Chrysalis

His eyeballs blinked open for a moment, and the world exploded in light all around him. It was super bright. At first he couldn't even tell what the heck was going on. He didn't know where he was, or even who he was, yet this all seemed familiar. Slowly, he realized that there was a tall man standing over him. He couldn't make out his face, but that's just 'cause he didn't seem to have one. With what felt like a massive effort, he lifted his head and sat up straight, and saw that he was in an open field. The grass was thick and green, although not very long. Someone had to have been taking care of it, considering how nice it looked. Far out in the distance he could make out a couple of mountains with snow on their peaks. "Hey kid," the figure said gently, "You ready for this shit?" The kid tried to speak, but his mouth was glued together. So instead, he just nodded. "Cool. Stand up and come with me. I'm going to get you out of this place."

Chapter 1 - WTF?

He stood shakily to his feet. For some reason he had memories of being pretty tall, but next to the dude that woke him up, he felt minuscule in stature. "This is gonna sound weird, but don't get the wrong idea. I need you to take my hand." The kid was hesitant to take the gigantic faceless man's hand, seeing as that was kind of a weird request, but he took a short look around him and realized he didn't have much of a choice but to trust this guy. The field seemed to stretch for miles, but the kid had a strange feeling that there were edges that dropped off into some kind of infinite abyss, and he knew he was trapped here. "I think I've been here for a super long time. Wait, what the fuck is time? Oh well," thought the kid. He looked upwards at the massive man with no face-like features and decided to just see what would happen next. Maybe this dude could get him out of this place. Reaching out, he took the man's hand, which was super big. The man then gently spoke again with a voice that sounded like a rock, if rocks had voices anyway, saying "I'm gonna awaken your ass and bring you out of this bright world. Get ready for some fucked up shit, cause we have to travel through the Forest of the Seven Beastoids, which are robot bears, and then we have to cross the River of Emptiness, which is a river that doesn't have any water in it but will still sweep you off in its current, and then to scale the Mountains of Deceit, which are so called because there's all these people that live there that aren't very honest. Then we have to cross the Desert of Despair where you'll see a bunch of depressing stuff, and then down through the Valley of Remembering, where they'll restore your memory, and then-" VIOLENT INTERRUPTION "DUDE. I'm sorry to be rude, but can we just get going? I want to get out of here. If you want to talk, then do it as we go or something. Damn." This voice issued forth from the kid's mouth, which suddenly came unglued from his lack of patience. The giant was dumbfounded. "Kid. . . you just broke one of your barriers, and you did it out of sheer lack of patience. You got some real hardcore stuff inside you, but that don't mean you can make it alone. Let's go."

The man stomped his massive super jacked leg and the field cracked down the middle, then the crack continued over the edge and up through the sky. The bright sun was extinguished, and the world that the kid had felt that he had known for so long fell into darkness.