'Strange,' he thought.

The boy felt something not right in his mind, especially when sleeping. Whenever he dreamt of something, there were times that the fantasies that he wished to imagine were not there. They were like replaced by one thing, a realm full of darkness. He dreamt it like he was in reality, thinking that he might be in an alternate universe where humanity was nearly extinct and only a few remained. Whenever a few hours had passed, he felt a while light surrounding as he was sent back to the real word, seeing himself back at his bed, feeling like he just woke up. Whenever he woke up, he always checked his clock to see it being morning.

From his past nights when he dreamt of this, he explored the barren wasteland in hoping to find anyone who would help him in finding the answer to why he had this kind of dream. After like an hour of two, not even a single life form was found.

One time, he lay down on the ground, sighing as he looked at the gray sky. Believing that his hope was lost to him, he wished to die in his sleep. It was then; he felt a presence as he turned his face to his right to see a girl who looked to be in the same age as him in between sixteen to eighteen years old. She was wearing a black bikini top, mini black shorts with a belt, high knee black boots, and a long black jet jacket with a hood. The jacket had a white star on the left. She was holding a sharped katana and a giant cannon on her other hand. The girl was staring at him with a curious, yet unexpressive face.

Feeling that she could be either a bad guy or a good guy or just neutral, he closed his eyes, readying himself for whatever the girl would do. He felt his right hand was touched warmly. He opened again his eyes to see the girl trying to get him up. The boy was confused, but he let himself to get up as the girl removed her hold of his hand. He was starting to feel shaky like he just recently got out from a freezer.

"Hi." The girl greeted.

"W-who are you?" the boy asked in fear.

Still in her emotionless state, she took a step closer to him as she whispered in his ear, "Black Rock Shooter."

Because of this 'Black Rock Shooter' being so close to him, he took a few steps back as he feared that she was only delaying his demise. He needed to run away, like right now. He took three steps back as the girl stepped forward. As she was about to say something, he began running like a chicken, but not screaming like one all the way due to losing his sanity.

"I believe that I'm not the only human left in the world, but I sure do feel like she's one of those survivors from a game that I played," he said to himself, "Doing whatever it takes to survive."

"Come on, the light should surround me soon to get off this nightmare!" He screamed mentally.

As he continued running to nowhere, he heard a sound coming from behind along with an earthquake. He turned around to see a bluish shockwave approaching him quickly in without a second hit him. He closed his eyes as he braced for impact. He could only hear an eerie sound that one would be able to find in a hospital. After a moment, his hearing went back to normal. He opened his eyes to see Black Rock Shooter being closed to him again. This time, she was holding both of his hands, unable for him to move and instead of that neutral look, it was replaced with a frown.

"I'm sorry…"

From those words, they swirled around his head like he heard that kind of quote from before. Little could he remember, it was from a past memory with someone, but with whom?

Black Rock Shooter did the next thing that caught him unexpectedly. She hugged him as she wrapped her arms around his back. The boy was surprised and at the same time blushed by her action. He thought she was finally going kill to him or kill him for running away from here, but instead, he received an apologetic hug from a stranger that he just met.

'Wow, she's kinda soft…' he thought to himself.

The boy embraced her back and told her that she didn't need to apologize. He felt her hug being tightened as she whispered again to his ear, but he couldn't hear it clearly as he felt the light surrounding him, signaling that he was about to return to reality. The last thing he saw from the girl was that she looked at him with a smile and caressed his cheek before fading away.

As the light subsided, he looked to see himself in his bed, light pouring at the side of it as morning arose. What did the girl said to him? Sighing, he got off from his bed to prepare for school.