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"The Journey to Shangri-La" The sun sank below the rundown apartment building silhouetting it in beautiful rays of light that shimmered over the city in beauty, even though there was little beauty to behold in the city of Detroit in the year 4200. The night arrived and the moon arose in the sky red as fire, it was night, night was when the evil awoke from the shadows to bring the chaos upon the sleepless city. Within the shadows lurked the dealers, killers, freaks, and hustlers, one being a man tall and lean, eyes blue as the ice covering his heart, they glimmered in the darkness of his alley way. his name was unknown, they only called him by his street name, Bones. He was an axe holding, blood spilling, drug dealing, murderer, but it’s not his fault in this time a century everyone was doing something illegal to make it through the day. Crime and violence rates are thought the roof and no one is even trying to stop it. The government, cops, bosses, authority in general was corrupt and avarice. no one could eat without fear of poison, no one could sleep with an locked door, no one could step outside without fear of a drive by, the world was in chaos and god was no where in sight. the angels cried, they cannot carry the tune of the heavens any more.

A man was walking down the street twitching in lust of what he was in need of, Bones stepped out of the shadows his trench coat blowing in the rising wind. The man approached and asked for the stuff holding out a track covered arm and a scabbed hand full of money, Bones snatched the money and threw the bag to his feet. The man leaped onto the bag and ran off. Bones stepped back into the shadows as an old rusty ice cream truck bumped, and coughed down the street playing its demonic tune, Mr. Sesame Seed, an old pill popper and Bones best costumer, yet greatest enemy. Mr. Sesame Seed opened his window in front of Bones ally way and called him over. Bones stood silently in the shadows rolling his eyes and throwing colorful little pills into a little baggie. Mr. Sesame Seed called again and Bones emerged from his alley faking a friendly smile. Bones waked over to the ice cream truck and the two talked for a few minutes before exchanging bags and looks. Bones inspected his baggie full of a substance he knew all too well, he looked at it for a few seconds until his look of relief and freedom turned into a look of disappointment. Mr. Sesame Seed had pocketed his wonderful array of rainbow colored happy pills when he noticed the disappointed look on Bones face. Mr. Sesames Seeds face went from a pleased dazed to an enraged face as red as the moon. Bones demanded to know why his bag was so shameful, they yelled to and fro as the streets cleared of all movement and sound, silence. Bones threw the bag in Mr. Sesame Seeds face and spat on his truck. he began to walk away when the door of the ice cream truck slammed and it's demonic tune drifted away in the echoes until all was silent. Bones whipped around to see Mr. Sesame Seed holding a gun, he was shaking, and he was staring dead at Bones. He had blacked out; he face went blank as his finger tensed...BANG!!! The noise shattered the silence and just as fast as it arrived it drifted and all that was herd in the darkness was the slamming of a door and the screech of wheels racing off. Bones face when blank, his eyes were wide and he lay there gasping for breath staring hopelessly into the sky. His adrenaline was pulsing, but then it faded and the pain arrived. His chest throbbed as if some one was ripping open it open and punching his heart. He closed his eyes and let his head fall back and his mouth dropped. His body tensed, then shuttered, then he felt nothing, no pain, no agony, just nothing. His body began to lift but not his skin and Bones but his soul, his very essence. He looked down at his pathetic body laying next to a garbage can, nobody cared, nobody looked they just passed by, but then there was nothing. Everything had stopped the wind started to gust and clouds swirled in the sky, then it finally appeared, the thing Bones had been waiting for his whole life, the one thing only seen when your journey of life ends...the wraith.

