[LOCATION: GOVERNMENT BASE, 1 KILOMETER UNDERNEATH RUSSIA]
[DATE: 19.12.2014]
[TIME: 06:27 PM]
The main scientist in the base, Kodiak Egorov was walking down the long hallways. The walls were built by tiles but behind them was titanium. The tiny scent of blood and chemicals filled everyone's noses in the laboratory. He thought to himself.
"Finally after 50 years of work, our world will finally meet the other side...I cannot wait to meet the other side of reality, I wonder if they look like us. What if they are actually 3 fingered monsters with one big red eye in the middle of their face? I will do what my father couldn't. I will get the Egorov Family into the Supreme Scientific."
Kodiak stopped in front of a large door, about a plane-sized one, which had written on it "Particle Accelerator DO NOT ENTER". He slowly pushed the door open, revealing soldiers and scientists inside.
The soldiers walked around the entire room checking for intruders while the scientists were all surrounding a big control panel. The moment he entered everyone felt his presence. Everyone started greeting him, showing their deep respect towards him.
Kodiak is a simple man. He never left anyone behind and always put human lives in the first place. If problems occurred, he was always the one to jump in danger for the others. He was truly a golden man. Some people questioned whether he was an angel. Then one of the scientists told him.
"Everything is ready, Mister Kodiak."
"Understood, take positions."
Kodiak stepped up, in front of the control panel putting a strange mask on, looking like white rocks on his face. The scientists surrounded him and put on similar masks but black ones. The soldiers had rifles in their arms in a tight grip. With no second thought he spoke.
"Open the accelerator."
Commanded Kodiak as a wall opened, revealing a massive cylinder-shaped machine with giant rings over its circumference. Kodiak's fingers quickly danced over the control panel, causing the cylinder to start spinning.
"0.0002% the speed of light. I'll increase it to 1% now."
Kodiak pushed a button and the Machine started spinning faster, making massive wind force throughout the giant room. Kodiak continued increasing the speed. 5%,10%,15%,25%,50%. The machine's noise was deafening for the naked ear. The special masks prevent everyone from going deaf.
But then Kodiak grinned, his face looking like a devil's. He increased it to 80% of the speed of light which started to shake the entire base. The soldiers and scientists started shouting at him.
"MISTER KODIAK, IT'LL DESTROY THE BASE!"
"TURN IT OFF OR WE'LL ALL DIE!"
"ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING?!"
As one of the soldiers grabbed Kodiak by the shoulder, Kodiak grinned at him through his shoulder and elbowed the soldier in the mask, sending him falling into the Particle Accelerator (The Machine).
The rest of the soldiers pointed their rifles towards Kodiak, trying to shoot but the accelerator absorbed their bullets and weapons. Scientists jumped on top of him, trying to tackle him down but he felt his body surging in power out of nowhere. He quickly threw everyone away while growling.
"VOICES! I CAN HEAR THEM! THEY'RE TELLING ME TO GO FASTER!"
Kodiak moved his index finger across the control table, setting the machine to 100% Speed Of Light. And then it all stopped moving. A dark shadow sphere appeared in the air and the soldiers and scientists started dropping one by one.
"You..state your name..."
Was heard from the sphere. The voice that said those words was deep and kind of hypnotizing. Kodiak jumped off the control table and kneeled in front of the sphere.
"Doctor Kodiak Egorov. I was the one to summon you."
"Very well.."
Kodiak's sclera turned dark purple and shadows started flowing out of his mouth, filling the entire room. Kodiak fell on the ground dead.
[WORLD WIDE]
Massive earthquakes started showing across the entire earth, causing mass destruction. Due to the earthquakes, Africa has massive holes in it.
Currently known dead people over the world: Over 900 million.
[LOCATION: BULGARIA, MOUNTAIN PIRIN SNOWY REGION]
[DATE: 19.12.2014]
[TIME: 07:01 PM]
Due to the earthquakes, the snow regions had all filled the roads with snow.
Man in his mid-30s, Wife in her early 30s, and their young daughter of 5. They seemed like the typical Asian family, however, wearing jackets, scarves, and hats due to the snow around them. Their car parked 10 meters behind, lighting up the snow in front of them. The father, using a shovel was removing the snow from the path trying to dig up another car that got buried in the snow. As he cleaned up enough of the sleet, he started clearing up the wet windows with his fluffy red gloves.
