《#199》
Prologue: No Regrets
¡°Everyone¡¯s dead, except me. Well, that¡¯s about to change¡± I¡¯ve been hiding here for two weeks now, all my friends are dead, and there¡¯s only two days worth of food left. But what¡¯s the point in living, the worlds gone to shit.
This wasn¡¯t supposed to happen, I¡¯m just a normal 57-year-old scientist name Rex trying to find a cure for a disease. But now, I locked up underground with no hope of escape.
¡°BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG¡±
When did it happen, the fall of society I mean. I know why it started, but I was born before everything happened, and I also wasn¡¯t born on this planet.
¡°BANG BANG BANG¡±
¡°Now that I think about it, where is my lab located.¡± I know it¡¯s underground, but I haven¡¯t left the lab in two years. I know I just said (thought) that I was hiding here for two weeks, but what I meant was this room, this specific room, and two other rooms, not the whole lab. The lab ceiling caved un crushing everything due to poor maintenance. This lab isn¡¯t even ours, my crew and I just stumbled upon it two years ago, and just never left. And after studying this place, my crew figured out that this place was to develop and study abilities ¡°Heh, that¡¯s what you get from an undeveloped world, grabbing people, putting them in chambers, and seeing if an ability will show up.¡±
¡°BANG BANG BANG¡±
¡°OKAY, I HEAR YOU BASTARDS, JUST SHUT UP.¡± Seriously, I know their undead and all due to that stupid disease, but could they just stop. It¡¯s been like this for two weeks, with them just banging and banging and banging on the fucking door. What would happen if they got in here, they would just eat me and maybe some of the corpses, and either leave or get lost in the ruins.
¡°BANG BANG¡±
My god, I¡¯m about to just open that door and kill myself¡
Well, I got nothing to do, might as well check the corpses of the test subjects. I wonder why the scientist who owned this place never let the patients out, it normally only takes one hour to gain an ability... ¡°Well, those are questions I will never get answers to.¡±
Limping over to each individual chamber to see if anything changed, which of course nothing would happen. Going through each one quick, and fast, since I already knew what I would see, only stopping at #125 since that one had a pretty girl in it, but even that gets boring after a while. So, after I had my fun, I continued down the line, #124, #123, #122, #121, #120, and finally the last one, #199. ¡°Let¡¯s get this over with.¡±
Opening the door, I step into chamber #199 and went over to see how the patient was doing. Not really caring about anything, I went through everything as I did for the others, and if you would look at that, the power just barely goes to this chamber so it doesn¡¯t show me his vitals giving me more work. Well, I got nothing to do, might as well give this thing power and see if he¡¯s alive. ¡°Now after giving this chamber power, I can confidently say that this man is¡ Alive¡± What, did, did I read that right, it says that he¡¯s alive. But that¡¯s not possible, I checked every chamb¡ Wait.
I¡¯ve never checked every chamber, only #125. And now that I think about it, everyone would say to put power in this room, were people always alive in here and I never noticed. No way, no one is that stupid, and I¡¯m a scientist, I can¡¯t miss this very important detail. ¡°I CAN¡¯T BE THAT STUPID!!!!¡±
¡°BANG BANG BANG BANG¡±
¡°SHUT UP!!!¡±
Okay, okay, let¡¯s think about this. What do I do now? I can either
- A) Let this guy die
Or
- B) Fix the machine, and save this man¡¯s life
Going, to be honest, option A seems tempting. I¡¯m about to die so who cares about some stranger, and my entire crew couldn¡¯t fix this machine well we could, but the amount of power it needed was way more than we could spare. I guess my crew always thought that once we got picked up, we could then save these people and we can¡¯t open the containers the patients are in since once their in, therein. That¡¯s the problem with these old ability developers. And then the lab collapsed, then undead swarmed in and everything went to shit from there. Should I try and save this guy.Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!
I checked this man¡¯s or kid¡¯s profile, and find out almost nothing on him. Most of the ink on the paper was gone, and I was only able to get his age, which was 14. So, like I thought earlier, should I save this kid¡¯s life.
