"RUN! It's going to explode!" Sounds of explosions echoed around me. All I felt was pain; I couldn't move my legs or arms. My surroundings were hazy, but I heard a familiar voice.

  "Brother, don't close your eyes. You can't sleep! I won't let you go like this; we have a long life to live together." As panic overwhelmed him, he picked me up. "We are almost there, don't worry. I will save you." He continued to run as fast as he could. "Please, don't die, brother. I can't lose you too."

  His warmth and uneven breath became stronger."Almost there don't close your eyes, I will kill you if you do it"

  When a loved one is in danger our bodies surpass their limits, he gave everything, even if his legs were giving in, he ran, even if he didn't have any more energy or breath, he ran because he knew that if he stopped for a second he could lose another brother in his arms.

  "Yes, I did it, we are here brother, you are safe", He screamed with enthusiasm.

  Indeed they arrived. However, this is no fairytale, even if you give everything you have reality will slap you in the face.

  You can't go against Fate...

  As he screamed, "Brother, Brother!", my eyes were closed and I fainted.

  Did I die?

  Was my existence no more?

  The only thing that I know is that I am alive, this unknown person against all odds saved me and my body in in perfect condition.

  Then why...

  Why do I feel towards him this...

  "HATE, HATE, HATE",

  As soon as I thought about him, a loud voice screamed into my mind, I fell and my heart was as heavy as a boulder, I couldn't breathe properly as this anger was eating me alive.

  Will I die like this? I asked myself as I was trying to calm down.

  "HATE, HATE, HATE", the voice didn't stop, I had to do something or my heart would explode.

  After 10 minutes of struggle, I could finally stand up.

  "What the fuck was that?" I said, but nobody answered.

  I was indeed alone.

  I must avoid thinking about that dream, or that voice will haunt me again.

  My entire body is full of sweat, I am starting to feel cold.

  Well, what did I expect since I was naked?

  I must search for clothing, food, and water, or I won't survive.

  Since my situation is dire, I have to hurry.

  I started to scan my surroundings, but all I could see was dark, luckily I could see better in the dark, not like before.

  I started coughing, "This place is full of dust, I wonder how long I was sleeping in here"

  It seems that I am in a small room with no windows, after a brief search I found a backpack, a key, a small package, and a lantern with some light-blue oil, everything else was destroyed by some kind of long and thin weapon.

  The room is full of dust i don t know how long I was asleep here,

  "I hope to find some food in this lootbox."

  The black backpack was empty, after further inspection I discovered that it was perforated.

  " This is my lucky day", I unironically said.

  "Well I hope this small package is somehow useful, otherwise I am kinda fucked"

  Upon touching it I could feel it wasn't empty, "Let me see what you are hiding, will you save me or will you disappoint me?"

  Inside there was neither food nor water, but there was something strange, it was made of metal and it had an L shape, inside there was also a guide on how to use it.

  After reading it I was relieved, since what I found was a weapon, it's a pistol, with 20 magic bullets.

  I don't ever remember using it, well not like I remember something, except that thing...

  As soon as my mind started to think about that dream I stopped in fear of the voice, I had to stay alert.

  I read it can absorb Cabala from dead enemies and magic Crystal.

  "I don't know what Cabala is but this weapon is comfortable, I am sure this isn the first time I held one", I said.

  After wrapping up everything I opened the door with the key and stumbled into a humanoid skeleton,

  The area isn't safe.

  The place is messed up by the same kind of weapon, I was trapped in a fisherman's hut, but I could find a fishing line, maybe I can try to catch something, it shouldn't be so hard.

  One hour passed and I couldn't catch anything.

  "Atleast I know I wasn't a fisherman in the past", I said.

  The smell of this swamp was killing me, after I failed to catch food, I decided to use a small boat to go past it.

  As I go forward the stink is stronger and the trees grow taller, I have the sensation that something is looking at me.

  Maybe I am paranoid.

