A/N Shelter! Shelter as in Shelter the short anime film. Anyways, this is a TWO-SHOT that's about Rin from Shelter and a lot of other anime. You don't have to watch all these animes in order to understand this story and there won't be any spoliers. If you've watched the Short Anime film called "Shelter" sang by Porter Robinson & Madeon then you should be able to understand this story since is mostly focused on Rin's POV, although sometimes it will move to Third Person's POV. If you haven't seen Shelter, I highly suggest you do, It's only 6 minutes and trust me it's so worth your time.
For those who are asking, why this is a Sword Art Online crossover? People who are using phones will not be able to see it but you should take a look at the cover image of this story.
I was inspired to write this because I just loved "Shelter". It was just so good. The ending was so sad and heart warming. I decided to write a fanfic about it, giving Rin a happy ending because it definitely deserves one. This story takes place right after Rin receives the message. I do warn you, the plot may not be that good though. I'm really bad when it comes to thinking about a plot. This story may not be as sad and heart-warming as the original video, I just really wanted give an happy ending. Anyways, I hope you enjoy and I hope I don't disappoint you (Probably will though)
Disclaimer: I do not own "Shelter" or any other Anime that is involved in this Story.
*You have 1 new message*
The number one appeared on the top left hand corner of the message icon. I slowly placed my index finger and tapped it. A screen appeared on the top of the tablet showing a series of words. A message. The message reads.
To: Rin
From: Dad
There was just so little time left after you were born. I don't know how much love I managed to pour into raising you after your mother died, but your smile kept me going. I would have liked to come with you but I couldn't. I want you to forget everything and move on. I knew you'd be alright. But you'll get lonely and remember I know you'll always grow strong and read this letter someday. I really wish we could have spent more time together. I'm sorry. you were so young back then, too young to understand what they meant. So let me repeat my final words to you.
"Even if those memories make me sad,"
"I've got to go forward, believing in the future."
"Even when I realise my loneliness,"
"and am about to lose all hope,"
"those memories make me stronger."
Everything that was dark around her suddenly turned into bright skies. She laid down on a patch of grass sitting on her knees, Crying.
"I'm not along..."
"Because of you."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Arigato"
Rin's Room
I slowly opened her eyes. I found myself in my bedroom again. Everything was the same, nothing changed. Nothing will ever change. But even then, the day continues on. This world, the world I live in and own. I looked at the ceiling and asked myself a question that I hasn't asked in a while.
What will become of me from now on?
It's been a while since I thought about that. Maybe... it was because I forgot how to think at all. I stood up from my bed and check my tablet like how I would everyday.
*No messages since yesterday*
I sigh. But I'm not lonely. I'll never be lonely. It doesn't bother me at all. It'll never bother me, no matter how long it'll be. I'm not alone... thanks to you.
I take in a deep breath... and begin the day.
I stood up in my room as the wall start to disappear into pixels until the room was just a glass box with black borders. The furniture including the bed was still there. I sat back on the bed, took the tablet, pressed the button I would press everyday. As I pressed the button, a holographic pen appeared. I placed my hand over my chin and think about what I should draw today.
I should start with a... mountain. I place the pen on the tablet and start drawing. As I draw I can feel the mountain creating itself behind me. I decide the mountain should look weird today, the mountain would stand on only one pillar for support and there would be random pieces of rocks pointing in random direction. I turn around and looked at my creation.
There's something missing
Should it be brown? Mountains are brown and made out of rocks right? I shrug off that thought and tried to search for an idea. How about blue?
I rubbed out the colour of the mountain. As I do this, the strange looking mountain's colour started to deplete and now it was just plain white. I change the colour of the pen and started colouring the mountain. When I'm done, I look up and see my creation. Okay now it's just looks too weird. I laugh at myself, I want to create something unique and interesting but this was just odd. I quickly delete the mountain.
What should the background be? Maybe... a forest. I place my pen back on the tablet and star drawing again. I feel the terrain creating itself around me and I can almost smell the trees around me. Of course, I can't actually smell anything nor can I feel anything. I wonder why? I remember asking myself that once, but I quickly shrugged the question off because... you know.
Anyways, what should I add to this forest. Maybe... a mountain. Do mountains exist in forest? Who knows. I'll try and see what it looks like. I place my pen on the tablet once again and start drawing. A mountain forms itself in the middle of the water. I place a hole inside the mountain and draw something inside the mountain. Suddenly, water sprouted out of the hole that was created, making a waterfall. It looked pretty. But maybe it should be a little over to the right. I placed my pen onto the mountain and dragged the picture a little to the right.
As I do this. The mountain picked itself up and moved over the right. Perfect. Next I should add rivers. I draw a couple of rivers over here and over there. It's funny, I couldn't feel anything nor could I smell anything... but i could hear. I could hear the river's flowing water and the blankets rustling against the bed when I move. Isn't hearing one of the senses, there were five sense touch, hear, see, smell and taste. I couldn't taste anything, there wasn't really anything to taste anyways, I couldn't smell anything, I couldn't feel anything. But I could hear and see. Those were the five sense, I know that... Dad taught me.
Anyways, what else should I add? I get up from my bed and walk towards my creation.
Outside
In no time I'm inside a forest walking through the tall tress. Flowers, I should add flowers, it would make the place look more... more... I don't know, I just was to add flowers. I start drawing on my tablet, I drew yellow flowers, pink flowers and red flowers. I looked up from my tablet and looked. Ah, they looked so pretty when they were bunched up together like that.
Maybe I should add vines. Do trees have vines? Who knows. I try and see what it looks like. I draw green vines on the trees and look up to see what it looks like. Not bad... I wonder if I could swing on them. The tree branches were too high up, so I used a pillar of rock to lift me upwards.
I like being up high. I can see everything from high up here. The view would never get old.
I stepped on one of the branches, I grabbed a vine with my right arm and hold my tablet in my left arm. I slowly take a step forward. My feet let go of the tree branch and I start to swing through the trees. As I swing through the forest I get this feeling. I couldn't find the word to explain, it felt... I don't know.
Suddenly my hand slips off the vine and I start falling. Maybe it was because I held the vine with only one hand. I fell from the vine and landed gently on the grass. I didn't feel anything, it was like I was landed on nothing.
I get up and look back at my tablet. Okay... let's make things more interesting. I could create trees with no leaves and they would have glowing cube things on the branches... wait I already did that. Did I? Hard to tell. I think I have done that before.
...
What if... everything was made out of blocks. The trunks of the trees, the leaves, the mountain, the ground... what if all that was made out of blocks. I place my pen on the tablet again and start editing on my work.
Everything around me starts changing around me. Just like how I imagine, everything turned into blocks. It looked cool, it looked better then I expected it to be. The look at the trees around me. The trunks of the trees were now in straight lines and the leaves of the trees were bunched up together into blocks of leaves. I looked at the mountain, the mountain was all blocky but other then that it looked pretty much the same. The water was still flowing but in a blocky way. Blocky was the only word I could find.
I explore my new creation. I wonder if I could make the blocks float in mid air. I place my pen on the tablet and place two brown blocks on top of each other. I remove the block on the bottom and sure enough, the second block floating. I climb onto the floating block and sat on it, thinking about what I should do next.
