1 The begining
The beginning starts at the end. Prologue Chpt 1
This sucks," He says to no one in particular.
"I wonder how long I've been out here. Sure feels like forever". Kora sighs and lets his mind wander
Thinking back to how He ended up in this situation (I'm not sure how to rationalize it. It was such a good day to...) he thinks...
Tk: Thanks for coming out with me big brother I didn't want to have to carry all the bags by myself.
Kora: "Yeah yeah you little brat we both know this is blackmail" Kora looks at his younger brother with a small head shake
"and how did I get stuck with all the bags??"
( I'm gonna have to start watching him he's starting to get a little devious ) kora thinks as he readjusts the groceries for the fifth time
Tk: It's not blackmailing at all . all I said was that it would be a shame if mom found out you cut class to daydream on the school roof again." then he shrugs his shoulders while swinging his annoying empty hands
Kora: "Whatever walk faster little man these bags ain't light," I say and throw out my foot to try and give him a quick kick in the ass
He takes off running and turns to look back sticking his tong out at me I remember thinking
(i love my brother but I swear I wished for a puppy) suddenly there's a loud crash from the alley up ahead of us and my brother stops running to let me catch up.
TK: "Should we go check it out?"
Kora: "No we should keep walking and mind our business" while I dream about superpowers and being a hero like in the stories real life is different adventuring is something left for those on the screen and in the pages
Tk: "BOOOOOOO," he says and rolls his eyes dramatically.
Out of the alley suddenly runs a young female student with ruined clothes.
??? : you gotta get out of here he's crazy and he's right behind me."
She then speeds off past me down the street.
As I look towards her I hear
??? : LOOKOUT HE HAS A GUN!!" From one of the other pedestrians walking past us unnoticed
I look up to see a man dress in all black rasing up a large pistol in our direction while running towards us.
Tk screams as I push him out of the way and towards the storefront beside us.
{Bang}
{Bang}
{Bang}
I feel a heavy blow to my side and a sharp sting in my chest but I ignore it and try my best to shield my brother as we fall sideways.
Tk "KORA NOOOOOO!!!!!"
My little brother screams.
??? : "Sorry kid wrong place wrong time," the shooter tells me before running off.
Kora: Well shit this hurts more than I thought it would"
??? : SOMEONE CALL 911" I hear someone yell. I look over at my younger brother and smile.
Kora: It'll be ok" then I pass out.
Normally you'd expect to wake up in a hospital in this type of situation but I guess I couldn't be that lucky. I died right there waiting for help. Now as for my experience with the afterlife its leaves much to be desired. Mainly because my afterlife consists of me kinda just floating around in an empty black space filled with endless stars bored out of my mind.
I'm not alone thankfully there are a few others that I guess you could call souls floating around here with me but most of us can't understand each other. Those of us that can talk normally don't due to some of the other souls being how should I put it .... bat shit crazy. The more normal ones if you can call them that only want to talk about cultivation, magic, money and how close to becoming gods they were. Hell there are even a few genuine monsters here a few demon guys showed up a while back horns and everything said something about being sealed away by a pesky hero. Thier cool I guess although they try to convince me to give them a piece of my soul now and then and while I may not know why but I feel like that would be a stupid idea. There's even a real dragon even though he's mostly always sleeping and extremely grumpy but when he is awake he tells the best stories about magic and castles I think he's just lonely so I try to talk to him when I can. It's not all bad I've made a friend in this one kid I met. We're closest in age compared to most others but I guess that's relative at this point mostly cause he's 200 years older than me and that's before he ended up trapped here. His name Ishi he says he's a great hero from his world and died at the hands of a monster while adventuring but I'm pretty sure it was related to a woman considering that's all he talks about. Although he does have some info that gave me more of an understanding of my situation He says that we're 'drifter' souls that for w.e reason be it intentional or accidental slip through the cracks of reality and fall into the void an endless abyss of nothingness apparently that only gods have the power to travel freely in and out and most don't know about this place because of some stupid war thousands of years ago . Some drifters have been here for so long that they start to lose themselves and fade away to nothing leaving fragmented memories and soul shards floating in there place.
No telling how long they've been here hell I don't even know how long I've been here. The cool thing is since losing my body I've had a lot of from time to get to know my mind better maybe because I've freed up all the mental power needed to move a body around that my mind works 100 times better than before. I'm able to remember anything and everything with perfect clarity so naturally, I spend most of my time reliving my favorite anime and movies. I share them with some of the other drifters and they seem to enjoy hearing the stories but I've run out at this 'point and now I'm dying of boredom.
Suddenly a bright light flashes in the endless dark and a figure starts to come into view.
"Guess we got a new void-mate maybe this one will be someone from my world," I say excitedly
As I try to get a better look at the person I see that its an old man with a ridiculously long white beard and a robe that I can only think should belong to a wizard or something magical like that.
Kora: yeaaaaaah defiantly not from my world" I proceed to float away but then I hear
??? : Excuse young man can I ask you a few questions?
I look back and think about it for a second ( what's the worst the can happen )
Kora: " sure what's up?
??? : Can you tell me how you came to be in this place?
Kora: I don't know I woke up here after getting shot
???: This is the void the beginning and end of all things, not the place a wandering soul should be floating about only great and powerful souls come to here to rest at the end of their time or souls sealed by great powers but I sense that you're a normal mortal.
Kora: well I guess I died but didn't go to heaven or hell.
??? : That's strange your soul must somehow meet the qualification to become a drifter I don't very well understand it I sense no cultivation of any kind from you but just maybe...
Kora: Maybe what and who are you anyway old man?
??? : Oh sorry I forgot my manners I am The God Of Dreams Morpheus and what is yours.
Kora: My name Kora Tetsuya and so you're saying your god ...(shrugs shoulders).. well I guess your not the oddest person iv meet here but what do you maybe? maybe what?
Morpheus: How would you like to leave this place to live a new life?
Kora: What's the catch?
Morpheus: I can send you from this place if that is your wish but it won't be to where you came from. Its a world of magic and monsters. Very dangerous but I can give you a few things to help you
Kora: I'm In !!
Morpheus: Good decisiveness is important but you should hear more. (He smiles kindly reminding me of a grandad talking to his errant grandchild)
Morpheus: Young one I have a proposition for you I can send you to a new world but I need you to complete a task for me when you get there.
Kora: What kind of task?
The deity looks at him for a moment then smiles.