The man noticed a light coming from inside with 3 figures in it.
"THERE ARE PEOPLE INSIDE!"
The man shouted and him and the woman started to knock on the car's door while the daughter stared at the buried car with curiosity and slight fear. As nobody in the car responded the man had to break the window using a rock. As the glass shattered, his daughter flinched a bit.
[LOCATION: BULGARIA, CITY BANSKO, LARGEST HOSPITAL OF BANSKO]
[DATE: 19.12.2014]
[TIME: 08:46 PM]
The family that was inside the car were all placed on beds as their rescuers were waiting in the same room. The little girl was sitting next to the boy, feeling sympathy. The tension in the room was massive as the doctor walked in, speaking up to the father.
"Only the boy survived. Thank goodness you were there at a time otherwise, he would've froze to death."
"Well, at least there's one less death."
The little girl spoke to her dad with a weak and upset voice.
"Dad, will he be alright? He'll be alone."
The man looked at his daughter, thinking about what she said. She was kinda right but there wasn't anything they could do. He glanced at the boy and then looked back at his daughter, kneeling on her level and putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Maybe you should give him something right now so he can feel you being with him. One day he might return it."
The little girl nodded and walked to the boy, putting a scarf next to him. From that day it was born. The unlucky child who just lost his parents' life had to adapt to the new world of being alone. This is how Daniel's life changed.
[LOCATION: BULGARIA, CAPITAL CITY SOFIA, ONE OF SOFIA'S ORPHANAGES]
[DATE: 06.01.2015]
[TIME: 09:21 AM]
Daniel walked inside the building, greeted by the caretaker and owner Goritsa Samuilova Buneva. She had a warm and wide smile. Despite her age, she was pretty hardworking. She spoke in soft and comforting voice.
"You must be Daniel, right? I am sorry about what happened to your family. I hope you're getting well."
"I am fine. I'm just kind of tired from all the traveling from Bansko."
"Alright alright. So your room is at the end of the hallway on the second floor. I've picked a perfect roommate for you!"
"Got it. See you later."
With that, Daniel walked upstairs to the second floor. Taking small steps towards the end of the hallway, still being kind of hesitant. The thought of living without his parents and the fact that they're dead is harsh but he had to accept it.
And then BOOM! A child around his age flew out of the room with bruises over his face. Daniel had stopped moving and was just in shock and confusion. A voice was heard from the room "You think that's enough payment? I told you I want something sweet." and a boy older than Daniel walked out of the room.
The boy was tall and had red hair. His hand holding money collected from the already beaten kid and his face was stern.
"And who're you?"
"Uhm, my name is Daniel. I am new here and that's my new room."
The boy let out a "tsk" sound and shot Daniel a glare. Afterward, he grabbed him for the collar of his shirt shoved him into the wall, and spoke in an aggressive tone.
"Listen pipsqueak, just because we both live here doesn't mean we're equal. Equality in this world doesn't exist. I want 25 leva (13,92 USD) every week or you're becoming a slave. Understood?"
"Or what?"
Daniel responded calmly, expecting the bully to be all bark no bite but suddenly the boy punched him in the face, causing his nose to bleed, and got in Daniel's face shouting at him.
"I own this ground, okay?! And if you even think about telling anyone I'll unalive you. Understood?"
Daniel was forced to agree so he sighed and nodded. The boy then threw him on the ground and walked away. The kid that flew out of the room earlier stood up, next to Daniel speaking up to him trying to warn him.
"That's Gabriel. He's the oldest here and he knows how to do his ways. If we ever tell miss miss Buneva he'll make sure we can't walk for the rest of our lives. Just stay quiet around him and give him what he wants, okay?"
Daniel sighed annoyed.
"Whatever. You should do something about him tho. He's pissing me off.."
The kid didn't even try to consider Daniel's request, replying.
"We're already tied but we don't know what he's capable of."
The kid seemed pretty scared and Daniel didn't want to push him so he just agreed and went in his room.
From that day it got worse. Gabriel was physically and mentally abusing Daniel. He was his main target because they were in the same room. Daniel slowly covered himself, becoming quieter and lonelier.
The other children in the orphanage knew that if they hung around him they'd also become a target and he understood that although it hurt.
