The omnis

Part I chapter I

Darkness , that's all I saw and all I felt . Stillness , my first thoughts where not to move . That was all I could remember . "Ok . Where here ." Said a calm , quite voice that made me jump . "Better get ready to run." "Why?" My voice shook . Suddenly my brain woke up . "Where am I?" Questions suddenly started in my mind at rapid fire . Where was I? who were they? Why was I here? Was I in trouble? What had I done? Then there was natural light all around me , faint but right away I recognized the light that only the sun could produce . I looked around as soon as my eyes adjusted ; my companion was gone , who ever they were . The first thing I noticed was that it was no longer winter , no more white snow covering the branches or falling softly from the sky . I was in a narrow tunnel with an open roof , the vegetation on the walls was similar to that where I had come from so at least it must be a similar climate to home . Except it was summer . Late summer I guessed . It was warm and the air was dry . The thing that worried me the most was that I could not hear a thing besides my own breathing , not a sound . That was unlike home . I tried to take a step forwards but as soon as I did a hole opened up in front of me , and beside me , and behind me . I was on some sort of plate and if I stepped of I would fall back in to the darkness , where ever I had come from . I looked down at my self : my clothes where changed into that I had never seen before : a plain maroon t-shirt , a white sports bra , black water resistant studio type pants with small pockets , and under those black sporty leggings . On my feet I wore tan hiking boots with brown laces and soft leather around the top . I had plain white ankle socks , and my strawberry blonde hair was tied back in a fishtail braid . Someone had taken care to dress and clean me . I had no memory of that . Perhaps they had put me to sleep or nocked me out , but these thing must have taken a while so I must have been drugged . Suddenly a speaker came on interrupting my thoughts : "Contestants prepare!" It blared . Contestants!? What was this some kind of game show or something!? "When the horn blows the voids will close and you may start! You must reach the finish line before the time runs out but the finish line will not show it's self until you have dealt with the others . How much time I may not tell you . What others I may not say , but you have been trained your whole life for this , and the only way to find out what "this" is where you are and who "they" are is to reach the end . Good luck!" The horn blew and I ran .