travis squeezed the paper and pressed it against the wound on the woman's shoulder, then slowly after slowly the figure changed, his hand took out maggots after maggots, as well as his other body, as if his entire body was made of maggots.
“Aaaakh!!”
The atmosphere that had been gripping became better, so many maggots on the asphalt of the road made Travis' nausea rise to his throat.
He then returned to where Grey was, Grey who was sitting limp while groaning in pain. Not long after a freight car approached them, Travis immediately stood in the middle of the road blocking the car.
“Please give us a lift.” Travis pleaded, seeing the condition of the two who were severe enough to invite pity in the driver, then the driver nodded his head.
Travis immediately helps Grey walk to the back of the car, lifting it up. He and Grey sit among the vegetables that are still wet. Travis exhaled tired, he hugged Grey tightly, and rubbed his head. After everything that happened, he and Grey will start a new life in another city, with a simple life, and forget what has happened.
- End-of-the-peak