Clash of Destiny

"Finally ", Shawn exclamated as he brush off snow that had collected on his shoulders and on his clothes before pushing the huge double door exposing the interior of thier Luxurious white mansion

The floor was made out of blue diamond tiles that's seems to glitter speaking volumes of Bellingham's family wealth. Unlike the floor, the walls were pure white void of any specks.

Slowly stepping inside, Shawn then

removed his boots before proceeding to the anaroka he was wearing exposing his long jet black hair, a trait of the Bellingham's.

It was something that brought up curiosity among commoners why each of the top ten families in all the five continents had a certain hair color that was unique to that specific family. Though they themselves did even have the answer.

"Darling, is that you?" Called out from the kitchen. A petite rosy woman peeped her head from the kitchen door. Just like Shawn, she also had black hair but wavy and blue eyes. She was Melisa, Shawn's mom. She always prefer to prepare her family's meals herself despite the there being alot of workers in the mansion for such work.

"Yeah mom", Shawn replied as he quickly picked up his box and quickly making his way towards the stairs.

"What's that?" Melisa asked when she noticed the box he was carrying.

"VR helmet " Shawn replied before disappearing before her mother could register his words and when she did, her face turned alittle pale instantly.

Since the beginning of the cold winter,their has been outbreak of Xpox. An air borne disease that had infected many making thier skin to turn white pale with purple veins. Countless number of people have succumbed to the disease. The Crowell and Bellingham come together for the first time ever to try come up with a solution but all was in vain.

And due to the outbreak, Melisa had been outright overprotective over her children especially Shawn, her apple.

"He's alright," she said to herself clearly restricting her aurge to go upstairs and thoroughly check on his body for any signs of him being infected. A minute later, she returned back to kitchen.

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On reaching his room, Shawn quickly put the box on his bed before cutting the tape used to seal it. He removed a black VR helmet with a brown mark on the side, indicating its bronze rank. The lowest rank of VR helmet. If word was to get out about someone from the the top family using a bronze ranked VR helmet, only God knows war people say.

But, he didn't care. He didn't see any reason to wast alot of cash in purchasing the upper expensive VR helmets as he would soon get bored with the game in a few days time. Though he wanted to try it out, the thought of him laying around om his bed for the week was a big no.

He removed the charger from the box before connecting it to the socket and then to the helmet. Being a low ranked VR helmet, it required constant power supply.

Sitting in the bed, Shawn placed the helmet on his head before laying flat his back on the bed.

"Don't disappoint me," were his final words before pressing the power button on the side of the helmet finally activating it.

Ad if under the effects of a sleeping drug, his vision slowly started to blurry before his body went limb ad if in a slumber.

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When Shawn open his eyes, he found himself standing on the riverbank. Not far away from him, was a waterfall. The flow water was so clear the he could spot some small black fish swimming graciously. The surrounding trees were tall and green.

Shawn admired the surrounding as he even fail to notice a old man sitting calmly on a mat a few meters away from him.

"It...feels....so really...ouch," Shawn cried in agony when he pinched himself on the cheek.A few minutes later, after he finally got used to his new body, did come to notice the old man who was seatedon the bank with his eyes closed.

"Hello," he greeted as he moved closer to him inspected him. He was an old man on his early 50s. He wore a loose brown robe with a katanga placed in front of him on the ground.

"Took you long enough," replied the old man in a calm soft voice indicating his awareness of his presence.

"WELCOME TO CLASH OF DESTINY"