"It's like I already felt that feeling to be with an important person in my life"
LOCATION: nth Planet TIME: Morning
I can hear a swift whoosh in my ears. I can feel the strand of my hair caress my cheeks. A tingling sensation from my arms to my feet. It is so cold. It seems like I'm floating.
"Hwa!" I woke up because of the cold I was feeling. I took a deep breath. I also noticed that I was floating in. This made me nervous because I thought the river was deep and I could not even swim.
Where am I? My chest throbbed harder for an unknown reason. Maybe it's because the atmosphere in this place is kind of different but welcoming. What a serene place—a cold breeze, the river is calm and shallow. There are tall trees, green plants, and shrubs. Chirping birds and insects flew above my head and the sound of insects is audible as the sun rises.
"Whaaa!" What I saw next made me shriek because I saw that there were floating bodies of people in the river.
A-Are they okay? Are they… dead?!
There are many of them and they wear different school uniforms like me. After a few seconds, I realized that they were the 23 students like me floating in space a while ago. I snapped and pinched myself. This is not a dream. This is a reality. We are the 24 students in an unknown place. Everything is true. I went back to the events, and I did not fail to remember. If my mind recalls it right, I guess we are here on the so-called nth planet. The hologram says, the nth planet looks like the earth and as I scan the surroundings, there is no doubt that there are no visible differences. The wind, sun, water, trees, plants, and animals—they are all real! This does not seem to be an illusion either.
I poked a floating girl beside me. I put my left ear near her nose, she's breathing. I checked others, and they're alive as well. Thank goodness. I'm not the only one here and I'm not surrounded by floating corpses. Not long after, others are also rising from unconsciousness while floating on the river. Others seem so tired that you can't paint their faces. They immediately shook themselves and got extremely confused.
"Where are we?" I heard a girl ask.
"Maybe we're already here," replied the boy who was wearing eyeglasses.
"Is this the nth planet?!" a boy with long hair asked the boy he was standing next to.
"Gosh, is this it? How can I live with this?" complained a girl with curly hair artfully.
"Hey, guys! Check it out, our clothes aren't even wet!" What that boy said caught my attention.
"Y-Yes? How did that happen?"
"Magic?"
"Maybe the clothes that we have there in the galaxy have a certain substance so the water and fabric will not go together."
"My hair is dry too!"
"Dang! How bizarre this world can be?"
I checked and touched my clothes and hair. They're right, we are completely dry. I did not get wet in the river even though I was afloat. Also, we all floated, even if it was just a shallow river with probably just the height of our knees. I don't know how that happened, but this place must be strange.
"Shut your mouth, guys. There is nothing you can do if you are too amazed by what you see. You will also not be rewarded if you find out how the impossible happened," replied the boy with eyeglasses. "Don't you remember? The hologram says everything is possible on the nth planet," He's giving me an intimidating vibe that I should not get involved with him. From then on, I noticed in space that he is straightforward and everything he says makes sense even if he speaks harshly.
"But what are we going to do now?"
"Oh no! What if there are no gadgets here?"
"What the? I also don't have a cellphone with me."
"How can we live like this?!"
"What the heck is an nth planet, by the way? How did we end up here?!"
Some no-most of them panicked. I was surprised by the sudden appearance of a rather chubby boy who spoke while everyone was complaining and raising their concerns. "Stop worrying about the things that would not suffice our means to live! We should come up with ways to survive here."
Everyone became silent because of that. I can't blame him because what he said was right. We should focus on how to live here by meeting our basic needs.
"Um, I think we need a leader to guide us on what to do," suggested a girl with braided pigtails who looked modest because of her soft, girly voice.
Her companion also spoke. "That's right, the situation will not be more chaotic without a leader," he agreed. They have a good point.
I noticed that they looked very much alike. Maybe they're siblings? Or even twins?
I just looked at the two boys, one with eyeglasses and the chubby one. Everyone was silent for a moment and thought of something.
I approached the two of them and spoke. "Why don't you two become the leaders?" We might need two of them because we are all confused.
Often in class, I just keep quiet and do not socialize much. But now, I must speak up and help for the good of all. A lot of questions formed in my mind being here but first, we need to help each other.
A pretty girl with long light brown hair scoffed. "Suit yourselves. As if I can trust someone I don't even know."
She has a point. At this moment maybe we only know one person among us—the one who's wearing the same uniform as ourselves.
A tall, tanned boy with long black hair and dreadlocks stepped in. "Try your luck, lady. You seem to have trust issues."
"Come again?!" The pretty girl is agitated by what the boy commented.
"Enough," The chubby boy stopped the two from an incoming argument. "I know that I do not deserve your trust, but I am willing to be in charge of this. I hope to gain your trust as soon as I prove myself worthy of it."
"Likewise. It's not that I'm plotting something against all of you besides I'm not familiar with everyone except my one classmate. But my service could be of help on how we're going to survive this place." The boy with eyeglasses added.