A panda figurine started dancing the moment it's clock struck 6 a.m. The annoying ringing woke me up on the second ring. I opened my eyes to see a blank colorless ceiling. I had a H.P poster on it once but I took it down ages ago.
The tattered remains still stubbornly clung to the ceiling and I could almost always make out the spectacles boy holding his wand which glowed. Today I woke up without the usual tired, helpless feeling instead I felt as if I barely slept at all. The night passed within a blink of an eye for me literally. Walking up to the balcony I saw the sun rising like a yellow stone just out of reach.
I looked at the enormous sky and wondered why was it that the scientist always compared us to the galaxy to make us feel small. All they had to say was to look up and that was that. The enormous blue sky always gave me the feeling of vastness so great that no oceans could compare.
'Today must be my Emo day..', I sighed and laughed at myself. I felt much more melancholy today for some reason.
Getting ready is still a chore when I start thinking about it. Nowadays almost all the things felt as if they had lost their fun, the adventure. They all seemed so simple actually...I missed my childhood times where all new things held my curiosity but now it almost seems like...that part of me was lost somewhere when I grew up.
I turned towards the clock understanding that I am quite early surprisingly. I did my daily boorish tasks and finally got ready to go to my classes with half an hour to boot. Taking a moment to look outside his balcony, he felt the fresh river air assault him and he took a deep breath. The sun was just over the horizon and its rays felt cool. The scene was amazing. I felt pity since not many people noticed the sky.
I rubbed my face, picked my bag and left after closing the door to my apartment. A Blue Box materialized just as I left.
Time until completion : 4:52:38
Prioritizing Host Conscience. Masking any and all related info until further conditions are satisfied.
The walk was quite fast this morning; I felt fresh today somehow like 'wanna start singing in the middle of the road' fresh. I was surprised at how energetic I had gotten despite the clear melancholy in the morning.
'Today must be a good..no a great day', this thought actually made me hope for the future.
I am really an indecisive person; for all my life I have followed so many different things but never could find something that I wanted to do. I tried Engineering but quickly got bored, next tried Medicine then got bored. I almost tried my hand at being a coroner but got dragged away. I tried being a photographer, not for me. I tried such a countless number of things and all but still all I felt was boredom. Its not like I am bad at it rather I was good at it; not a genius but not stupid either. The one thing I didn't feel bored at were Languages so I had enrolled in the Language Department in the university.
I had learnt almost 6 different languages and am right now trying to learn Latin. After this university degree, I didn't know what the future held for me. My friends though were very different from me. They all had something planned and as if that wasn't enough they were all heavy hitters.
Lisa wanted to be a physicist and establish her own practice in Silicon Valley. Alisia wanted to be a Doctor, a neurosurgeon to be precise and Sam had his Family Business to run. He was like a walking talking dollar bill. Seriously he had an astonishing talent for business. Part of the reason I respect him for.
For all intents and purpose everyone of them all knew their own future but me, I had none.
I was so utterly jealous of them; to be able to see something in their future was a great gift I admired and had yet to receive.
The University door soon approached and I saw two girls laughing with each other as they walked forward. One of them was a fat... umm I mean healthy girl and the other was a tall lean athletic with long legs. She was someone who didn't like me very much and the reason was always confusing. Honestly after that day, it seems that she still feels awkward. It was such a little thing but she makes a huge thing out of it every-time she sees me.
Not to listen to her words so early, I kept my head down and moved ever so slowly but the luck doesn't seem to be with me much today. The healthy girl turned around as if she already knew I was following and there goes my morning peace.
"Hey Romman, how were your Holidays ?", asked Maggie Piers. She was very healthy which made her double chin move every-time she talked but overall she was a nice girl; kind, compassionate and helping. Its just that not every-one seems to like her. She also lives quite close to me so we have studied with each other often. Her face is also cute and I have told her as much every single time she has asked me. Perhaps if she would cover her weight then she will be gorgeous.
And then came the voice I feared and wanted to listen to all he same.
"So I see the pervert is still alive. What sort of Pride do you have to still look at my face after...",she stopped here and thank god she did. I don't want the matter to be known by anyone else, no-one else.
She hesitated a bit and then said in a much lower voice," Don't look at my face and answer her question. Haven't seen you all these holidays, she is a bit anxious."
"Umm Cass, I didn't say anything...."
"Yeah whatever..just answer the question, will you?" She was flustered somewhat and didn't seem to know what she was saying. I heard some mumbled words like stupid....doesn't care ..or something. I just shook my head and continued on ignoring her ramblings.
