IGNORANCE IS HELL.

As Kaiji was falling down the pit, there were no thoughts in his mind or feelings in his heart .His eyes remained glued on the King as he fell. He had never felt such numbness as he fell to depths of darkness, this was the epitome of nothingness.

"I like it this way, not feeling anything. It's kind of peaceful"

After saying these world Kaiji found himself in some kind of cave or tunnel. The walls were dark, moist and faded like they had never felt the touch of the sun's rays but then that made sense how could sunlight reach this place. The walls were all crumbly and it was decorated with cracks like it would fall at any time. The more he looked around the more he felt like he was in an old war site and the further he wondered around the tunnel the darker it became.

Kaiji kept walking forward, the further he walked the more he felt like he was losing his sense of direction even though he was walking in straight line. There was something wrong here although he had walked for what seemed like hours, to him he had not taken a turn and there was no light in sight, the walls themselves were strange ,even thought he was walking in a straight line he felt like he was walking in a maze. After walking a bit further he decided to go back to where he started since there seemed to be no end to this tunnel.

As he was walking back the walls went were they were originally .There were corners and bends now, the same path he had walked by was now different. How could this be, Kaiji was confused, he turned again and decided to continue the path but even in front of him the path was different. After wondering a bit he decided to give up and just sit down on the ground. If it was his fate to spend the rest of his life here then so be it. He did no care anymore.

Just as he sat by himself in the cold darkness, he began to feel hungry and cold and in this strange maze there was nothing to eat. He also realised that the entire time that he had been in this tunnel he had not seen any living thing or signs that there was any life he. Why had he been brought here, was he truly that useless that the demons would cast him to such a place.

As he lay there lamenting his own helplessness, then he began to hear a faint screeching sound, at first he tried ignoring it but the sound kept in increasing. Kaiji began to feel uneasy .He did not know where it was coming from or what was making it but he knew that he did not want to be anywhere near it. Kaiji got on his feet and started running but where ever he ran the sound seemed to be coming from every direction and the sound was getting louder and louder. It got to a point were it was so loud that Kaiji could not run, but just tried to block the sound with hands and try to hide. There was no place to hide so he just fell in the middle of the tunnel with his ears covered, but the sound did not stop. It got to the point we're his ears and eyes were bleeding then he lost consciousness.

He woke up moments later to the unbearable pain he felt all over his body. He was being dragged on the ground, with his legs all tied up. His body which was not in good condition to begin with was now covered in sores and bruises. He could not see who or what was dragging him, all that he could here was the heavy breathing and growling in front of him. He tried to screem but his mouth was also tied up, all he could do was let out tears and mumbling sounds but he knew that there was no one here to save him.

He was dragged unit he felt himself being raised up and hanged upside down at the roof of the tunnel. As he was trying to find out where he was there was an illumination of faint red light. As he was trying to find out where this light came from he was met with what could only be described as a monster. The monster was a worm or slug like creature, its body had a faint red glow and it body was covered in spikes and some silk like threads. Its eyes were so small there were almost non-existent but you could tell they were there from the intense glow that radiated from them. The monster produced the same deafening sound that he had heard earlier and then it opened its mouth and from it a needle tipped tongue shot out and injected itself into Kaiji's body. Kaiji felt the life being drained out of him as the monster feed on his manner, he felt weak until he could barely see and then he passed out.

A few days had passed and Kaiji had become the monster's very own juice bag. It would come regularly to feed on him. Kaiji himself could not tell how many day it had been since he was here since there was no shred of sunlight.

As he was dangling there Kaiji heard a loud crash and screeching sounds, then two monsters came crashing through the wall causing him to fall to the ground. The monsters were fighting, for what reason it did not matter, this was Kaiji's chance to escape .As he was about to escape something caught his eye.

There was a girls also tied up like he had been on the ground and Kaiji could tell that this was why the two monsters were fighting. The girl looked horrified and as soon as she saw Kaiji she shook he body, for Kaiji to set her free. It had been a long time since he had seen a human being and a girl for that matter so he rushed over to set her free. It took some time but he was finally able to free her.

As he helped the girl to stand up on her feet Kaiji realised that the sound had stopped, as he looked back he saw one of the monsters glaring at them the other one dead on the ground. As soon as he saw the red glow in the monster eyes he knew what it meant.

"Cover your ears and run, run now"

He and the girl started running as fast as they could, as the monster let out a sound so loud it made the whole place shake. They kept on running as stones kept falling down on them until the tunnel collapsed behind them, the force of the giant boulders hitting the ground sent them falling face first on the ground.

