The World Behind The Arch

Chapter 2

When Griffith woke up he was alone in a destroyed city, at the moment he got up, he discovered that he did not recognize anything in the place.

"Where I am?" He wondered aloud.

"Damn! This fucking hurts!"

Griffith heard Ziz's voice in the distance, as he approached he heard Ziz yelling: "Leave my spleen motherfuckers!" Which alerted him and made him sneak up on him.

Ziz was completely immobile on the ground, he could still move his head but some eagles were eating his guts

"Ziz! What the hell!"

"Hey Griffith!...I'm...I'm...Ugh...being eaten."

"I can see that. Doesn't it hurt?"

"I ... I've gotten used to it ... Get these birds out of my liver."

Griffith grabbed a stick and hit one of the birds, blowing it up; The eagles got scared and ran away quickly.

"Griffith ... put my guts in my body."

"What!? No, that's gross," the boy exclaimed.

"You're selfish ... Agh ... I'm dying and you're not doing me ... That little favor."

"You're going to die, whether I put them in or not, I'd rather not touch that."

"Son of a bitch, I can still survive ... Just ... I've just been eaten ... Ah fuck! ... The spleen, half a liver ... Part of the intestine ... And ... One of the lungs."

"Just," he scoffed.

"I want you to put on my tombstone ... "He died without the eagles eating his penis"... In italics ... Arial Black ... Size 30 ... With red underline."

"I don't think you can choose a color."

"I'm dying and they won't let me choose a color? Sons of bitches!"

Ziz stood up suddenly and his body regenerated leaving Griffith with his mouth open.

"What the hell!?" He yelled in amazement.

"It's true! You passed out."

A while before.

Griffith was unconscious, Garudo, Serena, Santiago and Ziz were talking.

"Where are We?" Garudo asked.

"In a ruined city," Ziz replied.

"I think something happened with the flash," Santiago said.

"Santiago, I think all of us realized that," Serena criticized.

"I have a question," Ziz said, raising her hand.

"Which Ziz?"

"Why is Griffith unconscious?"

"Because he's a queer," Garudo replied.

"What are we going to do?" Santiago asked, changing the subject.

"First we have to figure out how to get home," Garudo said.

"I've seen this many times in video games, Santiago will be the first to die," Ziz said.

"And why is that?"

"Because you have glasses and you're the smart guy in the group."

"Serena has glasses too."

"But Serena is the girl of the group," Garudo said.

"No, that's Griffith. Can't you see he passes out?" Ziz said. "Serena is more manly."

"Why?" The girl asked.

"Look at him," he said, pointing to the unconscious Griffith.

"Griffith is very effeminate," the girl said, mocking him.

"We are straying from the subject," Santiago exclaimed.

"If you have any ideas, tell them Matemaster," Garudo said.

"Don't mess with SpanishElite," Ziz replied.

"Stop calling me that!" Shouted Santiago.

"Be careful, Divine Torment gets angry," they both said at the same time.

Present.

"And that's what happened," Ziz explained.

"You haven't said anything about why you've healed! Why the hell were the eagles eating you!?"

"I underestimated them," he said seriously, turning his back to him.

"Hey! You've found Griffith," Garudo yelled, coming closer.

"Garudo what happened?" Griffith asked.

"Well, you see..."

A while before.

"Let's think what we can do," Santiago suggested.

"We can die," Garudo said, trying to give an answer.

"No, we can't," Santiago answered, disagreeing with his friend's words.

"Actually we can, we shouldn't, but we can," Ziz said.

"Well, let's discard it," Santiago added.

"The point is to complain," Ziz said.

"The first thing in a game is to find out where you are," Garudo mentioned suddenly.

"But this is not a game," Santiago replied.

"Is not? I'm telling you, if I hit Griffith, an interface with his life appears out of nowhere in red," Ziz exclaimed.

"In red? How weak is it?" Garudo asked.

"Well, it's Griffith," Ziz replied.

Present.

"And that's what happened," Garudo finished.

"You haven't explained anything to me either!" Griffith yelled angrily. "It's more, have you been insulting me all the time while I was unconscious?"

"For the most part," Garudo replied.

"At least tell me how I ended up here."

"Ziz kicked you to prove his theory and you ended up rolling down the slope, no interface appeared."

"What a pity," Ziz added, disappointed.

"Wait, what if we have the interface disabled?" Garudo thought. "What if the game has lives instead?"

"No, I don't think so, the eagles were eating me and I didn't get a loading screen telling me I'd lost a life," Ziz replied.

"Why did the eagles eat you?" Garudo asked.

"I underestimated them," he answered seriously, turning his back to him.

"Oh it's true! Serena has said that we are a nuisance, a hindrance and a burden and that she is leaving without us," Garudo explained.

"Shit, man, what about Santi?" Ziz asked, turning around again.

"He's going with her."

"We have to find them. What if he screws her?"

"Shit, is true! Fucking Santi!"

"Come on Griffith, if Santi fucks Serena because you delay us, we will smash your face."

Griffith, Garudo and Ziz headed to the top of the hill, Santi and Serena were no longer there, upsetting the boys further.

"Where have they gone?" Garudo asked, looking around.

"There is a huge arch over there," Griffith reported.

"Okay, let's go there," Griffith ordered.

The boys came running to the arch, the arch was in the middle of two mountains, there was an old man with a large white beard, which stood out for his bald head and his skeletal body, his eyes were brown and his cornea was yellowish as if he had icteria.

"Hey guys, are you strangers?" the old man asked when he saw them.

"Is He talking to us?" Griffith asked his friends.

"How cool! Our first dialogue with an NPC, leave it to me," Ziz asked.

"I want to talk, too," Garudo said.

"Okay, let's talk both, I'm asking first," Ziz replied, overexcited.

"Fuck!" Garudo exclaimed.

"Yes, how do you know?" Ziz replied to the old man.

"No one in their sanity would break through this arch, well, no one who knows what lies after it."

"What is after him?" Garudo asked.

"Your downfall! Hahaha," the old man replied, laughing like a madman.

The old man continued to laugh out loud, scaring Griffith by his madness.

"He looks nice," the boys said at the same time.

"What the hell? He's fucking insane," Griffith exclaimed.

"But look at him, he looks so happy," Garudo said, pointing at him.

"When I'm a decrepit old man, I want to be like him," Ziz mentioned. "Have you seen a pretty girl accompanied by a guy with glasses?"

"Yes, they crossed the arch," the old man replied, stopping laughing, when he finished he began to laught again. "You remind me of when I was young, especially that boy," he said, pointing at Griffith.

The boys entered the arch, there was nothing around them, only a vast white smoke that stopped them when they wanted to go to the sides.