"Hmm... I still can't believe I ended up in the most worst time of my life, anything but 2 years lockdowndie... Seriously?"
Varun was not much surprised anymore as to what's going on but he still found it very much odd
He had many questions. "Why , why here, why not more back, why in a time where no one could do nothing?"
It was a turmoil of thousands thoughts , but the greatest question was "How?"
How did he wnd up here in the first place, wasn't his soul and body both destroyed?
It was like something, no, Someone had revived his very fragment of soul
"I need answers, this is not normal, I really came back in the worst time of my life, what's the use of being here when I am stuck for 1 whole years in my house doing nothing... I need.. I need anything that could explain what's going on"
He had his face buried into his palms and wanted to know the meaning of this, the meaning of his rivival after death
"I don't want to spend another time of high school,. Argh.. Can't believe I have to spend 4 more years in that f–king school... They don't even have anything that we can call good for a high school, even coaching centers teach better than they teach at school"
A year later, he and his family got shifted to the new house and his brother went to a different state to study as he remember, he and his parents were the one in this new but old to him house, a rented apartment. It was a magenta light colored house from outside and with two floors and a terrace the apartment was of old lady who lived in a another house next to this one, the house was near a different school called "the blue thorns".
Since lock down was stopped, he went to school, the school wasn't too big but was very much about a good size to fit 3000 students, yellow colored front wall with the name "heritance United", it had a ground but the grass was too big,the paved ground was almost same area with a basketball court and badminton court, it was still very much difficult for him, not because he was mature for his age.. But because no one thinks he was mature, even now. In his very life since birth, people called him intelligent but immature, saying that he have life but without goal, which he thought was true, but it still hurts to think about it. He was in his uniform P. Ed. Uniform, which was a blue T-shirt with school logo on the front pocket on the left side of the chest and a tracksuit blue bottoms and the tracksuit jacket.
All students had variety of color in the t-shirts from the four, yellow, blue, red and green.
As he reached the school and his class, he was met with his best from "sudhanshu", the friend he had since play centre time of school.
Sudhanshu:"You dude!, been 2 years since we met."
Sudhanshu was a slight inch tallker than him and also thinner in body structure but still quite good looking with a eyebrows touching hair even after getting set and a lean face with a perfect jawline. He was also in his tracksuit and blue t-shirt inside it
Varun:"yeah bro, the lock down sucked our face to face meeting... Be we did play alot of games."
Varun had to keep his talk according to the time, so that it doesn't change too much.. But he couldn't shake the feeling, a feeling... That "sudhanshu" Wasn't acting the way he did in the past that Varun remember, he was talking... Maturely, like he was the one who time traveled from future.
Coincidence? just his imagination? , no, that's not possible, Varun might not be mature talker but he remember, he remember the very friend he played and lived with, he wasn't like this, he was more forward and immature, dirty talker with no filter on his lips
Sudhanshu:"what are you zoning out for bro?"
Varun:"ugh?, oh.. Uhm.. N–nothing, just thought you got taller in these 2 years. Man, I am stuck at 5'6.
Sudhanshu:"oh, yeah I think you are, well it's still good since most of the average height is 5'5 , at least you're a inch taller than them, haha."
Varun:"yeah yeah, bruh... Don't need to rub on me,.... Hey... Do you remember when we both went out for my birthday? Your younger brother was also there."
Varun asked this as a meet up question... But it was more of a question to test something.. Because he and sudhanshu didn't went out together until 2022 , and it was 2021 right now.
Sudhanshu:"ah~... I do, I do... We had so much fun, my brother was eating the most of our combined, haha... I remember you said my brother looks like squirrel."
That's it.... That was the answer of future, but how did he know
Varun:"bro... Let's go to washroom for a minute."
Sudhanshu:"uh, what?... I mean.. O–ok."
They both went to the washroom and Varun pinned him on the corner, the washroom had two partitions one for stalls, one for urinal and one extra stall on the wall in the middle of both, facing the door.
Sudhanshu:"bro, what the fu–!?... That hurt me.
Varun:"tell me, you are from future, right."
Sudhanshu:"wh–what are you talking about o–..that's nonsense, how can i– ... I mean, do you really think that stupid, and why would I hide from you if I did?"
Sudhanshu wasn't sweating but it was clear that he was hiding, because Varun knew sudhanshu way better than he knows about his own self
Varun:"then how do you know something that haven't even happened yet?... How do you know what we did in 2022 while we are in 2021?
Sudhanshu:"w-!?... You?.... Wait.... Are you also–?!"
Varun:"I am... I don't know how..., I died... And woke up in 2020 ... It's been a year since then... And how did you end up here?"
Sudhanshu:"I don't know... Dude, this is mess... I was sleeping... And I remember someone screaming in my head... Or.. Maybe somewhere near.. Somewhere , where there was just clouds making a sea, I head someone say something like..... 'Let me go back' with a all out scream."
