Different World (#Wattys2016)

Chapter 2: Unknown Area

Jared woke up on the floor, having loss his memory, but how much if his memory. Jared stood up, and he looked around him. The place didn't seem familiar to him at all. The sky was brown, and the clouds were a dark brown. "Where am I, what is this place?" Jared asked himself.

Jared then noticed he was wearing a watch. "It's one o'clock." He looked at the sky. "But it doesn't even look like it's one o'clock."

"Kill Hour has begun." The watch said.
"What the hell is Kill Hour, what are you talking about?" He got freaked out.

Jared decided walk around. It was like a wasteland. There was nothing around him. It was just dirt, sand, a few rocks, dead trees, and boulders. There was not even any water in sight. Then out of nowhere Jared saw a person, he had a blue shirt and pants. The blue shirt had a few dirt marks on it, and the pants were a little ripped. He also had a watch on his wrist. And for some unknown reason, he was running to Jared. Jared didn't know what for. When he was about ten feet away from Jared, the guy with the blue shirt crouched down, and put his hands on the dirt, the ground started shaking around Jared. He yelled out something.

"Earth Pillar Crush!" He yelled out loud.

"What the hell?" Jared told himself in a scared tone.

Jared saw two pillars come up from the ground next to each side of him.

He yelled out, "Prepare to die!" And it was in a crazy tone.

Then right when the pillars were about to crush him. Jared saw him catch on fire.

"What the hell, AAAAHHHH!" He was yelling in pain while he was on fire.

The earth pillars turned into dirt, so Jared was safe. Jared went up to the guy to see if he was alive. The person was burned alive. He had burnt marks all over him.

"He caught on fire, but where did that come from?" Jared asked himself.

Then Jared heard of voice from afar, "Leave him, he's already dead."

Jared turned around, and there was another guy on a big boulder. He had a long sleeved shirt, black jeans, black spiked up hair. His weight was average. The person jumped of the boulder.

"Who are you, and why did you kill that guy?"

He replied "I am Suki, and what might your name be?"

"Why the hell should I tell you? I bet you're gonna kill me just like what you did to that guy."

He smirked. "You're a fool. He tried to kill you, and you feel bad for him."

Jared clenched his fist, and Jared felt like decking him. But Suki did have a point. Why should Jared feel bad, when someone was about to kill him.

"So are you gonna tell me your name now, or should I make you tell me?" He said in an evil like voice.

Jared finally decided to tell Suki. "I'm Jared"

"I guess you're new here then?" Suki said.

Jared then asked a few questions about the place to Suki.

"Where am I, what is this place, why don't I remember anything but my name, and why did that guy have powers, I thought powers don't exist."

"Woah, Woah, Woah, don't think I know everything about this place. I'll only tell you what I know."

"OK, then tell me what you know"

Suki answered Jared after I told him that.

"I don't know where we are exactly. But this place is like hell.

"What do you mean?" Jared said in confusion.

"That watch that you have on your wrist is a kill watch, it uses military time. It counts down instead of up. Once it gets to one o'clock, that's when kill Hour happens."

"Kill hour? What the hell is that?"

"Kill Hour is the only hour you kill someone. You must kill a person within that hour. Once you kill someone, you will be safe and don't have to worry about killing until the next Kill Hour- which is at one o'clock. But someone can still can you during kill hour. So it's smart to hide after you kill someone. If you fail to kill someone or if you kill someone when it's not Kill Hour, the watch will-."

"What happens?" Jared was scared to ask that.

"It slices your wrist off and you die."

"[Gasp] what the hell that's crazy." Jared was shocked.

"Yeah, so make sure you kill someone each day. Or else they'll kill you, or the watch will. And you're only allowed to kill one person per day, if you kill more than one, then it still slices off your wrist."

"Damn, that's gonna be hard, especially since someone might kill me." Jared was nervous.

"Trust me, you'll get used to it" Suki said.

"There's so many rules to this killing stuff. It's so hard to keep up. I wonder who thought of it?"

"Yeah me too." Suki said in his mind.

"So is that why you killed the guy that was trying to attack me?" Jared tried to clarify why Suki attacked the person.

"Yeah, I wasn't trying to protect you. It was just Kill Hour." Suki responded to Jared.

Jared asked another question. "What about the powers the he had?"

"Oh yeah I almost forgot, we each have an elemental power, earth, water, fire, or air. When we enter here then we get our powers."

"What power do I have?" He asked nicely.

"That's not my problem, you have to figure that out yourself."

"Thanks a lot." Jared said in a sarcastic tone.

"Well, I guess this is where we part ways." Suki said.

"Wait, what are you talking about?" Jared was worried.

Suki started walking away, and Jared ran to him. "But you can't. I need you. Why would you tell me all that stuff, when you're not even gonna team up with me."

"Look, you're new here, and I can't have a newbie hold me back. And frankly I could care less about you. I only told you that stuff, because you were new here. Now leave me alone, or else I will kill you the next time it's Kill Hour."

"Fine then." Jared was pissed.

Flames started to appear around Suki. Then I realized that Suki can control the fire element. Then before Suki fully disappeared he told Jared one last thing.

"I'll tell you more about what I know, the next time we meet, if you're still alive." He smirked.

"What the? You bastard, you didn't tell me everything you know." Jared was even more pissed.