I was alone, all by myself with no one around. I am on an island, standing near the open shore. It was very bright and sunny, water glistening with the sunlight reflecting off of its surface. As I was standing there, I kept thinking in my mind that I would really like to see someone, anyone at all would be wonderful. I don’t know how long I’ve been alone, but it felt like forever since I’ve talked to someone.

As I was pondering in my mind, I slowly walked along the shore. Walking, I passed a bunch of destroyed aircraft pieces and parts littered everywhere. Then I heard an odd sound, like metal scratching repeatedly. Curious, I headed towards the sound, but before I could reach the sound’s location, a young-looking girl popped out from that area.

I let out a gasp. I froze for seconds, but what seemed like minutes. I GOT IT, I GOT IT. I thought in my mind. My eyes had grown wide and a big smile appeared on my face.

Before she or even I spoke a word, I grabbed her hand and began to lead her somewhere. I broke out into a run, pulling her behind me. We approached a large piece of another aircraft and I begun to climb onto it, also helping the young girl up. When we reached the top of the large mass, I sat her down and scrambled to bring her things. (It appears I’ve been living up here on this mass for sometime) I presented her with armfuls of food.

A bit of time passed and we were and have been eating the food together. I showed her everything I had with me. I showed her this really cool white, clear-ish shard that I had too. However, I don’t think we spoke a single word to each other. The sun was also beginning to disappear, touching the horizon.

We were reaching a point of fullness or no desire to eat anymore. As we were just about done eating, a tall figure appeared before us. As it got closer, I got more detail on what it was and looked like. It was tall, maybe about ten feet. It had a very deep green skin tone. It looked like what I thought an Orc would look like. The Orc-like creature seemed to be staring at my hand that was holding the white shard. At this point, darkness was filling our surrounding. The white shard began to emanate a light under glow.

Frighten for me and my “new friend’s” safety, I grabbed her hand and headed towards the forest inward the island. We ran for a few minutes and reached my shelter. It was a metal base. We went through the metal doors to get inside. Once we passed through the doors into the shelter, we aged. The young girl and I have grown to our late teens.

I let go of the girl’s hand to let her hide just in case. I tried my best to grab whatever I could to barricade the doorway.

After I finished with what I thought was safe enough, I turned to look for where the girl would be hiding, but before I could find her, I noticed another metal door frame that I had not seen before. I approached it and before I could touch it, it opened for me. It slid sideways into the wall to reveal a deep, dark stairwell going downwards.

Then I remembered the shard. I held it out in front of me. Emitting its low light, it shined enough light to lead me downward the stairwell. Forgetting about the girl, I began to walk the dark path down.

After numerous steps and thoughts of what I would be getting myself into, I reached a platform where the stairs have stopped. There was a door in front of me. I reached my hand on the door’s knob. I slowly twisted it and pushed open.

An extremely bright light hit my eyes, causing me to close and protect them. After getting confront able with my eyes and the brightness, I opened them.

Amazed. Amazed.

It was a city, houses and houses were lined up below me. It was filled with structure after structure beyond where my eyes could see. I gasped. There were people here. SO MANY PEOPLE. For the longest time, I haven’t really been alone all this time. Excited and overflowing with glee, I looked up to the source of brightness.

It was… the sun, the sky, and the clouds…

Wait. Aren’t I underground? How could the sun, the sky, and the clouds be here?

I turned to look behind me. There was the dark stairwell from where I came from. I leaned over to look at the side behind the stairwell, it was the sky. I was in the sky. What is happening…?

-END

NOTE: This reminded me of the T.V. show “Lost” for the metal base shelter in the middle of the island. The underground society reminded me of the anime “Ergo Proxy” and game "Shin Megami Tensei IV".