By Jaret Benson
Day has been going by normally. I just feed my cat Blake this morning. She has really helped me out since my partner broke it off. It has mainly been the reason I haven't written in these journals for a while. But I think I have come close this time. After years of searching, I found a small temple that supposedly worshipped a diety that took the form of crystals.
This could be it, finally, the Shattered Ghost. As previously recorded I have only obtained bits and pieces from what has been described by various cultures. While the stories vary widely about what it is, the appearance and power seems to be consistent. A being of either glass or crystal shards, whose able to manipulate the world around it.
After meeting up with my friends, and checking up on my parents I plan to go investigate the site. I haven't seen my parents in a couple months, but my friends made sure to drag me out from my research. Though I would have prefered to get a bit more research in, I did have a lot of fun.
I'll be sure to take my journal and document what I find. I will solve this mystery, no matter what it costs.
Something has just happened! I don't know how but I'm back at my apartment. Last thing I remember was I entered the temple and saw it. It was there, staring at me, if it could. It didn't have any actual eyes so it was hard to tell. I chased it down, and when I caught up... I don't know. There was a bright light and I woke back up here.
The calender says it is the same day. Seemingly I am the only one who has any recollection of the previous day, or I guess the previous today. Something strange though is that when talking with my friends, they had no memory of when we hung out the other day.
I need to know more about what is happening. I plan on going back to the temple, if I can get close to the ghost I may be able to find out what it is doing.
Somehow whenever I catch up to the ghost it resets the day but alters a certain aspect. Though I assumed it was only minor changes, I was proven wrong. My friends have less memories of me now. Even Dinah is missing events from our childhood. Something else happened, Blake is gone. There are not any traces of her around my apartment, none of the photos of her, no cat bed, nothing. She's just... gone.
She meant the world to me, got me through some rough times, and now she never even existed. I need to catch the Shattered Ghost. I'll find out what it is doing and how to restore everything.
I've tried all I could to catch this bastard. Traps, weapons, anything. Everytime I just end back up here. Worse everything continues to vanish. I've lost Blake, Dinah, even my parents are forgetting parts of my life. But I can't give up, I'll find a way to catch up to the ghost and reverse the effects of whatever power it is using. I know if I keep going I can fix everything.
It's all gone. I guess I poked the bear too much. I just kept chasing it down, and every time I lost more and more. Now I have nothing left to lose. My friends either have no memory of my existence or simply no longer exist. As for my parents, seems they never met, each married in another country.
Unsurprisingly I was never born. I just wanted to figure out the mystery, solve the unanswered question of who the Shattered Ghost was. I should have stopped, but now I have lost everything. My entire life has been shattered. This obsession made me nothing more than a ghost.