Beginning

Jessica slowly opens her eyes, still a little dazed, she could feel pain all over her body, she felt blood running down her face. She looks around the room, her vision vague, she feels an unbearable burning pain in her ring finger, she slowly looks up, as her neck hurts as if it was broken, she notices a man sitting on the chair opposite the table, the man looked a bit in his late 30s, he had a tall complexion, but the room was too dark and her vision was too blurry to get a prefect sense of the situation in hand, The man, drinking tea from a black cup takes a sip, when he realizes that Jessica has woken up, he slowly puts the cup on the table and leans forward: "Good morning... uhh... I haven't caught your name yet... what was it? Jerrica?" he says in a cold deep voice as he rises from his seat, takes a cup of water and splashes it directly into Her face

Jessica's senses slowly return as the freezing cold water splashes all over, she gasps for air as she slowly realizes what is going on, trying to process what was going on she looks around the room breathing heavily. there were chains attached to the glass ceiling, the glass was supposedly one way, there were dry stains of blood on the walls and floor, the place was reeking of rot and rusty old iron, there were rather looking old equipment all over the plays, pliers, saws, batons, needles etc. she sees that she is tied to a chair, her clothes are torn or rather burned from a few places and there is blood and wounds all over her as she sits, bounded to the chair. She Feels an unbearable pain in her ring finger, it feels like her fingers have been chopped off and the rest of her hand is burning, she looks over to her left hand, to her surprise there was nothing like what she had imagined, her hand was perfectly fine, tied to the arm of the chair, the only thing different was unlike rest of her body parts, the left arm was tied with chains instead of ropes, but as she Looks at her ring finger, She is shocked to see a strange shaped ring with It looked rather old, like an antique, It had a rather odd design, Lines made of gold at the ends with small and a Long thick black line in the middle the black part looked like polished gem, steam came from the Skin touching the ring, as a very faint sizzling sound could be heard from it, the borders of the part of the skin attached to the run looked burnt, like the ring was 'branded' into the skin

Her eyes widen in horror at the sight, she struggles in an attempt to get free from the ropes she is bound to, "Now now... calm down, we cant get those off until we have a conversation about.... the situation in hand, Furthermore i do not intend to hurt you or anything so you can take a chill pill" The man speaks again but this time, in a rather.. friendly tone

 Are you kidding me? Where the hell am i, this looks like something straight out of a movie, what the hell am i supposed to do....i...i need to think She thought to herself.

she looks up to face the man, in the dark pitch black room, his face wasn't much visible, She decides to speak again "w-who are you?...where am-" She is immediately cut off by the man "Yea i know what you want to ask who am i, where are you why are you here what i want, but... right now that does not really matter... it doesn't matter who am i... what matter is... who are you?" Jessica is left speechless, she didn't understand one word what the man was talking about "W-what do you mean?.." She says, her voice filled with fear He looks at her dead in the eye for a second without saying a word, "I don't know... i was trying to look a bit cool there" He says with a soft chuckle along with his words, Jessica looked at him , "Are you a dumbass? who the heck are you? and where the hell am i? What happened to Suzie!.. a...and all the others at the cafe?!" She spoke, her voice filled with frustration and a bit anger

"I really wouldn't be shouting if i was you ya' know... i would rather save what little of energy i am left with" He says as he takes out a cigarette out of his pocket, lights it and sits back on his chair "W-would you just answer already? where the hell am i? what happened to the others?!" She says as he struggles yet again to undo her bounds. "You are in one of the interrogation cells of the world government, that is why we have all this... 'stuff' lying around here" He says as he takes a drag from his cigarette and looks a bit around the room "now don't worry we didn't do 'this' to you, and we do certainly have the resources to hell that much damage on hand, all we need is your corporation now". Jessica looks puzzled at his words, "what do you mean corporation?" she says, her voice filled with suspicion. The man puffs out smoke in the air "ok, so lets get to the details..." He looks up at the ceiling, They could not see outside but whoever was on the other side could defiantly see them "what are the details again?" Suddenly his ear piece, which he apparently had in his ears the whole time makes a buzz noise as he taps on it "hmm... yea...mhm.. got it... yea cool...do i really look like the kind of dude who would be any help in this situation?..... the hell do you mean i was the nearest the others could have easily gotten here by now!... huh? don't you dare put it down don't you da-" *the man keeps looking at the ceiling, possibly in irritation, he takes a deep breath as he looks back at Jessica "yea...so...", "are you really such a clown or are you trying to be one right now?" Jessica cuts him off even before he could say a few words the man looks her dead in the eye, it was obvious he took that seriously