  The trees are gorgeous, they look like a wring out wet cloth and every single one of them has multiple holes in it, there are traces of many animals living inside of them,

  At that moment, I heard a sound. I immediately turned around and saw a silhouette behind me swimming quickly toward me.

  I started rowing faster and faster, but the creature was too fast to escape. I didn't know how strong it was, I couldn't engage in combat.

  As the creature was almost biting my boat I heard a loud sharp sound in the distance, followed by words that I couldn't understand. The creature froze in place and went immediately into hiding.

  " I don't know if I should feel relieved or scared of that sound, but it saved me". I said with a heavy breath.

  The problem is that I don't know anything about this place, I need more information and that sharp sound looks like a good idea to me...

  After finally getting off the boat, I sneaked toward the sound, and what I saw shocked me.

  I saw a purple humanoid with four arms, 2 long black horns, and long black and purple hair, from the robes he looked like a monk, being carried in a cubic cage made of vines by four humanoid trees plus another two that followed them as guards, they look exactly like the trees in the swamp, their bodies are twisted on themselves. The waist is very thin, like an arm, the chest is open and inside it, there is a light-blue light and the head is only a small light-blue orb connected to the back by a small vine.

  The person in the cage has a sort of wooden mask connected to the cage that blocks his nose and mouth.

  As I was scouting the situation my head started to explode.

  "SAVE, SAVE, SAVE", The pain was so strong that I started to scream and the tree people noticed me.

  "Fuck, why now, shut up, shut the fuck up", I rapidly grabbed my gun and missed the shot.

  "SAVE, SAVE- Shut up I can't concentrate if you scream like that" I screamed to the voice and it stopped.

  The trees were very confused, but they started to attack me.

  "At least they don't have any weapons", I stupidly said.

  The arms of the two guards grew bigger and tried to grab me, I swiftly used a tree as a cover to block the arms, but at that moment, a hole appeared in the tree, as if it wanted to make them grab me.

  They both succeeded in restraining me, I aggressively tried to free myself from the grab, but I was not strong enough,

  "You fucking trees let me go or I will burn every last one of you" I screamed to them.

  One of the two guards started laughing,

  "I want to see you try doing it," said one of the trees,

  "Wait you can talk? you don't even have a mouth", I said shocked

  " Look closer abomination, so you shall see me," the guard said while laughing.

  As they brought me closer, the small light-blue orb opened and I could see a little pink worm with two eyes inside it.

  "You call me an abomination? I am a human, look at yourself, you look like a rotten sausage with eyes", as they heard me one of the guards didn't look very happy.

  I should learn to shut up.

  "You human?", the other guard started laughing.

  "Well I wish to see your smile fade when we are going to sacrifice you to our God," said the laughing guard.

  "Guys bring him in the cage, make him sleep too, we have an additional gift for our God we are really lucky today".

  I have to find a way to escape or I will die, I dropped my gun earlier while they grappled me, I failed, again...

  "FAILURE, FAILURE, FAILURE".

  "PROTECT, PROTECT, PROTECT".

  "STOP, SHUT UP SHUT UP, MY HEAD IS GONNA EXPLODE", I started screaming uncontrollably.

  The guards were confused about my behavior, "Does our god accept schizophrenic freak as sacrifice sir Wimble?"

  "No, if the sacrifice is sick our god will be furious, it's better to kill him right now, sir Womble let's squeeze him"

  The trees started to squeeze as hard as they could, I felt my body being crushed every instance, but I couldn't do anything.

  "FAILURE, FAILURE, FAILURE",

  my head was going crazy, until I said, "If you want to call me a failure so much then why don't you do it?"

  At that same moment, my mind was silent.

  Peace at last.

  Or so I thought, my vision became all brown and all I could see were bubbles, I couldn't understand what was going on, small treads appeared from my hands and two brown wooden arms appeared behind me.

  "THEN, I, WILL", I passed out.

  When I woke up, I had a huge headache, all the humanoid trees were dismembered by a thin weapon.

