Entry #2

The morning rises grey with a cold rain.
There's no one on the streets that leads to the woods.
The woods leads to the old neighborhood.
There's no one in the woods neither, a soft walk.

what i thought:
           "It's too quiet, even for them."

I scout the area from afar, behind the trees. Got into one of those abandoned shacks, that one was falling apart. The body of my friend was not there anymore. 
My hands are freezing, My blood is frozen. 
Somehow, my training to not fear was not working at all.
I'm terrified with that silence.
I feel an urge to get out of that shitty place, when i hear something. 
"Finally" - I think and at the same time my mind rebates -
"Oh god"

4 persons with black coats and staves are standing outside.
I'm sitting under the broken window as the door without a knob on my left gently swing with the wind closing and opening with that creek noise.
I already knew that there would be battle. And i probably was going to die.

one of those guys start talking,

"Do you think he will come?"

But no one answers him.

"He's already here." - another one said.

Suddenly everything got way colder than it already was.
I grab my dagger, holding it tight.
I can't run, I can't fight.

Then a door opens by the end of the house i'm in.

I get up and stood against the wall. 
A guy with two revolvers get out of the room looking directly at me.
he rises one of his revolvers pointing it at me.
I duck and jump through the window as he shot.
Motherfucker, grazed my shoulder. I fall on the wet concrete ground.

The 4 guys outside also ducked and were also surprised when they saw me jumping and ran one at a different direction.

The rain got thicker.

I run to the other side of the streets, there's what appear to be a bar of some sort over there. I hear gun shots, but no bullets got me this time.
I open the door and everything got bright.
I put the hands in front of my eyes, but everything seems too much bright yet.
So I try to walk ahead, ducking, believing i'm still inside that bar.

When i hear laughter.

Just one person laughing, actually.
One man.
I open my eyes to see myself in the middle of the streets.
Time frozen solid.
I could see all the rain drops in the middle of the air, the guy with the guns standing on the sidewalk, gun's blazing, bullets frozen in mid-air.
I see one of the 4 guys running into a shack and another one casting some kind of magic against the revolver guy.

"We have an overture to you Mr. Virus" - Said a man wearing a white suit with red tie. Couldn't see his face because he was wearing a fedora hat, one hand on the back, another hand holding some kind of box.

I just kept quiet. Not believing in what was happening right there.

"It seems, you have been brought on this, not by accident, but not by will.
And the enemy wants you to deliver something for them in which they cannot put their hands on it."

"Who--What the fuck are you?" - replied.

"Ha ha!" - he laughed again. "Do not worry about it, Mr. Virus. Just know that We're not your enemy for the time being. Time, as you can observe can be a relative matter ha!"

"You said something about a overture." - My mind is racing, million of questions and thoughts, but i feel the need to focus on what's happening.

"Indeed. You see, Mr. Virus. We already saw you, we--"

"Wait, who's WE?" - I interrupted.

His figure got darker and red eyes glowed beneath the fedora when he said calmly but firmly.
"Do NOT interrupt when i'm talking, filthy being!"

Due to the circumstances, i opted to keep my mouth shut.

"Very well, as i was saying, we have noticed the way you work. Me, in my most opinion find your work... sloppy to say the least. But we agreed that you can be useful to us."

I remained in silence.

"You have two options, Mr. Virus: You do as we tell you...
or you get captured by those 4 guys over there, As they'll probably send you to steal the something they want for them. and probably get brainwashed and turn into just another proxy. As your whole order did, to serve that one being and his will."

"You know what happened to The Seething Crows?" - I quickly asked.

"In due time, Mr. Virus, In due time."

"So what do i need to do?"

At this rate, the rain was slowly falling down, everything began to move in really slow, but at an alarming rate for me.
But not for the man. He calmly replied:

"You see this box?" - He shown me a dirt worn box, couldn't tell what it was made of, but had some engravings like runes with a small lock.

"Inside this box, Mr. Virus, there's something really powerful. Something that can control this reality and the others. Something this powerful can't fall in the  wrong hands, can it?"

I kept quiet.

"But there's a catch. We can't open it because so the enemy has the key."

"haha ha!" -I laughed as he stood still.
"Now i get it!" - I continued. "You have the box, and they have the key. You guys can fuck yourselves... I'm not helping anyone open a box that can control realities."