Varun went shut, he didn't knew what to say, did he heard him right... Sudhanshu didn't die like he did, he just came back in time by falling asleep?!..
Varun:"you–.... You didn't die?"
Sudhanshu:"uhh... No..... What do you mean didn't die?...was I supposed to?"
Varun:"I died.... I got hit by lightning and died, that's how I came back in time."
Sudhanshu:"WHAT!?.... Th–... You–... You died?!"
Suddenly a teacher yelled from outside
Teacher:"what are you doing inside this long boys?... You've been inside for 10 minutes right after you just came to school."
They both nodded and went back to class, then after few hours when it was recess, they were both in there school ground, sitting at the staircase of one side of the school, since in India, cafeteria in school means more fees of school. Which was on in big states like delhi , mumbai.
Varun:"so, what do you think we should do now?
Sudhanshu:"I don't know.... You tell me, you're the one who died in the first place.. Oh.. Well.. If you don't mind me asking... How did it feel to die?"
Varun:"... "
Sudhanshu:"... You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."
Varun:"it's fine... I just.... I don't know how to tell that in words... I didn't feel anything.... I didn't got the chance.... I looked up and everything went black after a sudden light,... I instantly felt light weighted and light headed... Like everything was taken out of my body, I couldn't feel my body that time."
Sudhanshu:"...sounds like mess to me."
They were having a important talk when one of the guy, who follows Varun like a tail even though he doesn't want him to, "adi", he lost his mom in a young age, so that's why Varun didn't mess with him too hard, but adi wasn't a person who was immature because of his mom's death, but because he just was... He was a damn headache.
But something was off about him too... Something that was familiar yet new... Was he also time traveled to back, because his way of walking and talking seemed off from what he remember.
Varun:"hey adi!... Come here."
Adi:".. Uh.. Yeah sure?.... What, need something from me?"
Varun:"did you sleep and ended up here?"
That shocked adi, he didn't respond for almost a minute, before questioning
Adi:"....you too?"
Varun:"not me, but sudhanshu did... He ended up just like you"
Adi:"then how do you know I did too?"
Varun:"because I ended up here by dying..."
Adi:"what the fu–?!... You.. You died?!.. Seriously?"
Varun just nodded... And walked a far for a bit.. Thinking about what's going on
"This is weird, so I am not the only one in past..if there's these 2 .....could there be more?...if there are...i need to find them....someone might know something about this...tch– ..but how?...i don't have idea of who might be from future like me...i can't go around asking either, people will think I am crazy"
He was in thoughts... He didn't know what to think about it... It was like the answer is everywhere by he can't even see it.
"I'll see about this later"
Just when he was about to go.. The weather got weird... It was the same as when he got hit by the lightning, but something was off about it.... He can see some marks around him on few people... A mark connected to students and staff from all the way from the sky with a laser light like strands ,and... No one else seem to see it
Sudhanshu:"what's going on?... The weather got weird suddenly "
Varun:"you don't see those marks?
Sudhanshu:"marks?... What marks?"
Varun:"... Never mind,.. I might've seen some light reflecti–"
He saw the mark of sudhanshu's head... He didn't knew what it meant until he saw his hair strands floating up a bit...that's when it clicked him These marks... They were on the people on who the lightning was about to fall... But when?... Just as he was thinking, the mark on sudhanshu's head turned green.... Varun didn't know what to do.. He just pushed him down, a second before the lightning fell , just a second and he was the one instead of sudhanshu who got caught... But this time it wasn't death, not instant.. He felt it.... The very pain of death and burn on his body.
"EEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
A glutteral scream for whole 10 minutes, the lightning didn't stop.. The marks from other people's head too,came over him, and the whole sky sent the lightning from like the whole around the globe on him only. A planet destruction level of thunder.
Few minutes later he stood there, roasted, but wasn't dead... Suddenly sudhanshu and adi also got hit by one lightning.. No, not lightning.. But like laser shots and fell away. Everyone around were stunned silent... Varun was barely keeping alive... Even though it was already a miracle that he was even alive, he didn't wanted to die.... Not again... Not like this... He can't leave again.
[Welcome player]
"Wha–... What the hell is this?~"
[The conditions to start the growth of player has been met]
"What the hell is this thing talking about?"
[You got 'instant full recovery' as a reward of becoming a player. Would you like to use 'instant full recovery']
"I can't understand a thing... But if it's real.... Yes I would"
He fell back.. Fainted, but not dead... His body recovered like never hurt... Not a scratch.. He was just... Unconscious now, but alive. Just like he wanted to be, or not?
[Player is chosen, player is going to complete quests to get stronger, if they didn't complete any main quest from now,.....they'll die]