Chapter One - What's This?
'Saturday, now that's the best day of the week' Olivia thinks as she falls backward onto her tidy queen sized bed, making some of the pillows bounce to the floor. 'No school, no work and no annoying family members' She lets out a small smile. ' mum's at work and my brothers are at their friends. Just me, myself and I...Now, what to do-
I mean, I do have homework but it can wait until Sunday'. Olivia rolls over and glances up at her desk in the corner of her room, with had a rather comical amount of homework stacked up neatly in the center of it.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah..." Olivia groaned dramatically, flailing her arms and legs around childishly. '... I mean it's only math...
It can wait'.
She sits up, with her back facing her homework 'So, what to do? I could watch tv, cook, clean, play video games or go on the Internet'. She leaned over to grab her mac book and leaned against her bed frame, grabbing two pillows that lay next to her and stuff them behind her back. 'I think I will assume the browsing position' she then relaxes fully into the pillows, crosses her legs and opens her Mac book.
Olivia went to all the usual websites Facebook, YouTube, and Tumblr. After a couple of hours online and staying in the same position, she somehow ended up watching a girl play the flute with her nose. 'Gross...' she thought as she went back to her Facebook home page.
She started to scroll down looking to see if anyone posted anything since when she was last on... five minutes ago, she saw her friend Jordan updated her profile picture... Again. Last time it was a selfie of her scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef, now it's a selfie of her on top of the Eiffel Tower. "I wish my family would go to exciting places like that" Olivia mumbled to herself, pouting childishly. She was about to write a nice comment in the comment section to be nice, when suddenly an ad pop-up displayed in the corner of her screen.
It had a normal white background plus a little cartoon figure, the figure was wearing a black cloak. The cloak covered its whole body and darkened its face, the only thing that was could be seen of its face was its large green glowing eyes. Which were drawn in a very realistic way compared to the rest of its body. It was very cute, It was also holding up wooden sign four times the size of the figure that took up the rest of the ad space it said:
Bored with your life?
What to make something of yourself, having fun while you do so?
Then enter the competition to go to the
Universal Sanctum!
Fun, Adventure and Mystery await for the lucky few!
-Click this link now to enter a Universal Sanctum near you!-
She then saw a little timer pop up under the advertisement, that started to count down from 00:30. 'Must be an ad that will disappear in thirty seconds... '
00:25
'I wonder if I should join?'.
00:20
'It could be a camp of some sort, but what kind of name is Universal Sanctum?'.
00:15
'might as well see what it is, it could be fun'.
00:10
'I really hope this doesn't give my MacBook a virus..'. Olivia the hovered the mouse over the ad, closed her eyes and...
00:04
00:03
00:02
'Click'
As soon as Olivia clicked the advertisement it brought her to a sub-link that had the title of 'UNIVERSAL SANCTUM Where Dreams Come True'. Under that it read; 'Welcome to the Universal Sanctum website, before we can proceed to the exciting stuff please answer these questions truthfully and honestly. Just remember that if you answer the questions honestly the better the outcome for you will be!'. Then it showed a small list of questions with enough space under each to answer, Olivia started to go through all of them and answered as honestly as she could... for the very simple questions which it displayed...
Question One: Sex - Male, Female or Other
Answer: Female
Question Two: Age
Answer: 15
Question Three: Height
Answer: 5'6
Question Four: Favorite Animal
Answer: Bat
Question Five: What Country You Live In
Answer: Australia
Question Six: Are You Bored of Your Current Life?
Answer: Yes
Question Seven: Do You Want To Go On An Adventure?
Answer: Yes
Question Eight: Sky, Land or Sea
Answer: Sky
Question Nine: Eye Colour
Answer: Hazel
Question Ten: Hair Colour
Answer: Brown
'Man, these are some really basic questions, if they are trying to find selected few to go on some...adventure? They are gonna have a hard time to pick if a lot of people apply' Olivia though as she went through all the answers one by one. As soon as she finished all the questions a green 'continue' icon appeared. 'Well, let's try my luck' she thought as she moved the mouse and clicked the icon.
Two seconds later her laptop shuts down and the whole screen goes black.
'what!' Olivia thought startled as she sat up straight looking at her screen intently. "No no no no! This can't be happening!" Olivia shouted moving her mouse erratically and pressing down random keys on her keyboard, trying to make her MacBook do... Well, anything. "God Dammit!". She quickly jumped out of her bed and went to her desk, accidentally knocking down some homework as she moved it out of the way to place her mac book on her desk. She grabbed her MacBook charger and plugged it in the laptop, she then pressed down on the power button. Hoping to reset it or at least turn it on.
'Moms gonna kill me when she gets back from work..' Olivia thought sadly to herself as she slowly sat down in her desk chair. "What am I gonna do now?" she mumbled softly to herself, letting her arms fall dramatically to her side.
"DAAAADAAAADAAAAA!", "AAAaaahhh..ouch!"
That was the sound of the MacBook suddenly turning on and letting out a very loud musical tone, which resulted in Olivia getting scared and falling to the floor like a disabled pigeon. "oww..." she groaned out rubbing her butt which hit the desk chair leg on her fall to the ground.
"CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING THE FIRST TO APPLY!"
Looking up at the new sudden sound, she saw that her MacBook was back on. The screen was white and had that cloaked cartoon figure dancing across the screen with the word-
'CONGRATULATIONS'
Along the top. Pulling herself off the floor and plopping back down in the chair, she watched the figure continue to dance across the screen before it started skipping away. A male Siri type voice suddenly came out of the Macbook's speakers,
"You have won a once in a lifetime opportunity, for adventure and fun! So get ready for a chance for your life to be changed forever with the help of the UNIVERSAL SANCTUM".
"Wow...ok then" Olivia mumbles out stupidly, 'I guess I'm luckier than I thought'.
The dancer suddenly appeared again...
Does a cool backflip type dance...
Then, points up...
'whaaa... HEY!', Olivia finally noticed the MacBooks camera was on. The green light that signals its on is glowing tauntingly, almost like it's laughing. Doing a weird type spasm movement with her body Olivia quickly tries to cover the camera with her hand... but gets a small electric zap on her pinky finger instead. She gasp out in pain and moves her abused finger to her mouth trying to ease the pain.
"Owww" She mumbles as she sucks on her zapped finger. As she pulls her finger out to see the damage,
her pinky-
starts to-
turn to -
dust..
and gets sucked into her laptop!
"What the Hell!" her MacBook is slowly rising from the desk, and a small purple vortex has appeared in the middle of the MacBooks screen and continues to expand slowly. Olivia's starting to turn to dust, from her pinky to her other fingers. It slowly travels up her arm and to the rest of the body. Skin, muscles and bone and all crumbled to dust as if her body had suddenly aged hundreds of thousands of years and disintegrated.
The vortex that was still continuing to grow larger and larger, pulling Olivia in molecule by molecule by its gravitational pull it seemed to have on her.
It was pulling in nothing else in...
only her-
"What, NO NO NO, STOP STOP. HELP... someone HELP M E PLE eAS!" Olivia tries to call out but in only a matter of second her whole body crumbles away into the massive swirling vortex. The MacBook shuts closed and falls back onto the desk with a loud thud.
Leaving no sign of Olivia's struggle other than the fact her math homework which had toppled onto the floor leaving a big mess, and a rather blackened destroyed Macbook which had black smoke coming out its sides...