"Ring, ring, ring.”

"What is this?"

My vibrating backpack slipped from my back onto the rocky hard ground. Normally I would feel a constant strain in the middle of my spine, now I just felt normal, it was not pleasing it was just like if I had nothing the whole time.

I directed my gaze at my hands and contemplated my skinny hands, filled with countless veins that popped like glass tubes, transparent and all. My vision suddenly darkened and darkened and started to become blurry; opaque like an unfocused camera on hard steroids. I began feeling a pull to the ground and strange pulls acting on the sides of my head.

Fuck, I knew that candy would do no good.

Heyla stood just beside me as she kept staring at my loud shaking backpack. Her expression, at least to me, was definitely not natural, as she just kept trembling like if she was in the cold white snow. Her eyes dimmed and half closed as her mouth formed into a thin line.

"My phone?" I asked. Heyla just looked at me and nodded weakly. She had not truly known what was even happening, she only felt weak, too weak. Her face flushed red until her eyes became almost monotone.

Some of the surrounding crowd began looking at me and the shaking Heyla, their faces were surprisingly calm and serene, their mouths closing and opening as they thought of what the storm may mean. They were too calm that I felt shivers down my spine and neck.

"Jeremy call your mother I'm going to call your sis, and we are out of this damned country!" A young man said just right next to us said, as he and his child silently saw me looking at my hands weirdly, the red hair young man's eyes opened and his pupils opened wide like shining plates...was he smoking crack?

The redhead father saw my wondering gaze land on his cigar and looked at his cigarette in confusion. "What?" The young man dropped the cigar to the ground, he took hold of his black-haired child and shoved him out of the vanishing crowd. "Hurry bastard!" He shouted quite loudly.

I shook my head disappointment, society was just a bad influence on everything.

I suddenly felt a huge weakening headache and dropped down on one knee, panting and sweating from the tip of fingers to my chest. I looked at my still vibrating backpack and I focused all my attention on it "I have to find a way out of here, but first I need to see this with my own eyes." I opened the main red zipper of my travel backpack, which I had found in my mom's basement 7 years ago and looked carefully inside, almost as if I was looking down a devil infested pit.

There was a light with a red glowing sign in the middle.

I took the light and closely took an angry and a confused look at my now fixed phone...it was still a block. “Ring, ring, ring.” Cher was calling me.

How?

What?

I looked at the phone a little bit afraid. “Are you not going to respond?” I looked at Heyla, and then at my phone, and like an idiot, I just opened and closed my mouth, as if afraid that I would realize this was a dream and that my life was still the same...which were not my thoughts, but I needed some kind of motive to do such an odd reaction.

What da hell. I'm just gonna answer and think about it later. I rolled my eyes to the side and scrunched up my face.

“Hello?” I bit my lip and looked at the brown clean floor. “What are you doing? I have been waiting at your house for the last hour.” Said, Cher, though the electronic voice line, I gasped loudly and thought about it, uuuuuhm, oh, yes.

HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT? She never fucking told me.

“My house is our usual place?"

The people around us started to disperse into their cars parked on the sidewalk.

"Yea you moron.” I heard the crunching of chips. "Dam, you really know how to choose the best mother fucking chips -crunch-" How did she find those chips? I hid them just below our 19-6-76 bunker...she did not enter my room right? I gasped. She had not seen my chocolate collection right? I sighed slowly, with absolutely no force in me left.

There were more important things to care about, even if this seemed like the worst thing ever in this year. I looked at the storm and scrunched up my face tighter, as the winds coming to towards me and Heyla where increasing in strength and in momentum.

“Cher get out of there! A crystal storm is on your way!” Cher laughed and semmed to hit MY SPECIAL table like a maniac, her laughter died down instantly and she responded, “So, you want to play like that, you little pinky, little toe?” I looked at Heyla and motioned her to follow me. “What do you mean and stop calling me pi-?”

“THE white sky is just a natural phenomena that happens in the arctic pole, the news said it clearly. I'm not going to take that stupid bait and believe any of your fantasy bullshit”...Was she serious?! I grabbed the side of my throat hard and 5 lines of red formed in their wake, a tear silently run down from my left eye to my mouth, the salty taste slipped into my mouth before the tear dropped from my face.

