The Celestial Lie

"So, having fun yet Nick?"

"Dude, we just got here, and... holy shit that's one hell of a queue!" I said as my jaw dropped at the sight of what was in front of me, the queue wrapped around the side of the building and back to the front multiple times before spilling down the road.

"Huh, it's shorter than last time." I just gaped at my friend at that bit of knowledge. "We might be able to get in within the next hour or two, sweet."

Standing there and staring at my best friend, better known as David, I just picked up my jaw and worked my mouth to reply, "I-I... nope, not gonna bother, let's just get in the queue." I said as we began walking to the end of the queue, shaking my head as we walked.

As we arrived in the queue we went through our usual routine of putting in an earphone in one ear so we could listen to music whilst still talking to each other when we felt like it. That was how the next hour and three quarters was spent, good music, a bit of idle talk here and there and a lot of shuffling forward about a foot at a time.

"Woop woop!" was my eloquent response once we finally gained entry to the fabled comic-con, land of dreams and cosplayers of all variety.

"So where do you wanna go first?" He said looking at me as we both put our earphones away.

I just looked back at him with a smirk before deepening my voice, "from the shadows I come."

After a few seconds of blinking he turned away while shaking his head with a smile. "Right, so the Blizzard booth." And with that we started walking, only to stop a few seconds later as he turned to look at me. "Welp, I actually have no idea where that is, random wandering?" After a nod from me, our adventure began. If only I knew that it would be lasting a lot longer than just a few hours.

Dozens of booths, several groups of Spartans and one quick go trying out the latest Starcraft 2 expansion left us with the choice of what our next preferred destination would be. As we stood there swivelling our heads thinking, my eyes caught something, a booth with a large variety of items that most seemed to just pass without even looking at. Tapping David on the shoulder and getting his attention, I then pointed at the booth and walked up to it with him trailing behind me.

"Wow, now that's what I call a selection." I said getting a hum of agreement from my left where David was standing before I looked to my right, spotting the other guy looking at the table in front of us. He looked up at me for a second before looking back down at the table. 'And there's that urge to hit a stranger in the face again, I really wish that would stop happening.'

Focusing again I started looking at all the things this booth had to offer and it wasn't long before my brain came back with it's conclusion, 'nope, I have no idea what most of this stuff is.' Within a minute my eyes were drawn to three cloaks at the back and after looking at the prices I had to ask, "what's the difference between those three cloaks?" Finally looking at the guy running the booth I noticed he seemed to be cosplaying too, 'huh, well, if he was going for shady character, he got it down to a T.'

"The £30 one is a traveler's cloak, the £65 one is a reaper cloak and the £100 one is a sith cloak," the guy running the place said as he turned to look at me. I vaguely heard David saying something before going and talking to a guy nearby dressed as Dante from Devil May Cry.

'I don't have much money and they all look the same to me... fuck it.' All of five seconds later I made my choice, "I'll have the reaper cloak please." I handed over most of my money before getting the cloak off him and putting it in my bag.

Turning around, the last thing I heard from him was, "have a pleasant trip," followed by the guy that had been on my right the whole time moving his foot in front of me, just in time to trip me up as I started walking away.

What happened next was, in a word, weird. One second I'm falling over face first and the next I'm lying face down in someone's back garden. Standing up and brushing myself down I began looking around which showed I seemed to be in a village surrounded by trees and a few mountains on either side.

Done with viewing my new location I proceeded to check myself. 'Cargo trousers: check, awesome shirt: check, steel tipped boots: check, new cloak: missing, fuck, panic attack... later.'

Taking my first step forward as I began my new adventure, I finally noticed the screaming, the smoke and the strange golden shimmering between the village and the surrounding trees, leaving me to sum up my situation in a single word, "Balls."

… Anguish… Death… Re-spawn

Meditate… Pain… Agony… Anguish… Death… Re-spawn

Meditate… Pain… Agony… Anguish… Death… Re-spawn

Meditate… Pain… Agony… Movement… Ponies… Discord… "I may be free but my fate is sealed for now, yours however is unclear and you have suffered enough, rest friend, may you find peace in time." *snap*, *crack*, "Goodbye Seventh." *snap*, *flash*

Chaos… Order… Anguish… Death…

...Freedom!