2 2.Another day
1st November
13:58
After having washed the bloodstained on the floor, John stayed still in front of the TV.
Even in a world upside down, there was still a need to inform oneself.
" Still two minutes until the miracle, fear not, you shall be rewarded!"
After a pause, she continued, you could see the fear in her gaze amidst her zeal.
"God is merciful in his grace; he will take us in heaven and hold us in his arm."
After the first batch disappeared, different cults came to light; some extreme practice happens to like the sacrifice of young maidens, some fucked up people abuse fragile little child, all sorts of atrocity everywhere.
"Tsk" John repressed the disgust growing inside him.
13:59
...
The long-awaited hour came to an end.
14:00
On the gong, in an instant, she evaporated.
But not John
After a minute, he began to panic.
He ran to the living room and took a whistle, then rang it with a deep breath.
Nothing
'Dammit, hurry rang those damned whistles, you bastards.'
Even ten minutes later, still nothing.
Silence
It was not normal for months each time at this hour everybody should make it rang, it's a ritual of a sort.
John took the remote and changed the channel again and again, then again, still nothing.
'I'm alone.'
With no other choice, he decided to take the road with his machete in hand.
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1st December
"Aaargh, hahaha...ha....ha....."
Blood, so much blood.
On the floor, everywhere around John, blood flowed.
His eyes looked at the ceiling.
His gaze was hazy.
He said weakly
"Brother, this time I come to you."
He smirked
Happyness and the calmness from the release of death; all of this can be seen on his face.
Then
13:59
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14:00
It's at this moment that it happened.
John began to see from above, a giant planet, mountains, huge rivers so immense that we can't see on earth, the ocean which surrounds five continents, and an uncountable number of islands and greenery everywhere as if this world was savage without any trace of civilization.
'It's beautiful.'
He gave no other thought than that.
It was weird so weird, because of an absence of feeling.
There was no fear, no anxiousness, no questioning.
He knew what he had to do, what he needs to do.
He needs to CHOOSE.
There was five continent one in the center, surrounded by another in the north, west, east, and south each of them was ten times large than the first one.
The eastern continent was quite peculiar. In the east stood a mountain range that seems desolate. There was a vast river at the west that divides itself into two smaller ones with blue water for the first and red water for the second head, respectively North and South.
Those areas seem normal with no peculiarity, others than the swamp in the first and a quite peculiar forest in the second.
And in the eastern continent were four flags, those were my choice, there was another one, but they were gray out.
He felt that he was the last batch and that those flags were choices for those like him.
'Perhaps am I a chosen one?'
'As if,' he scoffed
A black flag with fangs and blood dripped from it.
'craftiness, savagery but in the meantime regal.'
A blue flag with a sword and a shield.
' community, camaraderie .... and greed? Strange.'
A red flag with the head of a tiger.
'conquest, fury, hierarchy.'
And lastly, a silver flag with a wolf that seems to scream at the moon.
'Then again kinship, savagery and noblesse.'
He could feel all these emotions when he looked at them.
With these options, John seemed to be a huge bastard to be destined for these alternatives.
'I think I will change species if I choose anything other than the blue one. Either human, Tigerman? wolf or werewolf and vampire.'
'What do I do?'
'Vampire' John can't help but smile internally.
Eternal youth, maybe he was weird, but it's his dream since he was little.
'But, what if it's a vampire far from literature and I become something awful.'
Apprehension arose, and so much pass by his head.
'It may become more complicated if I stop being human to find my brother?'
'However, if I start to worry too much, I will do nothing. And my brother will understand, I think...'
After some thought
"I choose the black flag."
