Board :Tales of the People
Author :Archon Iyagi
Subject :"The blight of the Wicked Ghost" by XdeGeNeRaTeX
Date :7/9
The blight of the Wicked Ghost


 Ter.. . . ' `

No. I won't say her name. Thinking it pains my heart; our
past, our history, what we once were. I dare not even write
it, because if I do, then she is really gone. At least at
the present moment I can entertain the thought that she is
somewhere, alive and well, smiling and happy.. When I do,
somber days become less so... and even in this house, this
begotter of sin and malice, I am not so alone.

People hunt me down, attempting glory from their guild
masters, as if I'm some easy quest.. as if a sword through my
gut can truely vanquish me. They know not of pain beyond the
physical world, to have your soul wretched and forsaken...
<b>I will make them hurt.
<b>         I will make them never forget...
<b>                 And I will do it with a grin on my face.

They call me the Wicked Ghost, when they are the wicked ones.
Coming in my keep, seeking adventure and gold that does not
belong to them. How dare they be so ignorant. There is only
one way to truely release me from this world, to unhand my
grasp on this Buyan house. She is the key...

<b>                                ..~``.. -

Mahiko awoke with a start, his heart pounding furiously in
his chest. Perhaps he would be taken seriously, then! They
would revere him! He would be the one that finally sanctified the Haunted House, and leave his clumsy demeanor in the dust.
Grabbing his blade, he set off in the early morning toward
the creepy abode where he would finally make his reputation as
a legitimate warrior.

The air inside was stale and miserable, and a shiver crept
down his spine. He could walk out now, no one would have to
know about it.. He could handle being the laughing stalk of
the town.. not living up to his father's reputation...

With a sigh, he stepped forward despite his unsettling fear.
After all, it isn't courage unless you're afraid, at least
that was what his father used to say.

The zombies moved like they had nowhere to go; aimless, slow
and no will of their own. Mahiko decided it best to avoid any
unnecessary dangers and skipped the confrontation. He had
bigger fish to fry, or rather, bigger ghosts to... Well,
whatever you do to ghosts to make them go away.

The walk was long and arduous, and every ten steps or so
there would be a snare to evade. An array of voices traveled
in the air; whispers, moanings, screams. Each with an
inauspicious history behind it.

Mahiko stopped in dead tracks, and turned around in instinct.
It was a ghost, not white and transparent, but rather brown
and ambiguous. Angry and sad.

Almost stumbling over his own feet, Mahiko rushed forward and
pierced the spirit through it's heart, or rather, the place
where his heart would normally be. But the ghost didn't moan
in pain, it didn't let out it's final cry and disappear. It
floated toward Mahiko and hit him in the face, hard, and he
went flying across the room.

The doors shut suddenly. Locked. Mahiko had no way to run,
no means of escape. Putting his arms over his head in shelter,
he saw beside him, written in blood, a word, a name.

           "Tereesah.." Mahiko said aloud, in wonder and in
slight fear.

The ghost snapped around and had a look of horror and sadness
on his face. He opened his mouth and a tear rolled down his
cheek..

<b>         "My love.. Tereesah.."

And he was gone. Disappeared in thin air, an anti-climactic
ending to a broken man.

Mahiko was puzzled, confused, and completely ignorant to the
woman who had saved his life and salvaged the Wicked Ghost's.

-XdeGeNeRaTeX