Chapter 5 The Beginning: Waking up to a new world (Part 1) All chapters posted first @ 9tribulations.com

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Before everything went dark and dizzying, I remember wondering whether I was about to die.

The last thing I remember was walking down central street and taking a short cut through an alley, and then nothing. Everything just went dark.

Dark? It’s still dark. I call for my status window and nothing happens. I try calling it out a few times and as I realize nothing is happening I start to feel a twinge of anxiety. This is new. My status window has never been unavailable… I didn’t even know that was possible.

I can’t move but I don’t feel hurt, I just… Can’t feel my body. This feels so surreal. I can’t move but I’m definitely awake. Except I can’t tell if my eyes are open. I feel apart from my body. Separate as if it doesn’t exist.

This is definitely new.

(Lesser God Realm)

At this moment. The universe, every universe, every star, sun, world, realm was ripped apart. Torn then erased. For one moment, everything was gone and not gone, in the universe and somehow somewhere else, somewhere out of existence.

One moment before everything was pieced back together. The god’s all joined together in the less god realm as the focal point for existence to be recreated, but not recreated, stitched back together but not the same way. Stitched back together but not in the all in the same place.

All godhoods of the gods used as material to heal and stitch the universe back in place.

One moment where everything was and wasn’t. One moment that stretched on for an eternity for a few but was never even noticed for most.

(Terra)

I hear something. I hear something! I hear screaming… Is that me? All I hear is screaming, all I heard for a few minutes was my own screaming. The personification of my pain given voice by a part of me that seemed apart from me.

After minutes of voicing my pain. Of feeling uncontrollable pain and relief washing over me in waves I finally felt myself again.

Despite the pain, I felt relief because the pain itself signified that I was still alive. Weirdly enough I’m surprisingly calm about all of this. Take away the screaming and the anxiety (which I’m keeping down pretty well), and this would be pretty darn impressive.

I move my one good arm with everything I have. I can’t even feel my left arm. I can’t stay like this, I can move now so I need to do something. I open my eyes but the dark seems different (which is a weird thing). Darker yet brighter. It takes me a second to realize it feels darker because it’s no longer so early in the morning. It’s more like it’s early at night.

Did I pass out for this long?

Daichi tilt his head a bit, before realizing three soul shuddering things.

1.) There in the middle of the sky are three moons staring at one another in unison. From his perspective forming the shape of a pyramid. “Since when are there 3 moons?” he took the time to wonder.

2.) Everything in the sky was much brighter. The stars are shinning as if they were closer than before. In fact Daucgu couldn’t recognize any of the constellations and even when he found one he knew, it felt like they were in the wrong place. The sky felt wrong.

3.) When he finally managed to tear his eyes away from the sky, he finished tilting his head to the side to finally realize there was nothing around him. Only rubble.

This morning when I woke up I was in the middle of my home town, now I’m surrounded by nothing. His mind begun swirling with possibilities as to what could have happened. Even more so, considering the stars were all wrong and everything around him was different.

"Perhaps I’m no longer home… Could this be one of those stories where I’ve been transported to another world?" he wondered.

Daichi pushed all of these possibilities aside as he began trying to calm his mind. His entire body was filled with pain, but a numb pain that felt more like a dull ache by this point.

Ugh. This is terrible. Still, regardless of what happened. I’m still alive and I’m all about focusing on the positive.

He tred to call out for his

-Status- Name: Daichi Seishin Class: None Level: 5 Race: None Status: Touched by Chaos

Title(s): None Divine Protection: None Attribute(s): None Health: 1/100 Mana: 1

Strength: 8 Dexterity: 8 Vitality: 8 Endurance: 24 Intelligence: 40 Wisdom: 40 Magical Aptitude: 1 Luck: 100/100

Skill(s): None

Ability: None

Inheritance: None

He immediately felt relief wash over him as he gazed as his status window. Seeing one of the constants in his life made him feel more secure if only for a moment.

That relief turned to shock almost as soon as he took a look at the actual window as his eyes grew wide.

The numbers he was seeing were mind boggling. "I don’t know what I should even be focusing on. The fact that apparently luck had a cap, that my magical aptitude is so low (disappointing) or that I’m an inch away from death!" he thought to himself, his shock not dissipating in the least.

"I’m hurt but how could I possibly be that hurt!? I can’t even tell what’s wrong with me!"

After a brief moment of panic, Daichi began taking an actual look at that abnormal status. "That has something to do with my mana. My mana is suddenly unsealed but worthless and somehow abnormal… I think if I were anyone else I’d be feeling overwhelmed... Yeah. I've got that going for me."

"If I’m this hurt how am I not dead? Why is my luck 100?" So many questions popped up one after another. Daichi couldn’t even decide what to focus on first as his thoughts got away from him.

Daichi ended up finding himself trying to remember what happed but much to his chagrin found everything feeling vague. "I was in an alley, when suddenly the ground I was on was the peak of a ledge overlooking the entire city much higher than everything else and suddenly but almost seemingly at the same time there was nothing there and I was just falling? None of that makes any sense." There was a hint of annoyance as he found himself unable to make sense of anything.

Daichi had always relied on reason. Except his current situation defied all logical reasoning, he couldn't tell if he was delirious as his thoughts made about as much sense as his memories. Feeling a new wave of exhaistion washing over him he continued trying to think of an answer to any one of the dozens of questions passing through his mind with no success. Even as his eyes were slowly feeling more and more heavy, he could only wonder whether closing his eyes would equate to death.

"I wonder if I yell if anyone would hear me. Actually I just wonder if there’s anyone left around here but me."

Just as he found himself about to close his eyes and let things play out...

He heard a voice in his mind, as if someone was talking to him from inside of his own head. Which he found himself thinking was an extremely discomforting sensation.

This world is no longer your world. In the aftermath of the chaos that has spread and been contained reality has folded in upon itself. A wrinkle was formed. This world is not Terra and it is not Amos. Both of your worlds no longer exist alone. They have been merged into this world. This is our world. This is the divine realm of the Gods. The land masses of your worlds are here, along with parts of other things from other places. Beyond the stretch of land your world’s once held lies a vast world which you are all a part of now. Those of you that have survived are the lucky ones. As such we will give you a gift. A gift of possibility. No one in this world will be limited by their race.

Daichi tried to pay attention but the waves of exhaustion caused him to pass out before catching the last part. Something about a gift....

We grant you the ability to evolve, to choose, to grow. That is the good news. Now hear the rest, all of you are now in danger. If you want to survive you will need to become strong, strong enough to survive what comes next.