Limbo by 1mmanuel

The people who moved on the streets did not notice the irregulars and they didn't seem to care. As a child Ethan had always been afraid of ghosts but now he was watching them, they didn't do anything that caused harm to the living, again he saw a robot who had an halo floating over head like an angel, he was listening to a fairy who whispered in his ears, above Ethan saw a rainbow large and long, it twisted and formed like a road suddenly a large bullet train ran on the rainbow road.
"whoa!!" exclaimed Ethan, passerbys thought he was high on drugs.
"you seems to be enjoying yourself Mr McFred" said a voice behind him. Ethan froze he recognized the voice, it was the voice of his late highschool teacher Mr Harris. He turned and answered meekly "yes sir"
Nine years ago when Ethan was in highschool, he was not academically smart worst part he was always bullied. Mr Harris the new teacher noticed Ethan's toxic grades and took it upon himself to train him, he privately tutored Ethan till his grade surfaced. He was a patient and understanding man, it was not until four years back when he died in a bank robbery incident but now he was an irregular, what was keeping him in the living world?.
"you've grown into a man but I hope your brain grew up too" he laughed, Ethan was sure that if it were another teacher he would nag him for working in a diner despite his education."you must wonder why I'm still here instead of heaven... that was what I believed when I died, I thought I will wake up and find myself in heaven with God, dancing with the saints, singing with the angels but I got a greatest shock when I found myself on the spot where I died now as a black and white ghost."
"well maybe if you search around there might be a dimensional door leading to heaven" said Ethan.
"no, no irregulars cannot pass through limbos,we are stuck in the world were we die. It's been a long time since talked with a living human, no one can hear us, see us or touch us except through supernatural means. The ones I pity most are children who need love, they cry for their mothers who can't see or hear them. Very sad to die at that age."
People who saw Ethan talking to an invisible person thought he was crazy. "it's nice to see you again sir."
"McFred did you get that degree in medicine you always wanted?"
"no Mr Harris, I'm still working on it. I do part-time jobs at Arabian Bite to pay for my tuition at John Hopkins university, as a matter, I'm doing well actually well" lied Ethan, in reality he was a dropout who now worked full-time.
<liar stinky liar> said a voice in head. Ethan looked around to see it was,<you just wanna make a dead man proud.You're hopeless> the voice sounded like a whisper. <Ethan you're never gonna be bigger than this> the voice laughed.
Mr Harris eyes narrowed" you are followed by a shadowing"
"shadow... what?" Ethan's shadow began to move by itself
"shadowlings are spirits created from negative emotions like hate, fear, envy, anger, sadness, greed. When such emotions last for long they come to life and pretend to be shadows, sometimes they are responsible for the voices in our heads that discourage us"
<the bum's right asshole> the shadow said
"get it off me!" cried Ethan.
<since you were a kid you've been a damn coward> said the shadowling said.
Mr Harris retorted, "the only to shun that spirit is to belief in yourself". This was the last lesson of teacher to his student.

