The village was gone now.....all that's left were debris.
"Cherri...Th-The village is gone! The Meteorite crashed in the village!"
"Sob.....Sob...."
"For now we should go back to the village to see if there are any survivors!"
"Sob...ok."
As we went down the path we used to go up to the hill, it was gonna take us at least another 30 minutes before we can get back to the village. All the chaos and smoke can be seen from a mile away.
"Help should have arrived! Where are the imperial knights? Where is the support? Where is help?" I spoke out my thoughts out of worry.
Cherri was still looking down and being silent out of fear and she clutched my hand tightly.
"Hey...Cherri, it's all gonna be alright! I'm sure help will arrive! Let's go back to the village first."
After a few minutes of walking we arrived at the ruins of the used to be village.....everything was obliterated and almost nothing was left except for the giant meteorite now lodged into the ground. Cherri and I were devastated, the damage was so huge that you could feel the heat of the molten rocks from a far away. Cherri and I were speechless and we fell to despair.
"it's gonna be alright.....I'm sure there are survivors...." I tried my best to reassure her.
As I got near the fallen meteorite, I touched the hard rocky surface of it and it wasn't hot to the touch. The Meteorite was ice cool rather than the blown-up surroundings that were hot. I went around the circumference of the meteorite which looked like a perfect circle instead of being rough with jagged edges, I heard a beeping sound and the thing opened like a cracked egg, a blinding light blocked my vision...then a sudden wave of excruciating pain as if I was pierced by a huge needle in several parts of my frail body.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! It hurts!!
For a split second, I vaguely saw memories of someone and it looked like they were on the verge of passing on.....after that the memories disappeared and I saw a mysterious shadowy figure atop the meteorite.
[r3St f0R n0w W0rs3 tHingS wIlL c0me, pR3paRe Y0urSeLf...]
After that encounter, I fainted.....
I woke up in a weird colorless room....for now I'll call this the "White room". All I can see in the white room was an alien-like bed and there was this boxy thing sticking out of the corner near the ceiling. This place made me uncomfortable and I had an eerie feeling of dread.....I hated this place and hoped that Cherri was alright. I looked around the room and saw a mirror-like object that reflected my face, my eyes were dead and empty on the inside, I turned to look at my arms and they were pitch black.
"AaaaaaaaaaAhh! What the hell is this?! I can't get it off! Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
My arms felt normal but the dark look of it gives off a creepy vibe and for now, I'll just forget about it. After calming myself down I laid in the bed to get some rest and I dozed off for a while....I got woken up by the sound of someone talking through the weird-looking box beside the rectangle in the corner near the ceiling.
"Hello, hello, test, test, Are you awake?" The weird sounding voice chuckled
"Y-y-yes I'm," I replied feeling scared.
"Good, good, well then it's time for supper so there will be guard's entering your room #3105"
"Yes, and thank you."
"You sure are polite haha."
While I was sitting patiently in front of the bed waiting for the food to come, I heard the sound of something opening. The wall on the north side of the room opened in a way I haven't seen before and some workers in alien looking armor entered they brought some food. As I was eating the food it tasted neither good nor bad, then there was this bald man with a creepy smile going along his face.
"Well hello there....is the food delicious?"
He had the same creepy voice as the one who spoke through the box thing on the wall.
"It's fi-AgagaH Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Before I could finish answering I felt an immense pain coming from my stomach. I couldn't speak, it hurts so much...
"Ahhhhhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"
"So he really does have IT, huh...interesting!" His smile widened more than before, it was like a living nightmare.
"Hahahahaha! Hahaha hahaha! This is amazing! What an amazing find! I really can't believe it!" He laughed maniacally.
The pain continued to worsen and that psycho of a person continued to laugh at me like a madman. I mustered all my strength to crawl on the ground like a worm and I was able to grip his left leg and suddenly all the other alien-looking people pointed to me what looks like an automated bow.
"Wh-WHAT DID YOU DO?!"
I gritted my teeth out of pure anger and killing intent, all that I know right now is that I hated this man or whatever that thing was with all my heart and who knows what he's doing to Cherri.....just thinking about him harming her the same way as he did to me...I tightened my grip on his leg and the black thing on my arm seems to have spread to his leg and is doing something and so with that, I tightened my grip even more!
"YOUR GONNA PAY FOR THIS!"
"HAHAHAHAHAAHAH! That's the attitude! YOU MONSTER!"
He kicked my hand away and he quickly stomped on it...it hurts so much!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Crewmen bring him to that room!"
After releasing his foot from my arm the "Crewmen" lifted me up and put what looked like handcuffs on both my arms and legs.
"Be careful not to touch either his arms and legs....you don't want what happened to me to happen to you Crewmen...Hehehe prickly brat!"
I received painful blows to my face.....but it was worth it that my arms DID do something to his leg. After receiving the punches to my face the "Crewmen" dragged me to another room and it looked like that there was a chair with restraints on it. I tried my best to get out of the strong grip of the "Crewmen" to no avail. I had to think about a method to get out of this place and I'm worried about Cherri! After walking through countless alien-like corridors we were finally able to reach the room and it was secluded and overprotected like a vault in a bank to make sure no one escapes, I could probably use the black thing on my arms and legs to corrode through the walls but who knows if that will work.
