Welcome to the island

..."Ahhh, its another day here in New York."...

He woke up to brush his teeth and get a bath, he greeted his mom and ate breakfast, but before he set out to school his mother told him

"Be careful Lenny, I love you, blow kisses." as she always said and he replied

"C'mon mom, I'm nineteen for crying out loud, I don't need that anymore and plus you can just call me Len."

After lectures he then came back and the first thing he said was

"ahh, I'm really tired of this school I'm gonna make dad get me out of it, well I still gotta endure it till then."

Len went to go grab a snack, chill and watch tv and play video games.It was 9 pm and it was getting dark, then his phone got a notification, when he came to check it, he got a message from his mom, it read,

"Lenny come bring me the medicine on the counter to the family hospital your father is seriously in need of it, it's very urgent"

'Sure, whatever.'

On his way out he tripped on the road because of his shoe lace, he managed to get away from the motorcycle which almost ran over him.

Unfortunately, he was on his knee and got hit by a van, he died.

when he opened his eyes, he thought he had already crossed over to the after life.

Until he got picked up and carried by a very bright being which looked like an angel.

It carried him to the sun, then blacked out.

When he woke up, he saw himself on an island, with a group of people gathered together.

He was confused at a point and tried asking some people at the end of the crowd what happened, but they ignored him.

They all heard a voice and when they looked around they saw a giant figure rising from the ground.

It was like a statue in a red robe and a hoodie that covered its entire face. It explained to them that they were on the brink of death in their real bodies and in the real world but all 37 of them were saved by the bright beings and so their bodies are still alive but are passed out in the various places they where about to die, some have been rushed to the hospital. They all asked it why they were here and not in the after life, the figure continued to explain

"You all died at the time of the captive hunt, you have a second chance to live."

The people asked him what this so called captive hunt was. He explained it "The captive hunt is a period of 12 hours when beings called twinklers go round the earth and pick the 37 first people that die at that point."

He further explained that if we were able to live and survive for the next 500 days, they would be sent back to the normal world safe even if you were severely injured or sick.

But if they died in this world they would as well die in the real world.

He continued, this island has 5 towers which could serve as head quarters, one each at the north, south, east, west and middle of a particular part of the island.

The one in the middle was called the general tower because it was at the middle and was the biggest and tallest of the 5, you all need equipment and weapons which will enable you to kill the attacking forces to survive.

These forces will be active through the day but they won't be as dangerous as when they all appear on the rage.

They all asked what the rage was and about it nature.

In the rage the monsters will be very dangerous and will evolve and grow more. The rage comes at every seven weeks.

You all have wrist bands that allow you to communicate to others in long distances and analyses equipment, ores and crystals,educates you more on the island, provides you a map.

As your strength increases, and becomes stronger, your wristbands change color according to mist level, they change in every level 20 you hit.

The colors are white for newbies, yellow for little upgraded, blue for average, red for above average and black for fully upgraded.

You get stronger through weapons, hunting, finding treasures, crystals and new places.

When you need help just call for a Twinkler, they are tiny, spherical and shiny beings, they can talk to you and move.

"I wish you all good luck on surviving, have a nice day."

The figure then descended back into the ground. They were all left speechless and in confusion, they were grieved.

A brave man, with grey hair that looks like he was in his early twenties stood up and broke the silence. He is advicing them to stay calm and to keep each other safe and have their backs, but we have to check in the towers and get to know each other more to make it easier to trust each other, also let us gather in the general tower and assign who would be in the different towers.

"Ahh, I almost forgot to introduce myself, my name is Keel and it is a pleasure to meet you all."

They all went to the general tower and all got assigned 9 each to the 4 towers, the assigning was done by Keel, who suggested that he would stay in the general tower on his own because he would be the captain of them until they wouldn't want to take orders from him any longer and so they would vote for another captain and also the 4 tower captains would be elected after a week by the tower members.

They all agreed and so Len was assigned to tower C and they all gathered in their various towers and they all introduced themselves and were allowed to wander around the island but not to go too deep unless they were in groups for the first week.

That night, Len went out side of the tower because he couldn't sleep.

He saw saw many fire flies blinking light, like they had organized it. It was so beautiful and Len went to go catch one.

Soon after, Len heard some grizzling in the bushes, he ran to the entrance of the tower and kept watching.

He saw a red haired girl coming out. She had beautiful eyes, looked around his age and that attracted Len. She was familiar to him, he recognized her in the choosing of towers.He came to her and asked

"Aren't the fire flies so beautiful ?"

She took a fighting stance and asked

"Who are you and why are you talking to me?"

"Whoa, sorry your in tower C, right? just asking cuz that's my tower, and I came to check out the fire flies, its so beautiful, and since your in tower C, I thought it would be best if we just teamed up or maybe even become fr..." She cut him there and said in an arrogant tone

"I work alone, thank you, and now if you excuse me I'll be heading to bed."

"Please, just wait, don't you wanna watch the fire flies?"

"Obviously not, why would I want to watch bugs playing?"

"Cuz their beautiful."

"Not to me."

"Then can you watch it for my sake at least."

"No, I don't even know you. "

"Oh yeah, that's right, my name is Len Adams and I'm 19 years old."

"Seriously, I'm also 19, such a coincidence."

"Ok, so now can we talk?"

"Fine, but not for long."

"Ugh, so what's your name?"

"Sorry, but I can't tell you."

"Over protective" (in his thoughts)

"I just don't wanna meet anyone, I'd rather stay in this island than go back to earth. But can I?"

"I don't know, but you can ask the twinkle."

"Twinkler, I summon you."

"Yes master"

"Is it possible to remain in the island?"

"Yes it is but you won't go back until two years after the next captives see their 500 days. The people that remain on the island are called island dwellers. What ever you choose on that day will be your fate"

"Thanks for that information."

The twinkler than disappeared. The girl got sleepy and she bent her head on Len's shoulder, he blushed a little and then took her in to bed.

The next day, when Len opened his door to go start his day he say a letter with a rose flower. The letter said.

"That's my name. From last night."

Len went to the room of the girl he saw last night and asked her if her name was Rose and she replied.

"What did the letter say."

Len then understood and said

"ooh."

Rose then said

"What are you waiting for let's go out"

They went to swim in a small right outside the tower. They went rock picking after and the kept on picking crystals and rocks till the fifth day.

They made weapons on the sixth day. Rose's weapon was a little dagger made of ores and Len's were claws.

Their level then reach six on the third day and they got mist nature (peculiar abilities that each person has at a new stage). Len's nature was sensing his environment and Rose's was increased agility.

After the week had passed by they were assigning the captains to the various tower. The captain elected in tower C was Rose. The duties of these tower captains was to organize and send the towers on missions, protect the tower, ensure the tower members were safe.

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