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I smiled in return but I didn’t really
know what to say to this little girl named Moony. I opened my mouth but closed
it within seconds not knowing what words I could muster out in response. The
little girl was simple; she wore a little pink dress and black shoes, long dark
brown hair passed her shoulders that was so dark it could have been mistaken to
be black. I couldn't be sure on how old she was but she was defiantly old
enough to understand self-independence and from what I could tell, she was
taking full advantage over it.
'My name is Ben.' She smiled even bigger
and looked as if she was getting exited.
'I am sure I have heard of you!' I was
shocked to hear such a thing; she made it sound as if I was some famous person
around this deserted place called a town.
'Oh? Is that so? Why do you say that?'
She sat in thought for a few seconds moving her lips trying to remember
whatever she was going to say.
'Ben Lamb, Ben Lamb, find your way to
cure them!' Moony sung in a peculiar tune.
'And how did you know my name Moony?' She
smiled and giggled to herself, then whispered it but I couldn’t quite hear her.
I knelt down to her level and motioned her to come a little closer; she did
without hesitation and then proceeded to cup her hands around my right ear and
whispered softly.
'She would be so proud of you. Seven,
sixteen, six—' I began to lean away from her as she was mid-sentence. Loosing
my balance I fell backwards to catch myself and stood up to look down at her. I
didn't understand how she knew my name or even how she knew of my dream that I
had god knows when. I looked down to see if she was going to respond in any
other way but she just stood looking up at me, expecting me to make the next
move.
'What is that supposed to mean?' She
shrugged and continued to look up at me. 'Who told you to say that Moony?'
'I made it up. Nobody told me to tell you
anything.' Moony responded.
'Who told you about that Moony?'
'It was my imaginary friend!' Moony
explained further. 'He comes to me every once and a while and tells me that she
would be proud! I want to make her proud Ben, don't you?'
‘Who is 'her'?' I asked.
'You're funny Ben!' Moony laughed. 'Well
if you really don't know her, then there are bigger things you need to figure
about first!' I contemplated what she could have been possibly have been
talking about but nothing I could think about made sense in one way or
another.
'Are you okay Moony? You are all alone.
Where are your parents?'
'What are you talking about? What are
parents?' I thought to myself, being astounded to the conditions to this little
child, there has to be a explanation to all this that was happening.
'Where are we Moony?' Moony looked at me
as if I was the stupidest man alive.
'I love this city, very much. I wouldn't
know where to go if anything happened to my home. I feel that the city's time
is coming soon though. People no longer take care of their houses, they don't
even eat!' Moony began to cry. 'Its as if the people here no longer have a
desire to live! They will no longer talk to me and they just slip through my
hands as if they were ghosts; Ben will you take care of me? I don't want to be
alone anymore.'
'Of course I will Moony but where are
we?' I asked again.
'Belle's Dawn, we live in Belle's Dawn.'
She paused for a second. 'There is something happening Ben, I can feel it.' I
looked around my shoulder and turned to look several directions to see if she
was talking about anything that she was seeing currently—I didn't see
anything. As I turned back to look at Moony, something was different. I looked
at her intensely as she looked up to me with her great confusion.
'What’s wrong?' She asked. Her great
smile disappeared and a worried look came across her brow.
'Who are you really Moony?' I asked. She
continued to stare directly into my eyes, I felt a great chill down my spine
and I kept thinking about what is going to happen. I have found myself in a
city named Belle's Dawn. The place is vacant and the people are ghosts, there
has been a murder with no witnesses other than me and there is a strange-cloaked
figure—maybe even two—who has taken someone’s life and attempted on mine. 'Do
you even know anything?' I asked Moony. She frowned and glared at me.
'YOU don't know anything Ben Lamb. You
are clueless and you may as well always be.' Her arms tensed up and the ball
between her body and her arm started to swell with the pressure she was
applying to it. 'You need to find a man, he will tell you of many things and
you will laugh at him in disbelief but it spreads like a disease. You will
believe what he tells you and it will tear at you from the inside out. You will
lie in your own blood Ben Lamb and you will realize that you are no longer a
man till you accept this life that you have found yourself in. You will look
for the cure Ben Lamb and if you ever do, that is when you will become a man
again and only then.' The ball popped from the pressure that Moony was applying
to it, my wits heightened and I jumped in surprise while Moony stood the same
like seconds before.
'So what’s going to happen next?' I asked
Moony.
'Whatever you want to happen but standing
there won’t give you any answers.' A loud screech echoed in the distance like a
siren of some kind. I looked up into the air to see if I could figure out the
direction in which it was coming, the fog thickened which turned the sky from
blue to a dark grey again. I looked back down to Moony and she was looking at
me just as she was before, like she didn't even notice anything. I opened my
mouth to say her name but no sound came out of my mouth as the screech grew
louder and louder. Before I knew it I was already laying on the ground in the
fetal position trying to block out the noise. I opened my eyes to see myself
looking at Moony's feet, I turned my neck just a little so I was able to look
up to Moony and she stood there looking down to me, like I was the child.
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