“They are lying. GET OUT OF THERE!. YOU WILL D-”

The people almost finally dispersed into their cars, and kept looking at us the whole time, ever so closely...almost too much as if watching a freak show. Some others looked at us with pain for they heard and started to understand.

“Ok, ok I'm going just to be 'safe' I will be waiting for you in your dad's bunker. The government said to stay home, yaay-ya! So I'm going to stay at your home and bring the video games stationed in your room to the bunker. ok?” All blood drained from my face.

"My room? DONT YO-”

"Buuum, buum, buum."

She hanged up...

Ok, my room was not that bad, but I just did not want her to see the poster I had on the ceiling, I mean it literally says: "I love you, oh I really do." Don't you dare and I mean DARE ask me why I put that there.

“So towards your house right?” Heyla asked as she leaned towards me with expectant eyes. I could not look her in the face, her coming would most certainly mean her death. “Please sta-”

“N.O.” She responded with each syllable longer than the last. I looked at her red face and my eyes widened in anger. “Would you-”

“NO.”

"At least let me say what I want to say."

“N-N-N-NO, I really want to come with you. If it's going to be the end of the world, at least I want to be near so-so-someone like you!" My mind was blown into pieces, and I fell to the ground like if I was having a heart attack.

"Are you ok?" She tried to pick me by the arm nervously and weakly, but she did it too hard and my mouth gently touched the tip of her nose, just slightly, before she pushed me away and wrapped her arms around herself.

My face turned crimson from all the excited blood speeding up its growth. Heylas red face stayed the same but began panting. I closed my eyes. Cleared my darkening mind and turned around unwilling. “Fine, have it your way.” I walked away. With my hands into my sweater. “Wait for me you meanie.”. Heyla said cutely, almost fake as she ran towards me.

'When had I said that it was the end of the world? Why was she hugging me? I just met you for god sakes, get off me...her skin is soft. Hey calm down mind, focus on what really matters! She is so warm. Ugh!'

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Even though my house was around the corner, the travel time would be 30 min from the market to my house...running, and 5-9 min in a car. What was worse about this was not only the storm but Heyla who had found a second cart and had hoped in. I was pulling the two carts while running, and I was getting tired.

The good thing about all of this was that I was 1 minute away from home. “So how does your house have a bunker”? Heyla asked me sleepily, as she kept playing on her phone, rested back and with my backpack as her seat.

I heaved and rested for about two seconds before I began my slow walk to my neighborhood. I was close, anymore running would be bad for me and my growing weakness.

“Well, I don't know” I responded too tired.

“I thought that bunkers were illegal in this kind of areas or any kind of area," Heyla tapped her phone quickly. “Really? My family has had the bunker for years now, we even showed it to some close friends and family…well, it's not like it matters, after all...it's the end of the world and stuff right?” I smiled, as I turned to look at Heyla”

“Yeah, you better bite the dust you noob.” Was she playing an online game? She looked up at me and said with a calm tone slow tone. “What were you saying?”

“You are weird,” I whispered with a smile. I kept pushing the cart and looked at my home that was a few meters away. “Wha?” Heyla shut her eyes and drifted off to sleep. I stopped and turned to look at the grey boring house of my mom. “ We are here, and it took us 32 minutes.” I looked at the sky. My eyes popped open, as I looked at the storm a kilometer away, I turned to look at the sleeping Heyla for her reaction. "Heyla!" Heyla opened her eyes and looked in front of her towards the storm, her legs clearly started trembling from pure fear. She was gripping her fist tightly.

“Let's hurry." She said, clearly scared out of her mind.

I did not say anything and walked towards the door. “Hey, can you give me my golden keys in the front pocket so that I can open the door?”

“Here.” She shover her hand into the front pocket and tossed them, they fell on my open hand, IN THE MIDDLE. “Thanks.” How did she get my keys so quickly and threw them like that? Was she some famous basketball player in disguise? What would explain her pocket picketing skill? I looked at the rabbit-like trembling Heyla and opened the door. 'Oh, well.' I looked forwards.

