Hero's Journey Arch: The Call

Date: 5/3/2017

By Fitful

I was living with my mother, little brother who was seven at the time, and my girlfriend. We lived in this apartment building which was also a hotel and a hospital. The building was placed on the prettiest setting, and didn't really look at home in the forest. It was tall with stories and glass windows and sleek metal sides, very urban and modern city type building. On the map, the whole surrounding area seemed more fairy - tale - esque. I saw it often from the aerial map view, actually a map, which was an old water stained off white/tan one and seemed to be more suited to whinny the pooh than anything else. When you got closer and down to the real building and trees, as if the map was you flying over it, the details were amazing. I was very tired of attending the hospital. They had the oddest demands and I didn't feel they were helping me. I had to go there everyday for something and they had the oddest restrictions. There was also a lot of paperwork. For a while I was fixing televisions, my little brother had a lot. There were dozens all stacked together on two different walls. They covered the room floor to ceiling on these walls. They worked individually but I spend an inordinate a mouth of time getting them to all work I sync. I let a few of them play while I worked, on mute, they showed documentaries of beautiful landscapes. Finally I could pull up one picture and have it play different pieces on all the monitors. But after I was finished I didn't feel like watching television anymore. I asked my girlfriend if she wanted to go for a drive. She said yes, she was super excited, she imagined a drive through the county which was easy and simple. We spoke about taking a cooler, but she didn't want to, said coolers were dusty. I figured we'd be brining back some fruit which could keep without a cooler, but she and I spoke about hunting for a bit when we were considering bringing one. I said I don't hunt because I'm vegan which actually supported her argument to not bring the cooler. I was feeling claustrophobic. I was so jittery inside I was desperate to leave the house. I was very upset over something. I needed to get out of there immediately. The more we took time to prepare the more I felt myself feeling trapped. I even said I was tired of everything keeping me trapped. I pointed out the oddest things which kept me trapped. My mother and girlfriend felt my urgency and worked to get ready for the voyage. Suddenly my mother was coming too. I vegan to get paranoid, sure they were going to stop me, maybe put me in a straight jacket and send me to hospital. I imagined mermaids coming up from the ocean on which my ship sat and tied it, which became me, up with ropes and dragging me under the water. My girlfriend made a fuss over an earring thing. These little studs, silver pentagram with clear plastic rubber backs, she wore one of them and I the other she often wore hers without the back, and I was more conscientious. She told me to take my earring out and giver her my back, which I did, and then I had to put mine back in and go find a new back for mine. Oddly we kept the earring in the exact same place on the upper right helix piercing. Like she was my image in a mirror, not a real person. Finally we were leaving. The house was almost completely packed up, mother had turned everything off for some reason, she kept ordering my little brother to stop feeding this certain pet red smalls balls of light so it wouldn't be crazy while we were gone. I wanted to make sure he was okay, I asked him what he would do if we never came back, she said he'd call dad. But he seemed put out at my worry. I was very concerned they still might try and thwart me, and haul me off to the psych ward, so I decided we would go to another land, an alternate reality for our trip. I decided we'd go to Crescent, which was the setting of a story I'd been writing about in my head since I was a teenager in real life. I decided it was a fine place to explore, there was a lot of political stuff like wars we could 'play' in. I also decided we'd go through a portal to get to the ship and through to the other reality. To Crescent. This was to avoid being detained by the hospital and well meaning family. They seemed eager but I was twitchy and paranoid. We spoke to a guy selling key codes to video games through a website, he was in this tree with a glowing portal structure at its base inside its roots system. He did seem inclined to help us until he hear we were avid star trek fans, then he thought we were jokers and tried to send us away. I called him Bashir, suddenly recognizing his voice, and he was impressed enough to ask me a riddle. He asked me what he wanted, and I told him he wanted half a klingon heart. It was the right answer. He let us through to the other world.