The room was gloomy with the light from the tv screen glowing and luminating on the surroundings. A man was unconsciously laying on the bed without uttering a single would like a wooden log.

Beep beep The omnious silence was broken by the sudden noise of the alarm clock. Damark tried to slowly open his eyes, only to find that he was actually in his room. His eyes were hurting and he still felt a faint pain in his chest. He rose from his laying position, he saw that the TV was still on and the video which he was watching before the incidence had ended. He tried to recall what had happened before him getting unconscious, he remembered that the man in the video pointed finger towards him and he felt that excruciating pain in his chest. He looked up the screen and there was a line displayed at the end of the video. "Find the story in the book if you can" , it was pretty strange considering all the incidents that occured. But he was interrupted from his speculations by the sound of the alarm again. Damark checked the time, and it was:

[12/10/2043- 07:15 AM]

His eyes bulged out looking at the time, it was almost time to reach the office. He thought: 'The events that occurred to him as of coincidence and he fainted because of the stress' and didn't pondered much about it anymore. He dressed up in the uniform and left of to work.

It was a busy day again, Kristein city was known for it's busy days. Any company who started their business here was most likely guaranteed to be successful. Kristein was located in the country of Serel, which was a very big country it had almost 40 states and Kristein was just one small city in one district of any one state. But, despite being it small many people travelled here for earning money because Kristein was known for it's functionality and business efficiency as being present right in the middle of Serel.

Damark today took the bus, as he had not been late like yesterday. Just a few minutes late. He saw that the people were busy reading books, he found it strange as normally the people would be sticking to their phones but that was not it. It didn't think about it much and reached his destination. He paid 20 Yos and entered his office.

Following the daily routine and rules, he reported his presence and got back to his working desk. He was casually working only to found a strange occurence in his office that most of his colleagues were reading a book while taking a break. "what is wrong with everyone today? Those who never picked up a page for reading, are suddenly reading books?" He thought inwardly. He went to his friend Clark, "Hey Clark? What are you reading, I have never seen you reading?". Clark stopped reading and looked at Damark, "Don't you know that reading books helps people get some stress relief? Well if you ask me the real reason, I would say that Weries company has announced that anyone who could read all their books in the span of three days will be given the Linker machine for free. And they have already installed "keeping in check - chip" to avoid anyone faking them in their books". Damark found it quite interesting strategy for marketing, "So that's the reason, why everyone was reading books everywhere. Maybe, I should too buy some books today."

Clark nodded and Damark got back to work. He worked in an administration company where their work was to keep a record of all the activities that are happening within their company, and also to arrange the data. Their company "Krona - Life Saver" was primarily involved in making oxygen purifiers for polluted countries, and planting 'Specialised Growth' plants which can grow upto 3 ft in one day, ensuring to increase oxygen levels in some towns. Pollution was a serious issue now, it had already engulfed many states and made it almost inhabitable. Even in Serel, more than 4 states were now almost inhabitable, and the condition in the world was far more worse.

Suddenly Damark got a call message. It was from his sister who was living far from Kristein. "Hello brother, When will you be returning home? You have been working non-stop for over 3 years now. Mom and Dad are already worried about your health, please reply soon". His parents along with his sister were living in a city which was close to polluted state, thus the government was working to avoid contamination, thus all internet and other supplies were stopped for few days. Damark left a message and completed his shift with a unpleasant smile, he went back home.

Then suddenly he remembered that today he needed to buy the Weries companies books, he headed off to the Kristein Central Library.

The library was pretty large for the city, it had thousands of books. It was known for its book collection and it's beautiful design.

Damark reached the library, seeing the beautifully dome shaped building with four big pillars supporting it. It had many paintings and colourful mirrors on its exterior walls.

Today, there was an unknown crowd gathered in the front gate of the library. Almost more than 200 people had gathered here together, Damark found it strange and it moved forward. He listened to the chit chat between the people.

"Do you know that there is no more Weries book left in the library"

"This is bad, man. I also wanted to participate in that function"

"I am stressed!!!! Please let me in"

There were all sorts of people, Damark went to the front door gently pushing the people that blocked his path. He asked the lady on the front door, "Excuse me Mam, do you know why the gate to the library is closed?".

The lady in blonde hair replied, "Sorry for your inconvenience, but today the allotment for seats in the library is already filled up and we will not be accepting anymore people."

Damark was a bit shocked to here as he also wanted the Linker machine. His mood was a bit off so he decided that he will eat food in a hotel today to lift up his mood. He went to a nearby hotel and sat down on a table which was empty. The waiter asked him for the order. Damark ordered a medium priced food, as he also had to save money.

If was silently waiting for his order when he saw a small book on the corner of his table. He looked around to see if someone had left it, but there was no one in proximity.

Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.

He thought of opening and reading the book's title and flipped through the pages..

The first chapter was "Life begins", it mentioned about the writer's life. He was about to read more, but his order has already came. So, he asked the waiter to tell any person who asked about the book to take it from here. He started eating the food and enjoyed his few moments of happiness.

While eating he thought,"Yesterday I heard the name of a story "A quarrel moon", what was that about?". He flipped through the book again to check upon the contents, only to see a word, [The Quarrel Moon]. With the reading of the word through his eyes, his body started trembling from fear. "But I remember the back of the mirror said 'A Quarrel Moon' what is this change in words?". He quickly flipped onto the page where the story was present. It was at page 54. He quickly turned the pages, and he was at 53. He embraced himself, and started reading from page 54 it was all same everything that video talked about was written here. He was shaking and he kept reading. But when he reached the point in the story where the wolves were about to attack the boy, he flipped the page.

