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Chapter 10 - Ch. 10 – Trojan’s Tragedy

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(The time is 20:00 at night. The author was cooking his food. Suddenly, he had a prenomination. {still don't know what it means, but as long as it sounds cool, it's fine.} The author heard nothing san in his head lol. Will you believe it? Lol, Nothing san was like, Here's your plot. Now go fix your mess.)

So, it's 1 am rn. I couldn't sleep. Let's fix my mess of nearly stopping this draft before it even began.

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Altzar: Cool. Took your time huh!

Demon King: Yeah man, you are late by six whole days...you don't know what would this mean in the corporate world in your realm!?

Altzar: How'd you know what it's like in his world?

Demon King: I had six whole days for myself. It was enough to surpass his Cael. And his world, even though it doesn't have any magic like our world, is fascinating on it's own.

Author: Guys, guys... Don't get sidetracked here....again! Sigh~

Demon King: Haha, Alright, alright! Atlzar, I'll tell you later.

Author: Let me start. But, well...I'm on a slump here.

Altzar: Hmm? This early? Where? What? How?

Author: Well, I want to introduce the backstory of these trio now before I proceed. But I want to introduce the villain of my story right now as well. But, How am I gonna make the villain better than sati and shiva? Why did I have to go and introduce two literal broken characters at the beginning of the story? The past me must be smokes...

Demon King: Yeah, that...sounds tough alright. And through your camera and browser feed, I realize that you are in your procrastination feed.

Altzar: My guy...NEVER EVER LET ANYONE HAVE YOUR PHONE CHECKED. EVEN THOUGH YOU USE INCOGNITO...DAMN! YOU MUST BE SICK! (points at his forehead) HERE!!!

Demon King: Oh Altzar, It's pretty common in his realm. I serfed their connection thingy called internet, and I kinda regret digging into their rabbit hole. It had its good things, but man, these fkers are creative in their own weird way, and I do not mean it in a good way...

Author: Guys! You guys are getting too sidetracked here...again. Sigh~

Author sighs again~

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WORLD BUILDING STARTS.

Once upon a time, lived a family of four. In a peaceful village, far from the capital, near the sea shore. They had this vibe going on with them, which made them all into one large family. But what can we say, I guess the creator wanted something more?

Author: ALTZAR!!!!!! STOP IT.

Ahem! The World I'm gonna introduce again here is called MDW4 (My Dream World 4 for easy remembering.) It's the third universe after Earth, and eartH. Wait, I haven't introduced Earth right? Or have I? I guess I haven't. I think. Idk. Future me, take care of this as well.

Well, MDW4 was a peaceful world ruled by the demon king who's under my bed playing Pokemon with the micro organisms from my world.

MDW4 had one vast continent which was the demon empire, where every living had freedom.

Okay. Before I go and create the three empires, let's create the backstories for Trojan, Saintess and Sokomon.

HOO!

LET'S START. [ TIME: 1:51 AM]

In a rural village, a kid was born. His parents were farmers. They named him Trojan. The village was a peaceful village, as Trojan grew up to be a good kid with a happy childhood memory of his friends and family along with the villagers.

Time passed. One day, a meteor fell near lake of his village. Oh, let's give his village a name. Um, Mawaha Village. Well, one day a meteor fell near the lake beside the Mawaha Village. Every villager ran to see what had fallen from the sky. They were educated fellas, so they knew that what a meteor was.

The meteor was as big as a washing machine, It was like a black boulder, with steam oozing from it's surface. A green acid like liquid oozed outside through the several cracks it had formed from the crash.

The meteor had made a 10 feet wide hole on the surface beside the lake. Nobody among the villagers were foolish enough to go and check out this alien object, no matter how much curious they were. They all patiently awaited the arrival of Royal Knights or the Priests.

The Village chief ordered four men to work on a five hour shift to guard this meteor, so that no body shall come in contact with it.

During that time, Trojan and his father had already returned to their home. Trojan's family included his father, mother, and a sweet little sister who was still an infant. Trojan was now 16 years old by the way. He was already partaking in the work alongside his father.

One week passed without any movement. The villagers grew suspicious as why haven't anybody contacted them yet. The village head asked for the messengers at his office and asked if they had sent the message about a meteor falling near their lake correctly or not.

The messenger all nodded in belief as they said that they were promised the attendance of Royal Knights along with some scientists and priests withing a week.

The village head worried as the problem of radiation from the meteor was getting out of hand now.

The four guards were already relieved from their post near the meteor, as it was barricaded by thorn bushes made by iron now.

But, The village head understood the problem lying ahead could be very dangerous to his people and sent the messengers again with a hand written letter to the King and The Pope and told them to bring help with them this time, as it's soon going to be a very dangerous problem for the whole village.

Time passed. One week turned into one month, and there was no news from the messengers who were sent to bring help. Their family was at the Village head's office asking about their whereabouts.

The Village head knew something was suspicious now. Either something happened to them on their way to the capital, or something happened at capital and now they're trapped.

The Village head suddenly had a bad feeling, and he quickly asked for a meeting among the village heads of the nearby villages.

Two days later, A meeting was held on a nearby village where he explained the problem and the possible warning signs he's been experiencing along with his gut feeling.

