In the year 2020...December 25, at exactly 6 o'clock at night time everything seemed to have changed for the worse...
Earlier morning at 8 a.m the world is bustling with excitement...many people have started to go either shopping or window shopping... families started to exchange Christmas presents...but this is only the prelude of the story.
In the back alley at Christmas time...a young twin a boy and a girl...wearing ragged clothes and only a thin blanket to hide from the cold..their characteristics were oddly different they have black hair but a silver one hanging around at their foreheads...
A small conversation started between the two youth.
"Hey Rina...here have some of my bread..."
The older brother wants to share his loaf of bread to her younger sister but...
"Don't worry brother I'm not that hungry yet..."
The younger sister replied with a smile on her face but nothing escapes from her brother.
"Rina I know your already having a fever from this cold weather...so please won't you take this loaf of bread?...so that I can rest my mind at ease..."
"Brother but--"
The younger sister's words were cut short by her brother's interference.
"Shhh... don't worry too much about me... I'm more worried about your health rather than my own..."
A cold breeze came by.
"Achoo!"
"Rina... don't worry big bro will find a way to find you some nice and warm soup to cure you of your fever."
Rina just slightly nodded to her brother.
Around 12 p.m Zen have started to find some warm soup for her younger sibling.
'Why is it so hard to get a warm food in this day...'
No matter where he goes people always shoo him away for disturbing their customers or business, till he went at the back of a restaurant, while Zen was trying to cook up something in the trash bins at the back of the chef's restaurant.
"Hey kid--"
The chef went to a halt at his words... because he have seen this young boy at a nearby alley with a young girl in tow.
'Hmm?'
Zen came to a halt of what he is doing and started paying attention to the chef.
"Yes?"
As the chef was staring at the boy, the boy answered with a question.
'This kid...is so pitiful...'
The chef muddled through his head.
'Sigh...'
He then let out a quiet sigh, and eventually came back inside his restaurant.
'?...'
Zen continued to what he was doing earlier when the chef left...but to his surprise he came back and is holding something that smells nice.
"Here kid take this"
Zen came closer to the chef and took the plastic shape like box container from his hand.
He then opened it to see what the delicious smell was.
"Sniff...Sniff"
The chef chuckled a bit seeing how Zen was sniffing the food he gave.
"Wow~"
"Are you sure about giving this to me sir?"
The innocent look from the boy warmed the chef's heart...
"Yes, take it and go kid"
The chef brightly smiled as he spoke these words.
"Bye...Bye...and thank you kind sir"
Zen turned to face the chef's gaze and returned him a bright smile.
After going back to the alley... something seems to be amiss from the surrounding.
The clock he passed by seems to have went to 5:30 p.m even without him noticing... time seems to have gone faster by At least 4 hours...
Zen did not paid any attention to the strange phenomenon and hurriedly went to his younger sister to deliver the warm food but...
"Rina I'm back with the---"
*Plop*
The food he held is now on the cold floor as he saw her sister already frozen like an art of sculpture.
"Hic...Hic..."
The youth came closer to his younger sister's frozen body...while his eyes was being drenched in tears..
"Why...Hic...Hic"
Although Zen only knew that her sister only got a minor fever but he never knew that her sister has another unknown disease, and it coincidentally claimed her life...
Zen was left with a sombre expression as his life has no more meaning. He cried for half an hour and it already went to 6:00p.m the night of the beginning.
*Crackle*
*Clack*
*Crack*
The sky went so dark unlike any other night. Those who are ignorant of the fact that the world have already changed will die without knowing what hit them.
Zen heard a small crackling sound behind her sister.
"Hic!...the wall...!"
Zen then grabbed hold unto her sister's arms but unluckily she was devoured by the void.
"Why...does god hate me...just why!"
*Crackle...*
*Crackle*
He heard the same sound again but it was coming from the sky!?
