i just had this idea and i just couldn't just not write it
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Everything is white

Everything is blinding

Glitching

White

GASP!

I sat there, feeling my heart pounding in my chest, every nerve in my body feeling on edge

Just what the hell happened?

Where am I?

I search my brain for answers but only a question comes up

WHO AM I?

I – I- .. m-my name is Levi.. Levi something…

I'm 25

Nothing

I can't remember anything else

I started panicking (as if I wasn't already)

What the fuck happened to me!?

Where am i?

Why is everything so white!

This place, my skin, the hairs on my skin

This outfit!

Why, Why! WHY!

Crap.. I need to calm down.. I cant think straight

Deep breaths… Deep breathes.. in… and out..

Ok.

What do I know right now?

My name is Levi something.. (so I can't even remember my last name)

I am 25 years old

I am human

I seem to be wearing some kind of jump suit? A white one, just like this place

This place

What is this place?

The most obvious thing was its color, white all of it/

White ground, white sky, some kind of white trees, although they look more like coral reefs…

White building, Looks important…

This place seems to be some kind of city? An abandoned one that's for sure…

More white.. gray lockers

Gray lockers?

Near the entrance of the building stands a locker complex with what looks like numbers on the locker doors

I decide to get up, I've been sitting for doing nothing for long enough

As I get up, my whole-body aches, as if I ran or exercised to much. The pain isn't too much but though... but its kina annoying

I get up. And walk up to the lockers

Upon closer inspection I can see something that I haven't noticed before

One, there seems to be thirty-ish lockers, after I counted them, not that the engravings were of any help. They look to be written in some other unknown language

Two, all the lockers are locked. I tried to pry one open with what fingernails I got but alas, to no avail

No handles, lo locks, no keyholes

"how-"

my voice feels weird

Like when you wake up, but to the extreme and..

"how the he-"

I instinctively covered my mouth. It didn't feel like I was speaking English

Sure it sounded like it

But how my tongue and lips felt pronouncing these words, and how my vocal cords were tensioned when talking, even for that brief period

It felt unnatural

As if I wasn't even speaking English

Before Levi could overthink this, a sound broke his concentration

It sounded like… for a lack of a better word. Garbled. Like if someone placed a bunch of sounds in a blender and this is what came out. It didn't take me very long to locate the source of this mystery noise

It was

As if reality itself was glitching

It was a small area, to the right of the thirtieth locker, filled with squares and letters and cracks

As if reality was tearing right at that exact spot

As quickly as it started, the whole scene ended, and in its place was a locker that read 31 (how did I manage to read that?!) separated from the others

And it was slightly open

As if it was meant for him, inviting him to open it

So, I caved to its will

I opened the locker and inside was strange. There were only two things.

A white paintball gun

And a large, glass cylinder

Huh?

I took both things out of the locker and placed them on the ground/

The paintball gun looked like a normal, white paintball gun. I tried to shoot it but all that came out were a bunch of clicks

The glass cylinder has two caps on the top and bottom. And it also has shoulder straps, like a backpack.

So I guess I need to wear it on my back?

I could swear that at this exact moment I smelled smoke from my brain. Because of course that the place that, wiped my memories and kidnapped me, wanted me to have this thing on my back!

"Fine, fuck me I guess…"

Ok, if this place wanted me to wear this then ill wear it. Can't really say no in this situation.

I strapped the glass tube to my back, like a hiking backpack, and with really no other option, I went to the only other place here

The tower

I really wasn't expecting much to be inside the tower. Maybe a little reception area?

But what was really in there kinda threw me off…

The door led me to a small arena, surrounded by water, and at the back wall, sat a pair of elevator doors.

What?

as I stepped into the arena, I felt something on my back getting heavier, not by much, but still a noticeable amount.

It was the glass tube, now filled with a white, paint like, liquid.

What?

I also tried to shoot the paintball gun again, but this time, the came paint liquid thing shot out

Ok. So, I have a paintball gun that shoots paint. What's the point of this?

Just another thing to add to the list of questions that were forming in my head

I decided to go over to the elevator, maybe there would be something useful there.

In my way though, I caught a glimpse of something in the water

I walked closer, to see what was this only to realize

It was me

I don't know why or how, but looking at that reflection

It felt wrong

The pale skin

These… clothes

The white hair. What? When did that happen?

I know its me in the reflection, but at the same time it felt wrong

As if someone bleached my entire body out of its colors

I stood at the edge of the water

Just looking at the reflection

That stared at me back

Scanning all the defects

The elevator doors opened

Micro analyzing everything about it

Out came three figures

Touching every possible surface on my body. From the hair to the skin, to the face

Water?

Was I crying?

The figures looked at me

Just what the hell happened to me?

Where am i

Why me

One of them pointed something at me

I couldn't stop tearing, crying with no noise. I was locked in place, not able to mov-

"HANDS UP HUMAN!"

"WHA?!"

SPLASH


thank you so much for reading this!
i hope that you enjoyed the chapter :)
i wont be updating consistantly but there will be updates!

Levi's name is a pun on Leviathan, the biblical sea monster if u wanted to know

also thanks so much for AllozaBD (bossbongo on ao3) for beta-ing and helping me come up with consepts and ideas for this fic!
you can check up on their work "A Riptide In Splatsville" here

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