Saken woke up the next day feeling worse than he did yesterday. He felt hot and sweaty, he felt like he couldn’t breathe, and his limbs were heavy and weak.
“I must be sick.” Saken thought to himself. But if he missed a single day of school, he’d be expelled, and he’d rather not take that chance. Even still, a little cold won’t stop him. He got up and almost immediately face planted.
“This is going to be a long day.” Saken groaned at the floor.
On his way to school Saken checked his phone and wished he hadn’t, he had a message from both Dumont and Dante saying that they wouldn’t be attending school for their own reasons. This saddened Saken greatly, he would be alone for the next few days. He shrugged it off, not much he could do about it, no use complaining about the situation. When he arrived he was thankful to see he was not late, so he took his time entering. No one paid attention to Saken, not anymore. Once he was the center of attention, the top of the school, the most popular and well known student in the school. Now he’s just another ordinary Joe in the sea of other people. When he reached homeroom, no one else was there. Which is strange, where was everyone? School was about to start and not a single student, not even the teacher was there. Saken found this immensely suspicious, but eventually it grew into confusion as the bell wouldn’t ring.
“Huh?” Saken muttered looking at the clock and seeing that it had stopped as well. That was definitely not supposed to happen, especially since they had just changed the clock’s battery three days ago.
“This is weird…” Saken trailed off as he heard his favorite song being played from somewhere else in the school. Getting up, he exited the classroom to investigate. As he walked down the hallways, he could hear the lyrics echoing through the now empty school. Saken once again wondered where everyone had gone but he continued walking.
“Old life of pain…” Saken jumped from how close it sounded.
“You’ve caused me such strain…” Saken was having issues finding the source of the music.
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“Looking at what I thought I knew…” Saken saw a classroom he’s never entered before slightly open, as he got closer the haunting music became louder.
“... I never needed you.”
As Saken entered the classroom he was surprised to find it exactly the same as his own classroom, even down to the drawings hung on the wall by his friend’s and crush, and the many other creative students in his class.
“When everything you know has long ago said goodbye…” Saken looked around the room and saw a small music box. Curious, he walked towards it to get a closer look.
“How far would you be willing to go…” He slowly reached for the music box.
“To begin cutting the ties.” The music abruptly ends as he picks up the box.
“What are you?” Saken whispered to the box, not expecting it to answer him. He gave it a closer look before suddenly feeling very dizzy, he dropped the box as his hand started to tingle.
“What’s happening-” Saken cut himself off with a cry of pain from a sudden splitting headache. Saken closes his eyes and the pain starts to subside. As quickly as it came, the agony ended and Saken seemed to notice that he was no longer on the floor, but bent over a desk laying on his arms like he was asleep.
“Was it all a dream?” Saken questioned himself, before noticing something hard painfully digging into his arms. Raising his head he came face to face with a monsterly mangled face. Flinching away from the sight, Saken noticed that the face was attached to an inhumanly long neck and noticed the rest of the body standing by the blackboard at the front of the classroom.
“So you’re finally awake, are you?” The disgusting creature spat out the words like it had been chewing on rotten tobacco for a while. Saken was too shell shocked and genuinely terrified to answer before noticing his reflection. He had grown black horns from above his temples, curling around his head in almost an ebony crown. The whites of his eyes had turned an inky black and his irises had become a pure white like snow. His hair and skin were a beautiful white too, no signs of the acne that once plagued him can be found. Saken stared in shock at the reflection, he didn’t know what this beautiful devil was, but it was still him. When Saken looked past his reflection, his fear returned like a great flood. The world outside looked like it was slowly crumbling and destroying itself from the inside out. A great score of nightmares Saken had when he was younger can be seen running through the streets cackling cheerfully. Saken had no idea where he was or what had happened, but he was afraid. He had never felt such fear in his life, and he knew deep in his gut that this terror would become his life now.