Dust to Hope

Gen 1 Chapter 3 (The Start Part 3)

Fredrick wakes up from seemed to be hell. He can see damp green-ish light at the end of what seems to be a short hallway. The damp light does glow up everything though, so he can faintly see he is in a broken church like area, all the statues are destroyed or just have figures he doesn't understand. All the text is either defaced or just in a different language. He looked at his own body, he so many deep cuts, I thought he could even see his own bones through his arm.

Fredrick tried picking himself up, but he fell without leverage. He crawled to one of the statues and pushed himself up with the ledge of it. He stood up and immediately felt pain go up his leg. When he tried walking toward the light, he stumbled and felt so much pain. He stumbled his way to the hallway where he had to hold the sides of it just to walk, and he looked behind him and saw a trail of blood.

The sides of the hallway has runes of some figures, from what he could make out he saw a blob with a woman like figure fighting it off.

When he made it to the light, it was in a large room. The room had 3 statues, one was fine which was a woman like one. One had half it's body gone but it looked purposeful. And the last one was completely gone like no checked over it. The light started looking more like a crystal.

Fredrick tried to grab it but it hurt so much, and the energy from it went up through his veins. He mutters to himself "I wish I could just skip today!" He blacks out.

Fredrick proceeds to wake up in his apartment, he touched his face, and notices his arm is completely healed. He pulls off his covers to see his whole body his healed. He gets up from his bed and goes up to his door. Slowly turning the door nob to see his roommate and his family talking to each other.

Fredrick says "what's going on?"

His roommate and his family turn their heads in shock, to see he's alive. But they also have a very confused look on their faces.

"H- how are you alive, and why do you have that cloak on," his roommate asks?

Fredrick looks down and then back up and says "I don't fucking know I just woke up. I remember being almost in shreds and now it seems like nothing happened!"

An older man states "a whole street collapsed on itself, and you managed to survive, we just assu-"

Fredrick interrupts him "it wasn't me. It was this stupid gem." As he points to the clasp on the cloak.

An older woman comes back with "stop blaming it on everything else!"

Fredrick palmed his face, and stated "I wish I wasn't here."

He closed his eyes. He opened them and found himself in an abandoned warehouse.

Fredrick thinks to himself, "is this-?"

To be continued...