He opened his eyes.... again, and all you saw was blinding lights which hurt his eyes. Utsuro groaned as he put his hand in front of his face. He tried to sit up but his body was in no condition for the strain.
"Easy bro, you got banged up real good down there" Utsuro's vision was blurry and for a moment, utsuro saw figures that resembled those of Barney and Chris but after a few seconds after his vision became clearer, the two figures of Chris and Barney morphed into a chubby guy and six others.
Utsuro's survival instinct, or maybe trust issues kicked in as usual as utsuro sprang into action.
He balanced on his two hands raised his legs up and delivered a 360° spinning kick which the figures barely avoided.
Utsuro then used his hands to spring out of their encirclement, falling hard on the floor before quickly getting up and putting himself in defence mode.
"Cool, I wish I could do that" The chubby boy said in amazement then, a boy with blonde hair sain in a gentle tone "calm down, we're friendly"
"Sir, there seems to be problem with one of the awakened teenagers we picked up recently" A woman not wearing a uniform but a long, white lab coat reported to the commander in another part of the ship
The commander who was looking out the ships window asked "what's wrong? "
"We can't find his profile anywhere in our system's database" The woman replied. "Should we bring him in for questioning? " The women then asked.
The commander replied "No. For now, we flag him and put him under close observation".
Utsuro was sitting at the other side of the room across from the other awakened.
He just sat there, completely isolating himself and just looking as the others chatted among themselves
The room they were in was five square meters big with seven beds in it instead of eight... It seems like they weren't prepared for the extra one.
Anyways, the room was all white and spotless and had nothing in it except for the beds and awakened recruits.
"Okay, now that we're all conscious, why don't we formally introduce ourselves"
"I'm caster" A blonde haired boy with sky blue eyes and a bright spark in those eyes stepped forward and announced with a warm smile. He then encouraged the rest to speak their names "next" He said
"I'm marcus" The chubby boy with black hair said. He was wearing a long, yellow sleeves cardigan and white jeans
"Next" Caster said again
The flame girl with similar white hair like utsuro voiced out "Jill". Jill wore a plane, white gown
"Next"
Another girl with blue, sparkling hair and bright purple eyes introduced herself too with a shy look on her face "I- I'm Janet" She stammered. This girl wore a sleeveless pink and white gown
"Next"
"I'm Raymond, just call me ray" A boy with dreaded hair and half his face covered with the hair introduced himself. Raymond wore a plain, grey sweater on top of a plain white joggers.
"Next" Caster said, yet again
Then, a girl in green jacket, white inner, and skin tight pencil jeans with shoulder length multicolored hair said "call me Anne".
"Next"
The last person wearing a semi-transparent white shirt and a short, grey skirt introduced herself "my name's Sidney"
"Next..... Next..... " Caster repeated several times but to na avail. Huh, I thought we were eight, only seven have introduced ourselves.
Caster scanned the room for the eighth person, and then looked behind to be met with a terrifying gaze that made him scared and uncomfortable.
Caster felt as if he was looking into the very eyes of death itself. In fact, if gazes could kill, he would have died more times than the number of stars in the universe.
He flinched and paused a little and then summoned the courage to ask the owner of the eyes which was utsuro
"C'mon Tell us you name" He forced a smile and then utsuro uttered just two words, his voice barely above a whisper
"I refuse"
The atmosphere grew heavy, the mood darkened as the tension in the air increased tenfold and at that moment,
"Daaaaaaaayum!!!" The chubby Marcus exclaimed
"Cold shit" Ray added
The rest of the individuals in the room looked at both of them with the words "did you really need to say that" Written all over their faces.
"What" Marcus said "I was just trying to lighten the mood"
"Exactly, that's not too bad... Right? " Ray added again.
Even though what Marcus and ray said wasn't exactly funny they achieved their goal. Everyone's attention was now distracted from utsuro's cold response.
The ship finally got to it's landing point and steadily descended upon the so praised Haven.
This ship wasn't the only one. Different ships sent to different sections of azaroth landed upon the soft sand of haven with candidates of their own.
This ship that carried utsuro and the seven others was just one of the thousands of ships sent to different sections to bring recently awakened individials.
Then, a gentle ray of light slowly illuminated from under each ship steadily lowering each ship's seven awakened individials.
As utsuro and the rest of the ship were lowered, they opened their mouth in awe.
The main headquarters of haven stood upon the floating paradise in elegance. It was bigger than anything any of the individials had ever seen. It was magnificent, and gigantic. So gigantic no one could see the top of it.
Awakened individials must have been experiencing top notch VIP treatment and facilities in this place. Even the gates alone was 200, no 500 times taller than the already towering gates of Azaroth, and it wasn't even half as tall as the building itself.
"Woah" Even the usually unimpressed and cold utsuro couldn't help but open his mouth in awe.
Finally, their feet touched the ground and the various ships instantly flew back into the chilling embrace of the starry, night sky lit by the full moon.
Just as all the various individuals were concerned about what to do, the enormous gates of haven opened wide giving the impression that the individuals should come in.
The individuals slowly walked towards the gate, not wasting even a second.
Among these young individuals, some embarked on this journey for the adventure,
some embarked on this journey for revenge,
Some embarked on this journey to gain an influence and purpose in life,
Some embarked on this journey just for the fun of it,
Some embarked on this journey because there was no other choice,
Some embarked on this journey to put an end to these feral beasts,
While some, embarked on this journey for survival... Just survival