“Huh, where am I?” I was just in my room when Idiot told me that my Ability was awakening. Is that how it works, suddenly feel heavy and then wake up in a dark world. Well semi-dark since I can make out some objects, and while I can’t put a name to any of them, I can still tell that I’m in some sort of land.
“Well, I’m bored, time to explore” Not knowing what to do, I decided to explore the place as nothing was going to happen with me just standing here.
Since I don’t have a sense of… Huh, normally this is where Idiot tells me what to say. Now that I think about it, it’s been pretty quiet lately. “Hey Idiot, you there?”
...Okay, this is bad, without Idiot, I got no chance of surviving. He was the one who taught me how to walk and if my basic knowledge has taught me anything, it taught me that walking is the simplest thing there is and yet it took me 30 minutes to do it...
“SCREW IT, I’m just going to keep walking until I find something!!!”
Due to that, I’ve been walking around the place for 3 hours. In those three hours, I figured out a few things. One, wherever I walk, a little bit of light seems to surround me, and they don’t go away, so I’m able to make a little trail with them while at the same time lighting up the place. Second, I seem to be in some sort of bumpy place with little things on the ground that are green. With the few words I know, I can describe them as little pointy green creatures that are connected to the ground (grass). Not only that, but there are hundreds of bumps on the land, some with the green stuff on them, and the others while not having the green stuff, were tall, so tall that I couldn’t see the top of them. Third, it seems my knowledge is larger than I thought. Some bigger words are there in my head, I just don’t know what they mean, plus I seem to understand color or the basic colors. Finally, I’ve been hearing these loud booms and they seem to just happen at random plus they’re loud. The first time I heard it, my body stopped working, making me fall again. I didn’t get back up for 5 minutes and adding to that, the green stuff is quite soft.
“Still, none of that matters if I can’t get out of this place.” I don’t know what I’m doing at this point, I’ve tried finding my way out, but this place is so big. Not only did I practice my running, but it turns out I don’t know my left from my right. Also, at some point I found myself walking over another light path, telling me that either someone else is here, or I just made a circle.
“I’m going to die here.”
“BOOM!!!!!!!!!!”
Just as I said that the giant boom thing appeared right in front of me, and while I only saw it for a second, I realize what that thing was. It was lighting, “So the boom was created by lighting. Good to know”
Another thing I learned about lighting, is that lighting is fast, really fast. It appeared in front of me the first second and then disappeared the next. And in its place, a line of water going in one direction appeared. “Never knew lighting can make water.”
Not only can lighting make water, but also remove the green stuff, fill it up with water and make that water go in one direction. I wonder if this thing is called something, probably not.
Getting down on one knee, I tried checking the water only to find someone else inside it.
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As soon as I saw that person I jumped, even though I was on one knee, I was somehow able to jump back even though no one taught me, but that’s not the point. The important thing is that someone else is here, which means I didn’t just make a circle earlier. That’s good, but now what do I do, is this person nice? Please be nice, I don’t know what to do if you weren’t.
Getting on all fours, I slowly go over to the water hoping that this person is nice and won’t make me die. Once I’m at the edge I put my stomach on the ground and push myself over to the water, with my head going through first I stay there wondering if the person will grab my head. If he does, then I know he’s not nice, but after a while, nothing happened.
“Okay, so he is nice” Back to being on all fours, I look over the edge to find the person there again. Scared that this guy might attack me, I try to quickly say hello, but my words came out all shaky and loud, “H-EL-L-o!”
Crap, I stopped myself near the end, but I was loud right there, will this guy attack me because of it. Focusing my eyes on the person inside the water, all my fears disappear.
“Huh, now that I look at you, you look pretty weak.” Not to mention boring. I know that was mean, but it’s the truth, the person has short messy black hair, a boring face with nothing interesting to mention, tired-looking brown eyes and arms that couldn’t lift his own body. Everything about this person seemed weak and boring.
Still, that was mean of me, even I know that plus this is the first person I met so, “S-Sorry about that, I know that was mean but it’s the truth. Anyways, I don’t know what to do in this situation so I’m just going to hold up one of my hands and see what you do, okay”
Still, on all fours, I lift my left arm and just hold it out, letting the person know I’m not a threat.
Hmm, that’s weird. The person doing the same thing I’m doing, did he have the same idea as me. “D-Do you w-want me to put my arm down?”
Just there I saw something, the person’s mouth was moving as I spoke, why was that... “WAIT”
I started shaking my arm left and right, up and down, and every time the person’s arm would move in the same direction as mine. I started moving my mouth also, and just like with my arm the person’s mouth started to move. “Is this person me. N-No way, if that’s true then that means I’m a boring weakling”
I think I knew it was me, but after calling the person weak and boring looking, I refuse to say that this person in the water was me. Besides, how can it be me since I’m up here and the person down in the water, there can’t be two me’s, Right.
“Whatever, I don’t have time for this. I need to get out of this place.” Standing up, I quickly try to walk away from this situation, but before I could take a single step, a bolt of lightning struck the ground a few feet ahead of me.
This one just like the last one appeared for a second and left soon after and in its place a sign with writing on it.
Looking over the sign, I just remember that I can’t read. And before I could say something about me not being able to read, another bolt of lightning came down, and this time it left soft chilling words, “Climb the Mountain”
“Climb the Mountain? But, what’s a mountain, and what’s climb?” Generally confused that lighting can create water, signs, words and speak I try to ask the lighting some simple questions. Man, I thought I knew some things about the world, but this proves I know nothing.
To answer my calls, two bolts of lightning came down, though it seems that they hit the ground at the same time, I was somehow able to see that the left one was faster. When the left one came down, the same but louder voice answer (most likely because the sound lighting makes is very loud) told me, “Go up the mountain”
And once that was done, the right bolt came down and in its place a statue of a hand pointing to the right.
Looking to my right, I see the giant spiky Bump, which if I’m right must be a mountain, and if that’s a mountain then climbing must mean to go up something.
Looking at the sign that probably tells me to “climb the mountain” and the statue, I turn over to the mountain that I’m supposed to climb.
“Okay”