ONE Human

Part 1: This strange new world

It was just a normal night, I got in my bed ready for an exciting new day tomorrow, I was going to graduate college. I set my alarm and went to bed. Everything was gonna be so excited. Being proud of how hard I worked for this, my family and friends supporting me, and taking my next big step into life. Long story short I was excited, until I wasn't.

That morning I started to hear different kinds of voices all sounding unfamiliar so I first thought maybe some neighbors next door are arguing, but I then felt colder as I started to wake up more. "More contestants?! Are you kidding me?!" I heard a gruff female voice say. I opened my eyes, groaning and I didn't see the ceiling, I saw I was outside underneath a blue sky. The voices became clearer and clearer as I heard a very monotone voice say "Everyone these are our new debuters, the two teams who finish first in this challenge will get one of them on their team." I became so confused and sat up when I saw what looks like a chewed up piece of bread with mold around it, a candle, and a backpack all alive and moving towards me.

I freaked out seeing all of this and shuffled back scared. "Gah! Talking objects!! S-stay back!!" The candle stepped forward and said "Hey, we're not gonna hurt you. Just take deep breaths." I didn't want to listen to her because seeing all of this and seeing more talking objects and other things surrounding the area made me think that this was all a dream. I was then slapping myself over and over again trying to wake myself up but then a Soda Bottle grabbed my arm before I could slap myself again which caused me to scream and I started panicking more. "Hey! Hey! Hey! I know this is stressful but don't hurt yourself because of all of this." This didn't make me feel better as I didn't know what was happening so I just replied with "How is anything gonna calm me down when I'm surrounded by living breathing objects?!!" The candle then went up to me and said "Why is this a shock to you? You're a living breathing object like us." I had no clue what she was talking about so I stood up and said "What are you talking about? I'm not a-" but before I got to finish, I noticed something off about me which caused me to start panicking more, my arms had turned into sticks with my hands turning into circles. Water was shown to be near here. So I went to where I saw a puddle and looked into the reflection on the water. Sure enough, she was right, I wasn't myself anymore. I didn't see my red hair, pale skin, and tall body. I instead saw a Lava Bucket with limbs and a face.

I fell back and was shocked by the situation I was in. The candle looked over and asked "Are you not an object?" Before I could answer though I heard a groan come from near where I woke up, we went over and saw a giant pearl with no legs waking up. That monotone voice came on again and said "Welcome our two debuters, Pearl and Lava Bucket." Lava Bucket was obviously not my name so I spoke up by saying "Whoever's out there, that's not my name! My name is-" The monotone voice interrupted me by saying "The next challenge will start in 10 minutes so get ready." The candle and Backpack took notice when I was about to say my name and headed over. "So you're not an object. What are you?" Said the candle. I was still a bit scared not knowing if they would believe me, but they did seem understanding so I replied "Well, I don't know if you know what I am, but I'm a human. I-I just woke up here this morning, that's all I know. I don't know how I got here." They both looked a bit shocked and The Candle said "So you're the human the other objects have been talking about?!" I suddenly became confused and asked "Other Objects here know about me?" She then responded with "Well not you personally, but we've been hearing about these humans that some objects keep telling us."

Then suddenly the pearl rolled over to us and said "Well I'm at least glad others know what's going on with me here. One day I'm sitting on a necklace in a jewelry store, next day I wound up here with arms and a face." I looked all confused but since I didn't want to add on to that and with the slight relief that the objects here believe me I then asked "Why am I here?" The bread with mold chimed in and said "We don't know why you in specific are here and neither do we know why all of us specifically are here, but you're here to compete for 1 wish." I was still shocked by the whole situation, but The candle looked at me and said "Listen, we're trying to get back to our normal lives as much as you. We'll be on your side." I decided I had no other way of getting out of this situation unless I go along with them. The monotone voice then spoke up and said "It's time for the next challenge. Get in your teams." I didn't know what I should do so I just sat there with Pearl contemplating the new situation and the fact that I'm away from my normal life....I wanna go home.

To be continued