I opened my eyes again but I couldn't see anything, everything was dark.
I was sitting up and started to move my hands around and felt like I was on a cement floor.
I started to crawl forward and my right hand, a puddle of some kind of thick liquid, I had felt.
I looked at my hand and it was stained with blood, at the moment, in front of me, everything lit up, giving me a flash of light.
The light was so strong that I had to close and cover my eyes with my bloodstained hand out of pure instinct.
I looked in front of me and there was a corpse of someone dressed in black with a turtleneck overalls, who had a sword stuck in his chest.
I jumped backwards in shock, unable to reason, got up and frantically ran out of there.
«What is this?, Where am I? What nightmare is this?».
Many questions flashed through my mind and in the least I expected it.
All the citizens around me looked at me and froze, they started shouting 'run away' and 'run', terrified, they all ran away from me.
"What's wrong, what have I got?".
I asked confusedly into the air, looking both ways.
And out of the crowd appeared three men in the same clothing as the person lying dead in the alley, one with a spear, one with a bow and the last with a sword, their weapons were imbued with an aura similar to the energy I saw in Mom's novel.
As those guys got closer, danger alarms went off in me, screaming at me to run or I was going to die.
My breathing intensified each time they got closer and I started to run.
As I ran through the crowd, the archer in their group shot an aura imbued arrow into my back.
My breathing began to become more and more intense and I began to run even faster.
Shaking sound
Shit, agh... Why is this happening to me, damn it.
I've got three guys chasing me at night through a city where everyone stands back and is afraid of me.They're trying to hunt me down and they've even given me an arrow that's stuck in my back, this is starting to hurt too much, my god.
Am I a ghost?
It can't be like that, I have human form, my hands, my legs, my whole body."Hurry up, surround him! Don't let the 'entity' escape".
Shouts one of the three men chasing him.
An 'entity'? I got it, I have possessed someone's body and the color of my eyes are not those of a normal person, they are white like those of a dead person, and this really isn't me, I must separate from this body and disappear before they kill me.
Where, where, think where I can hide, quickly.
I turned my head to both sides looking for a possibility and saw an alley in the distance.
I'll go down that alley and separate from the body as soon as I cross it.
Come on come on, I'm almost there....
Uh... what... Why... I'm going so slow... my legs can't feel them and I'm falling...
I started to close my eyes slowly until everything went black.
'[You died]'.
They came out in giant letters in front of me, as if it were a video game.
"Is this for real? It doesn't make any kind of sense".
Outraged with life I began to renege.
"I show up out of nowhere in a world I barely know, next to a corpse, who looked like a hunter and it turns out I'm a freaking ghost type 'entity' and I end up getting killed".
"I can't believ-".
"[Beginning body transfer from one world to another]."
A woman's voice echoed in my head and in front of my eyes that announcement appeared.
"Huh?".
[Javier Lenz 23%...]
"Hey wait! What are you doing? Who are you? What is this transfer?!".
[Javier Lenz 78%...]
Please respond!!!!
I shouted at the top of my lungs but received no answer.
[Javier Lenz 100%...]
[Complete transfer]
"Well... and now, what am I supposed to do?".
"[You will start a new story as Javier Lenz, good luck in your adventure]".
I reacted with a tone of satire of how outraged I was still with this.
"Ohhhhhh wow, a story like me in this world, how interesting, but what's the point-".
And in the blink of an eye I was teleported back to the world of hunters and ghosts.
"Of this...?" I gasped.
I was inside a large auditorium that looked like a temple.
And this scene I'm living I clearly know, it's the moment of the entrance promotion of the new apprentices to the hunters' academy, which appears in my mom's novel.
If I remember correctly, there were about 2,000 novice hunters and 10 professional hunters in this crowd of thousands of spectators, who were not hunters.
In which the gazes of all the spectators, were directed at one person, Erick Stein.
[Information from Erick Stein]
Like all the apprentice hunters here present, he is 15 years old, he has an innate talent with the spear, being this his main weapon and his position in the entrance exam to the academy is N°1.
At the beginning of the novel he explains who he is and where he comes from, a rather sad story and a bit cliché when it comes to this kind of stories.
In which he loses his entire family because of a ghost type 'demon', that the simple fact that it appears is considered, a kind of ghost: 'catastrophe'.
The moment he was left alone and without family, an old man adopted him, educated him and trained him to be a great hunter.
Erick became an honest, fair and hardworking person, who didn't waste his time and dedicated it to training.
And that hard work led him to the moment we find ourselves in now, watching him being congratulated and praised for being No. 1 in this class of new entrants.
«Well, now putting all that aside, I got carried away...the important thing now is, what the hell am I doing here, and what is my life and why am I dressed as a hunter, I need to get out of here fast».
