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Ugh...my head...where am I?" Martes scanned his surroundings and felt that this wasn't his home.
"Home? wait...?"
"NOOOOOO!!!" I remembered everything, the pain from my mother dying till the end when someone killed my monster father, I understood why he killed my father and it was completely reasonable. Yet it still hurts that I understand but could do nothing but watch again...
"Why do I lose things that I love so much so early...? Is this my curse? Why...? I was a fool even in this life how could I let myself live when I failed all of you, if only I was strong enough I could have...No...not this feeling again! Not this again! AAAAGGGGHHH!"
"STOP SHOUTING, YOU PEST!" A man with a mask pulled out a whip from his suit and started whipping my back, it made my skin bleed but somehow I didn't feel much pain from it due to my mind already breaking from the trauma that I had. Yet I stop, I didn't want to die again, I wanted to live as I did in my past life...when I composed myself the whipping stopped and I was left again with silence and a bleeding back.
'Where am I? I'm sure that people don't randomly carry a whip and torture a child...? ugh...' I thought that it was absurd, I knew I already died. A puncture to the solar plexus was nothing to scoff at as many nerves are connected there yet by a miracle I came unscathed even when I check my body. I only had a huge scar in the middle but no wounds. I died and I knew that something save me...but without any evidence of how...I should make sure to stay alive for now.
'Is this a slave encampment?' I didn't linger on something that won't help me in my situation so I thought that if I wasn't transferred to a hospital, then I was abducted when I was unconscious by an illegal organization.
'I suspected it to be the case but without evidence, I could only make assumptions...' I scanned my surroundings and found nothing but a small patch of hay on the floor.
'I guess I have to wait and see for now.'
Inside the room, I found myself trapped. I noticed that there is only one air passageway and light source and that is the small opening at the sturdy metal door.
"Get up." It was the first word I heard in my three hours of waiting here.
My body was aching when I tried to get up, he had already opened the door and was waiting for me. I walked to him in haste, I didn't want to be whipped again.
"Do not speak to anyone while you are here, only follow our orders and you will not be killed." I nodded.
Going outside I noticed that I was in a corridor where the walls had been smoothed out in shining brilliance, a testament to whoever made this was outrageously skilled or they had special machinery.
'Light bulbs littered the area bringing a feeling like how I visited someone I know in jail, maybe this was a jail? I didn't know.' I thought.
Arriving outside of the jail-like corridor, I was introduced to a field where many children were lined up, they all wore fear in their faces.
'So any hope of escaping this place is impossible unless I brutally forced myself into the exit which is unlikely as I saw a lot of masked guards standing by with katanas and other hidden weapons they might have stashed away in their suits.' I memorized and explored with my eyes every crook and cranny I could in my view and deduced that it was hard to escape this place without any sort of planning or an opportunity like a monster attacking this place.
"This is the place you will train in until you graduate or the last place you will draw your breath, the strong will strive here and the weak ones will be weeded out." The masked man said with his hissing voice.
"Do not hope of escaping this place for it is a futile endeavor, there hasn't been anyone who had escaped this place before as they've died while clashing with us."
"It is kill or be killed. This is our motto." He threw a kunai at my face however I reacted quickly by ducking a little, yet that didn't spare me from being kicked in the face as he followed up, leaving me rolling on the field where the children stared at me for a while before ignoring me once they didn't see me as someone they know.
'This place could help me grow stronger, so I need to stay low-key because if not I could get experimented once they found that I am basically immortal in some way.' I thought and mimicked the set of movements my peers performed.
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3 days later.
I trained myself, developing my body where it ached a lot. I had trouble sleeping because of that yet I knew some techniques from my previous life on how to maximize my sleep when my environment was uncomfortable and that helped me have more energy than my other peers who through sheer will slept uncomfortably.
Three days of training was hell when we had to do it consistently because if not we would get punished with whipping if ever we make even a small grunt. Coupled with the fact that the food we had were tasteless and there was no sort of social interaction. Some of the children already became crazy or hopeless in this place, suicide was their way out but for the strong, they endured for a bit and became stronger.
I made a few assumptions about how I could leave this place, yet it's becoming harder as the days go on. If I really wanted to leave this place alive, I had to grow stronger. But someone strong won't be enough... I need to find someone with the same intentions as me and only by then, we could plan how to get out of this place, yet in a place like this...I could trust no one, so I expect they would in some way betray me in the middle or in the end.