A young man was floating in this dark, eerie, and ominous surrounding, he is sleeping soundly while snoring. His appearance is above average face with a brown eye and black hair.

  A few second later, he woke up to his slumber. He groans waking up and barely opening his eyes.

  “Huh? where i am? Why is so dark here?” he said while being confuse and baffle to where he is.

  “This place was very creepy and eerie” he is looking to his surroundings, but he didn’t see anything.

  He feels tired and his whole body is like a hardened stone that pressuring his whole body to not make a movement.

  ‘Why I can’t move?!’ he feels chill on his back and unknowingly he didn’t notice that he begins sweating furiously.

  ‘WHAT’S HAPPENING?!’ He is nervous and uneasy to the situation he is currently in.

  ‘Nothing out here, it’s filled of darkness and silence…’ he wary looking to his surrounding but only darkness he can see. His eyes looked down to see his body and he saw nothing at all.

  ‘It’s seemed like I’m looking to my soul’ He feels shiver on his spine looking to this darkness.

  ‘Why I feel that water is on my skin. Is like I’m in bottom of the ocean but then how can I breath normally here? Then why I’m here?’ he is thinking to this weird situation he was in, while his thought is in chaos.

  For a seconds, he feels headache and countless of memories flooded in his head.

  Then a moment of silence, the young man didn’t say anything and only looking intently to this pure darkness infront of him.

  “I remember what I did… I killed myself with my own hand…” He remembered that he hanged himself.

  “I’m really pathetic… and pitiful…” he is still looking to the darkness infront of him and he sees himself clearly like the darkness is a mirror that reflect his own face.

  A silence echo to this dark surrounding after he stopped speaking. After a few minutes of silence and contemplating the choice that he made.

  After a moment of rethinking his life, he came back to his mind and accepted the choice he already made.

  “Is this where the people go when they died? It’s creepy, quiet, and dark that give me a spine-chilling than what I imagine” he sighing internally looking to his surroundings.

  He begins laughing out of nowhere and internally snickering himself for the ridiculous choice he made.

  “i hope for the people who mourning to my death will forget my existence for them to have a peace in their heart and mind... be happy and live without my presence…” he talking himself while still staring infront of this darkness.

  “I’m really a selfish person for leaving to early…” he said while snickering himself but his eyes appeared a lingering deep of sadness.

  “Now I don’t even know if I regret my decision or not… how laughable that I still cling even though it’s the choice I made”

  ‘Life is like a different road that meant for us to step on. The farther we walk, the bumpy and thorny the road we step on, until we become tired and our will exhaust to live’ he appears daze.

  Now he didn’t even know if he regrets his decision or not but deep inside of him is that he truly want to live and enjoy his life to the fullest but his life is full of suffering and a chain that shackle him for what he want to be, and he was already to his limit for him to endure for too long.

  He sighs to the choice he had chosen.

  he stares to this darkness and said “If there is a next life, I wish my words will be delivered to my next life. I hope in our next life, i will still be me for who i was and think rationally to decision we make. Love myself unconditionally like how we truly love our family and the people we close to. Live to the fullest that you wanted to be and be kind to everyone even if the world was cruel and against us” he said with deep sadness and watery eyes.

  “Life can be cruel to us but I hope you’re the light to that cruel world and lightening the world how unique and amazing you are”

  “I hope in the end of our life, we will smile like it was the happiest day of our life and dying peacefully while closing our eyes without regretting something in the end” his eyes appear hopeful.

  He is hoping and clinging that there will be a next life and a new story to be made.

  This is the first time he expressed and showed his emotion knowing it’s the end of his worthless past life and the fire ember in his heart was already been extinguished. He felt regretted and dejected that his past life ended, without something he proud of.

  ‘My story has been ended without seeing the end of it…’ He sighs that this is the last chapter of his story.

  ‘Hmm?’ for a moment, he noticed and feel something weird happening to his body.

