Trapped in the web novel
Chapter 1
Rodion's eyes opened slowly, a headache came soon after, it wasn't just his head, his whole body was in pain, he looked up where he saw drops of water wetting his face.
He was lying on a bed made of earth blocks on an old mattress devoid of any comfort, the roof over his eyes was made of straw or if you prefer you could call it a grass roof.
Rodion was confused, he couldn't say where he was or how he got there, his last memory goes back to the moment he was stabbed in an alley near the coffee shop where he used to drink tea and write.
Now he was in what looked like a room made entirely of earthen blocks, was this purgatory?
Rodion felt something cold pressing on his body, with his body in pain it was difficult to move after struggling a little he finally managed to make himself feel on the old mattress that hurt his side.
There were many holes in the top of the building causing the cold and mosquitoes to enter, making the room very cold.
Rodion took a few breaths in the same bed he was in, a girl was sleeping, or at least that's what he thought, but something was very wrong, the girl's body wasn't showing any body temperature.
Despite the pain, he checked the girl's condition; she wasn't breathing, there was no heartbeat, her skin tone was close to gray, and the veins on her body were quite swollen.
What was happening? Rodion, who had been killed, woke up in a strange room with a dead girl. The type of building he was in suggested he was in Africa, or at least in an undeveloped country.
The dead girl didn't seem to be black, so maybe she wasn't in Africa. Before she could organize her thoughts, someone knocked three times on the metal door in another compartment.
Rodion was worried about looking for a window to escape, he didn't know where he was and he definitely didn't want to be found with the body of a girl he didn't know.
Luckily for him there was a small window on the other side of the wall, but there were two problems he had to face first before he could escape.
First, his body was in pain, making it difficult for him to move, which brought up the second problem: how would he break the sheet metal that was nailed over the window?
With much effort and using a stone hammer that Rodion found next to the bed, he was able to open the window, he used a bench made from old wood scraps that was nearby to use as a trampoline.
"My friend, last night was simply incredible, did you see how that caterpillar girl was shaking her hips? She was incredible"
" Em ! Rodion what are you doing"
Somehow the person knocking on the door managed to get in and found Rodion trapped trying to escape through the window. Rodion didn't understand the first part of what the man said, but it was a surprise that the person knew his name.
Since he was stuck with his head on the outside and his rear end on the inside, he was unable to see the man and could not identify him by his voice.
"How did you get there, come down and talk a little, my body still hurts from the beating we took yesterday?"
The person spoke again and once again Rodion failed to match him by voice.
"I'm stuck," said Rodion, struggling to get back.
"Rodion, you have to stop doing weird things because you're trying to sneak in through the window while Irina sleeps."
With help, Rodion managed to free himself, and it was then that he got a fright when he saw the figure that had been talking to him until just now .
"What's up, Rodion? Why are you looking at me like that? Don't you dare laugh at me because you're worse off than me."
The man Rodion estimated to be 17 years old ran his hand over the ima tomas on his face as his metallic tail swung in embarrassment, that's right, the man had a tail.
"Do you have a tail?"
"Yes, and I also have eyes in my wise face?"
Rodion took a deep breath, his head was already spinning, let me recap things, I was killed, I woke up in a strange room, a dead girl and a brute with a tail who somehow knows my name and acts like we're friends and that having a tail is the most normal thing in the world.
" Who are you?"
Rodion didn't want to ask so as not to expose his ignorance about the situation, but things were very strange and he needed an answer.
"Rodion, you're messing with me, aren't you?"
The brute sat on the bed next to the dead girl, but her friend's expressionless face made her get up in the next instant.
"Are you serious?"
He approached his friend and touched his friend's forehead, who kept staring at his tail.
"Dude, those bastards beat you up really hard, just because we ended up sleeping with their girlfriends, they had to ambush us and finish us off, those fucking lizards . "
"What nonsense are you talking?" Rodion seemed visibly irritated by the nonsense coming out of the stranger's mouth.
"You don't remember last night?" The stranger looked at Rodion with regret before continuing, "Do you have amnesia again?"
"Amnesia? Again?" Rodion stuck to the basics so the stranger could explain these two points.
"Of course, you said you had forgotten your entire life under the age of 10 and now you have forgotten everything again, don't tell me I have to tell you all the 5 years we were friends"
Sighing a little, stopping his words, he pulled the sheet that covered the dead girl he thought was sleeping.
"Hey Irina, wake up Rodion lost his memories again, why are you still sleeping, hey Irina, aren't you the one who says we should wake up before the chickens?"
Rodion tried to stop the stranger but to no avail, before he could, the stranger jumped in fright.
"Oh my God, she's dead!" He frowned at Rodion and asked, "What happened? How did Irina die?"
Rodion shook his head innocently.
"I don't know, I woke up and she was already dead and that's when you arrived, I don't remember anything else, by the way, what's your name?"
"It's serious, isn't it?" Rodion nodded.
"Alex, this is my name"
Hearing the name, something clicked deep inside Rodion's coincidence. He couldn't believe it. How could this be possible? Alex? A tail. What is he doing here, or rather, what is Rodion doing here?
"Alex Arcane?" Rodion asked, his voice trembling slightly.
"Yes, you remembered," Alex asked his friend if he knew his last name.
"Where are we?" Rodion refused to believe the situation he had reached.
"Well, this is your house, why do you ask?"
"Well that's important, but not what I want to know, I meant what country are we in, continent this kind of thing, well, the year too"
"Country? The land you meant to say kingdom, isn't it? This here is the kingdom of the moon and the continent is austral and the year according to the church calendar is 2027"
Hearing Alex's answer, Rodion closed his eyes and tried to absorb and organize the information, somehow he ended up in the book he wrote and which somehow was also the cause of his death.
Even if all this is true, what is Alex doing in this kingdom? He shouldn't be in this kingdom, he should be in the Ngola kingdom where the story is initially told. Alex was the protagonist's first friend, in the book he was the heir to a province.
" what are you doing"
Alex saw his friend turn over the body of the girl known as Irina, first he smelled the girl's hair, then he opened his eyes and looked deep into her pupils and finally he looked for a specific mark in the girl's private parts.
"Rodion, don't tell me you want to do it with a corpse, I didn't know you liked that kind of thing."
Alex glared at his friend who was acting even stranger than usual.
"Stop talking nonsense, give me a minute of silence"
Rodion found a pendant that illustrated a bird in a cage, now there was no doubt he was in his book, but then several questions came to his head.
The girl's name was Irina Ivanova and she wasn't supposed to be dead, this character would still be alive even at the end of the book, now he had to know why she was dead and why Alex is in this kingdom and not with the protagonist.
Rodion walked outside the house to get some fresh air, Alex followed him.
"What is this dome covering the sky?" Rodion pointed to the sky where there was a translucent barrier.
"Friend, you are seeing things, there is nothing but clouds"
"Can't you see?"
It seems Rodion had one more thing to worry about: time passed and the two stood still for about thirty minutes, Alex let his friend organize his thoughts before saying.
"Rodion , we have to burn Irina's body before she awakens as an undead."
"Undead"
There was something else that wasn't in his book.