u/Apprehensive-Cow9374

Are we ever told who created paths like Refinement, space, strength etc.

I mean he is a venerable and he can just go to spring affinity house and slaughter till FJH hands over dream wings gu. Not only dream wings gu but also other dream path gu?

We know how he is but how much did he suffer actually like is he on the level of subaru?

I am just a normal 14 year old boy who wants to write and wants a review and rating on his first ever work. I also wanted to say that my native language is not english but my first language is english (in school) so my grammar may not be as correct as a native English man's. Forgive my insolence if it is unreadable.

"Not a chance!", John screamed in his mind, when he heard Arthur say that he was planning on taking all of them into the Haunted mansion close to the town late at night. Even though he rejected Arthur's plans in his mind, he couldn't in front of everyone. In reality, none of them wanted to but hot bloodedness of youth prevented them from backing off. "Alright then; it's final—we are going.", said Arthur with a cheeky smirk on his face. Hearing his words, others wanted to deny at once but couldn't express their cowardice. Alex, looked at the fright on others' face and feared that they would deny so he almost shouted , "Why are you all not saying anything? We are all brave… right?". Before anyone answered, the door of the room opened and an adult woman entered the room; "Shawn; it's 1am already , go and sleep now!." All of them heaved a heavy sigh as they understood today's meeting was at it's end.

At the junction, Alex and Arthur parted with John and Oliver—Shawn was not there because the meeting was held at his home so he was not present . After John and Oliver had vanished from their sight, Alex and Arthur looked at each other for a second before they started laughing like idiots; a few seconds passed, they stopped laughing but a smile remained on their faces. "Did you look at those morons' faces?", said Arthur; Alex didn't reply but chuckled a bit before asking Arthur in a serious voice, "Should we exclude Oliver? You know he has a timid personality, don't you?". Arthur considered for a bit but disagreed to exclude Oliver.

"But", said Alex.

Arthur rolled his eyes while shaking his head: "Its not like he will get a heart attack"

Alex understood that arguing won't get him anywhere. he bid his well wishes till the sun shows up again: "Good night"

"Good night"

Next evening.

 The group met at Shawn's place again. The air of the room was filled with cold snorting and seriousness.

"Shawn, where is your brother Thomas?", asked John. "He is busy studying: his exams are coming up. Did all of you bring torches?" Everyone but Oliver nodded. Oliver said with a trembling voice, "Is it necessary to go?" ; hearing his words, Shawn along with the others looked at Oliver with a ferocious gaze as if they were going to eat him dinner! Their gazes made Oliver immediately stop talking and bury his face against the pillow. Shawn sighed and broke the air of animosity in the room , "I have an extra torch in my house, Oliver will use it ." Oliver nodded with the pillow on his face. John joined in and suggested, "Let's leave Oliver, we can't baby sit him while worrying about ghosts." Oliver took out his face from the pillow and looked at John with bright shining eyes mixed with shame.

"No! all of us will go or no one will go.", said Shawn who was just using this as an excuse to get out.

The latter part of the sentence was what John wanted to hear too; but before he could say anymore Arthur said looking at Oliver," We will go and you will come along. It will help you get rid of your fear. You should thank us." Shawn and John snickered as their plan was destroyed by Arthur. Alex looked at Arthur with mischief mixed with satisfaction in his eyes. He stood up: It was time to go.

 Zephyrs blew, carrying fallen leaves and making grass flutter.

The image of the moon formed in the river beside the old mansion.

beads of water fell from the heaven.

Outside the old mansion, stood 5 children with their chest puffed up with bravery.

Everyone took in a long and deep breath and entered the old, haunted mansion.

All of them were awestruck when they saw just the size of this mansion when they entered. Even if the mansion had no lights, it was easy to tell that once it had been a royal mansion .

The mansion had 3 floors and a no. of rooms which would result greater in number than all of their houses combined. In the middle there was a huge and grand spiral staircase. The flooring was made from wood, which had gotten so old that it may be called ancient, while the ceiling had a royal chandelier. But there was another thing the upper floor where the stairs lead had a painting in front: probably of the last owner of this mansion. Weird thing was this painting was almost left intact even after centuries but the eyes of the painting had holes making them appear pitch black.

"Let's go there first", said Shawn, pointing at one of the rooms beside the staircase with the light of his torch. 

Creeeeak! Creeeeak!

With each footstep, it felt like the floor was going to break. One by one they entered the room. A smell entered their noses, it was so stinky that everyone present wanted to puke! Shawn got closer and saw that there was something sticky , thick and probably dark red in colour. A chill went down his spine and his heart stopped for a moment as a thought emerged in his mind. With disbelief in his eyes, he was glaring at the red sticky substance.

Looking at his stiff body, John came and looked at his hand. The same expression appeared on his face, at once he screamed in terror , "Blood!"