Do we even have enough power to start up the ability developer thing? ¡°Well, I am an Electro user, so maybe I could start it up, and since I only need to do one chamber, I could redirect the power so it doesn¡¯t power all the chambers but one, and then the power needed would be less. But still, there¡¯s a problem. My ability sucks, I have no talent and never actually tried to improve it, so if I use it for something this big, it could kill me¡
¡°Oh, what the hell, I¡¯m going to die anyway, plus their nothing for me here, or back home. All my friends are dead, and my family could care less about me.¡±
Making up my mind, I decided that I would save this kid¡¯s life, no matter what.
Even though I¡¯m a BioScientist, I did major in engineering back in my college days, but got bored with it and switched. Who would have thought that it could lead me to work four days straight with no sleep, no food, and only enough water to keep me alive. Let me tell you, I¡¯ve never felt this alive in the past two weeks, as I¡¯ve never moved this much, I would just sit in a corner coving my ears so I wouldn¡¯t have to hear the banging. But now, not only have the banging stopped, but I also got this thing to work. ¡°I feel so alive right now¡± I wanted to yell that out, but after four days of not sleeping or eating, you don¡¯t have that much energy.
And now, here comes the day I die, but also the day I save a kid¡¯s life.
After putting all the food on top of a box, and stood at the console, the place where I would have to shoot electricity into, to give power to the ability developer. ¡°Alright kid, you¡¯ll probably die as soon as I revive you, but hey you have an ability so maybe you¡¯ll make something out of yourself.¡± Yeah, even if this kid wakes up, he won¡¯t know what to do with his ability.
¡°...Fine¡± Grabbing the knife I used to cut wires, I pointed it towards my head, quickly said ¡°disconnect¡± and after a few seconds stabbed it into my head, making a little hole.
¡°Hey I¡¯m alive and I got the chip out. This thing will help you learn how to use your ability kid, and since I only got about two minutes before I die of blood loss, let me stick this into the hole at the side of your container, and that will insert it into your brain. Once you wake up, it will start connecting itself to your brain and let me tell you, it hurts like a motherfucker, and then you just need to wait thirty to one hour and you¡¯ll get your ability. I hope you become an Electro user, then maybe you could be something like my kid, and if you get strong one day, then I don¡¯t have to feel so sad about being weak. Well, I¡¯m talking too long, let''s get this over with, not as you can hear me. Well since you can¡¯t hear me, let me just say that there¡¯s a slight chance of you losing all your memory. Of course, you¡¯ll still have some basic information but you¡¯ll have as much knowledge as a baby..¡±
Placing the chip into the side hole, I went back to my position and began. Feeling the power inside me, I move it into my right hand, there you would see sparks coming to life, ¡°Okay, I may have been a lazy asshole my whole life, but now I get to save a kid¡¯s life. If he dies soon after coming to life, that¡¯s not my fault, but I bet he will do something great one day.¡± Finishing what I wanted to say I shot electricity into the console, powering the chamber making it come to life.
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¡°COME ON, a little faster¡±
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¡°Don¡¯t you fucking dare go up by 5 now¡±
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¡°Come on¡±
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¡°YES!!!!¡±
As soon as I stopped, I fell face-first onto the floor. ¡°Yep, I¡¯m definitely dying, by both overload and the bloodloss. But if you think I¡¯m going to just lay here, waiting to die, then you''re wrong. There¡¯s a reason I made a path straight to #199 chamber, it¡¯s so I could see him alive and know all my efforts weren¡¯t for waste.¡±
With my dying breath, I grab the edge of the console and pulled myself up just enough to see the chamber. I look through the window and saw that #199 was out, but sitting on the floor, either dead or asleep. ¡°No way, I checked up on him every hour, and he was alive, he can¡¯t be dead.¡±
He¡¯s sleeping, even though I¡¯m dying to see him awake, so please, please just ¡°Wake Up Idiot!¡±
And at that moment, I saw the kid¡¯s eyelids shoot up. He was awake and alive. ¡°Heh, no regrets¡±
And like that, I feel down towards the floor,
Dead
First Steps
¡°Wake Up Idiot!¡±
Opening my eyes to a sharp masculine voice, I find myself in a small dark room. While I could make out some object, everything was fuzzy, so I couldn¡¯t put a name on any of them. I wanted to just sit there and wait for everything to become clear, but that would never happen as the right side of my head suddenly received a wave of pain, as if something was growing inside.