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  "What the fuck happened" I screamed.

  "I, DID, IT", the pain wasn't as big as before.

  "What the hell are you", have I gone mad?

  "YOU, NOT, MAD," the entity said.

  "You can even read my mind? leave me alone"

  "WE, ARE, ONE"

  "YOU, WANTED, ME"

  Since you can read my mind I will talk in my mind from now on, can you explain to me who I am and why you are in my head?

  "I, WILL, NOT"

  Why not?

  "SECRET, SECRET, SECRET"

  Ah obviously, aren't you a little bastard?

  Atleast tell me this, can you possess my body whenever you want?

  The voice remained silent.

  Ah, now you aren't talkative anymore eh, did you do it because I asked you?

  " GREAT, SKILL, ISSUES,"

  "What did you just say!?"

  "Skill issues? I really would like to see how you would react if your fucking cover were to open itself like the legs of your mother if you even have one"

  "MY, MOM, DEAD"

  Oh my god sorry, I didn't know it, I get angry easily if someone starts to tease me, you were a real help, thank you, I am really ashamed.

  "I, WAS, JOKING"

  You are joking right, I have to kill you eh, you really wanna make me mad, however, I am a mature person so I will forgive you.

  "GREAT, SKILL, ISSUES"

  Mm.... yes I have to kill you.

  At that moment our argument was concluded by voice.

  "Where am I", we heard it coming from the cage, it was the monk.

  "SAVE, SAVE"- yes yes I get it.

  "Are you ok man, the tree tried to kidnap you to sacrifice you to their god or something", the monk looked very young, I think he is in his 20s'.

  "These fucking worm trees beat me, FUCK, I only killed 6 of them". The monk said.

  "Oh sorry where are my manners, my name is Addub thank you for saving me", he came closer and shook my hand.

  "Unfortunately I don't remember my name so I can't tell you, I woke up a few hours ago", I replied.

  As he came closer he started to inspect me and the surroundings, " There are a lot of people that lose their memories here, it' s the trees' fault, they can hypnotize people using their light-blue miasma, they made me sleep with it, I thought I could have resisted it, but I failed, anyway thank you, brother".

  As soon as I heard the word brother, I started to cry, I don't know why, but I couldn't stop myself from doing it.

  "Are you alright brother", he asked me worried

  " Yes yes, sorry, but why do you call me brother"

  " I call brother, every person I can trust, it 's just a habit", he started laughing.

  "Don't call me brother, I'm not" I seriously replied

  "Sorry did mean to make you remember something bad" Addub seemed to have understood something, he is sharp.

  "Anyways, you saved, so you have my thanks savior, but I have a request"

  "Tell me Addub"

  "Would you like to come with me to free the sacrifice and kill the tree bastards? you look strong"

  "GO, GO, GO",

  It seems I don't have much of a choice, but maybe if I do what this entity wants, I could discover something more about myself,

  I am sure this time he won't bother me in combat, but I don't want to be possessed again, not knowing what someone else will do with my body is frightening.

  "Saviour, are you okay?"

  "Yes, yes I am just thinking"

  "Ah, okay, I was afraid you were sad for what I said earlier"

  He looks like a nice guy, but you can never know, still being alone is boring and I won't call this entity good company.

  "I, CAN, HEAR"

  I know, I know, a little bit of privacy please, thank you.

  "..., ..., ok"

  Good lower your voice, thanks,

  My stomach started growling, in all this chaos I forgot I had to find something to eat.

  "Saviour you seem hungry, why don't you let me cook the Tryse, I can't say I am the best, but I am proud of my cooking skills"

  So that's what they are called, the person who named them didn't have a lot of imagination.

  While Addub was preparing the food, I retrieved the lantern and the pistol, luckily nothing broke, and then I observed Addub's cooking skill, he wasn't using fire, he was just cutting the trees with a small knife to eliminate all the miasma residues.

  "Saviour, grab me some water please" I hope he doesn't want to drink it.