All those present there had their pupils shrunk and their bodies turned stiff until Shawn, while running, bumped into them, breaking their stiffness. They sprinted towards the gate but found the gate locked! Shawn was tensed as he looked at the group but his pupils shrunk to pin-size and he shouted in a frightened and broken voice, "Where… where is Arthur!" Everyone looked at each other. Arthur was nowhere to be found.

Oliver broke down crying," I told…I told all of you! But you didn't listen!". No one dared to speak, all of them were tongue tied. A few minutes passed; John stood up, " lets go look for him, if we don't, we are as good as dead." His words were logical: if they just waited there, they could only be compared to vegetables waiting on a chopping board to be chopped. Thus, everyone glanced at him and stood up.

"He said, he wanted to go to the second floor. Let's look there.", said Alex with his eyes shining in hope.

"Hmm", the entire group agreed.

"Yes! They are coming ", said Arthur who was standing in the room behind the painting on the second floor, looking at them in anticipation through the owner's eyes. Watching them approach he quickly stopped looking and hid inside the closet for counter measures, his smile was getting brighter as he heard the noise of footsteps getting closer.

Screeee-ch!

Each of their steps made the wooden stairs bend to the point of almost breaking.

They reached the second floor. The first thing they saw was the painting, which they mistook for a real person at first but as soon as the light from their flashlight flashed on the picture, they heaved a sigh of relief: looking at the picture made them remember recent incidents causing them to have goosebumps. They rushed towards the other rooms on the floor. In the meantime, confusion mixed with a chilling sensation rose in Alex's mind: "Didn't I make holes in the eyes? I also remember that in the painting, the owner was looking left wasn't he?"

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Sounds of heavy footsteps were heard by Arthur. Arthur's heart jumped because this was not a sound made by him nor it was similar to the soft footsteps of anyone from the group. Arthur took a peek outside the room: he found nothing. Thus, he quickly charged forward to the next room where others headed to, but as soon as he entered the room he was dumbstruck: the cooler he came to turn on was already turned on. He took a step forward but he heard a whisper in his ear, "Arthur, did you know I was looking for you?".

"Arthur, are you here?", John entered the room which seemed like the dinner room.

As everyone entered, they felt the temperature change drastically to the point of freezing. At first, everyone thought that a window was probably left open but there was no window in the room to be left open. 

Before they could wonder about  what was going on, they heard a blood-curdling scream, "Eek!", it was none other than Arthur's.

John got so scared that he jumped in the arms of Oliver! Shawn didn't even speak nor wait for anyone else and ran back to the hallway— Shawn was running so fast that it would make even Usain bolt start praising him!

Shawn was running in the front . Second was Oliver who was princess carrying John while running and finally was Alex who was just acting to be scared— he thought that Arthur had done that intentionally.

On reaching the hallway, they saw Arthur banging continuously on the door and screaming ,"Open! Open! Open!"

They got closer and attacked him with the barrage of questions in their mind. Arthur didn't or better to say couldn't speak but hugged Oliver and kept repeating, " I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Alex's head started to spin. Only after a few seconds did Arthur calm down and explained the situation in a broken and shrill voice," We… we made plans to scare the 3 of you but when I went to use the arrangements I had done before , I heard heavy footsteps, I ignored them and went to the room where the cooler was but… but it was already turned on! At the same time, I heard a whisper behind me telling me that it was looking for me!" Tears started dripping from his face.

"I am sorry! I am sorry! Please forgive me."

"Go to hell with your forgiveness! Get me out of here.", said John who was being carried by Oliver like the princess from fairy tales.

Alex,"…"

Arthur,"…"

To them, this scene was more unbelievable than the events from before. They were about to speak but another heaven shaking scream pierced their ears. The voice was known to them— it was Shawn's. 

"Where is Shawn? Wasn't he running in front of you?", said Alex.

"Yes, but we were so scared that we didn't realize he was missing. Let's look for him", replied Oliver.

Everyone agreed hesitantly, But the problem was the sound had come from both opposite directions. To solve the problem they quickly formed groups of 2 and hasted towards the sounds. John and Alex went to the east while Arthur and Oliver went to the west.

John and Alex rushed inside the room but found nothing. They continued to look but when they entered the kitchen, the wooden flooring broke and John fell down!

Alex sat down on his knees, his eyes were swollen red with no hope left. He wanted to shout couldn't, his throat was already at it's wits end.

"Ouch! My butt hurts", said John while grabbing his butt from pain. He looked at himself and found that his clothes were almost torn. After a while he stood up, looking around he saw a figure in white robes, even though it had human body and face it's face was not human! "AAHHH", John screamed out his lungs. The sound was so loud it reached Oliver and Arthur.

On hearing his scream, Alex sprinted towards the west to look for Arthur and Oliver. As he rushed inside a room a fist struck his face. The fist was of none else but Arthur's. " Ouch! Ouch!", Alex fell down crying: He didn't even have the strength to ask who it was.

Oliver,"…"

Arthur thought that the ghost was opening the door but didn't expect it to be Alex. But disregarding his punch, he shamelessly asked, "What happened to John? Why did he scream? And where is he?". 