Grabbing the right side of my head with both hands, thinking it would do something, but as the pain increased, my nails started to dig into my head causing more pain. The pain from my head never subsided, it just kept growing, spreading itself all over my head, never slowing down or stopping.
Finally, after what felt like hours, the pain started to ease up, going from getting burned alive, to a very painful headache. After the pain was fully gone, I opened my eyes once again, now fully awake, without a hint of being drowsy.
Sitting straight up, I took note of everything around me. I was in a small black room, with a small metal table and chair in the corner which looked crappy. Something that looked like a jar on top of a metal door, and adding to that, the object I was leaning on also looked like a jar, just at an angle. ¡°I think...I came out of...that angled jar.¡± Well, that¡¯s weird, my throat is dry like I¡¯ve never used it.
Deciding that there was nothing here that could entertain me, I grabbed a pole looking thing that was holding up the angle jar, hoisting myself up.
Now, on my two shaking legs, I decided to take my first step in this new world¡ ¡°How...do I walk?¡±
Well, it can¡¯t be that hard, so maybe I just need to move my arms first, but which arm do I move? After doing nothing but swinging my arms around for five minutes, I didn¡¯t move anywhere, but now my arms hurt. ¡°So, if I swing my arms too...much, they start to hurt. Good to...know.¡±
But, I need to move, and moving my arms didn¡¯t do anything, so maybe my legs. Putting strength into my legs, I tried to lift one of them, and as soon as I did, something happens to my body. I was shaking, but not like my legs were, I was shaking up and down, almost like I was going to fall. I didn¡¯t know what to do, was this natural, what¡¯s going on?
I didn¡¯t know if this was natural or not, so I just gave up control over my body, and as soon as I did that, I fell straight onto my back, hitting my head on the hard floor, causing pain that was similar to that headache, but not as bad. ¡°What happened?¡±
[Answer: Due to poor motor skills, and your muscles not being used for an extended period of time, you lost your balance. Resulting in you falling down]
¡°Oh, I understood none of that. But since you seem to know why I fell, could you tell me how to not fall.¡± It seems that I can now speak clearly, but my throat is still pretty sore causing my voice to be strained. Also, where did this male voice come from?
[Answer: While on one leg, you can try a T-pose for balance. And if you still start to fall, try stretching your arms in the opposite direction to help pick yourself up]
¡°Yeah, I still don¡¯t get it. Anyways, who are you, or better yet, where are you?¡±
[Answer: My apologies, I seem to have forgotten to introduce myself. I am D-2051813914112]
¡°Okay, but that doesn¡¯t answer my second question.¡±
As soon as I said that, two screens appeared in front of my right eye, ¡°AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH¡±
Using my left hand, I tried to slap it away from me, but when I tried to do that, my hand went right through, and in the next instant my hand landed on my face, making a loud sound. ¡°What?¡±
[Answer:]
¡°BEFORE YOU TALK, YOU BETTER USE WORDS I CAN UNDERSTAND,¡± still with my left hand over my face, I yelled at the thing in front of me, wondering how I can see the screen even with my left hand over my right eye.
¡[Answer: I am a computer that was put into your brain to help you survive in this world. That pain you felt before was me connecting myself to your brain. You are the only person who can see me, and I can help you develop your Ability once it appears.¡±
¡°Okay, I understand some of that, but my ability, what¡¯s that.¡±
[Answer: An ability is attained when the¡ Abilities are essentially superpowers]
¡°What are superpowers?¡±
¡[Answer: They let you become strong]Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators!
¡°Ohhhhhh, that¡¯s cool. So, when do I get mine?¡±
[Answer: 30min-1 hour¡ I mean,]
¡°I understand the numbers. God, I¡¯m not that dumb.¡±
[Noted]
¡°Alright, now for the real question, how do I walk because I¡¯m getting tired of being in here?¡±
[Answer: First stand up. You do this by lifting your upper body. You do this by putting your arm in front of you and try pulling yourself up with them]
¡°Okay¡± Doing exactly what the voice told me, I put my arms in front of me, and tried pulling myself up with them. It was way harder than I thought, I felt like my stomach was about to be ripped in half. Still, I powered through it, finally sitting back up again.