“Sweet is home.” Heyla walked behind me. “Home, sweet home.” Hey, this is not your home! I sighed and grabbed her cold hands. Is she sick? I touched my burning forehead.

“Let's go.”

We walked down to the basement, then to a metal hole in the creepy basement hidden below a light metal box, and finally, we met the entrance of the bunker. I flexed my hands, and I slowly turned the metal wheel, pushing it open.

Sounds of loud and catastrophic explosions suddenly invaded our senses. “Yeah, I did it! I did it!” The black haired girl in front of us, just around 19 years old, with clear eyes and thin eyeliner, started to do little tip-tap dance with her hands flailing around, she suddenly saw our tired bodies and she stopped with a stupid grin adorning her face. “Hello?”

“You are the weirdest person I ever meet in my life.” Said Heyla loudly as she kept hugging my backpack and entered the bunker. “Look who's talking,” I said, as I entered the bunker too and looked at Cher.

“What did you say?” Heyla moved towards me and reached towards the mask I had on my face. “T-that.” I tried to say but realized that I should just let it happen...that is after it happened. Heyla looked at the mask and turned the cylinders.

“Let me see.” Said Cher, walking towards Heyla, Cher reached out and begin touching the sides of the rubber mask. “Why are you carrying this thing around, like what is its purpose?” Asked Cher and Heyla simultaneously, they almost seemed like twins with their skinny body and long hair. They looked at me and raised an eyebrow as they saw my hand covering my shining face

“Shut up, I just bought it” I lied, as I thought of something that would make them stop bugging ... “We need to go.”

“Go where?” Asked Cher as she prepared to sit down on the bed behind her. “Oh, yeah,” said Heyla as she grabbed Cher's arm. “Hey let me go, girl." Heyla looked at me. I walked over where they were and grabbed Cher's soft and so beat-.

Stop it.

I shook my head furiously and hardened my gaze, we slowly but surely took her both to the entrance of the house. Heyla held her hands while I held her legs.

“What tha fuck are you two doing?!” All the way to the exit Cher was flailing around, and trying to tickle me with her right foot. I just keep telling her time and time again it was for her safety, she like a spoiled child did not listen to us and kept trying to tickle me.

It did not work.

I just laughed slightly...as she never looked at my glowing face.

We reached the outside and dropped her like dead useless weight. My body heated up more and Heyla's face began to form dots of red. She looked at my jacket desperately, she was dying. I paused and looked at my jacket.

"Please?" Said Heyla. I sighed took off my jacket showing my skinny, well-endowed SHINING FIGURE, and I threw it towards her, she caught it and wrapped the big sweater around her like a blanket, she started trembling more as her eyes glazed.

Cher just opened her mouth wide at the scene, but she still acted normally...if you could call her actions normal.

“Finally god dam.” Said Cher, she held her head in pain, as she stood up slowly like a snake, her face started to become red and she coughed.

"So now we go before the storm..." I tried to say the quickest I could. The crackling thunder exploded just beside us, and me, Cher and Heyla looked at the dark sky. We gasped. I ran towards them an grabbed their waist with all my strength, I leaped trying to get beyond the opened door of the house...sadly we were too stupidly slow.

“AAAAHHHHHH!” I screamed as a huge crystal fell on my arm and pinned me down on the floor, another sharper one invaded the inside of my shoulder, then my leg and finally pooped my throat open into a bloody mess.

“AAAAHHH!” Said Cher and Heyla as sharpened crystals ripped holes through their bodies. We all screamed as our bodies became pierced and smashed by the rain of crystal shards, my leg even was cut in half by one of the biggest ones just around twice my body size. We were lucky or unlucky that not a single shard had fallen on our heads. Time slowed down and with every second the screams of Heyla and Cher became faint and low, almost a whisper in this horrible place, my screamed too...faded.

I neded to save them...I tried to stand with my still functioning right hand but could not. I tried to cry but no tears came out, instead, I felt a huge amount of anger and helplessness at my core.

A faint usurped from my memories and embraced me.