Its unseen face covered in a long blood red hooded cloak glided towards Bones soul with an out stretched hand. Bones felt doom upon him and his stomach turned but he also a sense of freedom filled his beat less heart. The crow perched on the wraiths shoulder had eyes as red as rubies that started straight into Bones very soul. Bones began to feel light as air as he rose from the ground, the wraith clutching his arm tightly. They rose and rose into the clouds and beyond until they reached the place of all places, a place the god would envy...Shangri-la. Bones stood in amazement. With tilt-a-whirls and marry-goes and carnivals of faygo. The tempest soared above the clouds then looped and twisted back down to the ground again. The tilt-a-whirl zoomed faster and faster round and round, shrieks of pure happiness filled the air. The marry-go round raising up and down and all around...it was heaven. Ninjas old and ninjas young, faces painted and faces not, riding rides and taking faygo showers, just living it up in the after life. Bone tried to move but he couldn't, he yelled to one of his homies from way back in the day, Tripps, but he just passed by ignoring Bones. he yelled again, no one even glanced, that’s when the wraith reached over and tapped Bones shoulder. Bones shuttered and doom consumed him, he looked over at the wraith, it shook its head and the crow flew away and a long horn grew in its place. The wraith turned away from Bones with a hung head, it pointed its arm at Bones and the dark carnival began to fade. Bones started to feel heavy, the clouds he was so high on dropped from below his feet and he began to plummet back down to earth and beyond. It started to get hot, really hot until Bones was consumed in flames. When the fire cleared Bones was in a very dark place, he saw nothing but shadows, and heard nothing but the shrieks and moans of all who have been damned. He could hear them screaming, he could feel them breathing down his neck, he spun around and his eyes widened as he stared right into the red eyes of the witch himself. There was an awkward silence then loud booming voice speaking in tongues unknown. Bones head throbbed as his memories passed before eyes. He saw his father drinking, his mother leaving, his brother dying, and all of his sins, his shameful sins. His heart swelled in pain, he fell to his knees grasping his head. The witch looked satisfied watching Bones moan in agony. The witch gave a little chuckle grinning in joy at his new play toy. Bones head throbbed, pulsing quickly at the memories, what had he done to deserve this? Bones looked up at the witch whose eyes burned a picture into is mind, a terrible picture, and a picture he hoped would never come true. The picture etched in his mind was that of a family, two young children standing at the side of a beautiful women with flowing brown hair and brilliant hazel eyes that melted his very heart, but they were crying as the tall man resembling Bones faded from behind the family, then all hell broke lose. The daughter got older and a thug whisked her away, the mother cried more and more. The son started dealing and ended his life the same way Bones had, the mother fell to her knees in sorrow. She grew old and the daughter never returned not even to her funeral. Tears swelled in his eyes and his mind exploded with thoughts. He began to feel funny, he felt people touching him on the chest, and he winced in pain...but why? He started to breathe easier and he felt light, he rose into the flames again, the earths light got closer and closer. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath; a butterfly gleamed in his mind fluttering into the light leading him out of the darkness. when he opened his eyes again he was lying in a warm white room covered in needles and tubes.

