2 Chapter 1: The End & The Beginning

"..mhmhmmm..."

I feel something wet and cold surrounding me, as I start gradually opening my eyes, a few moments later, I realized that I was floating and surrounded by bodies of water that seem to be the ocean and the sky was as dark as the night sky.

As I recalled what happened before I got here I realized I died saving an infant.

'Guess im dead...'

As he thought of this he started to feel... complicated. Soon he felt saddened, he started close his eyes and curb himself to a ball and sink 8 feet below, even though he saved a life...

'Mom.. Dad.. Anna, my dear little sister...'

He still felt regret, he was still young, he still had plenty of things to do before he died and felt more saddened that he wont be seeing them anymore, and thinking when they heard the news that he was dead, makes his heart aches when imagining their sad crying faces mourning over him....

'...No.. it's not the time feeling sad and regret right now.'

After a while he calmed himself down.

'I need to observe my situation first.'

As I start to swim back up I begin looking around, I couldn't see anything around me, it was was so dark that I begin to think that I was in the river styx.

As I begin to give up, the moon started to reveal itself from the clouds that was covered in the sky, the moonlight illuminated everywhere and i can finally see where I am.

'I really am in the ocean...'

As I started to look around again I saw an island near where I am, I swam across to it but as I get closer I noticed that the island was unnaturally glowing and was twinkling as if it was covered in stars. As soon as I reach shore exhausted and heavily breathing, I was mesmerized on what I saw.

'What the fuck is this place? Its all sparkly...'

Everything was glistening from the beach, the leaves on the trees, and to the only hill in this island.

As I bend over and picked up a rock that was the size of a fist, I saw that the rock was glittering beautifully as if it was made out of various jewels mash together.

I drop the rock in my hand and looked up, I can see that theres something particular very shiny than the rest on the very top of the hill, thinking I should investigate it, I got up and started walking towards it.

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For a while I kept walking through the forest as I was thinking what's on top of it, Soon I arrive at the hill it was also glistening...

But what particularly catches my eyes is that theres something glowing on top of the hill, I gulped down and started walking towards it.

As I walked closer to it I could see something resembling a stonehenge, as I got right in front of it I could see the rocks was covered in unknown ancient runes, on the ground surrounding inside this mysterious stonehenge I could only describe it as a magic circle... And finally, I could see something that was glowing, in the middle stuck to the ground was a glowing white orb.

I looked around and while getting closer to the middle of this strange ancient site, I Questioned again.

"What the fuck even is this place?"

It was all too strange and unfamiliar to him, but he also realized something about himself as well.

'Weren't dead people supposedly dead and cant move? How can I be breathing, moving, and feeling things right now??'

There were questions popping in his mind one after another. Slowly walking and stopped in front of the glowing orb in the ground, he bend his legs in a half-kneeling position and got lower to the orb, slowly, reaching out his right hand.

When he was about to touch the orb, he heard a voice behind his back.

"Don't touch it."

Startled, he stopped what he was doing, shot up from the ground from his half-kneeling position and turned around to see the source of the voice.

"Who... are you?"

There standing a few meters away from me was a beautiful woman with white jade skin, long silver white hair, deep blue-eyes, wearing a snow-white dress and she looks to be in her early twenties.

I asked the mysterious figure, wary what might happen next I readied myself to run or die again.

"Please be at ease, I do not wish to harm you in the slightest."

"You still haven't answered my question."

She can see that I was still vigilant towards her while also listening.

She covered her seductive lips with her fingers and giggled, the next second she spoke to me.

"I have many names, but for you, you can just call me Valoria."

"....okay...."

I lowered my guard but still vigilant I spoke.

"Hello Valoria, since you introduced yourself my names-"

"I already who you are Michael Andras."

Before I even finished my sentence she interrupted my words and already knows my name, startled again I raised my vigilance and guard once more.

"Oh dear, sorry for frightening you but I really don't have any intentions of harming you."

"Why should I believe you?"

Cautious I questioned her again.

"Because you are needed."

"Im... needed?"

Confused on what she has said, when I was going to ask her a question, she was right in front of me, I didnt even notice her approaching me at all.

She looked at me and I looked at her, she was so gorgeous I cant describe how beautiful she was. When she gently touched my left cheek with her right hand, I somehow felt at ease, then she lowered her hand sliding it from my cheek, to my neck, and finally to my chest.

She smiled and said.

"Yes, you are needed."

Before I could organize what is happening the orb on the ground suddenly glowed brighter, the runes and symbols on the stonehenge and the so called magic circle on the began to light up, looking around confused and alert on what is currently happening.

Valoria suddenly grabbed my right hand raising it with both of her hands, she closed her eyes, she appears to be praying then a mysterious symbol appeared in the back of my hand.

Looking at her still confused on what is happening right now, when I was going ask more questions she spoke first.

"Calm your mind, answers will come in time eventually."

"WAI-"

Before I even finish my word I got transported.

The light from the stonehenge and the magic circle form the ground quickly witted away, there only the mysterious woman left standing.

"Good luck and be safe, you will need it on your journey."

Then quickly vanish from sight like a ghosts on where she was standing before.