Chapter 1

Its now a month ever since the event, and he is now back in his house. His house was concrete, and right beside a university, where his family also sells stuff. There inside his room, there were some few anime posters while having a double decker as bed, and his cabinets at the side. He also had a study table with just one laptop as well. He was lying in his bed, at the bottom of the double decker, where he was done watching a movie. It was also now night time, and after he just had dinner.

"Hahh.. watched this movie for over like 3 times already, but I still feel that I just lost something." John said murmuring to himself while lying down in his bed.

Even though he said that, he already knows what he has lost. He lost some opportunities in Cebu, where he was supposed to be working. He lost his work, where his parents forcefully pulled him out of there due to the incident. And he lost many other chances, where he had other plans being independent. And while lying down his bed, he is doing some flashbacks, thinking of what he has lost or gave up in the end. Even though he has thought all those, he didnt have any regrets, as he has already counted everything as experience in the one year of his independence and has already done almost everything he wanted to do. So after everything that he has thought of, he corrected his posture to sit down in his bed, and thought hard on what might have happened to him. But everytime he tries to remember, he is met with headaches.

"Ugh.. I have done this over a month already, and im still back where I started." John said as he gave up and calmed down, to calm his mind and ease the headaches.

After he gave up, he sought through social media on his phone, as he had nothing else to do. But fate has brought him to something, as his wish will now be granted, where he saw a video on youtube about meditation.

"Hmm.. maybe I should give it a try." John said as he had a voila moment

After that, he then searched for a video about meditation, where it led him to watch a video all about opening the chakras. As it piqued his interest, he gave it a try. He then sat with his legs crossed horizontally, while listening to the instructions on how to unlock ones chakras. Then after listening to the video, and after accepting everything about almost all of his regrets, it was after that that he felt something. As it piqued his curiosity, he tries to meditate more, and found a pattern or a clue to how everything started. He noticed patterns somewhat being drawn on his head, like it was muscle memory at work. Where the more he meditated and felt some electricity flowing up his spine, more and more patterns were drawn, even though it wasn’t even visible to the naked eye! And sometimes, he felt some words surfacing, as if he felt such words were true and being embedded into his body. And after some time of meditation, he suddenly feels sleepy and tired from the session. Although one thing was certain and came into his mind, on how the event really started, a mystic and powerful word from all the knowledge that he has accumulated overtime.

“voodoo” john whispered as he opened his eyes, in a bit of anger.

Knowing that he can do nothing in the end, left him frustrated a bit. Though he now has one mission, and that is to unravel the voodoo that was implanted on him, and figure out all the other things such as on how voodoo might work. After reaching a decision, he then continued to meditate more. Then after some time, during his meditation sessions, he was finally able to remember a bit of his past at work! Although it left him very tired in the end, where he has to cut his sessions, where he will continue on the next day. His routine everyday is just to help his parents at the store throughout the day, and watch anime or movies at night, where he just wants to relax at night. Though after such a revelation, he then made time for his meditation sessions, where he slowly revealed even more memories! As well as slowly undo all the voodoo that was done to him! Though that may also be the case, he just wrote in his laptop some notes on what he has found out during his sessions, all while fighting the urge to talk against the voices in his head. Thus getting angry almost all the time as he wrote on his computer while on the store.

After some time, maybe around a few months, he was able to analyze how voodoo works! That was after one of his sessions though. And even though that was the case, he didn’t show any signs of any anomalies to his mental state to his family. As undoing voodoo would take a toll on his mental state in a way.

“aha! It seems like that voodoo works as a combination of acupuncture, hypnotism, local medicine, and belief! Where they do some kind of ritual on the subject, believing it was true in some way.” john whispered to himself

He analyzed that voodoo is a combination of such elements, only cause of the signs that his body gave to him, which is a result of muscle memory. As he experienced it first hand: the feeling of some needles poking all over his body, the invisible patterns being drawn on his own head, and the word commands embedded to his body. If he didn’t notice or ignored the pattern or clues presented by his own muscle memory, he wouldnt have made such an analysis in the first place, in which that is also what he is thinking while doing sessions. Where each session slowly restores some of his own few memories on the time of his work. He also realized on how to undo the spell of voodoo, where there are just a few requirements. That one must realize or accept that one is under hypnotism, one must undo the ritual themselves even though a third person isnt that necessary, and one must have the courage and patience for it all. Then after a few more sessions, he was able to remember a piece of the missing puzzle, of the time when he had an outing with his work friends towards one place in Cebu.

“so thats what really happened! Hahh.. Malapascua.” john said as he bottled up all the frustration that he felt during the revelation

As according to his memories, it was only during his time in Malapascua that he was most vulnerable, since he just recently stopped drinking energy drinks with coffee. That he also remembers one of them suddenly asking if there was a witch doctor around, not yet knowing what they could have meant or planned at the time. But as knowing the revelation, he couldnt do anything about it, thus he took a deep breath and try to calm down from his own frustration. And as he was now very tired by that time, he then slept and will continue by the next day. Though in the next few days, another revelation finally surfaced, which is the day of the event. Where he was actually just sitting on his chair and doing his work, he suddenly felt a big headache. It was so painful that he fainted, where he could then remember lying on a bed, in a room with white background, without anything else on the room except for the bed and a door. He then snapped out of the memory cause of a shout from his mother, as his mother was calling him for something right outside his room. Its now 11:15 on the next day, where he began his session before he sleeps, while lying down on his bed and ready to also sleep. But before he shut the lights off, like all catholics in the country, he prayed for safety as he unravels the last piece of the puzzle.