Infinite Infinite Loop Story Loop Story

When I opened my eyes, I found myself and my chair in a field of blood-red grass. The sky was covered by what I can only describe as a many-mouthed, many-eyed rain cloud.

"Hello, little beast," it chortled and boomed and growled all at once. Mouths and eyes appeared all over its body, radiating some kind of light which made my skin look jet-black and my teeth begin to vibrate. Through the nausea I got just from being in this thing's presence, I managed to stammer, "Who are you, and why am I here?"

"You know why you're here!" it roared with laughter, its entire body morphing into gash-like mouths. The strange light and laughter they emitted made me writhe on the ground in agony. Only three minutes after the cloud closed its orifices, plunging me into darkness, did my body stop shaking like a struck bell.

The cloud opened one eye and asked, "Does that remind you of why you deserve punishment?"

"No, not at all!"

"Well, I will not fall for your trickery. Now die!"

The ground gave out from under me and I tumbled into the endless void.

When I opened my eyes, I found myself under the thing I'd seen last time. I flinched as I remembered the pain it had put me through.

"Hello, little beast," it chortled and boomed and growled all at once. Assuming it remembered me, I screamed, "What do you want from me now, you big rain cloud?"

"I never wanted anything from you!" That accursed light started leaking from it once more, but I closed my eyes and shielded my face with my hands.

Even though the nausea still hit me, I could stand up straight and bellow, "What are you trying to do?"

"What are you trying to do?" the object repeated in my voice, magnified by its thousands of mouths. As hard as it was to stand, I weathered the pain, and when the cloud opened its eyes, I stood straight, defiantly staring at it.

In response, the cloud spat on me, a sulfuric wave of rain which burned my skin and made me howl. "You must think you're so clever! Well, that is why you must die!"

The ground ripped like paper, and I screamed as I fell into the empty space beneath. I noticed how the fissure traveling through the ground stopped at a faraway grove of trees, who were still on the surface of the ground.

When I opened my eyes, I was under the cloud again. This time, instead of waiting for the cloud to greet me, I ran towards the grove. The cloud asked, "Where are you going, little beast?" blasting me with red light.

I gritted my teeth, closed my eyes, and kept running towards the trees. The light peaked in intensity as the cloud bellowed and growled different insults at me, then all the sound and light vanished. When I opened my eyes, I was surrounded by darkness before the cloud opened a single eye. I was in front of the maze.

I yelled angrily before noticing that the grove of trees was still within sprinting distance. I bolted towards the grove, provoking the beast to scream loudly. I covered my ears, which only marginally helped. Once I was inside the grove of trees, their thick canopy protected me from the light, and I stood silently on the roots as the ground crumbled away underneath them.

I sat still for a moment, believing it was all over, when I felt something dripping on my head. The cloud was raining once more, and as I watched in horror, the trees began to dissolve and my skin began to bun and bubble. I screamed in agony as I broke into pieces and tumbled down once more.

''The cloud remembers her now, and asks her to figure out how to escape this loop. She meditates, and she realizes that she's actually in a pod She opens the pod, and then reads about how she had volunteered to trap the monster inside her mind. She is eventually going to remember herself. She takes a short break, during which time she sees no other humans.''

I jerked awake, covered in tubes, with my arms strapped to the table.

"Shut off the sedative!" someone yelled. "The subject is conscious!"

As I looked around groggily, trying to recall how I'd come here, a woman in a lab coat approached me and asked, "How are you awake?"

As I lie there, it all comes back. I volunteered to be trapped in an infinite dream with the cloud in order to trap it in an alternate dimension. The apparition should have considered me useless, not used my power to escape. I had to tell them.

"Apparition at twelve-o'clock!" I turned my head, and my blood chilled as I saw a swirling mass in the sky pushing away the real clouds. A single discolored eye appeared from within it and blinked at me. As the crew turned to the doctor, she nodded and pointed at me. "She needs to be knocked out."

I shook my head and croaked, "No!" but that's all the energy I could muster.

The technician agrees. "We haven't fixed the machine yet! She might not remember who she is!"

I shuddered as I inhaled deeply, preparing to speak -

"It doesn't matter! Either she dies or we all do!"

Someone pulls a trigger, and my memories were ripped from me again.

I woke up with what can only be described as a cloud with assorted eyes and mouths benignly hovering over me.

"Dear child," it asks soothingly, barely moving any of its mouths, "are you lost?"

I nod. "How do I get out?"

It chuckles, almost blinding me. "Meditate upon the thought of freedom. But be wary! There are demons surrounding you, and they will play foul tricks upon you, giving you false memories that I am your enemy. Don't worry. Find peace within this quiet abode."

So I did. They panicked once more when I came out, filling my head with those prophesied lies, but no matter how hard they tried, their machine could not send me back. In my drugged-up state, I heard them scream in agony as the cloud enacted its vengeance on them for imprisoning me.

Good riddance, I mentally tittered. Good riddance indeed.