CHAPTER 1 - AWAKENING

He has no eyes nor ears. He is shrouded in complete silence. Even tough he has no eyes he is able to ''see'' countless stars with on the horizon all being born, moving and dying in unbelievable speed. These ''stars'' had planets around them that looked like tiny flies in contrast to the giant stars.

His sight was occupied by this incredibly beautiful sight for seemingly an eternity, until his mind seemed to free itself from his trance.

Concerns about his future were filling his mind. His only wish was to walk under the blessed sunlight again and he would give anything just to fullfill his desire.

His confused mind tried to move anything, after all he wasn't just going to sit here for all eternity. He wanted to fullfill his wish and walk under the sun. He wanted to live. After what felt for an eternity he heard an sound so grand that it could destroy entire worlds and would put any explosion to shame. If he could speak he would probably said something in the lines of ''oh fuck'', but he was mute and nobody could possibly know what goes on inside his mind.

It seemed that he was also one of these ''stars'' and by his attempt to move he somehow began to ''fall''. His giant body was spinning and falling around like a boulder would after a catapult shot it from the top of a mountain. Our protagonist couldn't possible control his destination and after the fiftieth spin he felt sick and thought his mind would puke at any moment.

Panic had filled his mind in these moments where he had basically turned into a giant burning marble, but after he noticed that he would crash another ''star'' he just felt fear.

He tried everything he could, but the collision was inevitable.

They collided and he was pretty sure he heard another person scream in agony. This scream was the last the last thing he heard before he and his obstacle explode in an giant supernova.

His eyelids shot up from shock.

Instantly question about his experience were asked.

His mind was confused, so confused in fact that he didn't noticed that his eyes are not able to see and his lungs aren't breathing any air in.

how could he feel his body if he was dead? Was he still alive? Did somebody saved him?

This questions and variations of it were wandering the mind of our protagonist, unable to find an answer to his questions, he tries to do anything with his body. He attempts to move his body, but it is to no avail. Sudden dizziness invaded his mind at the attempt and left him unable to do anything.

After a while he started to worry about his hunger and his body. Or to be more accurete the lack of those bodily needs like food and air. unececcary worries came and went, so that he just decieded that it is impossible to change anything about it and he can worry about it another time.

So this poor soul is waiting in darkness, his mind lost already all sense of time. He could have been there for an eternity or just an hour, he wasn't sure. He was not able to sleep, even tough he felt incredibly tired.

All of a sudden, small noises are invading his dark prison. His sight is returning. And other senses are coming back filling his brain almost to the brink of an emergancy shutdown

After a while He could finally see with normal eyes. He is inside a darkplace. not a single light source was even near him, his eyes worked just fine, despite the lack of light he was able to see everything. He was inside a cave with countless corpses. Their flesh has already turned to dust, only bones and rusty metal remained. near his right hand lay a rusty sword in no better condition than from the other that were in the cave.

he looked at his lower body and was confused, he was leaning against a wall and his clothing was entirely different from the last time he remembered. His new clothes were entirely different from what he had worn on his camping trip. What was basically ''average dude'' clothes on his camping trip became some kind of old, rusty full body medievil armor.

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he tried to look at his left and was left shooked. It seems the source sound of the sound was a small malnourished rat, so black it fur seemed to absorb light itself, near it was his own, eaten to the bone, left hand. It was puking all over the floor, the puke looked like an abstract painting, because it had all colors possible, from black to red to yellow. It squeaks in agony until it shakes brutaly, draws a last big breath and throws up it's own whole skelet outside it's own body. The vermins flesh and skin turned into some some wobbly mess and lied there near a gauntlet (wich was probably ''his'') with it's last expression (wich was pain and suffering) written all over it's face. Even after a few minuts the look of disbelief and confusion didn't leave the face of our protagonist. His death, the stars, his body, lack of pain and whatever happened to the rat was a mistery that his brain couldn't solve. He asked himself what kind of strange disease would cause such disturbing event, after a little while our confused protagonist just stopped caring and decided to move before he would also be cursed to a similar fate.

