The Mortal Sun: Cryptic Reality

Prologue

I couldn’t remember much about what was going on when I’m still a child. But, when I was around 6 years old, I remember there was something awful happening. But, I’m not sure what it really is. If I remember, it was started in the morning. I was sleeping in my bedroom with a younger sister, Seina, which is still a toddler. The room has a brown old fancy themed bedroom, there was also an old vintage chandelier lamp.

A middle-aged man who has grey hair, pair of pale blue eyes, wears a black clergy shirt and black trousers came into my room to get me and my little sister. His name was Elijah, and I called him Eli. He is the one who took care of me most of the time since my parents are too busy to look after me. I couldn’t even remember what my parents look like.

He told me, “Wake up, we are getting out of here. Together with Seina”
He starts to pack some things that we need on the way. I saw he pick up objects such as flashlight, pocket knife, and matches, then he put it into a backpack. I don’t know where exactly are we are going, but I trust him. He picks my younger sister up then he grabs my hand, so I wouldn’t get lost.

As soon as we got out of my bedroom, he stopped in front of the room then ordered me and my sister to wait for him. I followed his order, then he put his backpack down to get the matches and went back to my bedroom. Since he closed the door, I couldn’t see what he was doing inside. A few minutes later, He walked out of the room. There was massive smoke coming out of the room.

“Alright let’s go.”, He picks up the backpack and Seina again, then, he grabbed my hand.
On the way down the stairs, we met another person. He looks like an adult, younger than Eli. I can’t really remember who or what does he really look like, but he asked Eli about something.

The man looked at me and he said, “Apollo, I wish you the strength to face the challenges you met with your bravery. I wish for you to become into the amazing man I dreamed you’ll become. Remember how much you are loved . . . I’m proud of you and I’ll miss you.”

I blanked out, honestly. But I heard that he mentioned my name, Apollo. He thanked Eli, then he starts rushing through up the stairs. Me, Seina and Eli continued to go downstairs. What I remember is on our way out from the house, I saw a crowd of people start running, lots of fire, loud noises of screaming, gunshots and bombing. Eli and I start running to a narrow passage. There were brick walls, short stairs, lanterns hanging on the wall.

At the end of the passage, we have to walk our way to the other side of the street flooded with thousands of people. It was hard and it consumed a lot of time. Finally, we manage to get out, we exit through a huge gate, then we ran into the forest.

I tried to look back to where we came from, we came from a castle, people were escaping from the castle, massive fire burning inside and outside and smokes coming out from there.
We decided to walk into the forest for days and also rest inside the forest. Of course, we also get food from Eli.

A few days later, Eli discovered an abandoned cabin house on a small grassland ringed with the forest trees. There is also a pond not far from the cabin. He checked inside the house, it was dusty, there are spider webs everywhere and no one has been living here for days, months, maybe years. There were also some useful kinds of stuff inside the cabin, such as food (which are probably expired), a few clothes, well, totally not for my size yet, and also an incomplete kitchen set. We decided to stay in the abandoned cabin, I’m not sure when we are going to move out from here, but this is where my story starts.