A man opens the door of a small apartment building, as he unlocks and opens the door, he exclaims out loud, "I'm so tired!" before yawning and taking his entrance into his apartment.
Moving sluggishly, he intends on heading into his bedroom. Removing his black jacket, tattered hat and tossing his sweaty white shirt. He opens a drawer to reveal a mirror. His dark saggy eyes indicating a lack of sleep. Placing his black hat flat on his desk, his name is etched across the rim, "Qian Rongqi"
Fatigued, Qian Rongqi heads straight on to bed face first. Rolling over, sweaty and relaxed. Getting up, Qian looks arounds his dirty, unclean bedroom. Covered in dust and messy papers.
"What to do tomorrow..." Qian Rongqi contemplates slowly.
Looking around for something to distract his mind of the state of his bedroom, Qian Rongqi moves back to his desk and opens an article paper. Moving through the wrinkled up, rough papers on the ground to opening the window, a brilliant, shining ray of moonlight reveals the article's name. 'Mysterious Phenomenon Occurrence in Chongqing'. Qian Rongqi sits back on a chair that is illuminated from the dark corner of the room.
Laying back on the hard wooden chair Qian Rongqi intently reads the article.
'A mysterious object of otherworldly proportions crashed in the middle of Chongqing, only 10 fatalities occurred, with one resulted death. Ambulances and archeologists on arrived on the scene recover what appears to be a shining bright light masked in the form of a sphere, seemingly having no visible details. Word among witnesses say that the object emitted some sort of weird energy wave before crashing into the Earth. Whether this matter is of the supernatural can only be confirmed through experimentation. The object has been since confiscated and sent into a research facility. Results on the object's properties will be recorded soon.
"Yeah right, as if light could have such a form." Doubting the articles statement, Qian Rongqi starts questioning himself on the subject.
While devoured in thought, a noticeable but small orb is seen appearing under Qian's hat. It rapidly flashes sparks of radiant energy, before stopping temporarily. The object begins periodically sparking tiny plasma arcs, with each passing second, it generates larger, more concentrated sparks, which set ablaze the rough interior of Qian's hat into a fiery inferno. Bright Orange light quickly Ingulfs the room in a sudden flash as the heat quickly pulls the attention of the pondering Qian.
"What the Heck?!?!" Exclaimed
ignoring the sudden light change, he quickly heads to his hat in a panicked frenzy. But all of a sudden,the mysterious fire illuminates the room in a bright orange glow. Then... It stops and slowly dies down the very next second. The room slowly reverts to normal like nothing happened.
A ray of moonlight magically shines onto Qian's perfectly fine hat showing an expression of confusion with complete clarity. The moonlight moved to expose the numerous scars across his torso, arms and neck. Noticeably a large scar across his left eye. Nate noticeably is disturbed, and quickly checks his hat for any damage, putting his newspaper open on his desk, and letting the moonlight expose the bottom text, showing a symbol of a weirdly meshed hood. Lifting his hat, Nate finds the small glowing orb, about the size of cup, burning with intense arcs of electricity, but not enough to start that presumed fire again.
"What is this object? Why did it appear under my hat?" Nate thought while tapping his perfectly unscathed hat.
Putting down the hat, he starts looking at the object closer. Nate sees weird dark ethereal markings and endless blinding light flashing and appearing from a few of the markings in the orb.
Finding the object Seemingly harmless, despite the prior actions it caused, Nate picks up the orb, expecting something to happen.
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Nothing happened.
"Maybe, I should just hand this thing into the authorities. It's something I can't control."
He places the orb inside and closes the drawer, along with his hat and returns to his cozy soft single bed, begining to fall asleep to his drearily thoughts.
I don't know if this thing I have is safe or not, it's best not to interact with it anymore.
Nate falls asleep comfortable, as he forgets about his thoughts and actions, the small glowing orb begins to act up again, spinning and flying inside the drawer with the hat levitating above it.
It begins to fly regardless of the hat's presence, robotically moving above the sleeping Nate. Suddenly, it vanishes into a pitch-black darkness and disappears above Nate. His hat falling on-top of his face and his body glowing in endless light before fading away and disappearing again.
Suddenly, he opens his dreary eyes, only to staring into a darkness like no other. His senses appear dull and split apart. His state of mind seemingly drowned in deep euphoria. His consciousness urges his mind to shake off the euphoric feeling of bliss, before waking himself up, only to find himself in the middle of a dark expanse, levitating like in deep space.
What... Is this? Have I passed on into the afterlife? Does it have something to do with the thing I have in my drawer?
He attempts to speak, then move, then feel then listen.
Nothing comes out of his empty vocals.
Nothing reacts to his attempts at freedom.
Nothing responds to his skin or body, or whatever is of it in such a weird state.
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Nothing at all..
Until something is heard at last, a dreadfully horrific scream is heard from the darkness, then silence returns.
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What do I do? I can't move, I can't yell for help, I can't even hear or see anything. I need to somehow get out of this state.
All of a sudden, from the corner of Nate's eye, a small sparking light appears. Growing in size, it sparks out huge white lightning arcs from 4 directions, forming a circular object that emits the same weird particles he saw from that peculiar orb with markings.
Nate manages to move in this instance, and undulled his senses. Seeing his skin has turned into a ghostly apperation. Ignoring it regardless, he moves away from the object, until it suddenly disappears, only leaving a cloaked figure where the sparks where. Dawned in light gray cloak,black and white hood holding another weird looking hood with circles at the edges.
"Who is that? And why does his hood look awfully familiar?" Nate thought before snapping back to his current predicament.
The weird entity looks around, unintentionally directly looking at Nate directly into his eyes. Nate panics, blocking his direct sight with his ghostly arms, then noticing the entity hasn't noticed him. Like a literal ghost.
It takes out a weird object, appearing to be a very roughed up book. It begins opening up the book; luminescent, sharp light starts confining a small part of the darkness It stands in, forming a kind of structure above the book. The light structure suddenly dissolves into the empty darkness and then the entity closes the book, seemingly ending the light show that just appeared. It then takes out something peculiarly familiar.