The Last Hope

I awoke…what?  What…what is this?  What are…these?  A part of…me…says that they are…words; a way of…stating thoughts…but what are those?  My…my mind…swam with these thoughts…

I looked around…but what does that mean?  Sight…to see…such a strange notion…strange?  What does that mean?  And what does it mean to…mean?  I was…what is the word…confused?  Part of me says that's the right word, but…what does right mean?  To be…correct…true………the meaning of these words eluded me, but…I felt as if they were all…right…

I…looked around, and I saw…darkness.  That is the word that leapt to my mind, but I could not…understand…its meaning.  I…felt it…that is why it came to my mind; I…felt that it was the right word.  I saw… a vast…plain…if that was even what it was called.  A field that stretched…beyond my sight…covered in…darkness.  As I stood there, I…wait; stood?

I looked…down…and I saw the…outline…of a…figure; I came to…recognize…that the figure was…me.  It had to be me; if it was so…close…to my sight, it would only make sense…sense…what does that mean?  I felt…anger; a part of me said that it was the word I was searching for.  Anger at not being able to…answer these…questions…anger at saying words that simply…came to me…without any clear…source…

I saw a figure clad in…armor…that was the same color as the darkness…color?  What is that?  Yet another…thing is the word that came to mind…that I felt but did not understand.  It's…no, my…feet…were…clad…in…seamless…I felt that 'boots' was the right word, but something in me felt that they were not quite…that, either.  I…raised my…arms…and they were…different…I think that's the right word.  My…left…yes, that…sounds right…my left arm looked……..the word 'human' came to mind, but I did not know what that even meant…but it felt right.  It looked human, as did my…hand…though it was clad in a…glove?  Yes, a glove…that was the same color as the darkness around me…around?  Space…this was a notion that I was now beginning to understand.  My…right arm…was not…human; it was…I do not know why, but the word 'lance' came to me.  Yes…it was human only partway down, but it then became a…lance…that was also the color of the darkness.  As I moved them, I could feel their motion…yes, that is the right word…feel…I felt their motion inside me…inside?  Yet another…aspect of this…space.  A word came to me, calling this…arrangement…something specific, but I did not grasp the word's meaning it at that moment.  I…used my left hand to…feel my…face…yes, that's it; but what I felt was…indescribable.  I had muddled through these…thoughts…with an answer right behind the questions…but now no words came to me…now?  What does THAT mean?  Time…I barely…grasped…the meaning behind it at that moment, but I felt that it…was also right…

I began to…what is the word…walk…to wander…across the plain.  I wandered…for…a while…is that what time meant?  I felt that…time…was passing…but I could not recognize how much…had passed…an amount…numbers…these words…swam through my mind, and I could not truly grasp their meaning.  I wandered for…a long time…until I came upon…….ruins……..yes; that is what they were.

It was the…ruins…of what looked like a…………..after some time, the words 'courtyard' and 'castle' leapt to my mind…but again…their meaning eluded me.  I heard…heard?  Sound…I was now beginning to get used to these sudden…mysteries…sound…noise…that is it.  I heard…nothing; the word struck me at first, but I…quickly understood it; it was everything that was…around me.  I heard nothing except the sounds made by my…footsteps…on the ground.  Suddenly…yes, another aspect of time…I did hear something else; when I turned around…what I saw…

Almost…immediately…the word 'creature' leapt to my mind.  Yes…I saw a creature that also was the color of the darkness…it had two…two?  A number…I still could not grasp the thought…it had two…small feet.  No arms but…its…body…was…space…shape…what was it?  Something in me said 'mushroom', but this confused me; the word made absolutely no sense…but it felt right.  Its body was shaped like a mushroom…it had…burning…the word made no sense to me…burning red eyes…red…it had to be another color…and a…mouth…with sharp fangs.  The…creature leapt at me…

I did not remember…remember?  It must have something to do with time…to recognize its passing and what…happened…before the passing.  I did not remember…doing…what I did…until after I had done it but…when the creature leapt at me…I…attacked it; with a single…blow…I…tore it…apart.  I felt that…it was…attacking me…behavior…yet another strange thought that I could not grasp.  It did not move after that…but I did not know why…

As I walked on, I came across a strange…item.  I…picked it up and looked at it…for some reason, the word 'hat' came to me…but this one was also beyond my understanding.  It was…red…like that creature's eyes…but it was…gentler…I could not describe the word, but I felt that it was…appropriate.  It had a strange…symbol on it, and as I stared at it…everything suddenly went…white was the word that I first thought…

I saw…I think that it was a vision…seeing something that is not…occurring…at the…present…time…that was the only meaning I could grasp from the word.  I saw…this place…but it was different…it was…beautiful?  Such a confusing word, but…it felt right.  I saw other creatures…unlike the one I had just seen.  One of them seemed…again, the word 'human' came to my mind…yes, it…he…was human.  He…the word seemed so…odd…yet I felt that I too was a…he.  He was…fighting…with another creature, one much…larger than…himself.  It…had a large…shell?  Yes…a large shell on its…back.  No other words came to me in my…attempt…to describe it.  I felt that this other creature was…evil…but what did that mean?  Wrong…evil…they sounded so…similar…but I could not say that they meant the same thing.  But the human…he…wore…the hat…that I had been…holding…and I felt something indescribable about him.  There were other beings around the two of them…they were…almost…human, but…once again, the word 'mushroom' came to mind…yes, they were…almost…shaped like mushrooms.  I felt that this human was…a…protector?  Savior?  All at once, a single word hit me: hero.  Yes, that's what he was…a hero.  All of a sudden the…sky…changed…it became the color of the darkness…and the creatures surrounding him…the ones that had been…cheering…for him…they turned………I could not describe the change…but they became like the creature I had…encountered…earlier…and then they, along with the other creature, which had similarly changed…attacked him.  What was left…it was like what I had done to that creature…

Suddenly, flashes…yes, flashes…of other…places…appeared…before my eyes…and I saw this same…event…occur many more times…although brief, I saw something happen to other creatures…I felt that these creatures were also heroes.  Something happened to them all…and they all became……

The word brought me out of this…state…and back to…the world around me: dead.  The word had no meaning to me, but I felt that it was…wrong.  It was the…state…that I had put that creature in; it was…dead.  And all of those heroes…were also dead.  The word felt…wrong…but I could not understand why…

As I dropped the hat back onto the ground, I began to…ponder; what did it all mean?  All of these things that I felt…felt…to feel…I grasped the…physical meaning of the word…but inside…it was still so confusing.  These words…where were they…coming from?  Was it really a part of me speaking, or…was it something else?  With all of these strange thoughts and sights, I felt that…I…I needed something to grasp.  I needed something that I could know as…truth…as…fact…

I walked over to the ruins of a…fountain, I think…which was still…filled…with...the word 'water' came almost at once; it had an…interesting sound to it…interesting…yet another strange word.  I looked at it, and…I think that I saw my face.  But unlike the creature I had seen here and the ones that had been in that…vision…I did not see eyes.  I saw…empty…yes, empty…spots; cavities…of darkness.  And the shape and…appearance of my…head………….

A single word came to my mind, and it gave me the answer that I had been searching before.  As I…gazed…towards the ruins of…the castle…I wondered what I would see in the…future?  A time after the present…strange, but…it just sounded right.  It didn't seem to be important…important…I thought that this might have something to do with meaning…it didn't seem to be important to grasp all of these strange thoughts at that moment, though…because I had found my truth…my fact…

I am a…..no…….

I AM Skull Knight.