Alex
I woke up to find myself on the concrete. It was very cold, and dark. In the distance I could hear gunshots. "Finally awake?" I sat up to see a small girl with blue braids reloading a gun. She had a bag, and from it she pulled a duel set of pistols, just like the ones she was reloading. She tossed them over to me. "You'll need these"
"Wh-what?" What the hell was going on? Wasn't I just in my room? What had I been doing? Then it hit me, the amount of shots I had taken. It must have messed up my brain, so I thought, to cause such a strange dream like this one. I figured I would have to go along with it. "What do I do?"
The blue haired girl grinned, "We are making our way underground, to find the control room for the NPCs. The others have the angel distracted so it is just me and you against the shadows."
"Shadows?"
She raised one of her guns and shot just over my shoulder. I would have been more freaked out if I didn't think this was a dream, but I could still feel my heart pound. I looked to where she shot and saw a fading shadow, guess it should have been obvious. "Don't let them touch you, if they do you're dead." She informed me. Then she grabbed my arm and pulled me onto my feet, "follow me"
She lead me down into an underground hallway. There were many of these shadow things she had told me about. She shot a fair amount down before she started yelling at me to shoot at them as well. She was a bit intimidating about it so I did as she said. Eventually we came to a room filled with a ridiculous amount of computers. It was quite amazing really. I would have loved to stay there for quite some time. The blue haired girl went over to the keyboard and began typing something. I don't know what because I was too distracted in awe by the computer room.
There was a loud slam and I turned to see a red headed boy standing in the doorway that he had forced open. "Not you!" I heard the girl shout behind me as he raised a machine gun and fired it at my chest. The world went black again.
When I woke up I was in a principals office, with two girls looking down at me. One was the blue haired from earlier, the other a blond I did not recognize. I got a very sickening feeling in my stomach. When one dies in a dream they are supposed to wake up in the real world, so "This isn't a dream, is it?"
The blue haired one turned away mumbling "Idiot," but the blond gave me a sympathetic look.
"This is a purgatory of sorts. Everyone here died in their teen years with some sort of regret, this is like a second chance for us. Unfortunately this place is not so good either. The angel, the boy who shot you, wants us to be obliterated. This was explained to us by Yurri's journals, a girl who must have been obliterated a long time ago." She brushed her short hair behind her ear. "My name is Tami, by the way, and the rude one over there is Ren" She smiled "What's your name?"
"Alex" I answered slowly. I'm dead, did I kill myself? Mom must be relieved, to no longer have the disappointment I am around. "Hey, wait, how did I get here? I was shot."
"Oh" Rem turned back "We both were, but in this world we don't die permanently. The angel was gone by the time I woke up and you were still out, so I brought you here after turning the security system on." Security system? I decided to let that slide.
Rem sat down on the arm of the couch I was laying on. "I noticed you seemed at awe in the computer room. Are you good with computers?"
"Not really, but they are fun." I admitted
"Do you think you could learn?" I nodded. She smiled "Good, you're the closets thing to a computer person we have." It was strange to see her smile, she seemed to be someone who is always mad until now.
A few months later I had a decent grasp on how the programming worked on the computers here. I especially enjoyed looking at the codes for the NPCs. That was a fun experience actually, learning that not everyone here is real. Of the real people some left and new ones came, but Ren and Tami were the only two who ever talked to me.
"Hey Alex, I found something for you!" A blond boy called as he entered the computer room that they had made me spend time in. I wasn't aloud to be anywhere else actually, apparently they had too many NPCs for me to have a dorm room. The boy's voice sounded familiar, but I was too tired to put it together, so I didn't recognize him in the slightest.
I turned to look at the newcomer with a raised eyebrow. He was holding an old looking laptop "Who are you?"
He laughed "That's not the usual question, It's me Tami, don't you recognize me?"
I yawned "I guess, but aren't you a girl? why are you wearing the male's uniform?"
He laughed again "Actually, I'm hermaphrodite, if you must know. Sometimes I feel more male and other times more female. Does it bother you?" He looked worried.
I shook my head. "No, I get it" I yawned again.
"You look tired." he giggled, "come with me" he held out his hand. I took it. He lead me over to the dorm rooms and opened the door that was to his room. His girls' uniform was hanging in the closet at the end of the room. "You should lay down" he suggested. I nodded and crawled into the bed. It was about ten minutes later and I was half asleep when I felt him crawl into the bed with me and pull the covers over us. Normally I would have protested, but I was too tired to this time and soon I was out cold.
