I gasped out of the air that had left me waking me up from my sleep... I Had gotten up from a small broken bed we had made a while back.
It had felt like a while since I had been with Jack, and honestly, life in this place isn't exactly easy. I kind of couldn't remember much, and somehow, I still can't figure out what had happened the day I had arrived here, its already been 3 months since then.
The area we are at currently is in an abandoned mansion away from any nearby street or town, its broken and destroyed, but most of the inside of the house is still intact, and the really impressive part is that its underground, away from anyone capable of hurting us.
The layout of the house was pretty big and sturdy although it was all made of wood, and from the 3rd floor that had a broken piano fall all the way to the first the second and third foor had a big hole in it where you can see it from the first floor lobby.
I can only imagine how old this place is, but with the cover that we have from everything it will serve absolutely useful for living in it.
Other then that, Jack doesn't really seem to mind this place, his white hair is just as blank as his brain, but he seems very reliable. Although we are pretty young to be wandering around ourselves alone without supervision which what society usually controls, here we don't really have any necesity for supervision.
But hey, it does get pretty lonely without parents...
"Hey!, what are you zoning out for, pass me that plank over there!"
Out of nowhere he pooped his head out from one of the big holes in the second floor, he just blantly shouts without any care if anyone hears, but maybe he's just confident about this place.
"I can't lift it, its too heavy for me" I said trying to bring it up on one end.
The plank was pretty big for me, hell my size is pretty small anything like this wouldn't be easy to lift at my age.
The boy gave me an odd look as if saying "Is that so?" and he came down from where he was in the second floor through the hole.
He walked towards the plank and me and gave me a wierd look.
"You can't lift this?" He kneeled down and picked it up with ease.. It had kind of suprised me honestly, I never really saw that coming.
"My body is weak, but.. I never expected you to lift that, it looks heavy" I said in a bit of stunned tone.
He smiled and chuckled a bit, "It comes naturally."
He walked off with a smile.
I guess he is susceptible to compliments...
Anyways, We have been living off of these bars and snacks that Jack had found in this house, and apart from that, there is a big grated whole with metal bars at the top of the cieling from underground I think I should've mentioned.
I asked Jack about if anyone would be able to see us from up there and he said that its a place that has been long since abandoned, and he wouldn't think anyone would be capable of getting up there since its near the security sustenance near the wall to the next District.
I also asked him about this place and we have talked a lot about this place, I guess it seemed that he had been living in these parts for years of his life because of how much he happens to know about this.
Of the many things that he had told me though, one thing seemed to spark my interests, about an Integrated Facility that was made in the outer districts of the white Circle, and by White Circle, I mean the supposed districts that are "Protected by law" thats what they called it.
Right now we are Under the streets of the 10th district, and these sewers are a vast channel that pass through many layouts of these districts up until the 7th.
Where I walked out of was from another channel of sewers at the end of a large street that passes through the whole district of the 12th named 7th street, but that place has been chaotic since everyone uses it as a battleground between different gang wars, which is what Jack told me.
So yeah, we have made out little base of operations under the crusts of these districts, we may hear gunshots and other things but other then that, we have no other things to do.
Jack wants to build this place up like a proper mansion, but I have no idea what to do since there isn't much to do me being with this weak body.
I didn't want to bother Jack so I had told him I would be heading out towards the Street near town.
"Make sure to stay away from crowds, they're a lot of theives and I'm pretty sure you don't want that metal-thingy of yours taken from your pocket." he said.
Huh? Metal thing? I Searched my pockets calmly and found a small medallion that had a sword lodged inside a dragon...
I looked at this for a long moment trying to figure out where I had gotten it. I don't recall this object, but I'm feeling something from it.
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I tried to think about the dragon and the sword, of what it meant, only to regret it 5 seconds later.
In that instant my head felt like there had been thousands of needles piercing throughout my head. I Held my head with both my hands dropping the medallion on the floor.
It was more of an electrical shock that had dispersed throughout my brain, and it sent out waves rather quickly. I couldnt breath for a matter of seconds through the moment that is was occuring. I didn't even allow me to react that well.
After waiting for a moment, my head stopped hurting, but there was a throbbing and burning sensation, more of an after-effect.
Slowly pulling my hands away from my head, I glanced towards the medallion that was now on the wooden floor.
'Something like this thats affecting me.. That medallion, must have something important to do with me', i thought.
This made me think, but quickly I grabbed the medallion put it in my pocket and left out of the first floor lobby of the mansion and outside to the sewers.
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"'"'Heh'"'"
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The sound of the streets as the people spoke talked about. There were many eyes and people looking about, many of those people weren't smiling as they passed by, I can only tell slightly what was going on, but too much is moving it was hard to follow.
