Zeeta

Zeeta

A short story - 1.3k 

There’s a part of the world not safe anymore, the reasons have been lost to time. She enters and is haunted by horrific nightmares of what happened there, then on the last night wakes up having discovered that the nightmares were more real than she’d bargained for. 

Why could she never change? Always too curious for her own good, paired with her unyielding stubbornness and you have a disaster waiting to happen. Especially on Zeeta.

Zeeta was her home planet. It was breathtakingly beautiful, with forests that stretched for miles, lakes and rivers running through even the most urbanised parts of the planet, and yet it possessed a small population when compared to the rest of the local galaxy because of its’ reputation. If you were to ask anyone about Zeeta, it’d be the last place they would ever go, no matter what you’d offer in return.

It was cursed, they all said.

Never having stepped foot on the green fields or in the prospering cities, they wailed and proclaimed that anyone who stepped foot there would meet a terrible end.

None of this was really true. It was just some political thing that turned to rumours and spiralled out of control.

Of course they were wrong. They had to be.

However. There was one part of Zeeta that no one ever spoke of. Not because it wasn’t allowed… simply because everyone born and raised there grew up with the unspoken dread that filled every person, every being at the mere thought of being there.

Somewhere in the forest, the green grass died, the trees wilted and nothing could grow nor live. No one knew exactly where it was nor did they wish to find out. No one knew exactly what was wrong with the place but they were terrified. All known information about it had been lost to time. Everyone. Every child, teen, adult and elderly person kept the fear of that place alive.

But why? Why should they fear something they know nothing about? What was really there? Could something so bad really be right on their very own land?

No. There was just no way that she’d believe it.

So she went. One perfectly clear and beautifully starry night, she leapt out of her window and headed into the woods behind her house. She had no reason to go. No reason at all. Except for her mother mocking her earlier that day as she voiced her belief about the so called ‘cursed’ place not being so bad. Particularly her mother’s choice of “have you been there?” is what ticked her off the most. No. no she hadn’t. but neither had her mother. No one had for that matter.

So she would prove them wrong.

She spent about 2 hours wondering around in the woods before she stumbled upon a compass wedged half way into the ground. It was surrounded by other bits and bobs, cogs and screws that had no place being there.

She dug it out of the ground and held it. North wasn't pointing North. She may have been gone for a long time but she still knew roughly where she should’ve been. And the compass was wrong. She stared. A second. That’s all it was. For a split second the reflection looking back at her wasn’t what she expected. She was crying. Disturbed, she shook her head and her reflection returned to normal.

A warning? Omen?

She still refused to back down. All this dedication and searching. She was so close she could feel it. She had to follow through. She looked at the compass once more, located North and looked up, determined. It took all but 3 steps and she no longer recognised the place she stood.

She looked back and saw the forest, yet stood on concrete. A path leading into a city. Yet it was nothing like she was used to. Whatever this was, was the complete opposite of Zeeta's streets. Replaced by looming buildings long dilapidated and worn by weather. Abandoned. She got the impression that a fire had swept the city and left nothing – no one behind.

She stared around in awe. This was no malicious or cursed place. Simply a tragedy misunderstood.

She went in deeper.

The air. Something was wrong with it.

It had to be at least a few decades since anyone, anything, any disaster had swept through so why was the air so heavy? Why was it that with every step she felt more suffocated? And then she looked around again. Paid closer attention.

People. People not turned to ash but frozen. Frozen in amalgamations of crystal, ruby, emerald, sapphire and more. It made no sense but it caused her no fear. She kept going. Now more intrigued than ever.

No longer paying attention to her breathing.

Her curiosity got the better of her again. She approached a body. She reached out to the gems. Cold. Sharp. She caught her reflection smiling. And then she looked up. The agonising screech of this man in his final moments was trapped, frozen in time forever. It didn’t bother her.

The fear.

It urged her on.

Disgust. A sudden and overwhelming disgust left her crumpling to the ground gasping for air as she came back to her senses. Something wasn’t right. Everything was turned to ash but these people.

What were they running from? What could do this? Who? …were they still here?

As the last thought rung through her head she turned away from the body clutching onto her chest. Panic rising. She looked up. And saw… something. She still can't describe it, but it terrified and calmed her at once. She wanted to run away and towards it simultaneously. Yet when the thing smiled, she made up her mind. With the thought of never seeing her mother again in the back of her head she ran to where the compass she had almost forgotten about was pointing North. Tripping once and scrambling back up she gasped for air more and more desperately. Hearing the creatures laugh she hurled herself across the threshold and just like that, you wouldn’t even know the place was ever there.

