Chapter 1: Origin

"It's over. It's finally over" I fell down. My body couldn't handle the pressure anymore. I feel tired and hurt. I just wanna sleep and find a place to rest. I'm sick of this world. I'm sick of that goddess. That insane yet pitiful woman who brought me here mistakenly. She smiles like she didn't just kidnap people from their world and forced them to fight and send people to their death.

I was only 10 years old when I came to that world. I was an orphan and was left here by my parents when I was a baby. The caretakers said that like most of the kids in the orphanage, i was left here bacuse they couldn't afford to raise their son. I was a kid back then so I was in that phase when I was aware enough to ask questions and be curious if my parents ever loved me, what my mother and father look like or do i have a sister or a brother.

Now that I think about it, the only thing that I am thankful for my parents is that I was left in a nice orphanage. The people are nice there and we call them sister or brother. The kids were also nice since sister Rea always scold us to not fight each other and brother Tom was someone who would tell us stories about dragons and wizards and were very childlish towards us.

They were the only few people who I actually remembered. Besides them, the orphanage was managed by the director who never married but enjoys taking care of children. We call him Grandpa as a joke but instead of scolding us he actually just smiled at us. There are also staff workers like the gardener, the cook and other people that i probably didn't know since i was still young.

Long story short, I was a weak and timid child who was crying in the forest park near our orphanage when a woman who was dressed in a white robe while smiling appeared in front of me while i was crying in the forest on the base of the tree. This was my hiding place by the way.

My first impression of her was that she was more beautiful than sister Rea and she was glowing while floating on air. I remembered brother Tom's story of fairies and angels so i thought she was either one of them.

"Oh what a young boy you are" She wasn't moving her lips but I could hear her inside my mind.

Then out of the blue, she took a paper out of thin air. It was very plain but compared to the light that the woman was emitting, the light on the paper was dazzling, it didnt sting my eyes but I felt like I was looking at the sun.

The paper gave off a feeling of authority and pure power. For a moment there, I was so distracted by that paper that I even forgot that theres a glowing and floating woman in front of me.

I awoke from my distraction when I felt pain on my finger. I look down and saw blood on my thumb. My thumb was cut a little. Just before i was able to react, the woman took my hand gently and wipe the blood on the paper like it was some kind of tissue.

I stared at her while she holds my thumb and before i knew it. The blood and the wound was gone. The only thing that made me believe it was real was the blood that was on the paper.

The woman murmurred something that I couldn't full understand but there was one phrase I clearly heard.

She said " I Abide by this contract" and then she looked at me.

Before I knew it the paper turned into a ball of light that split into two. One of the light went into my body, another went into the woman. Just then a golden shackle appeared on my left arm and dissappeared just as it appears. When I look at the woman, I was surprised. Her body was full of shackes.

The shackles were all golden. Some in her fingers, nose, ears, legs, arms, breast and some even pierced her own skin. It was a very horrifying to see like she was a prisoner that could never be free. I also saw shacke that was slowly forming connecting it to where her heart is.

It wasn't the only shackle that was connected there but the one forming gave off a pure light than the others. Although the shackles were all golden, most looked dirty, some looks rusty and some looks they were burned. There was just three to four golden shackes that actually looks clean but not pure like the one that was forming right in front of his eyes.

He felt a subtle connection towards that shackle but it soon was gone when the shackles dissappear. The woman returned to her previous glowing form still smiling warmly.

"Let's go back" was the only thing she said before a blinding light filled our surroundings and a circle with complicated patterns apeared below. I wanted to run but i realized my feet was stuck. I managed to turn around in hope to scream and ask for help but before i could do that I saw a figure behind a tree I was sitting. He was staring at me with that eyes. That eyes thats made me scared. Eyes that made me feel i might dissapear from this world. Eyes that were cold.

The figure was hiding just behind the tree i was sitting so the woman couldn't see him. Although his eyes were cold and made me scared, his facial reaction is actually a combination of shock, curiosity and cautiousness. After that I only saw a blinding light. I was forced to close my eyes. When I opened them again, I arrived in a building that resembles a church but grander and at least a thousand times bigger than the small church we have at our orphanage.

I was surrounded by all kinds of people. If I wasn't so young back then I would had noticed that most of them doesn't live in the country I was living at. My natural skin color is white and I have green eyes and brown hair. Brother Tom told us children about people from other countries when he was teaching us. All kinds of people were here, Asians, Russians, Americans and other people that my young self couldn't recognized. I look to my left and i saw a middle aged man wearing a lab coat then I look to my right and saw a gun.

I was shocked bacause although i was young there were always sometimes news on the televison that someone died and was shot. Usually when that kind of news is shown, its either sister Rea or brother Tom who'll turn off the tv and tell us that it's not something litttle kids should watch. They were very protective of us and since our area was a relatively peaceful place and nothing usually ever happened there, we all felt safe. It was a girl who held the gun in her right arm. She was staring coldly at something up ahead. It's that same cold eyes I saw before coming here. It made me scared.

In fact, everyone was looking at the front. I tried to look to but I was too short. I could only wait there because I still couldn't move and I noticed that all the people in here were all the same. They could'nt move too. They could only watch and see. After an hour or so, i heard a familiar voice in my mind. Based on the reactions of the people around me. They also heard this voice.

"Welcome to my world!" was the first thing the woman's voice said. Her voice was full of excitement.

"I am the goddess here and you are here because you are the worst people on your world" her voice suddenly turned sharp and provocative. Its like she was a completely different person.

It seems people around me wanted to say something but no noise came from their mouths. Some of them can't even open their mouths. I tried opening my mouth and was relieved to know that I can open it but was surprised that no sound was coming.

"You are all sinners! You murder, you kill and you murder and you kill and you keep killing and you keep mudering. You rape, you tortured and you play with people's dead bodies. You are sick people and you are the worst people. You steal and you steal and you steal...then you shed blood again...all over again" Her voice sounds creepy and insane.

My heart kept thumping hard. I was so scared of that voice and the things she said.

'I didn't kill anyone. I didn't harm anyone. I'm just a kid...I'm just a kid!'

Tears kept flowing and flowing. I wanted to scream for help but no voice ws coming from my mouth. I try to ask for the people around me but the moment i saw their faces i became quiet. In their faces, some were smiling wickedly, some were indifferent, some were sneering, some scoffed, some was showing a deadly feeling and some i didn't dare to look at. This was my first encounter with pure murderous and killing intent. It made me stop crying and kept quiet. I don't know why but deep inside my heart I want to go home so badly. I want to be with all the kids in the orphanage again. I want to see big sister Rea and big brother Tom. I want to get out of here.

The voice was still saying something but I was only a kid. I was scared, i was alone with this people who makes me uncomfortable. I feel like vomitting. '

I want to go home. I can't. I don't. Please let me go home. Anyone! please help me!.'

After an unknown period of time. I finally calmed down but the voice in my head was already gone. When I look again, the dangerous feeling was no longer there. The people was no longer giving that strange intent to kill and was replaced by...smiling faces?....no...they look...excited...but they don't look happy to me. Some people were stll indifferent but their eyes were full of greed. I don't know what happened and why they looked like that.

Maybe it's something the goddess said...but there was no use since the voice was already gone. One by one, everyone keeps vanishing while being hit by a bright light but they didn't look scared. When it was my turn the bright light hit me and I was no longer in that place. I was instead inside a forest.