Cassandra Smith is almost the same height as me and had a huge bipolar personality. Though it only got activated around me at least that's what I feel .
She and I had a rather unfortunate accident some time back and she still remembers it and makes sure that I do too till date, though now that I think about it, it really had been a huge thing for her. Since then she has started to harass me every time she sees me. She even came to my house for the Christmas and then left a gift after she ranted at how ungrateful I was that I didn't give her a gift.
When I did get her a gift and went to her house to give it to her, she slammed the door on my face after taking the gift.
'Seriously just how much more confusing girls can be...', I sighed.
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"I didn't do much. Went fishing and slept a lot. How did your trip go?", I asked Maggie knowing that she had been to one of her uncles city and she found it notably amazing because of the Library...Big surprise there.
"Well..It was amazing. They had a huge collection of books and some of them were almost hundreds of years old. Many of them didn't even have their translated copies there and it was a huge treasure trove. I even bought back one of the untranslated books on space and stars judging by their cover as souvenir. I am going to translate it as a side project. Wanna help?"
"Of course. You know my knack for languages. I will be done with it in a jiffy, mind you.", I boasted shamelessly pointing my nose high in the sky.
"Yeah yeah show-off. Quit being a busy body and open the door like a real gentleman", said Cassandra while pointing at the university door.
I walked forward to the gate and held it open for them. The university had two gates, one of them the main entrance and the other which I use to enter is relatively smaller by comparison. The one we were using is the large gate which had a wicket door for students to walk through after it has been closed. Right now it was 10 minutes to start of the university and we were relatively early as to my usual timing.
Then I felt more than saw something in the air move. It was minute but I felt it the moment I crossed the boundary of the gate.
'Holy shit did the air just ripped apart or something. Nah it must be the heat...but I have never felt it like this before..'
The girls didn't see anything different by their expressions but I really felt the air ripple as if I just entered something. All the way I kept looking backwards at the gate but finally chalked it out to my bad eyesight or perhaps water vapor in the air.
I walked away while chatting with the girls and I moved on to my lectures after saying my goodbyes. The air in front of the gate rippled once again but without any one noticing..
Syncing world in progress. Progress completion : 47 %
Unsuitable Space for further Adaption
Accessing Reality Fabric
Increasing Landmass and Water bodies percent by 500%
Host has shown a greater capability to detect system anomalies
Designating temporary occupation to Host : The Beta-Tester
Time remaining until completion : 4:12:40
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"Where are you looking today, Mr. Edzino?" said Ms. Ariel Mais. She was elder sister to Alisia and one of those hard on students lecturer. She was one serious lady, too uptight but with her soft blue eyes framed with red rimmed glasses and dyed brown hair tied in a ponytail in her pencil skirt.
She looked fabulous and coming from me, she was the closest to becoming my crush. Seriously she was this close but well she was Alicia's sister so hands off.
She was staring at me with the whole room because I kept getting the feeling that something was about to happen and I wasn't going to like it. This feeling was hard to shake off, it had just been there since....since the accident.
I shook my head both as a no and as to shake the foreboding feeling, it was making me more wary by the second. I had since attended 4 lectures from the start of the day and since every lecture was comprised of an hour, it had been almost food time.
Again I was extremely hungry and waited impatiently for the food time.
As soon as the bell rang, I got up from my seat to run to the door but was stopped by a slender and tight grip. I turned around to face Ariel and was startled to find the pleading eyes.
"What happened? Is everything alright?", I asked out of concern.
"Romman promise me that you will listen to my full explanation and then ask any question."
I nodded hurriedly and forced her to continue. By now the room was empty except a few students which were further at the back. She took a deep breath, looked me in the eye and turned her back to me.
"The authorities found him" was all she said.
My heart jumped a beat and the whole world felt as if it too jumped. Suddenly the air distorted and a robotic voice changed the world forever.
Announcement
Congratulations! Mankind
The System has taken effect in your world and will be in full control the world around you.
The System is designed to assist you in the world that you are about to experience.
Regarding your conscience a buffer period of an hour has been initialized during which your chances of survival and gain have been increased by 90%.
Have fun and Please remember
alterno in aeternum
I just had time to push aside the blue box after the voice had finished its message that I was thrown aside by someone. I turned around and saw a huge elephant type monster with humanoid arms and body staring right at me after he appeared out of nowhere.
'Is that... An elephant man? A Ganesha..?'
Ding!
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This day was just getting started. Both for the world and me...