Chapter 2: Beginning

He wasn't dreaming. Neither was he in the land of the dead.

His gentle mother wasn't just his hallucinations. Nor his warm home that he nearly forgot was a pigment of his imagination.

"Tell me who bullied you and I'll break their bones!" The sound of a sobbing youth was disturbed by a crude voice unlike of a woman, his mother. Right now she was holding a ladle in one hand and the other hand was patting the back of the crying boy on her arm.

A while ago she was just preparing to cook a burger patty for today's dinner. When she suddenly heard her son sobbing behind her that almost gave her a heart attack.

"Tell me boy who made you cry? Was it a girl? Did you get dumped? That's alright, there's plenty of girls you could find in the streets. No rush, no rush."

Her crude and gangsty voice even now will always never fail to amuse him. The way she handled herself is so unlike of a woman where most are delicates and gentle.

Everyone thinks that she's no woman at all for she always has this tongue that's akin to a venom making everyone feel annoyed.

But to him, behind those nasty and crude words, in fact she was just as gentle and delicate from other women out there.

He let out an amuse laugh hearing her words. " I just had a nightmare, Mom."

A nightmare of you dying cruelly that is.

With raised eyebrow, "Are you sure? Really?" She asked in an affirmative tone.

He nodded with straight face as he stared right at her eyes. Not revealing any hint of lie at all. If he were the him before, he would have been found out long ago already. Yes, indeed he sucks at lying but that was before. During his 1st life in apocalypse, lying and bootlicking was the only thing he could rely on just to survive.

Doubt was visible on his mother's eyes, but seeing that his son wasn't lying at all, she then let out a teasing smile.

"My, even today's old you are still crying because of a nightmare, huh. That's new. Hahaha. "

How I miss her so much.

Cruelty flash quickly through his eyes, he would do anything to save his mother and survive the entire apocalypse.

"Come, help your mother clean the dishes while I cook for our dinner. "

Just like that the mother and son reunion was going smoothly with smiles plastered on their faces while eating simple but delicious food on their table.

"Goodnight, Dear. Don't worry, leave the reason of your early leave of school to me. I'll deal with it."

Pretending to be asleep, when the noise of the closing door resounded, the youth rise up from his bed and went to his PC set up.

It's been so long since he used a PC, that was 3 years counting in the 1st timeline, so he hasn't adapted yet. Not long had past, he became used to it once again and search as far as he remembered the recent news of an accident where the apocalypse began.

However, no matter how many times he searched for it, no news was found.

Did I remember it wrong? How come there's no news at all? Wait a minute, I remembered someone gave me a link about the accident. I got the link from one of my anonymous friend in the dark and secluded part of the web.

He was a one of a heck kind of person that likes to collect gruel videos of human's killing each other.

A hobby that's insidious to the core, but then I really don't care what others like at all. Why do I know him, you ask. Don't get me wrong, it's not that we have similar hobby. Except that hobby of his, the rest of him was pretty normal and all. In fact, he was an enjoyable one to talk to. Maybe I was bored out of my mind back then, I decided to watch that one video he recommended so much.

As he look upon at his account, he then scrolled up and finally saw the video. He click play and the video began its roll.

As expected, it was very gruesome to watch. However, the him now didn't even flinch when he saw a rotten corpse started to stand up with a cracking noise of every bones of its dead body was heard in the video. It began to walk slowly towards the two people who was filming. Of course, he could hear some voices that was panicking and was screaming from horror. Because of their sudden overpowering fright, the filming was blur and glitchy. Before he knew it, the camera was already on the ground. The camera was pointing exactly at the rotten corpse coming slowly.

Before it was only a horrible groan of one coming from a corpse, now the video revealed another rough wailing of something not coming from a human loudly reverberate. Followed closely was a scream of a girl in pain, a chewing sound, flesh being ripped apart, people's running footsteps and screaming, blood flashing anywhere, and finally the dying sound of the girl can't be discern anymore. On the screen, what's left behind of the girl's remain was nothing but bones and leftover flesh scattered across the ground.

Then the video stopped.

It was as exactly as he remembered. If one saw this video, they would normally think that it was a clip or a scene coming from an upcoming movie. Well, he can't blame them for that. Even he at first thought that it was a clip coming from a soon to be famous movie.

Boy was he wrong.

However, despite watching it again, he can't seem to find how did it happen. The reason why he decided to watch it was to find out the cause of the apocalypse.

But it was in vain, still he decided to save the video for emergency use. Who knows, maybe he will get some clue.

The next day he didn't go to school, he pretended to be in pain due to fever. His mother then inform the school about his fever as she went along to her work in the city.

He had no time to be studying anymore, as far as his memories could remember, it would be next week that the apocalypse would happen.