Black Apple

Its been a few hours since the fight with the weather, John was painting but with excitement. Before he left, he heard something that made him turned back, which was the weather. The weather told him if can withstand running for a few hours he could get out of his territory. From hearing that, John was more active than usual but during those hours he kind of felt like something was off and second thought that the weather was maybe lying. But over time, he just shook his head and started to believe on what it told him, just from how honest and genuine it talked to John. While he was still thinking, John noticed that the white area was getting brighter and shinier than usual, John's eyes glowed at this moment. He remembered another thing the weather told him.

A few hours ago:

John: Wait are you serious?

Weather: Yes, if you withstand this marathon, you will notice that my territory will get glossy than usual.

John: Glossy?

Weather: *moved his body up and down* Yes, so when you reach that point, that means that you're almost out of here.

John: Ohhhh thanks! By the way, is there anything I should be wary about?

The weather looked at John deeply for a moment, and then his body went up and down, John was shocked.

John: Does that mean that I have to overcome another obstacle? (Please god noooo!!)

Weather: You can say that, but that's after you open a large door and enter. At that moment you're gone from my area and entered the "New World".

John: New World?

Weather: Wait a minute? You don't know what I mean?

John shook his head with an intrigued expression, he wanted to know more about this "New World" it speaks of.

Weather: *sighs* Well now I know that you really are an intruder from this Planet. Well liste…

Before it started to talk, John stopped him with his hands. At that moment it saw something so funny from the boy, John's expression was in utter shock mixed with despair that his eyes almost popped out while a little bit of snot was slowly coming out, a funny expression that made boss weather laugh at him for a good while. Before it finished laughing at John, he noticed that John was gloomy with his back drooping, so it coughed out with embarrassment.

Weather: *cough cough* Sorry, but that was too funny. But yes, you're in a planet, called Light. We also call it by the New World as a nickname.

Present Time:

John was still running with beads of sweat coming down his exhausted determined face, soon he noticed something from afar, it was large and brown.

John kept going and finally he made it, in front of him was a door, just like what the weather said he would see if he kept going. But there was something different about it. It was huge than any usual door like maybe around 15 to 16 feet and its width was fatter. Which made him wonder if this really is a door? So, John got closer and noticed that it wasn't a door but a large gate.

John: Really Mr. Weather…. How is this a door if it doesn't even have a doorknob. To be honest it kind of reminds me of the gates from dark souls.

John mumbled on for a few minutes until he shook his head to clear his mind, it paid attention to this gate, he extended both of his arm and started to push with of all of his strength. Little by little, it started to open *squakkk* and it finally opened fully. It was really bright, that his eyes started to hurt from looking, so he squinted his eyes and looked down, he was about to take a step until he stopped. John raised his head up and tried to look forward and started to think.

John: (Mr. Weather did tell me that there's another obstacle ahead, but what is it? Is it a beast or some type of chemical or maybe god?)

Just from all of these thoughts flowing from his mind, he looked at what's ahead with caution. What John hates the most is the unknown, he always wants to know what type of situation he's in so he can plan and prepare for the worst. So, he closed his eyes, breathed in and breathed out. He stretched his body to the point you can hear cracks. Finally, he opened his eyes that shinned as bright diamonds and ran forward through the door.

John: Whatever's ahead I'll face it and keep moving forward until I go back home!

The gate closed abruptly, and the weather appeared.

Weather: So, you really entered. But John I hope you'll survive what happens next….

With that, the weather looked deeply at the gate and disappeared like the wind.

Weather: ….because no normal being can withstand the power of the Lords!

Its been really dark for a while, until everything turned on, like lamps turning on. The whole room was crystal clear to look, John was once again shocked at what's in front of him. It was a bunch of fruits that were in a horizontal line kept in a square glass box like its some type of jewelry! But something is weird about these fruits, they had different colors how they should originally be. There was a pineapple that's orange, banana that's blue, mango that's purple, orange that's green and there were so much more fruits that were weirdly colored but the one that made him very curious about was one fruit that was at the center, an apple that was all black but not only that, it had stitches of a smiley face with it.

John started to walk towards the apple, but each step he took was breathtaking. He started to sweat and struggle with each step, even his heart started to pump really quick and his head was hurting really badly too. But he made finally, he opened the glass box and took out the apple. John looked closely at this black smiley face apple and noticed that small electricity was coming out from it but for some reason it didn't hurt him. John's whole started to tremble.

John: What am I doing? This fruit is really strange. I know that I should stay away from something that could potentially be life threatening but… for some reason it feels so familiar.

John hesitated but opened his mouth and took a huge bite. Swallowing the huge piece of the apple, John noticed that the fruit had no flavor, it tasted like plain water. John was confused but at the same time was relieved that nothing happened to him. John shrugged his shoulders and started to walk until he lost his vision and fell straight to the ground. John was not breathing at all; it was like he was dead. His hands let go of the apple, it rolled away from him until it stopped, right at the center you can see a half bitten smiley face.