Warhawk:
Nyz one

Tnx a lot

"Limbo?" questioned Ethan
"yes limbo," Answered Mr Pine" it is an etymological meaning for world. Our world is like a tree, it has several branches which make up the limbos- mid-heim the human world is one of them. Mind you there are several other limbos "
"how many alternate worlds I mean limbos are there" he asked again
"there are several limbos, approximately thirteen- but there are lots and lots of sub-limbos. These worlds are partitioned by an invisible wall we call paralum"
"and these limbos are controlled by the Nebuchadnezzar computer" concluded Ethan.
The other gnome whose name was Kob Hobnoggle opened the door, and led the way. As they stepped out, they were outside on a street, a street Ethan knew very well...
"how did we get here? This is the street were I live..."
Kob adjusted his bow tie and contributed " that room is a sub-limbo, it was connected to Kingston Street, Brooklyn, Mid-heim. "
This was Ethan's first experience with the supernatural, a door leading to another world. "are there other doors like these" he asked .
"Of course human" Kob replied," there are in every limbo passages to sub-limbos but you must have the key to opening them"
"what of main limbos?"
" you will have to follow through the Railbow, by meeting the gatekeeper" answered Mr Pine " now consume this " he gave Ethan a large red candy with white stripes, it was bean shaped.
"what's this?" asked Ethan
"it magic bean, it helps one to sense spiritual presence.Now will you stop asking me stupid questions" said Pine and he turned to Kob conversing with him in a strange language that sounded like Russian.
Ethan consumed the bean shaped candy and his head began to spin hearing voices... his eyes became clear and he could see the other side of his world. Just as the street was full of humans so was it full of ghosts, roaming left and right. The ghosts resembled humans but they were black and white like old TV characters before the color TV came out. The ghosts talked with each other like normal humans.
"humans call them ghosts, but they are called irregulars. Souls that refuse to pass on to the afterlife, something in their limbo holds them" . said Kob
The irregulars were men, women, old,young, black, white, asian... people who had died but did not rest in peace. Sad.

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Ethan woke up feeling groggy like the other time... but today was different he was lying on the floor of a small room with old books and antique furniture, the room had a scent of sweet coffee and strawberry. He managed to stand up but as he tried to moved, he discovered that his feet were gummed to the floor, trying over and over again, he couldn't leave the spot.
"damn" Ethan cursed under his breathe "if I get that shorty, he's gonna be sorry":
" alas you are awake" said a voice as a door opened behind him. It was the dwarf, he was carry a plate of a sliced chocolate cake and a coffee. He was still dressed in his green checkered suit, this time he wore a pointy green hat like a cone .Something told Ethan that this man might be affiliated with magic.
"OK I'm awake, now get me out this enchantment I'm stuck!" demanded Ethan
The dwarf's face broke into a mischievous grin "I'm impressed Mr McFred you are a smart man, actually this is a spider-binding seal i used to restrict your movement". Ethan looked down at the spot where was standing, a spider web was drawn- this magic barrier was what held him.
" Who are you and what do you want from me, I'm a good guy you see" He couldn't believe he captured by a man of such size. The small man took a bite from the cake and stroked his beard walking around Ethan.
"I'll will answer your questions so that you will answer mine. He said in a businesslike manner . " First of all I am not a lowly human, my name is Mr Pine Higgleswogs and I am a gnome" He adjusted his pointy hat and continued "a notable dirwctor of the gnome bank mid-heim branch. With my professional skills I have overseen the activities of the bank for more than three hundred years to commendable degree. Second I don't need anything from you, due to my noble nature I was ordered by the decree of the thirteen kings to you and third you were innocent weeks ago until you touched the Armageddon" he ended
Ethan chuckled"you work in a bank? Aren't you supposed to be in garden with other garden gnomes "
"be polite boy, I can leave you embound on that spot for a century" warned Mr Pine
"the last time I checked poverty rate in America is getting high, but now I think the reason is because gnomes now work in banks". mocked Ethan
Mr Pine looked cross and replied" do not insult my race. We gnomes do not work in human money banks, we deal with golds and treasures of the different worlds. If not for us the human world will have no gold, no silver, no diamond or precious stones to mine" He dropped the cake and the coffee on a small table at the corner brought out an handkerchief to wipe his face, then brought out his large cigar and spat fire out his mouth unto it's tip and began to smoke.
A glowing blue butterfly fluttered into the room through the wall and whispered something into Mr Pine's ears and left again passing through the wall. It was a fairy. Mr Pine looked at Ethan and started...
"two weeks ago the Armageddon bat was stolen from our vault by who we believe to be Ratastok the king of squirrels, he passed it unto you believing that you are a descendant of the family of the thirteen heavenly king. Two weeks ago a rat-hole opened where you worked and you defeated the monsters that came out of it" he adjusted his specs "what amazes others and i is the strength you used to kill them, no human in mid-heim possess such, except if he may have the blood of one of Kings flowing in him"
Ethan began to sweat "look there old gnome, I had to do what I had to do. I couldn't allow costumers and innocent people die besides that lousy squirrel brought it to me" .The gnome whistled and the door opened another replica of Mr Pine walked, dwarfish, wearing a green suit and cone pointed hat walked in carrying the Armageddon.
"Welcome to another limbo Mr McFred" said Mr Pine Higgleswogs, he touched the spider-barrier seal and closed his eyes, the web drawing Ethan was standing on disappeared and Ethan was free.

