PROLOGUE: The wind blows.

-Hey, hey! Wh… Who are you?

Firelineron was not really expecting for the dark creature to look ar him.

-Say something! Please! Can… Can you speak?

The silence was too loud. Wouldn’t you be scared? You’d beg for a word.

But the dark cube was just looking. Standing. And looking. He looked like he could see Fire’s soul.

Finally, his jaws began to open. He was struggling to make a sound.

-I… Want you… To join me…

-What? What do you me-

-Let darkness… Consume you…

Fire couldn’t understand what he was trying to tell him. But… He started to see himself. Covered with spikes, dirty, with dusty, barely glowing eyes just staring at him.

-This will be you… In the true end.

-And this…

He took a little pause.

-This will be you if the path will be chosen wrong.

-GOD DAMN!

Fire’s vision was focused on the only hallucination. It was him, full of blood, with his face completely ripped.

-So… What is your choice?

Fire was standing silent, feeling nervous. There were only three things that he could hear:

His heart beating, the figure’s breath…

And the blowing wind.

Chapter 1: Not the right way.

Another day, another round of jumping over spikes.

-This is getting boring.

Firelineron completed his fourth level today, without wanting to go to the fifth one.

-OH! Almost forgot!

Fire jumped into the editor.

-I still have Forgotten Treasure left uncompleted!

Decoration is hard. There’s pretty much no ideas in his head.

-Umm… Which blocks to choose…

Color triggers, of course, were helpful, but he did not think of block design.

-OK, let’s just… Playtest.

Fire pressed the “Play” button. Everything was going well, until he found a blue orb, without a platform above. Or so, it seems offscreen?

-Aighty, nothing bad‘s gonna happen.

He clicked it.

There was no platform above. So he was just flying for a bit.

-Man, I gotta reset.

IT DIDN’T WORK.

-WHA?

He tried to press it again. IT DIDN’T WORK.

-No, NO, NO, NO! DAMN YOU-

Suddenly everything has gone dark. He felt like he was moving not by a mysterious force. He was… Free.

-What…

The place was filled with some kind of dark matter, with a few of light sources. He could see a big fountain of white liquid going up the sky. It was the main light for him. The area was covered with spiky peaks and moutains. Fire stumbled across some figures filled with shadows. He took a close look and realised… These were dead cubes.

-Where am I?

Chapter 2: The Unknown Place

After Firelineron looked around, he was left terrified. Although he wanted to discover the place he got in.

-Aw man, I’m scared to move… Even if I can.

Disgusted, he moved forward on the dark ground.

-OW!

The earth was full of sharp rocks.

-Gotta move carefully then…

Fire started his journey across the land. He was just seeing more and more dead bodies, hanging on giant spikes. He wasn’t trying to look closely at them, until he found a mountain on his way.

-Man, I’m gonna climb this thing.

He put his hands on one of the cubes.

-Wait. The body seems familiar…

He weeped off the dirt on the cube’s body.

-No. God. Damn. Way.

THEY WERE ALL HIS CORPSES.

-NO, NO! WHERE AM I? WHAT’S HAPPENING!?

Firelineron started panicking. He began to run.

Run,

run,

run,

run,

run,

run.

-WHERE AM I EVEN?! WHY AM I HE-

He began to see a dark, spiky figure.

But it wasn’t him.

-Who are you?

Suddenly, the wind started to blow.

Chapter 3: Shadow Pursuit

As soon as the breeze started, the figure disappeared. It teared out to squares.

-Welp. I’d guess it was fake.

Fire started to move on. He stopped his way at the crossroads, where one way was leading to an old tower, and the second path offered him a walk to the Beacon - the main light source.

-Oh, a tower I see? Alright. But how do I reach that? - he questioned, as there was no road to step on.

Meaning the only way was leading to the beacon.

He walked to it, curious how does it work. Firelineron also noticed he was full of dirt.

-And I guess I’ll… “Wash” my hands here.

He put his hands into the beacon. Fire did not feel any pain, and when he pulled his arms out, he not only noticed how clean they were, but they also had a white glow.

-What does this do?

He decided to check the path to the tower. He came closer to the edge of the mountain he was on, and started to see blocks fading in.

-I-I-I hope I ca-can w-walk on them… - he was wery ancious about that. He took a deep breath, and stepped on one of the blocks. It felt like a soft cloud under his body.

-Yay, I can walk!

He quickly got up the so-called-stairs and reached the tower. He didn’t notice at first, but the shadow figure was standing there too.

-You again? How did you get up here?

There was only silence. The figure started turning around slowly. And the wind was blowing again. This time, he did not disappear.

Chapter 4: The Standoff

Fire was not really sure if to talk to that guy or not. Anxiety was rising with the speed of light. Still, he wanted do say at least something. He took a deep breath…

-Hey, hey! Wh… Who are you?

Firelineron was not really expecting for the dark creature to look ar him.

-Say something! Please! Can… Can you speak?

The silence was too loud. Wouldn’t you be scared? You’d beg for a word.

But the dark cube was just looking. Standing. And looking. He looked like he could see Fire’s soul.

Finally, his jaws began to open. He was struggling to make a sound.

-I… Want you… To join me…

-What? What do you me-

-Let darkness… Consume you…

Fire couldn’t understand what he was trying to tell him. But… He started to see himself. Covered with spikes, dirty, with dusty, barely glowing eyes just staring at him.

-This will be you… In the true end.

-And this…

He took a little pause.

-This will be you if the path will be chosen wrong.

-GOD DAMN!

Fire’s vision was focused on the only hallucination. It was him, full of blood, with his face completely ripped.

-So… What is your choice?

Fire was standing silent, feeling nervous. There were only three things that he could hear:

His heart beating, the figure’s breath…

And the blowing wind.

-I… can’t really decide what to do now. But… What are the prevelegies for “joining your side?”

-Can’t you understand? We’ll conquer these wastelands together, we will be the ones who decide fates… Aren’t you excited?

-No! Why would I be in the same asshole you are?

-BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO FEEL THE SAME PAIN I DID!

-I was stuck here for 3 years. 3 years, Firelineron. How about I say you that? Shocked, I see. I don’t want to hurt you, but you’re not getting away out of here without any changes.

-So, what’s your choice?

They were standing face to face. Eyes to eyes. Mouths to mouths.

-No, NO, NO!

Firelineron started to run, but the shadow cube quickly stabbed him with his knives so he couldn’t move.

-OW, F**K!

-See? I didn’t want to hurt you, but you’ve made me do so. Now, calm down, and join me.

Fire started to feel sleepy, he couldn’t move. The last thing he saw was the creepy, crystal-white eye looking directly at him.

-Sleep…

He understood this was the end.

Chapter 5: Separated

The darkness was covering all of Firelineron’s body. He was feeling cold. He couldn’t escape, knowing he is trapped. He knew it was the end. But what he didn’t… Is that all the time he was down there. He flown into the darkness, without noticing that he himself appeared just right down. Fire couldn’t see it, but his clone could.

-Who is falling there? How?

He asked, without knowing anything. They were now separated forever simce then. They won’t ever meet.

Fire was trapped, so was his clone? No,

It’s all now left behind.

Leave Firelineron alone.

In his shadow world.

Where no one, except him, are wandering.

And if that happens, the traveller won’t escape. The horrors will haunt him, and soon or late, he’ll be consumed too.

Leave him alone.

It’s time to rest.

Save the warmth for him.