I yawned. Was it time to sleep already. Maybe I was just tired. Who knows, Sometimes these days would go by like seconds. I don't it really mattered when I slept. I usually slept when I felt like it. Maybe I should start heading back.
Then, I saw... "It". It was some sort of block. It was hard to explain what the block looked like. It was an orange colour with a diamond pattern to it. On each side of the block was a white square panel with nine different lights (A Command Block).
I looked back at my tablet. I didn't put that there... Out of curiosity, I slowly walk towards the mysterious block. The more closer I walked the more it looked... odd. I'm right in front of the block now. It's floating. Should I touch it? What's the worse that could happen? I slowly reached my hand towards the block... and touched it.
Suddenly, images flashed through my line of vision. Images I didn't recognised nor can described. Hundreds images flashed through my mind... but only one image made sense to me. I saw the number 7.
Rin's Room
My eyes flew open. I was in my bed, my room. Everything was the same... nothing changed. At this point, I'm completely confuse, this has never happened before. I don't remember going back to bed yesterday. Or was it still today? I lay on my bed, thinking about what just happened. Ever since I got that message from my dad I've been thinking a lot more then I usually do.
I remember my tablet. I quickly searched my bed and was relieved to find in under the blankets. I open the tablet and check my message
*No messages in 2 days*
So it really was the next day. It's strange, I didn't remember going to bed yesterday. Something seemed...different which was weird since everyday was suppose to be the same. I would wake up bed with no one around. Just me in my room. I turned my head to the right and hugged my pillow
It was odd. I couldn't really feel anything but there were small things I could feel. Like my bed, Every time I was on my bed feeling my giant pillow. I felt something, I felt... comfortable or something like that.
I let out a big yawn. All this thinking was making my mind hurt. Maybe I need a bath. Yeah, maybe that's what I need. I need to relax for a moment. I go the settings on the tablet and changed the room into a bathroom like what I would always do.
The bath was already prepared for me, I could see the steam coming from the hot water. I remove my clothes and neatly folded them, placing them on one of the bathroom counter. While still holding my tablet, I entered the bath. Again it was odd, Like my bed and pillow, I could physically feel the hot water against my skin. It felt... relaxing. It was like, everything inside this box was specially designed... for me.
As I bath in the nice relaxing hot water. I stare at my tablet thinking about what happened yesterday. Half of the screen was underwater, only the top bit was visible. But I wasn't really focusing on it. I mind was mostly thinking about yesterday. It was exactly like when she recieve that message from her father, but something about this seemed different.
I decided to ignore what happened since I probably wasn't going to get an answer. The more I think about it, the more I'll be curious.
After who knows how long. I jump out of the bath, dry myself, put my clothes back on, change the settings of the room and took out my stylus.
What should I make today? Hmm... I made a forest yesterday... how about a desert? I place the stylus on the tablet and start drawing. I draw what I think a desert looks like. Sand everywhere. Mountains made out of... Rocks or Sand? I think it's sand.
As I draw, the desert forms itself around me. Of course it wasn't a surprise to me since I've seen it millions of times. What do deserts have? Cactus? Do Cactus exist in desert, I think they do, it's hard to remember. Oh well then, I place my stylus on the tablet and start drawing green cactuses in my desert. I look up from my tablet to see whether it looks nice or not... I like it, the green goes good with the desert. What else?
I get up from my bed and head outside the box.
Outside
I walk through the desert and approach on the of cactus that I made. I touched it and felt nothing. Am my suppose to feel something? I'm pretty sure there was this feeling you were suppose to feel when you touch the spikes of a cactus... what was it again? I can't rememberer.
Anyways, what else should I do? What is there to add in a desert. Hmm... is sand always yellow? Maybe, I could change the colour of sand. I'll try that. I grabbed out my stylus and start colouring the sand different colours. Red over here, brown over there, A bit more red, pink all the way over there, Orange here, Gold there, a bit of purple and a bit of green over there. I look up from my tablet and I looked. It looked so pretty, so many colours, almost looks like a...a... what was that word again. You know, that word where lots of colours are combined together. Never mind.
I looked around and think about what I should do next. I want to think about something new, something I haven't thought off but it's hard to do that since I've kinda thought about almost everything by now. Hmm...How about rocks, not ordinary rocks...floating rocks. Yeah, giant pieces of rocks that would just float in the sky.
I place the stylus on the tablet once again and start drawing. I draw the rocks in all shapes and size. Some were small while others look big. Some looked normal while others looked wonky with edges pointing in random direction.
I look up from my tablet and look upwards to see what is looks like. Turned out better then I expected, it's cool having those random pieces of rocks in the air. It fills up the emptiness of the sky.
I decide to stop adding things and spend time on just exploring my creation. I forget to that sometimes, I focus so much on my creations that I forget to explore them. I walk around the landscape. My feet don't feel anything despite me not wearing shoes.
Everything was so pretty. The different colours of the sand, the sand mountains, and the floating rocks. If my eyes could sparkle they would've probably done it by now. It never gets old, no matter how many times I see it.
I start sprinting. I don't know why, I just felt like it. As I ran, I placed my stylus onto my tablet again. A giant pillar of rock appeared below me and lifted me into the air. I loved being in high places, I could see everything from up here. I make a couple more of pillars of rock, I start jumping from one to the other. This was one of my favourite things to do. I would fall down only to caught by another giant pillar of rock.
I lost balance on one of the pillars and fell off. I didn't care, I just let myself fall. as I fell, I felt the same feeling when I swung down the tress on vines. I couldn't described it though. I landed on one of the sand mountains, I roll down the mountain a couple of times before finally coming to a stop. I didn't feel anything though but I didn't care at this point... That was fun. For a moment, I just lay there admiring everything that was around. The things I created.
I yawn, I could feel myself getting tired. I wonder how long it's been? I could've stayed there, on that sand hill. I could've just slept there... but I preferred my bed. My smile turned into a sad sigh, I was once again reminded about the cold reality I live in. I would go to bed, only to wake up in the same place and do the same things. I would repeat this process the day after that... and the day after that. Everyday was the same.
I sigh. I stretched my arms before getting up. I started heading towards the box that laid in the middle of my creation. Then I saw it.
It was some sort of bed. A bed that could only fit one person. In the middle of the desert. (A Hospital Bed). There was a weird machine next to it, it had a black screen with a moving squiggly line through it and it went *Beep* ... *Beep* ... *Beep*... there were also other objects around the bed. Objects I have never seen before.
I looked at my tablet... I didn't put that there.
I hesitantly walk up to the mysterious bed. I stare at it for a moment. After a moment of just standing there, I slowly reached for the bed with my right hand... and touched it.
As soon as I did, images flashed through my line of vision. Like last time, I couldn't recognise nor could described any of the images that were being shown to me. As the images flashed through my vision one after the other, I feel multiple feeling at the same time. I felt, Happy, confuse, scared, and... grateful. Then, I saw... a girl. I wasn't given much time to look at her but from I could tell she had long purplish-black hair. Her eyes were closed and she held two fingers up making a V shape. She was... smiling, smiling happily at me . My vision begins to fade and the last thing I saw was the number 6.
