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Homeland

Episode 1 - The Start

"Gerai!"

Frank shouted toward Gerai. Gerai heard him shouting to him, he turned around and stared at him. Then he realized why he shouted at him. He looked up, a building collapsed and the part of the building are falling right on his head. He wasn't able to dodge it, he died there while Frank witnessing it. Frank watching him died made him cried and screamed his name.

Frank and Gerai, they were best friend since they were kid. Gerai was Frank's one and only friend that was on his side since kid. At that moment, he knew he was going to be alone. But he remembered once more, he wasn't really alone.

"Frank…! Come here!"

Someone shouted at him. He turned around and saw his one friend that he doesn't really acknowledge him as a friend but he often talked to him and always help him when Gerai wasn't around.

"Klein...?"

Klein approached him as he doesn't move from the position as he was told to.

"Frank... What are you doing here...? Why were you just sitting here?! You know it's dangerous staying here seeing all the building collapse? Come on, follow me!"

They both then went to the safest place, waiting for a reinforcement to come and take them to the shelter. It took about 30 minutes later and they finally arrived and took them to the shelter.

When they arrived to the shelter, they was sent to a large hall where they prepared a bunch of beds around the floor. A lot of survivor already been there and many of them are sitting on the bed. Frank found an empty bed, he wasn't sure if it was owned or not. But without being hesitant, he immediately sat on the bed. Klein sat on the other bed beside him. They began their conversation about what happened lately.

"How is this happening? A natural disaster happened without us receiving a warning..." asked Frank

"I don't know either. But it could be a sudden natural disaster." Klein replied.

"It can't be that...! This has never happened before even though it was a sudden one... This was the worst disaster that ever happened in this world. My childhood friend died right in front of my eyes..."

"I know right? My family sacrificed themselves for me to escape with my brother. I could've saved them but they were already been crushed by rocks the moment I turned my back to them... All of this happened was like a dream..."

None of them believe it. They were thinking of something, telling the god being too cruel to them.

A girl approached them. She asked them who they were. After hearing them explaining, she told them to move away because the bed Frank was sitting were already been owned by her.

"Don't you noticed my bag there?"

She pointed out her thing being at the top left side of the bed. He then realized the bed was owned by her and apologized to her immediately.

Frank moved to the other bed, still on the same line and was right beside Klein's bed. He sat on his owned bed and asked Klein about why he often approached him and helped him.

"I... want to be friend with you... Even though you're older than me... Am I right?"

"Don't you have friend? And if you want to, you should've just asked me to be friend with you. All your action was just like how a rogue hero does his job behind the shadow. You appeared when I need help or when I was alone, then disappeared again when you don't have more topic to talk about."

Klein has nothing to said after hearing what Frank said to him. However, Klein appeared to be an introvert as he explained to Frank.

Then, the girl then joined their conversation.

"You guys can start your friendship right now, man... I know you lost your friend so I know how it feels since I lost one too. And she was my best friend. So it's hard to accept the 'now' reality..."

As she talked to them, she explained more about her friend. But their conversation was interfered by the sudden news appeared on the TV.

The news was about a light appeared on city where the disaster happened. The newscaster explained what happened was unknown and new to this world. Most of the people in the hall are shocked of the news. The newscaster then gave an information about the light increased its brightness in a second. The live footage was showed, make all the people in the hall asking each other about what that light was and what about to happened.

As the light's brightness are increasing, the live footage was turned off. Two seconds later, the TV was turned off same with the lights inside the hall. Klein then heard someone said that his phone was suddenly turned off and unable to open it back.

Electricity doesn't work, Klein figured it out. The military went on checking what's going on. The girl approached them and asked their name all of a sudden.

"Frank."

"Klein."

She then told them her name "Leyana" and immediately went outside to check.

They both followed her from behind.

They saw something, but unable to see it.

"Isn't that the light we saw in the... Ugh... Too bright!"

Leyana screeched and went inside the hall immediately. Frank and Klein was unable to go to see as they saw the situation. Leyana, suffered a pain that they both didn't understand. She was laying on the floor, screeched as she was in a lot of pain. Frank approached her, hold her and asked her what happened.

A few minutes later, the light faded away. Leyana stopped screaming, Klein and other people inside the hall went outside to check. Frank asked Leyana if she was alright or not. She said she was feeling as she was going to die, but she didn't feel anything now and was confused about what just happened to her. Frank has no words to say about it as he doesn't suffer the thing she suffered.

Klein saw a lot of military's clothes on the floor. He was confused about what has happened outside. None of the people that stayed inside know it. Leyana began to stood up and walked outside. All people are looking right on the sky, staring at one object that was floating on the sky. Frank happened to be the last person to go outside the hall and stared on the object.

"What the hell is that?!" A guy shouted.

That object was a round shaped, texture was seen to be like gold. It has a light ring around it. What scarier is that it stayed still on the sky. It doesn't make sense to both of them. It doesn't make sense for it to happen. They were confused, shocked and scared.

"Hello. Human. I. Am. 2."

Those voice scared all people around the world. It was delivered through any devices that can record and play voice like radio. Klein heard the voice came from inside the hall. He told Frank and Leyana to come in to see the TV. Their action was attracted by others too. They followed them into the hall to see the TV.

"To. All. The. Survivor. Please. Be. Ready. For. What. W****e. Prepared. For You."

They all focus on what the voice wanted to say.

"Get. Ready. To. Go. To. Our. Home."

And then all of a sudden, both the TV and their phone was notified with a message. When they read it, no one understand it. However, half of the people in the hall did understand what the message was telling them too. Frank went to in front of everyone and explained.

"As the message said, 'Game 1 - Survive an earthquake while heading to the front door' mean that we should head to the location where the door is! When you read furthermore, you found some information about the time limit of the earthquake. We were given a time to stay on surviving. 3 days. 3 days and the door will appear right below the 5. Earthquake will happen for 2 minutes. It happened every 2 hours, and has no limit of how strong the earthquake is. Which mean, it was random."

Everyone was quiet and are more focus on his speech. They all understand it quickly after hearing his explanation.

"For another word, this is a 'game' set up by 5 and the objective of this game are 2. 'Survive an Earthquake' and 'Enter the front Door'."

Everyone immediately understood. However, speech doesn't stop till Frank, but Klein then stood to the front and gave another information.

"We just received another message. It told us that to beware. Because the closest we were to 5, the strongest the earthquake could be. The reason is, 5 will produce the earthquake from the middle of the city."

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Total of Survivor (Hall): 34

Total of Survivor In The City: 327

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