On a silent rainy night where the noise of cars overflowing throughout the places in those middle of noises on a game station the noise of cheering totally shattered the outside noises.
The reason of cheering is for Freefire City Opens tournament Qualifiers, a battle royale game with a price pool of Rs. 60,00,000. In that game station a duo playing against squad, it's a very tough situation to handle squad by duo in tournaments, but they looks good and confident as they got 5 kills total and are in top 3 position.
A heavy burden of tension on me and my duo's face because if we lose this match everything will be over as it is the final round of qualification. Suddenly we got in the middle of between two squads and the tension got more worse unable to keep himself calm my duo knocked and killed instantly.
I am thinking to withdraw and get a solid guard. I am trying to withdraw but they unable to let me go suddenly a mistake done by the other team they fully rushed on the squad which are attacking me and I got a way and took cover in a solid guard.
And used my advantage and took 4 kills. Suddenly I saw they started withdrawing to heal themselves and that's the time for me to engage. With my firing the fight will start again and I did it. My constant fighting pushed one team in corner and got eliminated with 1 kill in my pocket from each team.
Its just a 1v1 situation I rushed towards him while having enough defense. He constantly resisting himself to engage in fight and that what makes me more confidence I rushed inside his range and drag him out.
I take few damages and took a cover started healing myself seeing that as advantage he rushed towards me and suddenly the tension turn out like hell the cheering around me turning into pressure I took a deep breathe and jumped forward to the enemy with M1014 in my hand and fired towards him without knowing what will be the result and I pressed the fire button as hard as possible and the result in the victory for my team.
The cheer suddenly got more noisy and everyone started hugging me and my duo congratulating me for the victory. My whole face got red and my hands are shivering hard.
Finally we did it! We able to passed the qualified round. I bump fist with my mate congratulating each other for the hard work. When the scoreboards showed up our happiness suddenly stopped and within a minute the noisy place turn into grave silence.
We unable to passed the qualify round. The thing which stopped us is the points because of 2 points we lost from the team. Hearing that makes me mad.
Why? Why it happened? We practice everyday we gave our everything in it then why? why it happened? We performed so well then why?
My partner know my behaviour and tried to hold me I ran out of the station with my broken heart.
I mixed my sadness with the noises of cars and running in rain. Why it turned out like this? I abandoned everything and concentrated here then why? I got a massive pain in my heart and it's very tough to stop it right now I feel like something is eating me from inside and I can't stop it no matter how much I tried to calm myself.
Without knowing where I am going I keep on running and suddenly I saw a truck in front of me and hit me.
I had no idea for how long I was unconscious. But, when I opened my eyes…..
Snowy mountains on the left side at a far distance, large ocean on the furthest right, while my body was lying on a crop field and every portion of the area was getting clearer by the light of a big moon.
No, no, I am not bluffing. At first, I thought I am having a dream but it looked more than real for me. The scenery; I was amused by its beauty. I just stayed there calmly for some time until I got my conscience back.
Now I remember that I was hit by a truck at full speed. Oh my god, am I dead? Is this heaven or…..
"Enough is enough. For how long you are going to stay like that, idiot?", a solid voice broke my thought process suddenly. I was literally trembling in shock and jumped to stand firm on the ground.
A person, no-no a giant of almost 10 feet long is standing in front me. I was in no condition to talk.
He said or more specifically roared at me, "What are you going to achieve just by procrastinating like that? Soumyo, you have to win this battle no matter what for the sake of this world. Let's rock, my little friend".
I had to give a response now. "Sir, you are mistaking someone else with me. My name is not Soumyo", I said in a low voice.
"Yeah, yeah I know. Your real name is Chintan. I have not forget that but it seems like you have forgotten the rules of the game completely. So, I am here to remind you some points. Got it?", he roared once again.
Who the hell is Chintan? I don't know him, neither I am that person. But, I didn't have the courage to rectify him once again. Besides that I also wanted to know the situation I am in, clearly. So, I nodded my head slightly.
He continued, "This is a battle royale game of life. Here you have to fight opponents to stay alive. There are different levels of players. Like at the start you will be getting into simple fist fights, then may be you will get a knife or bat to use, after that it can be a pistol and just by going like that you can have tanks or even super powers on your own. The most interesting thing is no matter which stage you are in if you get a opponent lower than your rank, then you can't use your extra advantages over that person. For example, if someone who has a super power comes to fight with you, then he or she can not use that power as you don't have that advancement. So, though he has superior tools with him, he only can have a fist fight to beat you. Don't get upset or motivated unnecessarily by that. That rule is build to make the game more interesting. That's all".
My brain was not ready to understand all of it at one go. And whenever in confusion, human mind throws a question and I exactly did the same. "What if I refuse to fight?", I shouted like my life was depending on it.
The giant person smiles a little. "My friend, there are many things you have to learn to stay alive in this world. But, the most important thing is staying alive itself. Never forget that", he rested his judgement slowly and within a second just got vanished.
Yes, exactly the same way I wrote, it happened in front of my eyes. And I was alone again in an entirely different universe.
I started walking towards the hill forest to see where really am I. I still got no clue what is going and how did I end up here I should be dead now then why I am still breathing and who was that big and what exactly he tried to say.
As long as my eyes are covering its only crop field there is no sign of neither humans or any other living beings. The sky also looks strange too it seems there is more thing above it.
I finally passed the crops field and started going walking towards the hill, I got scary chills about this forest. Insects are chirping makes the forest more scary too, its likes the insects are saying me not to go anymore deep but I got no other choices.
As time passing I am still getting deep to the forest. "How to return my home" is the only thing lingering around my mind. Aside from the creepiness the hill forest is the most beautiful place I have ever seen in my life.
I didn't roam much but in my experience I didn't seen anything better than this place. Its too much clean and greenery. Mosses grown around the rocks smell of wet leaves and this peace noise makes me think I am in middle of Amazon forest.
I found a small waterfall and drink some of the water from it and it so cool. I take some rest and started moving more upwards to see where I can take shelter because living here at night is a foolish decision.
I started walking again and suddenly I heard a noise of someone's crying. Hearing it I immediately ran towards it, the crying noise is similar to kid cry. And that's the worst decision I made in my life.
While running towards the voice I found it's not a voice of child, its the voice of a black panther. He is standing in the branch of a tree and his whole body enveloped with blue fire its a panther burning in fire.
My whole body got frozen as ice, I can't believe its a panther standing in front of me and staring. He just a moved his head suddenly my whole body acting its own and started running. In my mind the topic of getting home it changed to "RUN!"
I started running on my life exclaiming "No way! No way! Its over already!? I just want to feel a victory even its small for everyone then why I am suffering the most ?" Inside crying "No I want to live! Please someone save me! Someone...!"
I anyhow able to get away from that panther's sight by going through the trees and take a cover behind a tree. I am watching where he is and keep moving my body on the ground so he can't see me, suddenly I feel nothing on my foot and found its a cliff. The scenery I am getting from there, I can't believe I climbed this high.
I saw the panther is in few inches away from me I lied down on the ground and covered my mouth to stop the sound of cry and fear. Tears are coming out from my eyes more faster. I am silent yet in my heart where sadness engulfed the whole place I am trying to convince myself with some bit of hope.
I heard the noise of the panther has got more close. It's standing behind the tree. My heart started beating more faster and tightened my hand to stop this overwhelming emotions. Few minutes later the panther moved away, I got up to see him and made another mistake.
While getting up my hand got in contact with the bush beside me and made a noise and I saw the panther ferociously coming towards me.
I stand up and tried to get away from my attack and suddenly the edge where I stand up got collapsed and fall from the cliff.
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