Whispers of the Universe

1 In the beginning, there was sanity

Daniel Smiths was a normal, typical teenage nerd, he had good grades in some classes but bad grades in others. He had dark brown eyes and light brown hair which, being honest, was kind of too long. His hobbies are watching movies, series, reading books ad playing computer games with his friends. That's why he thought it was pretty weird what happened next.

E worked part time in a café, to pay all of his games and books, as he noticed a rather weird person. He wasn't really weird but he just didn't quite fit in. Nevertheless he went over to the stranger's table to take his order. "Yes just a minute", he said, looking intensively at the menu. He had auburn, short hair and wore expensive looking clothes. He had high cheekbones and a defined jawline with dark brown eyes. Daniel felt pretty uncomfortable and didn't know if he was supposed to stay or go away. The attractive stranger looked at Daniel in the corner of his eye and asked his name. "D-Dan", he answered. The young man leant back, still holding the menu in front of his face "So, Danny", he said. Daniel hated it when he was called Danny. He always felt like a little kid, which, obviously, he wasn't. "You see the man over there? In blue?" the stranger continued. He didn't even wait for Daniel to nod. "He's kind of my target right now, you understand what I mean" He didn't "Well, anyways, first of all is there even a pretty girl working there, like, older than 18? Weird little village you have here. Where was I? Oh yes! Guy in blue. Target. I want you to look at him. And get me a coffee, god I really need that right now! And this sounds weird: Scrambled Egg with Chicken? Give me some." "Um, what kind of coffee, sir?" "Just fuck me up. Give me enough caffeine for me to stay awake for a whole week" Daniel went to the kitchen to get the coffee and Scrambled Chicken. He has already noticed the guy in blue the weird man was talking about, and god did he talk much. Daniel was only taking his order! He noticed the man because he was wearing a thick blue Pullover even though it is warm enough for even Daniel to wear a shirt and he was pretty thin and not so tall, average he would say. He knew it didn't look too good being all skinny but it's better than being fat he guessed, because that was socially unacceptable. He then returned to to the table of the man he is expecting at least some more tip because he was acting so weird but he wasn't there anymore. Neither was the man in the blue pullover. But on both table was the money for the stuff they ordered and more tip than usually. "It was probably for me to forget the whole thing" and "He was probably on drugs" Daniel thought. But it was worth the money so he just continued as if nothing happened.

"Hello, Danny" Daniel felt like he was about to throw up; the stranger from two days ago was suddenly standing in front of his house. Before any of them could react, Daniel closed the door, which was more surprising for him than the weirdo actually. "Hold on!" turns out, the man was holding the door so Daniel couldn't shut it. He tried his best not to cry. "Alright this might be a bit confusing. My name is Jake by the way. Jakob Star." And this, my dear readers, is how Daniel's life did an 180° twist.

Daniel hoped his parents wouldn't suddenly come home from their trip for their anniversary. It also wouldn't be helpful if his brother came home but that probably wouldn't happen because their parents weren't home. Daniel hoped and thought about all that because the weird scary stranger Jakob was sitting in his living room just across Daniel. He usually wouldn't let a stranger in but he saw that Jakob had a gun, so there wasn't much of a choice given. "So", Daniel tried to have a little smalltalk to keep the stranger from putting his gun out and killing him, leaving a horrible sight for their parents or anyone coming in, but sadly, he wasn't very good at it. Daniel kind of hoped Jakob would leave a note saying "Couldn't keep a conversation to save a life". It would be terrible but extremely funny and ironic. Luckily, Jakob stayed as calm as he could be, he acted as if they were close cousins who have always been together since they were young, what made Daniel even more nervous. They talked a bit about all kind of things school (although Daniel was pretty uncomfortable telling Jake where he was going to school, which Jakob saw and understood. He then moved on to video games) After a while, Daniel calmed down a little. But then Jakob looked at his watch and stood up abruptly. He reached into one of the pockets inside of his jacked and Daniel panicked, put his hands in the air and shouted "Please don't shoot!" Jakob stood still and looked at him with a very serious look on his face "That would explain a few things", he said, taking a breath. He reached into his jacked, assuring Daniel he was not going to hurt him, and took out a card. He said he had to go and left the card on the table in front of their couch. He said goodbye and walked out. Daniel didn't bother to walk him out or something like that. He just sat there, trying to find out what the hell happened. After a while he gave up and looked at the card. It was a normal business card. It said "Jakob Star". It was underlined and ended with a star. His number and email address was underneath that and then something like his workplace Daniel supposed. It was called "Global Chaos Army" and another number and the name "Challengers Of The Infinity" which was written with a felt tip pen. He was scared. For the first time in his life, Daniel was really scared. He was scared of the card, which didn't make any sense, since the worst thing this little thing can do to him are papercuts. He was scared of Jacob, which made sense, because he knew where Daniel lived, had a gun and seemed pretty crazy. What will he tell his parents? Should he google them? Is someone watching him? He started to cry from the stress but he didn't care and just continued staring at the card. After a while he took it up to his room and decided it couldn't get any worse and looked the company up. A few seconds later his computer froze. Nothing special, really but an add popped up asking "whO aRE YoU?". Daniel doubted he would be able to write anything because everything was so laggy, that was definitely not normal but he simply was too curious, a normal teenager problem he assumed. "Mr Poopybutthole", he typed in. "incorRECT" it said now. "Ms Longleghair", he typed in, but it changed into "Daniel Smiths" as soon as he was finished. "CORrect". He now was able to look up informations about the company and nothing changed about his computer, as if this has never happened. Daniel swallowed and began to write it all down. He sometimes really concentrated in the writing on the screen or his notepad to make sure he wasn't dreaming.