Chapter One: Just A Normal Day

Swinging open at a speed that would cause serious injury to anyone who was standing in front of them, two sets of double doors flew open, and students dressed in all sorts of attire left a university building and continued running until they were out of the campus and boarding many busses that were here to drive the students home.

The year was 2022, Karl was a mostly average twenty-one year old guy, he was 1.8 metres tall, on the slimmer side of the weight spectrum, he had black hair, and complete Heterochromia. His left eye was a jade green, while his right eye was a deep cerulean blue, but his eyes couldn't be seen clearly since he was wearing sunglasses.

He had silky smooth unruly hair that looked like someone had intentionally ruffled up his hair, but no one had, it just naturally stayed like that, if it was brushed then it would be back in that state within a period of half an hour.

You would expect there to be some knots in his hair, but there weren't, Karl rarely got any knots in his hair, and that was because he took care of his hair. Other than his weird hair and his different coloured eyes, the only thing that set him apart from other people his age is that he was a little smarter than the average person, and that he was still a bachelor.

He lived in the province of British Columbia in Canada, or as Canadians and most others call it, BC. Born and raised on a farm, he knew how to do many things, including riding a horse, butchering animals, milking cows, helping animals give birth, and even stitching up wounded animals that had been injured by coyotes or when they escaped through the fence and tore open their skin from the barbed wire.

His favourite thing to do was to ride his favourite horse around their property and make sure all the animals were in their proper pens, he would then race back home as fast as possible with the wind blowing in his hair. Not to mention how happy Karl was, his horse was exuberant as it would probably have been a small farm horse that would eventually be butchered and eaten, and it was happy that it got to gallop around and explore new places.

Currently, Karl was standing against the wall so he could avoid being trampled by the swarm of eager students that didn't have a dorm room who wanted to go home. Last year, a student had broken an arm when he was trampled by a crowd of students who were too eager to get home.

That student was a friend of Karl's who was close to getting a Bachelor's degree in the study of bioscience and mycology, he was aiming to get a master's degree for mycology. But all of that was brought crashing down when he had broken his arm and had missed important lectures when he was staying in the hospital.

It was only after thirty seconds of students swarming out that Karl deemed it safe enough to exit the doors as well, he then walked across the campus until he reached the dorm rooms, where he entered his own dorm room, and he waved to his three other roommates, one of which was a boy and the other two were girls.

Even though four people were living in one dorm room, because not many people chose to live in the dorms of this university, the dorm rooms were large enough to have four rooms, a bathroom, and a kitchen.

Yes, this university had coed dorm rooms, and no, most people didn't develop a relationship with each other even though there were coed dorms. There are many more relationships then there would have been if the dorm rooms weren't coed, like two of his roommates.

The two girls were friends who had known each other since they were four years old, they did almost everything together, its like they were a married couple, but they didn't have those kinds of feelings for each other, and that was why it was the cuter of the two girls who was in a relationship with the other guy in the dorm room.

Just because one was cuter than the other didn't mean the other girl was ugly, far from it, she was on the hotter more sexy side while the cuter one was on the more delicate side. The hotter one was four inches taller than the cuter one, standing at 1.7 metres tall, but her chest was only a B cup, while the cuter one had D cups.

Both of the girls had red hair, which might be one of the reasons that they're such good friends, the hotter one had the same jade green eyes as Karl, while the cuter one had brown eyes. As for the other guy, he was an extremely handsome guy with blond hair and blue eyes. He was also 1.7 metres tall, but he had such good looks that his height didn't matter very much.

Kris Drine was the name of the hotter girl, who also happened to flirt with Karl a lot, and she was currently in nothing but a fluffy purple bathrobe with tiger cubs on it. You had to pass through the kitchen to reach the rooms, but Kris was in Karl's room.

She had been actively pursuing Karl for the entire year that he's been attending the university, but he has never once flirted back with her. There was only one time that he has ever shown any kind of reciprocation, and it was when he had invited her to dinner at a fancy restaurant.

After they were done eating at the restaurant, they went to a club where a group of three guys tried to lead a drunken Kris away, but Karl alerted the bouncers about the suspicious actions of the three guys, who were then kicked out.

When that situation was over and done with, Karl walked with Kris back to their dorms, he then helped her strip down into nothing but her underwear, and he tucked her into bed. The next morning, Kris was disappointed and dissatisfied that nothing had happened, but also relieved because she couldn't enjoy it properly if anything did happen.

Inside of Karl's room was filled with nothing but bookshelves, a large desk that had many pens and coloured pencils with thousands of pieces of paper in the drawers, and a bed which had an almost completely naked girl laying on it only covered in a bathrobe.

"That is a really cute bathrobe, but why are you in my room?" Three reasons stopped Karl from being in a relationship, number one was that he was focusing on his studies and drawing; number two is that he was trying to find the right girl, who happened to be the exact type of girl that Kris was; and number three is that he is way too dense when it comes to love or those types of things.

He has never looked on the internet for any kind of thing that could relieve stress because he has never needed to, he would just read books about plants and animals to relieve stress, or he would draw artwork that he would then sell for a hefty amount of money.

Speaking of money, the artwork he sells is where he got all the money to pay for the university, the dorms, the food, his motorcycle, and his books. His pen name was Kakinko, based off of a drawing he made of his pet cat that he had when he was a child.

It was a grey fluffy cat that would lay across his shoulders like a scarf, it was an extremely soft cat since Karl made the utmost effort to keep it as clean as possible while brushing its fur, but it was run over by an angry drunk driver who didn't like cats when it had been hunting a mouse on the road.

After the cat had been hit, the drunk driver swerved to the side of the road and hit a tree, where he died instantly due to a branch that pierced his brain. You could say it was karma. When the next morning arrived, Karl was heading to school when he saw his cat laying in the middle of the road, dead.

Undoubtedly, he was scarred from this event, which is why he didn't go to school for a week straight, it was also when he found how out good he is at drawing. Picking up his first pencil, he cried while drawing pictures of his cat Kakinko, because it was such a lifelike drawing.

Back to the situation with Kris and Karl, Kris had started removing the bathrobe, but Karl ignored her, went to the shared bathroom, and took a lukewarm shower. Kris tried to join him, but he locked the door, so she regretfully went back to his room, and tucked herself under his fluffy blanket while watching videos on her phone.

Finishing up with his shower after ten minutes, Karl studied until 11:00 at night, while Kris got her laptop from her own bedroom, and then studied herself. Just because she was hot and flirted a lot didn't mean that she wasn't a hard worker, she was also extremely smart, just like Karl.

Kris was studying to be a surgeon, but not a specific type of surgeon that only specialized in a one or two types of surgeries, she was studying to be an all round surgeon. Someone who would be able to perform dozens of different types of surgeries being the head surgeon.

As soon as the clock struck the 11 PM mark, Karl closed his workbooks, put on a pair of shorts, and went to bed with his back to Kris, who then proceeded to spoon with him after she was sure he had fallen asleep.

Entering his dream, Karl had a dream that the world was in ruin, not many people survived, and that he had also not survived. Or so he thought. Screams had been echoing all around him, with people being killed left and right, but he was just a pale skeleton watching, without being able to do anything.

Days passed like this, he was just stuck watching as monstrous creatures killed people, and then he died by a recurring nightmare that he has been having for his entire life. In a pitch black space, Karl was playing with a small invisible thing that weighed a few pounds, he rolled it around a few times before there was suddenly some huge "thing" that just appeared out of nowhere, and he died by being crushed.