[Answer: Good Job. It seems you already figured out how to stand on your two legs, so just do what you did before]
Doing what the voice said, I was able to get back on my feet, but now is the scary part of trying to walk, ¡°Okay...Now what?¡±
[Answer: Lift your right leg off the ground, but make sure it doesn¡¯t go above half your left leg. And then place your right foot in front of you, but don¡¯t place it too far. Then you do the same thing for your left leg. To help with balance, when you¡¯re moving your legs, swing the opposite arm with similar speeds to your leg. Do all this quick, every step shouldn¡¯t take more than 1 second]
Both scared and hesitant, I was worried I would get everything wrong and fall on my back again, ¡°Okay...That¡¯s pretty complicated, but I¡¯ll try.¡±
Before lifting my right leg, I tried to find the perfect position to place my foot. I didn¡¯t want to mess up and fall again, so I had to be extra careful. After finding a nice spot, I lift my right leg and did exactly what the voice told me, but as I placed my right foot on the floor, and as I was about to turn around and see far I was, the area between my legs and the bottom of the top part of both legs started to burn. I didn¡¯t know why, but all I did know was that I couldn¡¯t take it anymore, but I didn¡¯t know what to do, and before I could ask the voice, the bottom of my legs hit the floor causing me pain that was almost as bad as when the voice was connecting itself to my brain, but still, this was a close second, ¡°AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH¡±
I fell down on the side of my head, in pain. ¡°What did I do?¡±
[Answer: You did the Splits]
¡°I did everything you told me, so why did it hurt so bad?¡±
[Answer: You place your foot too far away. You need to make that distance shorter]
¡°Okay, but first tell me how to move my body from my side to my back¡±
[Answer: Place your arms above you, and then like before pull yourself in the direction you want]
Doing that, I was able to get on my back, and like before get back on my feet, ready to make another attempt to walk.
So, last time I stepped too far, so this time the position of where my foot should be placed is clear.
Lifting my foot, I took the first step, ¡°Voice, d, did I do it?¡±
[Answer: Yes. Now, try to use your left foot to take the next step. Also, try to place your foot farther than just 2 inches away from you]
¡°NO WAY, I¡¯m not ready for advance walking¡± I really wasn¡¯t, if I tried to what the voice was telling me, I would fall again. First I need to complete using my left foot for walking.
Looking back at my left foot, I lift it up and slowly moved it in front of my right foot, very slowly placed it on the ground. Looking around, I saw that nothing was wrong, everything was fine. ¡°Voice, did I do it?¡±
[Answer: Yes]
¡°COOL!!!¡±
Okay, now I just need to practice. Let¡¯s keep walking, also I should practice swinging my arms.
¡°Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, OW¡±
Hitting my head on something, I fell back down to my lovely but hard floor. ¡°Dammit, I fell back down on my¡±
[Answer: Ass]
¡°Is that what it¡¯s called, alright, but what made me fall?¡±
[Answer: You hit a wall. You need to both walk and stay aware of your surroundings]
¡°Really, man why are there so many rules to walking?¡±
[Answer:]
¡°I don¡¯t want an answer, let me just pick myself up. My angled jar is back there, but I have this table.¡±
[Answer: That Angled Jar of yours is not a Jar, It¡¯s a Container known as an Ability Developer. Also, don¡¯t use the table, try picking yourself up]
¡°What, how do I do that?¡±
[Answer: First, turn your body at an angle, then place the opposite arm on the ground, and then push yourself up. Also, as your going up, make sure your feet are flat so when you stand up again, you wouldn¡¯t fall due to your terrible motor skills and balance]
¡°Alright, I think I get it.¡± Turning my body to the left, I then place my right arm on the ground next to the left side of my body. Pushing myself up, I felt myself losing some balance, and then I realize something, what do I do with my legs, should I move them. As I was in a weird upside-down U position, I moved my left leg forward so it was in front of my body, and with that, my body was now balanced allowing me to finish the steps of, ¡°picking myself up¡±.
