All I could remember was that I floated in a dark abyss, void of sound and color. I felt at peace... I felt calm.... I felt at home....
But recently, I've gotten visions. Visions of people and places that somehow feel familiar. I don't know how long it's been since I've floated in this void. I don't know why it is that I've been getting these visions now, when I know that I've been dead for a long time...
Then I realized that these aren't visions... these are memories... memories of my past life, my friends, and my family....
I once lived in a world where people get bullied and even killed just because you stand up for what's wrong, don't like the way you look, the way you speak, and the way you breathe...
I was a college student who liked playing games and studied just enough to be considered above average. I have close friends and a loving family... that was until a bunch of thugs tracked me down and decided to beat me up just because I saw them trying to assault a woman and reported them to a nearby police.
They broke my arms and made sure I couldn't walk or speak. They threatened my friends and even killed my best friend because he also stood up for the injustice I experienced. My family and my best friend's family sued the thugs, but in the end, failed to get justice because those thugs had powerful people backing them. Once one of the thugs found out, they immediately went to our home and humiliated my parents by stripping them of their clothes and forcing them to dance and play games with them, or else they would kill all of us...
In my sheer rage, seeing the state my parents were put in, found a way to move my paralyzed legs and went to the kitchen to grab a knife, but one of the thugs saw me and immediately ran over. I didn't have much time to act, so I opened all of the propane gas canisters I found in the kitchen and threw one of them immediately at one of the thugs who was smoking. An explosion occurred, and I saw my parents alive but unconscious. I helped them up and dragged them outside the burning house... after that, I fainted and everything went black....
Ever since then, I've been stuck in this dark abyss....
As I continued drifting, pondering why it was that I suddenly remembered everything, a voice rang out in front of me... It called for me, and I was blinded by the light emitted in the direction I'm facing.
I reached out my hand, and everything went blank...
When I woke up, I saw that I was in some sort of floating temple in outer space. There were stars, and comets sometimes passing by. I saw many people still on the ground, dazed and confused. In the center, a circular table with a floating projection of a massive planet. A tall figure made of pure white light sat on a golden throne behind the table and planet.
A voice resounded: "The world you see before you is yours to rule, my 32 kings!"