What’s funny to you (me)?

Nothing.

Then why laugh?

Why not,

I never got the chance to laugh before

Why not laugh

Nothing is funny

But everything is a massive joke.

Are you upset then

Yes, I’m upset I’m happy, I’m depressed, I’m filled with pleasure and uncomfortable at the same time

It’s always all or nothing with you(me) huh?

……

……

Gazing out then windows of the holy diver is a nightly void,

I don’t know if I’m still underwater, the ship has stopped being rammed about now rotating calmly,

The void reminds me of how it was atop that mountain, a spinning night sky, little specs of stars peer through the window back at me, their light, just like me being swallowed up by the void, by the darkness,

(True balance)

The people of Terra call this the event horizon, a natural barrier that divides the rings from each other,

What humans see as the sun is in fact a mirage left behind by the constant spin of the event horizon, night and day are determined by the speed of the voids spin, at slower pace the light level is much lower which is the night at faster speeds, day.

This is only a small fraction of information I’ve leant from Danté’s memory, he was being thought all this by the age of five,

(A second-class citizen)

Even with the amount of knowledge Danté had his class suggests that there were things even he was oblivious to,

Things I want to know

That I will find out.

…..

Getting back behind the pilot’s seat, I take the controls,

(Enough wasting time,)

Vwwwwwwwwwwiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrllllllllllll♪!

The ships thrusts forward into the void, it immediately starts spinning my ship up up violently as if sensing my desire get out

Bammm!

Banmm!

The ship begins to fold inward being met with an intense gravitational force

“Come……on!..”

BlAAMM!

“Errrgh!

BLAAMMM!

…..

KABWOOOOOOSHHHHHH!

Everything goes black

…….

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***

“Light?” I blink my eyes open

(What’s that scent?)

“….

Oh,”

Crash!

Without hesitation I ram my body through the front windshield of the craft

(That wasn’t the light I expected)

Upon opening my eyes I found myself surrounded by a fire building up in the holy diver..

Thud!

“Aghh!”

My body lands atop sharp rocks that immediately pierce my skin, already tattooed with glass splinters

My blood begins to dye the shallow water under the rocks red,

BOOOM!

The holy diver explodes behind me I still manage to roll myself far enough away

“Urrrrghhh!” I moan laying on my back

(Have I made it?)

Above is an empty night sky, everything sounds so calm and peaceful,

(The water feels nice

Maybe I should stay here….)

“Ah-hahaha—hahha—hahahah-hahhahuh-huh-huh-ha-ha-ha-ahh-ha-ha-hahahaha!

I finally made it, the first ring,

My home?

Ahhh,” I roll over on my side picking myself up,

“I can’t waste tine lying about, I’ve got people to find”

(And even more to kill)

…..

The area where ended up was in a large river called snake way, south of snake way is an inverted waterfall which is what brought me up to this ring, jumping down would send one back, that is if they could survive being crushed by the event horizon, so it essentially considered a dead end.

The river leads far, almost endlessly north that it its impossible to tell what is off in the horizon,

However along the east and west sides of the wide river are a enormous range of mountains and hilly terrain, and equally enormous forest whose it’s tress almost as the tall as the mountains themselves,

Even with the memories of Danté this is not what I had expected this ring to be like,

The divide between the two separate areas by the river, is damn near perfectly equal.

“Forest it is,” I mutter out loud stumbling towards the looming woodland,

(I don’t think I have the strength to climb any mountain right now, and following the river leaves me exposed)

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……

Eiiiieeeeeckkkk!

Eiiiiieeeeecckkkk!

Bats shriek flying over and within the forest

Hotooootoootoot!

Brrrrrrttttoootoootoooot!

Owls sound in response

The tree’s leaves shake noisily as possums run up and down their trunks playing about in the night

Kckkssssscksks!

They hiss at each other running past my feet

The pain from my wounds have now subsided, I’m not sure if they’ve healed or I’ve just got accustomed to the pain,

Either way I now pace briskly through the forest following a certain sound,

One that is not natural to the forest,

A crackling sound, like a fire being kindled, I noticed the smoke a great distance away in the sky a while after entering the forest,

(Who ever is there, I have to kill them and take their supplies and information,)

….

Hiiissssssckkkkk!

A snake slithers past me by my feet

Hssk–

–Bssckh!

Immediately I crush the creature under my foot

(Too much life here)

Squaaaghhh!

Almost as if reading my mind another creature cries making it’s presence behind me

(I swear is every animal here nocturnal?) I spin around to face what I can only describe as a feathered monstrosity,

Beady yellow eyes growls at me in tandem with it’s pointy beak-like mouth that shows of some daggers one would call teeth

Squaaaghhh!

Steadying itself, the creature towers over me by a good amount of inches, daring me to either attack it or run away

I’ve never seen this creature before but I identify it at once,

A dinosaur

(A Velociraptor!?)