***Meshia***

                "Ran for your life!" that was the voices she heard while she ran through the

dark. They are the crying voices of people she couldn't see around and

describe. She was tired but she needs to keep on going or she would lose her

life.

                And then, suddenly she fell from the cliff she wanted to shout but there are no

voice coming out from her mouth. And then she woke up again from that

nightmare. Big sweats coming from her face and fear started to crept on her

face.

That nightmare of her kept disturbing her dreams for months.

It all started when she turned 18 last month. And it scared her for the possibilities

of being chosen as the game piece.

                She has no history. She was an orphan found on the Dark Forest by some hunters. She was

turned over to the Quest. The quest is a mysterious place for outsiders that

accepts trainees. And since the day she was turned over to that place she

wasn't able to leave the Quest perimeter or she would lose her precious life.

That is one of the rules. Obey to keep your life.

                Inside the Quest is a training ground to be useful and to serve the tribe. Most of the

trainees are orphans and abandoned children or those who have no family and

alone who volunteered to enter.

                These years was different, they are trained for the Centennial Celebration of

Veshans' that only happen every hundred years.

They are trained to serve and sacrifice their lives and that

scares her. She wanted to leave the Quest and live a normal life but that was

impossible. She was bound to serve the Volcan tribe.

The Volcan Tribe was known for their mysterious deeds and

cunning that threatens the other tribes. They always hide their capabilities and

kept silence for years that the other tribes tried to send spies but could not

succeed for once their spies enter the territory no one comes out alive.

The Levice Tribe was known for being advance for their

technologies, in other word they are the main brain of Veshans. The Araz Tribes

is known for their strength and good in battle fields.  While the Czest is a friendly Tribe known for

trading and craftmanship. As for the Volcan where she belonged was the known

for dark deeds.

The Volcan created their own system that threatens the

rulers of the Veshans and tried to wipe out the tribe but as cunning as a fox

they always succeeded in protecting their lives inside their own territory. And

for the first time after hundreds of years they would send their delegates to

attend the Centennial Celebrations.

The Volcan that was outcast and silence for years finally, will

show their strength and capabilities to the whole nation of Veshans. However,

the rules of the game change that makes the competition much more complicated

for the delegates to succeed. One of the Prophet visions the long lost hidden secret

to protect the nation from the distraction and the prophecy was long written

that the fates could not be changed except for one. The Chosen Delegate.

                                ***Meshia***

"Wake up Meshia" Loth one of her friends in the

quest disrupted her sleep. She was not be able to sleep well last night because

of her nightmare.

"It is still early, Loth. Why the hurry?" she

asked as she planned to stay much longer in her bed.

"The Head of the tribe will be coming for the chosen

delegate today!!!" she said in panicked and discomfort.

"What? It was said that they will choose the delegate

the next day, why are they in hurry?" she said as her system wake up. All

of them was afraid for being chosen and send as a prey to the lions’ den.

She is not yet prepared for the news. She felt nervous as

she remembers her nightmares. They will choose 10 delegates per tribe to

participate the Centennial Game of Veshans. They were trained but they know the

rules, only one could survived the game. If chosen she might kill one of her

friends or she could be killed by them. Second rule. No friend, no mercy. Kill

to survive. but she is no heartless at all.

"I don't know just heard the vast (teachers and trainers

of Veshans) talking about the rules had change. I don't understand it at all

but, I know the time has come for us to be ready for the possibilities"

she said as she was walking back and forth in front of her.

"Where is Ore?" she asks looking around to find

one of their friends.

"She was already in the hall waiting for us" she

said "So get up or the consequences of being late might be severe".

She was 6 years old when she entered the Quest. She has no

memory of the past self she had. She first met Ore the first month since

arriving the Quest. She was brilliant and excellent in planning and changing the

tables. While Loth is crafty and also excellent in the field. And among three

of them she was no excellent in planning and crafty. All she had was her strength

in the battle field and recently, acquired some blur visions. Loth and Ore said

that she has to hide her newly discovered skills.

Her friend knows her visions but not her nightmares. She doesn’t

want to make them to worry and be frightened like her because of those

nightmares. She had visions that the three of them was chosen to be part of the

Veshans Centennial Game but she and that made them nervous. They don’t want to

end each other’s lives.

As the two them walking the hallway to the Quest Hall she

saw some of the elders talking with the head of Quest. They look worried and

uncomfortable, maybe because of the rules have change.

“We need to hurry Meshia, we are the only one left in the

hall way. Ore must be worried to us by now” she said with a paced. After all,

they are not allowed to run inside the building but only in the battle arena.