The night of 16th July 2024, It was a dark and gloomy night, The world looked like a different place in the blissfulness of the silence.
Between the forest of tall glassy buildings was a small office which looked to be around 4 floors on first glance.
Inside the building was a young man who looked to be no older than 25 who looked neither stunning nor ugly, he looked average.... he had long black hair with black eyes and was wearing a dark green t-shirt with a black hoodie on top with some black jeans and a pair of old beaten up shoes, he looked like he was about to collapse any second now due to exhaustion and hunger.
Argen was sleeping, he appeared to be having a nightmare, he suddenly woke up from his nightmare and realised he just wasted his time asleep, he cursed our aloud.
he looked stressed as the deadline for his work was approaching sooner than he anticipated. He quietly whispered to himself
"Mark is gonna kill me if I don't complete the assembly by 18th"
Mark was Argens boss, he was a strict person who valued time like his own life and would scold people the whole day for over shooting their deadlines.
Argen looked at his watch and it read
|11:46pm| |16/07/2024|
He panicked realising that the last train for his home was leaving in 14min.
Argen quickly gathered all of his stuff including the laptop he was on and left the room he was in to enter a corridor with doors on each side and an elevator at the end.
The elevator quickly came and he urgently entered. When he exited the elevator he entered another similar corridor but this time instead of an elevator there was a glass door at the end.
He pushed the door but the door didn't budge, he realised his mistake and then pulled the door, outside on the left of Argen was a fat security guard who was sitting in a chair smoking a cigarette, when he saw Argen next to him, he said
"Huh? Argen? What are you still doing in there at this time."
Argen replied
"Ah john.... you know how it is with work."
John added to his statement
"You are still young Argen you need to start caring about your health before it's too late, just look at you, you look like you were brought back from the dead."
Argen quickly glanced at his watch and it said
|11:51pm| |16/07/2024|
He said his bye's to John and went running towards the train station which was just around the block.
While Argen was running through the barely illuminated road, a sudden vibrant green trail shone in the sky illuminating him, he looked at the trail in the sky realising that it was a comet.
Although Argen would have loved to look at the beautiful sight he was awfully late so he had to keep running.
He quickly reached his destination but when he entered the place he felt something off about it.
Where there are usually gaurds watching, today there was no one, even though he was very late and was boarding the last train it was odd for nobody to be around.
He swifty peeked at his watch
|11:59pm| |16/07/2024|
He was just in time.
He hurried towards the platform
But there was no train there.....
There was no train and nobody else on the platform. He could not find anyone.
He questioned himself
Maybe he missed the train?
But quickly removed that possibility as he has taken the last train multiple times in the past and it arrives at 12am and waits for 1 minute before leaving.
Argen felt something off, the world was starting to grow darker, he didn't like it.
Argen made the decision to leave the station and walk all the way home which was about 6km away, it would take him an about an hour if he walked.
He left train station, and walked towards the direction of his home. He looked at the sky wanting to see the beautiful scenery of the green comet that was in the sky again.
But the comet was not there....
It just disappeared...
Argen looked everywhere in the sky but it was actually nowhere to be found.
Argen asked himself
"Huh? What? I didn't even drink alcohol what's happening?"
Maybe he just imagined it?
Maybe it was some wierd lighting in the sky?
Some fireworks maybe?
He thought that the strange phenomenon occurred because of one of those reasons because if a commet was going to appear it would have appeared on the news and atleast some people would be awake to watch it.
Right then, he felt the wierd feeling again. The world grew slightly darker than before.
He looked around thinking someone was watching him but there was not a single soul.
The pace at which he was walking increased slightly. But the feeling never left him. It only grew stronger and stronger.
Argen saw a car on the road which was stopped at a red light up ahead, he quickly walked towards it hoping they would give him a ride to his home.
He made his way to the car but by then the feeling was making Argen loose his mind.
He felt like he was suffocating in water with no one to help him.
Argen knocked on window while keeping a check on his surroundings and said
"Hey can you please give me a ride to my home, it isn't that far away, only about 4km straight from here, please?"
Argen got no respond
"Hello..."
Argen bent down to check on the driver of the car. The driver wasn't there.....
The keys were still there, the car was still on but there was nobody there and at that moment the lights turned green.
Argen was now having trouble breathing, he couldn't see because the world was shrouded in darkness, he used the car as support to barely stand.
Argen felt a human hand on his shoulder....
He knew that there was nobody except him here so how is he feeling a hand on his shoulder???
He wanted to turn back and see who it was, but he knew that if he did he would die, that was because this person is the source of the darkness.....
He slowly looked towards his chest and simultaneously he felt a sharp pain in his chest.
A long black katana was slowly piercing his chest like paper. He wanted to scream but due to the feeling of drowning in darkness he forgot he even had a mouth.
Alger closed his eyes....
He died.