sexta-feira, 15 de janeiro de 2010

D1512010

Part 1, at godmother's house
The beginning is pretty bleak. I remember a dark house. Well, the house itself wasn't dark, but it was night and the lights seemed to not be working properly. There was a weird stairway like those you see in horror movies. And there was a very young girl, perhaps at four years, or even younger. We were at the sofa in the tv room, I played with her a little. Teaching her how to play thumb war, although it was pretty hard for her.
The next moment my cousin appears, she gives me a handheld game, pretty cool. I play it while everyone else watch tv, I just remember the ending part of the game. There was a burning pool and a dragon after it, some enemy soldiers would appear, though they were really easy to beat using some kind of whirlwind move. It was a platform game, though the moving reminded me a lot of double dragon, with better graphics and... monsters. After passing through the pool, you found that there was another dragon, bigger than the first one, and they were near invincible. Enemies appeared at both sides of the screen, endlessly. I tried to beat the dragon but it simply wasn't supposed to be beaten, I remember at a point craving some kind of stake at it's chest and climbing it. A very violent and well done CGI. A black screen with white letters saying it was the end appeared and then the game was over, my cousin told me she found out how to end the game faster than I did.

Part 2, the scooter
Some kind of mecha game demo. I won a couple of battles, it was fun to customize my mecha, although there wasn't many pieces to use. I remember the last customization was some spikes at the foot of the robot that damaged nearby units. But it ended. It was some kind of club, but it was late at night by then, people were leaving. I found a friend near the entrance, she lent me her scooter, I had never driven a motorcycle, so I thought it was a bad idea, but she said I could use it, she trusted me. The scooter had only three gears, and no reverse gear. The rear part of the scooter where we would sit was independent of the other part, so we could turn around the way we wished, thus making the reverse gear unnecessary.
To change gears I would just step on a pedal and turn a thing that was like a vault lock, with 1, 2 and 3 print at it's side. It was pretty easy to use the scooter, even though I lack the balance to even use a damn bicycle. Sometimes we would shake a little but nothing too scary. When we really got to the road I started to see things from above. Like playing a game where I controlled the scooter through the street, avoiding the cars. Then at some point we hit a grass arena and the scooter simply was useless in there, I carried it my friend to the other side, afraid some gang would appear and rob us. But at the end nothing happened, and we used the scooter again, until we passed through her mother at the middle of the road, she said she hadn't allowed her daughter to use the scooter and was pretty pissed at her. My friend tried to talk to her mother but it was no use.

Part 3, the snake
I remember watching one of those channels that show the animal life. My uncle was watching it too, he seemed fascinated about snakes. I knew he kept two snakes enclosed at the back of his house. They weren't big and were pretty tame. We watched videos of snake eating deers and cows. I find these animals quite disturbing, yet cool.
I don't remember what happened but we were then near the places where the two snakes were kept. He was saying something about a giant snake. He show me a place behind the fence, where a huge snake lied. It was way bigger than the other two, in both length and height. At some point it got loose, devouring one of the smaller snakes. And then getting out of it's place. My uncle panicked. There was now a giant evil snake roaming through the house. For some reason, it moved really fast, despite it's size. I found my sister inside the house and we ran to the front door, we were hoping that my uncle would distract it and we would escape jumping through the gate. It was hard to fool the damn creature inside the house, we got out of the front door and it was still following us. We jumped at the gate, there were some bars where we could hold and scale. But the thing was already near us, my sister ran away inside the house, my uncle was calling her, he said he had found his gun. The snake went after her, I took this chance to climb as fast as I could. Some bars wouldn't stand my weight and break but I was almost at the top. It was one damn big gate. Almost escaping I look back, the snake was there, near me, in a vertical position and still raising, like it was climbing an invisible wall. I found myself in despair, trying to reach to the top frantically as it rose for me.

