Chapter One
By: queermosexticle
I awoke in a haze, strange colors and odd smells all around me. Muffled yelling and cheering from all directions, but nothing seemed right about this. Last I recall I was eating breakfast with my family, but this was not my family's house, and this was not breakfast.
A robotic voice boomed into my head. She was shrill and unwanted, but I could not force her out.
"Welcome to Sweet Day. Here you will be collecting…" She kept going on and on, but I could not handle her voice, so I tried to drown her out. Where was I? Why was everything so colorful? What was with the cheering?
My mind was racing with all these maddening thoughts. I started to feel myself over to make sure no organs or limbs were missing. Nothing was missing from what I could tell. That was when I realized I was in some weird costume with a light, helmet-like piece on my head. What weird contraption had gotten on to me? There was a loud whistle and my vision returned to me. People in odd animal suits running around grabbing these weird colorful balls surrounded me. I felt compelled to run with them and just grab all the balls I could from these trees.
The crowds all around me were roaring and screaming as we dashed about for their apparent amusement. I kept grabbing the balls and throwing them in my helmet contraption on top of my head. I just knew I had to collect them. I was getting somewhere when I collected these orbs of light and color. A man dressed in a blue elephant costume raced past me screaming. In his dust trail were two more people, these ones with giant eating utensils, charging at me.
I tried to run, but they were too fast and they tackled me to the ground. I could feel myself leaving this plane of existence. All the lights, colors, and sounds of the world were fading away from me. In that moment, I knew I was dead. Tears streamed down my face as the darkness surrounded me. I wept for hours, never knowing what was going to happen to me. Then I heard a voice calling to me.
"Mo, you have to wake up!"