"I SWEAR, I WILL KILL YOU AND MAKE YOU PAY!!"
"HAHAHAHAHA...let's see if you can try, you prickly BRAT!"
I received another punch to the face, at this point, it didn't even matter to feel the pain. They restrained me to the chair that looked like it was used for those death row executions, it had several handcuffs in the arms and legs of the chair to make sure I'm kept in place and they added a belt-like looking thing around my belly area, they also covered my eyes and mouth to make sure I made no noise and to block my vision to see what they're gonna do to me. Once I was restrained the alien bald-looking man smile crept to the biggest crescent of a smile I saw.
"HEHEHEHE....now we shall engage the O-P-E-R-A-T-I-O-N!"
All I could think about now is how to endure whatever they're gonna do to me and find a way to escape before I could even think properly...I couldn't feel my arms and legs.....then an immense pain extended through my own body and I could feel my blood flowing out. I tried to shout out of pain but they made sure I couldn't. It was so painful that I wished id rather pass away than going through this...
"Sir Belgis, th-the operation looks like it's a success! We tore off its arm and it seems to be that its arms and legs are regrowing! You were right about picking this test subject, Sir!"
"HAHAHAHAHA...so the prediction was true after all! What a time to be alive! I shall report this to the Grandmaster to tell his greatness about our amazing findings! Keep on doing it over and over again Crewmen!"
Grandmaster? Regrow? Test subject? Before I could think any further, I was subdued to the same pain again over and over until I was so tired that I will do anything just to stop this pain from going on....they won't even let me take a break and just kept on going until that "Belgis" came back.
"I applaud you all! His Greatness the Grandmaster is overjoyed with this outcome! He will hold a huge festival for us, and He will also implement a duel system among all of our test subjects! The winner can meet and talk with Her Greatness Princes Ellaine!"
Duel system? Test subjects? So there are more people like me? Ellaine.....who's that? Isn't that Cherri's sister? I fainted after all the things that happened to me. I woke up back in the white room and I don't feel refreshed at all....the bald man was in my room and he looked like he was proud of his son or something.
"What are you doing here?" I said calmly and I was too exhausted to be angry right now.
"WAHAHAHAHAH.....you sure are a rare find! Anyways! I'm here to make you attend a face-off against the other test subjects! Be sure to make me proud and win!"
Without giving me the chance to reply, he swiftly left the room. I tried my best to not think of anything for now and rest. I'm so fatigued and I don't want to experience the horrors of yesterday....or has it been a few days? A few hours? I don't even want to bother with how long I've been here. I just want to either die or escape from this hellhole of a place. After days passed I was lucky that I wasn't brought back to the room....but instead, I was brought to what looked like a training area. It was the first time I saw other kids my age and there was no one there that was an adult except the other "Crewmen". They were training with not wooden swords but a metal sword, they weren't wearing any protective clothing and I kept on seeing blood and kid's with gnarly wounds and crying out of pain....this was chaos. The medical room was far away from here so they forced the other kids to keep on training even though they were injured and wounded with blood gushing out of their bodies. They didn't even bother cleaning up all the blood on the walls and ceiling and floor. There was a staging area for what I presume to be where the announcer will be, I went to that area out of curiosity and bumped accidentally into other kids along the way, they sneered at me out of annoyance and anger.
"Tch...watch where your going next time...."
"What a prick."
"Just go die already if you're just trying to hit us!"
One kid punched me in the face and the others followed and started to kick me. It doesn't even hurt after the repetition of me getting my arms and legs mowed repeatedly. Then there was a loud shot not sounded like the meteorite I heard from before and brought back painful memories...
"SHUT UP YOU BRATS OR I'LL MAKE SURE YOU GUYS HAVE A TASTE OF HELL!"
There was a person on top of the stage and he was wearing glasses tinted in black with a megaphone in hand, I remembered that megaphones were used back in the village if the village chief had any announcements to make...oh how I miss the village.
"YA BRATS WILL BE TRAINING AND ATTENDING THE DUEL COMPETITION WHERE THE WINNER WILL BE ABLE TO MEET HER HIGHNESS PRINCESS ELLAINE!"
Some cheered because of the prize and some let out a long sigh, but there was the group of kids I accidentally bumped into and they were whispering to each other, they were probably plotting something and I'm 100% sure it has something to do with me.
"THE COMPETITION WILL START IN 2 WEEKS, SO GET TRAINING BY THEN! IF YOU WIN NOT ONLY WILL YOU BE ABLE TO MEET HER HIGHNESS, YOU COULD ALSO BE GIVEN A CHANCE TO GET OUT OF HERE!!"
After making that follow-up sentence there were many cheers...finally, I have hope of getting out of here! But before I could even think of that...I finally saw her...lying on the ground covered with wounds...
"CHEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRIIIIII!!!!!!!!"
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Author's Note: Had to fix this because of bad writing....AGAIN!!
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