The Burning Shipyard

Jin was lying down in the comfortable bed of the hot and fumy wooden room with his eyes closed. He was feeling relieved a lot having woken up after the CRAZY nightmare regarding the grim reaper in hell!! He was still getting the chills thinking about the deadly blade of the scythe piercing his body! "I'm glad that I woke up", Jin thought smiling. He still had his eyes closed.

The room was getting more and more hotter and fumy with every passing moment. It was definitely on fire. But Jin didn't seem to be bothered by it. He was still lying on the bed free from all worries with very little or no intention of getting up. "So I was in hell and I found this small house beside a bridge where I met him. He was wearing a black cloak and was holding a huge scythe. Also he used to think that he was the strongest being in the whole Universe! He was definitely a strange guy. He also got furious knowing about Marcy being stronger than I am. Yeah actually he got so furious that he tried killing me risking even his own life! Probably he's the kind of guy who worships power over everything else. I don't wanna meet him in real life.", Jin was thinking about his dream. Suddenly there was some sort of noise heard in the ceiling of the room that he didn't seem to care as usual. "He had short golden hair if I remember correctly. But wait", he kept on thinking about the dream as the noise in the ceiling got louder than before. "I can't remember his face", he thought. Suddenly the ceiling broke and some burning pieces of wood started falling over the bed where Jin was lying. Realizing the danger in the last moment he got on the floor quickly just in the last moment thanks to his quick reflexes he developed because of his training years after years with Marcy since their childhood. The burning pieces of wood fell on the bed and the bed started burning right in front of his eyes. He quickly got a glimpse of something similar happening in his dreams.

It was an wooden floor seemed like the wooden deck of an old ship. Probably he was inside a ship all this time. The room he was in was covered mostly in fire and smoke. A tall wooden structure can be seen from the broken part of the ceiling. It was no doubt an old ship, the tall wooden structure being its mast. The sails can also be seen from the broken part of the ceiling mostly burnt to nothingness and the remaining part covered in deadly fire.

"So the reality isn't any different from the dreams either", Jin thought smiling. He was actually quite thrilled getting caught up in a similar situation right after waking up. "I need to be careful. It's no longer a dream", he thought as he went closer to the door. It was a green narrow wooden door that was catching fire gradually. He kicked the door open. The door broke down due to his fierce kick. It caught fire after falling down at some distance in a heap of flames.

Jin went out of the room. He was being overly cautious being surrounded by smoke and flames almost everywhere around him. He landed on the deck of the ship. There were hundreds of ships, all made of wood, of different sizes all kept side by side. But surprisingly and unfortunately enough all of the ships were covered in deadly fire. It was a shipyard, most of which is covered in a thick smokescreen and deadly fires.

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