Prologue
It was a really nice and wonderful journey this past year, and it's hard for me to believe that I completed the first volume of my book ""Wake Up And Run"" all thanks to my wonderful readers, among them family and friends, without their support and encouragement, I wouldn't have been able to finish or even continue writing this book, and it wouldn't have seen the light.
I started writing this book in 2014, and I stopped writing after writing only nine chapters. At that time, I was not aware of online publishing or the concept of sterilization or web novels, although the way I envisioned it at that time was really the same concept, now we are starting to go together through the second volume.
As I mentioned before, the first volume was the introduction of the story, and it was missing the thrill and the fast pace, at least that is what I have been told, so I will be working on that in this volume, which is the beginning of the story and the adventure. Being an amateur writer caused me to make another mistake, which was that there were too many characters whose stories needed to be told, but everyone learns from their mistakes, and I learned that the hard way.
I will do my best to satisfy your tastes and present to you a one-of-a-kind story, if you can endure me for a little bit longer. I admit being an amateur writer, and this is my first work without any help with editing, spelling check, or grammar check, so it will be full of such mistakes. So here I am counting on your comments and reviews, so please don't hesitate to speak your mind by reviewing and commenting on whatever you see that needs correction.
Finally, I hope you enjoy reading this story. My plan is for it to be a minimum of five volumes, each of which contains a minimum of fifty chapters. I can't promise long chapters, but I will try to do my best, and I will make it more exciting by adding more fight scenes. That is what I can promise, so keep on reminding and pushing me as you used to do with previous chapters.
I gave the title "Run for Your Life" for this volume; please send me your ideas and comments on that as well.
Yours truly.
Abdirizack Sarman.
The First Destination
Chapter 1 Part 1
Nothing makes sense, this is not making any sense, four men were surrounding me, one in front of me, one behind me, and two on each side, with all of them directing their swords toward me, actually toward my head, between my head and the swords, only a few inches, with the slightest movement from them, and it will penetrate my skin.
That is not it, the thing that do not make any sense are their speed, the speed at which they approached me, and the fact that they raised their weapon so slowly. I was shocked at the beginning. In fact, I was scared, but this I could dodge with ease. So I did bend down at the same time. lifting my swords up and parrying the one facing me with my right hand and the one behind me with my left hand. At the same time, to clear a space for me, I kicked the one on my right side with my right leg, while supporting myself with his body and using him as a foothold, and I turned in the air, reaching the other one on my left side's head and kicking his head with my knee. Both of us fell down at the same time.
When I stood back, two were in the ground. "Two down, two are remaining," I said aloud. The two swordsmen didn't hesitate to attack me with their swords one more time. "Are you guys joking or acting some slow-motion video scene?" I couldn't hold myself back from saying that to them because of how slow their actions were in my eyes.
With the hilt of my sword, I hit the first one on the wrist, and without waiting to see what happened, I hit him again on top of his head. Then I took a step backward to see what happened, and to my surprise, the sword fell to the ground at the same time as the man also fell to the ground, the other, for an unknown reason, fell on top of the other, while his sword was still facing towards me. My surprise didn't last long because while I was looking at two men on the ground, I heard a click followed by a gunshot coming from behind me.
With an involuntary reflex, I turned and put the sword in front of my face in a defensive way, and immediately I heard a CLING, the sound of a metal hitting another metal. "Huh, was that really a bullet?" I couldn't resist saying that aloud. A second bullet hit my sword for a second time at the same place, and since I didn't move my hand or any other part of my body, in fact, it was less than a second between the two bullets, I couldn't help but look at my sword to see if there was any dent, and there wasn't even a scratch on it, which really increased my confusion even more than before, and the only words that came out of me were "What the hell is going on?".
Let me introduce myself first of all. My name is Aden, and I am an alien from Earth in another alien world. I am sure you are as confused as I am now, and wondering what is going on and what I am talking about, so at least to ease your confusion, let me explain to you from the beginning. I believe you are aware so far that I woke up in this world without any memories, and I was lucky to end up in the capital city of Angariya with the help of their head of security, they provided me with identification, money, and a vehicle. The reason that I left was to figure out why I was in this world and who was behind it, and also to gather information from the nearby countries to find out if there was another one like me out there, and there was another feeling bushing me to go and search for someone or something.
To make a long story short, at the beginning of my journey, my vehicle stopped, and I found myself deep in a forest, where I encountered two ladies. Shortly after that, we came across some people shooting at each other, that is when and where the most bizarre and strangest thing happened. For you to understand, I have to explain and tell you the details as they happened.
In the forest I met two young ladies suppurate non of them knew where are we just like me, then we heard a gunshot, thinking that we may find some answers to where are we, I decided to follow the gunshot and see who is there, and the ladies agreed and followed me, as soon as we reached the location of the gunshots, we encountered a young man with a rifle hiding behind a huge rock, and on the ground there were sitting a woman with two children, the young man obviously was shooting at someone else so not knowing if we are an enemy or someone else, he shot towards us what appeared to be a warning shot, when we raised our hands indicating to him that we are not an enemy, he focused in front of him and on the main people who he was shooting at to begin with, ignoring us completely.
And from another side, there was also another young girl, approximately my age, who walked to the same location at the same time as us, maybe a few seconds behind us. She was alone; the only thing that caught my eye was the backpack she was carrying, which was the exact same as the one we were carrying. It didn't take for a genius to figure out that she was in the same boat as we were, which is why I didn't give her much thought, telling myself that I could question her later, but right now what I needed was to figure out what was going on here, and to avoid getting shot for the second time.