In the middle of an unknown forest, 5 people were lying unconscious on the ground, knowing nothing about what faith had planned for them.
Slowly, all five started to walk up from their slumber. There were 3 male and two females among them all seemingly in their 20s.
Awoken, all of them shared the same look of confusion on their face with some varying emotions such as scared and angry.
After a few moments had passed and they started to try to communicate with each other. The first to show his voice was a man with short stylish blond hair, he was tall around 6ft'2 (188cm), with a fit body type, a handsome face and blue eyes. He got that intellectual aura to boost to it too, not hard to imagine him not to be the leader of every group he was in. He turn to the two girls and asked:
"Hey, do you speak English? Do you guys know where we are, why are we here?".
The two girl, one with long shiny blonde hair as if the sun always shine her and with gorgeous green eyes, a Western face, with pearly white skin and full red lips and around 5ft'7 (170cm) all and all one word that can summarize her was beautiful, she looked like the kind of women who would take the breath of every man away just by walking past them and stole their heart just by a smile. The other was an Asian beauty, also about 5ft'7 (170cm) a slim and attractive body type with silver hair that looked as if it was the moon light itself, ruby red eyes that shine through the darkest night and thin light pink lips. She looked as if she walked out straight from a fairy tail world.
"We don't know anything..." The blonde hair girl answered " We just woke up and found ourselves laying on this dirty ground.".
"What the hell is going on here!?" the silver-haired girl spoke.
Realizing that none of them know what is happening here, they start to share everything they know to each other.
The tall blonde man spoke first:
"My name is Allan Kennedy, I am a Sociology bachelor and currently studying to get my PHD (Doctor of Philosophy) in America, the last thing I can remember was driving home from a meeting with my friend"
The blonde hair girl :
"I am Maria Evergreen, I am a 4th year medical student at University of Oxford England. I was studying for a test before I fell asleep, I think."
The Silver hair girl:
"My name is Kagayaku Tsuki, but you can call me Luna, I am a bachelor of Marketing and as far as I can remember I was still celebrating with my family for getting my first interview tomorrow."
The three got acquainted then turned their eyes to the other guys.
They were both Asian. One of them was around 5ft'9 (175cm) with short brown hair (nicely cut and style) and brown eyes. He had this charming and friendly look and with light skin and a smile on his face. He looked as though a very normal guy, with a normal build and a nice face and that was it, nothing seemingly special.
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The other one though was very different. He was around 5ft 12 (182cm) with black eyes and relatively long black hair (unlike the other looking messy and kind of bad) covering some of his eyesight. His skin tone was also different from the rest, he was tan. He got this sleazy and uncomfortable aura from the look of him with his messy hair and sharp looking eyes as if they could see right through you and a bonus serious looking face. All and all, you could say that by the look of things he was the least good looking among the five, he looked like your typical who you can say weeaboo.
The two had already been seen talking to each other in a different language and looked as if they knew each other. Allan, Maria and Luna looked at each other and their eyes showed exactly what they were thinking: " somehow I don't think we can trust those two, especially the dark hair one."
Although they didn't feel they could trust the other guys, the three still decided to come over as they might knew something valuable, and with the last word from Allan " don't worry if something does happen there we can just take them down, they don't look that tough to me" the two girls follow him.
Allan, Maria and Luna walked up to the two guys, still talking in a foreign language. Allen as usual was the first to communicate:
" HI THERE! CAN YOU UNDERSTAND ME."
He spoke slowly and loudly just like a tourist from a different country trying to communicate with some locals :) The one in dark black hair answer in perfect English :
" YES WE CAN AND WHY THE HELL ARE YOU YELLING AT US, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?"
He replied, speaking exactly like how Allan just did, it almost seemed like he was mocking Allan. One could almost tell there was a bit of a smirk on his face just for a moment, while the other guy already had a smile on his face since the three started trying to communicate with them.
An awkward moment followed after that before the brown hair guys started to break the ice and properly introduce themselves.
" You guys are probably wondering who we are right? Well my name is Lâm but you can just call me Liam l, don't worry, I know you guys probably pronounce it right, I am a Bachelor of logistics in Vietnam, and this is my friend".
" You can call me Kyle, I am a Bachelor of economics and finances". The dark-haired guy replied with a deep and cold voice.
After sharing some info to each other, they all pretty much caught up on who the other said they were and what they knew. However, even after the ' meet and greet' Allan, Maria and Luna all came to a feeling in their mind
" Somehow I don't think I can fully trust these two, especially the one with black hair".
His look and attitude when they were trying to communicate with him was really odd, giving this sense of being a shady person. On top of that, Allan can be pretty sure that he caught him eye balling or you could say straight up scanning the bodies of the two girls next to him. Feeling uncomfortable, Allan came up with a plan to temporarily split from the two guys. He suggested splitting into groups and searching the surrounding for clues and meeting up in ten minutes or so. And just like in Scooby-Doo, the handsome blonde guy got to go with the two girls and the other two went by themselves.
When the coast was cleared, the three started to verbally comment on what they thought back then.
" I don't know about you but I got a bad feeling about Kyle, there is something about him that seems kind of odd" said Maria.
" Not to mention the creepy pervy eyes he was looking at us," Luna added.
" And it's not like he was physically changed to behave and look like that either, he said it himself"Luna continued.
It was confirmed by the group that they were slightly changed physically, except for Kyle not needing glasses to see, Luna and Maria's eyes colour changed, they were the same physically and mentally.
"Hey come on now, don't judge the book by its cover, maybe he was just stressed from the obviously strange circumstances we are in" Allan calmly replied.
" Say what you want to say but the guy looks shady as hell, not to mention those two are the only two that knew each other beforehand." Maria said. " I am not trying to be that girl but, I was taught not to trust some shady looking stranger."
" It's true that, I too have an odd feeling toward Kyle. But we should keep an open mind, however, that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep an eye on him," Allan replied.
The three nodded in agreement, but in their hearts, they knew that somehow Kyle was going to bring them a lot of trouble very soon. And how close they were to predict the future.
The three got back to the spot where they first awakened and when the other two came back as well, a glowing sphere appeared out of nowhere flying above their head and said.
" Hello players, welcome to the game"