Chapter 0:Prologue

Lone Land

Chapter 1:Prologue

Umm, should I get this hoodie? lemme see"

"Ruis this is your fourth black coloured hoodie!!, seriously for crying out loud choose some other colour"

"But mom they don't look this good, come on now everyone wears black clothes these days "

I had to put on a fight, I don't care, I wanted the hoodie so bad.

"Fine, this is the last one you buy, next time buy a red or blue coloured hoodie. Those colours suit u hun"

"yea yea sure, I will"

We went to the cashier, paid for the hoodie and exited the store.

It was a beautiful day to go out. My mom forcefully took me out as I have been at home, playing too many video games these days.

"Ruis do you want to eat something?."

"no, I'm not, let's just go home now"

"come on now let's buy some pizza I know you like pizza plus I'll take some home for dad"

sigh

"ok then, come on I wanted to go home already"

"I get one day to spend with my son. You are so uncooperative "

"sorry woman, pizza please"

"have patience hun"

*light appearing around Ruis

"Huh what's going on "

"RUISS??"

"MOM, NO MOM, MOMMM"

"RUISSSSSSSSSSssss....."

Darkness engulfed Ruis's mind as he blacked out.

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'Tch, it's so bright' thought Ruis to himself as he slowly opened his eyes to view this brightly lit hall.

In this hall, there were about a thousand people according to Ruis.

One thing was for sure he knew that they weren't from the UK. 'I haven't seen these people where I live, where are they from?' he wondered as he looked through the crowd of people who belonged mostly from his age group. They spoke in different tongues. There were people from America, Japan , Russia, Brazil, South Korea , France , India, Nigeria and many other countries gathered in one space. He recognised only some of the people through the language spoken.

There wasn't a single adult in sight apart from the people in black robes. They wore insignia of a bow and arrow. Who were these men?. Did they bring all these young people here?. At the moment they were trying to take care of this chaos by pointing their weapons at the crowd.

What weapons you may ask. Well, they were equipped with swords, axes, spears, clubs, dual knives and bows. Not a gun in sight. Quite primitive and strange thought Ruis. 'Surely so many people can overpower them.

Anyway, the situation around him looked quite hopeless.

Some people were crying, some shocked, some pushing each other and questioning each other on why they were here and how did they end up in this unknown place.

*voice through the mic

"Welcome children, I know you all are extremely confused about what just happened. But don't you all are safe, for now, that is"

The words came out of the mouth of a horse-headed creature....a HORSE HEAD??

"How can a horse talk?" people started talking among themselves

"I know you have a lot of questions young ones.

First of all your parents have not been harmed"

"Second, you all shall work for us"

"Work for you??, we still go to school, we aren't of age sir," said one distressed boy

"don't worry it's an easy job. The jobs are only for 2 months. After that, u will all be taken to the next stage"

It was stuff being in light again after I fainted. It seems that I was teleported to this large hallway.

The room was filled with us, teenagers.

As the strange creature had said...., we had to work for 2 months.

What kind of work through. This was the question going through everyone's head.

"GIVE ME MY SISTER BACK BASTARDSS.."

A young man jumped in front of the crowd. He had a gun in his hand.

"Oh hello there little one do you have any problems?" asked the horse-headed creature politely.

"GIVE ME MY SISTER YOU BASTARD.."

*bang

The boy took out a gun from the jacket he was wearing and fired at the creature.

Surely he was from America.

"RUNNNNNNNNNNNN" cried a girl as everyone started to panic at the sight of the weapon.

"SHIT GET DOWN"

"BASTARD THAT'S MY FOOT"

"GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY"

People had no where to.run so where heading to the only exit which was on the right side of the hall.

There was chaos all around.

*cool air blowing through

*WHISSSSH

There was this chilling aura coming from the horse creature which spread fear among all of us

'what is this pressure?. '

A strange feeling enveloped my soul. It felt like it was choking me. I calmed my nerves by taking a deep breath. *whew.

'Calm down Ruiss '

"Now now little ones let's have some quiet, this is a peaceful gathering. No weapon, please. Now if you will please hand the weapon over to the guard"

Butt.. but ... but I shot straight at you..." cried out the boy with panic

"oh did you? well sadly..."

The horse took the weapon, pointed the weapon to his skull and pulled the trigger.

*bang

There was absolutely no noise at the moment.

"look... nothing happened....no blood ...no wound..wheres the bullet"

"he did pull the trigger, didn't he?"

"hohoho children I'm afraid to tell you that gun...

will not the same effect as before"

What does he mean by 'will not have the same effect as before'

"That means that guns cannot be used to kill or injure anyone. They have been excluded from being classed as weapons"

Confused, more questions began to come in

"Banned by who exactly?"

"hohoho, by the people who brought you here of course"

We didn't know what to believe.

The guards who were stationed around the halls threatened us with their weapons and instructed us to remain calm and keep quiet.

"RUIS??, Oh my god are you alright?" the words of my best friend Nyx came close to me.

'Nyx why are you here???'

"I was with my dad when unexpectedly some kind of bright light shone over me and I fell asleep. When I woke up I couldn't believe that I was somewhere else. Does this look like London to u? We sure are quite far from there.