Bones was in a confused daze for a while after awaking. He had no idea where he was, what had happened, and more importantly why. He layed there for a moment trying to understand and gather what was happening. Bones managed to figure out that he was in a hospital but couldnt recall how he got there. When he tried to remember the events of hes night it felt like a hopeless blurr. He eventually started to sit up to leave the hospital but when he sat up in the bed he stopped, his face grew pale, and his eyes went blank.. he just say there frozen in the white room motionless.It was like he was in a trance. When he returned his memory was restored ! Almost like it can back on purpose or for some reason. Bones recalled it all very clearly almost clearer then it had happened. He remembered mr. seasame seed, the wraith, and the witch. He remembered shangri-la and hell. Bones mind raced insanely as he took everything in and tryed to understand and put it all together in a way that made sense. Then bones stopped. He stopped thinking. He was pale again. There was one thing left out of his recollection. Something he pefered to of have left out. The picture was returened to his mind. He shuddered then shook and screamed and violently threw himself around the bed in an attempt to conceal it once again. Bones surrendered after many attempts and realizing nothing could be done to block it out. Understanding but not accepting it Bones manically ripped out all the needles and tubes and stormed out of the hospital room. He was being called too but was to inane to care. He continued to make his was out. Everything changed as he walked down the street in a rage tearing up everything in his path. Like a hurricane leaving a trail of destruction. Something was happing that he couldnt understand. Bones was about to witness an Illusionary dream, It's just too bad it isent worth seeing. As he was walking the streets stared at as a freak show, less then human. For the first time he saw the was people glared at him like he was an ogre walking on streets paved with gold. Bones initial reaction was that If those of the ghetto are nothing more than carnival exhibits to the upper class, then let's give them the show they deserve to see and he collapsed in someones front yard to be veiwed as he traveled back back back into his own twisted disires. Then he began to reflect on his past as he sat in the yard as an exihbit for all to see feel and suffer as well. Horror tales of his childhood began swimming in his mind, meories of his sorry deadbead daddy passed out with an empty bottle of rum, lookink through empty cupboards in denial. Him and his little brother starving, hungry, and sick, getting skinnier and skinnier with no other choice then for milk and bread. Bones stood and started to make his way home. Bones was scared and confused. With alot on his mind, so ignoring was the best option, only it wasnt that simple. So he focused on making his way back home. Foucused on goig home to the criminals and crooks, home to the gangbangers shooting dirty looks. Bones Foucused on the richies that he walked passed and they dawgged on him and his neighborhood. His anger began to grow and grow for these richy types. He was very pround of his home, of detroit. Already distraught and aggrivated from everything that had just happened and these glares only made it worse. only he haddnt relized yet how hos sanity was soon going to be questioned...

Bones made it home and was laying in bed thinking. The picture of a happy family that he destroyed. Hes mind exploted with thoughts of his once happy past. bones saw what could've, and should've, and would've been real, if he hadnt jacked up the whole deal. You walk in and see two kids on the floor, They're playing nintendo, and he's got the high score, And sittin behind them in the chair was a husband and wife, they're hand in hand they looked so happy. Bones watched and saw how the kids were okey. His daughter's in college, top grade. Your son's a freaking doctor, fat pay! They had a family with kids, and it's all good! They even coach little league in the neighborhood! was this true? Have ya really seen the holy ghost? not even close... See, this is an illusion, it never came true all because of you! Then bones came back to reality and saw the truth. He saw a deadbeat husband whos love for the streets was greater then for his family. A husband who brought false hopes of honesty, committment, devotion, and love.

He faded... When he woke up to begin his day something was different. Walking out the house that morning the sky was red. The streets are crowded with the bodies. he had a different feeling, a wicked feeling. He sought revenge. he could feel the spirits with him, telling him what had to be done. the vocies showed him the way. Though he had just untill dawn befor his sanity returned he began his illousion of a day. Drinking coffee in the back of a diner listening to a couple chat. Hear the laughter in their breath, But the laughter quickly died....

This here is your fatal day You have lied, they have cried Now your life has been denied

Then he s had a revelation of why it had all happened. It was a message. It was a taste. Bones had seen both possible outcomes of his life. He was shown shangri-la to see what he could have and hell to see what he would have. he had to change his ways and bones set out to do just that.. Bones cleaned up his act, he stop with his violent ways and bad habbits. He a he also stopped pushing. Bones had seen the light, he saw the truth and wanted to spread the it to others. Bones began to preach about shangri-la and hell he told all about what he had seen. he began to show people the way of the dark carnival. then one day bones was confronted by hes old arch enemy mr seaseme seed. Mr seaseme seed had heard about bones and his new ways and was mad about it so when they confronted eachother mr sesame seed kept trying to fight and argue with bones but bones wasnt fighting back. he began to walk away and mr seaseme seed kept screaming and then everything went silent. Bones got shot the murder was heinous. The bullet went in his eyeball and out his anus. then bones woke up in a parking lot and looked around. He couldnet believe that it was possible he was dead,and he had made it to the carnival. Bones walk in, it's everything he dreamed of Everybody had clown luv! bones was Hanging out with redneck truck drivers. Instead of always giving each other a hard time. he saw an old homey that died in a drag Chillin with two other homies, "What up, Bones?" Bones looked around and thought how he had always been afraid to die, but now he's never goin back to wonder why...



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