My mother sat in a chair laughing looking at the photo of the man who gave me life but I never met. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH-HAHAH! She laughed, but I knew she was sad for tears were coming out of her eyes. "Come here son, let's have fun together." I just stood there. "I SAID COME H-"

I did not want to die…

The memory faded and another filled me, pressed down on me like if it was momentarily material, solid, powerful.

The faint smell of asphalt covered my surroundings. The arching tomes of an insane civilization covered the surroundings. The distorted form of a fallen dug his way up the dirt and laughed, as he looked at me in the eye. "Ascended footwork." The drowsy voice of the fallen shook the floor. Suddenly the vision faded and I felt a force swell within me.

I wanted to live. I deserved life no matter how bad of a person I may be. I would not die, not today. And so in the heat of the moment, some peculiar words came out of my mouth, words I had never thought about nor even heard.

“I will not die, I will live and become an undefined tantrum of death and destruction!” Tantrum? Why did I just say that?

“I need power!” and then I heard it. “And so you may have it.” A red miasma started pouring into my body from the surroundings and I felt the will to survive grow within me and break a well-defined limit. I had the power to save and so saving I would do. I felt the world shift with red energy and almost explode as the three of us disappeared and reappeared inside the bunker, my stomach was burning and my nose...started filling with snot.

This was going to be a long night.

AAARRRGH!”

AAAAHHH!

We were inside of my families normal looking bunker, even though this was one of the best bunkers I had ever seen. Cher which was beside me had many crystals stuck on her stomach, while Heyla had them concentrated on her limbs and arms, but if someone looked for a short distance they would not notice the difference.

Pools of golden and crimson blood began soaking the metal floor. "AHHHHHGH!" I screamed, turned on my side I could see the weeping Cher and Heyla clearly, I myself wanted to scream to the top of my lungs and cry in misery but the ferocious power of will made me unable to. I turned my head to look at my stomach and was petrified, my wounds were almost all concentrated on my groin. "NOOOOOOO!" I felt a sharp pain that made my tongue twist and my popped throat wiggle, I touched my face and felt a large crystal in my mouth.

So that why I could not talk...apart from my obliviated vocal cords...wait, how can I even scream then?

I clenched my teeth and raised myself from the ground. with a good arm and one leg left. The bunker was colored with a red miasma that made up the whole air, but I was too tired to care. I walked with my body glowing faintly slowly but steadily towards Cher and Heyla and fell down just below their feet.

I had to find a way to cure them. If this thing in my whole body was what I thought, then I had a chance. I raised again with my bones cracking everywhere and put myself between my two screaming friends. I raised my arms and put them gently on the part in their stomachs that was not filled with crystals and said, 'Heal.' I first tried it with my mind...it did not work. I then proceeded to take the big crystal shard out of my jaw and throat. I mean, I had to at least try.

I felt the numbness in my mouth gone. What's a strange thing? I looked at the shard and threw it away.

“HEAL.”...Looks like I can talk EVEN with broken vocal cords. Nothing happened and me being able to talk became useless. 'What else could I try?' I thought and began imagining their bodies fixing with my deep knowledge of physiology, or was it biology?...Nothing happened. I tried touching them and thinking at the same time and yet nothing.

I thought about how to heal them and then it hit me. "Ascended footwork, huh?" I put my arms on top of my folded legs and shouted. “ASCENDED FOOTWORK! The world around me distorted, the gravity seemed to quadruple and make even the air powerful enough to make distortions in space and time.

My legs cracked and splintered, as my whole body fell to the floor as if I was a ragdoll. I just looked at the ceiling of the bunker. “OMG.” The pool of will inside of me started to engorge and instantly fix my body. 'Well, at least there is that.' I took a look at my comrades.

“I wonder?”

...

Pools of my blood were spread inside and outside the bodies of the still breathing Cher and Heyla. "I hope this really works."I put my hands on top of their bare stomachs again and shouted once more. “ASCENDED FOOTWORK!”The world around me distorted again, and as I looked down to see my friends, I saw their bodies vibrate and break apart. My body creaked and cracked and fell on top of theirs.

