I never believe in the so called "LIFE AFTER DEATH" bullshit everyone preaching, giving people false hopes that they may live a better life after the bad fate they were living today.
But here I am hoping there really is such a thing or at least I wish I could really believe in it, "the Life after death or in reincarnation" or whatever it is that may give me even a little kind of comfort at this moment.
It was really a scary thing to watch your self die slowly disintegrating into nothingness, the bright lights surrounding me as my limbs turning into dust and slowly fading, I can't feel pain anymore as my mind started to feel numb.
Boooom!
I can hear consecutive explosion around me but I don't have enough strength or will to give a fuck to what is happening anymore.
"Sir! The main power source is failing! We need to go!"
Ha! In every thing that I want to do I always fail, why am I so unlucky? I just want to live a free life is it so bad to ask for?! Now even this shity port is failing to do it's job? Im fucked!
"Run! This place is collapsi..
Huh? My hearing and sight... I.. i can't see?.. i guess this is it.
When did all of this start?
Ahhh... yeah it was the year 2012 when people claim the world will end!
That is when all of this never-ending calamity started. I guess the world really did ended that year...
The year 2012.
The giant tower appeared, everyone and everywhere in the world can see it.
The sun burst light then dimmed. Every gadget, appliance and electronics that uses electricity or battery in the world was destroyed due to electromagnetic pulse pruduced by the sun. While a beautiful aurora spread in the sky replacing it.
The tower sent a gracious light and heat to the whole world. The beautiful aurora in the sky that was pruduced by the tower provided a lifeline for livingthings to not perish from the winter of absolute zero, the tower became the last bastion.
The tower, which rose out of nowhere, was like the sun and the moon now. It was the only thing that can be seen in the sky, no sun, no moon, no stars can be seen aside from the tower and the aurora that spreading on the vast sky.
Many people asked why the world became like this.
There was no one who could answer. The change in the sky was a shock but that was only the start of hell, the sea rampaging waves as high as the 3 storey building hits the land, volcanos eruption and strong winds that can even lift trucks, was what made every people in the world lost hope to survive.
As we thought it was our end, the plants, animals and humans gain unique changes to each and everyone that give everyone equal chance to live.
That change was like a rope that appears in front of a man who is falling from a cliff. It was a chance given to everyone, it was left for you to decide how you will grab that rope to struggle for life.
I was lucky to gain the ability to see and sense pattern in my surrounding that i survive. I can sense were i should grab, swim and hide due to the pattern in surrounding, it was hard to explain how I can use my ability, it was like a second nature to me that I didn't even notice I was using it.
It felt like we struggled for a very long time before the world calms down, we didn't even know if it lasted for how many days as there was no more night and days nor clocks to keep track of time.
Every thing was in ruins, there was lots of dead bodys can be seen scattered in my surrounding, the numbing sensation spreads throughout my body as my knees went limped. I can't see anyone breathing, I was at lost at that time of what to do or where I should go. Being left alone in the land where dead bodies piled everywhere, was scarier than the catastrophe I have been through. I can't cry, i can't move nor talk, it was like my soul left my body.
I was on my knees staring blankly at the dead bodies. Then a man from the sky land infront of me, I thought he was an angel. he offered me his hand and take me to a place called Grand Mist Dream Realm.
There, many people were gathered, after waiting for some time a guy named jason approach me and ask some questions like how i survive what was my name and background, he informed me of what ability I gained based on my explanation of the events happened when i was struggling for my life.
The guy named Jason said, everyone gained 1 innate ability resembling their personality, how they act, how they perceive the world they live in and how they live their daily life. In short your ability represent who you are, this ability was already owned by you before even the tower appeared, it's just the tower helped amplify your ability to improve and develop.
Every survivors was assisted and interviewed like me, jason was wearing a battle suit like the other interviewers, surely everyone has a tacit agreement that these guys were not like us who struggled to survive from the calamity that just ended.
I was naive back then, I was young and thought that the Grand Mist was a place that was concerned about the well being of the survivors. It was not! I was stuck there for 36 years!
As I said my bad luck started at that year 20 fucking 12! I've become a slave worker for 36 years like the others because of my ability. The ability to under stand quicker than others, to perceive the connecting patterns.
"The eye of patronus"
I have worked and worked for them, first they have me memorized hieroglyphic symbols, runic markings and sigils without telling me what it was used for, then made me work in a shop where they would drop off different types of items with different kind of shape and sizes, what my job was to brand this items with indicated set of chosen runes, glyphs and sigils using my ability so they would interlay with each other without conflict.
I did my job perfectly even without knowing what those drawings, markings and writings meant or what purpose it serves. As long as I felt it was pleasant to my eyes, meant it was a success. For 36 years working there I gradually came to understand each of it's uses and how they worked, experimenting with it secretly.
What do we gain from working for the Grand Mist?
Aside from Food nothing else! Only when we finished a set of items do we get a small part of food instead of one full meal. If we want more food we must work more. It was fustrating not to get a food if we don't finished but what can we do? It is not like we are forbidden to go out of grand mist, it's just outside was full of beasts, monsters and deadly type of plants even the air and water outside can be fatal. If we do have the courage to leave what can we eat outside if we were not the one to be eaten?
