Journal entry #1

I don't really know how to write a journal, my last memory of writing one was probably around twelve years ago and I think it used to be a diary, but I'm highly confident that this is how I suppose to do it, I mean this is what they did in the movies I saw.

Crap, I'm getting distracted, it has been a whole day of me not talking to anyone. Sorry.

I'm guessing I should start in the beginning. It all started when I woke up in my apartment this morning that I quickly found out how everything was off. My skin felt weird, almost as if something was covering it and not also that my back felt like it was aching. Trying to get of my bed, I was met by a facefull of unswept dust on the floor, my body felt alien, it was not like I drink. In fact I don't drink. I wasn't drunk.

I didn't break anything in my body, but even that didn't make suck less. Really wished that was the only thing that went awry but no. I was still half awake at that point, so I kinda noticed as if I had another pair of arms on my back. My first thought was that I had broken my back, but when I turned my head... Just imagine my surprise when my neck twisted far more futher that I originally got used to and instead of seeing just a gray shirted back, my sight was met by a pair of green and yellow scaled arms that I slowly traced out to be wings.

I don't know if I fainted from the intial shock, but I may had stared at my back and wings for a long moment, just silent at the knowledge that there was nothing even human left of me.

Till now, I still don't know what caused this. But without any doubt, I changed into some kind of dragon. As best I can describe it, I'm a green and yellow scaled dragon, with wings that looks like leaves.

I would continue, but I'd probably lose myself by the black abyss in my mind. I attempted to stand again and this time I was able to keep my balance, and I was able to take a better look at myself and the fact that I have a tail now really disturbs me. How would I get to school looking like this, people would call animal control or just plain out shoot me with a gun.

After all that time of my just scanning and checking if my 'stuff' was still there and its still there thankfully, I checked my phone only to find out that it was now empty despite still being plugged in the charger. Yes, I charge my phone overnight, don't judge me. I turned on the lamp next to my bed and there was no light, there was no power. I just hope this isn't related to what just happened to me.

I only had two choices right now, stay here and wait for the power to go back or try calling for help. And I was leaning more at the second choice, my neighbors were friendly, Mrs. Colantes, the room across me was a great friend to me as she invited me a couple times on her birthday.

I carefully made my way out from the room, barely even able to fit from the door frame. Surprisingly, walking of fours seemed sorta normal for me, maybe my brain changed to adapt a bit on walking.

When I opened the door to go outside to the hallway, I first looked both ways to check if anyone was there and it was clear.

My heart felt like it was about to burst out, when I made my move at knocking her door. I waited for a few moments before knocking again and calling her out. (Despite being an animal, I could still talk, but my voice changed to be a bit deeper.) And still nothing.

What on Earth is going on? What if what happened to me happened to everyone. Maybe they were afraid to come out.

This was a solid theory for me at that time. Maybe this was just a dream, like I'm still asleep back in my bed, but I have a sinking feeling behind my mind that this is real. Before I could go back to my room, I then realized that everything was quiet. Which was weird, it was in the middle of morning in the city on a weekday and not a single sound of cars were passing the streets.

Living in the city for a couple of years thought me to ignore the anything I hear, but there was nothing to ignore. There is no sign of life outside, but I was so focused on what happened to me that I didn't even noticed. When I made my way to a window in my room, and saw nobody on the streets.

I don't remember if I cursed, but I may have cursed by the knowledge that everyone was gone. I may be a bit of an introvert and I only go outside when I need to, but I know that a city like Manila has A LOT of people. Now there is nothing! No cars or busses clogging the roads, no people walking the sidewalks and entering the buildings. Everyone is gone.

It took me like an hour to muster up the courage to go outside to the city, after trying to make a choice, if you can even call it a choice. My phone was dead and I couldn't call anyone, I just pray that my family are okay. But before I got out, I went to my closet to find clothes that would still fit but nothing, so I just ended up getting a spare white blanket and covered my lower half with it.

I may be a dragon now, but I still don't want to go around the city naked and the blanket was decent enough to be clothes. I also took a back bag with me that contained a couple hundred pesos, and placed on horns, because I might resort to try and get something that I may need without considering it stealing.

After getting through all that, I went out from my room and went towards the stairs, because there was no point in using the elevator. The trek down stairs was probably the most careful I got in taking the stairs ever since I was five.

I continued to walk towards the busier parts of the city, where I currently live was a quieter part of the city and I thought that if I went to the busier parts I would find someone that would help me.

Made it to the city square around eleven, and still no one to be seen. No cars in streets running or parked. It was around this time that I got a little hungry and I went in a 7/11 and got myself five bags of Lays and seven packs of Oreos. Sadly the slurpie nor even the ice cream machine was available which was sad. I placed everything I got in my bag and left around three hundred pesos in the counter and continued my trek around the ghost city.

In my entire trek around the city, I found no one. When I passed my school it was devoid of life, even famous tourist spots in the city were empty.

I wondered for several hours in the city, before going back to my apartment, before it got dark. The night was pretty silent, as I ate my Lay's potato chips and Cheetos for dinner with a small candle lighting up the room.

What caused this? Where was everyone? I know the concept of the Rapture, but I have a feeling this isn't it. Being in the only Christian country in Asia made me knowledgeable about the bible and I can say that it didn't have anything about turning into a green dragon.

Right now as I'm writing this in the safety confines of my apartment room, I can only wonder, if my family are doing okay. I may try getting a generator tomorrow to charge my phone and try calling them. I just hope they're still back in Panglao Island, worried as I am.

I think, I'll be writing on this journal for the time being, my hand writing is decently fine. These claws are quite dextrous. Writing on this may help not lose my sanity, I once read an article of prisoners being taken to solitary and their experience wasn't great.

- Pepe