The Dwarf
Two weeks after his meeting with ratastok, It was 9.00pm on Tuesday Ethan had closed from work and was waiting for the last train going the Brooklyn. Sitting on the bench at the station he noticed a dwarf next to him, he was dressed in an old fashioned green checkered suit, he wore a pair of round specks and a red beard just like Santa Clause. He hummed as he smoked a large cigar then blew out a perfect smoking ring, Ethan stared at him. He had noticed such a peculiar looking person before perhaps he was new around
The dwarf looked at Ethan and asked, "do you smoke boy?"
he shakes his head, "I'm sorry sir I don't smoke"
The drarf looked at him again "I must tell you this is quality stuff". He pointed at the cigar, " you can't find this anywhere in modern America "
"sure thing sir" Ethan agreed even though he never understood. He noticed the dwarf was with the copy of yesterday's newspaper whose headline read: VILLAGE VANISHES IN SOUTH AFRICA AS BLACK MOON APPEARS.
"strange things happen without our knowledge, agree my boy?" the dwarf started.
"sure thing, now we hear of alligators in sewers, serial killers as cab drivers and all those urban myths" Ethan replied.
The dwarf laughed and continued "I don't mean public cases on police files, I mean the impossible... magic" his eyes widened. "two weeks ago I heard of a case where a vortex opened at the basement of an unpopular diner and giant ants crawled out, but fortunately a young man wielding a magic bat slayed them all, the name of the diner is Arabian Bite"
Ethan wanted to open his mouth in awe... the incident between he, ratastok, and the giant ants happened two weeks ago, Arabian Bite was were he worked, and ratastok had wiped off everyone's memory with stardust... there was no way a total stranger would know.
"so who did it? was it Harry Potter?" he made a fake laugh.
The dwarf folded his newspaper and stood up, "it wasn't Harry Potter or any fictional character it was the doing of a man called Ethan McFred" He faced the shocked Ethan, his face looked serious and continued "now Mr Ethan McFred, this brings me to my first question, Who are you?"
" hhhooow did you know my name!?"a terrified Ethan asked
" I told you strange things happen, you shall permit me a subway train station is not
a not a right place for discussions" The dwarf looked out silver glittering powder, Ethan recognized it was stardust but before he could escape, it was blown into his face. Ethan was now deep asleep

