Sorry this took so long, but I had an idea that needed a bit of research first, plus the length of this chapter, it took some time. This starts where the last chapter left off.

"speaking"

thoughts

'reading'

~Allen's POV~

With the knowledge that I will be heading into the world many years into the future, one major problem surfaced in my mind. I have no idea where I will go, much less what I will do there. I looked to the reaper in front of my, meeting his hesitant gaze. The unasked questions not going unnoticed.

"You will know where you want to go when you head into the world, as for what to do I would recommend building up your abilities after you find out what they are. There also is the idea that you could do a little of what you did before; protecting the living, 'cause there are not enough reapers to handle guiding the dead and the evil that remains." He said, smirking at that last part.

"Another thing I forgot to say, you most likely look very different than what you would call normal due to the fact that you are cursed. How you will look I don't know but make sure you keep that in mind." He added after what seemed like a moment of thought.

"Ready to go?" he asked, and I needlessly nodded in reply.

I felt what could only be described as the feeling you get when spinning, as that was what the world around me was doing. Soon I found myself looking down on the earth, but it didn't look as I remember. It was all black with a grid of golden yellow light intersecting at different points all over it. Despite the odd appearance I knew exactly what it was.

It's the energy grid, certain areas have more energy as others and it shows at every intersection. Those intersections were really at random, forming a net like structure rather than a grid. One suspicious thing caught my eye, it looked like an anomaly, something that wasn't normally supposed to be there, it is wrong.

I could tell, it is not normal, wrong, so very wrong. Something is going to happen there. I thought with a sure feeling. Something is going to happen, the anomaly proves that something is there and it is going to cause this event that I have to stop.

So this is what he meant when he said I would know what I wanted to do.

That had decided it, I am heading there. I idly noted where on earth it was, Sweden, figures. I thought dryly, not even knowing why it 'figured.' I focused intently, and the world started spinning again. Closer, I need to know where in Sweden I am to go. Then my head snapped up and I found myself in a place very different from where I was before.

A large building towered in front of me. I could even mistake it as a mansion, but the sheer amount of windows suggested otherwise. A hotel perhaps? It was clearly old, and very much in disrepair. Kind of like those old abandoned hospitals that we've been to to find innocents. The building as well as I am on an island in the middle of a large lake. Surrounding the lake is a seemingly endless expanse of forest.

Yep, definitely Sweden.

It was strange, the whole area had some kind of …. Strangeness? That sounded too much like a question. I decided to head into the building whilst the strangeness kept on nagging me. One step into it and the overpowering strangeness seemed to consume me. It was all so- Oh my god if I say strange one more time I swear I will explode.

Anyway, there was an odd feeling, one that I know that I've felt before, but I can't put my finger on it. I continued to walk in what I now can assume is a hospital of some sorts given the wheelchair that I just passed a second ago. Best thing about being a ghost is you don't have to worry about having to find a way in, or trespassing laws.

I entered a small room with what looked like the skeleton of a bed, a dresser, and a small desk. I slowly investigated. I opened the dresser, all that was left in it was a few scraps of cloth, maybe they will be useful later on. The bed still has a mattress but any sort of sheets were no where to be found. The last thing to look into was the desk. The drawers were empty except for a few pens that seemed like they might be able to work and a few unused glow-sticks.

If anyone was wondering why I could even touch anything, I found out almost immediately that one of my abilities is to go completely solid as If I was never dead.

I ran my hand over the worn wood, and found something odd. One piece, seemingly a perfect rectangle stood out in particular. I pushed down on it and a secret compartment opened up on the bottom, inside a book of some kind, no bigger than ones hand.

I opened it up to a random page, surprisingly being the page of the most recent and last entry and started to read.

'Dear Diary,

This is probably the last time I will be writing, I don't know if that is a blessing or a curse. There is something in here, and it will do things, to the people, to me, it will do so much more. This place is an asylum for the mentally insane, does that make me so too?

This place is going to close down, all the patients are going to be leaving, but that does not mean this place will be empty.

