Arknights - Project : Hope

Chapter 0 - Prologue

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A man is wakes up in the darkness. Everywhere he see, there is only endless darkness.

Suddenly a flames appear and burn everything, but strangely he didn't feel the heat at all. After that, the scenery around is changed, the young man feel familiar with the secenery he saw.

It was snowy place, there is a group of people gathering around the campfire to warm their bodies. They looks having fun, partying while drinking a hot choco to warm their bodies from the cold snow. Somehow, this scenery makes the man feel a nostalgic.

A woman suddenly stand beside him. The others also noticed her and greets her and some of them even rise their mug to honored her. The woman have a white hair with a draconic horns and tail. But suprisingly, the man couldn't saw her face clearly. It's only a blurry thing prevented him from seeing the woman face. But, even though he couldn't saw her face, when she looks at him, he could feel that she is smilling at him. Makes a warm feeling inside her chest.

Suddenly, the fire from campfire start grew larger, set ablaze around him and changed the scenery again.

This time, the man stand in middle of burning village. It still snowy though, but the sea of flames melt the snow that fell.

In the middle of sea of flames, the man saw the sam woman standing there while holding a blood stained sword. He could feel an anger, hatred, and sadness from the flames that surround the woman.

Even though the man don't know who she is, but somehow his body moving itself towards the woman. His hand tried to reach her, desperate want to save her. But the flames surround her rising and created a wall of flames, prevented him to go closer. But the man still desperate trying to break through the wall of flames just to want meet her.

A piece of memories start flowing inside his head and he remembered the woman identity, who is the woman for him. A special person he need to save.

But before the man could reach her, the woman slowly vanish, consumed by the sea of flames she created. In his last effort, the man shout the woman name in desperate.

"Wait, Talu..."

Sadly, before he could called her name, he also consumed by the sea of flames and vanished as well...

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In the middle of ruins of a destroyed city, a man is awake with his hand tried to reach toward the sky. He also could feel his eyes is tearing, so he wipe it away and try to rembering the dream he just saw.

"Talulah..." He unconsciously said the woman's name in a low voice.

Then he looking around him and saw a ruins of a destroyed city.

"What is happening here?"

He then get up and take stroll to look the situation. But wherever he walks, he only see a destroyed building and he also surprised to saw many corpse everywhere. But the biggest surprised is when he take a look at a broken mirror and saw himself, an average man with a long black hair and yellow bright eyes. But suprisingly he is naked right now.

Doesn't want to make a misunderstanding, he took a clothes from one of the corpse and wears it.

"Sorry... I didn't mean to disrespect you, but I need to borrow your clothes..."

After wears the white shirt with brown jacket and grey jeans, he pay a respect to the corpse and cover it with a cloth he found before continue walk.

As he walk, he realised that this town is just destroyed a few moments ago. The clothes he took also feels warm, indicated that this is happened not too long ago. He also could heard a explosion sound from a far.