Chapter 1 - DEADLY FOREST

As Tristan appeared in this world, the tattoos of beta, sigma, and omega signaled its host to feel a bit of pain as a sign that the alpha symbol had chosen its host. The three people smiled at the same time and moment but in a different place because they still haven't met each other.

[DEADLY FOREST]

Tristan slowly opened his eyes because he felt the sunlight through his skin. 'W-Where am I? again...' he gulped. His knees were trembling as he struggled to stand up. Thus, his view was like in the horror settings, where you could see drops of blood anywhere, many dead bodies lying on the ground or hanging at the branches of the trees. Moreover, he can't stop his body from shaking because of the dark ambiance he feels. 'A-Am I gonna die?' he stuttered while out of breath. *Huh ha huh ha*

He raises his head so that he can see the sun once again. And then, he took a deep breath while closing his eyes so he could chillax his body and mind. 'I guess I know what to do now... and that is to--' he thought. The moment he opened his eyes, *Footsteps* an unknown beast that looks like a half lion in the upper body, and as for the lower body, it looks like a serpent, that's also mixed with a few more creatures appeared at his back with just 12 inches apart from him. 'Run!!!' he silently screamed in his head while his iris got small.

*Whoosh*

*Boommm*

The creature smacked Tristan's back and made a gigantic blow in the middle of the forest that destroyed the tall trees horizontally, which became a sign in its co-creatures that they had an unknown prey to hunt and kill. Meanwhile, a man with a black cloak and had a dragon tattoo on his face smiled, revealing his whites while roaming around the forest. 

Tristan was able to run away in his place earlier before the creature made that dangerous attack. Currently, he has been running inside the forest all his life. *Panting* *Panting*

Later on, he breaks his feet from running so that he could catch his breath. *Huh ha huh ha huh ha....* After his heartbeat slowed down he took a deep breath while closing his eyes. ‘Why am I running away?’ he wondered as he opens his eyes again. ‘Is this a gifted kung fu fighter should do?’ he asked from his mind while pressing his lips and clenching his right fist. He thought,  ‘Why… why am I so terrified to die?’ He gulped, ‘this is it! This is all I wanted way back to my old life!’ he silent-screamed in his head while his eyes were big but his pupils got small. Moreover, his mouth was trembling, maybe because of mixed emotions such as fear, anxiety, nervousness, and many more.

Flashback…

7:30 am…

[Inside the Stadium]

[Awarding Ceremony]

“Let us all! Give a round of applause! For the youngest gifted kung fu fighter! May I call! Tristan Zayden Zachadry!!!”The announcer shouted

*Applause*

The whole stadium was filled with loud voices from the audience while punching their right hand upwards in the air and shouting, “WOOOOOOOO!!!!! ZAYDEN! ZAYDEN! ZAYDEN! ZAYDEN!”

As Tristan steps his feet on the stairs to come up on the stage, the audience gets louder and louder.

“Ehem.” The announcer said to signal the audience to stop because Tristan is now beside him with a blithe face.

‘When will this end?’ Tristan thought while keeping a smile on his face, ‘I wanna die already.’ He looks up to see the sun and sky in a second and gazes back at the audience. 

After putting the gold medal around Tristan’s neck, Tristan bowed in front of countless people to show respect. Moreover, as soon as he stood straight, he felt his father’s terror gaze, which made him feel pressured. Therefore, he secretly gulped while looking at the audience.

Finally, after the awarding ceremony, Tristan headed to the toilet room as fast as he could because he wanted to get away from his strict father. He opens the faucet using his right hand to wash his face. ‘I wanna die already. Everyone was fake, except for my late grandpa.’ He pulls his handkerchief from his pouch located at his right leg in his pants using his right hand to wipe his face while looking at the mirror in front of him.

But suddenly, he sensed an incoming attack from his right side at his back. Therefore, he quickly bends his knees downwards to crouch while turning his head and body towards that unknown attacker so that he could uppercut him. His plan to uppercut him using his right fist had failed because the attacker jumped backward anticipating his attack.

And now, he is face to face with the attacker at a distance of five meters apart. However, no matter what he tried to look at its face, he couldn't see the attacker’s face. So he ended up looking at him with his eyebrows joined together downwards while maintaining eye contact. In addition, the attacker was covered with a black cloak that covered his whole body. 

“Hey, my whole life has already been a mess since I was born,” Tristan suddenly kneeled in front of the unknown person while his head looked down, “My father has been always controlling my life, he is always pressuring me to become better, perfect. Our family tradition is also the reason why I can’t do all the things I wanna do. He always says no. No, no, no.

