IX: House of Anarchy

0 - The Fool's Fall

Regrets. Something that has been bothering me since that day. 

A few days ago, I was at the highest point of happiness. I graduated with a satisfying score, got invited to study at a fine university, kissed the girl I was in love with. Oh, everything was just perfect. I couldn't ask for anything more.

I've only decided to take a little stroll around school after prom, I quite enjoy the tranquil atmosphere at night. But I was unfortunate enough to encounter a crime scene. It was my fault originally, I was the one who decided to be a Hero. Basically, some shady people tried to kidnap one of my juniors when she was alone. Well, of course, I hesitated to help her. I bodyslammed one of the kidnappers and made an opening for her to run away. What I didn't know is that these people had firearms. As I fell into the ground, one of them pointed a gun at me. 

I was shot, but not quite dead. My body was thrown to a river not far from the scene. My lifeless body gets carried away by the river's stream. At the end of the river, I encountered an alligator. It approached me with a cold-blooded sense. I swam to the shore using all the energy I had left. But it catches up to me, it successfully bit my right arm off my torso. But somehow, I made it. I survived a gunshot and an alligator. It did cost me an arm and some blood, but I did it. 

I walked in agony until I reached the main road. From there, I could only lie down in the middle. I've lost too much blood, I'm not able to move anymore. The last thing I saw was the starless sky, and somehow, when I'm about to close my eyes, it started raining. 

Now here I am, in an empty void of nothingness, talking to myself. Not sure if my regrets will keep bothering me while I'm shrouded by emptiness. 

I was a fool, no, I was The Fool. On the Fool Tarot card, a young man stands on the edge of a cliff, without a care in the world, as he sets out on a new adventure. He is gazing upwards toward the sky and is seemingly unaware that he is about to skip off a precipice into the unknown. 

This is not the end for me, It's just the beginning. Even though I've experienced death, I still believe that I would wake up on a new Adventure someday.

Someday...