Rin's Room
My eyes flew open. It happened... again. Before I think of anything else, I quickly search for my tablet. When I find it, I open it and check my messages.
*No messages in 3 days*
I stand up from my bed tried to make sense of all this. What does this mean? Who was that girl? Why is this happening? ... the mysterious object was... different this time. Different. A word that I hardly use. Before it was a weird block, now it was some sort of bed.
I stare at the ceiling. Events like this usually happen once in a blue moon. But "It" happened twice in a row. I stand there...thinking, something I've been doing A LOT lately. After realising that standing there thinking about it wasn't going to get me answers, I lay back down on my bed and hug my giant pillow. I wanted to go back to sleep... but I couldn't, I kept thinking about it and I wasn't tired either.
So I lay there for who knows how long. After what seemed like an eternity, I get up from my bed. I need to stop thinking about it, I need to get my mind off all these confusing things. I let out a big sigh... and begin the day.
Once again, I stand in up as the room disappear into pixels until the room was just a glass box with black borders. The furniture including the bed was still there. I lay down on my bed and stare at my tablet.
I press one of the icon and a stylus magically appears in my hand. I put the stylus on my chin, look up and think about what I should make today. I should start small then work my way up. Let's start with... grass. I place my stylus on the tablet and start drawing, after I'm done I think about what I should put on top of the grass field.
That's when it hit me. I've never tried to make building before, have I? That message from my dad reminded me of what buildings look like but I've never made them.
I'm going to try.
I start with a cube. Then I add a door, a roof, windows, a chimney... I think that's it, what else to buildings have? What colour are they? Hmm... I'll colour the door brown, the chimney red, the frame for the windows will be white, the windows itself is obviously see through, the chimney will also be brown and I think the rest of the house orange.
When I complete my drawing, I look up and see what it looks like. It looks... plain.
I get up from my bed and walk towards the house to get a better look.
Outside
I walk up to the house until I'm at the door. I open the door and walk inside the house. As expected there's nothing inside it since I didn't put anything there.
I think about what furniture a house might have. A bed, a closet, a drawer... I start drawing again, I'll put the bed in the corner and a drawer next to it. The closer will be near the bed.
I look up from my tablet to see what it looks like. Hmm... could use a lot more things, it still looks empty. Now that I think about it, don't building have different rooms... yeah they do, a room for the bathroom, a room for the kitchen, a room where you have dinner.
I start drawing again. I draw more squares and boxes. Some were long while others were wide. Some boxes were small while others were big. I stayed with the same colours for now. After I finished drawing all that, I connect the different boxes together making the house bigger. There's way more room now. Let's see... the small one over there will be the bathroom, the room over here could be the living room and this room will be the dinner room. Where should the bedroom go? Wait, If I can remember it right. Don't some buildings have rooms on top of each other, like a second floor.
Maybe the bedroom could be on the second floor. I quickly return to my tablet and draw a second floor. After I'm done, I put the bedroom in one of the empty rooms.
So now the house has a Bathroom, A living room, A dinner room and a bedroom... what else do houses have. Oh yeah, they have those things on the outside of the house like gardens and backyards right?
I draw a couple flowers in the front of the house and a swing in the back of the house. I go the backyard and sit in the tree swing. I push myself on the swing as I think about what else a house might have... Maybe I could... make rooms up. I ran into the house and into one of the empty rooms.
This room could be... the toy room. I place my stylus on the tablet again and start drawing teddy bears, toy trains and toy cars. After that, I go to room to room adding random pieces of furniture. Tables, chairs, counters, windows, and made up things.
When I realised I was running out of room, I decided to make the house bigger. I add more rooms and more floors. I continue to create ideas and objects that I consider... interesting.
After finally finishing everything, I sit down on the couch and rest for a moment. That was fun, maybe later I could create hundreds of building right next to each other like a neighbourhood.
But now I think I'll just explore the house. I already knew what all the rooms looked like but I think enjoyed exploring them like it wasn't me who made the building. Sometimes I would look at one of the strange objects that I made and wonder why I made it. The house is brightly lit with many lights and there's furniture and things everywhere.
It was like going through a maze, I could go left or right or forward or backward or upstairs or downstairs.
I found one of the bedrooms. Each room was different. This room had a bed and another bed right above it. I thought, if you could put houses on top of each other, can't you pet beds on top of each. (Bunk bed). Theirs toys in the left corner of the room and a green drawer next to them. There was a strange cube like object next to the door, something I randomly made. There was a window near the bed that showed the green grass outside. A blue mat in the middle of the room and a poster of a mountain on one of the walls. Last of all, there was a pretty chandelier that brought light to the room.
I sat on the top bed and stare at the ceiling. The bed was nice but I preferred the other one better. Still, it was cool laying on a different bed for once. I yawned. I was getting tired already, time passes so quickly these days.
After a long moment of just laying there, I decided it was time to head back to my real bedroom. I get up from the bed and hit my head on the ceiling, I didn't feel anything though, but it was able to surprise me. Maybe that's why you don't put beds on top of each other.
I climbed down the double bed, take one last look at the bedroom before exiting into the long hallway. I look down the hallway, there's lots of doors, random made up things, windows, drawers, pathways that lead to other place of the house, stairs and even more random objects. But I didn't pay attention to any of that, I was mainly focus on the strange object and leaned against the wall right at the end of the hallway.
It was a small thin board. The top bit had black and white stripes while the rest of the board had numbers and words that I didn't understand. (A Clapperboard)
Did I put that there? Maybe I made it without even noticing. I look at my tablet and back at the strange object. I definitely didn't put that there.
I think about what happened in the last days and debate with myself whether I should go touch it or not. I decided to do it. I mean, the only thing it does is show me a couple of pictures and then it sends me back to bed. I was going to bed so might as well. Who knows, maybe I'll see that girl with the purple hair again.
I walk slowly towards the object. At first I just looked at it, observing the details. There were numbers and the words were way too long to understand. With my tablet in my left arm, I reached for the the strange object with my hand and touch it.
Just like last time, images flashed through Rin's mind. This time, the images were a bit clearer than last time. This time I saw stages, each stage had something different on it, one stage had a kitchen and another had a bedroom. But the one thing that stood out was all the cameras. Cameras everywhere, both big and small. There were wires and objects all over the place. I then realised that the images that were being shown to me weren't random, each image had something to do with the next one. One image after the other, my vision begins to fade and the last thing I saw was the number 5
Rin's Room
I open my eyes. This time I'm more calm than last time. I slowly search for my tablet, taking my time. After I found it under the covers, I check my messages
*No messages in 4 days*
I sigh. I may not be smart but I know some things. First I saw 7, then I saw 6, and now 5. It was obvious by now what "it" is. It's a countdown. But counting down for what? What did all this mean? Did my dad plan this? What's going to happen when it reaches 0?
A dreadful thought hit me. What if it was counting down to my death? The number 5...Maybe the world is telling me that I only have five days left. Am I going to...die.
I shake my head. No, I'm not going to think about that. It's just a guess. My Dad would never let that happen. Who knows, maybe something magical will happen.
I stand up from my bed and stand in the middle of my room.
I needed an answer and I have a feeling that I'm going to get one once the countdown hits 0. All I need to do now is...
Begin the day.