"You see, Mr. Virus, there's no middle on this war. There's no neutral side, or you'll help us, or you'll help them. choose wisely"

"Why me? There's million of people that could do this for you, people that do better work than me, why ME?"

"Mr. Virus... There's a reason you have been dragged into this.
There's a reason that one being wants you back in his game.
You have something on you, Mr. Virus... You've been blessed, and have been cursed. The one being wants you because he can't hurt you. We want you because he can't hurt you. Do you understand, Mr. Virus?"

"No, not really..."

"In a nutshell, he'll be pleased turning you into one of his to do his will and try to get this box from us. And we need your help to getting rid of him off our grasp by using your gift to take their key."

"Yeah, but something on you give me the fucking creeps, you're not any good fellas neither."

"Matter of point of view, Mr. Virus, just matter of point of view."
"But enough talk, my time here is done. You have 2 days to decide what to do, Mr. Virus, as said, choose wisely..."

With a bow, a gleam of light blew and he vanished in thin air.
Everything in slow-mo became normal again and within some seconds i could see the magic of the coat guy striking the guy with the revolvers, making him burst like a bag of blood. The bullets hitting the Coat guy. More blood spilled and i appeared back home in a second, just when 3 of the other guys appeared out of the houses and looked directly at me.

I can only guess that the teleport home was the white suit man's doing.
But i'm here, safe and sound. 
And now i have to "decide" who to "help"
I really don't know what to do...
This is too much craziness for me.
I guess i have no sanity anymore today.

and i have so many questions...
i don't even know where to begin asking
who the hell are they?
what the hell is that box, really?
why me?
but something just stroke my mind right now...
can this guy in white be... the Target?
I'll have to do some other investigations while i have time.
i guess i'll have to create some strategies here.
thing is, i'm already tired of this time travel shit.
i'm exhausted.
                                                                      welp.


take care
-virus. 

update

I just received a call from an unknown number. A distorted voice saying i'm supposed to encounter "them" in the old neighborhood near the woods in 3 hours...
Surely sounds like bait. Or worse.
I really don't know what i'll find there. Good things and tea it isn't.

I'm going to scout the area and wait. 


I'll upload what happened later for sure. If i come back alive, that is heh.


until then.
-virus

Entry #1.5

In the mid-2012, i got involved to some events that led me to where i am now.

When i applied to join the Crows, that was an order that received contracts by anonymous clients. 
The contracts had many ends, sometimes infiltration, espionage, and sometimes even killing a target if needed.
Their initiation wasn't the best thing for the human eyes or body. I went to many process like how to feel pain, survival, close-quarters combat, magic (which i lack the power completely), 
seals (whose purpose is to serve as a shield, if you didn't figure out yet, but it only works one at a time, and after the seal is broken, you have to create another one, there are many types of seals, many to name actually, i'll talk about them more in the future), torture and i could keep going with this list but i don't think it's really worth it. 
Well, after all that, my initiation was complete, i was already part of The Seething Crows, and was ready for my first contract.

I've learned how not to fear, and learned how to ease the anxiety by constant concentration. So the first contract was just like another drill for me.

It was just an scout and intel contract, as the name suggest, i should just observe and grab any information on the target/territory i was supposed to scout. No questions, no objections. Nice and easy, a milk run. 
Almost all the contracts were done with two or more people. Infiltration ones was one man operation. 

Well, so they put me and another novice, 03 was his number i guess, to scout and intel a target that was marked for death. I intended to do the drill to the letter, but the other novice, who thought he had great initiative, thought that "since the target was already marked for death, why don't we kill him already?".
I said no, we should keep with the drill (yes, i always had this soldier instinct thing, since i served my time in the army), but he was going anyway, stupid fuck. 
One rule that we always had in mind on the order was: 

                 "Don't leave your brothers and sisters, even in danger
                      even in death, if one fall, we all fall."

We followed the target and scouted and took note of his day, seemed just like any normal guy dressed in a grey suit with one of those fedora hat who had some office works and these kind of shit. Until he left his job by the dusk and went to the woods (why always the woods?).

What got my mind was that he was on foot, calmly walking through the woods as we followed him. That's when 03 decided to act, i stopped him when i saw the target was going to an strange destroyed and engulfed by the forest building. But of course, he didn't gave a solitary fuck and was going to do the target anyway. 

The target was already into the building as we got in, we heard some conversations and some strange noises, as some machine was charging up in one of the rooms. there was a lot of rooms in a long surprisingly blinding white corridor.

