Satoya pressed his hand on his forehead, trying to mask the pain, before Isaac looked at him in slight concern, "bro are you alright?" He asked while patting his back. "Oh, yeah, eyes had to adjust to the light." Satoya faintly chuckled. They then saw a teenager running toward them. He had brown hair and had headphones around his neck, holding a small grocery bag. "Wait, are those snacks?" Isaac said, his eyes gleaming with eagerness.
"Yeah… But not for you.." The teenager in brown hair and headphones sighed while panting in exhaustion. "I had to run to the nearest convenience store." He added on, he then bent on his knees, then handed the grocery bag to Satoya.
"Oh, no worries Johnathan, but I appreciate the gift." Satoya assured as he handed the grocery bag to Isaac who looked more joyful than him. "Isaac! You just had 2 cakes!" Rayna scolded while trying to take the grocery bag from Isaac.
"So what's the plan?" Johnathan asked as he had recovered his stamina. "We're planning on going to a newly opened restaurant, and we're on our way to the train station." Satoya said, trying not to get distracted from another conflict between Rayna and Isaac.
After a couple minutes, they bought their tickets, then finally sat down in a bullet train. "The train in the 5th capital is more sanitary than the one here.." Sakonori said as she used her hand to wipe the dust off of her seat.
A capital is a continent, but not as large as the one in the real world, but still large enough to be considered one. In the geography of the world, there are 10 continent, but only 9 of them are capitals, with the 10th continent being the largest and is located in the center of the large ocean dividing the capitals, but due to a devastating historical incident, the 10th continent is off limits to everyone in the world, even prime ministers and presidents of the 9 capitals.
Satoya was enjoying the scenery with his phone open on his lap. A notification from 'GWN' or Global Wide News, which is a very popular news channel in the world. Satoya is the only one of the group to be following the news channel, as the others don't necessarily care about the news unless it's something about school, so he was the only one who received the notification.
The notification had the text:
High Level Iyas emerged from the ground in the abandoned town in the 1st capital–Hamesville
But no one noticed the text because they were busy doing their own things. Sakonori was slumped over asleep, Johnathan and Edward were on their phones, playing video games on their phones. Meanwhile Isaac was joyfully snacking from the grocery bag that Johnathan brought for Satoya, and Rayna was trying to negotiate with him to at least get a piece.
Then Satoya felt a ringing sensation in his ears, with an even worse headache. This time he was clutching his head with both of his hands, and the same unfamiliar voice echoed in his mind.
"Satoya, I must warn you, everything will go wrong this day.."
Satoya's mind raced, "who the hell are you? And what are you doing in my head?!" He demanded in his mind, before he felt a candy bar hit his cheek, releasing him from the pain and confusion.
"Bro, are you fine?" Isaac asked, with Rayna behind him looking at Satoya in concern. He then was offered a candy bar from Isaac, then looked behind him to see Rayna's dumbfounded expression. Satoya felt a little embarrassed, because everyone in the group–excluding Sakonori as she was sound asleep.
"I'm alright, just my head keeps hurting.." Satoya said, his voice was slightly lower because of embarrassment. He then saw Johnathan looking at the window, his eyes widened in shock, he then yelled out: "What the hell is that?!"
Before the group processed what Johnathan said, everything went pitch black. The sound of the train wheels screeching, the sound of the entire train flipping, and another sound of people screaming in utter fear, followed up with the muffled sounds of savage gnarls of unknown beasts.
Several hours went by. Isaac's eyes fluttered open, the moon cascading over him, the moonlight shining through the shattered window, giving light to a situation that no one was able to comprehend.
"Ugh..what happened?" He thought, before looking at his arms and legs. His brown jacket was torn up, his arms and legs scratched and bruised. While taking in the disaster, he felt a cold liquid drop on his head, before slowly looking up to see a monster above him. The monster's eyes gazed toward Isaac through the window, the grotesque eyes appeared to be made up of billions of smaller eyes.
Isaac's face narrowed in disgust, before picking up a glass shard then throwing it at the grotesque eye that was gazing toward him from the shattered window. The beast screeched in pain, before becoming aggravated by the action. It reached its claw at Isaac, trying to devour him at all costs.
"What is that?!" Sakonori gasped in fear, before picking up a baseball bat she found lying next to her, then swung it at the monster's hand. The attack left no mark on the monster's claw, but left her hands trembling in pain. The monster reaching for them seemed to have been tackled by a large crow-like beast, but wasn't fully visible because of the sheer speed of the beast.
Edward, in a sluggish tone, coughed, "what's going on?" He then hurriedly tugged on Johnathan's hand, whose leg was pinned down from multiple luggages.
Satoya rolled over, holding his shoulder, then reached for his phone. "Damn it! My phone's broken!" He cursed with his thoughts. He shoved his broken phone into his pocket, then stood up. His eyes darted left and right, there were several holes in the train car, making him realize that the passengers that were in the same car as him, were ripped out of the car by force. There were also severed limbs near the holes in the car, blood still dripping onto the ground.
At this moment, there was something tugging in his heart, but he couldn't grasp his mind around it, as if the answer kept rejecting him. But all he could think about was, "Peace is always temporary–but what if there's a way for that peace to be permanent?"
Then a large banging sound was heard behind him from the ceiling of the train car, then 4 fingers pierced through, tearing the ceiling of the toppled over train car. It felt as if time slowed momentarily. Satoya slowly turned around his eyes full of concern, with Sakonori eyes widening in deep fear. The beast ripped open through the side of the toppled train car, the beast's mouth opened, saliva dripping down.
Before the beast came near Satoya, a flash of a young adult impaled the beast from the head.