It's only then that she fully registered the tears silently flowing down her cheeks.

It'd been 7 days. 7 days since she came back home and sat through a sleepless night only to try her best to pretend nothing was wrong. And it worked. For just about 12 hours. She eventually collapsed in her bed: the exhaustion of keeping up the secret weighing on her as the adrenalin had disappeared long ago.

And that’s when the nightmares started.

The terrors that had her bolting up so fast she could hit the ceiling if she tried. Sweating, crying and even throwing up once she had awoken in the middle of the night having gotten 3 hours of sleep at a generous estimate. But the thing that bothered her was that she had no idea why.

Every time she woke she felt as though she had escaped her death or worst fear and yet she couldn’t remember a single second of these horrendous dreams. Not until the 8th night.

She had been cut on the way out of that dreaded place she had been so determined to find. This dream wasn’t so bad. But she was more scared than she had ever been in her life.

The cut. The thing she saw got to her. It clawed at her.

It was a dream, so why? When she looked down why was her leg bleeding so badly. It took another second for it to burn. But when it did, all the hiding she had done, all the emotions and fear she had kept from her mother about the nightmares and effects of them went out the window. The scream she let out was so loud and piercing that she swore she could see her bedroom window crack a little. She heard the panicked running of her mother heading to her room: blacking out before she could see her face or hear her voice.

Ateez as tumblr posts - part 2/?

Halazia edition

part 1

me walking around my room talking outloud to myself about my current obsessions and giving my imaginary audience an hours long speech about it

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send this to your idol; spread love

as this is happening, we need to show more love and support to your idols. we need to help them just like they help us. so please send this to your idol !

credits to @97jjkshii

also, don’t send direct hate to idols. if you wanna talk shit about them, just put some * in their names. thank you!

힘내세요 ღ be strong

항상 좋은 음악을 줘서 고마워요 ღ thank you for always giving us good songs

당신은 소중한 사람이에요 ღ you are special

오빠 힘내세요 우리가 있자나요 ღ  be strong, you have us 

난 항상 응원 할게요 ღ i’ll always support you

푹 쉬세요 ღ rest well

밥꼭챙겨먹어(요) ღ ensure that you are eating your meals

당신이 독특합니다, 당신은 필수, 사랑 하는 ღ you are unique, you are essential, you are loved

너는 나의 천사 ღ you are an angel

행복하세요 ღ please be happy

진짜 잘생겼다 ღ you are so beautiful 

살빼지마세요 ღ don’t lose weight

너는 네 어두운 세상에 빛이에요 ღ you are the only light in this dark world

태어나줘서 고마워요 ღ thank you for being born (my personal favorite)

네 곁을 떠나지 않을거야 ღ i’ll never leave your side

당신은 완벽한! ღ you are perfect!

너무 사랑해요 ღ i love you so much

나는 모든 것으로부터 보호할 수 ღ i’ll protect you from everything

제게 매우 중요합니다 ღ you are really special to me

당신은 열심히 일했고, 축하합니다! ღ you’ve worked hard, congratulations!

항상 우리를 위해 위대한 ღ you are great for us

질 지냈죠? ღ you’re okay?

밥 먹었어요? ღ are yall fed? did you eat?

괜잖길 바래요! ღ i hope you are okay

내 음료 ღ my baby

아름다운 옷 ღ your clothes are beautiful

그것의 아름다움은 납득이 안가는 ღ your beauty is inexplicable

나는 잘 수유를 희망 ღ i hope you are eating well

이 잘 먹고? ღ are you eating well?

(오빠들) 수고했어요 ღ (oppas) you have worked hard

(오빠) 밥먹었어요? 밥을 놓치지 마세요! ღ oppa you ate? please do not skip meals!

오빠 맛있는거 많이 먹어요 ღ eat lots of delicious food

축하드려요 / 축하합니다 / 축하해요 ღ congratulations (not referring to anniversary)

please, they all help us. we need to help them too ! i just need to yall reblog this. i want to see more love being sent to them  ̅̄ｬ˞♡ฅ(ᐤˊ꒳ฅˋᐤ♪) 

and if you want someone to talk, my ask is always open and i would be really happy to help you ! your idols love you so much, you are special, you are doing amazing, you are not alone, be strong and be kind.

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Ateez as tumblr posts - part 1/?