The leader with eyeglasses approached the panicking boy. "Where did you see it?"
"Just got very close to it. As I was picking up wood, I saw large and strange footprints, so I followed it, and I saw the… a-a monster sleeping."
"Maybe it's just a big rock?" someone replied.
"No, it's too good to be true, but it was. It scared the sh*t out of me!" he insisted.
"We're on the nth planet so that is possible." The leader with eyeglasses mumbled.
The chubby leader went near us. "Come on, let's go!"
"Wait," the eyeglasses leader interrupted. "We must not rush. We should create some weapon for protection, just in case."
The chubby leader frowned. "Weapon? How?"
"Boys!" he called them. All the remaining boys still working on the huts came to us. "We will find and go near that monster's den and study its behavior if it is dangerous or what. If it's not a threat to us and it lives far from us, then we can conclude it is safe. But if its location is close to us and a big threat, then it's time to evacuate ourselves."
I got worried about what I heard.
"How's the hut doing?" a girl with double hair bun and slim eyeglasses queried.
"Leave the hut and food for later. We have an emergency that needs to be heeded." The eyeglasses leader looked at us one by one as if he were telling us to be careful. "It's now or never," was his short warning to us. He approached the boys and ordered. "Gather the wood sticks with sharp ends. Prepare those as a weapon."
The boys arranged the wood we gathered a while ago. This is the only weapon they have in order to keep an eye on the monster. The girls also helped them.
"Girls," the chubby leader called to us. "When someone comes here and tells you to run, leave because it will be dangerous," he instructed authoritatively.
I do not know if I will believe it or not. But with so many impossible things happening, the boy who saw the monster is probably telling the truth. After a few minutes, they are ready as well. I think it was about five o'clock in the afternoon because the sky is getting dark.
"Take care," the modest woman said goodbye to a boy.
"Bro and the gang will kick out that monster." He smiled at the girl and hugged her. He left running towards the group of boys to discuss the further operation.
I was right. The modest-looking girl with bangs and braided pigtails, and the boy she was always with are twins. They look alike from the shade of their dark brown hair, the shape of their eyes, and noses with the major differences in gender, skin color, and height. I smiled as I watched them both.
It must be good to have a sibling in the middle of this confusion. Someone to talk to, someone to hold onto, and someone to be with amidst this strange situation. A sister or even a brother will do. I wonder what that feels like. Suddenly I felt terrible. It's like... it's like I already felt that feeling of being with an important person in my life.
"Are you listening?" I regained my senses when someone waved my face. "Hello? Is your spirit still there?"
I looked around and all the boys left already. I am talking to the bubbly girl who hit me earlier. All the girls are still here in the gathering area waiting for the boys to return while investigating the alleged monster. I hope everything went well for them.
"W-What was that again?"
"What?" she sighed. She gathered her hands to her nape. We leaned against a large tree. "Weren't you about to say something to me a while ago?"
By the way, I have a lot of things to ask her.
"Hmp," she scoffed. "You must've been weirded out by yourself." I nodded at what she said. "I also asked the others here and our situation is almost the same. Some of them also came from a ceremony, then ended up here. That is all they have remembered in their whole lives."
"I just noticed, why are the students here in 10th grade?" I questioned.
"Hmm... I don't know either. That sh*tty hologram said because we are the ones who have the bitterest thing in our lives. At first, I questioned myself, 'Why do those who are older than us, who have more and bigger problems than we do, but why aren't they here instead? Absurd, right?"
"Why is that?" I wondered because she had a point.
"Huh? Don't you know yet? The hologram told us the reason for that."
"Is that so?" I can't recall further details of that scene because my mind is too tired to absorb all of it.
"Because as the saying goes, the youth is the hope of the nation. Some also claim that the youth will brighten the future. We are still young, so we have the chance to change what we have, even the world."
I remained silent for a moment before speaking. "So, you don't even know your own name?"
"It's funny, right? I don't know my name. I don't even know if I have a name. But the funnier thing is, I know the name of my silly classmate, yet he doesn't know his freaking name. Hahaha!"
Oh, she knows her classmate's name, but I don't know his.