He proposed to a plan of migrating of the villagers to the nearby villages until the situation is handled. He was hopeful for cooperation as he was willing to give them a fair amount of compensation along with labors.

But...

Strangely, All 7 villages heads at the meeting, started acting weird. They gave side eye to our village head guy, and awkwardly began to make excuses.

Our village head, had realized that something big was going on, and he was being left out from this agenda. He smiled, and left the meeting before it reached a conclusion.

After reaching to his village, he called for a meeting among villagers. There, he shared his experience at the meeting and his hypothesis about the upcoming of a dangerous disaster.

The villagers began to talk among themselves, and started asking for the logical explanations.

They were wise enough to not critisice their village head for the current panic.

Trojan's father was also there, along with his wife. Trojan was at his home taking care of his baby sister.

After a serious of discussions, these following choices were brought up before them.

The Secretary of Village head organized the following points on a white board behind the head's chair.

* Send another group of men to observe the situation outside the village.

* Jumb in that pit and check any changes done by the meteor to it's surroundings or anything else which could be weird.

* Village head personally travel to another village head's office and gather information.

* All of the villagers leave the village due to the possibility of a potential pandemic.

But, before the meeting ended, a sudden explosion sound came from near the lake.

The flames were big and green. The crowd panicked and started to run to their houses to check for their children and other loved ones.

Soon, many people gathered near the pit hole where the meteor had landed. But, they were shocked to see the scene. The lake had been dried out, even though it was fairly far from the pit hole where the meteor had fell. The greenery and the forest, all were burnt to ask, even though not much time had passed since the explosion.

The people gasped at the tragic surroundings and tried to figure out things on their own.

The village head was analyzing the wear and tear that happened due to the explosion and whether it effected any villagers. After a while, it was confirmed that everyone was okay.

A few moments later,

The chit-chat of the villagers suddenly stopped. They stopped moving altogether.

The village head who was behind them, kinda a bit far away from the lake noticed this subtle atmosphere now, and that everybody who could see the explosion site was now stopped.

He inquired about it from his secretary who was standing just behind him.

But strangely, no response came. When he looked back to find out if his secretary was alright, he saw something strange, very strange.

He quickly distance himself from the secretary and noticed that those who weren't affected were screaming now.

His secretary's pupils had turned dark green in color. His hair stands were now a mix of white, black and green.

A strange eery fog was coming out from his mouth.

After a few moments later, Village head saw that all the effected people who had similar characteristics to his secretary now...were attacking the villages. Everybody was screaming as nobody knew what was happening right now..

The moment he turned his head again to look back to his secretary, His secretary jumped at him with a wide mouth and bit his neck.

He ripped his head from the body, and moved on to the next target.

A few moments later, strange green wire like tentacles came from the severed head and body of the village chief. And it got connected to each other and his body arose.

And he opened his dark green eyes now. What now represented before our eyes was something akin to a virus or a zombie.

Soon, screams were heard. Nobody could survive from this attack. And nobody their present lived.

The lake side of the village which was so peaceful was now turned into a place for indiscriminate massacre. The land filled with a mix of red and light green liquid.

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Trojan's Parents were late now. It was already evening. Two hours later than they said.

Trojan was worried about his sister crying. He realized she was hungry now, so he awaited his mother, while swing his baby sister gently in his arms.

Suddenly, a knocks came to his door. He was going to open the door, but he realized that his parents never knocked.

He asked, "Who's there? Mom? Dad? Is that you?"

No reply came. Then he looked over the window which was on the left side of the door, near the corner. He couldn't see the figure who was knocking at the door.

He asked again, but no reply came.

He was starting to panic now. Even though his village was generally peaceful, it didn't means there was zero crime. He was aware of the possibility of the person knocking at his door being a criminal.

He quickly took his sister in arms, and tightly grabbed her so she couldn't fall. He too a wooden stick on his hand as he unlocked the knob and opened the door.

There stood his parents, pupils turned dark green. Their hair, dyed with green and white with blood sticking on them. Their mouth slightly opened with an eery steam coming out of it.

They both attacked him, making a zombie like sound. Trojan was startled. He backed off, struggling to protect his sister and rationalize the current events.

They both attacked him altogether, he jumped toward outside the house. They came outside for him, as he suddenly hit his father in his head, strongly with that wooden stick he had. His father who was now a zombie or something like that, strongly pressed his head with his hand and cried.

After sometime, he suddenly held his wife and said to his son while crying, "RUN!" in a low voice.

He bit his wife's neck and teared her apart and threw them to two distant sides.

Trojan was still in shock about what to do...

He was crying, holding his sister tight. And that stick on his other hand.

He didn't know what to do now. I mean, how could he know? He was just a kid.

After hearing his father's last word, and seeing him tear his mother apart, he notice that his father again lost his consciousness, and ran towards him to attack him again.

That day. Trojan Ran. With his sister. Even though he didn't understand what was going on, his priority was finding a hiding spot away from this village.

Trojan Ran. He didn't stop. He couldn't stop. He saw his whole village turned into a disaster. He ran.

[TIME: 3:07 AM]

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