I was looking to the street through a small opening from under the sidewalk. I was small enough for me to see but I don't think anyone else would be able to see me.
And as people loomed about it was much more easier for me to hear since the sewers get a lot of sound coming from outside.
These streets however weren't like those in the White circle districts, they were more rough then that from what I saw...
Huh? Hold on, from what I saw?
I shook my head, from going off on what I oddly said,
'Stop messing around, focus on what's important.'
I did come to this place since I was bored, but more than that, what I really came for, was to gather information about this place. Even a little bit of information should come in handy.
But I did hear a bunch of other things like
"No, no, you idiot, Batteries like these only last for a while until the set takes an overchage, Dynamorin is better"
"When we get home, that bastard Krane is gonna get it handed to him, He set me up!"
"Look at that, he had no idea what they said when he yelled, ahahaha!"
Just people passing by you can hear many things that people say, its all in these hollow-aired sewers that makes it easier to hear.
Anyways, I decided I had felt like I wanted to get to ground level and see what I can get, but I better be careful, I can never know what may happen.
I grabbed two hand sized rocks and put them in my pockets. Ah, and I should mention, these new clothes that I had on myself were found in the mansion, they were a bit rugged, but we cleaned them out with whatever water the mansion had stored up, all it was were some black slacks, and a red T-shirt with some stain I can't take off.
Enough about clothing.
I followed one end of the sewers that lead to a small opening in a nearby alleyway, I decided to cover this opening just to be sure that no one would find it, I used a wooden board that was light enough for me to move to cover up the spot. It was only going to be temporary though.
I had glanced around the area and followed the way that seemed to be the streets.
After getting to the streets in a few quick turns, (no worries I made sure to remember the small turns to the opening), I saw many people walking through, but not many shops around the area.
Well, thats how difficult it is when you have the attention span of a kid the age of 7 years old.
I was careful enough to use the sides of the streets, but even so keeping at one side with a wide street when there are a lot of people is hard enough.
I walked a good far bit from where I really should have, however I am constantly taking a lot of information.
I have learned that many people are using this tranciever device to speak to another person from afar, but it seems overused here, and apart from that, the most important thing... The currency.
The currency of course has always been Colts. Colt comes in two forms which I know of Transversal and Sytopial, but theres a third form called Versatial. Transversial is the generic type of form, which evyerone would generaly use of course, and Sytopial is a more controlled type, where its more secure to keep it, lastly Versatial is probably the most valuable one there is, because it is a higher uncontrollable form of the currency.
Everyone in the lower depths of this place will most likely use V¢ (Versatile Colt) than T¢(Tranversal Colt). Just keep that in mind, ok.
(A/N: Ill put it like this to ease your powerful mind solving capabilities, [Transversial = Cash] [Sytopial = Credit/debit] And [Versatial = the untraceable untrackable, Bitcoin].)
Ideally the most normal thing in the market as of today for this normal day that we have here, but dont let this common topic discorage you. The other important things that I have learned is that this place also happens to harbour a lot of the news.
Things like lies comming onto some sort of court and someone completely Dismantled the system control, just normal crazy things that you would often see on the news these days.
But of course, this is what I have been seeing since the past month, and at first all I ever did was stay under the sewers, however, this is the first time I have walked on top ground. Theres always a first for everything they say.
I decided to return for the time being, I got back to the main spot of the board and all, went past the underlayer of the sidewalks in the street, and through the smaller holes of the sewage system, and voila, back to the mansion.
I did take my time to remember everything that I had to remember about this place.
"Hey! it took you a while to get back now haven't you?"
Always will never forget how loud that voice really is.
"ah, Jack, you were waiting for me?"
Jack was sitting right outside the steps to the porch of the mansion.
"Of course I was, this place isn't completely safe yet, we have to finish up repairing whatever we have to do in this house."
Although jack was probably around the same age as me he somehow seemed like he acted more mature then usual, and somehow I felt like I was a disobedient kid, whatever.
"I feel like we need a transciever device, but what else do we have to repair, have you fixed the hole on the second floor?"
"It's finished, but we need to worry about other things now, like a barricade or something that would block out the two big sewer oppenings between the entrances to the south and the west sewers."
he looked towards the right, in the direction of one of the open sewer openings.
"good point, but should we really focus on fixing this house that much? you seem like you want to make this place into a cage"
"Crow, I've been living in these districts for quite a while, and the one thing there has never been, was a moment where I could relax, once the night goes by... We're almost finished completely fixing up the house, just use the few broken wires and wood from that spot over there to cover up that sewer"
As he said that he pointed over to where there was a pile he made that was with metal wires, Broken wooden planks, and stones and debris.
He has been around longer than I, so listening to him should be more helpful. I took the time to gather what I had and started on closing up this entrance.