In a world divided into six regions. Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning, and Darkness.
People are born with elemental marks on their bodies that match the place they live. They are forbidden from meeting those from other regions, except once every three years during a grand competition.
Those without any elemental mark are treated as slaves, used for entertainment and hard labor.
This is the story of how I, someone from a normal world like Earth, where there's no such thing as powers or cultivation suddenly woke up in this strange land…
When I opened my eyes, I saw ash and snow falling down from the sky, I felt a freeze seeping into my skin. I tried to wipe it away but I could not move my body, I felt like I was trapped between two rocks.
"What the f**k?" I told myself.
"The only thing I could move were my lips. Yes my fu***ng lips. 'No,' I muttered, the thought creeping in what if I was paralyzed."
I tried harder but it was useless. The more I tried, the more helpless I felt, then I remembered sleeping in a warm blanket on my soft bed. Just last night!
"How the hell did I end up here?" I just have to wake up from this dream I muttered.
"This has to be a dream."
I closed my eyes once more, shook my head and I smiled, to wake up from this dream, then I opened them again, still here…
From nowhere,
"Shush…"
"Shush…"
"What was that?" I rolled my eyes up, side then down, over and over again, until one arrow fall so close I heard the sound
"Shak…"
As it cut the air near me.
"Hey!"
"I'm here, don't shoot." I shouted but no response, just the sound of more arrows flying from the sky.
I always pictured myself dying in a warm bed, holding up next to someone special. But nope here I am, freezing my ass off, can't even move, surrounded by arrows. Is this really how I go out? Not with a kiss, but with a arrows?
I'm 17 years old, my parents named me after the born they saw my hair red, it looks like "flames" so they named me Yan. I'm 6 feet tall with a youthful face that always caught attention girls admired me at first glance. It was all about the charm. Believe it or not, my looks alone opened doors for me, I got into many things just because of my face.I was born in a small town called Lijiang.
I'm a student of Beijing no 4 high school, but now… I don't even know where I am, yesterday I was in the dorm, next thing I know, I'm here, " wherever here is"
I don't know how I got here, but that's not the right question, the real question is:
"How?"
"Why?"
(I'm dying in this unknow place) I thought.
My breath is becoming heavier and every inhale hurts, my eyes don't have the strength to stay open, feeling the pain as the snow seeps in to my body like needles.
( I can't think, I can't remember now, it's like my memories are slipping away.)
I could not see anything, maybe the snow had covered my face or maybe I had gone blind, but I could hear the sound of my own breath.
"Hor…"
"Hor…"
I was giving up, I didn't have any more strength left, maybe dying here will wake me up in reality.
"What is that." I whispered
I saw a bright golden light.
"Am I moving toward heaven." I muttered it to myself.
At first it was just Golden light, shapeless. Slowly, it began to take form, turning into a glowing circle, it came closer and closer… it seeped into me and disappeared.
"Ugh-!" I screamed
In an instant my throat went dry, I couldn't feel the air, it was moving inside me through every vein in my body.
Crack…
Crack!
I can feel my bones cracking. Everything went just black.
I can hear the sound of wind flowing through my face, I slowly open my eyes, and suddenly I can see the sky, clear clouds. I could feel the warmth on my skin and then I smell something rotten, and it made me gag.
" I covered my nose with my hand."
" Wait… what?"
"I can move…" laugh uncontrollably in disbelief
"I can actually move now." tear welled up in my eyes, excitedly.
I can see the blood on my hand.
( Whose blood is this!)
I turned my head, corpses everywhere!
Some without eyes
Some without arms and legs
Some… without heads.
"AHHHHHH" I screamed
In a second I was on the ground, standing.
(What the hell is going on, where am I and who are all these people?) I thought to myself.
Looking at their clothes, they weren't from my earth, it looks like something out of the history books.
Ancient armor, old fabrics and strange weapons
"Shit… did I go back in time."
"How can this be real? Even the world's greatest geniuses haven't discovered how to travel back in time."
(I must be dreaming) I pinch myself.
I feel the pain.
This isn't a dream! It's real…
Seeing bodies piled across the ground made me dizzy. I figured there must have been a battle here, so I'd better move on.
Whether it's real or not, I have to get out of here, I can't stand here and this smell.
(What if someone comes back, sees me as a threat, and kills me right here on the spot?)
I slowly moved my feet one step at a time, trying to avoid stepping on the corpse's but the ground was covered with bodies, no clean space to walk out.
I looked up at the sky and whispered,
" Forgive me… you know I don't want to do this but the situation… it is what it is."
My eyes were at the peak, I didn't look down and run, as I was running, I felt my feet sinking into lifeless bodies.
" Chab… Chab"
The sound made my stomach turn, I finally reached a clean ground , I put my knees to the ground with a deep sigh.
"Finally…" I breath.
My face was covered in sweat, as I reached up to wipe from my forehead.
"Hair…"
"Long…hair"
I touched it again and again in disbelief.
That's when I really noticed the clothes I was wearing… they weren't from my world, even my height I felt taller.
All of this didn't make sense. My head was spinning with too many thoughts at once…
" What happened to me?"
" Where am I?"
" Whose body is this?"
I shouted to myself, "stop! Just… stop!"
I took a deep breath. If I keep thinking and act like this, I'll surely lose my mind.
" I'll take it step by step" I said quietly, trying get myself steady
" Let's just… see what's really happening to me."