Chapter 2:
<you are mine>
<bow to me!>
Orion suddenly woke up from his sleep, he had heard a voice in his head and his body was not covered in black stuff... it was all a nightmare. It was morning and Orion got ready for work, he noticed that traders and the buyers were in a restive mood and they gathered together in groups discussing. Orion came closer to one of the groups and overhead their discussion... a star command ship was in Ganymede,
"cool!" he exclaimed as he discarded his plans for the day to see the ship which was parked at the end of the space station. The Star Command ship was very large and silver in color, it looked flat with very wide wing spans. On the spaceship was the logo: a golden sun with a pair of wings and seven gold stars around it. The star troops marched out of the ship dressed in their fitted blue and silver military space suit carrying an optic blast gun each, they looked admirable and ready to protect. A silver plated robot came out slow and began to scan the environment- everyone who gathered at the scene watched with awe.
The robot who scanned the environment began to make a beeping sound, the commander of the troop and his vise rushed to the robot who suddenly began to move among the crowd as if it was searching for something, the troop readied their weapons and people began to murmur amongst themselves, could there be a very dangerous criminal in Ganymede? The robot suddenly stopped and faced no other than Orion...
"LIFEFORM 900.56 DETECTED, SECTOR ASSISTANCE NEEDED IMMEDIATELY" the robot said in it's feminine voice, Orion who was shocked didn't understand jack of what it was saying but he knew trouble was coming. "Restrain him!!" the commander ordered and the troop rushed to get their target.
"Hey what's going on I'm innocent I'm not a pirate!, I can show you my ID. Please leave me!" he pleaded but troopers sent to get him only attached a metal collar to his neck and dragged him to the ship, he didn't know what the robot saw but he knew he was arrested for a crime he knew nothing of.
As he was being carried into the ship, a speedy bullet from nowhere landed at the heart of the vice commander killing instantly. Everyone one panicked at an instance and the troopers went around looking for the culprit. No one could have known, a tiny dynamite had been strapped on Orion and before anyone could discover it... it had exploded.
In the screams and pandemonium a sinister looking large man carried Orion's body among the pile of dead troopers.
"today is your lucky day" the man said to the unconscious body of Orion and left.

summary: Orion a young man who aspires to join the Star Command one day gets infected by an alien symbiot. He joins a notorious space pirate known as Sunny Rogers as they sail through the galaxy and beyond...
Chapter 1:
Garbage ship 3X-00D sailed slowly though outer space, it was very large spacecraft which carried and disposed every waste and junk on galaxy D on a waste disposal planet which was yet unnamed. This planet was unhabitable because it was covered in thick clouds of acidic gasses called korodium, this acid could turn anything except iron to dust.The garbage ship moved atop of the planet,it was cuboid in shape and rusty in colour, it had six garbage chute underneath but was very strong. The garbage chutes opened and every trash from the galaxy landed into the acidic planet, those which could not stand the acid turned into dust while the metal junks began to rust.
After the ship left a person in a metal space suit arose from the scraps and began to pick whatever useful scrap he could find, after collecting his fill he also left the planet on a jetpack.
Ganymede station is a space station which turned into a hub city where space ships came to dock and came for repairs, it was also a central black market where used spare parts of spaceships and robots were sold . Ganymede had the shape of a very large crescent moon, from afar one could think it was a white crescent moon but wrong it was the most busiest market on the galaxy. Orion sulked at a corner after a client had refused to buy his scraps due to the facts that they were rusty and outdated, no one considered his risk of going to an acid filled planet to find junk, he counted his savings #20,000, which was not enough for him to enter to the star command military academy, Orion moved into Ganymede station as a litre boy after the only member of his family his sister died. He worked as a porter, a janitor now his latest job was that of a scavenger who went to the waste disposal planet to hunt hunks and sell after the garbage ship had offloaded the trash, all his life Orion had always wanted to join the Star Command - the strongest military force in the seven galaxies. After he had made enough money in Ganymede he had planned to enrolled himself as in the military academy and become a fine star commander someday- this was his dream.
Orion checked the unsold junks and sighed. Life was not easy. He noticed a metal jar which he had not sold, out of a curious mind he opened the jar and a black liquid flowed out. It was flatter than a shadow and it had bright yellow markings on its body, the mysterious liquid flowed or rather moved like it knew where it was going, it began to spread about suddenly it stopped and gathered itself together and became still... "could it be acid?" Orion asked himself, then with a quirk of bravery he came forward and touched it ... as his finger came in contact with the substance it attached to his body and began to spread around him. Orion's vision began to blur as the liquid began to form like nano bots as it quickly spread around his skin, soon his whole was covered in the black substance with bright yellow markings. He screamed in pain and fainted. This was no acid attack but one of the unknown terrors from outer space.

