The day I die

“Well first up let me explain a little but about my world.

First of all it’s common knowledge that the universe is expanding and there is life on other planets. But not only that monsters demons , spirits and gods are all real as well. The first experience the human race had was the first great cataclysm. A war raged between every nation on the planet but this war between humans begged an ever nigger enemy to come from the shadows. The malice hatred, death and destruction in the world attracted hordes of demons from the Demi-plane. The Demi plane was a dimension where the demons lived and although it wasn’t infinite , it felt as if an infinite amount of demons could come from there. Demons poured into the world destroying everything enslaving eating Toturing and massacring humans. Eventually as time went on demons ruled the earth enslaving humans. But the amount of negative energy on the planet beckoned another enemy. The gods. The gods notcied this and traveled to the earth to support the humans . Though when they arrived the situation was worse than they expected. The planet was already infested with demons. Still there were a very good number of humans. Out of all the population of the planet humans still made up about 6/10 of the planet. Since demons couldn’t stay in the human world for long they couldn’t kill of all the humans. The gods took this as an opportunity. Since the planet was already heavily saturated in magical energy due to the demons arrival the gods began to bless humans with high potential with unique skills to help them fight back . The gods freed small bases of humans and raised their power and repeated this process until they had an army l. That’s when the 2nd great cataclysm began . The world was engulfed in war once again . This time the humans were triumphant, with the help of their new abilities and the gods they overran the demons and reclaimed the earth. But things didn’t go back to howthe humans thought. As compensation for freeing them the humans now had to worship the gods. Gods who are worshipped gain a boost to all of their abilities and in some cases gain new abilities depending on how many worshipers they have. The gods split up certain aspects of the humans everyday life like agriculture, domestication, emotions and etc and split them up to have people believe in different gods for different reasons. Stronger gods rules over larger aspects like the oceans and skies and earth. But no gods were bestowed the title over death life time or reality . Those phenomena were already controlled by even higher beings ….. after the gods took over the world began to progress at a rapid rate and soon was back into futuristic times. Humans were at peace . That is until aliens arrived . The first alien invasion was handled pretty well. Over the years humans upgrade their skill and abilities and grew in their ability to utilize magic so they could protect themselves from threats but in the second invasion the enemy was just too strong . A unique alien species attacked the planet with their outrageous strength and powers . The humans were helpless. They pleaded to the gods they once fought bedside but to no answer . After the fighting was over and the humans lost they found themselves in slavery once again. When they were huddled and grouped together with slaves from other planets they found out the solar system was in a galactic war and theses people were a race on conquest to conquer planets. This was surprising to humans but not as suprising as the masters ruling over these aliens. When they summoned their rulers through a portal the one who stepped through were none other than the gods that the humans have been worshipping. The human race felt betrayed but there was nothing they could do . Seconds later an even bigger god with an even more menacing energy stepped through the portal, even the gods bowed to this being , this being was called an ancient. The humans knew in that moment how insignificant they were . even gods weren’t at the top of the food chain. The ancient integrated the humans in with 6 other races and force then to work on the post apocalyptic earth working and mining resources for his warriors in the galactic war.

But that’s all problems of the past

Things I have nothing to do with

Just a little background info

What’s happening right now in the present is whats really the problem

Due to the galactic war the star of this solar system has become unstable and for the past 100 years has been releasing consant solar flares. None strong enough to wipe out the system but enough to mutate planets and species and cause global catastrophes. Sometimes Portals are even created at random that connect different planets . And while that could be useful it is also dangerous. The portals could show up anywhere on either planet. Hordes of monsters can raid a high school or a hospital can get flooded with poisonous water from a lake in a different planet. Anything could happen. In order to compensate , warriors and adventures guilds have been formed to combat these portals and help planets even in the time of war. I am one of those adventures and yes the world I live in is a peice of work but still I continue to live my life regardless. I wouldnt live any other way …..or atleast I wouldn’t have

Oh yeah hi my name is malykai cypress and this is the story of how I died.

It began a long time ago with me and my co adventurer Tria exploring a cave…

Narrarator:

8 humans in armor and gear walk slowly through a. Dark cave

The first

4th and last ones had torches to light the way

The gurl second to last turned around and said

“Hey Kai do you think this was a good idea?”

This was Tria and she was one of the team’s healers. She had long light brown curly hair with light brown skin like milk chocolate.

“Huh what do you mean”

I responded. I was last in line because I at the time was the weakest . So if something came from behind I would be the first one to o but my screaming would alert the others had a black hair with an uncombed nappy high top and faded on the sides. I had a tall and lean figure with caramel colored skin. The flame flickered in my hazel eyes. As I walked along cautiously amongst the dark damp cave.

“Coming along i mean ? “ she continued “ we weren’t really that useful . I mean we barely did anything but carry equipment. I mean I get you but I would atleast like to gain some experience”

She said in a aggrevated but whispered tone

I get why she would be aggrevated. In this world where us humans are just slaves for the empire we value nothing but the things we can do. Which in our case is hone the abilities we were given. That’s all we really have left so most of us are stuck on the path to “being the strongest”….

‘Ha what a joke

More like

BEING THE BEST SLAVE’

Those were my were my true feelings but I never said it aloud

“Hey didn’t u hear me?” Tria said

“Oh yeah my bad no I don’t think it was a bad idea. Since I have no ability this is the best I can do anyways, I get u want to fight but you can still gain experience in watching right”

“Hey you guys get quiet we are coming up on an opening” said the guy second from the front whispered back.

He was the leader of the group, Striker.A big burly man with a bushy mustache . He carried a bronze shield and an iron longsword. He was an attack first ask questions later type of guy but he still was cautious enough to not make mistakes on a mission. Which is why he led the group.

