5 - Great Regret (Patreon)

The silence was slowly dissappearing with each step of the animals walking on the hallways of the eternal pain and forsaken.
However, a strange echo of drip can be ear on the distance. The walls started to feel humed.
Slade touched the walls, he noticed was blood. - "What is this place?" - Asked Slade. And the shadow responded: "This, is the corruption. We are starting to enter on a zone is only for those lost on their lies, obsessions and fails".
- "That is the zone we are looking for". - Said Cheshire. - "And I think I know who is the first... friend".
- The shadow stopped next to a door. The lock was dropping blood. Everybody watched with fear what that door contained. Slade put the key on the lock, and it screech like something wet and soft was slowly crushing. Mune and the orange cat were together closing the eyes trying to do not watch.
Finally, Slade could open the door. He removed the key and with it comes parts of meat, blood and nerves.
- "Jeez, I suppose our quest finally ends here, right?" - Said Slade watching Cheshire, who was so happy the door was finally open.
- "No". - Cheshire replied. - "This is were everythig begin".

Opening the door there was a terrible scene: a goat trapped on meat, nerves, blood on a huge and endless room. Everything was inmense, as a giant organism alived.

- "Oh, I know who you are". - Said Cheshire with grim voice. - "Djali, what have you done? how did you ended here?"
- "Hi... hi everybody". - Said Djali with nervious voice. - "I... I am here because... I can´t remember".

Cheshire nodded in silence. Then he started to touch one of the arms of the organism but this trapped with streght Djali, and he screamed on pain. Cheshire stop to touch the tentacle and the pain vanished.

- "This is where your job begin blue guy". - Said Cheshire watching Mune, who was in shock. - "Come, I need your support".

Then Mune approached with careful, because his hooves are slippery with the floor full of blood and things are moving constantly.

-"What should I do?" - Asked Mune. - "Pay attention". - Responded Cheshire.

Then the sinister cat touched the right shoulder of Djali and with a deep look on his eyes he says: - "abandon yourself. Abandon your memories. Abandon everything is hurting you".

- "I can´t, I don´t know how".- Djali said entering in panic.
- "Don´t try to resist"- Cheshire continued watching him as he is trying to enter on his eyes.
- "I am telling you the true... I don´t know how!" -  The tentacles started to pushing him to the darkness of the room.
- "Please stop, this is not working!" - Mune yelled.
- "He is not speaking". - Cheshire replied. - "Djali is not answering, is that thing who is controlling him".
- "We should cut the tentacles". - Slade intervened taking out his knife.
- "If the thing is hurt, Djali probably will be lost forever". - Responded Cheshire.
- "I have an idea!" - Said Mune. He opened his hands and with the few hope left a small blue dust traveled slowly to Djali. Suddenly his eyes turned blue. He looked more relaxed, and the tentacles stopped to squeezing him.
- "You never desist to amaze me". - Said Cheshire giving a big smile to Mune.

Djali looked tired. And one more time watched the smiling cat. Struggling for keep his eyes on him.

- "Let´s try again". - Cheshire speaked with a soft voice. - "What about a trade? change the tentacles for something you wish".

Djali almost crying he says what he wished:

- "I want remember him, I forgot his name, his love... help me to remember him".

Cheshire looked to Mune and he nodded. More blue dust and particles traveled on the room; Djali started to dream...