WHO'S ARTHUR.
He unknowingly fell asleep and started having hazy,indistinctive dreams.
"Please save my baby!" A woman shedding tears profusely cried out.
"Arthur, you'll be alright, okay?!, you're gonna be fine, alright?!…" The same feminine voice said.
"We'll do our best Ma'am" a masculine voice spoke as a response to her plea.
The dream was very obscure and he didn't know why he felt a pang in his heart.
He could hear the voice of the same woman crying as her son was being driven away on a stretcher into a room.
The room he was driven into,was very bustling.
"3…2…1…" they said before transfering the guy on the stretcher unto an operating bed.
He couldn't figure out what was going on.
Could now only hear and not see.
He heard someone ask for a pre-hospital report and then orders were being given out.
"Administer anesthesia injection!, Monitor heart activity!, Surgical team…stand by!," and then a female robotic voice said "OT setup completed".
He tried to move his body, but he couldn't.
"All vitals stable" he heard a masculine robotic voice speak and then the same human voice which gave out the orders continued.
"Surgical team 1, let's begin the laparotomy surgery and surgical team 2 prepare."
" Scapel" he heard before his head started hurting very badly.
It was as though his skull was being pricked by millions of tiny needles and his heart was beating very fast while he struggled to breathe.
He could neither bare the pain nor scream because he felt like a stiff board.
Thinking wasn't his priority right now and he didn't even know how to think as of this moment.
After a while of neverending pain,the ache all over his body subsided.
He tried to open his eyes but it felt too heavy and his body was still as stiff as a board.
After several attempts to get up, he succeeded in moving a finger but he got too exhausted that he passed out.
When he finally opened his eyes, he was back in his room with his phone ringing and the caller's ID was Mom.
He answered with little to no difficulty while his head still hurts.
"Hello,Mom" he said trying to sound very natural.
"Aurt…Blaze, your dad moved a finger today again." She replied with her voice feeling stiff as though she'd just finished crying.
"Mom,are you crying?" He asked.
"No" His Mom said "what made you think I was crying?".
"It's just that…you know what, never mind" He said.
He Conversed with his mom for a while and before ending the call, his mother said with stifling nose and voice as though she was crying "don't worry Arthu…Blaze, you're gonna be alright…I meant your dad".
"Don't worry too much mom, dad's going to be fine, okay?" He said and hung up the phone after bidding his goodbye to his mother who immediately started crying.
He knew how much his mother loved his father, so he thought that his mother was probably crying because she missed him a lot. Not wanting to disturb her, he decided to drain out all the excessive thoughts pervading his mind such as;
"What was that dream all about?".
"Who was the crying lady?".
"Who's this Arthur person?"
"Was it just his hearing or did his mother repeatedly mention this Arthur person's name" and many more…
The game had 2 minutes left before it officially began.
He thought about the money reward and tried diverting his attention.
Just then, Blake hopped on his legs as though it was examining him.
For a while, his cat checked him before Meowing and laying then stretching before curling itself in his lap.
He was shocked because the somewhat narcissistic and prideful cat, actually came to him by it self.
The game began and they were first told to explore before the official beginning of stage 4.
Blaze, who'd never wanted to pair with anyone went about looking for that player who successfully landed the ultimate cheats hit.
He had already jotted down the name of the player on his cheat book.
"Player00547" he muttered and started exploring the open world, in search of that player.
He passed where players were practicing their skills and wanted to try his skill.
He was training when the player he was looking for came to him and started to interact with him.
Player00547: do you perhaps maybe want to team up.
Player432234: No.
He was at it again. Being all narcissistic and feigning reluctance so as to make it seem like player00547 was the one who kept asking him to team up and not the other way round.
He eventually agreed and was secretly happy because having someone like that as his teammate was very beneficial.
What made him confused was the fact that all other players were not paying any attention to the top player who successfully landed the impossible ultimate cheat.
He thought they were probably scared that switching teammates would mean elimination.
After all they knew the personality of 'Not your concern'.
They train together, chatted via audio because when they became a team, they activated the team audio communication.
Their exploration eventually came to an end as the alarm went off and the fourth stage finally began.
They were both placed beside each other in the "Dungeon of death!".
They were only warned to lookout for each other and always be moving forward.
The game began and all the players left were less than hundred from millions.
Blaze and player00547 who said his name was Darius walked in the dark dungeon which was only lit by candles in an ancient candle stand on the wall.
The graphics were very good to the extent that, not a single pixel could be spotted using a magnifying glass.
Getting to an open ground, they were met with a deep trench with nothing but wobbling floating rocks to use as stepping stones to get to the other side.
This should be easy…(*boom*)...