The opening widened into a room with multiple exits 4 to be exact.

The person at the front of the line in front of striker with the first torch turned to the group and spoke . He had dark green hair , and dark grey skin with pointy ears and red tattoos on his face. His eyes glowed a light green in the dark. He was of the Nature dark elves clan, a race enslaved alongside the humans. His name was Fritz

“Ok we are almost done clearing this dungeon I believe the boss should be down one of these halls . Since there’s four we split into teams of 2. My danger sense skill allows me to sense danger within a 50 meter radius. The hall with the least amount of danger actually none at all is the one furthest to the left. Kai and Tria you take that one . The rest choose one of the furthest 2 the right. This is the most dangerous one so me and the captain will take this.”

Fritz said as he pointed to the second hall.

They started down the second hallway from the left. The captain was a human blessed with a great amount of skills. A hero archetype while the vice captain Fritz was an assassin type , quick and diligent. More importantly …dangerous. He could coat any weapon in poison with his poisoned skil and had poison resistance himself. He could also prod dice small knives and throwable weapons with ease with another skill of his. A great duo. I knew that if the boss really was that way they would easily defeat it.

The rest of the team began there trips down the halls as well

Tria turned to me

“Hey you should let me hold the torch since and it’s just us I will go in first.”

“Oh yeah sure”

I gave it to her reluctantly. Even though I knew she was right it felt wrong that I had to be protected by a girl. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? We began walking into our hallway. Immediately I tripped over a peace of wood and face planted into the ground. I got up but my nose was bleeding pretty bad.

“Wow 2 seconds in and you getting attacked by ghosts. You really do have the worst luck kai”

“Yea don’t remind me about it”

Oh yeah I have the worst luck ever. Well I geuss you can call it bad luck . I just never get what I want . I’m not being childish here seriously I literally never get what I want. Like for example when I was in 3rd grade I wanted another juice becaus mine spilled before I could drink any so I went to go get one from the lunch line and when I did I tripped over my own shoe lace and knocked a broom over that dominoe effected to a tv that fell off the wall onto the table of juices breaking the tv, the table and bursting all of the juices . Like how is that even possible , but come to find out later that day all the kids were sick due to the juices being old and out of date. I mean I was saved from being sick but still I really wanted that juice. There were other cases to like when I was walking home one night from a mining camp when I was younger. I ran into a group of thugs . They robbed me and beat me before sending me on my way hurt . When I got home my orphanage guardians didn’t like the fact I was empty handed they figured I spent my earnings on myself instead of bringing it back to them. So they beat me more. Then I was sent to my room. All I wanted to do was go home … that’s how bad my luck is. I heard those guys who robbed me ended up getting drafted to war so they probably didn’t live much longer but that’s not the point . I always have the worse things happen to me. literally never get what I want and here is another case of helpless kai in a dungeon being protected by a girl . She’s right why did I even come .

I reached down and grabbed the piece of wood i tripped over

I’ll atleast carry my own weight.

“Here set this on fire I don’t want u to have to worry about me having to see if u have to fight .”

“ Oh that’s actually pretty smart ok “

She said lighting my stick on fire

And so we both had torches and began walking. As we got deeper in the tunnel the walls became old and molded. A stench filled the air that was rancid like death itself.

On the walls carvings began to appear . The further they got the more frequent they appeared until they reached an area where there were carvings and red paintings all over the walls . The tunnel seemed to end here . a dead end museum of art.

They held their torches up to the walls and scanned the carvings. They found what looked like the beginning of the carvings and tried to decipher it . It was made like a story or a timeline so they deciphered as they walked . The carvings were fairly simple . There were enormous creatures engraved into the wall . These creatures had their handsOut, stretched with strings, coming from their fingertips, leading to the next carving into the next creatures head. And this creature did the same to the next, but each creature was getting smaller on every carving.

Until you made it all the way around. The room to the last 2 drawings. They were different . The third to last drawing is a creature with strings connected to the next, like all the others, but the difference of the second to last drawing was that it was more than one creature there was about five. They had strings attached to their heads coming from the previous one,but they didn’t attach any strings to the last carving. The last carving was even more disturbing it was of a hooded figure sitting crisscross with its outstretched arms as thin as a skeleton. His left hand ( or right depending on how u looked at it.) was pointing towards the carving of five creatures and the other hand towards first carving of the largest creature. I didn’t get it . Was he the beginning or the end . But Either way he wasn’t attached to either of them. What threw me off even more was that all of the carvings were drawn in red like blood, but the hooded figure was drawn in black.

I was so absorbed in the carvings i didn’t realize Tria started walking back towards the tunnel

“ hey let’s go they are probably heading back towards the opening. We need to meet them before they think something happened. I don’t really get these carvings, but we can tell them about it later.”

“ OK I’m coming”

‘Ofcourse she wouldn’t get it. She is only obsessed with fighting. She doesn’t ever use her brain but me I can’t get over this. What is this is carvings they have to meet something this being is so ….. ominous.’These thoughts ran through my head distracting me .

“ hey watch out ___ ____ ____”

She tried alerting me of something but I was to busy thinking to hear

‘I want to come back here as fast as possible. I need to record everything here to take it back and…..wait did she just say look out for something? ‘

I had refocused my eyes and put my torch foward looking above thinking something was crawling on the walls

“ what did you say look out for W-“

but Before i could finish my sentence, i was already descending into the darkness , the light of Tria’s torch was getting further away by the second. I had no time to react he could only think one thing.

Damn

I closed my eyes and wait for the inevitable crushing of my body against the ground

And that’s it

Thats’s the end of my life

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