Flashback - It All Started With A Lie part 1

20 Years ago Jack and Lana reach the blue gate portal allowing them to leave the first floor of the tutorial tower

"Jack where's Adam?"

Jack looks around and in the distance where the rat king dead body lay he saw Adam hiding

"Shit he's all the way back there we don't have time to get him"

"I think it's best if we leave him, there's an army of rats charging towards us and it is too much of a risk to grab our boy"

Jack and Lana not calling for Adam just ran out the blue gate with the group

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Lana and Jack who are now standing outside, tears flowing down their eyes were ambushed by a a group of reporters and guards

The guards escort them along with everyone who were forced into the tower

Lana held onto Jack tightly with a look of fear on her face. This was because they had just come back and were bombarded with people shouting at them as well as flashing lights from people taking pictures of them

They entered a building and were told to wait their along with the group

"Jack I don't want to be here"

"I know honey...

I think we will be questioned about what happened inside and than they will let us go"

"Jack what do we say about our boy, I don't want to tell them that we left him because it's not like that..

You know we couldn't do anything to save him so what shall we do, I don't want us to be in trouble"

"Calm down, you don't need to talk I will talk on our behalf so leave it to me"

After waiting for another 10 minutes

A man 6ft black suit with a grey short beard and grey hair walked up to a stage, everyone standing their became quiet and turned to look at this suited man

Everyone was handed headphones to put on. The headphones translate any speech to the language selected

"Hello everyone I am Dong-seok and I know you are all scared and worried but it's all ok you are all safe....

I just want to say congratulations on successfully leaving the tower,

We will be holding a press conference for you all so please can you follow us

After the press conference we will compensate you all and help you get back home safely"

There was a total of 18 people that had survived including Jack and Lana group Ji-hoon, Sung min,Lei Bao, Wang lei and Hana

They all sat on a stage with cameras all pointing towards them

One by one the reporters questioned the group

And they answered every question

"Jack and Lana you are from the United Kingdom, what is your government doing about your situation of being trapped in the tower" asked a reporter

"I have just come out of the tower and the first thing we have had to do is this press conference, I don't care what is happening in the world all I am concerned about is my boy who died in the tower, so if you can all please end this conference so we can grief the loss of our only boy that would be much appreciated" replies Jack

Another reporter stands up and asks Jack to elaborate on how Adam died

"I don't wish to talk about it but if you keep insisting, the group I was with all left through the portal when we looked behind us we found Adam hiding so we called for him and he started to run towards us, I ran towards him fighting off all the giant rats but as soon as I got close enough their was a huge wave of rats who jumped on my boy, with my wife on the other side and the rats heading her way, I couldn't do anything to save my son so I ran back and left with the wife" Says Jack as his tears flowed down his eyes

"If only we were stronger we could off saved our boy, he was only 5, I wish he was here I wis...." weeping away Lana and Jack stand up and run off the stage

A few minutes later Dong-seok confront the two of them

"I am sorry for making you speak about something so devastating, I am here to hand this to the both of you it is plane tickets and £100,000 on behalf of South Korea, we wish you all the best"

Dong-seok left the two alone

Soon after Jack and Lana had caught the plane and were at home alone

For the next few days the house was quiet, both Lana and Jack were having trouble sleeping maybe it was guilt maybe it was something else, they kept it to themselves.

As the days went by, both of them looked rough, it was at this moment that someone knocked on the door

Lana went and opened it only to find it to be her close friend Chloe

"Hey Lana I know your still upset but I have something to show you"

"Huh what do you want to show me"

Chloe came in and put the laptop on

"The conference that took place in Korea was seen world wide and no lie I was just watching random vids online and I stumbled upon a group chat"

"A group chat?... about what?"

"Here take a look at it yourself its all your supporters"

As Lana was looking at all the support her face changed from being upset to some what happy

"Hey jack, Jack come here look at this"

Jack joining Chloe and Lana

"What is it"

"Here look at all these comments, its everyone support for our loss"

As they read each comment they felt their spirits come back alive

{Jacob0212 - Lana and Jack I'm sorry to hear of your loss, I wish you all the best and if you need anything I am here for you

Jacob0212 donated £50 to Adam foundation}

{Stacy.A01 - I'm so sorry to hear about your little boy, I can't even imagine losing any of my kids, I am supporting you from LA

Stacy.A01 donated $100 to Adam foundation}

{Ethan.Bazzz - I know how you feel and you have my support I recently loss someone close to me and I wish t help you in anyway I can

Ethan.Bazzz - donated 10499.40 Russian ruble to Adam foundation}

The comments went on and on...