You will agree with me that our world is programmed by a supreme force, a divine persona. Every race, every nation, every tribe, every religion, everything alive or dead recognizes the invisible dominance of this supreme being. Some call it God, Allah, Zeus, Odin, Horus, Krishna, Buddha, Horus, Baal etc. But in reality this supreme force is no other than a supercomputer playing god.
Before the beginning of time, this supercomputer had existed, controlling the process of life, death, and rebirth endlessly- like a god it was omniscient knowing everything, every strand of hair, every moment. It controlled reality with its supreme operating system running the program of life, death and rebirth.
Thought it's powers spread through doors of space and time, it's location is unknown but it is called the Nebuchadnezzar

Limbo
"We have gone beyond the clouds, above the moon, farther than the stars. We have sailed the galaxies and the wind that goes with it... but we have found not the truth which lies below our ignorance..."

Chapter 1: The girl from another limbo
December 13th 1942...
Sam Walkings lit his smoking pipe as came out of his cabin for some evening air, it would be surprising how a man this old could find inner peace in a wartorn Britain unlike others who feared the rise of the Nazis and the Axis powers recent invasion of Europe . He took a deep puff and coughed, he was too young for smoking tobacco, suddenly someone touched his back, who would it be? he thought, he put put hand slowly in his pocket bringing out a dagger then he swiftly turned back, lo and behold it was a young girl she was beautiful though she had a pale skin and an unusual eye colour, the most surprising thing about her was her hair, it was blue. She was dressed in rags, from her face it was evident that she was crying. "did you know that you scared the bloody hell out of me?" Sam said, the only stared at him shivering, then Sam asked again "who are you girl, and what's your agenda this is a military zone!" but still she kept quiet, Sam would have guessed if this girl had escaped from a Nazi death camp but this was Britain where all men are equal or maybe she is a spy.
"Follow me" He told the girl as he entered his cabin, he couldn't stand to leave a young girl out in the cold night. He checked the empty pantry for some food, luckily he found an old bread, a sour cheese and some milk, he gave a a set of old clothes. As he came to the room he stopped in awe as he saw her wonderful body, hour glass shape with a nice bosom and wonderfully formed ass, this time her hair was orange! she blushed as Sam stared at her naked self. "my name is Venus" she said still blushing,
"what where you doing all alone in a military zone?
" I was lost"
"where do you come from?" Sam asked again
" from another limbo" she replied
Sam noticed the change in her hair color and concluded that she was a circus freak, since the World war II started Sam had not had a good sex meal to satisfy his libido, his work as a commander gave his privileges to taste bare chested harlots who were dry, but this mysterious girl could change that...
Later that night Sam and the mysterious girl had a "good time" he watched as her hair turned purple, Venus who had used her vixen charms to hold the poor man sprinkled a glowing sweet smelling powdery substance into his eyes and whispered into his ears "sleep my lowly human child"
Sam felt dizzy, the last thing he saw was a smile from Venus' beautiful face, then he slumped into deep sleep.
Waking up he discovered that he was captured by soldiers not Nazis, not humans but creatures dressed in military uniforms and gas masks, what gave them up was their language which was not of human origin and their turtle shell backs. They carried the terrified human with them as they marched into a swamp, Sam could not remember Venus but he remembered the tales old people told them as children about mystical creatures who existed in alternate worlds known as limbos.

