In a world among worlds with a red sky and black clouds, destroyed buildings and scattered corpses, beasts running between buildings and roads. A destroyed world where human life is barely existent, and in the middle of this world, a boy was found on one of the mountains, fallen to the ground among soil and rocks. A boy wearing dirty white clothes, bald-headed, his face appearing to be around 17 years old.
After an unknown period of unconsciousness, he awakened quietly and began looking around, left and right. What is he doing here? Who is he? Several minutes passed as he stood motionless in his place with a face devoid of any expressions. But suddenly he decided to step forward and move as if he had received an order to do so.
He advanced between the broken mountain paths in an organized manner as if searching for something. After several minutes had passed while he was advancing, he found a strange creature with a pale color and red eyes, with a face devoid of emotions, feeding on one of the dogs whose entrails were scattered on the ground.
The boy felt danger and hid behind one of the large rocks in the place, watching the creature from behind the rock. But then he began to hear a voice in his head telling him to kill the creature. He looked around carefully and found a pointed iron rod with a sharp edge thrown far from him.
The boy looked toward the creature to find it still eating the dog and unaware of his presence, so he seized the opportunity and began walking slowly toward the iron rod. After reaching it, he grabbed it quietly and headed toward the imminent danger without making a sound. In the blink of an eye, he stabbed the creature in its head, leaving its head bleeding profusely, and continued advancing according to the voice's commands in his head.
After an hour of walking, he reached the edge of the road. The boy looked down the cliff to see that the ground was extremely far below and he couldn't descend. After that, the boy heard the voice in his head commanding him to turn around and search for a way to descend. At the same time, he began hearing the sound of footsteps rapidly approaching him.
He turned quickly with expressions of surprise and shock filling his facial features to find the strange creature he had previously stabbed was still alive, coming toward him at maximum speed with an open mouth full of blood. Before the boy could react, the creature collided with him and dropped both himself and the boy toward the cliff.
During their fall, the creature tried to attack the boy, attempting to bite him with its mouth while gripping him tightly by his shoulders, while the boy kept trying to defend himself by pushing the creature's mouth away from him and striking blows toward it, with expressions of exhaustion and terror clear on his face.
The boy quickly looked back to find himself getting closer and closer to the ground, and at the same moment the boy heard the voice in his head screaming at him with a thunderous voice: "Flip this damn thing! Flip it and make it face the ground!"
The boy looked toward the creature and began pressing hard on its arms and pulled them off his shoulder. With a quick movement, he flipped their positions and put the creature below toward the ground while he went above. After a few moments, both crashed with tremendous force to the ground.
The creature's body was shattered to pieces by the fall while the boy suffered severe wounds all over his body, but he survived because he used the creature as a cushion to soften the impact of the fall. The boy remained fallen on the ground filled with blood and the creature's entrails and his own blood, with a sharp static sound mixed with the voice that had been telling him what to do previously, but this time the screaming voice was gradually fading while the static sound overwhelmed it as the boy slowly lost consciousness.
But before the boy completely lost consciousness, he heard the same voice saying to him in a tone full of anger:
"No, no, no, no, this is not the end. Even if I'm not present, even if I lose track of him, I will contin—" And his voice suddenly stopped, and with it the boy lost consciousness.
Despite the boy's wounds being deep and fatal, they strangely began healing gradually with the passage of much time. After several hours had passed, the boy awakened slowly and began standing on his feet with difficulty while feeling pain throughout his body.
He looked left and right, confused in mind, forgetting the reason behind his presence in this place or what he was doing here in the first place. He was lost in the unknown, surrounded by rocks and dirt with the sound of wind in his ears. With time, the boy decided to advance without a clear goal, just advancing into the unknown without a specific purpose.
After a period of walking, he found a dark cave in front of him. He kept looking toward it with expressions of curiosity on his face, so he went to it. He headed to the cave entrance and took a brief look inside. He couldn't see anything at first because darkness completely covered the place, but he noticed two red eyes in the middle of the cave's darkness staring toward him with eyes thirsting for blood.
The boy didn't know what that thing was, but his instincts warned him of the imminent danger, and in one moment he turned back and decided to flee far from the cave. But before he had the chance to get far away, a semi-human beast pounced on him with hands bearing huge claws and two red eyes that instilled feelings of dread and fear, with extremely green skin color.
It delivered a quick blow to the boy's head, causing him to fall to the ground unconscious, thus becoming the new beast's prey. The beast prepared to devour him, but unexpectedly, the sound of a car was heard from afar. The beast quickly turned to his right to find a car with a front covered in pointed spikes speeding toward him, and before he could make any movement, the car collided with him, the spikes penetrating his body and spreading his blood everywhere.
The boy slowly opened his eyes to find a man in gray clothes and hat with green eyes getting out of the car. The man headed toward the creature and began looking at it for some time before turning and noticing the boy fallen on the ground.
The man quickly headed toward him and said in amazement: "What is this? Is he alive? He's still breathing, he's still alive! Stay with me, friend, don't lose consciousness. I'll help you, just hold on a little."
The boy closed his eyes, falling to the ground. The man quickly carried him and put him in the car with expressions of shock and concern filling his face.
(End of Chapter)