The Adaptive Game

"BREAKING AWAY"

- Conner

I can't feel my leg when I wake up.

I was so tired, I completely fell asleep with my emergency respirator on.

I'm starving. I want to go home.

Is it already too late? I don't even know.
Going outside, it's all damp out. My leg is probably still fractured or broken somewhere and I need something to hold me together.

Someone is coming close to my base. It's not a guard, it's a contestant.

"Who are you?"

"Immolator."

"What?"

"I'm here to light you up."

He has a small flame thrower on his wrist, and he even lights it in front of me - to show me what he's got.

He has no idea what I've got.

"What are we fighting for?"

"You know I wanna win. We've all gone too far, am I wrong?

"Yes, you are."

"So, you didn't take Jean's mask and kill him in the storm?"

I pause and glare at him. So, I flick my cursed dagger out.

"You know too much."

He's already running at me. With his flamethrower out and a gun in the other.

Swinging my dagger out, he shoots and flares up right in front of my face. Then, he shoots me in the chest and knocks me over.

"You know. It's time I end your reign, once and for all."

Shit.

He brings the flame closer to my face and it burns like hell. But then, he gets stabbed in the back.

It's weird though. The blade that went through him is... invisible?

The blade comes back out of him, and I push the immolator off me.

The guy who saved me?

A ghost.

He's purple. He has a purple blade as well. He's not human.

That's when I realize, this is the power of my cursed dagger! If they die by the curse they'll become my ghost. This is what I have to do.

The immolator gets up and is also just like the ghost, with the blade and all.

Then, I realize.

The ghost that saved me was Jean. The very guy I killed earlier.

I can't even look at his ghost the same anymore. They're not people.

I killed him!

This challenge constantly gives me more questions.

I can't get a single answer from anything.

Every part of me is breaking away.