¡°Hah, Hah. Hey, voice, I did it, but I think you forgot to give me some important steps, like what to do with my legs.¡±
[Answer: No one¡¯s perfect]
I think I¡¯m starting to hate this voice. Whatever, it¡¯s teaching me so
[Answer: I¡¯m in your head, I can hear what your thinking]
...Oh
Ignoring that, looking at the table next to me, I saw some things I don¡¯t recognize. It was some kind of thin sheet, I don¡¯t know what it is, but it had letters or what looked like letters on it, so maybe it can tell me why I¡¯m here. ¡°Hey voice, what¡¯s that?¡±
[Answer: That¡¯s paper. If you want me, I can teach you to read and write]
¡°Na, I rather spend the day learning the advanced methods of walking. Alright voice, now teach me how to turn while walking.¡±
[Answer: Okay]
My Name is...
¡°Hey, when am I getting an Ability. I¡¯ve been in here for...¡±
[Answer: 30 minutes]
¡°Yeah, so how much longer will it take?¡±
[Answer: Due to equipment used at a time, the timeframe to gain and Ability will be 30min to 1 hour]
Alright, from the little things I already know, that tells me that I might get an Ability soon. But, I¡¯ve been in this room for forever that I left the ¡°chamber¡± and started exploring the room while practicing my walking.
Inside the surprisingly large room, there were 6 chambers including my own, with each one having a similar style to mine. The large room also had a large open space in which the voice told me that the previous owner cleared out for me to enjoy, and finally opposite to my room a place the voice told me was where the control center was.
When I enter the ¡°control center¡±, I found a dead body inside, after turning the body over I found that the body was burnt. The skin was black, with little marks that looked like lighting. The voice told me that if your body couldn¡¯t handle it, your own ability could over Overload and do several things to you. So essentially this guy died for being weak, how useless.
Anyway, I just need to wait a little bit, and then I can get an Ability. ¡°What to do, what to do?¡±
[Answer: If I may suggest, you could try to discover your name while you wait]
¡°My name, what¡¯s a name?¡±
[Answer: A way to call someone]
¡°Okay, then what¡¯s your name?¡±
[Answer: I am D-2051813914112]
¡°Yeah, that¡¯s not going to work with me. Do you have something I can call you?¡±
[Answer: you may call me anything you like]
Really, you¡¯re just going to push the problem onto me. If I¡¯ve never heard a name before, how am I going to name someone else, what if names are just numbers? ¡°Alright... How about...Idiot?¡±
[Answer: If you wish]
I remember someone calls me for someone else that, so maybe Idiot is someone¡¯s name. Anyway, what¡¯s my name, ¡°Maybe my room has the answer?¡±
Using my amazing walking skills, I go over to my chamber and look for¡Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.
[Answer: Clues]
Really, that sounds dumb.
Anyway, looking for clues, the only thing here is a little sheet of paper with stuff written on it. I know there¡¯s supposed to be words on paper, but I can¡¯t read it, everything just looks like chicken scratches or that¡¯s what Idiot told me, with the only things I could read were the numbers. And there still weren''t that many numbers, with the only ones being 199 and 14.
The number 199 was at the top with a single word behind it, and 14 had a few words behind it, but I couldn¡¯t read any of it, ¡°Hey Idiot, could you help me?¡±
[Answer: I can teach you how to read and write, but signs inside your body tell me that you¡¯re about to awaken, or about to gain an Ability. Before that, I will just tell you everything that¡¯s on the paper]
¡°Really! I¡¯m about to gain an ability, the thing you told me would make me super strong. I can¡¯t wait, so just hurry up and read these words.¡±
[Answer: The words on the paper say, ¡°Subject #199¡± and ¡°is currently 14 years of age, and will soon become age 15¡±, that is all]
¡°That¡¯s it, I guess that it never told us my name, or is Subject #199 my name?¡±
[Answer: No, it didn¡¯t say your name, and 199 is not your name, it¡¯s your number]
My number, I¡¯m guessing that¡¯s like the number others put on me, I wonder why 199 though. But, if I meet other¡¯s I¡¯m going to need a name, so how will I get a name from 199¡
¡°Idiot, what do you think, how should I get a name from 199?¡±
[Answer: I can¡¯t answer this question]
What, idiot can¡¯t answer it. This must be a tough question, so how will I get it. The only things I remember are small random things such as jars and numbers, and those aren¡¯t related to names, I think.
