“Hello player, welcome to the game”

“What the hell ?” said almost everybody. Tension quickly filled the atmosphere, confusion and fear could easily be seen on their faces, what was happening, why was there a glowing sphere talking to them, what was this game it was talking about, those were the questions that filled their head in that moment.

“Now for the rules of this game …” the sphere continued.

“ Wait ! Who are you and why do we have to participate in this game of yours?” said Luna.

The sphere stayed silent for a brief moment then answered : “ Little girls are always so impatient, I could never finish my sentence before getting cut off, How rude” said in a deeper and sorcatics voice. “ Who I am is not important, and for the second question, if you listen to the end of my rule explanation you would have already known by now. The rule is win or die.”

Time was almost as if it was frozen after that sentence Win or Die, all of them could feel their legs losing strength as it spoke. Allan looked around at the moment only to catch a glimpse of Maria and Luna, whose eyes were filled with shock and fear. Taking a deep breath to find the strength again, he thought to himself “now is not the time to panic, like the sphere said win or die that means there is still a chance that we can make it out alive”. Then he noticed something different in front of him, Kyle was not showing any motion at all, no fear in his eyes, only focus and calm. How can someone be like this in a time like this, had he already lost his mind. Maria and Luna both looked at Allan to see how he had reacted and then both noticed the strange behaviour of Kyle too, “ what kind of crazy is that ?” They both think to themself.

The sphere then continued its explanation: “ you would be put into a class of characters, based on your skills and natural physique and more importantly how you demonstrate in your first mission. In other words, welcome to an MMORPG game. More information will be given later on after your first mission is finished. ”

Allan, Maria and Luna’s heads were spinning, confused about what they had just heard, tears could be seen leaking out of Maria's eyes.

“ And your first mission is: ... survive and find a way out of this forest in three days” the sphere spoke. “ Oh, also remember to be carefull and trust no one or it wouldn’t be fun or fair” and then just like how it appeared, the sphere disappeared in thin air just in a blink of an eye.

Moments after that, the group was speechless or just cursing loudly left and right.Then finally Allan stepped up and tried to take control of the situation,

“ All right everyone, we need to stay calm. I know we are in some fuck up sittuation but get angry or shitting your pants is not gonna make things better ok.'' His voice had a calm and convincing sound. The group started to settle down and listen to what Allan had to say. He has always been a leader since he was child with good physique and intelligence and this case was no different he thought to himself. Just like his favorite quote “ With great power comes great responsibility”, Allan felt as though he had the obligation to lead the group out of this situation, after checking on the girls to see if they are ok, he started to make up a plan out loud.

“ We just need to stick together and find a way to get out of this forest, it's not that hard we just need to find some old trail or some kind of water stream that could lead us out of here and we could just follow the direction of the sun to stay on path and reach for help.” say with confident, Allan can see a flicker of light, sparked in Maria and Luna eyes, he had given them hope, although to be honest he was just saying what he remembered from survival TV show like Bear Grills and had no on hand experience, “it is better than nothing” he said to himself. While the two girls showed gratitude toward Allan, the two other guys showed nothing. especially Kyle who did not say a word and just nodded to what he said but his eyes showed doubt and hatefulness for some reason.

“ It doesn't matter, I don't need their thanks, I am not doing this for glory”. Allan told himself.

And thus their adventure began, the four following Allan, navigating their ways through the unknown forest. But they had already missed the first warning from the sphere “ don’t trust anyone”, a warning that they realized a little too late.