Battle Royale: Apocalyptone

Tale 4: Chapter 1 - The Whole Circle of Life

We managed to survive this mess before the punishment, as a whole. 4 children, myself and my wife. We are one as always.

But I asked myself this: "Who survived somebody knew anyone else but me?"

I think we are the only ones we once knew.

When the news about the last person died spread out, my children cried because of fearing death. At least, my wife made them as quiet as nature. We planned something that we will stick together until we are the only ones left. We will live like normal in the terrible battlefield as long as we can defend ourselves with our own chosen abilities. We might fear of Assassin, but if one of us is an Assassin, we feel blessed.

As we woke up in the battlefield, we noticed that we are assorted. My name is Arthur, my wife is Atalante, my eldest daughter is Semiramis. My second son is Oberon. My little son is Apollo and my little daughter is Venus. As a father, I should protect my family so I was chosen to be the Architect. My wife knows how to give us hopes, so she is the Warrior. The eldest one knows how to frontline the bullies against us so she's the Black Mage, at least one of the strongest. The second one knows how to love his siblings, so he is the White Mage. The little twins should be protected and useful, so Apollo is the Hunter and Venus is the Soldier.

They were very hungry and tired of hill hiking so we stop ourselves and build a house with my powers. At least, a shelter to be like a normal life. The two eldest hunted chickens and harvest potatoes in this weird forest. The twins, well, they played with their favorite toys I made. My wife, she forged us weapons for us. I make traps that only us can see. When the eldest siblings came back, they cooked food. Roasted Chicken and Mashed Potatoes with salad.

Someone rang the doorbell, and my wife and I opened it. It was a tired dirty looking mage. Semiramis verified that she is an Illusionist. My wife created a duplicate and clean version of her clothes. At least, she's happy. We even invited her to our lunch-dinner. I asked her name and she revealed herself as Artemis.  So we had this conversation...

"So how did you managed to survive this place?" Artemis asked.

"It's a kind of a long, long story... I should not tell..." I answered but Oberon spoke up.

"We just stay together in the house 6 days per week," he answered.

So the twins tried to annoy him, since it was an annoying truth.

"Hey, twins. Eat your food!" Semiramis shouted. "But sister, I hate weird greens," Apollo responded.

And the arguement just started. Artemis laughed, so they stopped. "You know what? You are lucky that you as a whole are still alive, making jokes inside the battlefield," Artemis spoke.

I continued, "Apollo is right, we kept this routine for 6 months. And we're still alive."

Atalante added this up, "And with that, we still play in middle of the apocalypse."

"Yeah, like those 6 player chess?" Venus asked.

"And even the Brock Borty Block Maze?" Apollo asked also.

"Or the Dirty Comic Finisher?" Oberon asked. We shocked that it's a perverted game so we shouted his name.

"I played that game with my friend before I left for Trisonemia," Artemis answered.

Atalante asked the eldest siblings, "So, how come you find these things by 3 hours?"

Semiramis answered in full detail," Well, we roamed around the forest first. And we found vegetables and potatoes on the trees. We found out, the chickens were kidnapped by a weird panther. It was so hard to beat normally but Oberon told me to drain his health for energy since he can heal himself. I did what he said since he is so genius. I cast a Poison Chainspear spell and it died. The chickens were safe except the two because we caught it."

Artemis smiled at them and said, "Well, nice tactic. You use dangerous classes for good."

I asked Artemis since we told our story in full detail, "So, Artemis, maybe we could hear your story about how well you ended up being here alive."

Looks like the others agreed.

Artemis answered, "Okay okay. But don't tell this to anyone, okay?"

We agreed on that.

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The Dirty Comic Finisher is the last thing I did before leaving my friend for Trisonemia visit. Well, we became perverts as hell. Seriously, we did it.

Anyway, when I was in Trisonemia, I called him right away, telling him that if he's okay. He's really okay. But for me, after 3 weeks there, no. The Reaping Jack came into Trisonemia, as this country's nightmare. For 3 years, he hunted people and he enjoyed scooping blood. And for 3 years, I can't call him, since then the lines were cut down by him. At least, I have a portable connection to you, but very weak since the lines were off. I had a friend there, but she died because of him. I was the only survivor, hiding in the place where my friend told me just before she died.

And there, I spent my whole time. Luckily, it has tons of food.

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Everyone was shocked about her story, even me. Reaping Jack? I asked, "Is he still alive? Is he a participant?"

She answered, "He is the Assassin in this punishment."

Looks like we already gave up when she answered it. The best class goes to a serial killer. Some of us cried, notably my little children.

She continued, "Don't worry, you still have 2 best classes. Just do your tactics to defeat him. I hope you can trick him more than his tricking magic spells."

Semiramis responded, "I think she's right. Dark magic can be anything, though."

And we agreed that we will use our tactics to defeat him.  I told her this, "Even though he's too powerful, he can be easily get tricked. Because people participating here are mostly gullible."

Suddenly, a trap just exploded. It must be a foe. We checked the windows and it's a squad of hunters and mages. The eldest children went frontline and made them stop. The little twins were at the top, shooting projections. I activated all turrets, and my wife did a spell called Mass Vitrify, which all the weapons she made will become a radial trap or shield. Artemis casted an Visual Wall spell, which creates an illusion, seeing us being self-destructed. She told us to escape, and we did. She also managed to escape. And I hope she does.

We saw a nistlepod grown swamp and I quickly created a hidden underground house, simplistic but futuristic. More on accent lights than roomlights.

At last, no one hunted us. We rested in peaceful manner, but we still have more time before the Plague almost got us.

"Are you sure we could stay alive tomorrow? I don't want to fight to die," Venus cried.

I answered her, "Like Artemis said, we should stick together to survive."

So, everyone slept. I kept planning on what to do next.