1 THE AWAKENING

"Mmm... where I'm I?!"

Alexander woke up on top of a lavish bed in a large room, it seems to be a bedroom unfamiliar to him. When he sat up he saw in front of him a triple pane glass window with panoramic view, looking pass that are sky high buildings. He got the idea that he is inside one as well. But because he can see the top of most of the buildings outside, gave him the sense that he is currently on a much bigger and taller building.

As he scanned the room taking in everything he sees, things slowly becoming familiar to him. Looking at the watch on top of the bedside drawer on his right-side, he somehow knew that the price tag was over thirteen thousand. He knew that all the furniture in this lavish room were expensive; everything down to the sheeting on his bed.

He looks at the date on his bedside drawer and it says April 4 2110.

Knowing all that but still can't remember his own name. Then a gentle knock came from the door on his left side, before he could answer it was already sliding with a 'swoosh' sound. A girl came in a flurry maids clothes with her head slightly bowed looking down on the soft carpet. When she closed the door she lifted her head and looks directly at him, he can see from this distance that her eyes were sky blue. Her long blond hair goes all the way to her hips, it compliments her beautiful small face. When she spoke it sounds gentle and smooth.

"Young master its two minutes pass six, you are now two minutes behind your schedule. Are you feeling well." She tilts her head slightly curious, a bit of surprise, because it's not like her young master to be late when waking up.

'It seems like I'm the type of guy to stick on his schedule on the dot.'

He thought to himself for a moment. While staring at the girl he seems to have imagined that the girl shimmered for a second.

'What was that'

At that instant he got a surge of headache, it was like a bus hitting him all of the sudden. Clutching his head and screaming from unbearable pain. All the whilst, retaining his lost memories: of whom he really was, what he does, where he is and more all at ones.

He remembers when he was at the age of thirteen his parents died in a freak car accident. His father were driving them to their family vacation home situated in the countryside. Normally they would have a chauffeur driving them to their destination but at the day of departure he was unavailable due to illness. Usually he would have been replaced by a different driver, but Alexander's father thought it would have been a great time to bound with his family all alone if he were to drive them himself to their vacation home.

His father was an exceptional driver, they were happily conversing and listening to light classical music. When all of the sudden a speeding car rammed straight into them, instantly killing both of his parents. Alexander was covered in his mother's blood as well as his own, because he was impaled with a long shard of glass into his left shoulder. Although he was still conscious he couldn't move, scream or do anything because he was still shocked of what happened.

Alexander saw a man bleeding from the left forehead approach the wrecked vehicle he was in and peered inside. Alexander waslosing consciousness fast so he wasn't able to make out the man's face clearly but he could distinctly remember that the man had a dragon tattoo on his neck. He also seems to have glimps another but smaller shadow behind the tattooed person. Otherwise, that's all he remembers after waking up one month later into a single bed room in a hospital.

He was devastated and heart broken after he found out he was the only survivor from the wrecked and angered to know that the other driver fled the scene, without leaving a trace.

As the only child all the inheritance were left to him: the business, the company, the money the houses and everything that's in his mother's and fathers name were inherited by him. Although, because he was still at a young age of thirteen and is currently injured from a car crash, multiple people tried to adopt him. Their motive of course is to take advantage of the situation, take all his money away from him and seize it all for themselves. Of course Alexander was no fool as he realised their plot from the very beginning and he was not about to let them get their way.

So, he fought really hard to be independent, he used his money to hire experience lawyers and his own manipulative skill to convince people towards his side. Luckily most of them were women who was, fortunately, vulnerable to his cuteness.

At the age of fourteen after a long year of pulling strings and bribing people from the top he finally won, he just had to make his loyal butler to be his guardian. His butler was honoured to do so at the point of crying. He kept promising to double his effort of taking care of him and that he will never let his guard down ever again.

Alexander was extremely happy and proud of himself for all of his efforts and he was especially thankful of his father. After all, this was only successful thanks to him. At a very young age he was thought of how to take care of business before he could even speak. Alexander's father imagined of every scenario and thought him how to surpass every difficulty and to never give up. He even thought his son of what to do in a case of losing his life.

Even Alexander's mother thought him few tricks as well. She thought him how to gain peoples favor and trust step by step, like how to be charming and only tell them what they want to hear. He was also made aware that there will certainly be many people with ill intentions who will scam him of all his money. So he must learn to never let his guard down.