I got up and walked along the auditorium steps, looking for the exit to leave the place, until I stopped my steps when I heard a woman's voice calling my name.
"Hey Javier, are you leaving already, aren't you going to stay and watch the awards ceremony?".
I turned around and next to where I was sitting, I saw a woman in hunter's garb, sitting with copper colored hair that reached her shoulders, her skin was white, she was looking at me with good girl eyes and she had a height that would reach my chest approximately.
I pretended to have a tummy ache and made an excuse to her.
"Sorry, I have a stomach ache that is killing me and I need to go get some rest."
I saw a print on her turtleneck sweatshirt on the right side of her chest and it had in gold letters the name 'Isabel D.'.
"My goodness, how serious, you always go around with those problems, you really need to go get checked out, but well, take care, see you tomorrow in class, don't miss."
I don't know who Isabel is, it's the first time I see her, there is no girl with her description and name in the novel.
"Yes Hahaha, I won't miss, don't worry, take care of yourself."
I replied with a smile and we said goodbye to each other.
I quickly turned around and left the place.
I dug into my pockets and found my apartment key with a tag that said '443'.
According to the number on your key is the position you were in among the newly entered hunters, I'm within the average, among 2000 hunters I guess I'm okay.
«Wait though... Now that I fall, if I have this key I'm an apprentice hunter, and that I can only be if I'm 15 years old like all the hunters gathered there and on top of that that girl said not to miss classes tomorrow...».
I quickly ran towards the academy hotel, looking for my apartment, until I finally found it.
I opened the door and took a look up and down the apartment, which was neither small nor big, with what was necessary in my opinion.
«Not bad, for someone of my rank it could have been worse...».
«Well let's stop thinking about that».
I walked straight to the bathroom door and opened it.
The first thing I did when I got to the bathroom, was to look at myself in the mirror and I was shocked.
I, Javier Lenz, who was 22 years old about to finish my college career, I have rejuvenated to my 15, it was like having gone back in time, as well as the others who are there, I am also an apprentice here.
I have also on my overalls, stamped my name and the initial of my last name on the right side of my chest, 'Javier L.'.
So if I'm not wrong...
Definitely as Isabel said, tomorrow I have to go to the academy, for the weapons delivery and learn about ghosts...
I opened the bathroom door and walked out, walked to my bedroom and laid down on my bed surrendered.
sigh
"Seriously, what is this?". I asked disappointed.
"It's not enough that I've lost almost my entire family, and the only thing I have left of it, my younger brother, I just left alone, but now I'm also being forced to fight ghosts."
"I would have preferred to be sent to a story that's a schoolgirl story, where my biggest concern is that the famous or quiet one in the class likes me."
"I'd have a bad time too, but not like this hell, where I'll end up meeting my end".
"I sound unhinged talking to myself".
sigh
"[Don't be sad young Javier Lenz, you're not unhinged, I'm here to listen to you]".
The woman's voice when I died as a ghost echoed in my head again.
I opened my eyes in disbelief, I sat up on the bed, looked around and there was no one there, but I answered anyway.
"Who are you, did you bring me here?".
I blurted out my words to the air, sounding like I was talking to myself.
"[Let's not get upset Javier, first of all let me introduce myself]".
"[My name is 'Liz' and I'm just an assistant to the person who brought you here]."
"An assistant? For what purpose was I brought here?".
"[In order to help you and have you help us]".
"What, and why do you think I would do that?".
Once I asked that question, it was projected in front of my eyes, the picture of my family that my mom had framed in her room.
"[Wouldn't you like to go back to those times? Where everyone was happy together and live until your parents are grandparents and forget the sadness you go through in this present]".
I was speechless, this voice in my head called Liz, knew everything about me, even the picture my mom had of the family.
"How can you assure me that I can go back to those times? I'm warning you, don't play games with me by putting my parents' lives in front of me".
My words were pure bluster, what am I going to be able to do against something I can't see.
"[Isn't it proof enough for you that you have been transferred to this world and rejuvenated 7 years? My 'lord' can do anything he wants possible]".
"I assume you are talking about some kind of divinity, when you refer to the 'lord'".
"[You are correct Javier, what do you think now, do you trust us?"]".
"No, I don't trust, but I'll still listen to you, for the moment that's all I can do".
"[Too bad, I assure you that you will gain confidence in the future, but for now, since you agreed to listen to me, I will give you the mission that you will have to fulfill to make your wish come true]".
"Well, I pay attention".
"[Assuming you read the whole story, it's simple, you just have to give the play a happy ending]".
"And assuming you read it too, you know that's a near impossible thing to do, right?".
"[I know...]".