Death Games
Meaning of a vision

“Does it look like that in your eyes?” said it.

A creature as big as a human umbrella and as tall as a lion, with a shell-like shell, a crab-like body structure and a stinger similar to a scorpion tail on its body, appeared right in front of Riz.

“A-what is this? A scorpion? It's a crab, but a crab? Shells shells. What strange creature is this?” inner Riz alert.

“The gods call me Crabius, the gatekeeper,” says the mixed crab as if it knew what Riz was thinking.

“Ah, forgive me. My name is Riz Alea, you can call me Riz.”

Riz was babbling in his heart, “the gatekeeper of this mixed crab? The skull looks so much cooler to me, what the fuck in the world? Nothing is right.”

“Gate is open, the time has come for you,” said Crabius.

“Ah!” Riz realized that the sentence Crabius is the same as the previous terrible creature.

“Gate is open? But I see nothing here except a flying cross,” points Riz to the ceiling of the room.

“Gate is open, but not everyone can enter it. There are obstacles ahead and find answers, then your destiny will be determined.”

Riz was silent, a little he understood the meaning of the words Crabius, “so what is the obstacle?”

“Pronounce bleedya (deal), aemus obdeas riad sain (all starts from here), then you will find the answer.”

Riz nodded, “bleedya (treaty), aemus obdeas riad sain (all starts from here)” as soon as it is finished, the three crosses that floated on the ceiling fell downwards standing upright in the middle of the collapsed floor.

The three floating crosses collapsed and formed a long way across the broken floor.

Three paths separated from each other with thick white smoke enveloped him. The longer, the more smoke came together to form a blob and eventually turned into an unexpected form.

The first path from the left, a white blob formed a child with a knife in hand. In front of the child was a python as big as his arm. However, the snake was injured because there were three incisions on its body.

On the middle way, a child had stood with stab wounds to his stomach and back and legs, clasping a sword in his hand. In front of him was a condor andean with one broken eye.

And on the third street to the right, stood proudly a magnificent lioness with no wounds or defects on her body. But in front of the lioness, there were two children with each sword in his hand.

“A-what is this? Will they fight? This is really crazy, hey! Don't fight the lion! Or he'll kill you!” riz shouted at the two children who stood up to him.

There was no reply, nor did the children stand on each of these roads. “Hei! We have to help him!” exchange Riz on Crabius.

“This is the smoke of the gods, even if they are not real the blood remains scattered,” sahut Crabius.

“Stop your chatter, we have to help or those kids will die.”

“What it looks doesn't mean an answer. Even a vague lie can come true,” continued Crabius again.

“What are you talking about?!” Riz did not understand the meaning of his words. “Stop that, we have to tell them to stay away from that lion!”

The children who faced each other with the animals seemed to be preparing by mounting horses about to attack.

“Stop!” yell Riz.

Without hesitation, he ran towards the two children who were facing the lion.

“Bruaaag!” a glass wall appeared on the lip of the road that Riz was about to walk through so that his steps stopped.

“Hei! What the hell is going on?! Why did this appear here?! Those kids could die! Hey you guys! Didn't you guys hear?! Run fast or you'll die!” No matter how loud Riz shouted, the children did not hear him.

The children in each street attacked the beast before them, a bloody fierce fight began to take place there. Riz could clearly witness the terrifying scene that was happening in front of him. A scene where each living being tries to survive.

“Crabius! Why are you keeping quiet?! Do something or they will die!” pinta Riz to him.

Crabius stared at him, “even if it was a hoax, blood would still be strewn.”

“What do you mean? So you said their fight was a trick?! Didn't you see that they were hurt?! They're just kids, do you think I'll believe what you say?!”

“Even if you can see, don't let it blind you. Look, all living things. They fight just to survive. No matter what they look like, their hope is not a lie,” said Crabius.

“You can save him. But you can only enter one path and choose one creature to save,”.

“One path and one creature? Are you kidding me?!” riz's reply was full of emotion.

“Ya.”

“Didn't you see?! The kids are already hurt!”

“Even the animals were also injured.”

Riz was silent, he looked back at the three streets. A terrifying scene where each child and the beasts attacked each other.

The snake wrapped around its prey, but its body was covered with incision wounds. The deformed condor andes, one of whose legs was injured, tried to fly to avoid the sabre.

And the lion, which bared its fangs and claws, was both wounded in the face of two children who wanted to kill him. Who should Riz save?

“Are you kidding?! They will die if it continues like this.”

“What is it only that looks in front

your eye? Did you forget that you had to find the answer to the obstacle standing at your gate?” crabius asked calmly.

“That!” Riz was back with his initial problems. As he remembered he had to find answers from the visible obstacles. “What is this obstacle? Just be right! Nothing is normal here!” screeched heart.

