First of all, this is my first writing, it may not be good, but it's something, so there's that. It may be a bit rushed, but I will at some point in the future come back and rewrite this. Probably

Second, if anyone decides to leave reviews, I ask that you leave actual constructive criticism, not "You suck" or "A 13-year-old could do better", it doesn't help anyone.

Third, Suggestions would be welcome, I would really appreaciate it if anyone could tell me what is good and what is bad.

Chapter 1 - Awakening

Paul

"Awaken."

I don't want to, just five more minutes. My body felt numb, weak even, I could barely muster enough strength to shield my eyes from the light coming from above, My head hurts.

"It is time." The voice said, louder this time, almost as if it was the only thing I could hear,

I guess I don't really have a choice, better just get this over with. Slowly, my body started answering me, first my hands, to give me support, next, my legs, to hold my body up. My head hurts a lot.

Can't even sleep in anymore, and my head won't stop hurting, it's almost as if I got hit hard. Slowly, I started to get up, at least to a sitting position, I started to open my eyes, slowly because of the light. I could really do with some more sleeping ti- what.

On the ground there were more people, though my vision was blurry, I could at least see the ones closest to me, just lying there, motionless. Not dead, I could see their chests rising and falling due to breathing.

A voice startled me, calling for someone to wake up, they weren't even shouting, it was so quiet even it they had whispered I probably would've heard them, it wasn't the same voice that told me to wake up, at least, I think it wasn't, this one sounded male, the other voice wasn't.

Probably.

Looking around, I found the source of the voice, a tall guy, judging by the voice, possibly taller than me, if what little I could see of him due to light was correct, kneeling next to others, trying to wake them up, and moving on. Maybe I should call him? The thought crossed my mind, and with this headache, better have someone around too.

Deciding to first get a look on my surroundings, I first notice that wherever we are, it's most likely underground, looks like a corridor, flames lining the walls, as in, there was a stone part thing below the fire, but there didn't seem to be anything keeping the fire on, but with enough distance between one another to leave a dark area in the middle, but the weird part was, the flames only kept going to one side, the other part of the corridor was in a pitch black darkness, Weird.

Next the 'bodies', there should be a dozen or so people here, if I counted correctly and there aren't more in the dark areas, perhaps I should go wake them up...

Another voice called me back from my thoughts, this time it was someone whining about wanting to sleep some more, probably due to Tall guy shaking them, another guy too judging from the voice. Maybe I should get up after all.

Slowly, with my body still weak, I got up to my knees and started rising, the background silence had been broken, and instead, confused voices started asking where they were, who the others were, all basic stuff honestly, first a few, the ones Tall Guy woke up before probably, then others joined in, brought up due to the sounds, even I joined them, now that were more people that may know something, some voices were female, others male.

A guy rose up, standing tall in the middle of the corridor, even though he wasn't really tall, he looked at the people on the ground, the two ways the corridor went, and turned to the people on the ground. "Does anyone know where we are?" His voice was louder than the others, which defused the situation a little, most people just shook their heads, while others just stared at him, asking if he did or if he had anything to do with this.

"I don't know either" he said, to the visible worry in the faces of some people, he didn't seem to notice it, turning to face the side where the lights went, he continued, "What I do know, is that we can't stay here, maybe there are others that know something to that way. If we move now, we may find something or someone before it's too late"

I couldn't argue with that. I started getting up.

Aquilo

It really didn't seem like we had another choice, if anything, we would at least be doing something, and who knows, maybe we would find the way out.

Some of the people are getting up now, others still in doubt sitting on the ground are looking at the man, probably not trusting him, I mean I don't trust him myself but I can't exactly just stay here waiting, if there is something dangerous to that dark side there it could reach us and then what? Better not to think about it.

"And if there isn't anything that way?", "What if there are people coming and we just have to wait", "What if there's danger that way?", I heard these questions and more while helping others up, some of them had a little trouble staying up, we should keep an eye on them, some of them could fall on the move.

"Thanks" A man I helped said to me. "No problem" I replied, it was really just something that had to be done, he, like others, couldn't stand correctly, but he seemed to be doing better than most, so I left to see if others needed my help.

After some minutes, the commotion had ceased and the Guy started leading us out, standing in front of the group, some people were helping each other walk, but things seemed okay.

"We have a plan right?" A known voice asked me, turning to look, I saw one of the guys I had helped before, helping someone else, he seemed to be doing well enough.

"Well, if we keep heading this way, we should be outside of... wherever we are, and then we get some answers of where we are." It was a solid plan, not much else to do as well.

"And if we don't find anything?" That was not something I had an answer to, but honestly, probably nobody did, so I just shrugged and kept walking, trying to wrap my head around whatever was happening, maybe I could remember something.

So name, my name is... why can't I... if I'm not mistaken, I think it's...

"Hey, you okay there?" Te same guy called me, apparently my confusion was fairly visible, I turned to him, a bit confused still, clearly I'm not the only one like this right? and asked him, "Do you remember your name?"

Apparently a bit louder than expected, since some others turned to me, maybe they thought I was crazy, forgetting my name like that, but still, I had to try.

He was quiet for some time, looking all around as if trying to find something, before turning to me again, "Now that you mention it, I can't seem to recall it either." So I wasn't the only one with that, I honestly don't know if I should be happy or fearful of that. Others started asking and answering that question too, a few more loud minutes followed.

After some more time walking and talking, we were distraught to learn that nobody remembered their names, and some were starting to get more panicked than normal.

This is going to be a long day.