Nyxoria

Blinking his eyes open, Koby looked up at the white ceiling as he sighed.

Groaning from a slight headache he stood in the white room with many of his coursemates that had been awaiting lectures with him. Kai at his right, James at his left. They were okay and he was relieved to know that. Now they had to figure out what had happened and where they were. A few students were already panicking in the white room.

“ what's going on here?”

"Help, anybody?!"

The slight mutterings soon turned to a full blown hysteria. Everyone began looking for an exit but there was known to be found.

Suddenly, a bright light emanated just above the students and a human like figure with no face came in through the glimmer. It had a smile lining from cheek to cheek revealing a jagged set of teeth. The aura he emanated was terrifying.

"Hello, bugs of the universe. You have all died."

"Died?" Koby was surprised at that statement. Looking at his hands, he wondered if this was what death really felt like.

Was it really time to be judged?

"Some of you might be confused but I don't really care.-

"What is happening important is that you all have been chosen among many others to show the Supreme Beings just how worthy you are of your souls." The creature paused allowing the audience to swallow in that bit of information.

"Let the trials begin." It said with a cynical laughter that sent shivers down everyone's spines.

"What do you mean by all this?" Norman, one of the students asked...

Koby facepalmed his head mentally. The world just basically ended and this one was trying to be a representative. They were still hanging onto their personalities.

The creature ignored Norman and continued speaking.

"Trial One, survive five hours in the White Room."

Survival. Koby was confused as to what was going on but he was sure of one thing, the creature was not messing around.

Quickly, he scanned around to understand their situation. Everyone was just as confused, so there wasn't any lead there. The next best thing was to wait.

After a minute, he noticed a change at the sides of the roomm it glowed red and then Koby instinctively yelled out.

"Everyone, get down."

In a flash, a red laser like line slashed across the room from the walls. Those within it's range were dismembered. Killing them instantly.

Fear smiled down on everyone as they looked at the scattered torsos and split open bodies littered on the floor. The first scream was heard, as one of the girls looked at her friend's head that had been separated from her body...

It was now a full blown panic, as everyone scampered to check for an exit. Then a window notification popped up on the air.

Ninety eight students remaining

Four hours and fifty eight minutes left

Koby chuckled at how in under two minutes a total of thirty seven students had died. This was definitely not a joke. He felt a tug at his legs and looked at Kai.

"Didn't get your head sliced off right?"

"Should be asking you that very question."

The smirk quickly faded as they glanced at James crawl towards them with a few others crawling to the centre of the room afraid to get up.

"Everyone okay?" James asked with Koby and Kai raising a thumbs up to affirm their situation.

Suddenly a rift appeared on the ceiling of the white room, releasing a bunch of shields and swords onto the ground.

Cautiously approaching them, Koby picked up a shield and tossed it at James, then tossed another one towards Kai.

"Pick up shield and swords and let's try to form a circle, if y'all want to survive." Koby said to those closest to him. A few started doing as was told and formed a small circle while looking at others who were in shock.

"I don't like this." Kai muttered.

"Neither do I."

Rifts began to appear at the sides of the walls as humanoid creatures poured out in large numbers from it.

"Join your shields together and brace yourself. Maintain the circle at all times, and slash with your swords when within range." Kai shouted out upon seeing the horses. Glancing at Koby, he asked..

How sure are you that this strategy would actually work?"

"It worked in the Vikings series, so it should work.." Koby grinned uncomfortably...

"We're Soo going to die."

The guys forming the circle did as was told and closed their shields together in an effort to close the gaps made. A small group held their swords in preparation to strike but we're very nervous while a few were just whimpering inside the circle. This infuriated Koby because they could die with the way things were.

The first wave hit them. The creatures could be taken down in one hit, so the only issue was their numbers. It was weighing on the shield bearers and if they breach the circle, it's game over. In frustration, Koby yelled out.

"If you're not gonna pick up a sword or a shield and fight for your lives, you're as good as dead weight and any dead weights will be killed by me. "

One of the guys screamed back at him.

"Who do you think you are to tell us what to do?" It was Gregory.

In that instant, Koby swung his sword giving a deep gash to Gregory's neck which killed him instantly.

"I just want to survive like everyone else. One dead weight down, anyone else?"

With the head right in the centre of the circle everyone panicked. They started picking up swords to help the shield wielders by cutting down the creatures within range

The wave of creatures poured out until the end of the five hours time limit. At that point, they all vanished. Everyone gave a heave of relief and slumped on the ground to catch their breath

"You killed Gregory!!" Clifford, one of the boys pointed at the headless body of Gregory while glaring at Koby. There was no response from Koby and this infuriated Clifford more, causing him to grab Koby by the collars

"Was it necessary to kill him?!"

"Yes, it was. He was asking useless questions and making everyone lose morale." Koby answered while staring non-chalantly into Clifford's angry eyes.

"And so you just killed him? Was it fun?" Clifford screamed as he raised his fist to punch Koby. Reacting, Koby raised his sword in order to defend himself but they were separated at the nick of time by James and Rory.

"No way are you guys dividing our numbers. Koby did what he had to do. Deal with it, Clifford." Rory exclaimed looking at Clifford while James held onto Koby. Kai looked on from where he sat using his sword as support, eyes alert.

" What's done is done. We should be thinking about escaping from here." He finally said.

On cue, the smiling creature appeared from a rift and gazed at the shaken crowd.

"Fifty five individuals left. It seems this set has potential."

"What do you want from us?" Kai asked the creature.

"I could never bring myself to explain everything to insects like you." The creature said smiling at Kai.

"How do we get out of here?" Rory asked.

"This one asks the right questions. You will all undergo a form of screening in order to prepare you for what's to come."

"Would you mind cluing us in?" Rory questioned

"That would ruin the surprise, wouldn't it now?" The faceless creature widened it's smile.

Before anyone could say anything, everyone disappeared.