A Blood Red Top Hat

Chapter Two: Death Code

"Stand up."A force pulled me off the ground from the back of my shirt, I stumble onto my feet as more people come into my vision,it's a small village...Well looks more like a refugee camp. White tents been put up everywhere and small fire pits glows in a small red flame. Many people muttering about things that maybe is about me or something else. But I can't hear what they are talking about in where I am standing, maybe if I move forward, I may hear what the are talking about.

"Come on." The same voice pulled me forward, I never seen his face, I turned to the voice and soon be greeted with a taller male with a hoodie pulled over his head, giving a sense of sinister and dark. He nudged me again, I step forward reluctantly, doesn't wanting to move.

I took another step closer to the crowd, their face reflected with surprised but there are no fear in the air.

"A new comer?"

"Is she new?"

"I think she is new."

The whispers continues to grow, my stomach turned, I feel uncomfortable with all the eyes on me, I feel sick from all the attention and the drama that took me here. Step by step, I made one meter, more closer to the crowd, my footsteps are slow and slumpy, dragging itself across the dirt road.

The crowd slowly parted to the sides, "Follow me." The hooded male said, using it's long legs and step in front of me and departed in a normal speed, I followed him past the crowds which stop whispering and now give a dangerous gaze at me.

We passed the crowd and a few turns, as well progress to a big white tent, the tent is a lot much more bigger than the other ones which I see on my way here, it looks like it's more than one room, no matter how you see it, it could fit whole family of four.

The male brush open the hanging flaps which act like doors to the side, I peek pass his shoulder, I was expecting people doing stuff but no, it just one person sitting at the other end of the tent.

"Go in." He pushed my in front, I am now half in the tent and I still have no clue what is happening, my stomach to another 180 turn to somewhere.

"Hey! We got a new comer!" The hooded male shout behind me, making me jump a bit, but the more scary thing is when the dude who is sitting at the end of the room turn around. I was expecting a really old dude who knows life.

But I was welcome to a young lad, bright golden hair, blue eyes, tall, like every English person on Earth. "So she is new?"The golden hair male, the hooded guy replied with a node.

"Come on in."

I step in the tent, the inside of the tent is white, a few tables and chairs, maybe it's a meeting room. I wondered to the chairs, have one second hesitation, I sat down.

"I believe you are very confused."

I nod, I don't wanted to speak, this whole place creep me out, no matter how friendly all those people look, I never sense any safety.

"Well I am gonna explain." the golden hair male continued. "You are no other place other than your beloved game;animal jam."

And that is the sentence that took my attention, wait...I am in...Animal Jam?

"You are now in the land of Jamaa."

I almost stood up with shock, "How?!" I screamed, and that is the first time I said anything when I reached 'Jamaa'.

"Calm down."He gestured a 'sit down'.

I sat down on my chair again, my brain is still refuse to process the info.

"We have no idea why and how we got here, but we have found out we indeed in Jamaa. And right now we are sitting right on the land of Sarepia forest."

I am still sitting in shock, my stomach have already turn 360 degree and now I have no idea how much it turned now.

"But here is the twist to the story, Jamaa is a dangerous place, we have no idea what happened precisely, but we didn't teleport here first."

"Than who did?" I ask, now my curiosity is crawling out of me like a little kitty cat wanting to see the outside world.

"The famous jammers."

"But why is that the twist?" More questions flowing out of me.

"They are under some sort of control, they all have possessed 'superpowers' and some of our team members has said they are all wanting to kill us, all of us. The ones came after them."

"So that mean they use their 'magical powers' to kill all of us."I am starting to worry.

"Yes that is correct." The golden hair male shift in his chair. "And there is one of the most important thing you must remember."

I node, ready to take in more information if I could without blowing my head off.

"We are not in a 'real place', we are in a computer program."

And there goes my head, stuffed with information and I still don't know how many things I could take in.

"In this computer program, there is one annoying code, so annoying most of us are really frustrated about it."

"Okay what is it?"Hope my brain can survive.

"In this world, you can't say your name, It's programmed in the game...

You die when you say it...

It's so called the Death Code."

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Music-Endgame by Waterflame

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