Prologue

The War Zone

Amalia was sitting with her team, they were hiding below the bridge on the Graveyard; they knew they had six hours to reach the safe zone, it was the Squads competition that started at 3PM and had a duration of six and half hours; every hour, the map would shrink, and it would show the player the zone where the goal was located, the objective was simple "the last team standing, would be the winner; and a second rule was anything goes"

The name of the show was Fortnite and it was a smash hit around the world; many countries would send their teams, which could be as big as four or as little as two; on the competition different teams could create alliances to overpower more experienced players, but at the end whenever they reach the goal zone they would have to fight to see which was the last one standing.

You are probably wondering, why this game became so popular worldwide? That even Yotube secured the exclusive rights to stream it; the answer is simple "it was a battle royale, where the players would have to collect weapons and kill each other" People were going crazy for such idea, such idea that they never saw before. You are probably wondering what is the prize? US$10 Million dollars!

It was insane, but due an economic crisis in 2008 that the world never recovered, US$10 Million dollars was more than enough to set anyone for life and countries around the world started to gather their teams to participate in the deathmatch. Amalia's team only consisted in three people, counting her. The other two where two other players who joined her by a lottery selection as she was one of the players who wasn't sponsored by any government or corporation.

The waiting area was an adjacent island from the main island, there were two adjacent islands who acted as landing docks but on this round of the Fortnite, only one was being used. A plane was transporting the 100 players that their main goal was to jump on a parachute, find weapons and kill each other. Such an easy ordeal, yet it came with the implication would you kill someone for money? And the answer was yes, the world saw for the first time in 2021 that people would kill other people for a ridiculously sum of money, let's face it "everyone has a price on their heads".

"We are in Haunted Hills" Said Amalia to Souza, the only guy on her team. He was around in his late 20's maybe early 30's? He said he was from Minas Gerais and that he lived with his parents and sibling, he passed the preliminaries in Brazil with 10 other people that he knew they were going to compete on the Fall Season of the year, but he got designated to participate sooner than the others.

"Did the satellite finally showed the designated area?" He asked with some nervous on his voice.

"No, at least not yet" Amalia was in her mid-40's, she was one of the oldest competitors on the game, her motivation to go as she described "to feel the thrill of being alive, whenever danger was lurking in every corner. She had one daughter, but her baby daddy was completely absent up to the point she didn't knew anything about him for 10 years; besides her daughter her only other relatives were her parents.

There was silence in the Haunted Hills, the location of the graveyard; Amalia wasn't to happy to stay in one spot, especially on that was at the border of the map and she knew being on that position could be an elimination by default, but they still had another 45 minutes before they had to start to go on the run.

The last member of the team was a small lady named Alexa, they didn't know too much about her, except she seemed to be comfortable with Barret REC7 type rifles, she had black hair and a look that made her pass by a 16 years old girl; albeit neither Amalia and Souza were sure how old she was. She was standing on the top of the graves, looking for any other ambushers.

Suddenly, she shot into the horizon. Amalia and Souza quickly pointed to her where they were looting, she ran as quickly as she could. Another team was approaching to the graveyard.