"Mhmm... So 2 or 3 days some ago, There was a series of terrorist attacks on many major cities and parts of world New York, Okayama, London, Mumbai, many parts of California were targeted and other major cities too, Unlike your stereotypical "terrorist movement" this one was... rather strange, They were a group of commoners who were forcefully put in private aircrafts and made to crash at the targeted cities, in theory, there was one ring user among each group who released a set of many many rings into the area, potentially trying to create a "ring-hazard" and trying to make a dent in the world order, what were they trying to achieve? maybe they wanted members to join them?... or did they targeted one single person and did it all over the world just as a decoy? no one knows, this whole situation may sound dumb to you, but... Jessica, you were caught in one of such attacks and you 'awakened' as a ring bearer now, that shinny beautiful ring on your left hand, is it" The man says with a straight face, seemingly unfazed about all the situation and with a look of not caring one bit about anything... Jessica couldn't believe her ears she looks at the man, her eyes wide from the shock "h-huh?.." She mutters under her breathe.. perhaps that was all she could manage to mumble out at the moment

The man sighs as he spoke again "And after considering the world's safety and maintaining the world order, the higher ups.. or what you all call the emperors have decided that every poor soul like you who got caught in this mess shall be presented with two options- either join us or get executed two simple choices", Jessica couldn't believe her ears she looks at him in panic "e-execution? i am just a kid... w-what trouble can i possibly cause to the emperors! why should i die when i didn't even ask to get... this ring of yours?!" she says, her voice filled with fear, The man shrugs at her words as he takes a drag from his cigarette and speaks "well... i don't make the rules ya' know furthermore you can join us as a official ring user and make use of this.. power of yours", There is a moment of silence in the room Jessica looks down at herself puzzled as the man just stares at her after a few moments the man finally breaks the silence "ahh and just so you know that blonde friend of yours have agreed to our terms, if that helps in your decision", Jessica looks at the man then back at her finger looking at the ring and looks back at the man before speaking again "will you kill me if i don't agree to your 'terms'?"

The man chuckles a bit as he speaks "that is what i said didn't i?"...

 "also not my terms, you make it sound like i am some kidnapper" he mumbles under his breathe

"Will i live if i agree?" she asks looking straight in the man's eyes, the man cracks his neck as he speaks in a rather irritated tone "yea that is what it all sums up to? so what will it be? ag?" Jessica stays silent for a moment as she thinks about what could possibly go that bad? nothing could be worse than dying right? as she thinks she looks at her body, the ring, and then at the man before speaking again "o-ok....i agree to whatever terms you got, i... i will join you", The man yawns as he throws the cigarette butt on the ground "Ahh sweet, well then lets get you patched up" He taps his earpiece "yea bring them in" as he speaks a few second later the door of the room opens and a few people come inside, they all were wearing same clothes, probably uniforms, they had their faces covered with masks and gloves on their hands, they also had rings on their arms which were gloving through the gloves, they surround her and in the span of a few seconds the pain in her body slowly fades away as her wounds start to heal leaving a few very very fain scars

The man stands up and walks out of the door "open her up" he commands, as the women in the group come forward and start to undo the ropes, one of them opens the chain on her left arm, they help her stand up as one of them whispers in her ears "move", they take her to the door and gesture her to start walking, she looks at the people, then at the man who was walking Infront of her now, she starts walking, she doesn't look back at the people or the room, she just follows the man. After like a minute of walking, the long hallway seemed to come an end, there was a very old rust iron door at the end, the man takes out a card out of his pocket and places it into the slot, but nothing happens "ah come on" The man kicks the door trying to make it work "just how many years has this thing been left without maintenance" he kicks the door again as this time the card goes in and makes a beep sound, and the door is unlocked, He pushes to door open. Jessica covers her eyes as bright white light enters the hallway, she slowly squints her eyes and look at the opened door, there was a huge white hall the place felt like a huge luxurious mansion's meeting hall there were glass windows and a lot of lighting unlike the hallway and the room earlier, as she looks at the place in awe, she sees a familiar face, far into the empty huge hall, a feeling of ease sets in her chest as she realizes, it was Suzie