Chapter 2

“You want to be stronger,” the deep voice rung in everyone's ear. From the one at the deepest of the sea, drowning, to the one in the state of deep slumber, gaming, the voice vibrated through the deepest of their system. “Stood high and I'll grant the wishes in the deepest of your soul!”

There appear a red dots in front of everyone who stood in fear, though. They are those who are confuse and choose to cover their ears while tears sprung down to their cheeks. They can felt the vibration in the deepest of their soul and it was some hair-raising that they fell to their knees.

The voice reach the house build in rock, shone bright as the sun rays refracted. Even though soundproof, the voice found its way to send the message in a sinister shake. The one inside, seriously eyed the sky, couldn't even blink by the terror of the voice that conveyed. He was focus to the sight in the distant sky, the familiarity that was heaven-defying. 

“Is this what she meant by changing the time and space?” Sounded a bit bother, he glance to the monitor which beeping in a constant error by the sudden intrusion of the unfamiliar wave which was deliver the voice to him.

“This is-” he then realize the increase of dots, it redness becomes grey, which only meant one thing. “The force possession of the system! How comes...” He grown weary and calm a bit. “What happening?”  

Suddenly, the beep of error becomes a scream of those people that violently detached from their own consciousness. They as if on fire, shoving away something from their skin and bumped their head as they struggle for something undefined. 

He shut his eyes harder, shake his head to realize something unexpected was happening!

“This...doesn't include in the plan,” his voice shaky, sweat crawl down in his forehead to reach the tremble lips that he quickly bite to contained the uneasiness.

“No,” he shrugged away the thought, “this is just an error!” 

For awhile, only can be hear was the movement of monitor, beeping more and more as the error keep showing up. He try to type codes to understand what happen, until the error becomes disastrous, giving the hint of what happen outside, to the world. 

Dots of red and grey is the indication of people who become a hunter and the one who will going to hunt, the Player!

Meanwhile, those who confuse turned into something undetermined, far from the knowledge of the world.

Meanwhile, in the open window shown a deep shaken Rojan. The door suddenly burst open and he almost by some debris. It literally destroyed by the one who appear in the door after dust disappear.

It was Mauricio! 

His eyes glare with sinister like an ink that ready to put an end of the emptiness of one's sheets.

“Mauricio,” Rojan gulped to the sight, “what's the meaning of this?” He filled with confussion and was overturn by fear. 

Mauricio ready a fist and run as fast like a wind to a confuse to a deep shaken Rojan. Before he could even hit a horrored face, Rojan instinctly dodge the punch from and tumble to the floor with a loudest bang. 

He as if dellusion when he suddenly hear something from a distant, a scratch and screech of electricity that makes him cover his ears. He panting and try harder on catching his breathe as it becomes heavy, the noise enter his ears to his mind, and to the deepest of his soul! 

He cannot even analyze it which makes hard to organize some thought to stop the crawling sound. It was such a bother, then there's a voice that distracted him even more. 

“You can be stronger,” it repeated, “you can touch the sky!” 

“No...” He was shaken, shook his head as the surrounding become so bright that his eyes couldn't possibly see a thing. 

He hear footstep before someone mumbling a strange thing, “It says he is my prey. It f**** said to defeat this weakling!” The voice who belong to someone familiar was filled with fear and cobfussion. 

Above all, it was doubtful. He curse so loud that Rojan find himself bleeding in the ear. “Why I saw my brother in him?” He look so shocked and as if saw a spirit of a dead. “Why I saw him...?”

“Mauricio...” Rojan clear his mind and his emptiness begun to filled with fear. “W-what are you mumbling about?” Tears sprung in his eyes as he sees something in the light. 

Someone shadows, a familiar shape, stood while hands in the ear holding a shining blade. 

“What-” he was disrupted voice when Mauricio swing the shining

blade.

“You... Who are you?!” Mauricio demanded, his hand holding a blade trembled. He should have slice the weakling like some sort of a weeds, yet he saw something bizzare. “No... He's gone...”

“Mauricio...”

“What have you done to my brother?” His eyes bloodshot when his attention shifted to Rojan with full certainty.

Rojan distracted by something that surrounded his brother. It was so bright that blocking him to sight it with full understanding. 

“Impossible...” He shut his eyes to delay the idea that keep bothering him. 

Suddenly, the noise of those who never saw useful in his existence filled the room. It as if inside a bubble that cannot reach his ears right away, and it was bloated like a damn! They say something after calling his brother, asking him afterwards the most dreadful thing that focus in mind the instant. 

“Not yet kill that weakling?” They says with the heart-throbbing cry. “Mauricio, keep the doubt to the deepest of yourself, and just trust the system!”

“Just abandoned that heavy thing that drag you down!” There a hint of annoyance in those voices, creep whoever hear and understand what that's implying for.

“It's not a sin to kill,” they added that stopped Rojan from even breathing, “now that the system is activate! But if you cannot do that to a parasite, then abandoned the idea of reaching to the top!”

“But...I can't kill a weakling,” Mauricio response, feeling conflicted. “A weakling will never help me reaching the top!” 

He exclaimed that stop Rojan from even commented. He was shock to the goings on, and was filled of idea of what just happening.

“Very well!” 

They agreed for something that envelop more of Rojan's forehead. Rojan knows he was the weakling they referred to. And the thought that Mauricio almost murder him gives chills all over his body.

If not with a sudden bang of an abandoned blade, Rojan would have embarrass himself more to acting like haven't heard a thing. It's a shame to be a failure but to be coined as weakling wasn't at all his expectation about life.

“Perhaps...” he cease to even response. “I was weak to never end this damn struggling!”

The light that keep flickered infront of him adds insult to injury, as if it was his fault of not fully accept the idea that floated in the air, convey by the technological advancement.

“A game, huh?” A smile crept to his lips. He glared to the shadow of his brother, leaving with those influencial people. He as if he wakes up from a deep nightmare, he ask, “Why?” 

He wanted to know what's wrong with his existence that his brother despise. Looking around the mess, the bursted door, the cruel evidence of enrage was shown that silent his wailing heart for an answer. 

Suddenly he hear them, planning some sort of hair-raising movement. “I wonder where we're to start the killing?”

“Mauricio...” he try to stop his brother but they long gone, drive their way to the deepest of the road. The look of determination shone brightly in his uncool of face, he exclaimed in his trembling voice. “I'm...gonna stop you...”

He should able to stop their madness. His brother must knows the right from wrong!

But he rooted to the floor, tremble even more upon thinking that he, also, almost murdered just now!

His feet drench with blood from the wounds that keep him from moving. His voice broke as he try to find strength but couldn't. And there's the bothering light that keep him from thinking right. “System-” he clear his throat, “I mean what must I do, hi-tech of a thing?”

“You can save your brother from doing a cruel sin...and deep regrets,” a voice interupt the anlysis of the system, it broke into pieces and then replace by some sort of easy-to-access flying system. 

“Save the rest of the prey like you from dreadful end,” that's what the voice instructed before disappeared like dellusion in the wind.

Rojan try to reason out but the wound sipping his entire strength. That if he has a strength to begin with. He can't help but to seek help, and the system that far from the hi-tech earlier is the only thing that keep him in his sane.

“Can I...have the strength-”

“You can find strength,” a robotic voice filled his head. It become a breeze of winds that almost he couldn't hear if not intended only to him. It said lastly after ages, “Fought The System, and become our Alpha Player...”