1 A Desirable Deal

ln an unknown place where time and space seem to be disordered and there seem to be people standing in the middle of a...

"This looks like a forest but, why does it give me the shivers? I don't understand stand what is happening; This shouldn't be possible but, I should be in a dream anyway so this is probably a nightmare where I am in control of, you know, these dreams that you can move your body and all that shit."

This dream, or should I say nightmare, looks very realistic. It might just be a nightmare.

All of these were thoughts made by a man in his 30s. He looks like any father figure that would make dad jokes. He processes some fat around his stomach and a mustache with the norm half-bald head

In front of the man, there was a cart. It was an average cart with four wheels, but something felt menacing. Behind the cart, there was an old woman that appears to be in her sixties; There was a beautiful young girl who looked like she was in her early 20s.  

The old woman looked somewhat like a witch but more dangerous. She looked like a devil! She was short, with a wicked smile plastered across her face. It was very fitting for her ugly and disgusting face, and the feeling of her looking at you is the same as her eyes piercing your very soul.

On the other hand, the beautiful lady is so innocent yet so pretty. Her smile alone can let someone feel such exuberance. It's so charming that being smiled at feels like a curse, like your very soul and every fiber of your being is under her control.

The man was working in a theater, or more he is the owner, producer, and worker of the theater as his business doesn't make him enough money because his shows are always said to be bad even so he regards them as a masterpiece. His shows are always about happy endings and a hero against dragons and devils but people grew old from this idea, so the man seeing this started imagining a show where a hero makes a deal with the devil so he could sacrifice himself for the people. He thought "Surely this will make people go into my theater, it's going to be a banger, just you wait! When I wake up from this dream…

Such happy thoughts sadly did not continue.

"What did you sell her, miss?" Said the man while looking at the old woman.

"I will sell you anything, just at the right price can I give you everything you wish for." said the old woman with a croaky voice, similar to a hoarse and rusty voice.

"Really, man my imagination is something to whip up something like 'this' " Said the man half sarcastically and half-serious.

"We can sell you everything, don't worry mister." Said a beautiful voice, the beautiful voice came from the charming lady, with a smile across her face.

"Well I want to have a theater that I can use,  and write stories in it and, live in it for free and, be immortal so I can more stories and see where my theater will go. "Said the man thinking nothing of it as he thought it was a dream and nothing else"

"Sure thing. Since you didn't offer your price we will set it up for you." said the disgusting and ugly old woman with a smug-looking face that could make even the strongest metal shatter just by being close to her

In the following moments, the old woman rang a bill and a creature that looked like a plague doctor came up to the old woman. His body couldn't be described as it kept changing but with its plague mask still on its face.

The plague doctor was holding a lamp in his hands, it was a medieval lamp where there was a candle in the middle and surrounded by a glass box and metal corners.

When the light from the candle lamp shone it was yellow and weirdly enough everything around the old man was green and even the mist was of dark green, but the candle lamp was the only yellow thing he saw since he entered this weird dream.

The plague doctor saw the man and then looked behind him with a follow-me gesture.

 As soon as they were gestured to do so, they followed him.

After a long walk a building entered their vision, it appeared to be a medieval 2 story house it was kinda weird and it gave a lot of chills from its creepiness. [Editor's Note: ゴゴゴゴ]

"Here is the place you wished for." Spoke to the beautiful girl with a charming smile.

Upon entering the building the man couldn't see anything but an intimidating furnace and a counter. Behind that counter was a middle-aged man around the same age as the guy that entered "This ... dream"

"Why are you here old hag", the middle-aged man, who is in shape with a perfect body, his body had no flaws and he had perfect hair where his hair was smooth and shiny, his eyebrows were sharp like a dagger yet as elegant as a noble, his eyes were as dark as the abyss yet elegant as the moon itself this perfect man said this to the ugly woman.

"We have a customer, why would I visit you if not for this" Said the ugly old woman in a rusty hoarse voice

"Sure, what did he want to get, and did he give a price for his wish." Said the man behind the counter

"No, he didn't give off a price, and he wishes for a theater and immortality." said the woman with a hoarse and rusty voice

Silence appeared after the encounter between the old and ugly woman and the man behind the counter.

They sighed and then turned on the furnace.

The man that wished for this, began being concerned, "the dream should have stopped long ago this feels like it took hours I should have awakened by now, this feels weird, I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!!!" thought the man to himself

"uhh, I have to go guys, I have the stuff to do, you know. I still have to work in my theater so… bye!" the man said with anxiety and fear in his voice to the 4 people in front of him.

While the man tried getting out of the door, the plague doctor stopped him in his tracks, and the ugly woman laughed at him and said "Sir, where are you going? You still need to pay before getting your wish."

Before the man could say or do anything he blacked out.

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Upon waking up, he first got hit by pain, extreme pain, the pain was so unimaginable that the only way you can imagine it is the pain of all of your nervous system creating the highest possible pain for you.

"AHHHHH" The man shrieked. But to no avail, no one came for his aid. The man hoped that this is a nightmare and he would wake up soon but sadly he wasn't dreaming….

[EN: I have no prior info but I'm excited to see where this goes!]