[LOCATION: BULGARIA, CAPITAL CITY SOFIA, ONE OF SOFIA'S ORPHANAGES, DAN AND GABRIEL'S ROOM]
[DATE: 03.02.2017]
[TIME: 11:58 AM]
Daniel was now 7 years old almost 8. He was walking on the crowded Vitosha Boulevard looking at the stores and restaurants around him, his stomach was empty because Gabriel constantly stealing his food. The more he walked trying to clear his mind the worse it became. Then he sat on a bench trying to rest his feet while looking down at his ripped shoes. He saw a blue key on the ground and picked it up.
He looked at the key and it was weird. It didn't look like a normal key and why was it there? He didn't see it when sitting down and nobody was around him to drop it.
"What's that..?"
He mumbled to himself as he walked around asking people about it. After 30 minutes he learned that after the incident almost 3 years ago weird keys started to appear all around the earth everywhere. With these keys, people unlocked doors into the air towards other dimensions in the form of apartments and houses. In the apartments and houses, there were monsters and stuff placed around like special weapons and pills which gave super powers. Daniel had gotten the worst key, the blue color. After more research, he found out that he could make money out of the stuff he found inside those dimensions by selling it to the government.
[LOCATION: BULGARIA, CAPITAL CITY SOFIA, ONE OF SOFIA'S ORPHANAGES, DAN AND GABRIEL'S ROOM]
[DATE: 04.17.2019]
[TIME: 08:02 AM]
Daniel was on the ground while Gabriel was kicking him and shouting in anger.
"SCREAM ALREADY! OH MY DAYS, YOU'RE SO BORING!"
Gabriel's attempts to get fun out of somebody's despair were unsuccessful. But an idea popped into his head. He glanced at Daniel's old scarf and walked towards the table where it was placed.
"Wait!"
Daniel screamed but Gabriel ripped the scarf in half, throwing it in the form with a grin. Gabriel then spoke mockingly.
"What? Are you gonna cry already? It's just some old scarf, bitch boy."
For the first time in 5 years, Daniel felt something more than instinct to survive or curiosity. He felt genuine anger. The only thing he had on him that hadn't left him was the thing Gabriel just destroyed.
In the next moment, Daniel rushed into Gabriel with a knee between his legs, making Gabriel gasp in pain. Daniel then proceeded to push him to the ground. Positioning himself on top of Gabriel's stomach he started punching him with pure madness in his eyes.
Daniel's blue eyes were making sure to memorize every punch into Gabriel's face. The picture in his head of Gabriel being smacked is giving him pure joy.
After the caretaker found out Daniel told her the truth about everything including the abuse and Gabriel was moved to another place for orphans. Daniel's old scarf was patched together again. After this, he just became a shadow again in the darkness hiding from attention. He was kind to everyone in the orphanage and they all viewed him as a big brother. The balance between being the quiet and ignored kid at school and being the big brother in the orphanage was overwhelming to him.
Even after these years of hunting for keys to earn money he only found blue ones (The rarest keys with nothing inside their doors). The orphanage started getting closer to fully closing. Daniel's luck never came to this day. While walking out of school he saw on the ground a black key.
"I've never heard of black ones before.."
He mumbled to himself. Nobody has been ever recorded to have used black keys. He lifted it up and saw a dark mist coming out of the key while he was thinking if he should use it or not. Then other kids from the school walked towards him. It was group of 4 with boys around Daniel's age.
"Yo, what are you holding there?"
Said one of the boys, visibly the strongest one.
---TO BE CONTINUE---
ALL REGISTERED KEY COLORS:
Blue Key: Empty, dirty and tiny apartments with no monsters and no rewards
Green Key: Small Apartments with small and weak monsters and weak weapons for rewards
Orange Key: Normal Apartments with risking level of danger, humanoid monsters and dog-like creatures are hiding there with strong (No powered) weapons
Yellow Key: Large apartments mostly on two floors with monsters strong as tanks. The rewards are strong weapons (With special powers) and low-mid-level pills that give superpowers.
Red Key: House dimensions with extremely dangerous with one-of-a-kind weapons and strong pills that give super powers.
Purple Key: Mansion-sized dimensions which only country-ranked door breaker or armies enter. There are the rarest and strongest weapons ever and the strongest superpower pills.