The Grand Mist was not the only dream realm in existence, that is what we get to learn as being stuck here for 36 years. But even if found where the other Dream Realm was we do not have the assurance we will be treated better there so it is a little bit hard to think of running away from this place.
A slavemate of mine Arra who was very pretty, hot and alluring come to me and introduced me to her plan.
A plan to escape this wretched place and build our own safe haven.
At first I thought it was crazy and impossible, but when she showed me a blue print of an artificial terrarium city, I was amazed and hurriedly agreed, but where was she planing to get all the materials to built it? Then I came to a realization why she approached me. It was me who would be providing and building the project secretly, while she would find a helpful accomplice with a set of ability that would help me finished the project.
The items that was send to my work shop was the perfect way to get the materials we need without getting suspected as i could claim the item was damage or rejected and accumulate more materials as time past we may finished the terrarium without anyone knowing we have build one and escape!
Many years had past, Arra and I started seeing each other, it was my happy moments as we slowly building the terrarium piece by piece it was a trial and error process that took it a long time to finish, the team shared ideas and calculations of what functions needed to add and make it a self improving base camp. A lot of effort was poured into it so when the time comes we will be safe from outsiders attacks.
It was then that we finished the terrarium. And the plan was, to escape without alerting the higher-ups so nobody would suspect that we took materials that the grand mist owns. When Arra arrived at my workshop she was staring at me in the eye like she's asking to be kissed or at least thats what I thought.
But then a lot of footstep sounded outside my shop was approaching.
The chief inspector Alba came in with his men to arrest me and my team stating that I was not doing my job and was instead stealing valuable assets of grand mist in the facade of recycling. He took the terrarium we all worked hard for, it was a thick and round like disk as big as a round table, while shouting that it was now confiscated and will be used as evidence while Arra was claimed to be a witness of the crime we committed.
The men who arrested us and brought me and the team not to a prison but instead pushed me in the lab to be used as a test subject, they said that we were already sentenced to death and it didn't matter wether we die or live. But I know it was a scheme to silence us.
In the lab a portal gate was constructed at center. It was the new project of the grand mist and that same portal was branded by me! The markings and circuit was my own design! It was the first one way portal that can send agents to any designated place desired by the operator and this very portal was now on its first trial and me being the first test subject the agent. It was working perfectly at first but as the bitch Arra opened her mouth and narrated everything like a real antagonist that it was a set-up, planed by her and Alba!
"The blue print of that artificial terrarium came from the cheif inspector and you build it for us thank you for your hard work. we will cherish it, we wont forget your effort. Good luck.." with a smirk, the bitch turn and walkaway as she finished speaking
My blood was boiling and my mind was full of hatred and regret wanting to go back to past and slap her when she first aprroach me! Fuck! I really want to punch that pretty face slap wouldn't be enough! Thats when the portal main power source malfunction and exploded, then like a domino the lab apparatus exploding one by one. While I was disintegrating inside the portal.
My whole world was crumbling in to the darkness, no sound could be heard no pain and no more problems, it seems like I'm being liberated and my hatred dissipating. Mybe this is what death feels like. I thought.
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Vrrr... Vrrr... Vrrr...
Hmmm? What is this sounds?
Vrrr... Vrrr...
I rubbed my eyes and felt extremely dizzy. I didn't even drink anything, but why was I so dizzy?
Drink?
Wait. Had I ever had a drink before? I did secretly buy a bottle of beer with Axcel on my last birthday, but that was it. I didn't really like the taste, after that I never take a sip again.
No. I did drunk all night with James before. We learned that Carlo was hiding beers in the station and snuck in secretly at night after reviewing the runes. It was so good that we ended up emptying five cases of beers. However, Carlo ended up beating us with his stick after we passed out there.
Still, it was worth it. Ah, I was drooling just thinking about it. Was there any way to get it again? It seemed like Carlo was secretly hiding it somewhere else. I thought about taking a look around.
But wait.
Runes? What is Runes? James? Carlo? Who was that again? Thoughts that didn't make sense filled my head. Did I have a strange dream again?
Unfamiliar names appeared and disappeared in my head. So did multiple memories. There were some holes in them, and they were so completely disconnected that it was hard to tell what they were about, but they felt vivid, as though they had happened yesterday.
I was glad, happy, anxious, depressed, sad, angry and grim at the end…it was like I just watched a sad movie. But the jumbled memories quickly scattered, the way dreams vanished when you woke up. All the scenes were swept away like smoke in the air.
"What is this?" I massage my temples, opening my eyes. I could see a neat desk and a laptop. There was a tracing paper with a pen drawn floorplan lying next to it. I guess I fell asleep while finishing my plates all night.
What were all those memories? They felt important, but I couldn't remember what they were no matter how hard I tried. I frowned, trying to remember them again somehow.
Vrrr... Vrrr... Vrrr...
My alarm clock rang noisily, pulling me back to reality. The headache that was pushing against my head disappeared as though it had never been there.
No. I didn't even realize it was gone.
TUESDAY
06-12-12
07:32 AM
"Shit." School began at eight. I was late. The strange memories were already gone from my head.