Like any other natural disaster the animals sensed it just before it happened. The ground shook violently as the earth ripped open, a giant hole formed which swallowed the surrounding trees of the forest into its abyss. When the hole stopped expanding, a red light began to emanate from the depths. Then like a volcanic eruption, a geyser of dirt was launched into the air as the land that was consumed rose from the depths. When the dust settled the silhouette of a structure stood where there was once nothing.
A dungeon has appeared!
Beginning summoning process for dungeon lord...
...Candidate found!
Heaven? Hell? Limbo? Or perhaps somewhere entirely different. I have no clue where I am, just that I've been wandering for ages, walking, or perhaps floating would be a more apt term since I don't exactly have a physical body. I'm just a mass of light going in a straight line looking for...something. Anything! All I see around me is a pitch black void, it's what I think space would look like if there were no stars. On top of that this wasn't the regular type of darkness either, it felt like it was suffocating me, to the point where my own thoughts were being muffled, like my own sense of self was being drained from me, like a flame slowly being snuffed out to lack of oxygen.
I've also noticed the longer I'm here the more things I forget about my life. Memories are gradually being erased from things like basic arithmetic, to logic, and even emotions. What number comes after 9? What is the name of the force that makes things fall? Is there such thing as positive emotions because I remember the ones classified as negative. When I first noticed this, I started to repeat things about myself. Name, age, occupation, the names of my family and my hobbies, but after a while I realized it was pointless when I no longer remembered my name after the 1,118th soliloquy of my life which had begun to sound like a sad dating profile. Out of those things I only seem to remember my occupation as a bio-engineer, the fact that I have a brother and sister, their names I've forgotten as well, as for parents I have no clue as to whether I've forgotten their names or if I ever had them in my life in the first place to bother remembering their names. As for my hobbies I apparently liked to read books for pleasure, yet what made this one fact about myself seem moot was forgetting the reason I liked it so much to begin with.
*sigh* How do I remember my occupation better than the name of my family members was I a workaholic or something?
I'm going to be honest, I'm scared. What will happen when I no longer remember anything? Will I just turn into a mindless husk drifting further into the void until I was consumed by it. It made sense to me since I haven't seen any other poor souls like myself so far. I tried my best to comfort myself, even if it was accomplished by morbidly theorizing what my eventual fate may be it was better than allowing myself to let go and give up. After all, it felt like the one thing which kept me tethered was my own will to do so, keep thinking, keep trying to remember no matter how much is taken from me.
That's when something appeared, a light in the distance, but not the sort that emanates from what someone would think would come from an angel or celestial paradise, no. This was a cold bluish light with a reddish hue, a light that reminded me of the aurora borealis. It was approaching me at breakneck speed, or maybe it was just expanding due to my perspective, either way it was growing and it felt dangerous, like a shark in...how did the rest of that phrase go? Dammit. I forgot. Then before I knew it, the details of what was once small or far became clear. It was a giant hand, and it made a gesture as if it was ready to grab something, more specifically me. I thought to run, yes, even before this hand appeared I thought about stopping myself from moving, turning back, or hell, even making a turn at some point, believe me I could if I wanted too. It just felt like there wasn't any other option other than moving forward, even if doing so caused me to die a second time I knew deep down I was never someone who would back down...wait what was that thought?
...
That's right...I died. How though?
I guess it doesn't really matter anymore, wherever this path I've taken leads me I'll face it head on...like I always did.
That's when the hand closed into a fist and everything went dark once more. though, the dark no longer felt the same as it once did. It was as if it embraced me and I embraced the dark in turn. I was warm and comforted as opposed to being cold and slowly suffocated. I wish I could spend eternity with this feeling, but it eventually had to end as I knew it did. I felt myself falling for while until I suddenly wasn't.
Then for the first time, I opened my eyes to my new life.