Sshhhh, the page was blurry and his vision started turning hazy. He was again feeling the unbearable pain in his chest. He started shouting and his head fell on the table, closing his eyes. He fainted again.

Gwahhh Darkness and strange noises

He only heard and saw two things. It was only for a moment that the environment started to brighten up. The darkness started fading away....

He was in a very dark creepy forest with somewhat luminating because of the moon. It was dark and he was not able to see things clearly. He turned his face towards right and saw a whole pack of blood thirsty wolves waiting to attack him. The ground was shining red from blood, it was very as if the eye was now seeing the green glass as red grass. Damark was now... in the body of the boy whose story he was reading and hearing. He was sweating and breathing very fastly, in all the possible cases this was impossible. "What is going onn!!?? Why am i suddenly a boy??? Am I going crazy???", there was no time to think. One of the wolf was about to attack, Damark picked up the fragile stick lying near him. He picked it up and dashed it towards the attacking wolf's eye although even holding a stick in fear is not an easy task, much less for Damark. It didn't even scratched the furious beast but it gave him time to run. He ran as fast he could, maybe we should call it luck but maximum wolves were busy eating the man who attacked them and only three wolves were chasing Damark. He knew that he couldn't beat them in chase, so it decided to change his paths many times in his case. But little did he know that wolfs believed more on smell than sight, they didn't fall for his trick and one of the wolf almost jumped on him and teared his back's skin from its bottom with its fangs. Damark agnosihed in pain, he shouted from the top of his lungs, crying, falling but still not stopping the legs from pushing the ground. He now knew this was reality but why it turned reality suddenly?. He was bleeding and was about to fall down but he saw a small opening between two big boulders, his eyes lit up with hope and his mustered his energy and ran towards it. With his small body structure, he entered the opening deflecting two of the wolves. But one of them attacked him from the top, by pure reflex Damark dodged it by a mark and due to the vibration between boulders, one of them fell down and crushed the wolf destroying him into pieces. Damark ran down into the underground hole which he saw infront of him to ensure his safety. He was bleeding but he crawled forward in hope to find something. He tore his cloth and tired it around his back to lessen the bleeding. Draggjng his legs slowly and reached a doorway. The room was very dark, it was very hard to see anything only if you went close to the wall you could see few words written on the wall. In the middle of the room there was some light reflecting on two big stone plates which had something on them. Damark in the body of the boy went close to the middle, he saw on the left stone plate there was some scribing done and on the right a piece of transparent diamond shaped crystal was laying. He started reading the scribing in hope of finding some help. It stated :

"This is the tomb of Quamon, it was created for the lucky one to find it and choose :

(A) Offer something to the jewel on the right and get reward as per the offering

(B) Offer something that Quamon liked

- spreading information about this tomb will destroy your memory and you will forget everything "

Damark was not in the right mood to think things like this. He just wanted to rest and find a way out. The cloth had peeled off and he fell down on the right stone plate to rest. He led down taking its support, the vision was getting hazy and darker. Suddenly, he heard the two wolves trying to break in throw the boulders, the tomb started shaking. He feared that it would be turned to crumbles. Hate that he was right, the boulder started falling down. One of them fell on his hand and his hand was reduced to pieces. "Ahhhhh!!" He was shouting but his mind was not in its right state. Another boulder fell and his legs were crushed, the redness was not reduced rather it was increased. It didn't stop here slowly all his body parts were getting crushed, he accepted his death. He saw some words on the wall. [Moon hides the quarrel by only shading light on tranquility], Damark spoke these words aloud as his last words. And closed his eyes.

Silence.

There was nothing else. No light no sound.

He was feeling nothingness, he could only feel his faint existence. Suddenly there was a strange blurry crimson light shining. Damark looked over it, it was a very big 'Crimson Jewel' with its many faces showing something. It was so big that comparing it with the size of earth will not be an exaggeration. He was suddenly pulled by an imaginary force towards it. He realised that it was the same jewel that was transparent and was present in the stone. It had turned crimson like his blood was filled inside of it. When he saw it from close, his mind was not able to fathom what he had seen. His existence had no body but anyone can feel the ripple of fear that he was experiencing right now. He saw his reflections in the infinite faces of the crimson diamond, not just in one reflection but different reflections of him in different times. In one of the face of jewel, he was sleeping on the table in the hotel, in another he was captured by the government and was in a capsule like thing, in another people were lifting his body and taking it to an ambulance from hotel, in another his family was seeing his body in the capsule, and in the other he saw him watching the conspiracy theory, there was more but he couldn't see it. He was feeling a sense of non existent, "what are all these things? Are these different timelines from the time when I started watching the TV? Or are these different consequences??" He thought. He was sure that it had something to do with timeline. Suddenly he was pulled by the face of the diamond where he was captured in a capsule like box. He tried to resist it but he was barely able to make any movements. He shouted but he couldn't do anything. "I can't let this happen, I will not live as a LimBeat!!", "I have a family to take care of, I don't care about anything!!!!"

His sheer resolve made his body just tremble by a ounce and he was shifted towards the time when he was in the hotel.

Booom

The crimson face became bigger and bigger and engulfed him. A white light flashed and he found himself lying on the table. He didn't want to spend a minute here. Although people have started to worry about him but he paid the money and quickly went back. He reached home, and searched for the channel that uploaded the video yesterday.

There was no video.....

Channel created : [12/10/2043 - 4:33 PM]

How was this possible that the account was subscribed by him yesterday and it was created today....