The creature that is here, it feeds on emotion and causes people to go insane.

Funny right?

What ever is here is going to do much more due to how long it has waited for a meal. It consumed all the lost souls that lingered, making it ever more powerful.

If only I hadn't year walked. People called me mad for doing so, which I think is odd because it used to be popular a long time ago.

But it wont get that far if you have any say in it, right Allen?

Sincerely,

Alicia West

or "patient 7" as I'm often called.

P.S. During my time here I observed the behaviors of the creature and wrote them down in this book. By the time you read this those notes would have been ripped out and scattered throughout the asylum. Find them and you may find a way out. Many people could possibly be depending on you whether you know it or not, I believe you won't let them down, Allen'

Reading this sent chills all up and down my spine as questions swirled like a tornado in my head. How did she know my name when I had been with that reaper for who knows how long? Am I really in an insane asylum? How could she have predicted the anomaly and what the heck is a year walk?

I started to get a headache while trying to calm my thoughts, the entry leaving way more questions then answers. True to her word, many pages in the small book were missing, I can't believe I missed that before. Given that there once was a friend here, I decided to make this room home base. The diary still had half of it empty, she wouldn't mind if I used it to document my time would she?

Sitting next to the desk was an empty messenger pack that looked as if it was left there for me. I put the glow-sticks and pens in the front compartment of the pack and started to examine the second drawer. Inside was a small tablet that glowed when I pushed a button. Words explaining what it was popped up, she probably left this for me too.

Sitting under the tablet was a detailed map of the building with red X's on it. I started to mess around with the tablet and it flashed. A digital form of the map started to form on the screen with the markings.

That will definitely make things easier.

I finally looked to the last items in the drawer. Inside was a lighter and a large heavy book. I picked up the book and looked inside. Almost all of the pages had so much water damage, they were illegible. All except one page that depicted a seal of some sort that lets in good spirits and keeps out evil beings.

Now that I think about it, the same drawings are on the walls of the room, I had thought they were just graffiti. That explained how this stuff remained for the most part undisturbed.

I laid out the map on the desk and took one pen out. I tested it on the paper and set it next to it, for I was going to put notes on what each of those marks are. After that I took another pen and grabbed Alicia's diary, I proceeded to write all that I know and felt down on the paper. It went a little like this:

'Dear Alicia,

It seems a little odd that I am addressing this to you but whatever. Upon entering this building and even when outside I felt a strange (boom!) energy in the air. Even when I was returning to earth I had a chance to see the energy grid and an anomaly was what brought me here.

Apparently a creature dwells here causing insanity and what soon is to be more, bit I don't think that is the only being I have to worry about in the area.

Thank you for providing all that you have in this, the map especially as I have a horrible sense of direction.

Soon I am to head out to get to the bottom of this, but now I must rest. I hope you don't mind me using your bed, its not like you will anytime soon.

That reaper did say that I will have horrible endurance for a while, and switching to solid when I entered this room tired me out. That reminds me, I never got to catch his name, I hope we meet again some time, he was nice.

For the time being I will see if I can find some of the notes without running into it. It seems like you could see the future, but you never explained what those marks are. Are they places where I will run into it, or are they where the missing notes are?

Sincerely,

Allen Walker

P.S. I still don't know what a Year Walk is.

A yawn escaped my mouth as I finished and made my way to the bed. It was uncomfortable but it would have to do. My eyes slowly drifted shut and I fell into a dreamless sleep.

Well there you have it, my second chapter to HWFW. There is one small problem, I don't have any reviews. Actually that is not all that true, I have two, but two is not nearly enough when all they do is praise me finding a story premise with many ways were I can go with it. The worst insult ever is to say something is great, or that you are doing a good job. A real compliment it telling someone how they can make it better, how they can further their career as an artist/writer/musician. I know this story is not bad as you guys would certainly tell me if it was, but I need to know if there is something I can do to make it better then it already is. If you couldn't already tell I am using Swedish lore in this part of the story. I will make this a crossover with supernatural but that comes much later, after the whole thing with this asylum.