Zen lift up his head to where the sound is supposed to be designated. He then saw something beyond all reasons.
Gwaaaaar!
A monster that looks like a lizard with wings that looks like it came out from a fantasy novel suddenly went out from the large crack to the sky and roared loudly.
'Whaaa...what is this...'
Zen asked for himself just what is happening in the world right now and if its a dream he wishes to wake up from this nightmare.
But fate was cruel to this young boy and even after slapping or pinching himself he did not woke up from the supposed dream.
'.....I guess my life is already full of shortcomings... God really does not exist in this world"
The young man have loss all hope from his God...how cruel the God is for watching this young child experience such brutality at such a young age.
Rooaaaar!!
Monster's started gushing out from the cracks...
"Ahhhhh!"
"WTF is that thing!"
"Mommy I don't want to die!"
Despair, hopelessness, death all of this were felt from the scream of many civilians who is running out of fear.
'Hahahaha...this world is so fucked up...'
Zen started talking to himself after all the hardship and despair he went through just now.
Zen saw a broken piece of glass and picked it up.
'Ah...I wish this will all end soon...'
The young man was already despairing earlier and now he was fully cornered by the current events.
*Stab*
The broken glass he picked up pierced through his heart as he already loss his sanity to live on and he then died tragically.
That was supposed to be the case but...a lone shadow crept up from below ground and stopped Zen from stabbing his heart.
*Khieeek!*
The scream does not seem to have come from a human...then who...
Khieeek!
A lone shadow came and stopped Zen from committing suicide.
"Wha...wha...who are you!"
Zen was flustered for a second.
The shadow suddenly arose from the ground and it would seem to look like a monster at
first but Zen felt in his guts that this being is unimaginably powerful.
The shadow lowered its head and spoke to Zen.
'My Lord you cannot die just yet after obtaining a new vessel for you to reincarnate in'
The voice was instantly transferred to Zen's mind.
'What is this...what are you doing to me!'
'My Lord please calm yourself...'
The black being have called Zen its Lord but what does he mean by that exactly.
'What do you mean your Lord I am just an orphan and now my younger sister is now dead...Hic...and now you're calling me your Lord...then if I were your Lord I order you to go get my younger sister back to me!'
Zen was furiously mad at the black being but as it listened to his words the black being spoke with a warning.
'My Lord...this...we cannot get your sister back here my Lord...for we have already been here for the fourth time...and a good result never arises when we go up against someone that is beyond your level my Lord'
This black being is warning Zen for the
second time in his life to not go after his sister...but Zen stubbornly refused.
'Then what's your purpose for being here...hic...hic...'
Zen asked again with a teary expression that does not seemed to go away.
'My Lord I am here because of your orders'
'As I have said I am only an orphan what's my connection with you!!!'
He inwardly shouted at the black being but...
'Shhh...my Lord please be quiet...there is an observer close by'
'What's this observer your talking about...sniff...'
Zen came back to his senses and brushed off his tears when the black being spoke with intense blood lust and hatred towards this so called observer.
'My Lord your time will come when you shall rule once more above the ashes that swallowed you whole...for now I will teleport you to a safe country in the southeast...so please be sure to survive...for now your awakening will be happening in a short while after the dungeon breaks all over the world'
Zen is puzzled to what the black being said but before he spoke back to the black being.
'There is no time my Lord I wish you luck in this life once more'
The black being gestured towards Zen and started the incantation.
'***THE TIME HAS SPOKEN TO THE RULER OF CHAOS...THE BRINGER OF LIFE AND DEATH WISHES TO BE UNSEALED ONCE MORE...TIME SHAN'T STOP FOR I AM THE ENVOY OF CHAOS...I COMMAND THE GOD'S TO SEND MY MASTER AWAY FROM ALL THIS CHAOS...'
ENUMA NOLO ENTEL SATAN***!!!
Underneath Zen a black smoke started rising and completely enveloped him in darkness.
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