“AAAAAAAAaaaahhhh!” I heard them scream out in pain as their bodies woke them up and made them feel the full unadulterated power which gave me life again.

This was definitely the worst day of my life. Like I mean seriously, I had never hurt anybody in my life apart from that fit of rage that hurt my phone...I smelled and felt the soothing fragrance of cherries. Oh well, atleast I'm hugging them...

-------/o(-)o-------

“Lem!” My lips felt dry and cracked, my organs felt as if acid was the only thing they had. “Lamb!” My ears seemed to not be working like they were supposed to, after all, I could not hear them clearly, only muffled. “Hey, his name is Lem, not Lamb.”

“I'm sorry.”

I opened my eyes slowly seeing the arguing Cher and Heyla, my ears cracked, my bones shot back into place and my lips and eyes watered. “Are you guys ok?” I almost coughed when I said that. Heyla and Cher shook in surprise and they turned toward me. “You idiot!” Cher and Heyla said simultaneously as they hugged me.

“Thanks soooo much baby!!” I looked at Cher in confusion as she never called me baby, Oh well. What can I do about it? I smiled and tried to stand up. “No problem…ahem, can you guys help me?” I felt my knee pop and fell to the floor.

Cher and Heyla grabbed one of my arms and lift me up into the air and on to the bed closely connected to the metal walls. “So how did you bring us down here and healed us? I remember all of my body had those...” Cher pointed at the pile of blue with baby pink crystals. “stabbing me to death.”

I looked at the two of them with the shine on my body gone and smiled.

“Let me tell you...magic”

…They just stood there and looked at me as if searching for the slightest sign of a lie. “MAGIC!? The magic that heals because you said a word and chanted and stuff?” Cher said, as her face stood extremely close to mine.

“I think he means the magic where you have to understand something to actually get the magic, right?” Heyla said as she touched the edge of her slender nose. I glanced at the two of them. “I'm not going to lie. I don't know but I believe it just need you to see the magic before doing it”

Heyla looked at me, and then at Cher. "Ummm, what time is it...hum...what is your name? Heyla looked closely at Cher. “My name is Cherissa. Nice to meet you.” Heyla wanted to make a joke out of that but closed her mouth in defeat as she found nothing. “Nice to meet you Cherissa. My name is Heyla” Heyla took the chance to ask again. “So, what is the time?” Cher responded nicely. “The time is 11:56...Hey.” Cher looked playfully at Heyla. “Hey don't call me like that chorizo!” Chers face turned flushed crimsom as a lot of bad friends had called her that and Heyla just made her remember those BITCHES.

“Fuck you. I say what I want!” Cher stood up and looked at Heyla. Heyla stood up too and put her hands on her hips.

COULD THEY JUST GIVE ME A MOMENT OF PEACE?

...

The hours passed. Heyla and Cher had brought out the food I PREAPARED FOR MYSELF in my backpack. Eaten the chips on the table where the computer sat like an innocent child from the 1990's.I almost cried when I saw them completely devour my salad, and completely drink my bottles of banana juice.

The saving grace of all of this was that they gave me some of it and feed me...not by mouth...Ok...some of it was feed to me like that, it was a game they made where they tried to not touch my lips and still feed me. Want to know the score? I won't tell ya.

After that, they sat on the bed on top and conversated. I mostly could only hear. Fuck this, fuck that, fuck me. Yea, it was a lot of fucks given, They were not really in the mood for sleeping and they just stayed awake until morning.

Not me of course...

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I felt the heat of the sun warm my face, the winds caress my skin and the smell of the fluttering grass...GRASS?

I opened my eyes and looked at my surroundings, with a careful eye that I had trained in rune making. Why the fuck was I back to the park?

The girls were asleep, near some crystal shards that were firmly stuck to the ground. Heyla and Cher were deeply dreaming, I turned my sight to my legs and tried to move them carefully. I could not. The innocent crystals spread all over the ground and obliterated trees then started to shine brightly, the sky became grey and then the crystals became dust in the wind. Different colored winds came out of the exploding crystals like an endless sea. It entered our bodies.

It displayed rocky words floating in the air...

Analysing body....

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