1 C1 The End and the Beginning of a New Story

A/N: This will be the speech format

".." — Speaking aloud

( ) — Thoughts

[ ] — System speech

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"Jonathan is a good person. As his best friend, I am devastated at his untimely death," a young man with black hair wearing a black suit said as he rubbed his watery eyes.

"He said that although everything in his life was going downhill, he would still try and fulfill his dream with me. BUT NOW! *sobs* H-He can't do it—" the young man just walked away and sat on one of the chairs.

( Ahh~ Eric is really too emotional. )

A middle aged woman walked up and said, "I am Jonathan's mother. As his mother, I watched him grow up from the start. I also know his— *sobs* behavior... it is a shock to me that my eldest son... would die...*sobs... before me. I thought he was strong willed and we will overcome our problems together but... he—"

( Mom, being strong willed wouldn't help if your problem was being kidnapped by kidnappers. )

— — — — — — — —

I am Jonathan Flores, a sixteen year old Filipino-American young man. An ordinary young man who had his own aspirations in life. But sadly I died before I can do those. Let's go back to a few days ago.

When I was walking home from buying snacks at the AlphaM*rt, I saw a fucking white van in front of me. At first I was skeptical and ignored it, but when I was passing by, the doors opened and I immediately prepared for the worst.

Just as I thought, they were the notorious white van kidnappers. There were countless local memes about them that I sometimes saw on my newsfeed. I laughed at those memes but my current situation is not funny.

Three men wearing black ski mask came out of the car. One of them tried to grab me and the other two pointed a gun at me.

"Just come with us quietly and you won't suffer much," said the goon who went towards me.

I didn't reply and looked at them warily. Although I practiced and am a black belter in kyokushin karate, I wasn't so confident facing guns. So just as the goon tried to punch me in the face, I parried him and kicked his leg that caused him to fall. I caught him and locked his neck with my arms to choke him.

"Shoot if you want your buddy to be reduced into a beehive."

"You think I care?" One of them said then aimed at us.

"Wai—" ( Goon )

*Multiple Gunshots*

"Fuck! What the hell is wrong with you?!" I yelled in pain and gnashed my teeth in anger.

The fucker killed his partner without batting an eye and shot me. I was hit in my left shoulder and I immediately felt burning feeling as I clutched my shoulder in pain.

"Hey! Boss said not to damage our goods, reign in your anger dude!"

"What does it matter, whether dead or alive, we can still harvest his organs and sell it," the man replied to him and aimed at me... my fvcking head.

*Bang*!

"Dude! Hurry take those two, we need to skedaddle here! Those cops are coming!" The man inside the car shouted.

— — — — — — — — — — —

Now here I am, watching my loved ones say their goodbyes and mourning at my own burial. I am surprised I even got a proper burial.

When they retrieved my floating body in a river, they discovered that I was missing my kidneys and heart. Those bastards had a good time butchering me like a pig. But I think they just wasted their time cause they killed me before harvesting my organs.

How am I even this calm to think about myself being butchered? Am I a fucking masochist?

Setting these aside, I am now wondering what the heck is this in front of me. I am seeing a spatial or dimension rift here and it seems that it can't be seen by the others. This thing appeared just an hour ago and I was curious as to where this rift leads.

As they say, curiosity kills the cat, but I am dead anyways so what can go wrong.

Without further ado, I approached the rift and closely observed it. Hmmm... I can't see the other side, it's just pitch black. Welp, let's just fuck it and stick my phantasmal hand in there.

As soon as I touched the rift I immediately regretted my action. I felt soul wrenching pain as my body was sucked by the rift. It only took a second but I felt like I was subjected to indescribable pain for an extremely long time before I passed out.

— — — — — — — — —

( Where am I? )

I saw pitch black darkness as soon as I regained consciousness, which literally means that I can't see anything.

( ! What's this?! I feel heavy all around my body. I feel sluggish )

I can't see but I can still feel my surroundings, which is weirdly sticky and wet. Furthermore, I can't move my whole body properly and my movements feel sluggish.

". . ."

I waited and waited for a long time with nothing happening. I slept for many instances due to extreme drowsiness but I know that nothing happened so far.

In my boredom I even recalled and reviewed the movies, anime, mangas, etc. that I accumulated in my not so long life. I find it weird though that I can recall my memories vividly.

Aside from the darkness I see all around me, there are also balls of light appearing here from time to time. Speaking of those balls of light, they appeared now.

( How about touching them? )

All this time, I didn't bother with them as I was afraid of being disintegrated or something. But now I am so bored and I can't bear it. This is the only way left to leave this hellhole. Maybe this will be like that rift.

( Let's do it! )

I immediately... swam?... to the light. As soon as I touched it, I felt drowsy and lost consciousness.

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{ A/N: This ff is a work that is different from my previous works, as I made this with the intent of practicing for making my own novel. There are some grammatical mistakes but please bear with it as English is not my first language. Good luck to me! }