Chaos

The Beginning

          

                                                                       "Welcome to Morcavia
                                                                            Population: 3,856
                                                                                    Year: 2017"

Is what the sign said as we entered the city. It's been a total of seventeen years since I've been in that orphanage, and now that it's closing, I'm being moved to another across the state. Although I only have one more year until they throw me onto the streets, I was told that it's protocol to leave with the others, but I don't recognize any of the surrounding people.

New town, new school, new people, new day.

As everyone started to get ready to pack up their belongings on the bus, since our destination was an hour or so away a girl who had been talking to herself in the back quiets down slowly leaving the rain that's pouring down on the bus outside as the only noise. As I look outside my window, I can see skyscrapers. As the droplets blur my vision, I doze off to sleep..

"Hey!", someone next to me yells in my ear, "We're here!" They continue to yell as everyone rushes towards the front to exit the bus. The group is made up of at least 20-35 teens, maybe a few kids here and there. We all stand Infront of a 10-story building that looks as if it could have been a part of an ongoing murder investigation. Not only was this building so old it looked like it would collapse as soon as someone set foot inside, but the metal front door had accents that were such a deep shade of red that no one wanted to find out if it was rust or possibly old bloodstains.

Once we all entered the building there were several flights of stairs and from the look of it over 50 rooms, which was more than enough for a group of nearly forty people. As we are all assigned rooms of our own, I couldn't help but feel the sudden change of the atmosphere.

At first the bustling sounds of numerous people racing to different rooms and trying to get a good look at the layout of the building were almost migraine inducing, but slowly the sound began to completely fade into the distance as if we all weren't in the same area anymore. A slight ringing began to echo through my ears as the people around me slowed to a complete halt. From the crevasses of the far end of the corridor dozens of shadows emerged and only one thought came to mind "Run!" so I did.

Maybe it was because I'm not the best at sneaking around or maybe it's because I'm the only other moving being, but the shadows immediately started chasing me the moment I made a break for it.

  They had human shaped figures like my own shadow just detached itself from me. The pair of shadows spread across the walls and expanded at an incredible speed down the hall I was going to as I made my way to the exit with a pool of utter darkness behind me. When I finally reach the front door its already been encased in darkness and as I begin to pay attention to my surroundings It comes to my realization that the entrance may have been blocked off the moment we set foot inside the building since it's the most dimly lit area. The intertwined shadows suddenly grow to the size of a wave and lunges towards me. Before I can fully process what's happening, the door swings open, and I'm pulled outside.
    Once I regain my balance, I hear the building rumble and quickly look up, I take a look around only to find the building completely different.  The questionably rusty door now seems to be a matte black, and although the building before was old, this can only be described as a scene from an apocalypse there isn't a single window that isn't broken, there's actual pieces of the building chipping off and the building itself is partially sunken into the ground and slanted.

As I continue to look around, I find myself looking in the eyes of the frantic girl from earlier. "Were you trying to die? I mean..." She questioned as she nervously looked around."Since you didn't try opening the door, I thought I should ask" She continues. "There was no door! it was completely enshrouded by shadows that chased after me. " I