The first thing he could move were his fingers, even the ones without flesh wich, was also weird but convinient. Then a hand,then his arm and at the end he he could move his entire body, altough his limbs were still wobbly. His left bony hand was still somehow part of his body and could still be moved even tough it had no musles or even flesh to begin with, because of his feeling that a bony fellow with just bones for a hand would't be the most trustworthy man he decieded to hide his body inside the body armor, because if he already has one full suit of armor, then why not use it?

When he was on his feet a sudden feeling filled his mind, it was like something was wanting his attention. He looked at the deceased body of the rat. There was the skeleton of the rat standing on it's feet looking directly into his eyes waiting for something. Now that he looked closer at the body (or rather the skeleton) of the rat he noticed that it was larger than any rat he has seen. It looked like a rat but was more akin to a small dog. Instinct guided him and he pointed his finger up and the skellet looked up, after that he pointed right and the rat loooked right. He then pointed his arm towards the dark halls of the cave and the rat skellet sprinted through the darkness to never come back.

It doesn't took him long to decide that there was no reason for him to wait inside this dark cave.

''ok then no reason to wait here I guess.''

he looked at a sword that he find near his body, It was rusty and looked like it belonged to a museum. It seemed more to be an ornamental sword rather one used for fighting. the grip felt heavy in his right hand and decided to take a swing. It wasn't like he was enjoying to take a swing with a sword he just wanted to test it, I swear. It looked just a bit cool

He wandered through the cave. Inside this cave he saw many plants fantastical in nature. From Flowers that are hovering through the air, daisies that shine in rainbow color and grew small crytsals on top and illuminate the dark cave, to Vines covered in mouths. These mouths had razorsharp theet that looked like they could cut through metal like hot knife can through butter. He decieded not to touch them for the safety of his limbs.

It didn't took him long to finally find the exit.

As he finds the exit and finally steps out into the light he feels pure happiness. To finally see sunlight again after what feels an eternity,was like a dream coming true.

Warm life giving sunlight shines on his cold unliving body. It feels like a giant thirst that has been finally extinguished. Like an itch that has been scratched after hours of pretending it doesn't exist. Or like getting ones favorite dish after a long day at work. His mind decided to finally relax a little after all the stress he went through.

The entrance of the cave was hidden behind a jungle that stretched itself kilometers at every directions. He could find all kinds of colors inside this forest. A brown tree with darkblue leaves, Flowers with all kind of different tint of reds, some kind of dandelion that seemed to open to eat like some kind of carnivorous plants. A grey rat skelet that looked at me there, or grass that looked like copper.

The Protagonist was fascinated by the color palett the world offered him and was kind of happy to see that the rat skelet would be with him. He was uncertain when to expect to find other people that were friendly minded. He would have at least some company, even if it was just the skelet of a rat he kind of killed....

he went on his knees and pettet the the head of his undead companian. His head filled with sympathy because just like him was it alone inside a forrest in an unliving body. He decided to take it as his pet and to ignore his involvment in the state of the rat.

He and the former rat were on their merry way through the forrest and heard something. he decided they would hide behind some bushes. He put his pet on his shoulders and concealed his body behind some bushes.

What he saw left him perplexed. He saw a white rabbit wearing a suit and with a hat that looked like it belonged to a certain american president thought the undead. But that wasn't enough, the rabbit had bloodred eyes with sharp yellow teeth and it was bigger than a polar bear. A snout covered in dry blood was just the cherry on the pie.

''Yeah sure, no way i'm going to fight that'' thought the protagonist.

The polarbear sized rabbit stand up on his hind legs put it's nose in the air and take a big sniff. The protagonist was unsure what to do, so he decided to freeze, maybe the predator wouldn't notice him if he did that, he thought. The dangerous predator turned around and looked him dead in the eye. The predator let out a growl and started running towards our protagonist...