  I brought him some water with the package that I obtained in the fisherman's hut then a purple energy surrounded him and he boiled the water with it to make it drinkable,

  "First drink to you Saviour, as you can see I am very skillful" he smiled

  I saw this kind of technique, it looks like Cabala, but it isn't.

  "Well you are right, but what is this blue energy that you possess"

  "Right you don't remember anything, this is Ki, I am a monk of the Way of the Inner Demon, this is just using that every monk can do with basic Ki control, Ki is like Cabala, an inner energy that augments your sense and your physical prowess, it can be learned with constant training and discipline, and a little bit of talent,"

  "Seems cool, can I learn it?"

  "Well no, you see if you learn Cabala you can't use Ki, or the energies will collide with each other and you will explode, very simple"

  "I have Cabala? I don't even know what is it, do you know how I can remember to use it?

  " I am no Cabalist but if you want I will take you to one"

  "Thanks"

  "No worries you are my savior, and if I was taught something that is to repay gratitude"

  We started to eat and I asked a lot of questions to Addub, I was really lucky to meet him, Using the information that he gave me, it looked like we were in a giant swamp called The Great Swamp, I swear that the person who named the species and this place is very lazy, the Trys have a god called Kavi'j, the swamp is his domain, that's why my cover tree betrayed me, he is the god of Nightmares and has a habit of torturing his people.

  Addub told me that the monk of his way have to train in a giant tower, they need to subdue one demon and let him inside them to use their power while maintaining control over their action, but it seems that he doesn't want to share more about his story, I wIll respect his privacy, I can understand how not being able to be the only one in control can feel like.

  "I, RESPECT, PRIVACY"

  I am not so sure...

  We finished eating and were ready to depart, but Arusa stopped me.

  "You said you didn't remember anything at all so you don't remember about your Contrappasso?"

  "Eh?"

  "That's a huge problem, you should be careful, every time a person obtains a kind of power it will have the Contrappasso, a sort of side effect, for example, mine is to keep the demons at bay, and obviously the greater the power the greater the Contrappasso, so be careful if someone promises you some kind of power without something in return"

  "Thank you, I will be careful", this encounter was very fruitful.

  So maybe we have a common Contrappasso, he has to keep the demon at bay, while I have to keep this thing at bay.

  "MAYBE, MAYBE, MAYBE"

  You will never give me a straight answer, but I know that you helped me, so you don't want me to die, even if it is for your well-being and not mine, at least I know that if something goes bad you will help me.

  I hope I won't be possessed again.

  "Barus I won't let you out for a stroll no, do you think I am stupid, you try it every time", it seems Addub is talking with his inner demon

  ."Addub why are you talking loudly and not in your mind with the demon?" It seemed strange since I could do it with my entity.

  "I hope I will never arrive at that point, only two souls that are fused can talk with telepathy between themself, why do you ask?"

  "Ah no, just a curiosity of mine",

  Arusa gave me a suspicious look, I shouldn't have asked him about this, it's strange for a person like me with no memories to know about telepathy.

  But that made me think, hey entity what is your name?

  "secret, secret, secret" it lowered his voice.

  You will never answer me.

  "you, will, remember"

  "I, am, sure"

  "I, trust, you"

  Wait what do you mean

  "...,...,..."

  "Ok, I am ready to depart are you ready Saviour? It's Adventure Time"

  He is excited

  "I want to blast a ki bomb toward them"

  Maybe too excited.

  "I am coming, let's go, ah I was almost forgetting, you are a great chef"

  "Ahah you have seen nothing yet"

  As the two started their first adventure they still didn't t know that this was the start of a chain of events way bigger than what they could imagine.

  Will the no-name be able to recover his memories and with them his Contrappasso?

  Will he be able to discover the name of this unknown entity?

  Well, dear traveler if you want to find it out yourself, we will see each other here, I will be waiting for you, in the meantime remember, Fate cannot be changed what has to happen will happen, so eat healthy, sleep well, and always remember that the stars are watching.