Dark damp stone walls, rusty chains hanging from iron rings, everything dropped in warm torchlight.
The boy feeling something nudging him hard on the side, woke up with groggy unfocused eyes,
"Geez mom, 5 more minutes" and went back to sleep-
Bang-
Something hard like knuckles had struck his head forcing him to wake up and sit straight in an instant.
"I'm not you mom! Just wake up already!Such ignorance. Sleeping without a care in the world even in a situation like this."
The boy still dazed from the sudden impact just stared at the source of the voice.
The warm torch light revealed a beautiful girl, almost prefect facial features long blue hair flowed down to her waist.
(Wait, isn't this the girl from the dream?)
(No wait it isn't a dream, my head hurts way too much for this to be mere dream...)
"Now answer me. You don't look like a peasant nor a traveller with those strange outfit. Who sent you? Why were you following us?"
The boy still trying to connect the dots how he ended up in this dark prison perked up his ears at mention of outfit.
He was wearing a plain T-shirt with some baggy black shorts which looked completely unfamiliar to the girl.
While the boy was pondering how to go about answering her, considering he himself didn't know what actually happened. His head was like a blank slate about his identity. Though he clearly remembered being form Earth but when it came to his personal information like his name, where he lived, his parents, friends, acquaintance he remembered nothing. Like someone deliberately tampered with his brain.
"Hey fatso, the lord's calling for you~"
Called one of the hooded lackeys.
Though everyone looked the same with the hood and mask, the boy somehow recognised him because of this frivolous and perverted voice. He was the one who tied him up at the forest.
"Mmf" "mffffmm" an angry muffel could be heard from another cell right on the other side.
Richard tried up by rusty chains, gagged mouth glared murderously at the hooded man.
"Oh don't worry your little friend will take good care of you soon enough~"
"Also you my dear princess~ please behave, we are going to need you cooperation soon~"
The man finished speaking, opened the prison cell and gestured the boy to come out.
The boy noticed he was only one not tied to a wall but just cuffed with what didn't looked like just some rusty chain handcuffs, but some special material, it had a blue crystal embedded on both sides. The girl had the same type of cuffs but for her the crystal was glowing red.
The hooded figure the locked the door and left with him. While walking down the hallway the boy noticed his surroundings, it had an uncanny resemblance to a horror movie or murder mystery shows.
Cells after cells filled with dead or alive people chained to the walls, with marking of whip or other torture methods. Walls painted red which seemed to be blood, decapitated body parts of human and other creatures laying around. Witnessing similar scene the boy wanted to throw up again.
After walking a few minutes down the hall, the boy noticed a big decorated metal door.
The hooded figure then knelt on one knee in front of the door
"My lord I've brought him here"
After a few moments a dry sofisticated voice answered, "Yes, you may leave" and metal door which looked like it couldn't be moved even with two people opened automatically. The hooded man then threw the boy inside and left.
The boy landed inside the dark room face first unable to do anything.
(Hey! What's does it take to be a little more gentle) Silently grumbled the boy.
"Hello there little friend. How may I address you?"
The sudden call made the boy look at the direction involuntarily, there was an old man in an elegant attire, a monocle on the left eye. The old man was giving of friendly neighborhood grandpa vibes. Which surprised the boy greatly considering what he had witnessed until now. The old man looking like in his 50s, silvery white hair a well kept beard, was sitting behind a simple desk.
"Oh how uncharacteristic of me. Let me introduce myself first, I go by the name Steventh around here."
Introducing himself the man waited for the boy to speak. Feeling his gaze, the boy not wanting to go on his bad side started thinking of a makeshift name.
"I-Im Blake, n-nice to meet you too-" the boy introduced himself with a familiar name he used most of the time in video games or social media.
Before he could finish his sentence Blake noticed the old man smiling, an ear to ear smile. Though it seemed harmless, but to Blake it was like the smile of the devil.
"I don't sense your connection to it. Looks like you are unaware of afterall~"
"That makes things a lot more easier"
No sooner had the old man stoped speaking, the man behind the desk vanished and appeared in front of Blake in an instant. Before Blake's could process it the old man's hand extended towards his chest in an unimaginable speed.
Crackle-
As soon as the old man's hand reached Blake's chest an invisible force stopped the mans hands form penetrating his chest.
[CODE - 04 DETECTED {ERROR}]
[ANALYZING...]
[HOSTILE ENTITY DETECTED]
[EMERGENCY TRANSFER COMMENCING...] [ERROR]
[FAILED]
[LEVEL 5 BARRIER DETECTED]
[TARGET SAFETY COMPROMISED]
[NOTYFING HQ...]
[SUCCESS]
[HANDING OVER...]
An unfamiliar artificial voice rang out in Blake's ears, in the span of what felt like a second at most
BOOM-
A big explosion sending shockwave in every direction. The old man got flung across the desk into the wall behind almost breaking it. His body making a human shaped dent in it.
That's the last thing Blake saw before his consciousness got pulled away forcefully.
When he opened his eyes again he was standing in middle of nowhere, thick fog obstructed his vision. He couldn't even see past 2 meters in front of him.
(Great. From one hell to another)
"Just gimme a break already" sighed Blake as he started walking in the fog trying to navigate the place.
After taking only a few steps he stumbled upon a huge wall, atleast a few hundred metres tall, one cannot even see past it.
In the middle was a huge entrance gate made of metal. Unknown carving and decoration filled every nook and cranny. The gate resembled an entrance to a king's palace.
⟨Just come inside for now⟩