Journal entry #3
8:34 A.M.
Woke up sorta weird today, I think I grew a bit big. Not the 'I've become fat sorta of way' but like 'I've grown like a few inches or something'. I had some difficulties in just passing through the door.
If this is the case and I'm slowly becoming bigger and bigger, I might try looking for a new place to stay.
There are few placed that came to mind, that might be spacious enough for me.
There's a megamall a bit far from here and there's also a coliseum in this city. Might be worth it checking both to see if someone is there.
Crap! Crap! Crap!
I almost forgot about that potential person like me in the city.
9:12 A.M.
I arrived at where the car is and no one is currently here, the note is still held by the wiper.
I guess they didn't come back here that night, but I'll stay here for a bit to see if anyone turns up.
The roads are now quiet like always, still remember when this place used to be filled with cars.
I'm starting to feel old and I just turned 20 a few weeks ago.
9:43 A.M.
No one turned up.
No one.
I don't know really what I should do today other than getting more food for myself, but that really isn't an issue, there are a lot of grocery stores in the city.
I think, I'll try checking out the coliseum and grab some food and water along the way to there.
I'll come back here later.
10:34 A.M.
I looted a pharmacy that had a mini grocery section, along the way to the coliseum.
I took a dozen noodle packs, some chocolate bars, more potato chips and a couple bottles of water. The potato chips weren't Lay's but they were close enough.
Do dragons get diabetes? I got a lot of chocolate out from that place, like more than a dozen. Look, I'm poor okay? Most of my childhood I woke up somewhere at four in the morning just to move our cattle and climb up several coconut trees to get money, so let me enjoy what I didn't get on my childhood years.
I don't even know why I got mad to a journal. This being alone thing is starting to get me.
11:03 A.M.
The coliseum is pretty much empty, but it was spacious. I can try practicing my flying skills here. I feel like an athlete by just being here, there are still sports stuff here, badminton rackets and along some others.
I doubt that I can use them.
11:53 A.M.
I'm done trying to practice flying for today. They were really weird to move, it was like having another set of arms on my back.
I got myself to raise them up and down, just slow enough that they wouldn't launch me up. Got a couple of bearings.
I also tried to walk in a faster pace on the tracks, running was out, so walking a bit faster was close enough for me.
While doing that, I imagined a crowd cheering just to make it look like I wasn't alone here.
I should eat my lunch now.
I wish I could share these with someone.
12:14 P.M.
Just finished my lunch.
Anyway, this place could work, I can get a big tent in the mall, if the place doesn't fit my liking. Its open and spacious, I can also practice flying here.
I should go to the mall now, if I want to be home by seven. May try passing back to the car, to see if they are there.
1:18 P.M.
Still no one.
Still quiet.
I think, I'll just rest in a nearby building for now. After that I'll head to the mall immediately.
2:32 P.M.
I saw a pack of dogs while I headed for the mall. I think one was a Labrador, the others were just regular dogs I see in the Philippines. They're called Askals or something, I don't remember.
They're lucky that they have each other. I even felt jealous at them.
Wait. If I got turned into a dragon, does that mean there are people out there who got turned into different mythical animals?
Its going to suck to wake up as a kraken in the middle of a city. I pray that's not the case, because that would be messed up.
Also, I just noticed back when I was walking under the sun. My body felt I was it was being recharged, like I felt a bit happy or something?
It felt great.
3:14 P.M.
I arrived at the mega mall a while ago, I walked around the mall to look for an entrance.
Every entrance is closed down in this place, but if the disappearance thing happened somewhere at eight, the entrances should be open.
Unless they closed down early or there's someone else is here.
I'll break the glass window in the food court to enter.
Humanity is gone, so I won't need to pay it back.
3:20 P.M.
It smells bad near the grocery section. This new nose will be the death of me, I swear.
Its dark in here and a bit hot, to be honest.
3:34 P.M.
I went in a traveling or camping section part of the mall, I got a huge bag here that I strapped around my neck. It looks like the bags foreigners bring when I saw them in airports and seaports.
They also have solar chargers here, I got myself one.
There are some tents here, but there is only one here that is bigger than me and it looks like it could fit a car.
I think I should sleep here for th-
I just heard clicks on the floor I'm on.
3:52 P.M.
I didn't found anyone, I don't know if those clicks were on my head. But I wondered around the mall shouting "Is anybody here?!" at no one.
I'm currently in a furniture shop in the mall. I got a big curtain to cover my lower half, the blanket I used is now stained and torn out.
I look like I'm wearing a dress right now. I look like a princess.
I couldn't find a curtain that didn't make look like I was part of the nobility in the 18th century.
I'm actually glad no one is here to se-
I just heard something fell over.
7:54 P.M.
My head hurts right now and my throat is a bit numb, my head is not as painful when I woke up first, but it still hurts.
I should probably start from the beginning.
After I checked over the place where, I heard something fell and found nothing. My throat was quickly assaulted by something blunt and was followed by a hit at the back of my head. Then I blacked out.
I woke up being covered in several rolls of duct tape and a colourful dragon infront of me.
I never expected to meet someone like this, I mean, who would expect this kind of meeting. He questioned me and I did my best to answer them honestly, because I was pretty sure he would try and kill me if he thought I was dangerous.
I'm not going to lie, I almost cried, because I thought he was going to kill me. He has a spear that was a curtain pole with two knives duct taped at the end.
He eventually let me go after probably deciding I'm far too pathetic to be dangerous. Trying to take off the duct take took us a bit of time, while also doing that he apologized for knocking me out and commented that I smelled like gasoline.
I tried to ask him if he was the one who took out the car batteries out of the cars and he said yes. He told me that his name is David but his friends call him Dave, so I told him mine.
I swear, his mood completely changed, in a second, at first he looked like he was ready to kill me, but now he's friendly.
I asked him if there were others with him, but sadly he said no, I followed another question, if he knows how to fly and he also said no. So he probably wasn't the one who owned that shadow I saw yesterday.
I didn't ask him another question, because I thought I was being annoying. I instead told him if it would be all right if I slept here for the night and he's okay with it.
He took me on the top floor, where he made some kind of bed, but by the looks of it, it looked like a nest. It was mostly made of mattresses, surrounded by a dozen bean bags.
He had a console next to his bed with several games that I'm unfamiliar of and a pile of junk food bags. He's probably going through the same diet as mine.
Dave took me to a mattress display and we took several mattresses to make a bed for myself.
After that he shared some of his food for me and we told each other stories and what we did after that.
Dave said he woke up on January 15 and he told me what he did during that week, and this made me confused so I asked him the date for today and he said 22. This confused me even more and when I said that I woke up three days ago, he also became confused.
We settled on a theory that maybe people were returning back in a slow pace, which made a bit of sense. Anyway this is far too much, we shouldn't dwell on this until we know what really happened.
We suggested our own theories to what happened to the world and Dave suggested that maybe aliens took everyone on Earth and turned us into dragons because humans were a mistake. Which somehow made me laughed.
I told him about the huge shadow I saw and the buzzing noise that followed it, and he said something about seeing similar, but without a buzzing noise. There might be other people in this city besides us.
I should sleep now, it has been an exhausting day and I finally was able to talk to another guy. Even though our first introduction was sorta not great.
But I'm still glad I've met Dave, its better to be with someone in this now empty world than being alone.
-Pepe