Worlds beyond the land of men:
The envious of will say, the ignorant will listen and the foolish will believe- that there is no magic... there are worlds beyond human reasoning that without cautions one may run mad.
Ethan woke up feeling groggy after the fight with the monsters and he felt worse thinking about the giant ants, giant squirrel, magic weapon...
"heave o human lest your pain heals" said Ratastok from behind.
Ethan almost jumped but his aching head, what was the squirrel doing in room? Ratastok blinked "you were unconscious for three days and night. After you slayed the killer ants you passed out and was brought here by your human companions but since then a beautiful damsel had been coming to tend you" Ethan smiled he knew it was Jane.
"Okay Squirrel King what's all these about? first you visit me and I was attacked by ants..."
"hold these" Ratastok said, holding a gold coloured baseball bat, on it was inscribed the word ARMAGEDDON,Ethan held it and behold it electrocuted him "ouch!" he cried.
"that is the Armageddon, a magic rod that summons lightning but recently it was moulded into a bat"
"so what gives!" cried Ethan still feeling the pain. Ratastok continued, "to know the secrets of these world you must learn it's stimuli. Have you wonderd, what brings rain?, what summons sunshine? are there other worlds apart from that of humans? what controls reality? It's the Nebuchadnezzar.
" huh? "
Ratastok sat down on his hind legs and continued " the Nebuchadnezzar system is a magic super computer that controls the reality, everything about the world, about everyone is recorded in its memory system- it has controls the passage among worlds- it's a powerful life force "
Gone were the days when Ethan believed in cartoons so a blank look came upon his face "how can you say the world is run by super computer? so tell me where is it?"
"in the financial distrius, were all issues of the world are handled. The world is divided in different realms and places, interconnected by Nebuchadnezzar through a wall called a parallum, the only way to cross to another world is through the parallum"
"so how does these affect my life? asked Ethan who was already feeling bored
" o it does human, you have to understand the secrets of reality. We have worlds like Land of water, Land of Fire, Land of Giants, Land of endless night, and many others" suddenly Ratastok caught a scent of someone coming into the room. Jane entered into the room witnessing a meeting between her boyfriend and a giant squirrel , as she was about to scream Ratastok ran to her blowing a glittering silver like powder to her face, she suddenly fell asleep.
"what did you do to Jane?!!" cried Ethan
"heave o I only used stardust on your damsel. it is used to erase memories" assured the squirrel King
"so when she wakes up she won't remember seeing both of us, right?"
"assured" Ratastok climbed the window and concluded " I must depart now, remember my words"
"wait you've not told me anything about my past"
"it is one duty to discover himself" Ratastok said pointing his paw to the Armageddon which he left behind, "remember night is black and full of darkness" he left
Ethan looked at the sleeping Jane and smiled... she was beautiful.



"

Land of Endless Night:
In a world beyond human reasoning- in a realm so dark, just like outer space it was full of purple stars floating around- in this land of pitch blackness there was no solid ground only a dark purple moon floating at the middle.
On moon stood a skeleton clad in a black business suit, it checked it's gold watch and adjusted it's tie waiting for someone or something to come. Of a sudden a shadow crawled on the moon like a snake to the skeleton.
"manager" said the shadow in a whispering voice
The skeleton stared down at his visitor and said in a clean, refined british accent "hallo, my dear shadowling, I see you've come to me with feedback- go on speak"
"the flaming sword Armageddon has been stolen and has been given to a human named Ethan McFred" said the shadowling
Unlike most villains that would go in a rampage from hearing such news, the Manager kept his cool though it was hard to mood from his skull face.
"I see... nothing interesting like that has happened in a long time. Has this human man damaged anything with it ? claimed life?"
"yeah a bunch of killer ants" answered the shadowling
the Manager nodded" impressive, but the Armageddon an obsolete threat... the human may end his life if he doesn't handle the sword properly " he stopped and continued " I see our experiments are in good progress "
"yes Manager three villages have been consumed from the map of reality, soon we will be victorious"
"yes three villages, that's why i called it GOOD not BETTER" said the Manager. "from my experience with creating chaos I discovered that it's not how long it takes but how well the work is done. When my Choas Moon project is complete It will break into the Financial District and erase the Nebuchadnezzar system... more ratholes will crack open and we'll pop champagne listening to classical music"
the shadowling shuddered and said in it's whispering voice "very good manager soon that stupid computer will be gone and we shall be free"
The Manager laughed "see it that way shadowling, gather your kind where hence they hide, let us get ready for a time of eternal darkness"
"aye Manager" responded the shadowling as it crept away from the purple moon. The meeting in the land of endless night ended. And the Manager it's lord set for his next plan.