Prologue: Game Over
The sound of raining was heavy, it didn't erase my worries at the fact I didn't message my mom.
I didn't think much into it as I continued scrolling my screen, reading an online novel as I take the bus home. I was nervous like any other novel fans, it's just three more chapters left until the story was over.
It's been about six years I've been into this long novel I'm reading. Rather I'd blame it on the slow updates from the author himself but it was worth it.
The story setting was slow and balanced until the main character got stucked in an unfamiliar place, then the plot was a bit boring but when it reach the obstacles, that's where things get interesting.
I'm a boy who immediately swoon for stories that kills the liked characters. I'm not heartless. Mabye because it's a starting for a development to some characters that need one. Normally I would sometimes feel bad and cry to some scenarios because what I'm reading is a gore theme.
The novel that I'm so into is Kill And Survive. It should be named as Die Or Survive since the plot is mainly that. But the art in the story is that it's about human's desires, whether to choose save or abandon, die or betray. And the outcome is the same as well, die or survive.
I don't blame the characters when they abandon their comrades, since it's a think and do situation.
I always wonder what I would do if I was put up in the same situation.
Anyways, about the novel, it has about 900 chapters all in all. Not really long but it just felt long when I get started into it. It somehow got this magic that made me so engrossed to reading it, it's also the reason why I love survival games so much but of course nothing makes me more hyped up than Kill And Survive.
The popularity is also a maxed, some nation wouldn't know it and some was bored to read more since it's slow paced. I don't mind at all, I was bored out of my mind to begin with and I just continued reading it.
I was bummed out because I was the only fan of Kill And Survive in my school, together with my family. I didn't mind anymore because it wasn't all that popular like the hit books I see on my recommended page.
It was finally time to get off the bus and I hurriedly went out once the sliding door is opened.
' Sh*t. I should have brought an umbrella.. '
I covered myself with the coat of my school uniform as I run through my neighborhood. The rain didn't make it any better as the view around me is blurry by droplets of grey water.
I still have my determination left as I run through my instinct finding my own house and suddenly-
* plop
I look back as I hear an object drop to the ground. I wouldn't care if since it's raining and I couldn't see properly but as I kneel and touch the fallen object, my eyes widen.
It was my phone, I can feel the screen glass shattered a bit and my phone being soaked out open by the rain didn't make it any better. I drop to my knees as I silently cried.
The phone that I have been using, the effort of reading all those chapters..
I should have agreed to buy a computer instead.
I miseraably sighed as I wipe the messy screen with my coat. I'm sure I looked stupid right now and me having a fever right when I come home, I will have to do so much work.
Before I could continue finding my house, something lit from the screen of my phone, curious I tried turning it on.
I kissed my teeth, irritated at my phone. ' Are you one or not? '
Suddenly after multiple times of pressing the on button, I see another light lit up from the screen, but I don't think that's the case, it really looks like it's from inside my phone. Then, a second later a green light soon became wide, wide enough for me to become scared.
I don't know what to do, whether to abandon my phone and buy a new or just come back and try to fix it.
Before I could pick an option, a sudden pain hit my head making me feel dizzy, I held my head with my palm but that didn't help as my legs felt weak and my vision became blurry. To think I wouldn't faint in the middle of the rain, before I could do anything my mind went blank.
My body hit the ground with a pang.
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It was dark, I see nothing.
My body felt like nothing. I curiously wander around the darkness but soon figured out I can't escape the dark abyss. It's like I'm a ghost, flowing around having nowhere to go and just felt, like I'm made of emptiness.
I remembered everything perfectly before I fainted. I was a bit aggrivated that I was stupid enough to care for a phone just to wake up and find out I'm in a dark room.
I don't recall of me being dead though, I'm sure I just fainted, so am I in a coma? Is this what having a come feels like? But I clearly know it's something else.
The question is: What am I going to do now?
It's not that hard when I think it's impossible to get out of this matter, I almost hyperventilate because of me being here, floating into a sea of nothing. Seeing nothing but pitch black like I'm in a dark room I felt scared and lonely, sometimes I think of some monster coming out to jumpscare me.
I'm trapped here. Forever perhaps?
No, I don't want that! But I can't do anything. There's nothing I can do, nowhere I could go to.
I am just a ghost, that got ascended after I fainted in the rain.