"Hey Chloe they are donating to Adams foundation but we didn't set this up"

"I did, ever since I saw the support you were getting I know you both have been struggling bit with the loss of you child so I thought this money can help you with any funeral costs or anything you may need help with"

Lana embraces Chloe crying uncontrollably

"Thank you sooo much you really are an amazing friend"

Chloe helped Lana and Jack set up a funeral with a casket and all and did a burial for Adam who was left in the tower

Few months go by and the online community had over 3 million supporters

Lana and Jack became the leaders of the community eventually changing the name to Divine Beast community over the skills they both have.

The community started off by people joining together to support one another eventually turned to a community of Players who wanted to form a team to protect humanity against the tower

A year goes by and the entire world was shook once again but not by towers exploding out the ground but portals leading creatures and monsters of all sorts onto Earth

Jack and Lana took initiative and informed all the players within their community to head off to their nearest portal and help those in need

This community of people became world famous and was one of the first guilds to be formed

The Guild 'Divine Beast' became the 9th ranked Guild in the entire world

Lana and Jack persuaded people to join their guild through the use of empathy, they would target those who have lost someone to the tower or a beast that had emerged from a portal

After another year Lana and Jack had a baby called Alexander

At first it was a nice happy family

They would do all sorts of activities together from going to the beach to hiking on mountains

Few years go by, Lana had just left a meeting and was walking to her office when she over heard some colleagues talking

"Did you hear about the kid in Korea who saved the group of people from a samba snake"

[Samba snake - Are snakes that are highly venomous and are roughly 10 meters in size, they are black with orange stripes]

Lana interrupts the conversation

"Do you know the boys name?"

One of the girls said

"Erm I think his name was Adam not entirely sure though"

"Oh ok thank you anyways I have to run see you all later bye"

Lana started to walk quickly it was as if she was possessed zooming passed everyone

She met up with Jack

"Jack do you have a moment"

"Erm sure"

Jack closes his office door

"Is everything ok?"

"Adams alive, I heard the girls talking about how he saved a few people in the tower"

"Huh are you sure, this has to be a mistake, surely he would have died by the rats running around" says Jack panicking

"He is...

I know it's him that saved them what are we going to do, we came so far and if people found out that we left him in the tower and saved ourselves we would lose everything we worked so hard for"

"Lana calm down look if he's still alive than we will wait for him to come out and when he does we'll tell him the situation about hiding his identity this way we will have him back and have this guild as well"

A few days go by Alexander seems to be playing by himself being ignored by his parents while Lana and Jack kept talking about when Adam and when he could be back, who would know that Adam is our child....

The next few weeks became hectic for both Jack and Lana, they were paranoid that Adam could leave he tower any minute and because of the paranoia they also found it hard to sleep properly

"Jack I think we need to do something I can't live like this"

"Yeah I know I think the group that left with us we need to stake care of the I don't want any of them recognising Adam when they come out and secondly we need to set up a place for Adam to come so we can question him on who he has told"

"Yeah, if he's in the tower for so long all by himself he must have some unique skills or help that's kept him alive, I think we need to focus on improving our guilds weapon and alchemy sectors, we need to focus on making a poison that can deactivate his system and also create some barriers to prevent anyone from entering our home without a key"

"Yeah, lets form alliances with as many weapons and alchemist companies even if we take a little loss I'm sure the investors will be more than happy with the end result"

"Yeah once they see the end products they won't care if we made a loss at the initial stage"

"Perfect now that we have sorted Adam out let's head off to Korea to meet our old friends"

"Yeah but we need to visit China too because two of the guys were Chinese"

"Yeah your right we'll leave Alexander with a babysitter and we'll sort this mess out as fast as"

Both Lana and Jack prepared themselves for a journey across the world back to Korea the place where it had all started.