"Alex!!".. I heard someone shouting my name, must be mom, I thought and went back to sleep.
SLAM!
pretty much that was the sound of my incoming doom. I hear the heavy footsteps of the person walking towards me and it's a bad sign for me now.
"Mom, I am awake no--" I didn't get to finish as I received a low kick to my gut throwing me off the bed.
'It's bad, she's angry!'.. there are few things I am scared of in my life and I can count them on one hand. And the number one position, after ghosts is my mom's anger!!
She's the alpha in our home, even dad doesn't dare to go against her.
Back then, once I got a little late for home after hanging out with my (friends ?)..and my mom made me sleep outside the house in our backyard, sharing the sky with Jimmy, our pet dog.
And I believe I got lucky as I didn't have to keep prostrating myself full night in the backyard, again next to Jimmy, like my father for the same crime.
I tried to get up slowly keeping one hand over my abdomen and one hand over my mouth to prevent the contents of my stomach coming out and dirtying the floor.
Yes! I am worried about dirtying the floor which may progress to one more blow to my body and end up in accidental death rather than my own health.
GULP
.. fortifying my mental defence I took the catastrophe back to the abyss.
'Humanity is safe now!! Is that how those heroes feel after defeating the demon king and saving the world?.
Though I don't like heroes, I can say that this feeling is not bad.'
I turn my head towards the demo-, mom and looks into her burning eyes, which made me forgot her eyes were naturally crimson and combined with her jet black hair anyone mistake her for a demon..!!
... 'No the calamity is not settled yet!'
"Mom, what was that?" I asked in the most gentle voice I am capable of speaking.
"What do you mean 'what was that?', don't you know what is today's date?"
'Crap..!!, what is it? Is today dad's birthday? No, he spent it prostrating outside of the house with Jimmy. Then my birthday? No, I spent it sleeping outside the house with Jimmy. Then maybe Mom's birthday? No, my dad and me both spent it outside the house, with Jimmy..!!
Oh, I get it!.. It's my little sister's birthday..!
No, I don't have a little sister!!..'
I try to move my eyes towards the calender hanging on the wall opposite to me and then it clicks me 'July 1..I see, so the doomsday has finally come. That explains why the demon kin-, Mom is so angry. Yesterday was my last day in the village, yes home, and now is the time to venture in the wild and face the hardships, ' so today the school's are reopening, huh'
"Now that you have realized, have you prepared well before sleeping?" She asked after noticing the change in my expression. As perceptive as always.
" Yeah.. I finished the homework in the first week itself, checked all the stationary, and ironed my uniform before going to sleep."
As you can see..I am a self-dependent guy. I want to do my things myself as much I can without forcing it. No, it's not because my mom said so or she doesn't like to do my work. It's me who doesn't like to push my work on others, even if they are my parents, when i can do it by myself.
I am not saying that I don't believe in teamwork and work-sharing. But I try to keep it minimum and be more efficient while doing the work. That doesn't make me an active guy, rather I consider myself as a lazy person.
A hard working guy would give his all to finish a given work. Where a lazy guy would find the most efficient method to finish the work faster.
But i do keep my laziness in check.
" That's good. But I don't understand why are you still sleeping when there's only 30 minutes time."
Don't get the wrong idea, I am a quite punctual guy... The distance from my home to the school is covered in 15 minutes by foot, that leaves 15 minutes for getting ready and breakfast.
"What only? There's still 15 minutes, as I took bath before going to sleep I can just wash my face and wet my hair in 2 minutes, dress up in 1 minute and have breakfast in 7 minutes. That leaves me extra 5 minutes. I don't know why you are so-" and an upper cut to my jaw stopped the words coming out of my mouth.
"Take bath and dress up in 5 minutes and come for breakfast" giving the last warning the middle aged woman whose appearance shows only half of her age left the room.
Wiping the blood coming from my nose and holding my dislocated jaw I make quick steps towards the bathroom.
Exactly after 10 minutes I am sitting on the chair next to dinning table present at the centre of hall.
As I swallow the food without much chewing as the mechanism for that seems to be broken, I turn my eyes toward my dad 'He's holding his jaw and swallowing it whole..!!' I can see a very light red stain below his nose as if something red has been wiped in a hurry.
Strands of white hair mixed with black is a clear of his ageing. Unlike my mom he has simple brown eyes.
He is a honest person to the core. A government officer who takes his job seriously and makes time for his family, though I can't be sure if it's related to mom again or not.
Both my parents are healthy and our family is a happy one, we celebrate each little things, some of which ends up as either of father-son or maybe both, outside the house with Jimmy.
I took a glance at my mom and shudder. 'If there are any heroes out there, please save this world from the demon king..!!' I pray from my heart to the unknown Gods.
Following the sound of t.v, I see some news of Criminal encounter and some high school girl getting raped and what not. But i don't feel disgusted at the rapist or sympathy for the girl or joy for the encounter.
This is the dark side of humans, everyone has a dark side. It's not like I support such crimes, just that I can't fake my sympathy for a stranger. That would be more disrespectful for her.
" I am off ".. I sprint towards my school at full speed. Seeing the red right, I put brakes on my legs and comes to stop. After waiting for the lights to turn green I check my right side then left and again right, properly following the traffic guidelines.
Seeing no vehicles, I walk forward 5 steps and something unexpected happened. A truck in speed from the opposite side comes rushing and takes a turn towards me. 'That's the wrong sid-'.. I didn't get to finish my words the third time today and it seems it would be my last time too.
I can hear the screeching sound of the truck, the rushing voices of people gathering, the panicked voice of someone, must be the driver, and my own heartbeat which is beating too fast. 'So it's the compensation mechanism of body. Hearts need to beat faster to supply more blood in case of severe blood lose caused by trauma'.. I start remembering my biology classes, not only that, many views pass by my eyes. Playing with Jimmy, sleeping in the backyard with Jimmy, sleeping with dad in the backyard, again with Jimmy, making cake for mom with dad and my little sister.
I don't have one though, but... I do have an elder sister. No matter how much i want to forget, I can't. Looking at the news in the morning of the high school girl getting raped, sitting next to the empty chair, I do remember her. A sharp glint appears in my eyes for a moment. No, for the last moment as I close my eyes.
"...."
"...uh"
"....so, how does it work?"
"Will someone come to collect my soul..?"
"Wait, I got hit by a truck.. doesn't it mean tha-"
I didn't get to finish my words again, it's the fourth time already..!! As I struggle myself with the inner monologue, a floating screen appears before my eyes.
[System Integration:7%.30%..69%..99%..100%]
'System..?'
[Mutating Bloodline 8%..30..55%..76%..Failed to mutate complete bloodline]
'Bloodline what..?'
[Synthesising New body for host..77..100%]
'It can't be, right..?'
[Transmigrating to 'World Droid']
'No way this is happening, right..?'
But what answered my doubts was a bright white light which completely blinded me, not that I was able to see anything before.
After some unknown time passed, or maybe not, I felt my body or more like the tearing pain from my right arm which snapped opened my eyes. I saw a green arm lying down on the ground, feeling something dangerous I shifted my sight to the wolf standing few meters from me, blood dripping from its mouth, and I am forced to think its not his, as I can't feel my right arm. 1 meter in height, it's gaze parallel to mine. Wait doesn't that mean I am 1 meter in height too.. But how.?.?
As I look at my other hand.. all the questions are answered in my mind.. that is by some more questions..
'Green..?,
doesn't that mean tha-'
GRRR..
'Fifth time now..even in other world..!!'