  ‘Why I still feeling tired even though I didn’t do any body movement on this period of time when i woke up. Also, why I feel that my body is becoming more comfortable that I want to lay down and sleep for a moment’ He feels dizzy and sleepy that he wants to sleep comfortably.

  His eyes begin tiredly closing down and his body slowly laying down like a floating in the sea.

  Every second he finds himself lack of will to resist and thought of embracing the comfort for him rest comfortably.

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  ‘I should now stop thinking about what I regretted, because it will not change the choices I made. It already happened and it was my own choice to be dead’ He thought with deep sadness in his heart.

  ‘I’m already dead.... It’s not like I will back to life by resisting… I guess this is the place where I rest and say goodbye to the memories I made’ He thought, but he appeared sad and reluctant to say goodbye.

  Every second he feels warm and pleasant to this feeling of comfort that he wants to rest. He slowly closing his eyes and embracing the darkness with tears in his eyes.

  ‘Huh?’ for a moment, a faint dazzling light catch his attention while closing his eyes.

  ‘A light?’ He slowly opening his eyes curiously and he see a faint light in front of his or you can say above of his but the distance is farther than his position.

  ‘Why there is a light ahead?’

  deep inside of him, a faint ember is lightening up in his heart and his little bit of hope is growing slowly, while his heart is thumping faster than normal beat. His intuition is telling him that he needed to hold that crucial light.

  ‘No, I should not stay here! I’m in charge of my life and no one will dictate my path and my life besides me!’

  ‘I will not stay here while regretting the choices I made that cannot be change!’

  ‘I don’t want to die like a worthless insect that will only be faded to the book of history and my name will only be forgotten by everyone!!’ he thought while grinding his teeth and his eyes opens wide.

  “I need to PERSEVERE!!” he is screaming out of his lungs.

  He forced himself to move even though his body is like hardened stone that doesn’t flinch to every movement he makes.

  However, for every second he forces himself to move, his body is reacting slowly and a movement can be seen that he is progressing.

  ‘I need to keep going!’ He feels joyful and motivated to keep going even if it is his last breath and his last energy.

  “I will never give up until I see the end of this!” he clenched his teeth tightly.

  He slowly keeps swimming above and he pushing himself to the utmost of his energy to get near to that faint of light.

  “THIS IS MY ONLY CHANCE!” he is shouting out his lungs and grinding his teeth very tightly. He keeps swimming and never stopped.

  Time passed by and it was already many hours has passed, the distance between the two is shortening. however every minute he forces himself, his whole body feel painful and out of energy to keep going.

  ‘NO, I NEED TO HOLD MYSELF AND TOUCH THAT LIGHT!’

  ‘THAT THE ONLY HOPE AND REASON I HAVE!!’

  ‘ONLY MYSELF I CAN RELIED ON AND NO ONE ELSE!’

  ‘EVERYTHING I DID WILL BE NOTHING IF I NOT HOLD THAT LIGHT WITH MY OWN HAND!’ he thought.

  He bit his lips and keep swimming even though he felt unbearable pain and exhausting to every movement he made.

  ‘JUST A LITTLE BIT I CAN DO IT!!’

  He perseveres until his hand is only inch to the light and after a second that feel like eternity.

  ‘I GRASPED THE LIGHT!!’ he held it with his own hand.

  “I WILL LIVE AND CONTINUE MY LIFE UNTIL OUR LAST BREATH!!” he screamed at the top of his lungs. A scream of many emotions that cannot be describe by a whole sentence that he felt in that moment.

  The light flooded infront of him like a wave of tsunami that surround him and the darkness in the surrounding vanish and he feel peaceful in his mind.

  ‘I will die with a smile and without regret on my back’ he smiles and his eyes slowly closing down, but now it was different because there is a hope for him to live.

  Ambiens kingdom, Azert clan.

  At night, a heavy rain and gloomy clouds is everywhere at the sky with a sharp crackling lightning at this mountainous land.

