That was the last thing I remembered before my death.

I opened my eyes. I was now surrounded in some sort of darkness. I could not see clearly and so I a.s.sumed this to be my final resting place. I tried to move my legs. Surprisingly, I was able to move. I walked and walked endlessly in a forward direction until, I saw a bright light ahead of me.

"Finally", I sighed.

Wait.

I could speak?!

I shrugged off this thought and walked thoughtlessly towards the never ending tunnel.

As I walked further towards the light, I began seeing myself as a physical body of sorts. I tried to move my hands up to feel my head. I couldn't feel the sensation of my face nor could I feel my hands but I knew they were present. Was I a ghost?

I proceeded walking towards the bright light. Now I looked at myself once again, only to find a bone like structure.

"What the... Why am I a skeleton?"

Had I become one of those mythical creatures we often heard of in horror stories? Was I really even dead? Questions popped in my mind to no end. Nonetheless, I continued this tiring journey. The bright light was enlarging. It must be a gate or a doorway to heaven, I thought. I advanced another step, and noticed another skeleton just like me.

"Rgrgh...", bellowed the skeleton.

I could tell he was in pain. Maybe he was just like me. Maybe he was stuck here after dying.

I spoke, "Are you alright?"

"Rgrgh...", replied the skeleton.

With no sense of communication between us, I decided to ignore him and advance forward.

As I advanced, the skeleton started to attack me.

"What's wrong with you?!", I yelled.

The skeleton continuously moved his hand in a vertical direction across my face as if he was trying to pat me on the head. I felt no pain from his. .h.i.ts. Angry with the skeletons behaviour, I punched him in the face with a heavy uppercut. The skeleton's head fell off of his body.

What had I done?! I had killed a dead man! I should be ashamed of myself. Would I go to h.e.l.l for this? I mean, he was dead already so....

As I was contemplating about what I would do, the skeleton spoke again, "Rgrgh...rgh...rrrr..rr."

I shrieked in horror. Wait. What am I doing. I'm a skeleton for G.o.d sake.

I decided to put the skeleton out of his headless misery by finally killing him. As I crushed his head under my feet, I heard an inner voice,

u003cYou have slain a skeleton soldier.u003e

u003cLeveling up...u003e

u003cYou are now level 2.u003e

"Level 2? What is this, a video game?" Now I was truly confused.

Amidst all the confusion, I decided to give skeleton-san a proper burial. I dug a hole in the dark soil-like substance I was standing on and placed skeleton-san's dead body.

"I will always remember your sacrifice skeleton-san. Your mean yet considerate nature, the words that you spoke, and your loving affection will always remain embedded deep in my heart."

I covered the body with the soil and marched forward swelling with tears in my eyes. The heck? How am I crying? I don't have eyes.

As I looked up, I saw an enormous spider's saliva trickling down on my skull.

"Aw Sh*t..."

I ran at full speed towards the light. The spider tailed me down as it crawled parallel across the wall of the tunnel. I wasn't fast enough. I had to come up with a plan. Thinking while running, I realised that I could use skeleton-san's body to defend. I halted and ran in the direction I had come from. The spider crawled for a bit due to it's speed, and started chasing me once again.

"What the heck's happening out here.", I thought to myself. I died peacefully and turned into a skeleton. I was attacked by another skeleton who I killed and now, I'm being chased by a spider the size of a buffalo.

Back in the days, before I had cancer, I lived a happy and prosperous life. I had a strict father and a loving mother. All I wanted to do was spend each and every day of my life in peace. After I realised that I had cancer, all I wanted was a peaceful death. Then, I wound up here, where I am living like a skeleton. If by any chance this was G.o.d's way of fulfilling both my wishes at the same time, then let the lord know, I'm coming up there to drive a hole in his system. d.a.m.n it. What did I ever do to wind up here?