1 The beginning starts at the end. Prologue

"This sucks" I say to no one in particular. "I wonder how long I've been out here. Sure feels like forever" . Kora sighs and lets his mind wander

Thinking back to how I ended up in this situation I'm not sure how to rationalize it. It was such a good day to...

Tk : Thanks for coming out with me big brother i didnt want to have to carry all the bags by myself.

Kora : "Yeah yeah you little brat we both know this is black mail" Kora looks at his younger brother with a small head shake

"and how did i get stuck with all the bags??"

( im gonna have to start watching him hes starting get a little devious ) kora thinks as he readjusts the groceries for the fifth time

Tk : Its not black mail at all . all i said was that it would be a shame if mom found out you cut class to daydream on the school roof again." then he shrugs his shoulders while swinging his annoying empty hands

Kora : "What ever walk faster little man these bags aint light" i say and throw out my foot to try and give him a quick kick in the ass

He takes off running and turns to look back sticking his tong out at me i remmber thinking

(i love my brother but i swear i wished for a puppy) suddenly theres a loud crash from the alley up

ahead of us and my brother stops running to let me catch up.

TK : "Should we go chack it out?"

Kora : "No we should keep walking and mind our business" while i dream about super powers and being a hero like in the stories real life is different adventuring is something left for those on the screen and in the pages

Tk : "BOOOOOOO" he say and rolls his eyes dramatically.

Out of the alley suddenly runs a young female student with ruined clothes.

??? : you gotta get out of here hes crazy and he's right behind me."

She then speeds off past me down the street . As i look towards her i hear

??? : LOOKOUT HE HAS A GUN!!" From one of the other pedestrians walking past us unnoticed

I look up to see a man dress in all black rasing up a large pistol in our direction while running towards us.

Tk screams as I push my him out of the way and towards the store front beside us.

{Bang}

{Bang}

{Bang}

i feel a heavy blow to my side and a sharp sting in my chest but i ignore it and try my best to shield my brother as we fall sidways.

Tk "KORA NOOOOOO!!!!!"

My little brother screams.

??? : "Stupid wanna be kid wrong place wrong time "the shooter tells me before running off.

Kora : Well shit this hurts more than I thought it would"

??? : SOMEONE CALL 911" I hear someone yell. I look over at my younger brother and smile.

Kora : It'll be ok"then I pass out.

Normally you'd expect to wake up in a hospital in this type of situation but I guess I couldn't be that lucky. Apparently I died right there waiting for help. Now as for my experience with the afterlife its leaves much to be desired. Mainly because my afterlife consists of me kinda just floating around in an empty black space filled with endless stars bored out of my mind.

I'm not alone thankfully there are a few other what I guess you could call souls floating around here with me but most of us can't really understand each other. Those of us that can talk normally don't due to some of the other souls being how should I put it .... bat shit crazy. The more normal ones if you can call them that only want to talk about cultivation, magic, money and how close to becoming gods they were. Hell there are even a few genuine monsters herea few demon guys showed up a while back horns and everything said something about being sealed away by a pesky hero. There cool i guess although they try to convince me to give them a piecs of my soul every now and then and while i may not know why but i feel like that would be a stupid idea.There's even a real dragon even though hes mostly always sleeping and extremely grumpy but when he is awake he tells the best story's about magic and castles i think hes just lonely so i try to talk to him when i can . Its not all bad ive made a friend in this one kid i met. We're closest in age compared to most others but i guess thats really relative at this point mostly cause hes 200 years older than me and thats before he ended up trapped here. His names Ishi he says hes a great hero from his world and died at the hands of a monster while adventuring but really im pretty sure it was related to a woman considering thats all he talks about. Although he dose have some info that gave me more of an understanding of my situation He says that we're 'drifter' souls that for w.e reason be it intentional or accidental slip through the cracks of reality and fall into the void and endless abyss of nothing apparently only gods have the power to travel freely in and out and most dont know about this place because of some stupid war thousands of years ago . Some drifters have been here for so long that they start to lose themselves and fade away to nothing leaving fragmented memories and soul shards floating in there place.

No telling how long they've been here hell i don't even know how long I've been here. Cool thing is since losing my body I've had a lot of from time to get to know my mind better maybe because I've freed up all the mental power needed to move a body around that my mind works 100 times better than before. I'm able to remember anything and everything with a perfect clarity so naturally I spend most of my time reliving my favorite anime and movies.I share them with some of the other driftersand they seam to enjoy hearing the stories but ive ran out at this 'point and now im dying of boredom.

Suddenly a bright light flashes in the endless dark and a figure starts to come into view.

"Guess we got a new void-mate maybe this one will be someone from my world" i say excitedly

As i get a better look at the person i see that its a old man with a ridiculously long white beard and a robe that i can only think should belong to a wizard or something magical like that.

Kora : yeaaaaaah defiantly not from my world" i proceed to float away but then i hear

??? : Exscuse young man me can you i ask you a few questions?

I look back and think about it for a second ( whats the worst the can happen )

Kora : " sure whats up?

??? : Can you tell me how you came to be in this place?

Kora :I don't know i woke up here and im not sure where here is exscaly

??? :This is the void the beginning and end of all things not the place a wandering soul should be floating about only great and powerful souls come hear to rest at the end of there time i sense that your a normal mortal.

Kora : well I guess I died but didn't go to heaven or hell.

??? : Thats strange your soul must somehow meet the qualification to become a drifter i dont very well understand it i sense no cultivation of any kind from you but just maybe...

Kora : Maybe what and who are you anyway old man ?

??? : Oh sorry i forgot my manners i am the god of dreams Morpheus and what is yours.

Kora : My names Kora Tetsuyaand so your saying your god...(shrugs shoulders).. well i guess your not the oddest person iv meet here but what do you maybe ? maybe what?

Morpheus : How would you like to leave this place to live a new life?

Kora : Whats the catch?

Morpheus : I can send you from this place if that is your wish but it wont be to where you came from. Its a world of magic and monsters. Very dangerous but i can give you a few things to help you

Kora : Please anywhere is fine !! I can't deal with the boredom this place much longer.

Morpheus :Young one I have a proposition for you I can send you to a new world but I need you to complete a task for me when you get there.

Kora : What kind of task?

The deity looks at him for a moment then smiles.