At the age of fifteen, one year into the business he went from millionaire to billionaire with the help of money making technique his father thought him at a very young age. He would be then called the youngest billionaire who will also be a trillionaire in the near future.

Currently at the age of sixteen, he is taking it slow and returning back to school to catch up and be back to regular teenager. Although one could say that he is too smart for school, but still attends anyway for fun and to make regular friends or at least he tries to. He wasn't able to get rid of old habits of being onguard from people who approached him. Still thinking that those who approach him has an agenda so he found it hard to make friends his own age.

°°°°°

The memory flooded like a burst dam, it flows continuously non-stop. It's all happening so fast that he felt like time has slow down or more like it has stopped. His head finally clears of any pain like it wasn't there, it disappeared as quickly as it appeared. When he looks outside the glass wall he saw a bird levitating in the air, looking even further in the distance a plane is suspended in the air as well, it wasn't falling but it wasn't moving forward as well.

The girl in the maids outfit infront of him was just standing there smiling as if nothing is happening, but he soon realised that she too is frozen in time.

All of the sudden he heard loud bell chime ringing in the distance and it's coming closer to him by the second, getting even louder after each one. The bell stop ringing at the thirteenth chime, like there wasn't even a bell ringing before, all he can hear is an eerie silent and in a blink of an eye he found himself in a dark unfamiliar void. He stared into the dark abyss surrounding him and felt a strong emotion of loneliness, the same feeling he got when he was watching his parents get buried with dirt at their funeral.

Then one after another people started to pop out of nowhere, they seem to be as lost and confused as Alexander. He looked at himself he was still wearing his red expensive silk pajamas, his face turned red like a tomato, he was a bit embarrassed at his current attire, but is actually glad that there were other people appearing around him.

More and more people keeps popping up, the total number must be in hundreds now, almost reaching to its thousands. They were various people in obvious occupation judging by their looks, such as:

Men and women in expensive business suit with their suit cases at one hand and a coffee cup at the other. They kept looking around probably to find their office building. Still committed to head to work for hard earn cash; a workaholic. They hardly noticed that their environment has changed from that of a busy sidewalk to a dark desolate void.

Students in their school uniform with their hand held bag and papers on their other hand studying for their daily test in the morning. while biting on half eaten donut in their mouth. They were shocked when they noticed that suddenly popped into an unfamiliar dark environment.

People with construction hat and reflective vest with blueprints between their arms, wiping cold sweats from their forehead with their handkerchief. While also holding hot cup coffee on their other hand.

Police officers who took the initiative to control the situation, trying to calm everyone down, gathering the panicking ones so that he can keep an eye on them while trying to attend to everyone's needs. There were a couple of law enforcement although not all of them were from of the same country so there was a language barrier, but they seem to be able to understand each others intentions through their actions.

Soldiers in their military uniform with assault rifle in hand and large overhauled backpack. He is heavily panting, it seems he was running before he appeared here, one could assume that he was in a mission before coming here.

They pointed their weapons at each other when more appeared not letting their guard down. But when they analyse the situations around them they seem to understand that none of them were a threat to each other. Instead, they formed into different groups and made a perimeter around the civilians and they prepared themselves of what will happen next.

A woman wet and fully naked, she must have been in the shower before all this. when she appeared she screamed her lungs out with full of emotions of being scared, surprise, confused and especially embarrassed when she saw multiple people around her.

As she screams she just attracted more onlookers, luckily a gentleman quickly gave her his suit jacket to cover her up. He probably would have not hesitated to remove his pants and gave it to if she would have requested for it.

Man all in black with black ski mask hiding his face and a crowbar in his hand. When he appeared he was startled and tried to hide his crowbar behind him.

There were elderly as old as eighty and children as young as ten. There were multiple shades of people in the dark creepy void.

There were black people, white people, asian people, men, women, young and old, and if Alexander carefully look around he can also see animals. Which surprised him because there's quite few dangerous ones.

There were such as bears, Fox's, wolves and others big and small.

Those who appeared right beside the wild animals instantly ran far away from them, afraid that they'll be attacked suddenly. But interestingly enough the animals didn't move an inch from the spot they appeared from, only observing their new surrounding.