The wall of my room start to disappear into pixels until the room was just a glass box with black borders. I look out the window and look at the empty void that surrounded my room.
I sit back at my bed and think about what I should make today. It's funny, before I would always take my time thinking about what to make. Now I feel a bit pressured and impatient. I wanted to know what happens when the countdown reaches 0.
I take a deep breath to calm myself down. What should I make to today. Hmm... a cave? Have I tried making a cave before, don't know I can't remember.
A cave will do. I take out my stylus and start drawing what I think a cave looks like. The cave forms itself. I looked out the window and only saw darkness. The only thing giving light was the box that had my room in it.
An idea pops up in my head and I start drawing again. I draw shiny icicles on the ceiling of the cave, each icicle gave light. Each icicle was a different colour. Purple, Pink, Green, Yellow, Etc.
I look up and look at all the colourful colours. All these colours combined together... it looks like a ra...what was that word? I can't remember. Anyways, what should I do with the floor. Hmm... how about... water. I could replace the ground with water and see what that looks like.
Once again I start drawing, replacing the entire ground with water. After I'm done, I look up from my tablet and look. Its so pretty. I like how the colourful light from the hanging incles reflect on the water. The reflection on the water looks so beautiful.
I then get an idea. I could create a boat. Yeah, that's what I'll do. After I draw, the boat appears just outside the box that contained my bedroom. The water was flat and calm. But after the small wooden boat appeared and landed, it sent tiny little waves across the water.
I get up from my bed and walk towards the boat
Outside
I step onto the boat. The boat wombles but I was able to maintain my balance.
As soon as I sit down, the boat starts moving by itself. Through the cave filled with colourful icicles. I put my hand in the water as the boat moves forward on water.
I take my hand out of the water and look at it. My hand looks wet but I can't feel it. Strange.
I shrugged off the question, I sit back and relax. The boat continues to move through as I look up at the icicles. I've been doing a lot of more thinking lately. Is it because of the countdown? It is because I actually have an goal? Or is it because of Dad?
None of it made sense. Nothing made sense honestly. I first woke up in this world with no memories... but then I remembered everything. I sigh and sit back up. I look ahead.
There's nothing. Just more water and more cave.
Hmm... what else should I create?
I take out my stylus and draw a piece of land in the middle of the water. Like a mini island. The boat nears the mini Island. I get out of the boat and and walked on the mini island I created.
It's just a big piece of rock in the middle of water. I place my stylus back on my tablet drawing grass making the surface of the mini island... feel softer. It's stranger, I can feel somethings yet I can't other things.
Anyways, what else should I add... a tree. I could add a tree. A tree in the middle of a mini island, in the middle of water. Maybe it'll look nice.
I draw a tree in the middle of the island. It's a normal average looking tree with a very thick trunk. I look up from my tablet. It looks cool but I wonder what it looks like from far away.
I walk back to the boat. As soon as I sit down, the boat moves on it's own away from the mini island. Once far enough, I look back at the mini island that had a tree in the middle.
It looked surprisingly normal... well at that's what I think. But it kinda looks lonely. There's only one tree in a patch of grass in the middle of water... while inside a cave.
I look back at my tablet. I place my stylus on my chin and think. Hmm...what else should I add. Flowers? Vines? Hmm... I look up from my tablet and look back at the tree hopping I would get some idea by looking at the tree.
My eye's widened...That wasn't there before. I only looked away for a couple seconds. On the thick trunk of the tree... was a door. A door attached to the front of the tree and it was facing in my direction.
I don't know how long I stood there staring at the door, but I soon realise it must be one of those objects that were appearing out of nowhere. I didn't even need to look back at my tablet to check this time for I knew it must be it.
The boat suddenly starts moving towards the mini island that has the tree, the tree that now has a door attached to it's trunk. It's like the boat can tell what I'm thinking. Putting that aside, the boat has reached the mini island.
I get out and walk towards the tree, the door.
I stop just a few steps away from the door. Now that I think about it, most of the objects didn't combines with my creation, they were just placed there. However, this time the door seemed to be merged with the tree that I created. What does this all mean.
I wasn't going to get answers just standing around. I take in a deep breath to calm myself down. For some reason all of this was making me nervous. The more I move forward the closer I'll be to getting the answer one of my question.
What will happen when the countdown reaches 0?
I move closer to the door and place my hand on the face of the door... but nothing happened. That's strange, usually... wait, maybe I need to...
I look at the door handle
Maybe I need to... I touch the door handle but still nothing happens. I turn the door handle, it's unlocked, and still nothing happens. So it wants me to open it.
I hesitate at first but I then remember. What's the worst that could happen.
I turn the door handle... and open the door. I saw a short glimpse of what was inside before being thrown into a barrage of images. I saw a short glimpse the inside of a house, with furniture and everything. It's similar to the house me and my dad lived in but different.
The flashes of multiple images that were shown to me. The images were clearer then last time. The images were showing me glimpses of the house I saw. For some reason, something about this house seemed special. I saw a short flash of a bathroom, Bedroom, Kitchen, Living Room, Etc.
The last thing I saw was the number 4
Rin's Room
I open my eyes. I'm in my bedroom again. I stare at the ceiling of my room, I wonder how I always end up back here. Do I suddenly teleport back to my room after I pass out or... Nevermind. I sir up and search for my tablet that was hidden under my blanket and check messages.
*No messages in 5 days*
I sigh. That was one thing that didn't change. One thing that stayed the same.
I decided not to waste any more time even though I had all the time in the world. I just can't wait to see what happens. Whether it will be something good or bad... as long as it's something different.
I take out my stylus and look at my tablet. I'm going straight work. Work? That's funny, I called it 'work'. Anyways, if I'm going to get answers then I'll have to keep going, start the day and...
What should I create today?
I think about it for a while
...
I don't know. I place my hands on my head and think harder
...
Still nothing. I can't think of anything. I was having another mind blank. Have I finally run out of ideas.
I start panicking. Normally, I would still be calm but things were different now. Why now of all times?
I take in a deep breath and calm myself down. What would I usually do... Oh yeah that's right.
I press a button on my tablet and suddenly headphones appear in my hands. I wear the headphones and and listen to one and only song that is available.
Classical music, if I remember correctly. This music always helped me relax. Good for thinking.
As I listen, I look at my tablet and think. Hmm... Yesterday I made a cave, an island, a tree...water. Water, the ocean?
I've made rivers and waterfalls before. But how about an ocean. I wonder what it would be like if I went underwater.
I place my stylus on my tablet and draw. The entire floor becomes water and the box that contains my bedroom is floating right above it. I walk up to the glass window of the box and stare at the large body of water that I made.
I take in deep and breath and walk outside.
Outside
As soon as I step outside, I fall into the water. The deep, deep water.
At first I close my eyes. It what a always did when entering water in this world. I would just float underwater and relax in the deep abyss of nothingness.
I open my eyes. I can see clearly even though I'm in water. I can breathe through my nose normally. Besides the fact that i'm floating, it feels no different when I'm on land.
Oh well then, time to go going. I look around the ocean that I created. There's nothing, just water and nothing else.