¡°Hmmm¡ Oh, I know. Idiot, can you show me the entire Alphabet for me.¡±
[Answer: Yes, but the letters can only come from the English Alphabet, so other earth languages or otherworldly ones are not included]
¡°That¡¯s fine¡±
After saying that, from my right eye a little list of letters which I hope are in order appeared. All the letters looked hard to learn due to their weird shapes, and I know that one day I¡¯m going to have to learn them which I¡¯m not excited about. ¡°Alright, let¡¯s get to counting.¡±
My method for creating a name from 199, was to count. I would use the first letter A as the base for my name since 1 is the first number, then count up until I reach 9 which seems to be I, and use that twice because I have two 9 in my number. Perfect, with this I got myself a name.
"My name is Aii until I can find my real name!"
[Answer: Congrats Aii, you have created a name that people will call you until you find your real name]
¡°Thanks, Idiot, and hey, maybe I can come up with a better name for you later on.¡±
[Answer: I would like that, and then you took for coming up with a name was perfect timing]
¡°Huh, why?¡±
[Answer: Because your body is ready to awaken your Ability, right NOW]
¡°I¡¯m...going to...aw-aw-awaken a¡± Why do I feel so tired. I grab the edge of the table to keep myself up, but every second I¡¯m getting heavier. I can¡¯t keep this up, my eyes are shutting, my body doing something mysterious, I don¡¯t know what¡¯s happening.
I tried keeping myself up for as long as possible, but soon I couldn¡¯t take it anymore, I decided to just let my body take its course. And that course was my face on the floor with my body shutting down.
How long am I going to be like this?
Awakening
¡°Huh, where am I?¡± I was just in my room when Idiot told me that my Ability was awakening. Is that how it works, suddenly feel heavy and then wake up in a dark world. Well semi-dark since I can make out some objects, and while I can¡¯t put a name to any of them, I can still tell that I¡¯m in some sort of land.
¡°Well, I¡¯m bored, time to explore¡± Not knowing what to do, I decided to explore the place as nothing was going to happen with me just standing here.
Since I don¡¯t have a sense of¡ Huh, normally this is where Idiot tells me what to say. Now that I think about it, it¡¯s been pretty quiet lately. ¡°Hey Idiot, you there?¡±
...Okay, this is bad, without Idiot, I got no chance of surviving. He was the one who taught me how to walk and if my basic knowledge has taught me anything, it taught me that walking is the simplest thing there is and yet it took me 30 minutes to do it...
¡°SCREW IT, I¡¯m just going to keep walking until I find something!!!¡±
Due to that, I¡¯ve been walking around the place for 3 hours. In those three hours, I figured out a few things. One, wherever I walk, a little bit of light seems to surround me, and they don¡¯t go away, so I¡¯m able to make a little trail with them while at the same time lighting up the place. Second, I seem to be in some sort of bumpy place with little things on the ground that are green. With the few words I know, I can describe them as little pointy green creatures that are connected to the ground (grass). Not only that, but there are hundreds of bumps on the land, some with the green stuff on them, and the others while not having the green stuff, were tall, so tall that I couldn¡¯t see the top of them. Third, it seems my knowledge is larger than I thought. Some bigger words are there in my head, I just don¡¯t know what they mean, plus I seem to understand color or the basic colors. Finally, I¡¯ve been hearing these loud booms and they seem to just happen at random plus they¡¯re loud. The first time I heard it, my body stopped working, making me fall again. I didn¡¯t get back up for 5 minutes and adding to that, the green stuff is quite soft.
¡°Still, none of that matters if I can¡¯t get out of this place.¡± I don¡¯t know what I¡¯m doing at this point, I¡¯ve tried finding my way out, but this place is so big. Not only did I practice my running, but it turns out I don¡¯t know my left from my right. Also, at some point I found myself walking over another light path, telling me that either someone else is here, or I just made a circle.