"I think we are safe now, that monster could not have survived that. Are you okay"

As he tuned to check up on the girl, he was met with the most beautiful girl he had ever met. He felt his heart skip a bit.

"Aaah ...I ....I am ok"

Kaiji had never really talked to a girl in his life he had always tried to avoid them. This situation however was different because she was the first girl she had met ever since he came to this world. He gathered up his courage and stood up.

"My name is Kaiji ,what's your name?"

"Silver....my name is Silver"

"Nice to meet you Silver"

This was perfect, the girl was very shy which made it easier for him to talk to her. He was no longer alone in this hell and once more it was this cute girl. As he was about to ask how the girl ended up it this hellish place, he felt drowsy and his vision was blurry and he fell to the ground.

Kaiji woke up to a cute girl lying on top of him , he was shocked to say the list, not only was this girl lying on top of him but her face was a hairs breath away from his. His face became red and his blood started racing as his hear beat faster and faster, just then the girl woke up. Their eyes met and Kaiji could not look away from those beautiful brown eyes. The girls face turned red as she pulled herself away from Kaiji.

"I'm.... I'm.....sorry...you were getting cold so….so....I thought I'd warm you"

"No....no...It's alright thanks"

There was a moment of awkward silence, after all nerds like him knew nothing about girls.

"Can I ask you something? How did you get here, do you know what this place is or how to get out, was there anybody with you before you were captured. "

The girl looked a little uncomfortable with all his questions.

"You don't have to answer if you don't want to"

"No I will tell you since you saved my life"

Silver knew more about this place than Kaiji had realise. She had also been cast down here with her brother by a demon who killed off their family. Her brother was killed by a monsters soon as they got here and she had been living alone ever since.

She told him about the many different monsters that roamed these tunnels. She told him that the structure of the tunnels changed frequently so there was no way to keep track of where you were. Although plants were rare around here if you looked hard enough you could find them and that was the only source of food around here. She also taught him how to tell when a monsters was near and some of their weaknesses she had seen as the monsters fought each other, which happened a lot apparently.

Kaiji and silver agreed to help each other survive this place. They worked together to keep each other alive and avoid monsters. They gathered fruits when they could and spent most of their time hiding from the monsters.

Strangely enough Kaiji was happy, even though he was in a foreign world and an unknown place he was happy. This was because he had someone to share all of his suffering with. Silver has become someone important to him, he had developed feeling for her but could never tell her because he was afraid of being rejected.

Yes things were great at least that's what he thought. Even his body seemed to also confirm his comfort because Kaiji's body was now healthy and fit, he had become stronger and a little muscular in this time.

All was good until an earthquake hit. It was a massive earth quake, which was weird because in all his time in the tunnels there had never been an earth quake. Kaiji quickly grabbed hold of silver's hand to try and shield her from the falling rubble but he lost his balance as the earth fell under him, he and Silver were separated by a wall of falling boulders.

"Silver.....Silver ...where are you"

Kaiji climbed out of the hole he had fell in. His body was not badly injured but he was sore all over, this did not bother him all he care about was Silver. After relentlessly digging through the rumble he found her, she seemed to have suffered an injury on her head and her stomach was bleeding.

He placed her on his lap with tears in his eyes, he held her tightly and tried his best to prevent himself from crying.

"Wake up Silver....wake up....you can't leave me, remember we promised to keep each other a live...l .....l.....love you"

"You idiot"

As soon as kaiji heard this he realised that silver was no longer in his hand but instead felt a overwhelming dark presence over him.

"You really a fool, after all this time you still don't get it do you. Well that made it easier for me and now unfortunately you have to die so that I can continue living"

"I don't understand....Silver"

Kaiji was confused who was he was talking to who had Silver's voice and why was there a monster in front of him. This made no sense where was Silver who had been in his arms moments ago.

"Yes I am Silver, after naturing you so well it's a shame I have to eat you here, but I have no choice that earth quake did a number on me and I need to replenish"

"Why ...why..."

"Sorry but I am done talking time to eat"

With this the snake bodied, scaly, ginormous Silver launched at Kaiji with its gaping mouth exposing the chains of teeth in it .Kaiji reacted in the blink of an eye , he picked up a stone and jammed it in the monster's eye and before it could scream he jammed another one in it heart and it fell dead.

The movement of his body as he did this was in natural. Something had awakened deep inside him and something had cracked as well, his heart. He knelt in front of the dead monster's body and tears poured out of his eyes with his face gripped by terror and confusion, he produced no sound.