  In the city of the Azert clan, a large castle can be seen in this mountainous land and there is a lot of lively people living in this castle. In the middle of the castle a large mansion that appear historical European architecture.

  A sound of a baby howling can be heard inside of this mansion.

  “It’s a miracle! The baby was alive my lord and my lady” the physician happily said while respectfully congratulating the two parents.

  The married man and woman appeared felt relieved and joyful internally when they informed by the physician.

  “I feel relief that our child is healthy” A woman that laying on the bed said.

  a beautiful middle age woman was smiling with a tear of joy while laying on the bed with a baby on her arm, she wore a gorgeous dress with appearance of fair skin, straight long blond hair, and deep green eyes.

  “You did well” he is smiling and comforting his wife.

  a robust middle age man is standing infront of her with fair skin color, a deep blue eyes and straight short blond hair with beard. His face is outstanding and handsome.

  The physician and the servants quietly didn’t say anything and didn’t intervene to this lovely married conversation.

  After a minute, the physician says something.

  “Pardon me my lord for my insolent words but I felt the pulse of the baby earlier is not thumping…” The physician felt internally astounded and relieved. He was sweating earlier when he does not feel the pulse of the baby earlier. However, the physician stopped speaking when he saw the glare of his lord.

  “I apologize for my mouth my lord” he hurriedly apologizes and pull back himself when he understood the meaning of that glare.

  The man set his eyes again to his family and he see the smile and tear of joy of his wife while looking to their baby. The robust man smiled as he sees his wife beautiful smile that made the grips on his hands loosening comfortably.

  “How’s the condition of our child?” the robust man asked the physician.

  “The baby was pretty healthy and his heart pulse was thumping in normal pace my lord” The physician politely said.

  He affectionately looking to his wife and their baby, he feels joyful that the baby was healthy but he hid and restraint his emotion while infront of this many people.

  “Leave! we need our own time as a family” the robust man ordered with a solemn face.

  “Yes, my lord!” the people inside said and bowed in unison. They leave together while closing the door.

  The robust man sat down to the chair and get near to his wife and he hold her hand.

  “It feels relief that our baby is healthy and alive. I was devastated when the doctor said earlier that our baby was dead. It was a blessing and fortune that we give chance to become a parent for our baby, also especially for our baby for being strong too” the woman happily said to her husband she felt.

  The man nod to what his wife said. He still looking affectionately to his family.

  “What will you name for our baby my dear Eliza?” Heiner thought that it was better to let his wife make the name to their son.

  Eliza was flabbergasted by Heiner said and letting her decide what name of their baby.

  “What?! Isn’t taboo in our clan to name the newborn baby by a woman even if it was his mother. You knew very well that it will affect to your power and influence as a lord in our clan, and if other clans knows that this happened, they will look down on you and also our child” Eliza appeared surprised and she was very worried for him and her son.

  Heiner only smiled to the nagging of Eliza and caressing the hand of her.

  “Don’t worry, I will be the one who will announce to everyone the name of our child. It looks like i was the one who make the name of our baby and it is only between us so no one knew”

  “Tell me my dear, what name will you name to our son?” Heiner gently said.

  Eliza appeared worried and anxious, but she accepted it after Heiner assured her. She sighed deeply and smile infront of him.

  “Thank you my dear for giving me a chance to name our baby. I thought about it before while I’m still pregnant, the name for our baby. I want to call our son, Theo” Eliza happily said.

  She is looking at Heiner affectionately and she appear delight when she said the name she thought for their child long before she was still pregnant.

  “Oh, ‘Theo’ what a good name for our baby my dear” Heiner affectionally smiling when he heard the name of their child.

  Heiner put his hand to the head of their baby, it’s sleeping soundly on the arm of Eliza. Heiner caressed the head of his child while saying.

  “’Theo Azert’ my child” Heiner proudly said.

  Now a rising wave that will change the course of this world history and future, giving birth to a unprecedent era.