Chapter 1: Second Chance
Year 2023, Day 2,237, Post-Eclipse:
As I lay on the cold mountain of corpses beneath me, I placed my bloodied palm on my face and sighed with a faint smirk. I had always wondered. If the total eclipse had never happened, if that parasite had never evolved, would my life have played out differently?
"Pfft, well there's no use in thinking about that now is there?" I chuckled as I wiped the blood off my sword and placed it back into its jet black scabbard. "Is this how it ends?"
As I stared upwards towards the bright blue sky, I could see the faint silhouette Vanessa Lee with her long glistening blond hair and hazel tinted eyes, grinning in response to my sorrow.
I gnashed my teeth in frustration. I was enraged. Not at the world, but at myself for placing my trust in that distasteful woman, only to be betrayed in the end.
I slowly got up and stared directly into the souls of the hundreds of thousands of monsters that approached me. As I hopped off of the corpses, the zombie-like creatures began charging at me. It felt as if we were in the midst of an all out war. I once again unsheathed my sword in order to fight for my life until the very last moment.
It felt as if I was fighting for an eternity. I continued to slash through countless enemies.
2 Days Later
I began losing track of time. How long had it been? Weeks? Months? I was clueless. All I knew was that the end of the battle was in sight. I continued eagerly slicing through the enemies in front of me. Drained of my energy, I swung my sword carving a gaping hole through the final monster's chest. Stabbing it in the head afterwards to make sure it was fully dead, I felt a sense of relief I had never once felt in my life. Letting my guard down in celebration of my victory, I felt a slight poke in my back. It didn't feel like much, however it was apparent that my sense of feeling had betrayed me when I looked down to see a huge hand straight through my chest.
"Did you think this was over?" A deep, yet suspicious voice uttered.
I was appalled that me of all people, would make the mistake of letting my guard down in this kind of world, no matter the circumstances.
"W-Who are you?" I murmured, hardly able to get those three words out of my mouth.
"Ask that question to the demons of hell, Exo" The voice whispered before ripping the heart out of my chest and crushing it.
It was suffocating. Dying in such a way felt humiliating, considering how long I had survived in this hellhole.
I can't let it end like this. If only I had another chance to change my fait, I would trample on everything and everyone that got my way in order to achieve my goals, not matter who they were.
As I felt my soul leaving my nearly dead body, I saw a faint light emerged from my fading surroundings. I immediately headed towards the light without question. Reaching my hand out towards that light, my vision was immediately flooded by a beam of light, making me shut my eyes tighter than ever before.
Seeing the light fading through my pitch black eyelids made me slowly open my eyes.
"What the hell?!" I shouted instantly, standing from my desk in the far back of a bland yet full high school classroom.
"Jay! What do you think you're doing in the middle of my lesson?!" an old balding teacher at the front of the room roared. "Sit your ass down immediately!"
"S-Sorry sir" I murmured reluctantly while slowly sitting back down into my damaged, yet functioning chair.
"Tsk, kids these days have no manners" the teacher whispered under his breath before continuing the lecture.
After sitting down I inspected the classroom, confused on the current situation.
What happened to me? Shouldn't I have died to that mutant back there? So why am I seeing my 9th grade high school classroom right now? Could it be a hallucination? No, it feels too real to be one. Then have I truly returned to the past, before everything happened?
While inspecting the classroom, I looked up at the board only to see the date read, October 16th, 2016.
I was taken aback. How is this possible? I went back to the time when I was 14 years old? If it's the 16th of October then that means that it's nearly exactly a year before The Total Eclipse. After I few seconds, I raised my hand.
"May I use the restroom sir? I asked politely, to ensure that he would let me go.
"Fine but make it quick" The balding man responded in a frustrated tone.
I got up and made my way into the restroom stall and gently leaned my head against the wall. If I've truly returned to 7 years ago, to the time before the eclipse happens, then that means I could save everybody. Austin, Sylvester, Drogo, Blue... everybody I ever cared about, I can save them.
Before I knew it, tears began running down my face. I was grateful that I was granted this opportunity. Because not only would it allow me to save the people I love and care for, but I'm also able to get back at all of the people who wronged me in my previous life. I smirked at the thought of this.
"Just you wait" I mumbled while lifting my head and running my hand through my shiny, blond hair. "You all won't meet a good end. I promise you that"
Author's note:
Hello! This is my first time writing so I would greatly appreciate it if you could let me know some things I could do better. I don't mind harsh criticism, if anything I prefer it. So don't hesitate to say anything. Anyways, hope you enjoy the series.