“For example, I wanna go to this place, I wanna go there with my friends, I want to do this stuff, I want to be myself, and so many things, but I always get a ‘no’ answer. He was even harsh to my beloved white cat, which is the only one I have, even though it only comes to me whenever it’s hungry. I am so tired of living this life,

“I… wanna die already! Instead of this fame and money that I have, I want to have real love and freedom. I am a person too! I had feelings! I am not a robot!” His tears were overflowing on his face that made his sight blurry while punching the ground using both hands in pain like he was about to explode. This is all he carried for so many years, and while talking, he is running out of breath, “...I want… real friends… friends who won’t use me for their benefits and wants or fame… and friends who won’t betray you like what they did to me...” 

The attacker remains silent.

“Ple-please… kill me already, kill me silently... please...” Tristan begged while looking at the attacker with a painful look.

The unknown person kneeled in front of him.

“How am I supposed to kill you if,” The attacker said while taking off his hood, “______” 

Tristan didn’t hear the attacker’s last sentence because his jaw dropped the moment he saw who was the person behind it. He looks like he saw a ghost which is not while his eyes were so wide.

“What the?...” That is the only thing his mouth said.

A wind occurred that’s why his hair moved in the wind’s direction on the right.

...End of flashback.

The last scene in the flashback also happened right now. A wind occurred that’s why his hair moved in the wind’s direction on the right but his eyes were closed. He took a deep breath, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he found himself surrounded by many different scary creatures.

“I can’t die right now, disgusting creatures,” Tristan stated with a burning passion in his eyes while getting in a fighting stance. “You guys are indeed huge huh?” He asked while traveling his eyes around to look at all of them. ‘They are tall, tall as a second-floor building but some are not, in my view, they are just the tallest creatures that are in here because some are in five feet, three feet, seven feet, nine feet, and many more,’ He thought.

As soon as the skull falls on the ground from the branch of a specific tree, all of the creatures dashes towards him. He closed his eyes for a second then opened them and he added, “NAH, I SHOULD COME BACK TO MY OLD WORLD! SO I CAN’T DIE RIGHT NOW! BECAUSE I FORGOT THAT MY UNDERWEAR WAS LYING ON THE GROUND BESIDE THE ENTRY DOOR! IF MY CRUSH SAW IT, I MIGHT GET REJECTED!” while clenching his both fists.

“Hahaha, you haven’t changed,” The man with a black cloak laughed while holding his stomach using both hands and sitting on a tree branch far away from Tristan with an estimated distance of 50 meters apart. His mood changed rapidly as soon as he sensed something bad. “Man,” he sighed, “as expected, they’ll hunt him down, they are kill-joy as always, damn it.” He clenched his teeth. ‘I should take care of them first.’ He thought but before going, he faced his left palm in Tristan’s direction. ‘I guess, you need help from your cat.’ In conclusion, after the invisible thread reached Tristan, he jumps off from the tree branch and headed to the kill-joy organization.

Meanwhile, One of the second-floor building’s tall creatures smashes Tristan on the ground using its right gigantic arm, but luckily, he smirked and anticipated this attack then subconsciously jumps at the right timing. After his right foot landed on its right gigantic arm, he put all his force in there so that he could advance to its nape faster. As soon as he arrived at it he can’t help but smile, showing his whites, with a burning passion in his eyes. And once again, he jumps on the air using his both feet.

“Is this the reason why I endured for so long?!” He shouted while in the air, “To prepare me for this moment?!” He took a deep, and nice breath, and outstretched his right arm while clenching his right hand. Moreover, he spins his body diagonally while falling on his opponent’s nape. When he felt like it was already one meter apart, he stopped his body from spinning and subsequently outstretched his right arm while clenching his fist.

“The fist,” He took a deep breath while gathering all his force in his right fist, “of a flaming tornado!!!” He shouted and swung his arm towards the nape to punch it. 

The moment his fist touched the nape, his eyes got wide and gulped, while a drop of his sweat from his right temple drip on the ground. Because… he got surprised that his attack hadn’t scratched the creature. ‘H-How is this happening?’ He panicked, ‘W-What’s going on!?’ He stuttered while his heart was pounding out of nervousness and his both hands were started to get cold and shaking, trembling because of fear. 

The creature’s long narrowed-jaw face, which was the same height as Tristan’s body,  glanced at him with a playful smile and deadly round eyes. Having eye contact with the monster makes Tristan’s soul wants to run away. ‘Run… run... run... run!!!’ Tristan gulped as he tries to make his body move. However, his body contradicts his order because it’s freezing with fear. Moreover, his heart was still pounding, his body is shaking, his having a heavy breath, he is sweating hard, and can’t hear anything but only death as he gulped. Also, his five senses shut down. Therefore, he can’t feel anything, except, fear, nervousness, and anxiety.

The second thing he knew next was he was already lying on the ground because that monster slammed him. Right now, he only sees blood on the surface and still can’t hear anything. His eyes were blurry which makes it hard for him to see that all the monster was about to eat him alive.

‘Am I really… going to die?’ Tristan thought while his sight is going darker and darker.