Let the Gadabout's Travels Begin

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"I must have that doorknob at all costs!" I said this all to myself as I entered a random yet look-like door given from the Endless Hallway. Through this one, it was a quiet meadows upon some farmlands. I next closed the door which happens to be some abandoned barn of some sort. Farmer probably didn't do his job or didn't bother having offspring to continue on the family name.

I did not care for I proceeded to walk into the meadows still filled with anger. For some, these meadows would be calming to lower anyone's stress levels. But for me! I was still hellbent on finding that doorknob. 

What doorknob? is probably what you are asking. Why, it's not just any doorknob you can get any door or store to replace one. No, this doorknob is the key to reset everything from all the pain and suffering I have endured. 

This was the doorknob of conquest! A magical artifact created by a God who calls himself: The Rabinitron. Basically a gigantic space rabbit if you can believe it. 

Anyways, Rabinitron told me all about this unique item for he wants me to monitor the halls from any evil. Especially after telling me that my loved one, my firefly of guidance through the dark and lost, is dead. Gone without a trace! I didn't get to say goodbye to my sweetumbs. 

Puny God won't even tell me how she died nor even tell me where she was buried. Apparently, He thinks I would be distracted from my job and get lost myself into the abyss of never ending doors all in an endless hallway. If I had my firefly of guidance, maybe we won't have to worry about that at all, wouldn't we!?

I was so upset with the space rabbit that I left without any remorse. Who wouldn't be upset like I was after you find out that some entity of God decided you have to monitor the Endless Hallway while your loved one dies!? Everyone that's who! 

With the anger boiling by the minute, I continue on the meadows still figuring out how to get the doorknob of conquest. You see, it's not like it's a needle in a haystack. No, the doorknob resides in the grand Rabinitron Himself. So, it's either I continue this sway of being the Endless Hallway Monitor or take it from Him. 

Rabinitron did say I can use some help, but only he'll have to choose the ones from me to work with. I guess hiring a person just as myself didn't give Him any trustworthy leadership skills to begin with. Then, why even bother!? Wasn't there someone else you could have pulled from the get-go to be your original Hallway Monitor? Especially since you have to pick and choose others afterwards? No, you have to waste my time and even take me away from my true love.

My poor firefly...I wish...I wish I could have been there in your ending times. Or better, keep you from dying myself. No, from what the Rabinitron told me: "'You must not alternate the timelines like that, or else it would be catastrophic'...blah...blah...blah..." I've seen enough time travelling movies and read some in my life to know about it. But, my love didn't deserve that abandonment. I should have been there, just as she's always been there for me.

I can't recall how many times she has been my guidance. She was there when I was at my worst state of depression, the passing of my beloved grandmother, when I was let go from my job, to having my dreams crushed. Yet somehow, with all her light, including her positivity and optimism, she always shone me the path that I needed to go. She was my inspiration and now, now she's gone.

There can be only one way to get the doorknob and that's not me submitting to become an Endless Hallway Monitor, EHM for short. Absolutely not! Not after the shit Rabinitron had pulled on me. He must pay and know what it feels like to suffer just like I have. A God like Himself doesn't feel any pain for He is eternity. I must bring a stop to him, but how? How can one person such as myself ever defeat a lone God of the Endless Hallway?

Maybe, there is a way I can defeat him. But not just by my lonesome very self. No, I'll find others. Others who too have been through so much pain and suffering as much as I have. Ones who will do anything to take back where things were without someone, even an entity, to have a say in it. I know now what I must have to do.

I must gather up the ruthless, shady and diabolical individuals the Hallway has ever known! Villains who will stand for a chance to take back what's rightfully our's: freedom of this pain and to start anew. We'll make our new chapter and make the Endless Hallway to anyone's liking. 

The only thing that's in our way is the Rabinitron Himself. But surely, with the group of villains I attend to gather up and thyself, we shall face Him and defeat Him. Once and for all! No more pain, no more suffering. Just live life as it should be. Oh, there's going to be chaos alright but I'll keep the villains in check in order to achieve our ultimate goal: The Doorknob of Conquest.

Once we receive such a powerful item, it shall lead us to the door where we can place the doorknob to reset everything in motion. Hahaha, just thinking about it, gives me goosebumps. I can not wait any longer to set this motion into action so let's start off where it all began. I think a trip to that medieval fantasy world will be a perfect spot to get a certain, peculiar wizard of my needs. Sorry, our needs. I'm getting ahead of myself. Oh, this is ravishing. 

I next proceed back to which I came and shut the door behind me. As I entered the Endless Hallway, I automatically went to the door from which I remember when I came across it. Good thing, I have a good memory. My late grandmother and firefly even told me that my memory was like a brain of an elephant.

Now, let my Gadabout's Travels begin, shall we!?

September 20, 2024 23:23

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Brian D
18:34 Sep 21, 2024

I like the tone of the narrator in this story. Like they're not telling us everything. It makes the story intriguing.

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Sean Sorce
19:21 Sep 21, 2024

Thanks buddy. I'm glad you enjoyed it. This is the first chapter of my own Endgame Saga, spoke of speak. Looking forward to make more of these.

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