I was leaving my friends house one day to head home, and as I had my backpack with my PlayStation 4 and its cords and controller in it over my shoulder, and walking down the street I thought of what I was gonna do. 22 years old, lost my temp job, no openings ANYWHERE, and living in a town with....a small game hall, with a pool table with billiards 1-9, as the best form of fun, but I just kept thinking until...

"HEY DANIEL!!!"

'Oh great.....just.....fucking great' I thought.

I turned around to see one of my high school bullies, Robert.

"What do you want Robert?" I said.

I looked over as I heard a car drive by and then I felt my ear twitch so I leaned over and saw a fist come into my vision. Never, was I so glad that I learned that my intuition of danger was prominent. After my surprise passed I just stumbled away from Robert and looked at him. I always hated my body...kind of a big gut, not fat, but not unhealthy big, but I had noticeable muscle.

'Ah fuck....' I thought as I ran my hand through my short blondish brown hair in relief. '...Why don't bullies mature....?,

When I looked at Robert I noticed him brandishing a knife with a curved blade. Seeing it, I took a few steps back, then turned and bolted. Thankfully, I was (and am) a big fan of assassins creed. So I learned some parkour tricks. Not flips and such, but quicker ways to get over tall, fences, comfortable vaulting styles, and the like. Escaping maneuvers basically.

After a few 8 foot tall fence vaults, and a slide under a porch, I lost Robert. After a while I crawled out and noticed my house was down the street, and walked down the street. As I got close I saw my cat Mimzy, crossing the street. She had that common multitude of browns and black lines and markings on her body like many cat photos I've seen online. But her green eyes had a glow to them, the odd kind of glow too.

"Hey Mimz!" I called to my cat, and she stopped in the road and lifted her head to look at me. I rushed over and set my backpacks strap over my chest and knelt down picking her up and pet her as she purred in my arms curling up and pawed at my hand. But that was my mimz.

I heard a cars horn but when I turned around I saw a truck, and no not a pick-up, a semi, without the trailer on it. So I just traded one death for another, huh? Well....as the old saying goes, I just said....

"Fuck my life...."

I started feeling a wet, prickly feeling going over my cheek, and I slowly opened my eyes to see Mimzy, and…..trees behind her.

‘Wait….WHAT?!?!?!’

I sat up quickly and felt a pain shoot through my left arm and in my head. I chose to hold my head and I looked around seeing a forest. Did the driver take me here to keep from being in trouble? Did I temporarily die? Think…..what happened….

Ok, there was the truck, I turned to protect my cat and so my side is hit by the truck, the impact…the painful impact, sent flying and the feeling of going through a giant pane of glass…..wait….glass? did I go into another car? No, the truck driver wouldn’t take the time to pull me out.

“Oh, god what happened…?” I said as I looked at Mimzy. I could see Mimzy stare at me, probably worried about me knowing her, so I just smiled at her and started scratching her chin to ease her worries. She loved a good chin scratching, and when she lifts her head it looks like shes got a giant smile. I swear it’s the cutest thing anyone could ever see. And I’m not a guy to use cute lightly either, so when I say it, I mean it.

I soon started to get up but as I stood on my left leg I just felt a chill go through my body and fell panting. Why was I panting? Why am I so cold?! Wait, I feel a twinge in my ankle….an all too familiar one. I sprained my ankle, without a doubt. How can I get help now, I have no way to call for any…

My backpack!! MY PHONE IS IN MY BACKPACK!!! I looked around and saw my backpack a few feet away, so I slid over to it and pulled out my phone, trying to ignore the pain pulsing up my entire leg from my ankle. I turned on my phone and….no signal….dammit….

I carefully got up again keeping my weight on my good leg and felt Mimzy climb up onto my shoulder, and luckily her claws digging into my skin helped me ignore my ankle a little bit. I looked around a bit and started heading in a random direction.

“Best idea is to find someone, or a building. Maybe someone will find us, and we can get home. Right Mimz?” I said as I looked at Mimzy, seeing she was asleep.

I could just smile and keep limping, hoping that ill run across some help. Damn, this ankle is going to break if I don’t find help soon.

After a long hour of walking I tripped on a piece of a tree root sticking up and fell flat onto the ground. I couldn’t give up though, I needed to push through, and so I got up again and picked up Mimzy and took a few deep breaths before I just started running.

I saw a light breaking through the trees and I ran through it being blinded by the suns light, slowing down. After my eyes adjusted to the sudden brightness, I could see….a tree on a hill with a flat side with windows and a door? Wow, I didn’t think those were real. I was relieved to see some animals eating special feed, which meant someone lived there, so I started walking for it letting Mimzy down to walk beside me. When I was a quarter of the way closer I felt a sharp pain flow through me making me see stars and I fell to my knees and had to cover my mouth from the nausea that hit from the sharp pain.

After my nausea passed, I looked at the small cottage as it seemed blurry. One chance left. I took a slow and deep breath as I got ready and leaned forward a bit.

“I NEED HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” I screamed as loud as I could, hoping they were home.

I suddenly felt heavy and just fell forward and kept staring at the cottage as the blur in my vision grew and grew until everything was just blobs of color. I could hear a door but it sounded so far away, I didn’t know if it was from the cottage or from a shed that could possibly be behind it. I was thankful when I heard Mimzy meow loudly, which led to a gasp towards the cottage, although they sounded like it was filtered through water. I saw a yellow blob with a little pink over it, and a white blob with some purple hurrying towards me from the cottage, but the color faded to black quickly, but I could hear a silent voice in my last moments of conciseness.

Author's Note

oh dear god, so much BS, and i finally got this much....i could have went further but....i kinda wanted to start the next moment in Chapter 2. i will do all i can to get chapter 2 uploaded, but no promises on a date. also, blame gameinformer, gamefly, and elder scrolls online for any long waits.