I'll first start of by adding land underwater so that the ocean has a bottom floor to it. Once that is down, I stand on the floor made of sand. It's funny, I can walk normally like how I would when above water even though I'm underwater right now.
I start walking forward into the endless nothingness of the ocean I created. What should I add to this emptiness.
Plants. Sea Plants. Plants like...seaweed and... That's all I know. What else exists in an ocean? Umm...I'll start with seaweed. Seaweed is green...right?
I place my stylus on my tablet and start drawing. As I draw, the seaweed starts appearing before me. I look up from my table and look... It still looks empty.
But I don't know what else belongs in an ocean. But then again, I can just put in whatever I want right? It's not like anyone is going to judge me.
I'll start by adding a tree. Wow, I really like trees don't I. Anyways, a tree underwater might look weird but I don't what else I should add. I start drawing and the trees appears in front of me. I was about to add grass but then I remember that I'm in water.
Hmm... Crystals! I could add Crystals. I don't know if they exist underwater but it'll still look nice.
I once again place my stylus on my tablet and begin drawing. As I draw, shiny green, red, pink, yellow and blue crystals appear all over the ocean floor, around the tree. I look up from my tablet... it's so pretty and colourful... but what else should I add?
There's a tree in the middle of the ocean floor with lots of colourful crystals around it.
I look up, the bottom floor of the ocean has light but darkness still roams when I look up. Maybe I could add shiny white cubes that just float up around the oceans. That'll add light to the top layer of the ocean.
I start drawing lots and lots of shiny white cubes that give light. I look up and see all the cubes floating around above me. They all looked so natural somehow.
Now what else should I create? ...Now that I think about it, the ocean floor isn't always flat is it?
Oh! I could add hills and canyons. I quickly draw them into my tablet. Let's see, A hill over there, I'll put a small canyon over there, another hill over there, a big canyon over there, a few more over here, hmm...Actually I think I should move that hill over there... no there's too many hills over there, i'll move it over here... no it's too close to a canyon. Hmm... you know what, I'll just delete that hill for now. There's enough hills and canyons anyway.
I look around the ocean that I created. Now it looks way more natural.
It all looks so pretty. All the seaweed, colourful crystals, shiny floating cubes, and of course the random tree in the middle that I just wanted to add...but something is missing. I don't know why but I feel like it's not complete yet.
There's something missing...Hmm... what could it be. Even with all the new things I added, the ocean still seems...empty.
I place my hand on my chin, close my eyes and think...still thinking...thinking...
My eyes open wide as I just realised what was missing. Creatures, aren't there suppose to be creatures living in the ocean? I don't know, I might be wrong.
But one thing caught my curiosity. Creatures... Now that I think about it, I've never created a living thing before. Or have I?
I look back at the tree that I put in the middle of the ocean... no I don't think I have. I walk up to the tree and lean against it.
But... Can I create a living thing? I've never tried it before.
I look at my tablet. But How? Do I just draw a picture of a creature? I'll try that and see what happens... now what sea creature should I create?
I know there are fish and ah... that's all I know. I'll start simple, after all this is a just testing whether it works or not. Fish are blue right? And they have those fin thingies.
I draw the fish on my tablet, this time drawing each detail with care. The eyes, the skin, the colour...I'm finish. Now's the big reveal. I slowly look up from my tablet and face forward.
There is it. The fish. The eyes, the skin, the colour. The fish was actually there, right in front of me. Floating in water.
...I wait for moment to see what it'll do... nothing. The fish isn't doing anything. It's just floating there staring at me. I guess the things I make are just made to stand still and look pretty.
I look back at my tablet and see something I didn't expect to see. On the screen, the fish I drew had new options next to it. A lot of new options, buttons and features around the fish. There were two big words on top of the fish that said-
Biotic Programming
I blink twice and stare blankly at the two words... EH? What's that suppose to mean? I have no idea. I've never heard of these words before. Biotic? Programming? Hmm...
I look at the new options and buttons and around the fish. At first... I have no idea what any of it means. It looked so complicated. But I soon realised it's very simple.
When I first used this tablet. I already knew how to draw, but I learned how to delete things, copy and learn all these useful functions when drawing...because it was shown in a very simple way and easy to learn.
This was the same. All these new functions and buttons around the fish were very simple and easy to read... it just shows how my dad made this world just for me. He made this world just to fit me. It shows how much he loved me... I miss my Dad.
Anyways, I should probally start learning how to do this... thing. Hmm... so If I'm right, If I press this...
Suddenly, the fish in front of me moves forward. The action surprises me that I end up falling backwards. I look up and the fish isn't moving. I look back at my tablet and stand back up.
I think I get it...So if I make the fish move over there.
Suddenly the fish starts moving in a direction.
Oh I get it now, I have to control all it's movements. But that would mean I can only make one creature move at a time. I want to make more sea creature so the ocean doesn't look empty. Is there a way to make them move on their own?
Something catches my eye. There's an option that says "Loop".
I press the button that says loop and more options and buttons show up.
Hmm... what could these mean... OH! I get it. It's actually really easy. A loop is something where you can make a creature do something over and over and over.
For an example. If I make the fish swim in circles and then press this and then that... It should work
I look up from my tablet and see the fish. It worked. The fish is just swimming in circles over and over and over. It looks weird but it won't once I add more sea creatures.
That wasn't too hard.
Now the question is... what sea creatures should I make. I'll just make some up.
I started rapidly drawing random sea creatures on my tablet. Some with lots of fins, others have tentacles, some have more eyes than others. I gave each creature a different loop. Some will swim forward, upward, sideways, backwards and then all over again. Some are swimming high up while others swim low near the ocean floor.
I created homes for them. Homes made of crystals, I made the hills hollow so that fish can live them. I place some sleeping fish inside these homes. I draw more weird looking sea creatures and add more objects.
I look up from my tablet...I look in pure bliss. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Before, every time I made something, I always had that feeling that something was missing. I can't believe it took me this long to figure it out.
It's so peaceful, the sea creatures living in the ocean that I created.
I sit on one of the hills just admiring the scene before me. The crystals, floating cubes, hills, canyons, sea creatures and of course the random tree that I place in the middle-
My eyes widened in shock. Right next to the tree was a... no it can't be. I must be seeing things. I look at my tablet... I didn't create... this has never happen before. Am my dreaming? Am my going to wake up back in my bed soon because surely this can't be real.
The tree that was placed in the middle of the ocean floor, on the ocean floor made of sand, leaning against the trunk of tree...was a another person.
I don't know how long I stared at the person but it must've been a long time. I start walking down the hill and towards the person.
As I got closer, I noticed she was a girl just like me.
I walk closer... I recognise her. Right before I saw the number 6, I saw picture of a girl with long purplish-black hair. That girl was right here in front of me leaning against the trunk of the tree. Her eyes were close and she seemed to be sleeping.
If I lean closer I could actually hear her snoring softly.
I look at her, She's wearing a obsidian chest armour, a bluebottle violet tunic and a windswept skirt of the same colour beneath the armour. She also wore a thin, black sheath hung on her waist.
She looked so peaceful sleeping like that. I sit down in front of her and just stare. Who is she? Is she behind the countdown? Was she the one who placed all those strange objects so I could find them?