Part 4, the theater
We were at a theater. I say we because I wasn't alone, although I didn't know anyone in there. It was pretty dark, the room was more like a movie theater room though. At the stage there was only a kind of altar. There were some women serving the public, like flight attendants, serving food and things like that. I had a dvd box in my hand. A horror movie, The Devil's Stage. I was in a chair positioned more to the right of the theater, at a row in the center. It was pretty much a default situation, once you got used to the bad lighting and strange stage and... food service.
At this part my memories fail me. I remember an ugly-looking smiley creature at the back part of my dvd box. And strange explosions or smokes appearing at the side walls of the rooms. And small things resembling the zuni fetish doll grabbing people and dragging them to the wall where they disappeared in holes. I stood most of the time just sitting at my place. Watching the chaos unfold around me. People in panic screaming at the theater service girls, and they really didn't understand what was going on. When it ended they were bringing souvenirs to the public (the ones that were still there that is, since a small part of them were just dragged to nowhere). I felt something strange with those souvenirs. They were like the sketch of a fatty creature. Like the things from Critters, but all they had were bones. Like a sketch with bones instead of pencil drawings. And, a big mouth, full of sharp teeth.
There was a man in a chair way ahead, very close to the stage, I went there to talk with him. He also had a dvd box in his hand, and was pretty excited with it. I don't remember the name of his movie, all I know is that it had a deformed girl at the front of the box. That did not excite me as I hate the massive amount of movies about demonic or supernatural things that came around these years. But I remembered that I would have to pay the fine for keeping the movie for a more days than I was supposed to, and that was bad. I did some calculations in my head but they were all so weird, perhaps I had rented lots of movies instead of only one.
I knew they weren't simply souvenirs. So when they started jumping around and biting the ones holding their boxes, I was already moving. The ones that had not been delivered got out of their boxes, hunting preys. Once they got one, they would bite the flesh until the person was just a mess of blood and bones. Then they vanished.
I ran around, trying to stay from the bone critters. Once, I was going up the stairs and a punk dude with yellow parts in his hair came running to me, he was being followed by one of them. The thing changed it's target when it passed near me. I remember the adrenaline at that moment, the thing ran almost faster than me, jumping around biting the air. I took a shortcut, jumping over the chairs, and it bit someone else, taking the whole upper part of the head in it's mouth. I chose to stay there jumping over the chairs, seemed easier to run away. I was smiling, almost laughing, it felt so good, being so close to death amidst all chaos. At the end of this ''wave'', there were really fewer people left in the theater. This time there was a strange calm in the air lasting for long. I looked in my watch, 45 minutes had passed, I thought, there should be only 45 minutes left since in the box of the movie it stated it was 90 minutes long. But if that was only half of the whole thing, I felt afraid of what could come next.
It turned out that nothing happened in the next minutes, that seemed like hours. Some people even got to sleep. Though I know it was a very bad choice, how could they sleep? Food was now being served, again, though they had lesser crew by now. They were serving some kind of jelly, green and very slimy. I heard the noise coming from behind, seemed like someone had awaken and hit one of the girls, the big jelly plate fell and now lots of people were covered in the weird jelly. But that was no common jelly, I could see in my mind what was coming next, it would melt people, like acid. Eating their bodies slowly.
But there was nowhere to run, or at least that's what I had thought. At some point, two girls came to me, talking about running away, while everyone was asleep. There were some others running also, I accepted. We got up the steps, running the faster we could without making noise. We got to a corridor, giving access to outside the theater. But there were several fences and gates in our way, I opened two gates, they made a lot of noise but it seemed like no one had awaken. One of the girls said there was no problem since there was one jelly still stored, and since it could not attack anyone, the next ''wave'' would not come, and those already jellied would die as soon as they awoke. It was kind of weird now that I think about it but at the time it sounded like normal. The third gate was weird, although the door wouldn't open and we could climb and pass over it, passing under it was simple. When we got to the other side, the ones sleeping without any jelly came running, angry, scared. The brunette girl started to put some locks at the fence but they discovered they could just pass under it. We run to the exit door but it could not open. Then the other people called us to a door at the right, that gave access to... another theater room. It was just like the first one, just more dusty and filled with spider webs. Seemed like it had been abandoned for dozens of years. At the left there was a small altar with some goblets over it. When the angry ones reached the room they seemed to forget about anything they were thinking before, we kept looking at the room around us for a long time.
At some moment, the lights went out, but not leaving the room in complete darkness. The stage exploded. A blue explosion that didn't seem to burn what was around nor heat the air. Lots of gray and blue smoke floating around. A big figure appeared from the explosion, a face resembling a goat. Two huge horns over the head, looking right into us. It seemed to be kneeling, because then it got up and it was freaking huge. A towering goat man roaring ahead, we couldn't move. We just watched, ready to fall prey of whatever he did.
He did not speak, the only sound coming from his mouth were loud roars, and then, it vanished, like it had never existed. From every one of the four corners of the room, creatures appeared. The bone critters, the weird dolls, and jumping ball of slime. There wasn't anywhere we could run.
It was then that the people started to do the unexpected. Instead of running or getting something to use as weapons, they started to say farewell to each other. It was weird since we only knew each other for a few hours but it seemed like the right think to do. Say ''pleased to meet you'' to everyone at that room, we weren't much anyway. The rest was disappeared, eaten alive or melting. And it seemed to work, the creatures avoided us, they were afraid of us. The final blow was saying these things to my sister, who was near the goblets, praying perhaps. The door behind us opened, and we ran toward it. The big exit door this time was opened. We rushed outside, only to find ourselves in some kind of mall. People around us walking like it was the most normal thing to see people coming out of that door afraid to death. Sometimes the door would close and those who had not left would scream in panic but then it would open again. Like a bad prank. We walked out of mall, seemed a normal day outside the theater, I wonder what was that.

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