-on the fated day-
It seemed like a normal Saturday, but my friends actually wanted to all meet up at Max's place. They all talked about it in a group chat, which all of my friends are in and to everyone else's surprise I actually said I could come, too.
Normally I would probably never come to such an event, but I felt like today was special, so I didn't want to miss out on a possible event connected to this ominous feeling that I felt since Monday. I also noticed it gradually growing stronger over the time in school.
-A few hours later at Max's place-
"Hey Luca you could actually make it, I thought you were joking, because you'd normally never come to meet up with us, would you?"
"Ey, come on I am just really busy normally, but if I find time I'd of course meet up with you if I have the chance, but you know we have to learn a shit ton for tests lately, so I really have no time."
I tried to sound friendly and happy, but I was already noticing something in the first few seconds of me talking to Max. The weird feeling was definitely a lot stronger than ever before. In my mind there was already no doubt about it, that day something special had to happen.
But why am I even going so far and actually come meet up with my friends, when I have these feelings that something dangerous could happen. I am not quite sure, but I just feel like I need to be here today or else I would really regret not coming here today. Maybe I just want to approach something like that to happen and maybe I don't really mind, it's a weird feeling. But I was sure of one thing and that was that even if I were to die in this world on this day, I wouldn't even be mad, it's just something that is deep engraved into my mind and something I have come fully aware of.
"Actually you're the first one to arrive if you want to we can chill in my room and wait until everybody else arrives."
"Yeah sure let's go."
Of course I was the first one to arrive I told my mom I had to be there 15 minutes before the actual time, which Max told everyone. While waiting for the others I was as nervous as never before in my life, not because I had any real fear, but rather because I didn't want to miss anything like a hint or something that could give me a clue to what's going to happen today.
-15 minutes later-
While talking with Max I thought about everything he said, and asked him a few things that could give me hints about what may happen today, but I still had to be careful to not ask too much. When I asked him about the plans for today he told me that he was planning to go outside and head into the forest near their house. He was planning on being there at midnight, because he thought it would be cool and he said he found a special place in the forest.
I didn't say anything , but it was fairly obvious that going into the forest at night all alone was clearly not a good idea and although he told me that he was used to the forest and went there since he was a kid the timing and the place was just too perfect for it to just be a normal idea.
-7 hours before everything started-
"Hey everyone seems like I am the last one to arrive. Luca you're really here this could really be a lot of fun, after all we 5 had never all been together."
The last one to arrive was Dave who came at a little past 5 pm. After I had arrived Max's sister came into the room, which wasn't exactly beneficial for me because I didn't want to have to deal with her too, but I didn't really have any time to think about that. After all I was on guard the whole time and although I really didn't think anything was going to happen to me yet I was always at least a certain distance enough away to potentially pull out my knife to defend myself.
And now all of my friends were together with me and the ominous feeling I had the whole time was so strong that it was really hard to concentrate and in my head there had been one certain thought the whole time.
"I really don't want to mess this up"
-half an hour until midnight-
After Dave, the last one of my friends got out of the house we were ready to go and made our way into the direction of the forest. From that point on I would try to look around, but I didn't want make the others suspicious so instead of carefully looking around I made it a bit more obvious.
"Are you nervous, Luca?"
"Well actually I fear the darkness a bit and was never really comfortable."
Max's sister asked me and with that I could kind of rule her out as a traitor, so I would concentrate on the expressions of my other friends. I carefully looked around to see if anyone reacted in an abnormal way. Like being worried about something or being confused instead of just being a bit surprised.
"Oh you're afraid of the darkness. Well I guess now we know something you are afraid of, don't we. But you should've told us about it before going out here, we could've taken flashlights with us or something else that could help in the darkness."
"No it's okay, I mean I am not really afraid, because you are all here after all, so as long as you don't just disappear it should be okay."
Looking at the expressions of my friends I couldn't really notice anyone standing out, so I was a bit more relaxed and didn't really have any real reason to suspect anyone specifically, but I still couldn't relax and it didn't help that the weird feeling got stronger and stronger the longer we walked.
-1 Minute before midnight-
"Guys we should almost be there we only have to get over there."
He pointed at a big rock about 100 meters away.
"It's just behind that rock."
It's only logical to suspect Max as the one who thought of all of this and what's supposed to happen if we reach the place he wants to lead us to, after all he was the one to suggest this little trip. But it could also be his sister, because I don't know if she maybe influenced him to do this and of course they could also work together, which would only be logical.
I of course don't really suspect anyone from my group of friends, but not being ready for any possible situation would just be plain stupid.
"We're here"
"Wow this place is really something."
"How did you find this?"
Everybody went to look down the valley you could see from up here and they didn't even notice that I stayed back, so now I didn't suspect anyone from my group of friends, but I just knew that something big was about to happen, so I had my hand on my knife the whole time ready to pull it out of my pocket at any time.
"Well, Well, Well... who is the fated one I wonder?"
I heard a voice. It was extremely hard to describe, cold, happy but also sad, expecting but also unexpecting and what shocked me the most about the voice was, that the voice was...
"Oh it seems to be you. Now let's get this over with and now show me your fear."
I heard it's voice right behind me as if he had always been there there...
"Oh you don't seem to show any fear right now... well what if I did something to your friends over there?"
I gripped my knife in my pocket with all my might and swung right behind me exactly to the point I head the voice coming from... but I didn't hit anything. It was gone!
"Well, I wonder what expression will you make?"
I immediately looked back in front to my friends...
My friends... All stood there and each had to arms missing.
Their arms were flying into the air and blood was everywhere. Their screams were flying out into the night, the most painful screams I ever heard. But for some reason I was not the one, who was the most shocked...
"Now show me your fear!"
Now I could see something, where the voice was coming from.
In front of me there was a weird creature, it was so grotesque that I was unable to describe it, but it's face and voice, it was almost the same as mine.
"What kind of expression are you making, SHOW ME!"
He was immediately right in front of me, but at the same moment he got extremely scared, confused and seemed to lose something precious that made up his whole live.
"You think I would care?"
"Huh, this isn't how it's supposed to be."
I was approaching my friends and the grotesque creature, ready to slice it with my knife...
"You expect me to fear you? YOU!"
"What the fuck are you, how can you not fear yourself looking like this!?"
"Let me tell you, before you die!"
I was in a weird kind of mental state and was just trusting my instincts and started to swing the knife closer to his head...
"You are just another pitiful version of me, I fear nothing in this world, I came here with the expectations of either leaving this world of dying-"
"So who do you think you are for me to be afraid of, when I don't even fear death itself anymore?"
I swung my knife with all of my strength and my old self seemed to have been washed away from the face of this world. My eyes glared up and in the next moment I found myself in complete darkness...
[Protagonist Luca... you seem to have no use for this world anymore...you don't belong to this world, so I am now going to sent you to another world... a world you are actually going to have a place in]
[Good Luck]