I just realised something. She's another person. Does that mean I'm not alone anymore? Does that mean I'll finally have someone else to be with? But what do I say when she wakes up?
Hi my name is Rin. No that's too simple
Hi and welcome to my world. No that doesn't sound right
Hello there, let's be friends. No I would sound too pushy
I must've been thinking for a long time for the girl suddenly moving. I saw that her eyes were slowly opening.
Out of nervousness and shock, My first instinct was to run and hide behind the tree.
I freeze hiding behind the tree. I can hear the girl getting up.
I peek my head out and look. The girl is standing up now and looking around. She looked surprised, probably because she's breathing underwater.
Oh my gosh, there's actually another person here. What do I do?! What do I do?! What do I do?!
Then, one of the sea creature that I created swims by and the mysterious girl looks at the creature in amazement. She starts walking. She's walking normally like me even though were underwater.
I follow her. Don't know why but I just did. I created seaweeds to hide behind and continued to observer.
The girl is looking at one of the sea creatures I made. The girl follows the sea creature with her eyes and then looks confused.
I realised that the sea creatures I made was in a loop. In other words, they were just doing the same thing over and over.
I look at my tablet and take control of the sea creature that the girl was looking at. I make the sea creature swim in front of the girl. The mysterious girl smiles and pets the sea creature that I was controlling.
I get an idea. I make the sea creature swim and do a backflip. I look up from my tablet to see the girl's reaction. The girl looked amazed as she smiled. That smile, for some reason it made me feel happy.
I make the sea creature do more tricks. I'm improvising making the sea creature do things that I didn't know that you could make them do. I look up from my tablet to see the girl's reaction.
I freeze.
She's looking at me. Looking at me with a confused expression. Oh no, she spotted me. What do I do?! What do I do?! What am my panicking, isn't this a good thing?I noticed that the girl was closer to me than before which meant she was probally walking towards me but stop when we made eye contact.
He eyes. This was the first time I've seen her eyes. Her eyes are red. Is that normal?
The girl suddenly takes a step forward towards me. I take a step back. She takes a step forward. I take a step back. I don't know how long we did this but I ended up tripping and I fell bumping into the trunk of the tree I created. I am now on the floor leaning against the trunk of the tree and the girl is now right in front of me.
Suddenly the girl smiles "Hello there"
Those two words were enough to make my heart stop. Well... not literally but still. It's been so long since I've heard another voice that hearing one now almost seems unusual. The words she spoke rang through my head like a bell.
"Sorry if I scared you" The girl speaks again scratching her head. The girl then raises her hands up in defence "You don't have to be scared of me. I won't hurt you". The girl then offers her hand to me.
I have no idea how to respond to this. This has never happen before. I wasn't prepared for t his. What do I do?!
I hesitantly lift my right arm and... grab the girl's hand.
Suddenly, multiple images flashed through my line of vision. This time it took me by surprise for I didn't see it coming. I see lots of images. This time it was a bit clearer than last time. Again I saw the girl with purplish-black hair, I also saw images of what looked like a school or something like that. I saw the letters "AAA". I saw different places of the school, although I couldn't tell what they were for.
The last thing I saw was the number 3
Rin's Room
I eyes open wide. I sit up and look around, I'm in my room again. What just happened
I remember my tablet and quickly search for it. Once I find it, I check the messages.
*No messages in 6 days*
In the past couple of days. Strange objects that I didn't create would appear, every time I touched those objects, it would trigger some sort of vision and the countdown would go down by one and I would always end up back in my bed...however this time is wasn't an object...it was a girl.
But was that girl real? Or was she also counted as one of those strange objects. But she talked. She actually talked with a voice and everything. I even forgot that people could talk in the first place until yesterday.
Also, I'm still wondering...how do I always end up back in my room?
What did all this mean? How many times have I asked myself that?
Will I see that girl again? I kinda want to.
Well, I wasn't going to get answers just standing around. The last number I saw was three. Which means I'm close to zero. WhJust thinking about makes me nervous.
I calm myself down, take in a deep breath... and start the day.
Once again, the walls start to disappear into pixels until the room was just a glass box with black borders.
I stare out the window of the box and stare into the world of nothingness that stood right next to my room.
What should I create today?
Yesterday I created creatures. Not actually living creatures but it's probally the closest I'm going to get.
Hmm...I'll start by just making a grass field.
I start drawing. As I draw the grass field forms itself around the box that contained my room.
I have no idea what to create next. I'll just go outside and talk a walk so I can think about.
Outside
I walk on the flat field of grass and think about what I should create.
Creatures. I made sea creatures but have I havn't made land creatures yet.
I start drawing on my tablet. The creature is going to have 6 legs, pink fur, two eyes, nose, mouth, ears, shiny teeth and two tails.
I finish drawing and look up from my tablet. It looks weird but interesting. It's half my height and the tails are semi-long. I look back at my tablet, just like last time new options and buttons appears around the creature that I drew. I still don't know what Biotic Programming means but whatever, I wonder what type of loop I should-
Suddenly, I hear someone gasp behind me "Oh hello again!"
I freeze. That voice sounds familiar. It should sound familiar, I heard it yesterday after all. But it can't be.
I slowly turn around and face the girl with purplish black hair. She's wearing the same clothes from yesterday. That was waaay too fast. I haven't even finished my creation for the day yet and she's already here. I didn't even know she was going to show up in the first place.
Having a person show up in the first place was shocking enough. But having the same person show up twice was unbelievable.
The girl looks at the creature that I created. "Whoa! What a strange looking animal"
Animal? Was that another word for creature. If so, I'll keep that in mind.
I just thought of something. Yesterday, the countdown went by one after I grabbed the girl's hand. So does that mean the same thing will happen if I touch the girl. I hope that's not the case, sure I would be able to skip a day and get closer to the truth but I want to hang out with this girl more. But is that the case? Only one way to find out.
The girl notice that I was staring at her "Is something wrong?"
I don't answer. Instead I just walk closer towards her. The girl didn't move back or anything. She just looked really confused.
I'm standing right in front of her right now. Now that I'm standing right in front of her, she's actually taller than me by a bit.
I then softly poke her in the cheek...
Nothing happened. The girl blinks twice and just stares at me confusingly
I poke her in the cheek again...
Still nothing
I poke her in the cheek again... Her skin feels really soft. I poke her cheek again two more times...It feels so real. I softly start pinching her check... it feels so smooth and-
"Umm...I don't want to be rude or anything but can I ask what are you doing?" The girl asked politely.
I completely forgot that I was poking another living person and not one of my creations.
I take a step back and blush from embarrassment. I open my mouth to apologize... but for some reason nothing came out of my mouth. I try as hard as I can but for some reason I can't talk.
Is it because I can't talk in this world? No, The girl in front of me can still talk in this world. Maybe it's because I haven't talk in so long that I lost my voice. Maybe.
The girl realises this "Can you talk? Because if not then you don't have to apologize, I was just wondering what you were doing"
I tried to talk again but I still can't form any words with my mouth. I shake my head meaning no.
The girl just smiled "It's okay, you can still understand me right?"
I nod
"That's good. By the way, did you create that?" The girl asked pointing at the creature that I created.
I nod
"Whoa! That's amazing! So you can create anything you want with that tablet?"