"how come this corridor can be so white on this destroyed building?" - 03 said.

So we followed the noise to the room, but no one was there just a chair, in the middle a white room with no windows.
We waited there for almost 20 minutes when we decided to get back to the order. 

When it happened.

Just as i put my foot out of the room, 03 vanished, and i heard his screams outside and ran to see what the hell was going on.
We were in a completely different location, i heard sound of water like in a beach, but couldn't tell cause there was still woods surrounding us, also a thick fog didn't let me see anything in front of me, but one thing i certainly saw.

There he was, The Faceless One. The first time i really had seen him with my own eyes, right there, in front of me. Until there i only had seen proxies and some other paranormal things.

03 had his whole body squeezed by two of his arms while the others were piercing his body like spears while the other arms were violently moving on his back.

I've seen videos, I've seen blogs, but none of them related The Faceless One so violent, there's more than one? does he acts different to every person?

Thing is, i couldn't let 03 die like that,  So i drew my daggers, and as i jumped to try and cut off the arms, my protective seal exploded, and my right foot was grabbed and i was hurled ten meters away. The last thing i saw was 03's body be torn apart like it was a piece of paper, that's when i hit a tree and fell unconscious.

When i woke up, it was already dawn, the fog was gone as the building and the woods. I was in the middle of a big field with a narrow road leading to a town. I still had my cellphone but the battery was almost dead and there was no signal.
So i walked almost 6 miles to a town i had never heard of, full of people with different clothes and cars that wasn't from my timeline.

Soon i noticed that i was thrown back in time. But when?
I found a newspaper that said i was on February 27, of the year 1867.
I just couldn't believe in it.

Walking through the town, people started to notice me, since my clothes was way too strange for them, when i found a building way different from those surrounding it.
It seemed just like the same building from before, but this time it wasn't destroyed. I've waited some hours in front of it, to see if anyone was going to go in or out of the building. I was starving, but i just couldn't leave that place. To help there was a junk food house right next to where i was sitting.

A gentle sir noticed me and came with a bread and water. As he handed me,  he asked

"You have been standing here all day looking at this building, you're waiting for someone?"

"Yes, i'm waiting for a friend."

"There are some strange people who come out of this building, if they are your friends, you should choose your friends better hehe"

I thanked him for the food, and not 5 minutes later... the target appeared.
Running like he was fleeing from someone. Got into the building and i went after him. As i opened the door, i saw a colossal wave of darkness swallowing the whole town. I got in as fast as i could and saw the target entering one of the rooms again. 
I quickly followed him to the room, and when he saw me, he shouted 

"NO, NOT NOW!"

Everything went black for some seconds, i felt a hand grabbing my throat, by reflex i buried my dagger to where it was supposed to be the abdomen.
When everything came back to normal, i saw the 03 laying dead, stabbed on the lungs. How? hell if i know. But way more blood painting the white room than it was supposed to be. 

I left the building to find myself on those woods again, seemed like the same woods, so i followed the path out of there, and it appeared that everything was normal, and i was back in 2012.
When i asked a kid what year we were, after he laughed at my face, he said

"Welcome to 2015 weirdo"

So yeah. That was just my first contract, and i had more intel than i could handle. I went back to the order, but what i saw was just a big pile of ashes.
I have no idea what happened or where they went. I've tried to search for them in many places but they just don't exist anymore. 

So here i am, 3 years in the future, tried to forget everything and live a new life and almost did. But it looks like i still have a contract to complete and still fight an entity i'm not sure how it works and why it "wants me back in the game".


I just made this post for you to know just a little who the hell am i, and how i got here and these kind of thing.
That's most of it.


I think i might need some help, heh

That's all for today,
take care.


-virus

Entry #1

So on the last 3 days I've been collecting information. And i got almost none.

I found out that some of my contacts in my old town are also missing or dead.

But i have indeed found one friend who said he had some giant info.

            the thing is, i didn't wanna know that...

I received a call, it was Andrew, one of my contacts and an old friend, telling me that he would rendezvous with me by the old abandoned neighborhood near the woods, saying he had some info for me, and important ones.

I never liked that part of this town, always give me the creeps when i'm near it, principally the woods. 

but okay, i went anyway. but shouldn't

The woods has an entrance with a really long narrow path that leads to the old neighborhood. When i moved here i asked some dwellers why that part of the town was abandoned, but they never really answer. Just say that "It's dangerous, don't go there!" or "Happened some bad things in there, don't go there!".

