The Unknown Trials- Chapter 1

Chapter 1





It was the beginning of a new world for Min Park.

He woke up surrounded by the cold darkness and filthy air. All he could smell was his own sweat on his forehead from fear, and metal from the cage.

A staggering shudder shook the floor underneath him, and before he knew it, he felt himself going up like an elevator. He started shuffling on his hands until the back of his head was hit against the metal cage. He stood up, but then kept falling back down because of the metal cage jerking upward like an old elevator in an old, abandoned building.

There were loud echoes from the metal chains and pulleys that sounded like an old factory. He started to feel so much pain in his ears from the echoes and harsh, shrill cries from the metal.

The weightless cage started jerking up and down, but at the same time swaying left and right, making Min's stomach feel sour; suddenly, a smell like body odor made him feel like throwing up. Because of all the pain and frustration, he started sobbing with tears falling down his face like a waterfall.

“My name is Min... Min Park... I think,” he said to himself, “And I'm going to 'The Unknown Trials' whatever that means.”

He didn't understand how this was possible. He suddenly woke up in a metal cage with almost no memory. He only remembered what he said before he went into the cage which was his full name and where he was going, but he didn't know what 'The Unknown Trials' meant.

He started to picture the location with nice, sunny weather, a green grassy meadow, eating organic foods, and going into a clean, sophisticated building with people wearing white lab coats while creating things that would be useful for businessmen and women.

Minutes felt like hours, however, every time a minutes passed, it felt like a decade. Trusting his own instincts, he knew that he was moving for at least twenty five minutes. He was dying from boredom and his forehead and chest was beaded with sweat from fear despite the cool air. Suddenly, he started to panic, then it alternated to intense curiosity. He was so desperate to know what was happening to him.