I nod. I show her an example by drawing a mountain on my tablet with my stylus. The mountain appears right below me and the girl. Both of us are now on top of the hill.
The girl looks in amazement "SUGOI! So what else are you going to make?"
I place my stylus on my chin and think for a while...Hmm...Before I created buildings...Oh! What if I combined the two things together. I could place a creature or animal, however you call, in a building.
I start drawing my idea. I first start with a rectangle building with glass windows. On the screen of the tablet, I look over to the pink furred creature that I made, using my stylus I pick up the creature and drop it in the rectangular building.
I then make copies of that creature so it doesn't look lonely.
I repeat this process but with a different made up animal and a...square building with windows. The square building is right next to the rectangle building. I should create lots of buildings with animals in them.
The best thing is that since I'm on top of a hill, I can see everything from a bird's eye view... that reminds me, birds. I start drawing birds and give them a loop making them fly in the air. Next I'm going to-
I stop when I realised something. The girl was standing right next to me, our shoulders touching. Again it shows that she's taller than me by a bit. She's tilting her head looking over my shoulder "Oh so your creating a zoo. That's cool!"
Zoo? What does that word mean? Anyways, it seems she's liking it which is good.
I start adding more things to the..."Zoo" or at least that's what the girl keeps calling it. As I'm drawing, the girl starts gives me her ideas about what else to make, what colour, etc. Most of her ideas looked really good. She would agree to all my idea and thought they were all good. To a point where I would start relying on the girl whether my idea was good or not.
I realise I was having way more fun than usual probally because I'm creating things with someone this time. I actually have someone else to share ideas with and to help me. Sure I couldn't talk but the thought itself made me smile.
I finished...we finished our creation, we both look up from the tablet and look. It's so-
"so pretty!" the girl exclaims finishing my thought. The girl starts sprinting down the hill and towards the..."Zoo" we created. I follow after her.
The girl reaches the zoo. She touches the walls of one of the buildings admiring it.
I smile. I'm glad she likes it.
We spent a while just walking around the place. We didn't say anything to each other but it wasn't awkward. Her company was all I needed honestly.
Suddenly, the girl gasped as she got an idea "Hey! This sounds really random but can you make a ferris wheel?"
I tilt my head in confusion. Ferris Wheel? What is the world is that?
"Do you know what ferris wheel is?" The girl asked
I shook my head.
"You know, it's like..." The girl does her best to described what a ferris wheel is. I start drawing, trying to copy what the girl described. Of course she had to correct a few things... a lot of things. I don't know how long we were there but after trial and error. We manage to build a..."ferris wheel".
We both look at the ferris wheel. "Does it work?" The girl asked
I look at my tablet. Using my stylus I make the ferris wheel move round and round slowly.
The girl looks in pure bliss "Well! Let's ride it!"
Ride it? Is that why all those chairs are attached to the giant wheel? So people can ride it.
I shrugged off the questions and follow the girl into the ferris wheel.
We sit down on one of the chairs. After we sat down, the ferris wheels kept moving bringing us higher and higher. As we go higher I start understanding why people would ride a ferris wheel. From high up you can see everything.
I stop the ferris wheel from moving so both of us could admire the scenery. We both look in amazement as we could see the zoo that we created. The girl is leaning forward leaning her arms on the iron bars while I sit back and relax.
Then I thought about something. The girl in front of me now probally knows way more than I do. She probably has seen way more things then I have...
I tap the girl in the shoulder.
The girl turns and look "Yes?"
With both of my hands, I offer her my tablet.
At first the girl looks at with confusion and disbelief "You're... letting me borrow it?"
I nod
"It seems really important to you? Are you sure you want a person like me playing with it?" The girl ask
I nod and smile to assure her.
"Okay. Thanks" The girl politely places both her hands on my tablet about to take it.
Suddenly, multiple images flashed through my line of vision. Like yesterday, it took me by surprise for I didn't see it coming. One image after the other. I saw many things. A city. I saw buildings and vehicles I've never seen before. But what stood out the most to me out of all the images... was all the people. There were people everywhere.
The last thing I saw was the number 2
Rin's Room
My flew open. It happened again. I'm back in my bed, back in my room... again with no explanation how I got back here.
Everything was starting to make sense until now. So many questions. I'm so confused.
I calm myself down and search for my tablet. Once I find it, I check my messages.
*No messages in 7 days*
It was the next day. Just when I about to...
I sigh
What did all this mean?
I'm up to the number 2. Which means I'm more closer to the truth... I think.
I take in a deep breath and once again...start the day.
I place my stylus on my tablet and draw a grass field. The same field I made yesterday. Once the field is created, I stand up and walk outside
Outside
I walk on the grass filling the wind blow against my face. I'm not not going to create anything yet. I'm going to wait... to see if that girl appears again.
... I waited and waited and waited...nothing. The girl with the purplish-black hair didn't show up.
I sigh. Guess it was too good to be true. Now that she's not here I kinda feel...sad and lone-
I shake my head. No, I shouldn't think like that. It's because of my dad that I'm still here. My Dad would've wanted me to be happy so I shouldn't complain.
I calm myself down and think what I should create today.
Hmm...wait, yesterday I saw images of a lot of people... and I'm able to create living creatures... so does that mean I can create...people?
This was something I've thought of doing before. The idea did come across my mind a few times but I didn't if it was possible. But is it possible?
Well, I guess there's only one way to find out. I place my stylus on my tablet and draw... wait but what should the person look like?
Before I start, I create a mirror. Using the mirror I look at my own reflection. I look at every detail of myself.
Can I really do it? Can I really create another person? I wish that girl was here, she probally would've known what to do.
I quickly shake my head and start drawing.
I start with the legs, arms, chest, and then the face. Just like me, this person had two eyes and ears, a mouth and a nose. He or she, don't know yet, has black hair and is shorter than me.
I look up from my tablet and observe. The person I created doesn't look like a real life person but cartoonish person. But it's still very detailed. The person I created didn't move, it just stood there not moving an inch.
I slowly look back at my tablet. I gasp in excitement.
One the screen, The same options like before appeared around the person that I made. The same two bigs words from before appeared on top of the person.
Biotic Programming
I press a button and the person suddenly takes a step forward.
This is so cool! I can control how many steps the person takes, what action the person does , I can even control how many times the person can blink.
I immediately start making other things. I create more people and I could also create animals so the people can have them as pets. People live in buildings right? I'll create one huge building so everyone can hang out inside it.
Inside the building I create chairs and tables. I create counters and windows and furniture and more random objects.
I draw children and using loops I make the children play chasey. The people I created couldn't talk but I make their mouths move up and down and make it look like their talking.
There's people sitting down and others standing up. Laughing, chatting and just hanging. I play the one and only classical music song I know and put it at full volume to make things more livelier.
I add a loop to every single living thing making each one of them doing a different thing.
I sit on one of the chairs and admire my creation. It feels so much more livelier with the people and everything. Even though I know there just my creations which I control but it's still enough to lighten up my mood.
The people talking to each other, the children playing chasey, the music, the animals, the girl with purplish-black hair...wait what?!
I look closer and can't believe my eyes. On the other side of the building, the same girl from yesterday was sitting on one of the chairs staring at the people I created. She looked confused probably because the people I created are ignoring her.
