I looked in the box and there was a tennis ball inside. Well, not quite. In fact, it was a lot faded, light green stone ball with the size of a tennis ball.
Fuck, it looks like I got the wrong gift again. At least it's something I just needed. One is not always lucky enough to get a Christmas present that has been waiting for someone to open it for over a thousand years. Back then, this green stone must have been very valuable, but now it can no longer serve even as an decoration and is totaly worthless.
Well I got my wrecking ball to break the wall and now all we're missing is a song for a double combo. Hahaha! I'm such a good joker.
Hmmm. I'm not sure if the ball will be hard enough not to crumble in the moment I throw it into the wall, but I'll only find out by testing it.
Bang! The stone shattered into pieces right after the first throw. What the fuck was that supposed to be? Either I threw it with my strongest throw of my life or it was probably not a stone in the first place, but some kind of stone crystal.
Damn! I'm lucky that it certainly wasn't worth the appearance in which it was. Otherwise, I would be very disappointed now that I threw money out the window as if nothing. But I was still quite surprised by the echo left behind in this tunnel. It almost felt like the sound of a broken mirror. At least it won't bring me even more bad luck than I have so far.
Well, what can be done. I've been here for a few tens of minutes, so the storm outside could be gone. Before I left, I took one last look at the scattered pieces of the crystal stone and then turned around and headed back to the exit.
I walked 15 steps before I was overcome by unnaturally strong fatigue and with it unnaturally severe pain. With no energy at all, I fell to my knees and felt my heart pound in pain like a time bomb.
At this point, I was completely confused about what was happening to me and my pain increased so much that even on those knees I couldn't hold on anymore and fell to the ground. While holding on to my chest near my heart and felt my arteries slowly crackle from the great pressure. I couldn't breathe properly anymore.
Fuck that hurts! What's going on? Am I having a heart attack or what? These were my last thoughts before my eyes lost their function of seeing the light, and dark soon took over my eyes.
It was so sudden that I didn't even notice that the pain had disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. My body was suddenly relaxed but I still couldn't see anything. It was weird and my brain couldn't figure out what had happened a while before.
I wanted to get up but my body was completely finished and tired that I couldn't feel the ground I was lying on or any of my body parts. Darkness was all around me and I began to panic that I still haven't seen or heard anything even after minute of waiting.
No, no, no! I'm pretty sure that's not what I'm thinking right now. Everything is definitely cool. After all, it was just one tiny heart attack and there is darkness around me and I can't feel my body. I even went to the doctor recently and he said that I was perfectly healthy without any health problems. So it can't happen to me that I die! Right?.....
Freaking hell! What did I do to deserve this! Why did I die in my best years and not my sister! Fuck! Is this karma? Is it karma for the destruction of that old stone or why did this happen to me?
In the midst of all my thoughts, I was going through my life. Why was I even going somewhere at all? I would rather have stayed in the camp and get bored all day than to die here from karma for the destruction of the stone crystal inside that ruin.
Out of the blue I heard something. There was someone's voice and I immediately started crying out for help. However, I soon found out that it was useless and I thought I went crazy. And that was because the voice was speaking in my head by language I never heard before. Right at that moment when it started talking, some text appeared before me.
I was shocked that I could finally see something and calm down. Yes! I'm not blind. Does that mean I'm not dead? I was happy to see something again and it gave me hope that this was just a nightmare or some illusion from being too long under the sun.
That voice talked for a while and as soon as it finished the text which was full of unrecognizable signs, that changed their shape and the voice again began to speak with the same language as before.
In absolute silence I wondered what was really going on. I have never been very religious, and I have always considered death to be the very end. So I came up with various theories about where I was and about this non-existent voice. There were a lot of possibilities but I was most inclined to say that I was drugged with some gas that could've been somewhere in those ruins. That would most likely correspond to my pain in my heart. The second most likely possibility was that I had fallen into another dimension.
I don't know how long it lasted, but it felt like an eternity as I listened over and over again. But then I got the opportunity when I saw the text contain a few words that I was able to translate. The words were from very old chinese. Thanks to the fact that my parents were all years working in archeology, I learned a few words here and there at some point too.
I tried to decipher what was written in the text, but I did not know most of the words at all. It was strenuous but I managed to translate a few words. When compiling the sentences, I reminded myself again how glad I was that it was already the school holidays. About half of the text, I put together a few words and then put them together to create at least a little understandable sentences. From what I quickly put together, something like this came out.
[Beast warrior heart hidden in ####. Those who this heart #### in future generation #### It won't be long before then disappears ####. Although forgotten and lost forever ####. Enemies ghosts of our ancestors #### back to the world where they belongs ####. And the soul of yours will be lost ####. Before the world know that ####. Like a welcoming death for ####. Wanted you to be in th##########.]
Nooooo! Hey, I still didnt read it all. Before me was the same text in new language I didnt understand again. Fuck! Why must this be on timer. Damn! In the end I don't understand the meaning of it.
Wait, did it say that my body will die and my soul will be gone forever and then i will be forgotten just because i was a bad guy and broke things that was in the ruins for bit of fun to kill my time there or what? No way! Maybe its just something similar to this and it doesn't concern me at all.....