It seems that everybody is in the same situation as Alexander, forcefully teleported without their consent or a simple explanation.

°°°°

A blinding light flash above everyone's head and a feminine figure coated in white light appeared, because of the dark surrounding void she became like a bright lantern for everyone. A beacon of light for everyone to stare at.

Although, she seems to be far away from Alexander he could hear her just fine like she were in front of him. Then she started clapping furiously and spoke with an angelic voice like that of an opera singer but multiple times better. Her voice surprisingly echoed in the dark voice but also still understandable.

"Welcome to ♤♡◇♧ and congratulations on your Awakening, we understand that you might be confused as to why you suddenly appeared here in the cold dark place of ♤♡◇♧, but don't you worry we will explain everything to you in simple term that you earthlings will understand:

First of all you are one of the few lucky thousands out of the whole world to be awakened or in other words to recieve a revelation from God himself. Of course I am not God but his trusted messenger here to share with you the words of God."

somehow everyone could tell that she is slightly smiling after she said that, like she was holding her laugh from her own joke. She was giggling almost each sentence like a little girl would.

"He told me to tell you 'congratulations' and to give each and every last one of you your own personal gifts hand pick from yours truly."

This time she could not hold it in and burst out laughing for a quick second before stopping herself by covering her own mouth. Those who thought of her as an Angel slowly disappeared form their thought, as she is not acting like the Angel they imagined in their head.

Everyone soon could tell that something was amiss even more so than being summoned in a dark place.

"Ahem... sorry about that... anyway, these gifts will help you on your survival in the end of the world two years from now. But first some ground rules :"

Everyone was shocked to the core this includes Alexander. If one were to ask you how would you react if a super being looking like an Angel were to tell you that the world will end in two years; this is how.

Their face contorted as if they can't believe the words she was saying, some collapsed with their heads down not listening anymore. Few actually threw up on the spot making them sick and dizzy, not able to comprehend the situation they are in. Others don't even know how to react to this but to simply listen.

As for Alexander he was surprised but he quickly collected himself and listened for more information and memorising them as much as possible.

She continues to talk ignoring those who were making a racket and calling her out.

"Rule No.1 -- The individuals are not allowed to disclose this news to others apart from the people currently in here, however, if you did manage to tell someone your life will be forfeited. So in conclusion you are not to tell anyone at anytime.

Rule No.2 -- The individuals are allowed to prepare for the upcoming apocalypse. The individuals may gather people to band together, however you are not allowed to disclose the matter to anyone.

Rule No.3 -- The individuals may create alliance with the other individuals around you right here right now. Or if individuals would like, you may solo the apocalypse, think of it like hardcore mode in a game.

Rule No.4 -- The individuals are allowed to horde as much resources you can with your own abilities...

...and last but not least...

Rule No.1001 -- New rules can be added and or taken off according to God liking. Anything and everything is God's plan and God has the final say on anything to everything on the most minute details to the most complex."

After listing hundreds after hundreds of rules that eventually summed up to thousands without taking a brake she finally stop talking.

Looking around there are few people who understand everything somehow and one of those is Alexander and there are those still confused as to what is happening and most of them were the children that were summoned. The others either don't care enough to listen or putting a front that they do understand.

"Now everyone, I will be giving you the presents God made for you. Each gifts will vary from person to person. Some might get artifacts like a Devine Swords while others might get titles such as Heros and the rest a companion like Holy Eagle.

So do your best because I'm be..."

She stops herself, but it is too late because those who heard figured out what she was going to say.

"Opps... I mean I wish you the very best of luck on your survival in the apocalypse two years from now in human calendar. GOOD LUCK!!"

She shouted the last two words and disappeared in the a blink of an eye like she weren't there in the first place. The beacon of light for everyone to focus their attention on instantly disappeared and panic within everyones heart issued.

Then a red square present wrapped in bow tie appeared levitating in front of everyone. When they reach out for it it exploded and glitter flies everywhere while clapping and trumpet noise re-sounded and the words "CONGRATULATIONS ON AWAKENING" emerge into thin air and disappeared after a second.

Inside Alexander head a voice could be heard saying.

"System level 1 ACTIVATED...

Mission level 1 ONLINE...

Store level 1 OPEN...

Designated owner ALEXANDER AYER."