But she's back. For a third time!
I just stared at her not moving from my spot. I observer The girl's movements. She's not moving from her spot but she is looking around the place. She looks at the cartoonish people chatting to each, she looks at the children playing chasey, she looks at...me.
She's looking at me. From her expression I could tell that she instantly recognised me. "It's you!" She exclaimed excitedly.
The girl gets up and walk towards me.
"Hello again" she said once she was in front of me "Wow this is really a surprise to see you again!"
I tilt my head in confusion. She's surprised to see me again?
I couldn't talk but the girl seem to understand the question I wanted ask.
The girl scratched her head "Well you see, it's not everyday that I dream about the same person three days in a row"
Dream? What did she mean when she said dream?
I shrugged it off for now. I'm just glad that she's back. The girl asked another question "So if you're here, does that mean you created this?"
I nod
"Wow! Your very creative" The girl looks around the place, the place that I created "It looks amazing! You can also create people which is really impressive"
For some reason hearing that made me feel really glad.
Then, the girl softly gasped as she just remembered something. "Oh yeah! Before I forget, can I ask you something?"
I nod
"What's your name? I know it's kinda late. I wanted to ask before but I always woke up before I wanted to ask"
I didn't know what she meant by 'woke up' but I was more than happy to tell her my name.
I open my mouth to tell her... but nothing came out of my mouth. I can't form any words with my mouth. I can still think but I struggled to talk.
The girl realises this "Oh yeah, I forgot you have troubles talking. I'll just tell you my name then"
For some reason I really looked forward to that. Just thinking about it made me feel excited.
The girl clears her throat "Hi nice to meet you. My name is-"
Suddenly, multiple images flashed through my line of vision. I see a house, a bed, some sort of school, people and I see a girl. It's the same girl with the purplish-black hair and she's hanging out with someone. I can only the see the back of their heads but the girl, who was next to the purplish-black haired girl, looked like...me.
The last thing I saw was the number 1
Rin's Room
I open my eyes. I look around...I'm in my room again.
I know I should be happy that I'm closer to the truth but I'm kinda feel frustrated that I didn't get to know her name.
I sigh. Maybe I'll see her again today. I have one more day until the countdown reaches 0... I think. I actually don't get what any of this means. I might be just getting my hopes up.
I don't even know what's going to happen when the countdown reaches zero.
I look up and stare at the ceiling of my room. I think about everything that's happened. The countdown, the random objects and the purplish-black haired girl. I wonder what other surprises wait for me.
I have so many questions as well and each day is only adding more to that list.
This can't possibly get more complicated.
I suddenly remember my tablet. I quickly search for it under the blanket and check messages.
*You have 1 new message*
I stare at my tablet in shock, not believing what I was seeing.
New message?
From who? Dad? That girl? If not...them who?
I slowly touch the icon of the messages and read the new message.
To: Rin
From: ?
Have you ever asked yourself, What will become of me from now on?
I don't know how to respond to this. I just stared at my tablet completely frozen.
According to the tablet, I received this message a couple of seconds ago.
It doesn't say who it's from. What did this mean? How does this person know? What do I do? Why? How? What?
I stare at the tablet for who knows how long. But I somehow reached a conclusion.
With very shaky hands I type a reply to the mysterious message. I simply replied
"Yes"
Suddenly, the wall of my room start to disappear into pixels until the room was just a glass box with black borders. The furniture still remained.
I get out of my bed, stand up and look out the window into the abyss of nothingness...My eyes widened.
Standing on air, in the abyss of nothingness, not far from the glass box that I was in...was another person.
The person wore something that looked like the combination of a lab coat and a hoodie. The person's clothes consisted the colours blue and white. He/She wore a hood so I couldn't see his/her face... but I could tell that the person was staring at me.
Both of us didn't move. I didn't move, I was too shocked to do that.
What am I suppose to do?
Honestly all I could do we stare back at the mysterious person. I don't know how much time passed, I never kept track of time, but it felt like forever.
Suddenly, my entire room starts shaking. It wasn't shaking viciously. No it was shaking softly but it still felt scary. I was still able to remain standing and not fall over, the person wearing blue and white is still there.
Suddenly, pieces of my line of vision started turning black. Pixel by pixel, I slowly saw everything disappear until everything faded.
Another Location
"Your team will arrive at the crash site in 2 minutes"
"Roger that"
"The crater is over 100 meters in diameter"
"What do you think is it?"
"..."
"I don't know. Everyone, remember to proceed with caution and prepare for anything"
"We don't even know what to prepare for"
"Well it is our job to find out"
"We should all be honoured. The media went crazy when it landed, everyone is dying to know what it is. At least we get to experience what it is first hand"
"True that"
"Everyone get ready! ...were here"
The aircraft landed near the site in the desert.
The hanger door to the space ship opened and seven people wearing the same uniform exited the spaceship.
One person held a sniper gun.
Another held twin swords.
Another held a laser rifle gun.
Another held hand blades.
Another held a demonic scythe.
Another held a demonic sword.
Another held a black katana.
The girl holding the laser rifle gun stared at the others "What is it with you guys and using melee weapons"
The person who held the demonic scythe replied "What's wrong with me using Shikama Doji? It is against the law?" She asked sarcastically
"You know you don't have to use the weapons that's from your anime"
"Look over there"
Everyone looks to where Kanade pointed to and they all gasped
"Oh my gosh"
"It's huge!"
"Sinon"
"Already on it" She replied. Using her sniper gun to scope the enormous crater.
"How can a single meteoroid caused this much damage?"
"That doesn't look like a meteoroid" He said pointing at the middle of the crater
"What is the world is that?"
The girl known as Sinon spoke "It looks like some sort of spaceship" she said looking through the scope of her sniper gun.
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure"
"So...do we all just dive in and charge or just stand here and do nothing. I'm fine either way"
"Everyone stay here...I'm going to take a closer look"
"Are you sure? We don't even know if it's hostile or not"
"That's what I want to find out. Yuichiro, you're coming with me"
"Okay"
"..."
"Be careful"
The two men climb down the crater and head towards the middle. After about 5 minutes they reach the middle of the crater.
"Do you see it?"
"Yeah! It some sort of space craft"
"A UFO?"
"Don't jump to conclusion"
"It's Very small considering-"
"What's wrong?"
"It's opening"
"What do you mean it's opening"
"The door of the ship is opening"
"I have visuals, should I shoot?"
"WAIT!"
The door of the small spacecraft opens and lots of smoke appears.
With their swords in hand, the two men approach the spacecraft.
As the smoke cleared and they got closer. Their eyes widened
"What's wrong Kirito?"
"It's...It's..."
"Eh?"
"I'm sorry can you please repeat that"
"It's a girl... and she's still breathing!"
A/N End of the first part which means this story is 50 percent done. The next part might take a very long time to finish considering I have to finish writing Akame Ga Save and Strangers In Remnant. The second part is going to take a VERY LONG time to finish but I'll manage.
Anyways, thanks for reading this far. Reviews are appreciated. If you have any problems with this chapter feel free to tell me in reviews and I'll try make it right. Until then...BYE
This was finished on 24/04/2017