Aaaah Fuck! Is this some very very bad nightmare? I hope it is because I don't like it at all. I didn't wait here all this time only to read, that this entity voice will kill me like some chicken for KFC in few minutes!
I cant even say my last words to anyone I want. Well, I don't really have anyone that is so important to me in my life that I would want to say my last goodbye to them. My dad and mom were away most of the time even when I was a little boy. Away from home doing their jobs in other states that I almost didnt recognize how they looked.. and my sister.... I hope she will be next to go to hell right after me.
I waited some time thinking about my sad life before I heard the voice shut up again and then saw some symbols that looked like a numbers. Well it seems that my time is going to run out very soon. Such a shame that I die like this. Well, I die by an original death. Not like anyone will ever know of it.
OK, these are my totaly most pointless last moments I have so why do I not say at least something that I had on my mind from the moment I appeared here.
Fuck you all and this world too!!! Bang! My head suddenly started to hurt as if a bomb had exploded in her. In that moment I immediately knew I was finally dead.
Dghh...Huh? I'm still alive right? Hmmm....no more pain at all. Thats a big suprise. Death is warmer and tighter then I thought. But this place cant be hell if there is no pain.
But right before me are some little rays of light in this darkness thats little weird for my situation. God must have saved my innocent soul after all. I will not just stay in this place here doing nothing and rather grab my chance to go to heaven while I still can. Bang! Ouch! Dammit, my head hit something. Is it some kind of wall between hell and heaven, or what is this wall supposed to mean?
Fuck, I cant give up if this is my only moment to get out. Even though I can't move other parts of my body apart from my head in this little place. Nothing can stop me now! Even if I have to hit my head against this wall again and again while destroying my pretty face. Fucking god. Get me out of here! I pushed with everything I got to break out. And then.... Booom!
My head was dizzy from destroying the wall. With a newly formed hole in that wall, I got my head out to see a light again. Yes, I did it! I ran away from hell! Now I'm like a sinner that outsmarted demon god. Hahaha! As I was in joy of happiness and looked around me, my smile was gone in a second bacause of what I saw.
Aahaa ha aaa...
I went to complete silence after I saw monsters as big as my house that were looking in my direction. The only thing I could do was to think in total silence from my fear of them. No, no, no. The hell is this?! Are those things hell demons or what do I see now?
Not waiting for my second death. I quickly pushed rest of my body from the hole I made to run away as fast I could. My body went out with ease, but when I tried to run, something was wrong. It was like I was really drunk and my body parts didn't listen to me and did as they wanted. Everything was ok. I felt my body was clearly ok. But then trying to feel my legs, I felt my bones were in different position and not only my bones.
Trying to quickly calm myself, I started inspect my body from my head to feets. I was confused from what I saw. My legs now looked like a big scaled chicken legs and my arms were really short and small. And my human hands were gone. The only thing my hands were left with are some wierd long fingers ending by a long claws. My body was transformed like from some lizard and I could even feel the tail. Wait, I have a tail? That was little too much for me to take in my head and not get crazy.
Wtf?! Did I just became some lizard monster? I really don't know what is happening to me anymore. I was laying on the ground and panickedly looked at the monsters again. After looking again, they looked more or less all same like the current me. Those monsters didn't move and just looked all around the place. Then, trying to see what they were looking at, I looked around me as well.
Looking more at what is in my surroudings while I was still in shock from my different body. I was inside some dark cave with yellow crystals inside the walls of the cave where thousand eggs and hundreds of little baby monsters, that were as big as me, were all around.
But my fears were gone fast after seeing that every one of those monster lizards seemed to be totally ignoring me. Thanking the rest of my left luck, I could calmly think on what to do next. In the next few minutes, I was practicing my body movements like any other baby lizard I saw inside this den and tried to adapt to this new body. I was suprised how easy it actually was. And in a while, I could move the way I wanted again.
Right after that, I tried to talk to the air in hope that the magical voice or some text could appear again in my mind. Nothing happened and I was there waiting like some idiot.
Not losing my hope, I tried other things that I could do. After some time of thinking I got an idea, that maybe I was actually reincarnated as some kind of dungeon monster inside a game. I tried call for some kind of system or status and I it actually worked. In my mind apeared my status window.
Race: ######
Name:
Strenght - 2
Agility - 3
Endurance - 1
Intelligence - 5
Energy - 100
Mana - 0
Body skills: Bite, Dash, Jump, Sprint, Body Movements
Adaptation:
Passive skills: Evolution Growing
Unique skills: Advanced Mind
Who ho hooou! Bingo! Thats more like it. Hmmmm.... Not exactly what I expected, but it's probably ok. I understand that my stats are low and some options in skills are not visible or I don't have them but where is my level progress bar or why isn't there my name written in the status? Did I get a damaged status or is there something that I don't see or why is it missing?
In middle of my thinking, the big monster lizards came to us and started to make us, the baby lizards, move together to form a few crowds of 60 at most. It was in the same style like dogs are doing it to scare the sheeps to stay in herds together.
In fear from them and how big and scary the lizards were. I quickly ran towards the nearest crowd of baby lizards. In two minutes all of us were splitted into 16 different crowds and each crowd was under strong guard of two big monster lizards.
The lizards were looking at us and then started to talk by a language that I could instantly understand like as if it was my home language.