“They are obstacles, and one is the answer. Look at everything and you'll know the answer.”

Riz shuddered in horror, “this is really my hurdle?” his mind still does not accept.

“So what's the answer? I don't see any answers here.”

Crabius no longer answered him but stared at the bloody scene before him. “Hei Crabius!” call Riz who's not ignored.

“What is this?! He disregarded me? I don't understand any of this at all,” the chat in my heart.

Riz turned his brain back. What's the point of him getting a scholarship if he can't use his brain properly. He also managed his breathing to calm himself.

There was no point in him shouting or asking for Crabius' help because the beast ignored him. Even if it advanced, a glass wall would appear blocking its path.

He looked at the three streets full of noise because of the cries of the beings standing on them. They were both wounded and attacked each other.

“This is a hurdle? Then what's the answer? I don't even know what the question is, his inner” murmured.

He recalled everything Crabius said and stared fixedly at everything. His gaze swept cleanly at all the spectacle before his eyes. It was all horrible and tragic for him.

“Deg!” Riz flinched in shock.

“Even if you can see, don't let it blind you. Look, all living things. They fight just to survive. No matter what he looked like, their hope was not a lie,” Crabius' previous remark felt strange to him.

“There are different from all the words of Crabius. As long as he spoke, none of his sentences seemed to distinguish the creature in front of him,” Riz said in his heart.

“Gate is open, there are obstacles and answers. But I saw no gates except three streets with this terrible spectacle. He said obstacle, right? Then what am I supposed to do? I don't know what this all means,” continued his inner self.

“Why is he talking like that? I need to calm down. See correctly, there may be a hint there.”

The more he looked at the more heart-wrenching Riz was. It's more like a life-and-death fight for those who do. No matter what answer he had to look for, a sense of tightness from pity did envelop him.

Whether it was the children or the animals, they were both severely injured. Unknowingly Riz shed tears. It seems that the fight on one of the streets will end. A child facing a snake began to show the end result.

Riz couldn't take his eyes off of it, because his heart was in pain when he saw it. The boy managed to injure the snake wrapped around his leg. He slashed the serpent's tail until it broke off and laughed.

“Stop!” screeched Riz as the boy was about to cut off the head of the snake that was starting to become helpless.

But the boy didn't listen. As the child held the head of the snake, Riz unconsciously ran towards the road where they were.

Honey, when he was about to break in, his steps were stopped with a glass wall blocking.

“Stop! What the hell are you doing?! The snake is helpless!” riz yelled at him.

“Why? He's been wrapped around my body until it's bruised like this. Why can't I kill him?!” suddenly the boy answered with a smile.

“Then the snake was seriously injured!”

“Yes, but he'll be dead soon. I just want to help him with such punishment,” he replied.

“Stop, I beg you stop!” pinta Riz to him.

“What does that mean you chose it?!” ask the boy.

“What do you mean?!”

“We are obstacles and also answers. If you choose this snake and this path means that is what you will find. Does that mean you chose it?”

“I-it.”

The boy looked at him flatly, “if choose this, then the others will disappear.”

Riz really did not know what to answer, he just felt sorry for the snake. But if he chooses, then the children who are fighting the lion will die together.

If he chose a snake? It was just an ordinary animal that was seriously injured. Even the snake will soon die, but why? His instincts rejected the condition of the snake that would be killed horribly.

He stared at the head of the snake that the boy was holding. The snake was still shaking his body slowly even though he was seriously injured. The beast really looks pitiful.

“Ah,” said Riz suddenly. “Am I hallucinating? The snake ... crying,” shriveled in heart.

With a look of shock, he rolled his eyes staring at the other fight. What bothered him the most were the children who fought with the lion. They are both seriously injured. One of the children lost his right hand while the lion lost both ears.

On the middle way, the child who had a stab wound still swung his sword, while the condor andes was still flying even though one of his legs was broken.

And last? The boy is fine. His entire body was only bruised because there were traces of entanglement from the python wrapped around it. But it was different from the condition of the snake that had been seriously injured.

Riz closed his eyes for a moment, “I already determined it.” He looked at the child who was holding the snake violently. “I chose this path and will save that snake.”

“So? Are you sure?” reply Crabius suddenly.

“Ya!” Riz said it with complete confidence. The glass wall that blocked Riz disappeared instantly.

Riz flinched in shock, then walked over while holding the child's hand to release the snake he was gripping. He carried the snake like a baby and stroked it.

The little boy standing in front of him smiled, “this is your choice. Choices that will lead you to answers, and answers will lead to destiny. Fate will also lead you on the journey of life, may you be lucky with what you choose a human child,” the child disappears instantly along with the snake in the hands of Riz.

Not only them, the living creatures on the other two roads also disappeared.

“Thank you,” said the python to him before it vanished completely.