Alex,"…" 

Oliver,"…"

Inside their minds, they were thinking,"How shameless can one be?"Alex endured the pain and said, "The flooring broke and he… " He stopped, his swollen face turned stiff as he looked behind Arthur.

Arthur turned and saw 2 known faces wearing white robes and their face covered in a thick red liquid, looking at him with grim faces. Arthur stepped back a few steps. The 2 were none other than Shawn and john!

"You killed me Arthur(Alex)", the voices belonged to Shawn and Jhon but they didn't part their lips to speak. The voices repeated the same words again and again, each time the loudness of the voice caused the only candle in the room to burn more and more intensely.

"Forgive me! Forgive me! Forgive me! ", Arthur and Alex started groveling on the ground.

"You didn't even consider Oliver's timid personality and you ask for forgiveness? Such audacity!"

" I will never repeat it"

" you will die today"

"Mama!", all three of them cried out while hugging each other.

"HAHAHHAHAHA", both of the figure broke down laughing! 

All the others were dumbstruck.

A tall figure dressed in white also entered the room. "Thomas!", the three of them almost shouted in disbelief.

Thomas along with Shawn and John kept on giggling for quite a bit. Before Thomas started explaining the situation.

"Last day I saw both of you(Alex and Arthur) talking late at night."

Alex and Arthur started to understand a glimpse of it but Oliver asked them, "What were you two talking about?" Alex and Arthur didn't say anything but stole glances at each other.

"There is no ghost Oliver, they were planning to scare the others but I didn't know what they were planning nor I particularly understood what they wanted to do. I asked Shawn if he knew what they were probably doing late at night laughing like idiots and calling others morons. He explained today's plan for ghost hunting to me but he also said that he suspected both of you of scheming something malicious so we thought it would be fun to scare over-confident children."

"Why did you start suspecting us?", said Arthur with a bitter smile on his face.

All gazes fell on Shawn as he continued, " Alex doesn't like to watch horror movies, he gives plenty of excuses whenever I ask him to but when Arthur suggested this plan, he agreed almost immediately and insisted on going even when we tried to cancel it several times, you two were always working together to prevent our schemes from succeeding, not only that but Arthur was always looking at Alex whenever the plan was on the verge of being destroyed."

"What about the whisper and painting's eyes?", said Arthur.

This time Tomas said, "I was the whisperer and when you were hiding behind the painting, I mixed my footsteps with the group's footsteps and glued eyes drawn on a paper over the holes made by Alex"

"How did the scream come from both sides and when did John join in, he is not such a good actor to act this good? He fell in front of me, it totally looked unintentional. ", asked Alex.

Shawn replied, " Thomas recorded my voice and put two speakers on each side of the mansion on the first floor"

" I joined in when, I fell down. And about me falling it was not prepared for but fortunately when I fell Shawn was standing just there so he told me everything and I joined in", said John while laughing bitterly.

"But you did get scared when you first looked at me.", Shawn started mocking him. John couldn't do anything but snicker, after all he had jumped in the arms of Oliver of all people.

"How was your voice from speakers causing the only candle to burn more intensely?"

Shawn had a bright smile on his face as he asked, "Well Thomas, how did you?"

"Nothing, nothing just added a bit of gunpowder to the fire each time the speaker repeated itself from the hole beside"

Arthur and Alex couldn't look at their smiling faces. Anger mixed with embarrassment caused them to look down towards the ground. Oliver however was full of amusement as he said," Awesome! you guys are so smart." This made Arthur and Alex even more embarrassed. They wanted to go home bury their heads in the pillow and cry their hearts out.

Thomas grabbed their ears and pulled. Their faces became distorted from the pain as they cried out,

"Sorry!"

Shawn was looking outside the window.

The moon was over the river.

The rain had stopped but the tree leaves were still wet;

beads of water fell on grasses.

Under the moonlight,

over the green grass,

fireflies sparkled like small lumps of fire.

"It's been a long night let's go.", said Shawn while turning towards the others with a gentle smile on his face.

So hear me out.

Let's just assume from where he is now he learns about the cause of otherworldly demons and somehow he comes back to his life on Earth.

In the first scenario: he returns to his old earth's body and he loses all his power like it was all a dream but all his memories are there and in sub scenario he knows the method to go back to the gu world and in second sub-scenario he doesn't.

In the second scenario: Fang Yuan teleport to Earth for any reason.

So In both these scenarios and. Sub scenarios what may occur?

Like seriously why? Every single boy student suffers from this, even those who don't want long hair but just normal forehead level hair are forced to cut it so short till they are practically bald or cut every week!

I have pretty long to medium hair(to my nose tip) and because( I have 2c hair) my hair length is not that visible as I suppress it but that causes my looks to drop pretty drastically and I am always fearful of being caught.

It's not even about girls or looks anymore but there are many people who feel comfortable with long hair.