But there was I, completely ignoring their advice, walking through the woods, when i saw two figures standing by the very end of the narrow path and i stopped, drew my dagger, but held it behind my back.

As i got closer, the end of those woods seemed even longer than it was, and the figures seemed smaller.

So i stopped again and started looking around, i felt some strange presence near me, as i looked behind my back, there he was, The man that killed my best friend, that was two times bigger, with guess who? yes, the Faceless One himself.

It was that moment that i finally realized that i was dumb enough to run directly into a trap. Lesson learned.

I felt an sting and my Seal (I'll talk about how i've learned to make seals and what they do on other post) exploded into a million pieces, just when i saw his "tentacle" or one of his arms trying to grab me. He screeched and a loud noise that i never hear equal, looked like it was coming from every corner of those woods. When he teleported us to the middle of the old town.

Everything was grey, a thick mist surrounded us, I've taken that little time to create an Splinter Seal and get the fuck out of their vision.

As i ran, i noticed that the giant was alone, mumbling something, when the brilliant idea stroke my mind "throw your only weapon at him".

I really don't know when i became so dumb. 

As the dagger hit the knee, and he screamed like hell and fell, he got up in a second and started running with that sledgehammer on just one hand and the dagger on the knee, but i've let him get close enough so i could get my dagger back.

When he got close enough he mauled the ground when i dodged and slipped under him to take the dagger, he screamed again when i pulled the dagger off, ripping some of his knee with it, he fell again dropping the sledgehammer, i went to stab him in the neck when i my Seal burst. Million splinters of energy cut off the air and most of it pierced the proxy's body and he fell on the ground like a bleeding doll.

i heard a screech again when a big flash exploded and the mist, the proxy and the Faceless One, were nowhere to be found.

I looked around, just empty houses and my friend's body was laying on the ground near an simple wooden house.

I don't know how he died, but i'm sure it is HIS doing. I got closer and Andrew was with his eyes wide open, like he saw something terrifying before death. i bet he did. I'm so sorry...

But he was holding something, a note...

Another note:

The old enemy

is back in the game

the first part

of the circle

is complete

He knows

For His will

It Shall be done.

Whatever that means.

I find it funny they calling me "old enemy".

heh.

Well that's all for today.

take care.

-Virus.

The Letter, The Faceless King

        Never i thought i would be back to running.

-Shit! what the fuck was that?

    That was the last thing i said to Julia, my best friend, before she was torn apart by a guy that covered the door with a fucking Sledgehammer and smashed her head against the wall.

       

    It's been days, months and years since my last run, where i've abandoned everything and left that damn town. After i time warped to the long past and then to some years in the future for reasons i yet question... Many things i've done, many things i'll say about that, but not now.

    So i've started a new life, found new friends, new job, and everything was perfectly normal. But life can't be easy on me, could it? Of course not.

    Thing is, i'm not running anymore. This time i'm fighting. This time i'm KILLING. As i did to that... Now, what was that called again? Proxy? Yeah. stabbed its throat with my knife at least 30 times before i realized that it was dead by the fifth stab.

   How did i know it was a proxy? easy: it came running like crazy and had a white sheet over its face. Also, something on its body told me everything that i needed to know. A letter.

   It simply said:

                   

                      For whom we serves, the deal has been made

                      The old enemy must be located

                      Old matters must be attended

                      He must get back to the game

                      For our Faceless King

                      It shall be done.

         heck, i wonder why.

    Last time, i had some friends who guided me, kept my sanity safe, most of them are dead or missing as are some proxies/servants... I'm not sure of what will happen, but this time, oh this time... i'll be ready to do whatever the fuck i'm supposed to do.

Hell, who knows what lies ahead?

   I'll try to talk with some of my old contacts in my old town, see what they can come up with, see what i can find. I'm actually looking forward to this, I'm ready.

      In the meantime of my life, I've been part of an order, The Seething Crows, they don't exist anymore, but they taught me everything i need to know to defend myself against them and you know who.

One thing though.

I'm NOT by all means, against nor allied to the runners/fighters or men and women fighting against The Faceless One and his proxies. I'm neutral on this one. In a matter of fact, maybe even they want me for some specific end that don't mean killing me at all?

That's it for today

This is my last run. let it start.

-virus