I once met a guy, something was really strange about him that he would narrate incidents from his past life. He also told me that his name in his past life was Bryan Benjamin. His name was Alex Gordon, he was my colleague in St. Petersburg Industry. He told me one of the true incidents of his was crossing the Ulitsa street,  saw a manhole kind of thing in the middle of the street as he went closer he started to get creeps, stretching out, the bony hand clawed and ripped in the air, desperate to wrench them into the abyss, suddenly the manhole like creature turned into a very big hole in a spick of a second. Alex got frightened and tried to run away but the big hole was attracting
him towards the hole. He gradually fell into the hole unconsciously, when he regained his conscious he found himself in a mysterious place covered with smoke, as he was regaining his senses he heard some shrill voices coming from the direction of the faded light. He followed those voices and reached the city of Death, which was under the palace of the Monarch. It was quite a big city to be mentioned but it no humans as citizens, as the name mentioned it was full of danger and suspence which gave the Travellers thrills. Bryan had once heard that a construction worker had once met with a such a kind of an incident in which he was also dragged into a manhole like this and he got missing and didn't return. The news spread like fire and many people thought it was some black magic. He walked towards the city gate and saw something ghostly coming towards him as it came towards it came closer to him, surprisingly the creature was the ghost of the construction worker. Both of them were shocked to see each other, the ghost shouted "Good to see a mortal after such a long time in the City of Death". Alex confusinly asked "what are talking about and what is this place?". The phantom replied with a " It was the City of Death". 'Alright let's move on' said the soul, it also warned Alex about the consequences and the dangers on their way out of their way which were life risking. Alex replied "I am really frightened, I want to go home", "Don't worry boy, there is a way out of here to make you reach home but for that you will have to do a long journey full of dangers with me" replied the spectre with a faded smile. While they were adventuring the forest Alex heard some noises from the bushes he intened to turn back but the wraith advised him not to do so. They kept on moving until they reached the mysterious cave at the break of dawn to take some rest. It was a two day journey until they came to the phantom's heart where it used to live with his friends, Bryan was very excited to see the lava fall which could burn a human. But when they arrived there Benjamin believed that it was the worst day of his life, as the Beast of the mortals lived there which the soul feated 😨 and as the name suggests the Beast was one of the deadliest of all the mortals there, it didn't had control on its temper so it could pick up a fight with anyone, at anytime with anyone it could be also its friends. It hated humans to come and discover the city of death because it would ruin the peaceful afterlife of the mortals so it had also killed the construction worker. The beast somehow got to know that there was a mortal and it tried to take his life, but fortunately he didn't succeed and they escaped from there. After returning from the mouth of death, he was in a shock. After returning from the shock 😲, both of them started moving towards the palace of Demise. The way to the palace wasn't easy which made the whole journey more challenging. After reaching there both of them met the mighty spirit of Death who had a good friendship with the construction worker's soul which caused Alex a lot of help. He got the help in many ways like the afterlife army of the mighty spirit fought in a war against the Beasts army who they had fought in the cave. The army of the mighty spirit won and the soul and the mortal kept moving the gateway of shadow. The place covered with darkness and smoke which gave Bryan thrills. Alex's biggest fear from childhood was darkness which he needed to cope up with. The third main character in the story was the hollow girl with whom Bryan became good friends with, and who he met on his path inside the gateway of shadow.
"so how did you reach here?" asked the hollow girl, "well, its a long story for me to narrate" replied Alex. "ok" said thr hollow girl. "let's move on" said the hollow girl the three of them
were walking through the dark path when they suddenly noticed a beautiful bright light in the middle of the path. The hollow girl suspected that something was wrong so she decided to follow the beam of light. "such bright light hurts my eyes" said Alex but they were surprised to see the scene behind the light " what is that" asked the soul surprisingly, Alex asked surprisingly "haven't you seen this kind of things in here before" the phantom replied in negative "I haven't come to this part of the city before?". "Alright it looks like you know nothing about this place" said the hollow girl. After hearing this statement the spectre was in a state of confusion of whether to trust the hollow girl or not but he didn't let Alex know about his doubt as he didn't had any proof. They continued following the hollow girl as they had no other option but to trust the hollow girl. Walking on the foot whole time Bryan was feeling tired, he wanted to rest and needed some food very badly. The hollow advised Alex
and the ghost to rest under a croacrine tree asit was safe and they could also get some wild fruits to feed on. They agreed to her, for the day they retired under a croacrine tree.
The next morning they carried on moving but now there journey was to the Hill of Black magic which was filled with superstitious mortals who would hypnotise any mortal going there and would kill them using magic spells. Unfortunately it was the one and only way to the fall of blood (it was made from pure blood of unicorn), (it was the shortest exit which was through the immortal city and to the human world). Which made Bryan fear the mortals their, the hollow girl accompanied them. When they reached the hills of black magic there, they couldn't believe there eyes that the place was all desrted and there was no way to the fall of blood. The hollow girl couldn't believe what she saw so she rechecked the place. But she failed to see anything there, suddenly something came to Alex's mind and he asked the phantom and the hollow girl to check for some clues. He thought that there would be some hidden doorway to the fall of blood and fortunately he was right. They got their way to the fall of blood which was covered with thick bushes and shrubs. Benjamin was astonished to see the bloodful scenery of the fall which was all covered with bloodyred colour. Alex had to jump down the fall of blood while the phantom and the hollow girl would go through the fall. After they passed the fall of blood and then they were in the territory of the immortal city(where the mortals weren't allowed). The guard of the city had understood that they were mortals so he decided to pick up a fight with them. As there were 3 mortals so it was kind of pre decide that they would win but the fight was very dreadful because both the creatures gave strong competition to each other. There was use of magic spells which could tear someone apart and could take out the soul. During the fight Alex got a lot of bruises and a scar on his forehead. But there was no option but towards the exit which would lead him to the human world. They had entered the immortal city secretly, on their way they passed the palace of Angels which was very similar to heaven, but the mortals had never seen such kind of a thing before. Then they passed the gateway of light, which was covered with bright light and greenery all around. From there they went to the purest waterfall. Finally they reached their destination the exit to the immortal city which lead the path connecting to the human world. They travelled the rest bit of it and reached the human world entrance from were the phantom and the hollow girl couldn't go further. So now Bryan decided to say goodbye to the soul and the hollow girl. When he was moving towards the entrance he felt something on his body and later realized that it was blood flowing out of his body due to a sword which was stabbed on his body by non other then
The hollow girl. He turned back and said with tears in his eyes "why did you do this?" and the hollow girl replied with sigh"I am sorry, I had to do this as this is part of my job ". Bryan died on the spot and the phantom was filled with tears because he didn't want anyone else to get in a situation like he did. This tears took revenge from the hollow girl. The hollow girl was thrown into the lavafall. This was the end of Bryan Benjamin's story