《Breaking The Barrier》


 Ch.1 -The Awakening Pt.1

    The noise permeating the Surroundings was ear-shattering, and Luke quickly put his hands to his ears, squeezing down on them as hard as he could. He quickly stood up from the bench he had been sitting on and began running down the small gravelroad, hoping to reach a shelter before it was to late. The park around him was dimly lit by the few streetlamps which barely managed to light the main track up. The surrounding forest however, was as black as it was silent. Luke felt the adrenaline in his body force it to its limits, when he then suddenly heard the unmistakable sound of a jet engine.


    He stopped, and slowly turned around to gaze up at the nightsky. No stars could be seen and aside from the lights comming from the barely visible scyscrapers in the distance, all was dark.


    Sounds of sirens and screams started to emerge as the noise from the siren faded away, and helicopters had already taken to the skies to meet the unseen threat from above.


    Luke never saw the stealthbomber, nor the bomb, all he saw was the blinding light that in an instant engulfed the entire horizon. Luke was frozen in shock, and could only watch as the light grew wider, higher, and closer...


    Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation."so this is how i die huh", he thought. "bummer"


    and with a smile, he closed his eyes. Soon his problems would dissapear.


    ...


    "how come i can still think? i guess i was wrong about the afterlife then. And here i was hoping i''d just stop existing. Well, i guess i''m just unlucky that way".


    Luke smiled in the dark, waiting for the divine entity he figured would come pick him up, but it seemed there weren''t going to be any divine interventions on his part.


    "I wonder what that was anyway, it seemed like a nuclear bomb, but when taking into consideration how close i was to the blast, i should''ve been incinerated the moment i laid eyes on the explosion. How odd" he thought, and then let out a chuckle. No sound came out however, possibly due to the fact that he no longer had a vocalcord. It was a truly bizzare feeling, not having a body, but hardly an unpleasant one. Luke had been a handsome young man, with a small frame and a wicked smile, but despite this the loss of his body caused him no grief. He could feel it. The ground under his feet. This wasn''t the end, but a new beginning.


    When Luke opened his eyes again, the world had changed....

 Ch.1-The Awakening Pt.2

    The warm light that was coming from the campfire illuminated Lukes'' small frame as he ate.


    as it turned out, he had kept his prior body and physique, for which he was thankful. He had walked the plains until he''d spotted a forest in the distance, and had then proceeded to make camp near it. The campfire had been fueled by the few dry branches he had been able to find in the damp clearing he''d found earlier, and it seemed like it had rained before his reincarnation.


    Reincarnation, he couldn''t think of any other explanation for what had happened to him. People didn''t just wake up after being nuked, to his knowledge, so something unusual must have happened. However much he wanted to find out the cause of his sudden relocation, though, there were more urgent matters at hand.


    The most important one being food. He''d found a small stream and quelshed his thirst with the clean, unnaturally tasty water, so that wouldn''t be a problem, but the only thing he''d found in terms of food was a rather bitter fruit, which he''d been unable to finish thus far.


    Luke scanned the lush undergrowth for food once again, but couldn''t find anything edible save for a few distant animals.


    The animals in question were nothing like those of his own world, with great spikes sticking out from their brown furr, and what seemed to be blades protruding from their tails. They did not look like easy prey.


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    The animals had been edging closer to the fire for a while now, and Luke couldn''t help but wonder if they were carnovores. Due to their miniscule size, he''d asssumed that they were harmless and would let him be, but the look in their glowing, yellow eyes told him that they might not be as friendly as he''d thought. Luke quickly stood up, dashing to the side as something lunged at him from behind. He managed to see a bladed tail dissapear into theundergrowth before he hit the ground. He immediately performed a roll, getting back up on his feet in seconds, but to no avail. The spiked creatures were already swarming him, clawing at his legs or, in the case of those who''d climbed trees, jumping at his face.


    Luke did his best to shake the attackers of, but was unable to tear out those who had their teeth already buried in his flesh. With all the power he could muster, he let out a cry of anguish.


    "GET AWAY FROM ME!!"


    Just as his legs gave out under him, he felt something leaving his body, and as he blacked out, all he could think of was the lack of pain.


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    Sorry about this chapter. I''ll try to clean it up as soon as i can.

 series put on hold.

    I know that very few people have read Breaking the Barrier so far, but to all whom it may concern, i wish to announce that i''ll stop working on Breaking the Barrier for a while. This is due to me wanting to finish King Cobra before continuing any other projects,


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    -Seraphu