¡°I¡¯m going to die here.¡±
¡°BOOM!!!!!!!!!!¡±
Just as I said that the giant boom thing appeared right in front of me, and while I only saw it for a second, I realize what that thing was. It was lighting, ¡°So the boom was created by lighting. Good to know¡±
Another thing I learned about lighting, is that lighting is fast, really fast. It appeared in front of me the first second and then disappeared the next. And in its place, a line of water going in one direction appeared. ¡°Never knew lighting can make water.¡±
Not only can lighting make water, but also remove the green stuff, fill it up with water and make that water go in one direction. I wonder if this thing is called something, probably not.
Getting down on one knee, I tried checking the water only to find someone else inside it.Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings.
As soon as I saw that person I jumped, even though I was on one knee, I was somehow able to jump back even though no one taught me, but that¡¯s not the point. The important thing is that someone else is here, which means I didn¡¯t just make a circle earlier. That¡¯s good, but now what do I do, is this person nice? Please be nice, I don¡¯t know what to do if you weren¡¯t.
Getting on all fours, I slowly go over to the water hoping that this person is nice and won¡¯t make me die. Once I¡¯m at the edge I put my stomach on the ground and push myself over to the water, with my head going through first I stay there wondering if the person will grab my head. If he does, then I know he¡¯s not nice, but after a while, nothing happened.
¡°Okay, so he is nice¡± Back to being on all fours, I look over the edge to find the person there again. Scared that this guy might attack me, I try to quickly say hello, but my words came out all shaky and loud, ¡°H-EL-L-o!¡±
Crap, I stopped myself near the end, but I was loud right there, will this guy attack me because of it. Focusing my eyes on the person inside the water, all my fears disappear.
¡°Huh, now that I look at you, you look pretty weak.¡± Not to mention boring. I know that was mean, but it¡¯s the truth, the person has short messy black hair, a boring face with nothing interesting to mention, tired-looking brown eyes and arms that couldn¡¯t lift his own body. Everything about this person seemed weak and boring.
Still, that was mean of me, even I know that plus this is the first person I met so, ¡°S-Sorry about that, I know that was mean but it¡¯s the truth. Anyways, I don¡¯t know what to do in this situation so I¡¯m just going to hold up one of my hands and see what you do, okay¡±
Still, on all fours, I lift my left arm and just hold it out, letting the person know I¡¯m not a threat.
Hmm, that¡¯s weird. The person doing the same thing I¡¯m doing, did he have the same idea as me. ¡°D-Do you w-want me to put my arm down?¡±
Just there I saw something, the person¡¯s mouth was moving as I spoke, why was that... ¡°WAIT¡±
I started shaking my arm left and right, up and down, and every time the person¡¯s arm would move in the same direction as mine. I started moving my mouth also, and just like with my arm the person¡¯s mouth started to move. ¡°Is this person me. N-No way, if that¡¯s true then that means I¡¯m a boring weakling¡±
I think I knew it was me, but after calling the person weak and boring looking, I refuse to say that this person in the water was me. Besides, how can it be me since I¡¯m up here and the person down in the water, there can¡¯t be two me¡¯s, Right.
¡°Whatever, I don¡¯t have time for this. I need to get out of this place.¡± Standing up, I quickly try to walk away from this situation, but before I could take a single step, a bolt of lightning struck the ground a few feet ahead of me.
This one just like the last one appeared for a second and left soon after and in its place a sign with writing on it.
Looking over the sign, I just remember that I can¡¯t read. And before I could say something about me not being able to read, another bolt of lightning came down, and this time it left soft chilling words, ¡°Climb the Mountain¡±
¡°Climb the Mountain? But, what¡¯s a mountain, and what¡¯s climb?¡± Generally confused that lighting can create water, signs, words and speak I try to ask the lighting some simple questions. Man, I thought I knew some things about the world, but this proves I know nothing.
To answer my calls, two bolts of lightning came down, though it seems that they hit the ground at the same time, I was somehow able to see that the left one was faster. When the left one came down, the same but louder voice answer (most likely because the sound lighting makes is very loud) told me, ¡°Go up the mountain¡±
And once that was done, the right bolt came down and in its place a statue of a hand pointing to the right.
Looking to my right, I see the giant spiky Bump, which if I¡¯m right must be a mountain, and if that¡¯s a mountain then climbing must mean to go up something.
Looking at the sign that probably tells me to ¡°climb the mountain¡± and the statue, I turn over to the mountain that I¡¯m supposed to climb.
¡°Okay¡±