THUD!
It felt to him as though he was in a benighted horizon. The ground was cemented with posh decorated designs and some stain of grasses grew on them. The sky was cloudless and dark - gloomy, sombre - rumbling. His head throbbed and he felt a pang of pain in his belly.
Makkot stood up, and looked at his clothes, it had changed, he was now clothed in breeches and a cowboy jacket and hat. Floating in air front of him was a mirror, he trudged over to it and stared at it.
He jumped back instantly and fell on the floor. What he saw in the mirror was a figure, clothed in the same attire as his, with a bat - werewolf like face. Makkot stood up, he stretched his hands to the mirror and examined it. They were hairs all over them. He gaped and soon gasped.
" W T F, is that me!", he cried out loud.
He heard a loud THUD! at his back. He quickly spun around to see a small boy clothed in a t- shirt and black trousers on the floor.
" Who are you", makkot asked the boy as he stared back at him.
" I'm devon, and who the hell are you?", the boy asked makkot.
" Devon?", he asked startled. " Is that you?, I mean, I've changed, this was not how I was some minutes".
" Makkot?", asked the boy.
" Devon?", asked makkot.
Just then a horn echoed through the place, more people fell with thuds and some with BAMS on the floor. Makkot and devon heads swirled around as they absorbed their surroundings into their dizzy brain.
" Welcome to the BAT MOCKERS GAMES!", echoed a voice. " You volunteered and now you are here".
Makkot walked to the edge of earth he was standing upon and saw that it was floating in the sky.
" No turning back", continued the voice.
" Quit and you lose!".
They were many floating grounds that flooded the place and only makkot and devon were on one of them.
Was…
…because a girl soon fell with a thud.
Makkot and devon were stupified, what the hell! had they done.
" Y'all agreed to contest because you hoped to win the BAT MOCKERS dragon. Well!, you guys can!, if you live", continued the voice. " You have been split into teams and you must work together to win the BAT MOCKERS game. You'll not only win the dragon but save your lives. If you lose, you'll be instantly teleported into the government's prison", the the voice paused and makkot and devon let this sink in. Their faces were terrified ones.
" Remember", said the voice again. " You can't quit and If you lose you die!".
The grounds rotated, like a windmill and spread to the sides, some slanting into two and the inhabitants reeling and grabbing to the sides. Finally, a clearing in the middle was created and falling from the sky was a long straight earth, cascading and joining itself in a befuddledling manner to the ground floating at the top side and the one down, the others still separated at the sides.
A bizarre gust of wind rode forward, filling the air.
" You MOCKERERS - that's what you are called because you are like servants of the BAT MOCKER now. Note, the bat mocker owns the government and the government owns the game", roared the voice. " You MOCKERERS are to pass, all at once, this earth bridge down to the other side. From the left to the right, the people on your ground are your teams and you are to work with them to win".
On makkot's earth were devon and the girl that had earlier fell with a thud. A spark of light scintillated, it was facing makkot and the latter moved back abruptly. It suddenly expanded and opened revealing a floating badge.
" Those are your badges", said the voice.
" Your name and rank will appear there".
Lights scintillated across everyone faces and their badges popped out. On makkot's own was written - Makkot # player 13 (.) Position - swordslinger. Rank - 99. Leader of TEAM F5.
On devon's badge was written - Devon# player 32 (.) position - tech genius. Rank - 64.
On the girl's badge was written - violee # player 57 (.) position - princess warrior. Rank - 78.
The same thing happened to other players badges.
" Now let the BAT MOCKERS GAMES begin!", roared the voice.
Footfalls jerked forward, trampling, like a cascade of elephants towards the thin - straight earth. Shoving was the order of the run as bodies fell with thick clatters out of the earths and down the horizon.
" We need to be careful, work together and corporate", said the girl who had fell with a thud which name was violee.
Makkot and devon nodded in the affirmative as they ran with violee, avoiding shoves and sticking together until they reached the thin - straight earth. They jumped on it together with other people and began to run, many bodies coming from the other side.
" C'mon!", shouted devon. " How won't we fall!".
Makkot grimaced. " You've been recarnated into a teenage boy's body so I don't see what wrong with your legs, quit complaining kid!".
Devon frowned. " I could give birth to you!".
" Hush!", said violee halting the fight. She was actually clothed in a temple chinese gown.
" Quit arguing, remember, be careful, stick together and corporate, okay?".
The two males nodded.
" But you ought to be the leader", said devon to makkot.
Makkot was flushed. " Well -".
Violee cut him short. " You're still the leader okay, just trying to save your lives and nothing else" .
They ran, the people at the other end almost meeting up with them. Suddenly the distance became lesser as the people from the other side came upon them. Makkot, devon and violee were sandwiched in between other people. Suddenly, people began to get shoved off, and then suddenly, devon was shoved off the line, he fell out of the horizon and down…
" Nooo!", screamed makkot.
" He's gone", said violee. " Keep moving".
Makkot almost cried as he continued forward, he could still hear the piercing scream of devon -
" Save meeee…!".